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Detailed explanation-1: -Detailed Solution. The correct answer is Dutee Chand. Dutee Chand created history by becoming the first Indian to win a gold medal at the Summer Universiade in Napoli, Italy. India’s star sprinter Chand won the gold in women’s 100m with a timing of 11.32 seconds.

Detailed explanation-2: -India won its first ever medal in the World Championships in Athletics (now known as World Athletics Championships) when Anju Bobby George made her historical leap, clearing 6.7 m and securing the bronze medal in long jump, in France in 2003.

Detailed explanation-3: -KD Jadhav: The scrawny lad who stood tall in the sport of giants. Khashaba Jadhav may have been lean and stood at only 5’5” but the Indian wrestler, also referred to as the Pocket Dynamo, dwarfs the far bigger athletes in his sport.

Detailed explanation-4: -He was only the second Indian ever to win an individual Olympic medal after Abhinav Bindra. Neeraj also won India’s first-ever medal in athletics after independence and also the first gold in the sport for the country.

Detailed explanation-5: -Milkha Singh was India’s first athlete to gain success at a global level, earning the nickname “The Flying Sikh". He won a 200 metres/400 metres double at the 1958 Asian Games before going on to take the 440 yards title at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games – India’s first winner at that competition.