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Pankaj Advani (Snooker and Billiards)
Pankaj Advani won both the ISBF World Snooker Championship and the ISBF World Billiards Championship in 2017. He won the World Snooker Championship for the third time while it was his ninth win in the World Billiards Championship.
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Advani has a total of 58 gold medals in his cabinet, 18 of which are World, eight Asian, two at Asian Games, a solitary gold in Australian Open, and 29 at the national level.
Bhawani Devi (Fencing)
C.A. Bhawani became the first Indian to win a gold medal in an individual sabre event, as she clinched the of the Women's Satellite Fencing Championship held in Iceland. It was her third attempt at a satellite event and she was glad to finally win one.
The competition consisted of 26 participants from 8 countries, but Bhawani managed to come out on top in the end. She beat Great Britain's Sarah Jane Hampson 15-13 in the final.
The 24-year-old earlier settled for a bronze medal in the same category in Italy. In the 2017 Asian Fencing Championships, she lost in the quarter-finals to the eventual winner, Kim Ji-yeon.
