Maharashtra Government today announced a cash reward of Rs 75 lakh to steeplechase specialist from the state Lalita Babar, who finished a creditable 10th at the Rio Olympics, and Rs 50 lakh to bronze medallist wrestler Sakshi Malik.
•    Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who announced these cash rewards, said the five athletes from Maharashtra who took part in the last months Games will get Rs 50 lakh each.
•    He also gave a cash award of Rs 75 lakh to Olympic silver medallist in womens badminton singles P V Sindhu and Rs 25 lakh to her coach P Gopichand.
•    For the sportpersons who represented India in the (Rio) Olympics and were from Maharashtra, we would like to give a cash award of Rs 50 lakh each to them. 
•    These sportpersons are Ayonika Paul, Prarthana Thombare, Dattu Bhonkanal, Devraj Walmiki and Kavita Raut.

Former Indian women’s team captain Anjum Chopra has been awarded an honourary life membership of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) along with former men’s team stalwarts Zaheer Khan and Virender Sehwag. 
•    She is the first Indian woman cricketer to get the prestigious life membership of MCC.
•    The 39-year-old Anjum played 12 Tests, 127 ODIs and 18 T20 Internationals for India. 
•    She scored 548 runs in Tests with 4 half centuries while in 50 overs format, she scored 2856 runs with a century and 18 half-centuries.
•    Anjum Chopra is an Indian Women Cricketer. She was born in New Delhi. 
•    A sports girl from the start, the first time she stepped on to the ground was at the age of 9. 
•    Played her first friendly match with college girls team at the inter college level scoring 20 runs and taking 2 wickets. 
•    Later the same year she was selected to play for New Delhi in the under −15 tournament
 

Nico Rosberg on 4 September 2016 won the 2016 Italian Grand Prix at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza in Monza, Italy.
It is Rosberg’s seventh victory of the 2016 Formula One season. In this season, he has won the 2016 Australian Grand Prix, the 2016 Bahrain Grand Prix, the 2016 Chinese Grand Prix, the 2016 Russian Grand Prix, the 2016 European Grand Prix and the 2016 Belgian Grand Prix.
Top 5 in the race
Position    Driver    Car
1    Nico Rosberg    Mercedes
2    Lewis Hamilton    Mercedes
3    Sebastian Vettel    Ferrari
4    Kimi Räikkönen    Ferrari
5    Daniel Ricciardo    Red Bull Racing Tag Heuer
About Italian Grand Prix
•    The Italian Grand Prix is one of the longest running events on the Formula One calendar.
•    The Italian Grand Prix was also one of the inaugural Formula One championship races in 1950. It has been held every year since then.
•    The 2016 Italian Grand Prix was the fourteenth round of the 2016 Formula One season.
•    It marked the eighty-sixth running of the Italian Grand Prix and the eighty-second time the race was held at Monza.

Man Kaur from India needed almost a minute-and-a-half to cross the finish line in the 100-meter dash, but she still picked up a gold medal at the American Masters Games.
•    That's because the 100-year-old Kaur was the only female competitor in her age category at the competition for older athletes.
•    Kaur's energy and drive to compete have become an inspiration to participants in the unique international event for athletes over 30.
•    After Kaur finished the sprint in one minute and 21 seconds, she stood smiling with her hands raised in the air. 
•    Asked how she felt, she breathed heavily and clutched a bottle of water, unable to speak. 
•    Earlier, she won gold medals in the javelin and shot put.
•    Kaur has now won more than 20 medals in Masters Games across the globe.

World number one Novak Djokovic was elected as the ATP Player Council President, ahead of the US Open. 
•    South Africa's world number 35 Kevin Anderson was elected as the Vice President of the council, which is a representative body for the tennis players participating on the tour. 
•    Other members of the council include Andy Murray, Jamie Murray and Gilles Simon.
•    Novak Djokovic  is a Serbian professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No.1 in men's singles tennis by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).
•    He is considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time.
•    He is coached by former Slovak tennis player Marián Vajda and former German tennis player and six-time Grand Slam champion Boris Becker. 
•    Djokovic holds the best match winning rate (83.00%) in Open Era, as of August 2016.
 

Nico Rosberg of Mercedes on 28 August 2016 won the 2016 Belgian Grand Prix of Formula One (F1).
•    First Position: Nico Rosberg (Germany) of Mercedes team
•    Second Position: Daniel Ricciardo (Australia) of Red Bull
•    Third Position: Lewis Hamilton (United Kingdom) of Mercedes Team
•    Fourth Position: Nico Hulkenberg (Germany) of Force India
•    Fifth Position: Sergio Perez (Italy) of Force India
•    The Belgian Grand Prix is an automobile race, part of the Formula One World Championship.
•    It is one of the most popular races on the Formula One calendar, due to the scenic and historical Spa-Francorchamps circuit being a favorite of drivers and fans.

National Sports Day was observed across India on 29 August 2016. 
•    The day is celebrated to mark the birth anniversary of the legendary hockey player Dhyan Chand who was born on 29 August 1905.
•    On this occasion, President Pranab Mukherjee conferred National Sports and adventure awards on sports person at the Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi.
•    Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna: It was conferred on four sports person and they are PV Sindhu (Badminton), Dipa Karmakar (Gymnastics), Jitu Rai (Shooting) and Sakshi Malik (Wrestling).
•    Dronacharya Awards: It was conferred on six sports coaches and they are Nagapuri Ramesh (Athletics), Sagar Mal Dhayal (Boxing), Raj Kumar Sharma (Cricket), Bishweshwar Nandi (Gymnastics), S Pradeep Kumar (Swimming (Lifetime)) and Mahabir Singh (Wrestling (Lifetime)).
•    Arjuna Awards: It was conferred on 15 sports from different discipline of sports and they are Rajat Chauhan (Archery), Lalita Babar (Athletics), Sourav Kothari (Billiards & Snooker), Shiva Thapa (Boxing), Ajinkya Rahane (Cricket), Subrata Paul (Football), Rani (Hockey), Raghunath VR (Hockey), Gurpreet Singh (Shooting), Apurvi Chandela (Shooting), Soumyajit Ghosh (Table Tennis), Vinesh (Wrestling), Amit Kumar (Wrestling), Sandeep Singh Mann (Para-Athletics) and Virender Singh (Wrestling (Deaf)).
•    Dhyan Chand Award 2015:  It was conferred on three sports person and they are Athlete Satti Geetha, hockey player Sylvanus Dung Dung and Rower Rajendra Pralhad Shelke.
 

Recognising it’s efforts for developing football at the grassroot level, the ‘Subroto Mukerjee Sports Education Society’ (SMSES) has been bestowed with National Sports Award ‘Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar’, for ‘Sports for Development’ by Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports. The ‘Subroto Mukerjee Sports Education Society’ organises the famous Subroto Cup Football Tournament, and over last six decades has made significant contribution towards development of football in the country. 
•    The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, on 23 August announced the award of ‘Sports for Development’ to ‘Subroto Mukerjee Sports Education Society’ along with the other annual sports awards like the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Dronacharya, Arjuna Award and others. 
•    Ever since its inception in 1960, the Subroto Cup Football Tournament, named after the first Chief of Air Staff of Indian Air Force, Late Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee OBE, has time and again ventured into unchartered territory to ensure every child is encouraged to play football in the country. Subroto Cup, conducted by the Indian Air Force, is the largest Football tournament for school children with over 35000 Indian and Foreign teams participating each year. The tournament has made a major impact on Indian Football in recent times with increased interest in football in the country. Subroto Cup Football tournament is now recognised as a ‘Game Changer’ and a ‘Bedrock’ for nurturing talent at junior and sub-junior level in the country. 
•    Air Marshal MK Malik AVSM VSM Air Officer-in-charge Administration who is also the Vice Chairman of ‘Subroto Mukerjee Sports Education Society’ received the ‘Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar’ on behalf of ‘Subroto Mukherjee Sports Education Society’ from Hon’ble President of India today at a ceremony in Rastrapati Bhawan.
 

National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) on 25 August 2016 constituted a five-member review committee to probe the
shooters' Rio Games debacle.
•    The committee will be headed by India's first and only individual Olympic gold-medallist Abhinav Bindra. 
•    The committee has been asked to submit the report within a maximum period of four weeks.
•    To examine and identify the causes behind shooting not securing any medals at the Rio Olympics.
•    To recommend concrete steps that NRAI must immediately undertake to ensure that this is not repeated in future
Olympics.
•    Other members of the committee include former tennis player Manisha Malhotra, who has also been appointed Convenor
of the committee, NRAI Secretary Rajiv Bhatia and two journalists.
•    Bindra, who finished at the fourth position in the men’s 10meter air rifle event in Rio, retired from the sport in
third week of August 2016.
 

Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo (31) has won the UEFA Best Player in Europe award for the year 2015-16. 
•    This is second time he has won this award after he was crowned for first time in 2013–14. 
•    To bag this award, Ronaldo defeated Antoine Griezmann and Gareth Bale. 
•    In 2015, he had scored 35 goals for Real Madrid and 16 goals in Champions League competition. 
•    He scored 3 goals for Portugal national team at Euro 2016. 
•    Ada Hegerberg: She was crowned with UEFA Best Women’s Player in Europe Award for the year 2015-16. 
•    Lionel Messi: He was crowed UEFA Goal of the Season award for the 2015-16.
•    He had won the award for his strike against Roma. His famous goal had received 73331 votes. 
•    The award is an association football award given to the footballer playing for a football club in Europe that is
considered the best in the previous season.