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The correct answer is Badminton.

Key Points

• Prakash Padukone is a renowned Indian Badminton player, known for his achievements in the sport.
• He won the All England Championship in 1980, becoming the first Indian to do so.
• Padukone was honored with the Arjuna Award in 1972 and the Padma Shri in 1982 for his contributions to badminton.
• He has also been involved in coaching and promoting badminton in India through his academy.

Additional Information

• Badminton:
  • Badminton is a racket sport played using rackets to hit a shuttlecock across a net.
  • The game is played as singles (one player per side) or doubles (two players per side).
  • Points are scored by striking the shuttlecock with the racket and landing it within the opposing side's half of the court.
  • The game has roots in ancient civilizations but was formalized as a sport in the 19th century in British India.
• All England Championship:
  • The All England Open Badminton Championships is one of the oldest and most prestigious badminton tournaments in the world.
  • It is held annually in England and has been organized since 1899.
  • The tournament is part of the BWF World Tour and is a Super 1000 event.
  • Winning the All England Championship is considered a significant achievement in a badminton player's career.
• Arjuna Award:
  • The Arjuna Award is India's highest sporting honor, given by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.
  • It was established in 1961 to recognize outstanding achievement in national sports.
  • The award includes a bronze statue of Arjuna, a certificate, and a cash prize.
  • It aims to encourage and enhance the performance of athletes in various sports disciplines.
• Padma Shri:
  • The Padma Shri is the fourth-highest civilian award in India, established in 1954.
  • It is awarded to citizens of India in recognition of their distinguished contribution in various spheres of activity, including the arts, education, industry, literature, science, sports, medicine, social service, and public affairs.
  • The award is presented by the President of India at a ceremonial function held at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
  • Recipients receive a certificate and a medallion, and their names are published in the Gazette of India.

The correct answer is Wrestling.

• Geeta Phogat:
  • She is from Haryana.
  • She is a freestyle wrestler who won India's first-ever gold medal in wrestling at the Commonwealth Games, Delhi in 2010.
  • She is also the first Indian female wrestler to have qualified for the Olympic Summer Games.

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The correct answer is Dipika Pallikal.

Key Points

• Dipika Pallikal is an Indian professional squash player.
• She is the first Indian to break into the top 10 in the PSA Women's rankings.
• She is married to Indian Cricketer Dinesh Karthik.

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• Karnam Malleswari is a retired Indian weightlifter.
  • She is the first Indian woman to win a medal at the Olympics.
• Saikhom Mirabai Chanu is an Indian weightlifter.
  • She was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India for her contributions to the sport.
• Rakhi Haldar is also a weight lifter.
  • In 2019, She won a bronze medal at the Qatar International Cup.

The correct answer is Basket Ball.

Key Points

• Akanksha Singh (born 7 September 1989) in Varanasi Uttar Pradesh) is an Indian basketball player and captain of India Women's National Basketball Team.
• She has played for the national team since 2004.
• She and her sisters, Divya Singh, Prashanti Singh, and Pratima Singh, are known as the "fantastic four" of Delhi women's basketballers and also known as the Singh Sisters.

Additional Information

• The headquarters of the International Basketball Federation is in Mies, Switzerland.
• The President of the International Basketball Federation Hamane Niang.
• The Basketball Federation of India is the governing and controlling body of basketball in India.

The correct answer is 79^th.

Important Points

• Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is a former international Indian cricketer who served as the Indian national team's captain.
• He is widely known in the history of cricket as one of the greatest batsmen.
• In International Cricket, he is the top running scorer of all time. 
• On September 9, 1994, five years after his ODI debut, the former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar scored his first ODI century in his 79th ODI match.
• Sachin scored 110 (130) in Colombo, opening the innings against Australia, before registering three consecutive ducks in his next three ODI innings.
• As India won by 31 runs, his innings played a key role in the side's victory in the match.
• The Player of the Match award was also given to Tendulkar for his knock that was studded with two sixes and eight fours.
• Sachin then went on in his ODI career to score 49 hundred. 

Sachin Tendulkar in his 79th ODI match

The correct answer is Vinesh Phogat.

Important Points

• She became the first Indian athlete to be nominated for the Laureus world sports Awards.
• The Laureus World Sports Award
  • It is an annual award ceremony honoring individuals and teams from the world of sports along with sporting achievements throughout the year.
  • Established in 1999.
• Vinesh Phogat
  • She is an Indian woman wrestler.
  • The first Indian woman wrestler to win gold in Commonwealth and Asian games.

The correct answer is K D Jadhav.

Key Points

• K D Jadhav was an Indian wrestler.
  • He won a bronze medal in the Summer Olympics in 1952.
  • He was awarded the Arjuna Award posthumously in 2001.
• Milkha Singh is an Indian athlete.
  • He is known as 'The Flying Sikh'.
  • He won four Gold medals in Asian games.
• Karnam Malleshwari is an Indian weightlifter.
  • She was the first Indian woman to win a medal at the Olympics.
  • She was awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award.
• P.T Usha is one the most successful athlete , also known as 'The Golden Girl'.
  • She won 13 gold medals in the Asian Games.

The correct answer is Badminton.

Key Points

• Ashwini Ponnappa Machimanda is an Indian badminton player who represents the country at the international badminton circuit in both the women's and mixed doubles disciplines.
• She was born on 18 September 1989 in Bangalore. 
• She had a successful partnership with Jwala Gutta as the pair has won many medals in international events including a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games and bronze medals at the Uber Cup and the Asian Badminton Championships.
• They were consistently ranked among the top 20 in the BWF World Ranking reaching as high as no. 10.
• Ponnappa and Gutta also won the bronze medal at the BWF World Championships in 2011, becoming the first Indian pair and women and only the second overall to win a medal at the World Championships.

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The correct answer Shooting.

Key Points 

• Avani Lekhara is from Jaipur, Rajasthan.
•  As 19-year-old Avani Lekhara won the gold medal in women’s 10 m air rifle Standing event in the SH 1 category at the Tokyo Paralympics.
• She became the first Indian woman to win a gold medal at the Paralympics.
• Avani shot 249.6 points in the R2 women’s 10m air rifle SH1 category for a Paralympic Record and equal the World Record.
• In the final, she led from the start and edged out China’s Zhang C and Ukraine’s I Shchetnik in the medal series to win the gold.
• Avani has won many World Cup medals since 2017 including a Silver with a Junior World Record in R2 at the WSPS World Cup 2017, bronze at the WSPS World Cup Bangkok 2017, silver in the WSPS World Cup in Osijek, Croatia 2019 and silver in the WSPS World Cup Al-Ain 2021. She won the Tokyo Paralympics quota in February 2019 in the UAE.
• In 2012, the whole Lekhara family met with an accident on their way to Dholpur from Jaipur.
• The then 11-year-old Avani suffered a spinal cord injury and was paralysed below the waist.

The correct answer is P. V. Sindhu, which is associated with Badminton.

Key Points

• P. V. Sindhu- Pusarla Venkata Sindhu
  • ​She is the first Indian woman to win an Olympic silver medal.
  • She broke into the top 20 of the BWF World Ranking in September 2012, at the age of 17.
• She is an India Badminton player from Hyderabad, Telangana.
  • In the Badminton bronze medal match, PV Sindhu defeated He Bing Jiao in straight games to clinch the bronze medal at the Tokyo Games and become the first Indian woman to win two individual Olympic medals.
  • After becoming the first Indian female athlete to win a Silver medal at the Olympics in Rio 5 years ago, PV Sindhu has become only the 2nd Indian athlete after Sushil Kumar to win 2 individual medals at the Games.
  • PV Sindhu: Achievements
    • In January 2020, PV Sindhu was awarded the Highest Civilian Award in India- Padma Bhushan.
    • In March 2015, Sindhu was awarded the Fourth Highest Civilian Award in India- Padma Shri. 
    • In August 2016, she was awarded the Highest Sporting Honour of India- Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna.
    • In September 2013, PV Sindhu was awarded the Arjuna Award for outstanding performance in sports. etc.

The correct answer is Shooting.In News 

• Tilottama Sen won a bronze medal in the women's 10m Air Rifle at ISSF World Cup Cairo in Egypt on 22 February 2023.
  • She won the second bronze for India.
• Great Britain’s Seonaid Mcintosh won gold and Switzerland’s Olympic Champion Nina Christen came second to win silver.

Important Points 

The correct answer is Purma Banerjee.

Key Points

• The first Indian to carry the national flag at the opening ceremony of the Games was Purma Banerjee at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium.
• Purma Banerjee is related to Athletics (Sprnting).
• She was born in the year 1897 in Calcutta, British India (now Kolkata, West Bengal).

Important PointsFlag bearers of India in Olympics-

The correct answer is Fencing.

Key Points

• Tamil Nadu's Bhavani Devi, the 1st Indian fencer to qualify for the Olympics, was felicitated by Indian Fencing Association.
• The 27-year-old qualified for the Tokyo Olympics through the Adjusted Official Ranking (AOR) method.
• In March 2021 ending, Bhavani storms into the semifinals of the Women's sabre individual competition in the 31st Senior National Fencing Championships at Delhi Public School.

Additional Information

The correct answer is golf.

Key Points

• Tvesa Malik is an Indian golf player.
• She is from Gurugram, Haryana.
• She has won the 4th leg of the Hero Women’s Golf Tour.
• Gursimar Badwal is also an Indian golf player. 

Additional Information

The correct answer is Manipur.

• The Indian boxing champion Mary Kom belongs to Manipur.

Key Points

• Mary Kom:
  • Mary Kom was born in Kagathei village, Churachandpur district of rural Manipur in India.
  • Mary Kom won a silver medal at the 2008 Asian Women's Boxing Championship in India and a fourth successive gold medal at the 2008 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships in China.
  • Mary Kom also won a gold medal at the 2009 Asian Indoor Games in Vietnam.

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Mary Kom awards are: