Sports GK MCQs

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Sambo is a Soviet martial art, an internationally-practised combat sport, and a recognized style of amateur wrestling included by UWW in the World Wrestling Championships along with Greco-Roman wrestling and freestyle wrestling.

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Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav was an Indian athlete. He is best known as a wrestler who won a bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He was the first athlete from independent India to win an individual medal in the Olympics.

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Karnam Malleswari is the first and only Indian woman weightlifter to win an Olympic medal. Karnam Malleswari is a retired Indian weightlifter. She is the first Indian woman to win a medal at the Olympics. At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Malleswari lifted 110 kg in the “snatch” and 130 kg in the “clean and jerk” categories for a total of 240 kg. She won the bronze medal and became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal. She is also the first and only Indian woman weightlifter to win an Olympic medal.

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The compound bow was invented by Holless Wilbur Allen in 1966. It revolutionized archery by using a system of pulleys and cables to reduce the amount of force needed to draw the bow, allowing for greater accuracy and power. This innovation importantly changed both target archery and hunting practices.

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As of 2020, Brady Ellison ranked first in recurve men’s individual archery. He is a prominent American archer known for his consistency and success in international competitions, including multiple World Championships and Olympic appearances. Ellison has been a key figure in archery, often referred to as one of the best recurve archers in history. His achievements include winning three consecutive World Cup Finals from 2010 to 2012.

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Tool/Wipe/Block-abuse is a volleyball attack technique in which the player does not try to make a hard spike, but hits the ball so that it touches the opponent’s block and then bounces off-court.

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Sergio Santos is the “Most Valuable Player (MVP)” in the men’s volleyball tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics. The men’s tournament in volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics was the 14th edition of the event at the Summer Olympics, organised by the world’s governing body, the FIVB, in conjunction with the IOC. It was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 7 to 21 August 2016.

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Denmark holds the record of most numbers of gold medals won in women’s handball at the Summer Olympics with a record of 3 gold medals.

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Milkha Singh, who is also called as the “Flying Sikh”, passed away recently due to COVID. He was 91 years old. Milkha Singh won India’s first individual gold medal at the Commonwealth Games, in 1958 in Wales.
Milkha Singh was a soldier and a track and field sprinter, who represented India in various international events and brought laurels to the country.

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India finished 4th on the podium at the Commonwealth Games 2022 with a medal tally of 61, including 22 Gold, 16 Silver, and 23 Bronze.
India is after Australia 178 (67 Gold), England 176 (57 Gold), Canada 92 (26 Gold). The Birmingham Games is India’s fourth-best performance at the CWG. Wrestlers contributed the most to the medal tally of India with all 12 of them clinching medals. Sharath Kamal, the 40-year-old table tennis star, was the most successful Indian athlete with 4 medals, including 3 Gold.