India Win First-Ever Recurve Mixed Team Silver at Asian Games

The correct answer is Dhiraj Bommadevara and Kumkum Anil Mohod. The two shot together in the recurve mixed team event at the Asian Games and finished with the silver medal, which is India's first in that event at these Games, and the Prime Minister congratulated both by name. Option A is wrong because the woman in the pair was Kumkum Anil Mohod and not Ankita Bhakat, although Ankita Bhakat did win gold in the women's recurve team event on the same day. Option C is wrong because Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma are not archers; the two took bronze in the women's skiff, a sailing event, on that date. Option D is wrong on two counts, since a mixed team must have one man and one woman, and a pair of two women cannot enter the event at all. Fix the male archer's name first, because the mixed team question is usually set around him.

The correct answer is silver. Dhiraj Bommadevara and Kumkum Anil Mohod finished second in the recurve mixed team event, and the Prime Minister noted that the pair had given the country its first ever silver in this event at the Asian Games. Option A, gold, belongs to a different event of the same day, the women's recurve team, in which Ankita Bhakat, Kumkum Anil Mohod and Kirti stood on the top step. Option C, bronze, was the colour of the medal India won in the women's skiff sailing event through Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma. Option D is plainly wrong because a medal was in fact won. The trap in this item is that one archer, Kumkum Anil Mohod, appears in both the gold and the silver of the same day, so the colour has to be matched to the event rather than to the athlete.

The correct answer is two archers, one man and one woman. That is precisely what the word mixed means in the name of the event: a country is represented by a male and a female archer who shoot as one unit, their scores being added together, which is why the Indian silver in this event is credited to Dhiraj Bommadevara and Kumkum Anil Mohod and to nobody else. Option A is wrong because a single archer competes in the individual event, not in a team event. Option C describes the ordinary team event, in which three archers of the same gender shoot together, as the Indian women did while winning the gold on the same day. Option D is wrong because no archery team format at these Games fields four archers in a mixed combination. For revision, tie the number two to the mixed team and the number three to the men's or women's team.