Sports GK Mixed Quiz: Set 2

She won a bronze medal in weightlifting at the Sydney Games of 2000, the first Olympic medal won by an Indian woman, and the achievement is the standard one-line fact set from this chapter.

The 2019 ICC Men's Cricket World Cup, the 12th edition, was played in England and Wales from 30 May to 14 July 2019.

Shera, an animated tiger, was chosen as the mascot of the nineteenth Commonwealth Games, whose slogan was Come Out and Play and which remain the only Commonwealth Games hosted by India.

The Sudirman Cup is the world mixed team championship of badminton, organised by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). It was first held in 1989 in Jakarta and is named after Dick Sudirman, the founder of the Badminton Association of Indonesia.

The first World Cup was played in England in 1975 over 60 overs an innings, and West Indies beat Australia in the final at Lord's under Clive Lloyd.

All three are Indian football tournaments. The Durand Cup, first played in 1888 and named after Sir Mortimer Durand, then Foreign Secretary of British India, is Asia's oldest football tournament and is still organised with the help of the armed forces.

The first FIFA World Cup was staged in Uruguay in 1930, the country having been chosen partly because it was celebrating the centenary of its independence and partly because it was the reigning Olympic football champion.

ASIAD is the short name for the Asian Games, the continent's multi-sport event held every four years, and it is run by the Olympic Council of Asia, OCA, headquartered in Kuwait City.

M. C. Mary Kom was born in Kangathei village of Churachandpur district in Manipur. Mary Kom is the only woman boxer to have won six world championship titles, and she is nicknamed Magnificent Mary.

The ancient Games were held at Olympia in Greece in honour of Zeus, and 776 BCE is the earliest celebration for which a written record of the winner survives.

The Dronacharya Award, India's honour for coaches who produce outstanding sportspersons, was given for the first time in 1985, and Bhalchandra Bhaskar Bhagwat, a wrestling coach, was among the first three to receive it, along with O.M.

The first Asian Games were held at the National Stadium in New Delhi in March 1951, two years after the Asian Games Federation was formed in the same city, and eleven nations took part.

Chadalavada Anandha Sundhararaman Bhavani Devi is an Indian fencer from Chennai who competes in the sabre event. She became the first Indian fencer to qualify for the Olympic Games, at Tokyo in 2021, and won her opening bout there.

The French educationist believed that sport built character in the young, and at a congress at the Sorbonne in Paris he founded the International Olympic Committee on 23 June 1894, which led directly to the first modern Games at Athens in 1896.

Abhinav Bindra won that event at the Beijing Games of 2008, giving India its first individual Olympic gold medal in any sport and its first gold of any kind since the hockey team's win in 1980.

The motto was adopted with the first Asian Games of 1951 at New Delhi and it goes with the emblem of a bright rising sun ringed by interlocking circles, which stands for the new energy of the Asian nations after the Second World War.

Kabaddi entered the Asian Games programme as a medal sport at that edition and India won the gold, which began a long run of Indian success in the event and is the reason the fact is set so often.

India beat West Indies in the final on 25 June 1983 at Lord's in London, defending a total of 183 and winning by 43 runs; Mohinder Amarnath was named player of the match and Kapil Dev was the captain who received the trophy on the famous balcony.

Brazil has won the FIFA World Cup five times, in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002, more than any other nation.

The flame itself had been lit at earlier Games, but the relay in which runners carry the torch from Olympia in Greece all the way to the host city began at Berlin, and it has been part of every Olympics since.