Sports GK Mixed Quiz: Set 42

She won a bronze medal in weightlifting at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the first Olympic medal by an Indian woman.

In May 2020 Sania Mirza won the Fed Cup Heart Award for the Asia/Oceania zone, becoming the first Indian to receive it.

Australia beat India in the final at Benoni, South Africa, in February 2024 to win their fourth Under-19 title. The 2024 tournament was first allotted to Sri Lanka but was moved to South Africa by the ICC.

The FIA was founded in 1904 and is based in Paris, and besides running the Formula One World Championship and the World Rally Championship it also works on road safety and on the regulation of motoring clubs across the world.

First held in 1888, it is the oldest football tournament in Asia and one of the oldest in the world.

The Ezra Cup is the oldest polo tournament in India and is played under the Indian Polo Association, along with other well known trophies such as the Sir Pratap Singh Cup and the Maharaja Jiwajirao Scindia Gold Cup.

India beat China 5-4 in a penalty shoot-out after a 1-1 draw in the final at Kakamigahara, Japan, in November 2017.

The World Snooker Championship, the oldest and most important event in the professional game, has been staged at this small theatre in the English city of Sheffield without a break since 1977, and the venue is so closely identified with the title that the championship is often called the Crucible.

Halep of Romania won the 2019 Wimbledon women's singles title by beating Serena Williams in the final. Halep won the final 6-2, 6-2 in just 56 minutes, one of the most one-sided Wimbledon finals of recent times.

CISM holds championships in many sports through the year and gathers them every four years into the Military World Games, whose first edition was held at Rome in 1995 and which carry the motto of friendship through sport.

Neeraj Chopra is India's leading javelin thrower and the country's first Olympic gold medallist in track and field.

Ultimate Kho Kho was launched in 2022 as the first franchise league for kho kho, and the Odisha Juggernauts won the inaugural season.

Chile beat Argentina in the final of the 2016 Copa América Centenario to win the title. The 2016 tournament marked 100 years of the Copa América and was held in the United States, the first time it was played outside South America.

An athlete who genuinely needs a medicine that appears on the Prohibited List, such as an inhaler for asthma or insulin for diabetes, applies in advance to a panel of doctors, which may grant a Therapeutic Use Exemption limited to that substance, dose and period.

He won gold in the men's javelin F46 class at Rio 2016 with a world record throw of 63.97 m. Devendra Jhajharia, from Churu in Rajasthan, lost his left arm to an electric shock as a child.

It runs the World Championship, the Volleyball Nations League and the beach volleyball circuit.

The weightlifter from Mizoram won India's first ever gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games, in the boys' 62 kg event at Buenos Aires in October 2018.

Till July 2018 Tendulkar was not yet in the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame; he was inducted a year later, in July 2019.

The sprinter from Payyoli in Kerala's Kozhikode district earned the nickname Payyoli Express for her speed on the track.

Russian athletes competed at the Tokyo 2020 Games, held in 2021, under the name ROC because Russia was barred from competing under its own name and flag.