India's first individual gold medal at the Olympic Games was won by which sportsperson?
- A.K. D. Jadhav
- B.Abhinav Bindra
- C.Neeraj Chopra
- D.Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Abhinav Bindra, who won the ten-metre air rifle event at Beijing in 2008. India had won gold before that only in team hockey, so this was the first individual gold in the country's Olympic history.
Option A, K. D. Jadhav, holds the related first: he won India's first individual Olympic medal of any colour, a wrestling bronze at Helsinki in 1952, and the examiner relies on candidates mixing the medal with the gold. Option C, Neeraj Chopra, won the gold in the javelin throw at the Tokyo Games, which was India's first Olympic gold in athletics but came long after Bindra. Option D, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, won a silver in double trap shooting at Athens in 2004, the individual medal immediately before Bindra's gold. Fix the order: Jadhav, Rathore, Bindra.
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