Who was the first recipient of the Khel Ratna Award, now called the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award?
- A.Leander Paes
- B.Viswanathan Anand
- C.Sachin Tendulkar
- D.Karnam Malleswari
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Viswanathan Anand. The award was instituted in 1991–92 and the chess grandmaster received it in that very first year, which is the fact papers return to most often. Option D, Karnam Malleswari, the weightlifter, holds a related first: she was the first woman to receive the Khel Ratna, in 1994–95, and candidates who remember one first and not the other are caught here. Option A, Leander Paes, the tennis player, received the award in 1996–97, the year after his Olympic bronze at Atlanta. Option C, Sachin Tendulkar, received it in 1997–98. All four are genuine recipients, so the question is settled by the order of the years rather than by the fame of the names, and the order to hold is Anand, Malleswari, Paes, Tendulkar.
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View allWho won the Dronacharya Award for outstanding coaches in Sports and Games 2021 (Regular Category) in Table Tennis discipline?
- A.Manika Batra
- B.Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
- C.Mouma Das
- D.Subramanian Raman
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He received the Dronacharya Award of 2021 in the Regular category for table tennis, the award given to coaches whose trainees reach the podium at the Olympic, Asian, Commonwealth or World Championship level.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the Arjuna Award instituted?
- A.1961
- B.1985
- C.1991
- D.2002
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The Arjuna Award is the oldest of the national sports awards and honours a sportsperson for consistently outstanding performance over the four years before the award; the recipient is given a bronze statuette of Arjuna, a scroll of honour and a cash prize.
Read the full explanation →The Dronacharya Award is given to which of the following?
- A.Sportspersons for lifetime contribution to sport
- B.Universities with the best sporting performance
- C.Coaches who have trained medal winners
- D.Corporate bodies that promote sport
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Instituted in 1985, the Dronacharya Award honours coaches whose trainees have won medals at the Olympic, Asian or Commonwealth Games or at a World Championship, and it is given in two categories, Regular and Lifetime.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the Dronacharya Award instituted?
- A.1961
- B.1975
- C.1981
- D.1985
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The Dronacharya Award began in 1985, twenty-four years after the Arjuna Award, and it was the first national honour meant for coaches rather than players; the Lifetime category was added later so that a long career of coaching could be recognised separately from recent work.
Read the full explanation →In 2021 the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award was renamed after which person?
- A.Milkha Singh
- B.Major Dhyan Chand
- C.Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
- D.Balbir Singh Sr.
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In August 2021 the Government renamed the country’s highest sporting honour the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award, after the hockey player whose teams won Olympic gold at Amsterdam in 1928, Los Angeles in 1932 and Berlin in 1936.
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