Sports GK MCQs

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Saina Nehwal is the first Indian badminton player to have won an Olympic medal. Saina Nehwal is an Indian professional badminton singles player. A former world no. 1, she has won over 24 international titles, which includes eleven Superseries titles. She has represented India three times in the Olympics, winning a bronze medal in her second appearance.

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Pullela Gopichand became the second Indian badminton player to have won the All England Open Badminton Championships. Pullela Gopichand is a former Indian badminton player. Presently, he is the Chief National Coach for the Indian Badminton team. He won the All England Open Badminton Championships in 2001 becoming the second Indian to achieve this feat after Prakash Padukone.

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Zhang Nan and Fu Haifeng won the gold medal in badminton men’s doubles in the 2016 Summer Olympics. The badminton tournaments at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil took place from 11 to 20 August.

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The “FIBA Americas League” is a basketball tournament. The FIBA Americas League was the premier intercontinental basketball club competition played annually by clubs of the entire Americas.

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Sun Yingsha is a Chinese table tennis player.

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Mouma Das is an Indian table tennis player. She has won multiple medals at the Commonwealth Games including a gold in the Women’s Team Competition in 2018. She was awarded the Arjuna Award, India’s second-highest sporting honour in 2013 for her contributions to the sport. Das participated in the 2004 Olympic Games where she competed in the singles table tennis competition. Das reached the quarterfinals of the women’s doubles event at the 2017 World Table Tennis Championships partnering Manika Batra; the duo became the first Indian pair (and the first Indians in over 61 years) to do so. The pair also won the silver medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

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India won the most number of medals in table tennis at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Table tennis at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held at the Oxenford Studios on the Gold Coast, Australia from April 5 to 15.

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The Walker Cup is a golf trophy contested in odd-numbered years by leading amateur golfers in two teams: the United States, and Great Britain and Ireland. The official name is the Walker Cup Match. It is organised by The R&A and the United States Golf Association (USGA).

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Royal Birkdale Golf Club is a golf course in the United Kingdom in North West England, located in Southport, Merseyside. It is one of the clubs in the rotation for both the Open Championship and Women’s British Open and has hosted the Open Championship ten times from 1954 through 2017.

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In-fighters/swarmers (sometimes called “pressure fighters”) attempt to stay close to an opponent, throwing intense flurries and combinations of hooks and uppercuts. Mainly Mexican, Irish, Irish-American, Puerto Rican, and Mexican-American boxers popularized this style.