Fencing Current Affairs, GK & News

Cricket to be re-introduced in Asian Games

March 5, 2019

The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has decided to reintroduce Cricket in the 2022 Asian Games to be held at Hangzhou, China. Cricket in Asian Games Earlier Cricket had featured in 2010 and 2014 Asian Games but was dropped from the 2018 Asian Games. In all probabilities mostly T20 version of cricket would be introduced in ..

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C.A. Bhavani Devi becomes first Indian to win a Gold in International Fencing tournament

May 29, 2017

India’s C.A Bhavani Devi has become first Indian to win a Gold Medal in an international fencing tournament. She has won the gold medal in the sabre event of the Turnoi Satellite Fencing Championship held at Reykjavik in Iceland. In the final, she beat Sarah Jane Hampson of Great Britain 15-13 on points. About C ..

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Union Government recognizes Yoga as Sports discipline

September 2, 2015

Union Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has decided to recognize Yoga as a sports discipline and place it in the Priority category. This decision was taken by Ministry while reviewing and revising the categorization of various Sports disciplines. Other decisions The sport of Fencing was upgraded from Others to General category based on the ..

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