Shooting Current Affairs, GK & News
New Events of 2028 Olympics
The 2028 Olympics is to be held in Los Angeles. This is after the 2024 Olympics to be held in Paris. The 2022 Olympics was held in Tokyo. These are all the summer Olympics, the main Olympics. The one that is being held in China right now is Winter Olympics. The International Olympic Committee determines ..
Month: Current Affairs - February, 2022
Category: Sports Current Affairs
Topics: 2024 Paris Olympics • 2028 Los Angeles Olympics • AIBA • Archery • Athletics • Badminton • Basketball • Boxing • Cycling • International Olympic Committee • Pentathlon • Shooting • Swimming • Tennis • Triathlon • Volleyball • Weight Lifting • Wrestling
Amnesty International: Global review of the death penalty
The Amnesty International recently released the global Review of Death Penalty. Key Findings of the report Around 483 executions were recorded in eighteen countries according to the report published by Amnesty International. In 2019, the number of executions recorded were 657. The number of executions have grown by 26% in 2020 as compared to 2019. ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2021
Category: Reports & Indexes Current Affairs
Topics: Amnesty international • beheading • Death Penalty • elecrocution • Shooting
ESPN India Multi-Sport Awards 2018
The ESPN Multi-Sport Awards recognised achievements across 11 categories, of which winners across 10 categories were selected by an independent 14-member jury. The Winners are: Sportsperson of the Year (Male) – Neeraj Chopra (Athletics) Sportsperson of the Year (Female) – P V Sindhu (Badminton) Comeback of the Year – Saina Nehwal (Badminton) Coach of the ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2019
Category: Sports Current Affairs
Topics: Amit Panghal • Athletics • Badminton • Boxing • Ekta Bhyan • ESPN Multi-Sport Awards 2018 • Football • Jaspal Rana • Neeraj Chopra • P. V. Sindhu • para-athletics • Pradip Kumar Banerjee • Saina Nehwal • Saurabh Chaudhary • Shooting • Table tennis • Women’s 4x400m relay
Angad Vir Singh Bajwa wins gold in Men’s Skeet at 8th Asian Shotgun Championship
Angad Vir Singh Bajwa won gold medal by setting world record score in men’s skeet final of the 8th Asian Shotgun Championship held in Kuwait. With this, he became first Indian skeet shooter to win continental or world level event. In the final round of this event, Angad shot perfect 60 out of 60 to ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2018
Category: Sports Current Affairs
Topics: Angad Vir Singh Bajwa • Asian Shotgun Championship • Kuwait • Shooting • Sports
Rahi Sarnobat becomes first Indian woman shooter to win gold medal at 2018 Asian Games
Rahi Sarnobat became first Indian woman to win shooting gold medal at Jakarta-Palembang 2018 Asian Games in 25m pistol event. She shot score of 34 in final to tie with Thailand’s Naphaswan Yangpaiboon who won silver medal and Kim Minjung of South Korea won bronze with score of 29. It was Rahi’s biggest medal of ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2018
Category: States Current Affairs
Topics: Asian Games • Rahi Sarnobat • Shooting • Sports
Saurabh Chaudhary wins India’s first gold medal in shooting event at Asian Games
Shooter Saurabh Chaudhary (16) won gold medal in Men’s 10m Air Pistol event with record score of 240.7 at 2018 Jakarta Palembang Asian Games in Indonesia. For first time he was competing senior event and won gold medal in Asian Games debut. It was India’s first shooting gold in ongoing event. Another Indian shooter, Abhishek ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2018
Category: Sports Current Affairs
Topics: Asian Games • Persons in News • Saurabh Chaudhary • Shooting • Sports