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Correct Answer :   Kamaljeet

Kamaljeet helped India add two more gold medals by bagging the individual and team honour in the 50-metre free pistol event in the Junior World Championship in Changwon, Korea, on Monday (24th July 2023).

Kamaljeet, who had impressed during the national trials by winning the top spot in air pistol ahead of World Cup gold medalist Sarabjot Singh, shot 544 for the individual gold. Along with Ankait Tomar and Sandeep Bishnoi, Kamaljeet helped India bag the team gold, four points ahead of Uzbekistan.

In the women’s free pistol, Tiyana Phogat won the silver, one point behind Khanna Aliyeva of Azerbaijan. There was no second team to help India win the team gold.

India was second on the medals table with six gold, six silver and five bronze medals. China stayed on top with 12 gold, nine silver, seven bronze medals.

In mixed trap, Preeti Rajak and Bakhtyaruddin Malek shot 135 and placed fifth, missing the bronze medal by one point. The other Indian team of Bhavya Tripathi and Shardul Vihan placed 15th with a score of 124.

The results :

50m free pistol: Junior men: 1. Kamaljeet 544; 2. Veniamin Nikitin (Uzb) 542; 3. Kimm Taemin 541; 5. Ankait Tomar 539; 8. Sandeep Bishnoi 534; 14. Akshay Kumar 527; 17. Manav Singh 526; 20. Suresh Sankhla 518.

Team: 1. India (Kamaljeet, Ankait Tomar, Sandeep Bishnoi) 1617; 2. Uzbekisstan 1613; 3. Korea 1600.

Junior women: 1. Khanna Aliyeva (Aze) 520; 2. Tiyana Phogat 519; 3. Layli Aliyeva (Aze) 510; 6. Yashita Shokeen 498; 7. Veerpal Kaur 481..

Source : Sport Star

Correct Answer :   Gauranshi

Madhya Pradesh’s Gauranshi Sharma with team India won gold in the 6th World Youth Deaf Badminton championship 2023 held in Brazil.

In the championship, India won gold in the team event. The Indian team defeated Japan 3-1 in the final match. Earlier, Gauranshi had won two bronze medals in the individual event.

The championship has proved to be memorable for Gauranshi Sharma. The Indian badminton team has had a great performance in the championship.

In men's doubles, India's pair of Mahesh and Piyush took a 1-0 lead with a thrilling win over Japan's Yuki and Masaki.

In the women's doubles, Indian pair of Jerlin and Aditya defeated Japan's Yume and Yakabe to take the team to a 2-0 lead.

In the men's singles, Yuya beat India's Abhinav Sharma to seal the series.

In the final match, Abhinav and Aditya defeated Masaki and Yume in the mixed doubles and gave India a 3-1 victory and clinch the gold medal. Sharma did not get a chance to play in the final match. State sports and youth welfare minister Yashodhara Raje Scindia congratulated Gauranshi for her brilliant performance..

Source : Freepressjournal

Correct Answer :   India

India outpaced West Indies as they shattered a world record on Sunday (23rd July 2023), emerging as the fastest team to reach 100 in an innings in Test cricket history.

Thanks to a scorching start by openers Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal, India blitzed to 100 runs in just 12.2 overs in the second innings against West Indies.

India eventually surged to 181 runs for the loss of 2 wickets in 24 overs before declaring their innings, setting a challenging target of 365 runs for the hosts for the final day of play. In response, West Indies faltered, losing two wickets in their second innings and managing to score only 76 runs. On the final day, the hosts will need to muster 289 runs to win, while the visitors will be eager to swiftly claim the remaining 8 wickets.

Correct Answer :   Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty

The Indian pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty came from behind to win the men's doubles title at the Korea Open 2023 badminton tournament in Yeosu on Sunday (23rd July 2023).

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty beat Indonesian top seeds Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Rian Ardianto, world No. 1 in the badminton rankings, by a 17-21, 21-13, 21-14 scoreline in the title decider at the Jinnam Stadium.

This was Satwik and Chirag’s seventh title on the BWF World Tour. The Indian duo, who won the Swiss and Indonesia Open titles this year, have now been unbeaten on the BWF World Tour for 10 matches..

Source : Olympics

Correct Answer :   Stuart Broad

England team-mate James Anderson is the only other quick bowler to achieve the feat. Broad is fifth on the all-time list and Anderson third, with spinners Muttiah Muralitharan, Shane Warne and Anil Kumble completing the top five.

Broad made his debut against Sri Lanka in Colombo 2007, going on to make 166 Test appearances till date and be part of four Ashes-winning sides..

Source : AIR

Correct Answer :   Virat Kohli

Former Indian captain Virat Kohli has become the 10th cricketer in the world to play 500 international matches. The record of playing most international matches is in the name of India's great batsman Sachin Tendulkar.

Mahela Jayawardene (652) is in second place in terms of playing most matches. Among the players who have played more than 500 matches in world cricket, 8 players are from Asia.

Virat Kohli had become the 10th cricketer in history to have played a 500th match in international cricket after Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Rahul Dravid, Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara, Sanath Jayasuriya, Ricky Ponting, Shahid Afridi and Jacques Kallis.

Kohli will be hoping that he will be able to soldier on and reach his 30th Test on Friday (21st July 2023).

It would take his tally for the year to two Test centuries, having earlier scored a 186 in the fourth Test against Australia in Ahmedabad. It would also be his first Test century away from home since December 2018, when he scored 123 against Australia in Perth.

India's 500 internationals club :

“I’m really grateful,” Kohli had told bcci.tv before the match about reaching the milestone. “I feel very blessed that I’ve had such a long journey playing for India, and such a long Test career because I’ve had to work really hard for it. It makes you feel happy about the hard work you’ve put in, to see the longevity in the game and the results over the years as well. So yeah, I’m very grateful.”

Kohli is the fourth player from India to have reached 500 internationals. He has played with the three other players at some stage in his international career. Sachin Tendulkar, who shared a dressing room with Kohli till 2013 in international cricket, ended his illustrious career on 664 matches. Rahul Dravid, who also played with Kohli in the early stages of the latter's career and is now India's head coach, played 504 matches. Meanwhile Dhoni, who was captain of India before Kohli took over and under whom the latter made his international debut, played 535 matches..

Source : Hindustan Times

Correct Answer :   Harmehar Singh Lally and Sanjana Sood

In shooting, India bagged one silver to stay in the second position of the medal tally on Day 4 of the ISSF Junior World Championships 2023, in Changwon, Korea 19th July 2023.

Indian pair of Harmehar Singh Lally and Sanjana Sood won a silver medal in the skeet mixed team event. Harmehar and Sanjana had to endure a gruelling 52-shot shoot-off, which they won 26-24 eventually, enroute to the final, where they lost 38-43 to the Italian duo of Andrea Galardini and Sara Bongini.
 
With that medal, India stayed in second place on the medals table with four gold, four silver and three bronze medals.

China kept rising at the top with six gold, eight silver, and four bronze medals. Italy is in the third spot with two gold, one silver and three bronze medals.

ISSF Junior World Championships 2023: India’s medal winners

Correct Answer :   bronze

Indian Surf Team won the bronze medal at the Asian Surfing Championship 2023, held at Thulisdhoo Island in Maldives. 18 countries from Asia took part in this championship.
 
* The Surfing Federation of India sent a team comprising  4 senior Surfers in the men’s category and 2 Surfers in the Under 18 category.

* 5 out of the 6 Surfers were from Tamilnadu.
 

* Srikanth from Kovalam, Tamil Nadu made it to the semi-finals in the Men's Category.
 
* The President of the Surfing Federation of India Arun Vasu said that Surfing team finished overall 3rd with a bronze medal.
 
* Indian Surfers will now get ready for the first-ever World Surfing League (WSL) event in India to be held in Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu from August 14 to 20, 2023..

Source: AIR

Correct Answer :   R Praggnanandhaa

Young Indian Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa emerged champion in the V Geza Hetenyi Memorial Super GM chess tournament 2023, here on Wednesday (19th July 2023) in Hungary.

The 17-year-old GM scored 6.5 points to finish clear first in the 10-player event. After nine rounds of play, he ended up a point ahead of M Amin Tabatabaei (Iran) and Russia’s Sanan Sjugirov.

Praggnanandhaa posted five wins, drew three games and suffered only one defeat in the tournament, at the hands of Amin Tabatabaei in the fifth round.

In the final round, he secured a draw against Polish GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek with white pieces.

The teenaged Indian GM now has a live rating of 2707.3.

Praggnanandhaa scored wins over Sjugirov, Parham Maghsoodloo (Iran), Adam Kozak (Hungary) and Peter Prohaszka (Hungary).

He drew his last three games, against Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine), Maxim Matlakov (Russia) and Wojtaszek..

Source : Indian Express

Correct Answer :   Bajrang Punia

Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat  had last represented India at the World Wrestling Championships in Belgrade in September 2022. In the corresponding 10 months, they didn't go to the competition arena even once. They were busy with their protest against former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.

Surprisingly, both wrestlers were granted 'exemption' from trials for the upcoming Asian Games in Hangzhou by the ad-hoc panel appointed by the Indian Olympic Association (IOA). The chief national coaches - who were part of the committee - were not even taken into confidence.

Bajrang and Vinesh's direct entry for the Asiad, without going through the rigours of trials, has infuriated their competitors in their respective weight categories - men's freestyle 65kg and women's freestyle 53kg. It's been learnt that the country's first U-20 world champion Antim Panghal (women's 53kg), current U-23 and U-20 Asian champion Sujeet Kalkal and up and coming Jaskaran Singh (both men's 65kg) have decided to move court to challenge the ad-hoc committee's decision.

The trials will be held in New Delhi on July 22 and 23. Greco-roman and women's category bouts will be on the first day and men's freestyle event the next day.

In its directive for the trials issued on Tuesday evening, ad-hoc committee member Bhupinder Singh Bajwa stated: "As per the WFI regulations of selection trials, the selection committee has already selected wrestlers in the 65kg (freestyle) and 53kg (women wrestling) for the Asian Games 2022. But the trial will be held for these weight categories and the selected wrestlers will be kept on stand-by."

While the committee didn't mention the names of wrestlers exempted, multiple sources confirmed that they were Bajrang and Vinesh.

According to WFI's selection policy, which was in effect before the federation was dissolved by the sports ministry in the wake of the sexual harassment charges against Singh, 'iconic players' were eligible for exemption from trials. The ad-hoc committee applied the same rule in the case of Bajrang and Vinesh.

"The selection trials in all weight categories are mandatory. However, the selection committee will have the discretion to select the iconic players like medallists of Olympic/World Championship without trials provided recommendation by chief coach/foreign expert."

While Bajrang secured a bronze at the Tokyo Olympics as well as Belgrade's Worlds,  finished on the podium at the same Worlds.

However, going by the criteria which was in place earlier or as has been laid down by the ad-hoc committee, Tokyo Games silver medallist Ravi Dahiya (men's freestyle 57kg), too, deserved an exemption..

Source : Times of India