CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Sindhu recently won a historic silver medal in the women’s singles badminton event at Rio Olympics. Carolina Marin won gold in the event.

Detailed explanation-2: -At the 2010 Iran Fajr International Badminton Challenge, she won the silver medal in the women’s singles. She reached the quarterfinals of the 2010 BWF World Junior Championships that was held in Mexico, where she lost to Chinese Suo Di in a 3-gamer.

Detailed explanation-3: -PV Sindhu won her second straight medal at the Tokyo Olympics last year after defeating China’s He Bingjiao in the bronze medal match. She became only the second Indian athelete after Sushil Kumar to in win two Olympic medals and remains the only shuttler to have achieved the feat.

Detailed explanation-4: -After two bronze and two silver medals between 2013 and 2018, she finally won gold in 2019 after comprehensively beating Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara 21-7, 21-7 in Basel, Switzerland. In her first Commonwealth Games (CWG) in 2014, PV Sindhu won bronze in women’s singles.