CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Olympic Wrestling 2016: Medal Winners, Scores and Results from Saturday. Russia won their third wrestling gold medal of the 2016 Rio Olympics on Saturday after Abdulrashid Sadulaev dominated Selim Yasar of Turkey to take the grand prize in the men’s freestyle 86-kilogram division.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sakshi Malik defeated Aisuluu Tynybekova of Kyrgyzstan 8-5 in the 58kg category of women’s freestyle wrestling to win the bronze medal at the Rio Olympics in 2016. She was then only the fourth Indian woman to win an Olympic medal and was India’s first medal of that edition of the Games.

Detailed explanation-3: -The correct answer Sakshi Malik. Female wrestler Sakshi Malik earned India’s first medal of the 2016 Rio Olympics with a third-place finish on August 18, 2016. Sakshi Malik, 23, was also the first Indian woman to win a wrestling medal and the fourth to win at any Olympic Games.

Detailed explanation-4: -The 120 athletes include 32 members of Indian men’s and women’s hockey team. Apart from them, 36 athletes will represent India in Athletics (track and field events) category alone. Indian will be competing across 15 events at Rio Olympics.