CURRENT AFFAIRS

2019

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Name the Indian player who won gold at the 2019 BWF World Championships.
A
P. C. Thulasi
B
Ashwini Ponnappa
C
PV Sindhu
D
Saina Nehwal
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Indian finally broke the jinx in 2019 - PV Sindhu’s third consecutive world championship final - beating Okuhara in 38 minutes to become the first Indian to win the world badminton championship.

Detailed explanation-2: -Since Gutta-Ponnappa won the women’s doubles bronze, India have won at least one medal in six straight editions of the event taking their overall tally to 12 including the lone gold won by PV Sindhu in the 2019 edition.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sindhu became the first Indian to win Badminton World Championships gold by defeating Nozomi Okuhara. Nozomi Okuhara is from Japan. It was the BWF World Championships of 2019.

Detailed explanation-4: -Two-time Olympic medallist P V Sindhu is the only Indian world champion. She beat Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara in the summit clash in Basel in 2019.

Detailed explanation-5: -This is Bhagat’s fourth World Championships gold in singles and sixth overall in the marquee event. However, Bhagat and Manoj Sarkar went down 21-14, 18-21, 13-21 to Indonesia’s Hikmat Ramdani-Ukun Rukaendi in the SL3-SL4 men’s doubles final.

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