CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Manish Narwal and Singhraj Adhana won gold and silver respectively in the mixed 50m pistol SH1 event at the Tokyo Paralympics on Saturday. Sergey Malyshev of the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) took bronze with a score of 196.8.

Detailed explanation-2: -He won a gold medal for India in Mixed P4 – 50 m pistol SH1.

Detailed explanation-3: -The 19-year-old Avani Lekhara won a historic gold in her maiden Paralympics, shooting a new Paralympic record score of 249.6 in the women’s 10m air rifle shooting standing SH1 final in Tokyo. It made Avani Lekhara the first Indian woman to win a Paralympic gold medal.

Detailed explanation-4: -NEW DELHI: India’s Tokyo Paralympics gold medal winner Pramod Bhagat was on Thursday named among six shuttlers for the ‘Male Para Badminton Player of the Year’ by the sport’s world body but none of his compatriots featured in the able-bodied awards’ categories.

Detailed explanation-5: -Paralympics medallists Yogesh Khatuniya, Nishad Kumar, Praveen Kumar starred as India won a whopping 34 medals at the 2022 International Wheelchair and Amuptee Sports (IWAS) World Games in Vila Real de Santo Antonio in Portugal.