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2021

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Manu Bhaker has won record-breaking medals for India in a single Championship in which event?
A
Track & Field
B
Archery
C
Shooting
D
Weightlifting
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In the final round of the women’s 10m air pistol event during the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, she secured the gold medal with setting a new Commonwealth Games record of 240.9 points.

Detailed explanation-2: -KD Jadhav: The scrawny lad who stood tall in the sport of giants. Khashaba Jadhav may have been lean and stood at only 5’5” but the Indian wrestler, also referred to as the Pocket Dynamo, dwarfs the far bigger athletes in his sport.

Detailed explanation-3: -Representing Haryana at the 65th edition of the National Shooting Championship, Manu Bhaker beat Telangana’s Esha Singh 17-13 in the final after topping the qualification with 583 points. She also aced the semi-final by scoring 252.4 at the MP Shooting Academy shooting range.

Detailed explanation-4: -The 18-year-old Rudrankksh Patil secured the first quota place from the meet after winning gold in the men’s 10m air rifle. He also became only the sixth Indian shooting world champion after Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra, Tejaswini Sawant, Manavjit Singh Sandhu, Om Prakash Mitherval and Ankur Mittal.

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