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Sports Personalities and Achievements

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This hub covers questions on famous sports personalities and their record breaking achievements. It includes topics on Olympic medalists and national award winners. This content is highly relevant for general awareness sections in SSC, banking, railways, and UPSC exams.

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Sports Personalities and Achievements Questions

Multiple choice

Which Indian athlete holds the national record in the men's 400-meter dash?

  1. Milkha Singh

  2. PT Usha

  3. Shiny Wilson

  4. Anju Bobby George
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Milkha Singh holds the national record in the men's 400-meter dash with a time of 45.6 seconds, set in 1960.

Multiple choice

Who is the first Indian athlete to win a medal at the World Championships in Athletics?

  1. PT Usha

  2. Shiny Wilson

  3. Anju Bobby George

  4. Dipa Karmakar
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PT Usha is the first Indian athlete to win a medal at the World Championships in Athletics, winning a bronze medal in the 400-meter hurdles in 1983.

Multiple choice

Which Indian athlete holds the national record in the women's 800-meter run?

  1. PT Usha

  2. Shiny Wilson

  3. Anju Bobby George

  4. Dipa Karmakar
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PT Usha holds the national record in the women's 800-meter run with a time of 1:59.83 minutes, set in 1984.

Multiple choice

Who is the first Indian athlete to win a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in athletics?

  1. Milkha Singh

  2. PT Usha

  3. Shiny Wilson

  4. Anju Bobby George
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Milkha Singh is the first Indian athlete to win a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in athletics, winning the 400-meter race in 1958.

Multiple choice

Who is the first Indian athlete to win a medal at the Asian Athletics Championships?

  1. Milkha Singh

  2. PT Usha

  3. Shiny Wilson

  4. Anju Bobby George
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Milkha Singh is the first Indian athlete to win a medal at the Asian Athletics Championships, winning a gold medal in the 400-meter race in 1958.

Multiple choice

Which Indian athlete holds the national record in the women's 3000-meter steeplechase?

  1. PT Usha

  2. Shiny Wilson

  3. Anju Bobby George

  4. Lalita Babar
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Explanation

Lalita Babar holds the national record in the women's 3000-meter steeplechase with a time of 9:19.76 minutes, set in 2016.

Multiple choice

Who is the first Indian athlete to win a gold medal at the South Asian Games in athletics?

  1. Milkha Singh

  2. PT Usha

  3. Shiny Wilson

  4. Anju Bobby George
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Milkha Singh is the first Indian athlete to win a gold medal at the South Asian Games in athletics, winning the 400-meter race in 1954.

Multiple choice

Which Indian athlete holds the national record in the men's 5000-meter run?

  1. Milkha Singh

  2. PT Usha

  3. Shiny Wilson

  4. Anju Bobby George
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Explanation

Bahadur Prasad holds the national record in the men's 5000-meter run with a time of 13:29.70 minutes, set in 2005.

Multiple choice

Who is the first Indian athlete to win a medal at the World Junior Athletics Championships?

  1. PT Usha

  2. Shiny Wilson

  3. Anju Bobby George

  4. Dipa Karmakar
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PT Usha is the first Indian athlete to win a medal at the World Junior Athletics Championships, winning a silver medal in the 200-meter dash in 1986.

Multiple choice

Which Indian athlete holds the national record in the women's 10000-meter run?

  1. PT Usha

  2. Shiny Wilson

  3. Anju Bobby George

  4. Lalita Babar
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Explanation

Lalita Babar holds the national record in the women's 10000-meter run with a time of 31:59.54 minutes, set in 2016.

Multiple choice

Who holds the record for the most Olympic gold medals in swimming?

  1. Michael Phelps

  2. Katie Ledecky

  3. Ryan Lochte
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Explanation

Michael Phelps holds the record for the most Olympic gold medals in swimming, with 28 gold medals.

Multiple choice

Who was the first athlete to win nine Olympic gold medals?

  1. Carl Lewis

  2. Jesse Owens

  3. Paavo Nurmi

  4. Usain Bolt
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Explanation

Paavo Nurmi, a Finnish long-distance runner, won nine gold medals in the 1920s and 1930s.

Multiple choice

Which athlete holds the record for the most Olympic medals?

  1. Michael Phelps

  2. Larisa Latynina

  3. Jenny Thompson

  4. Natalie Coughlin
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Michael Phelps, an American swimmer, has won a total of 28 Olympic medals, including 23 gold medals.

Multiple choice

Who was the first African-American athlete to win an Olympic gold medal?

  1. Jesse Owens

  2. Jackie Robinson

  3. Muhammad Ali

  4. Wilma Rudolph
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Jesse Owens, an American track and field athlete, won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.

Multiple choice

Which female athlete has won the most Olympic gold medals?

  1. Jenny Thompson

  2. Larisa Latynina

  3. Simone Biles

  4. Natalie Coughlin
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Explanation

Larisa Latynina, a Soviet gymnast, won a total of 18 Olympic gold medals from 1956 to 1964.