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20 Questions Related to Sports Person 20 Questions related to sports person 3 Manav Thakkar is associated to which sports? Cricket Table tennis Boxing Chess Manav Thakkar is an Indian table-tennis player. He was a part of the Indian team for the India at the 2018 Asian Games. manav thakkar was born in surat, Gujarat 6 Which Indian woman boxer has won gold in the 51kg category at the 23rd President's Cup? Laishram Sarita Devi Ankushita Boro Simranjit Kaur Mary Com Chungneijang Mary Kom Hmangte is an Indian Olympic boxer from Manipur. She is the only woman to become World Amateur Boxing champion for a record six times, and the only woman boxer to have won a medal in each one of the seven world championships. 8 Who won the women’s singles titles at the 21st Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships? Ayhika Mukherjee Manav Thakkar Abhinav Bindra Mary Com Ayhika Mukherjee is an Indian table-tennis player and has been selected to be part of the Indian team for the India at the 2018 Asian Games. 10 Which hockey player has been chosen for 2019 Mohan Bagan Ratna? Ajit Pal Singh Keshav Dutt Sardar Singh Dhanraj Pillay Two-time Olympic gold medal winning hockey player Keshav Dutt and former India football captain Prasun Banerjee will get this year’s Mohun Bagan Ratna Award. 12 Who has been appointed the new national coach of the Indian table tennis team? Veselin Matic Igor Stimac Dejan Papic Harendra Singh Canada's Dejan Papic has been appointed as the chief coach of India's table tennis team 14 Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship 2019 was held in which city? Lucknow Amritsar Cuttack Agra India once again the host, Commonwealth Championshipsset for Odisha. First staged in 1971 in Singapore; the Table Tennis Federation of India will host the 2019 Commonwealth Championships, the tournament is planned for Odisha and will be held from Wednesday 17th to Monday 22nd July. 16 Which country finished on top of medals tally at Commonwealth Weightlifting, 2019? China India Japan Brazil Mirabai Chanu wins gold at Commonwealth Senior Weightlifting Championship Former world champion Mirabai Chanu lifted a total of 191kg to win a gold medal at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship in Samoa. 18 Which of the following is also known as Dhing Express? Milkha Singh Mary Com Hima das P T Usha Hima Das, nicknamed the Dhing Express, is an Indian sprint runner from the state of Assam 20 Sunil Chhetri is related to which sports? Hockey Football Boxing Badminton Sunil Chhetri is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a striker or winger and captains both the Indian Super League side Bengaluru FC and the Indian national team. 22 Dutee Chand comes from which state? Kerala Assam Odisha Manipur Dutee Chand is an Indian professional sprinter and current national champion in the women's 100 metres event. She is the third Indian woman to ever qualify for the Women's 100 metres event at the Summer Olympic Games. 24 Which country’s men’s soccer team won CONCACAF Gold Cup, 2019? Mexico Spain Brazil Italy The 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup was the 15th edition of the CONCACAF Gold Cup, the biennial international men's football championship of the North, Central American, and Caribbean region organized by CONCACAF. 26 Vinesh Phogat comes from which state? Haryana Uttarakhand Rajasthan Madhya Pradesh Vinesh Phogat is an Indian wrestler who comes from a successful family of wrestlers with her cousins Geeta Phogat and Babita Kumari, both international wrestlers and Commonwealth Games medalists. She became the first Indian woman wrestler to win Gold in both Commonwealth and Asian games. 28 Vaibhav Yadav is related to which sports? Boxing Badminton Cricket Hockey Indian pro boxer Vaibhav Yadav became World Boxing Council (WBC) Asia silver Welterweight Champion after winning the title bout held in Pattaya, Thail. 30 Who has become the fastest batsman to reach 20,000 international runs? Virat Kohli M S Dhoni Ben Stokes Rohit Sharma Virat Kohli today became the fastest cricketer to score 20,000 international runs. The India captain reached the milestone when he reached the score of 37 against West Indies at Old Trafford. 32 Which country’s team won the women’s FIH Series Finals Hockey Tournament, 2019? China Japan India Pakistan The 2018–19 Women's FIH Series Finals were the second stage of the 2018–19 edition of the Hockey Series. It was held in June 2019. 34 Pankaj Advani is related to which sports? Snooker Badminton Hockey Cricket Pankaj Arjan Advani is an Indian billiards and snooker player. He is a 21-time World Champion and has achieved a hat-trick of hat-tricks in English billiards, holding the World, Asian, and Indian National Championship titles simultaneously, in five different years: 2005, 2008, 2012, 2017 and recently in 2019. 36 Pranati Nayak is associated to which sports? Gymnastics Hockey Billiards Shooting Nayak clinched a bronze medal in vault event at the Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Mongolia 38 THANK YOU.
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