Commonwealth Games-2018

Question- Consider the following statements in regards to 21st Commonwealth Games- 2018 held at Gold Coast on April 15th, 2018-
(i) India’s last (26th) Gold Medal was won by badminton player Saina Nehwal by defeating P.V. Sindhu.
(II) This was the first Commonwealth Games of Indian women boxer Mary Kom.
(III) Mary Kom won Gold in 45-48 kg weight category.
(IV) Gold medal won by Mary Kom was the 500th medal of India in Commonwealth Games.
Which of the above is/are correct?
(a) (i), (ii), (iv)
(b) (iii), (iv)
(c) (i), (ii), (iii)
(d) all of the above
Answer- (c) 
Related Facts:

  • 21st Commonwealth Games was organized in Gold Coast, Queensland (Australia) (4th-15th April, 2018).
  • Queen’s Baton Relay for the year 2018 Commonwealth Games was inaugurated on March 13th, 2017 by Queen Elizabeth from Buckingham Palace.
  • She handed the baton to two-time Olympic champion cyclist Anna Meares of the host country Australia.
  • Thus, Anna becomes the first carrier of the Baton.
  • On October 3rd, 2017, Queen’s Baton reached Pakistan from New Delhi and was released to Bangladesh on October 9th, 2018.
  • India was the 51st stop (stop) of Baton.
  • During his total 388 days journey through 71 nations and provinces, Baton covered a total distance 2, 30,000 km. before reaching the Gold Coast on 4th April 2018, in the opening ceremony of the 21st Commonwealth Games.
  • The opening ceremony of the 21st Commonwealth Games was held on April 4th, 2018 at the Carrara Stadium in the Gold Coast, Queensland.
  • The aim of these games was ‘Share the Dream’. The theme of the opening ceremony was ‘Hello Earth’.
  • Gold medal winner of 100 meter hurdles at the 2012 London Olympics Australia’s Sally Pearson the credit of handing the bets to the Queen’s representative Charles, Prince of Wales.
  • Thus Sally became the last runner of Queen’s Baton Relay.
  • In the inaugural ceremony, P V Sindhu was the flag bearer of Indian team.
  • Charles read the Queen’s message and announced the official launch of the Games.
  • In the parade of the nations, former host Scotland was at the first and Australia was at the last in the parade.
  • Over 6600 players from 71 nations / provinces have participated in 275 sporting events of 18 sports disciplines.
  • The judo competition included in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, 2014 was not held this time.
  • Basketball was re-included in these games (2018) and the inauguration of the women’s Rugby Sevens and new game beach volleyball was chosen as the 18th
  • On October 6th, 2016, 7 new game events were added for the female players in the Games program, which made the game of women and men’s players equal.
  • This is the first time in the history of Commonwealth Games that equality has been brought in the case of events.
  • In this 11-day event, Australia topped in the medal tally with a total of 198 medals including 80 gold, 59 silver and 59 bronze medals.
  • England finished second with winning a total of 136 medals, including 45 gold, 45 silver and 46 bronze medals.
  • India performing its third best performance in Commonwealth Games and has won total 66 medals including 26 gold, 20 silver and 20 bronze medals.
  • The mascot of these games named as Borobi a blue colored male Koala.
  • This animal, which looks like a bears, is the vegetarian Marsupial Native living on trees, found in Koala Australia.
  • Canadian female swimmer Taylor Ruck won the most 8 medals in the 21st Commonwealth Games. (Competition-swimming)
  • This includes 1 gold (women’s 200 m freestyle), 5 silver and 2 bronze medals.
  • Australian swimmer Mitch Larkin won the maximum number of gold medal (5 golds) in the 21st Commonwealth Games.
  • Four players in the 21st Commonwealth Games won 6 medals.
  • They are: 1. Nile Wilson, England (4 Gold and 2 Silver-Artistic Gymnastics), 2. Daimonto Evripidou, Cyprus (4 Gold, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze-Rhythmic Gymnastics), 3. Emma McKeon, Australia (4 Gold and 2 Bronze -swimming) and 4. Duncan Scott, Scotland (1 gold, 1 silver and 4 bronze-swimming).
  • Bermuda’s Flora Duffy won the first gold medal of 21st Commonwealth Games in Women’s Triathlon.
  • In the 21st Commonwealth Games, India’s first medal in the form of silver medal won by weightlifter P Gururaja Poojari in 56 kg category by lifting 249 kg.
  • Weightlifter Saikhom Mirabai Chanu gave India the first gold medal in Commonwealth Games
  • Chanu in 48 kg category lifted total of 196 kg of weight.
  • The last 26th gold medal for India won by Saina Nehwal in the Badminton women’s singles event, defeating P.V. Sindhu.
  • India’s 15-year-old shooter Anish Bhanwal won gold medal in the inaugural Commonwealth Games men’s 25 meter Rapid Fire Pistol event.
  • With this achievement, Anish became the youngest Indian to win a gold medal in the 21st Commonwealth Games.
  • Mary Kom became the first Indian woman boxer to win the gold medal in the Commonwealth Games.
  • She has won the Gold medal in 45-48 kg weight category.
  • This was her first Commonwealth game.
  • Saina Nehwal became the first Indian to win two gold medals (first in 2010) at the Commonwealth Games Badminton Championship singles competition.
  • For the first time, Manika Batra gave India a gold medal in the table tennis singles event.
  • Neeraj Chopra gave gold medal to India for the first time in a javelin throw event.
  • In this Commonwealth Games Canada’s full-bore shooter Robert Pitcairan debuted at the age of 79 years and 9 months and participated in the Queens Prize Competition.
  • Thus, Robert became the oldest player ever to participate in the Commonwealth Games.
  • Anna Hersche 11-year-old table tennis player of Wales became the youngest player to participate in Commonwealth Games.
  • New Zealand’s weightlifter Laurel Hubbard became the first transgender player to take part in the Commonwealth Games.
  • In 90kg category in the snatch of the lifting the weight of 132 kg had to be out of the game Due to the displacement of left shoulder bone.
  • 18-year-old Indian weightlifter Deepak Lathev, by winning a bronze medal in the 69 kg weight category, became the youngest weightlifter to win a medal for India in the Commonwealth Games.
  • For India, the maximum of 4 medals (2 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze) won by Manika Batra in table tennis.
  • Shreyasi Singh, who won India’s 12th gold medal, has made history.
  • She is the country’s first woman shooter, who has won gold medal for India in the double trap event.
  • Prior to this, Rajyavardhan Rathore had won gold medal in men’s double trap competition in 2006.
  • Manika won gold medal in women’s singles and women’s team, silver medal in women’s doubles and bronze medal in mixed doubles.
  • India’s Triple Junior Rakesh Babu and Race Walker Katie Irfan were out of the competition due to allegations of playing the game.
  • Australia’s 68-year-old Ken Hanson made his debut in the Commonwealth Games and won the gold medal, becoming the senior-most gold medalist in the history of Commonwealth Games.
  • Ken Hanson won the gold medal in the Para Sports Triple B6B7B8 Lawn Balls.
  • New Zealand’s weightlifter David Liti was awarded ‘David Dixon Award’ for Sporting Spirit.
  • David in +105 kg Weight category won the gold medal lifting the  403 kg
  • In the Commonwealth Games from 1934 to 2018, the number of medals of India has reached 504.
  • Saina Nehwal’s gold medal in Badminton Women’s Singles was India’s 500th Medal.
  • The concluding ceremony of 21st Games concludes on April 15th, 2018 at Carrara Stadium, Queensland (Gold Coast).
  • In the closing ceremony the Indian team’s flag bearer was female boxer M.C. Mary Kom.
  • Commonwealth Games Federation’s Deputy Guard Prince Edward announced the conclusion of Gold Coast, 2018 as the representative of the Commonwealth Head.
  • Australia became the world’s first country hosting the Commonwealth Games maximum 5 times.
  • The Commonwealth Games Federation’s flag was handed over by the top executives of the Gold Coast 2018 Organizing Committee to Birmingham (England), where the 22nd Commonwealth Games will be held from July 27 to August 7th
  • So far, Australia has won the most 2415 medals in the Commonwealth Games and England has won 2144 medals.

Reference:
https://www.gc2018.com/
https://www.gc2018.com/article/meares-and-pendleton-unite-pass-queens-baton
https://www.gc2018.com/qbr/baton#
https://www.gc2018.com/article/sally-pearson-pulls-out-games
https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1042362/gold-coast-2018-to-offer-same-amount-of-medals-for-men-and-women-after-seven-events-added