Question: In Rio Paralympics – 2016, India won how many medals?
(a) Four
(b) Five
(c) Six
(d) Three
Ans: (a)
Related facts:
- On 21 December 2016 Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports released its Year end Review of 2016.
- Following are the related highlights:
- In Rio Paralympics – 2016 India won its highest ever medal tally of 4 medals (2 Gold, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze all in athletics).
- The athletes are Shri Devendra Jhajharia and Shri Mariappan, Gold medalists, Ms Deepa Malik, Silver medalist and Shri Varun Singh Bhati, Bronze medalist.
- Participation of Athletes ensuring and making all arrangements for participation of the largest ever contingent of India in Olympics / Paralympics 2016 in Rio.
- India won 2 medals in Olympics (1 silver and 1 Bronze in Badminton and wrestling respectively).
- 12th South Asian Games were successfully conducted at Guwahati and Shillong in February 2016.
- India won a record-breaking haul of 308 medals.
- India’s final tally stood at 188 gold, 99 silver and 30 bronze medals.
- It was a massive jump in medal count for the Indians compared to the previous edition of the Games in 2010 in which India won 175, including 90 gold.
- BRICS U-17 Football tournament: First ever U-17 Football tournament among teams of five BRICS countries was organized and successfully held at Goa in October 2016.
- Brazil was the winner of this tournament.
- Run for Rio on 31st July, 2016 was organized to create awareness among masses about Rio Olympics and to convey wishes of the country-men to Olympians and Paralympians participating in Rio for 2016.
- Indian U-18 Men Hockey Team won gold in 4th at Dhaka Asia cup beating Bangladesh in the final at Dhaka.
- MoU between India and New Zealand on cooperation in the field of Youth and Sports: A MoU was signed between the two countries on 28th October, 2016 at New Delhi.
- Launch of a new scheme ‘Khelo India – National Programme for Development of Sports’
India beat Belgium 2-1 to win junior hockey world cup title on 18.12.2016.
Reference:
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=155701
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