{"id":117200,"date":"2021-07-08T14:18:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T14:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=117200"},"modified":"2021-07-08T14:18:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T14:18:23","slug":"afi-names-indian-squad-for-tokyo-olympic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/afi-names-indian-squad-for-tokyo-olympic-games\/","title":{"rendered":"AFI names Indian squad for Tokyo Olympic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: How many athletes were announced by Athletics Federation of India to compete in Tokyo Olympics 2020?<\/strong><br>(a) 26<br>(b) 24<br>(c) 32<br>(d) 42<br><strong>Answer: (a)<br>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 5 July 2021, the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) has announced a 26-member team to compete in the Tokyo Olympics.<\/li><li>The athletics events at the Olympics start on July 31 and it will run through August 9.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The squad:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Men: Avinash Sable (3000m Steeplechase); MP Jabir (400m Hurdles): M Sreeshankar (Long Jump); Tajinderpal Singh Toor (Shot Put); Neeraj Chopra and Shivpal Singh (Javelin Throw); KT Irfan, Sandeep Kumar and Rahul Rohilla (20km Walk) and Gurpreet Singh (50km Walk); 4x400m Relay: Amoj Jacob, Arokia Rajiv, Muhammed Anas, Naganathan Pandi, Noah Nirmal Tom; 4x400m Mixed Relay: Sarthak Bhambri, Alex Antony<\/li><li>Women: Dutee Chand (100m and 200m); Kamalpreet Kaur and Seema Antil-Punia (Discus Throw) and Annu Rani (Javelin Throw); Bhawna Jat and Priyanka Goswami (20km Walk) and (Mixed 4x400m Relay): Revathi Veeramani, Subha Venkatesan &amp; Dhanlakshmi Sekhar.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By-Amar Mani Upadhyay<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribuneindia.com\/news\/sports\/26-member-athletics-squad-announced-for-tokyo-olympics-278640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.tribuneindia.com\/news\/sports\/26-member-athletics-squad-announced-for-tokyo-olympics-278640<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: How many athletes were announced by Athletics Federation of India to compete in Tokyo Olympics 2020?(a) 26(b) 24(c) 32(d) 42Answer: (a)Related facts: On 5 July 2021, the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) has announced a 26-member team to compete in the Tokyo Olympics. The athletics events at the Olympics start on July 31 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":117201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1093],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athe-snew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117202,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117200\/revisions\/117202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}