{"id":127285,"date":"2021-12-02T09:45:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T09:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=127285"},"modified":"2021-12-02T09:45:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T09:45:59","slug":"anju-bobby-george-wins-world-athletics-woman-of-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/anju-bobby-george-wins-world-athletics-woman-of-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Anju Bobby George wins World Athletics\u2019 Woman of Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Anju Bobby George is associated with which sports?<\/strong><br>(a) Long Jump<br>(b) Badminton<br>(c) Archery<br>(d) Gymnastics<br><strong>Ans: a<br>Recent Context<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Indian Athlete Anju Bobby George has won the Woman of the Year Award at the World Athletics Award 2021.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Related Facts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Anju Bobby George is a retired Indian athlete.<\/li><li>Anju Bobby George made history when she won the bronze medal in long jump at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics in Paris.<\/li><li>She became the first Indian athlete ever to win a medal in a World Championships in Athletics jumping 6.70 m.<\/li><li>She has been given the award for her efforts in advancing the sport in India as well as inspiring more women to follow in her footsteps.<\/li><li>In 2016, she opened a training academy for young girls, which has already helped to produce a world U20 medallist.<\/li><li>She has been a constant voice for gender equality and also mentors schoolgirls for future leadership positions within the sport.<\/li><li>She is also a gold medalist in 2005 IAAF World Athletics Finals.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Kameshwar Shukla<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/sports\/sport-others\/anju-bobby-george-wins-world-athletics-woman-of-year-award-7651991\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/sports\/sport-others\/anju-bobby-george-wins-world-athletics-woman-of-year-award-7651991\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Anju Bobby George is associated with which sports?(a) Long Jump(b) Badminton(c) Archery(d) GymnasticsAns: aRecent Context The Indian Athlete Anju Bobby George has won the Woman of the Year Award at the World Athletics Award 2021. Related Facts Anju Bobby George is a retired Indian athlete. Anju Bobby George made history when she won the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1097],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127285","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127288,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127285\/revisions\/127288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127285"}],"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=127285"},{"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=127285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}