{"id":130722,"date":"2022-01-25T13:48:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T13:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=130722"},"modified":"2022-01-25T13:48:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T13:48:14","slug":"chris-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/chris-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question : Ministry of Sports has recently(January 2022) approved the engagement of two-time World Squash Championships medalist <em>__<\/em> as Foreign Coach for the Indian team for the Asian Games.<br><\/strong>a. Chris Walker<br>b. Tom Richards<br>c. Alex Gough<br>d. Adrian Grant<br><strong>Ans.a.<br>Related facts &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ministry of Sports has recently(January 2022) approved the engagement of two-time World Squash Championships medalist Chris Walker as Foreign Coach for the Indian team for the Asian Games.<\/li><li>He will be engaged for 16 weeks.<\/li><li>He is a former England captain.<\/li><li>His appointment was recommended by the Sports Authority of India\u2019 Selection Committee and officials of the SRFI.<\/li><li>With Mark Cairns, Walker won the inaugural World Doubles Squash Championships in 1997.<\/li><li>Walker won bronze medals in the 1993 and 1996 World Open Squash Championships and was part of the England teams that claimed silver medals in the World Team Championships in 1995 and 1997.<\/li><li><strong>SRFI stands for &#8212; <\/strong>Squash Racquet Federation of India.<\/li><li><strong>Professional Squash Association world rankings of Indian players: &#8212;<\/strong><\/li><li>Men: Saurav Ghoshal (16), Ramit Tandon (50), Mahesh Mangaonkar (51), Vikram Malhotra (71) and Velavan Senthilkumar (122).<\/li><li>Women: Joshna Chinappa (10), Tanvi Khanna (77), Sunayna Kuruvilla (108), Akanksha Salunkhe (157), Urwashi Joshi (169).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By &#8211; Pankaj Pandey<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=230005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=230005<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question : Ministry of Sports has recently(January 2022) approved the engagement of two-time World Squash Championships medalist __ as Foreign Coach for the Indian team for the Asian Games.a. Chris Walkerb. Tom Richardsc. Alex Goughd. Adrian GrantAns.a.Related facts &#8212; Ministry of Sports has recently(January 2022) approved the engagement of two-time World Squash Championships medalist Chris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":130723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[2348],"class_list":["post-130722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pers","tag-personalities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130722","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=130722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130724,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130722\/revisions\/130724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130722"}],"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=130722"},{"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=130722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}