{"id":15137,"date":"2016-08-30T11:37:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T11:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=15137"},"modified":"2016-08-30T11:37:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T11:37:51","slug":"pusarla-venkata-sindhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/pusarla-venkata-sindhu\/","title":{"rendered":"Pusarla Venkata Sindhu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Who among the following has scripted history by becoming the first Indian woman to bag a silver medal at the Olympics?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Sapna Punia<br \/>\n(b) P.V Sindhu<br \/>\n(c) Dipa Karmakar<br \/>\n(d) Heena Sidhu<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (b)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 19 August 2016 Rio Olympics women&#8217;s singles badminton final event concluded.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">P.V Sindhu lost to World No 1 Carolina Marin 21-19 12-21 21-15 in the summit clash of the women&#8217;s singles competition at the Rio Games.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">PV Sindhu had become the first Indian to reach the final of a badminton event at the Olympics by beating Japanese Nozomi Okuhara in the semifinal.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sindhu, at 21, has also become the youngest Indian individual to win a medal at Olympics.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before this medalist Vijender Singh of India was the youngest individual to win a medal at Olympics.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">She has scripted history by becoming the first Indian woman to bag a silver medal at the Olympics.<br \/>\n\u2022 With this she also becomes the fifth female athlete to win a medal in any Olympics.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was 7th silver medal in the Olympic Games for India.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was the 28th medal at the Olympics Games for India.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">P.V Sindhu was born on 5 July 1995 in Hyderabad.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">His badminton coach (Trainer) is Pullela Gopichand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bwfbadminton.com\/2016\/08\/19\/latina-carolina-reigns-womens-singles-final-rio-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bwfbadminton.com\/2016\/08\/19\/latina-carolina-reigns-womens-singles-final-rio-2016\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/olympics\/36690971\" target=\"_blank\">h<\/a><br \/>\n12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Who among the following has scripted history by becoming the first Indian woman to bag a silver medal at the Olympics? (a) Sapna Punia (b) P.V Sindhu (c) Dipa Karmakar (d) Heena Sidhu Ans: (b) Related facts: On 19 August 2016 Rio Olympics women&#8217;s singles badminton final event concluded. P.V Sindhu lost to World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1101],"tags":[2448],"class_list":["post-15137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fsper","tag-sports-personality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15137","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15137"}],"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=15137"},{"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=15137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}