{"id":4748,"date":"2015-09-19T09:52:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T09:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=4748"},"modified":"2015-09-19T09:52:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T09:52:14","slug":"commonwealth-youth-games-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/commonwealth-youth-games-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Youth Games 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ques: Where were Commonwealth Youth Games 2015 organized?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>a. Pune, India<br \/>\nb. Glasgow, Scotland<br \/>\nc. Beijing, China<br \/>\nd. Apia, Samoa<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games were held in Apia, the capital of Samoa during 5-11 September, 2015.<\/li>\n<li>930 athletes aged 14-18 years were participated in 107 competitions in 9 games for 7 consecutive days.<\/li>\n<li>Australia topped in the Competition with 24gold, 19 silver,and19bronzemedals total of 62 medals.<\/li>\n<li>The top five countries in the medal table are as follows:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Sr.No.<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Country<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Gold<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Silver<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Bronze<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Total <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>1<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Australia<\/td>\n<td>24<\/td>\n<td>19<\/td>\n<td>19<\/td>\n<td>62<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>2<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>South Africa<\/td>\n<td>13<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>15<\/td>\n<td>35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>3<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>England<\/td>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<td>16<\/td>\n<td>16<\/td>\n<td>44<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>4<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Malaysia<\/td>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>17<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>5<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>India<\/td>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>India&#8217;s 9 gold medal winners in the competition are as follows:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1. Tejaswin Shankar- high jump (men) &#8211; 2.14 m<br \/>\n2. Mohd Hadeesh &#8211; javelin throw (men) -79.29 m<br \/>\n3. Prachy Singh -Archery &#8211; (women&#8217;s recurve bow-personal)<br \/>\n4. Sasikumar Mukund -tennis (men&#8217;s singles)<br \/>\n5. Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal -tennis (women&#8217;s singles)<br \/>\n6. Sasikumar Mukund &amp; Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal -tennis (mixed doubles)<br \/>\n7. Jamjang Deru &#8211; (56 kg weight class, male) &#8211; 237 kg<br \/>\n8. Deepak Lather -lifting (62 kg weight class, male) -258 kg<br \/>\n9. Prachy Singh and Thomas Pantelides -Archery (mixed doubles)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This competition covered 9 games; Swimming, Archery, Athletics, Rugby sevens, Boxing, Lawn Bowls, Squash, Tennis, and Weightlifting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecgf.com\/cyg\/Samoa-CYG2015-Results.pdf\">http:\/\/www.thecgf.com\/cyg\/Samoa-CYG2015-Results.pdf<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.samoacyg2015.ws\/?p=1266\">http:\/\/www.samoacyg2015.ws\/?p=1266<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ques: Where were Commonwealth Youth Games 2015 organized? a. Pune, India b. Glasgow, Scotland c. Beijing, China d. Apia, Samoa Ans: d Related facts: The 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games were held in Apia, the capital of Samoa during 5-11 September, 2015. 930 athletes aged 14-18 years were participated in 107 competitions in 9 games for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1097],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4748","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\/4748","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=4748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748\/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\/4718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4748"}],"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=4748"},{"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=4748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}