CDS (I) 2024 General Knowledge · Question 110 of 120

Correct — B, Shooting. Yogesh Singh is an Indian pistol shooter. At the 2024 Asian Rifle/Pistol Championships, held at Jakarta in Indonesia between 5 and 18 January 2024, he won the men's 25 m centre fire pistol and the men's 25 m standard pistol, taking gold in both the individual and the team events. Those are the golds the stem refers to, and they came only weeks before this paper was written.

• (a)Badminton — India's badminton results at Asian level in this period belong to other, very well-known names; no Yogesh Singh gold in badminton sits behind this item.
• (c)Archery — Archery is the sport most easily confused with shooting in a question of this shape, since both are target sports with Asian Championship circuits — but the 2024 golds in question were won on a pistol range.
• (d)Wrestling — Indian wrestling was heavily in the news through 2023-24 for administrative reasons rather than for an Asian Championship gold by this athlete.

Shooting is organised worldwide by the International Shooting Sport Federation, and the Asian Rifle/Pistol Championship is the continental competition in the rifle and pistol disciplines. The 25 m events are pistol events fired at a target 25 metres away; centre fire pistol and standard pistol are two of the older ISSF courses of fire, distinguished by the ammunition used and by the time allowed for each string of shots. Neither is currently on the Olympic programme, which is why athletes who dominate them are less familiar to the general public than Olympic-event shooters.

Sports questions in CDS often name an athlete the general reader has not heard of, and the way through is to work from the event rather than the person. Here, the tell is that the question names an Asian Championship gold won early in 2024, and the Asian Rifle/Pistol Championships at Jakarta that January is the competition that fits — a shooting championship in which this athlete won two individual titles. It is also worth noticing what the item does not say: it does not claim an Olympic or Asian Games medal, so do not test the name against those lists.

• Yogesh Singh competes in pistol shooting for India.
• At the 2024 Asian Rifle/Pistol Championships in Jakarta (5-18 January 2024) he won the men's 25 m centre fire pistol and the men's 25 m standard pistol.
• He took gold in both the individual and the team versions of those two events.
• Both events are ISSF pistol disciplines fired at 25 metres and are not part of the current Olympic programme.

• Guessing by the athlete's name rather than by the event named in the stem.
• Confusing an Asian Championship with the Asian Games — different competitions, different years.
• Assuming every target-sport gold must be archery, which is the better-known Indian target sport at continental level.

As an athlete-to-sport match. Build the habit of noting the sport, the event and the competition together whenever an unfamiliar Indian name wins something.

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  The 25 m standard pistol and 25 m centre fire pistol are events in which sport?

  • (a)Archery
  • (b)Shooting
  • (c)Fencing
  • (d)Modern pentathlon

  Answer(b) Shooting — both are ISSF pistol events fired at a distance of 25 metres.

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  Which body governs the sport of shooting at the international level?

  • (a)World Archery Federation
  • (b)International Shooting Sport Federation
  • (c)United World Wrestling
  • (d)Badminton World Federation

  Answer(b) International Shooting Sport Federation — the ISSF, which frames the rules for the rifle, pistol and shotgun events.