Player of Madhya Pradesh Vivek Sagar is associated with the sport of
- (a)Shooting
- (b)Archery
- (c)Hockey
- (d)Cricket
Correct — C, Hockey. Vivek Sagar Prasad is an Indian field-hockey midfielder from Shivnagar Chandon village near Itarsi, Madhya Pradesh. He debuted for India in January 2018 at just 17, was a key playmaker in India's bronze-medal run at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics (scoring a crucial goal against Argentina), and won the Arjuna Award and FIH Young Player of the Year in 2021.
- (a)Shooting — Not his sport — MP's shooting talent (e.g., Chinki Yadav) is separate from its hockey exports.
- (b)Archery — Not his discipline — archery is a different Olympic sport with its own MP talent pool.
- (d)Cricket — Not his sport — Vivek Sagar Prasad plays hockey, not cricket.
Madhya Pradesh has a strong hockey tradition, producing internationals across generations. Vivek Sagar Prasad, a midfielder, is part of the current era's success — India's bronze-medal hockey teams at both the Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 Olympics — continuing a lineage of MP hockey players representing India.
As with Chinki Yadav in the shooting question (Q43), MPPSC's sports current-affairs questions test recall of the state's currently prominent athletes by discipline — hockey vs shooting vs archery vs cricket — rather than any deducible logic.
- Vivek Sagar Prasad — Indian hockey midfielder, from Shivnagar Chandon village near Itarsi, MP
- Born 25 February 2000; made his India debut in January 2018
- Key playmaker in India's bronze medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics; scored a crucial goal against Argentina in the quarter-final
- Won the Arjuna Award and FIH Young Player of the Year in 2021; also part of India's Paris 2024 bronze-medal squad
- Confusing Vivek Sagar Prasad's sport (hockey) with Chinki Yadav's (shooting) — both are MP-origin but different disciplines
- Assuming all MP sport current-affairs questions are about hockey — the state also produces shooters, archers and wrestlers
Same MPPSC template as the shooting question — 'Player of MP, [name], is associated with sport __' — track the current cohort of MP-origin Olympic/international athletes by discipline.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Vivek Sagar Prasad plays which position in field hockey for India?
- (a)Goalkeeper
- (b)Midfielder
- (c)Full-back
- (d)Forward-striker
Answer(b) Midfielder.
- practice — not a real PYQ
India's men's hockey team, including MP's Vivek Sagar Prasad, won bronze at which Olympic Games, ending a 41-year medal drought in the sport?
- (a)Rio 2016
- (b)Tokyo 2020
- (c)London 2012
- (d)Beijing 2008
Answer(b) Tokyo 2020 — India's first hockey Olympic medal since 1980.