Identify the correct statements regarding Asian Games - 2023. (a) This competition was held in Hangzhou, China. (b) Shooter Lovelina Borgohain played a role of flag bearer for India at the time of inauguration. (c) India got 4th position with 28 gold medals. (d) India got total 107 medals in this competition.
- (1)(a), (b), (c)
- (2)(a), (b), (d)
- (3)(b), (c), (d)
- (4)(a), (c), (d)
Correct — option (4), '(a), (c), (d)'. Three of the four statements hold and the fourth fails on a single word. Statement (a) is correct: the Games were held at Hangzhou in China, from 23 September to 8 October 2023 — they are officially the 19th Asian Games and are styled the 2022 Asian Games because the original dates were postponed by a year, which is why the same event is referred to by two years in different sources. Statement (c) is correct: India finished fourth in the medal table with 28 gold medals, behind China, Japan and the Republic of Korea. Statement (d) is correct: India's total was 107 medals, the country's best return at any Asian Games and the first time it had passed a hundred — the campaign slogan built around crossing that mark, 'ab ki baar sau paar', became the headline of the Games at home. Statement (b) is the one that fails. Lovlina Borgohain did carry the flag at the opening ceremony, jointly with the hockey captain Harmanpreet Singh — but she is a BOXER, the Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist and 2023 world champion in her weight class, not a shooter. The statement gets the role right and the sport wrong, and that is enough to sink it. The design of the item is worth noticing: statement (b) appears in all three of the wrong options, so the entire question reduces to whether the candidate knows Lovlina Borgohain's sport.
- (1)(a), (b), (c) — Statements (a) and (c) are both correct, but this option admits statement (b), which describes Lovlina Borgohain as a shooter. She is a boxer — Assam's Olympic bronze medallist from Tokyo and a world champion — and she shared the flag-bearing duty at the Hangzhou opening ceremony with the hockey captain Harmanpreet Singh. The option also omits statement (d), India's total of 107 medals, which is correct. A candidate lands here by recognising the name and the flag-bearing role and reading past the job description attached to it.
- (2)(a), (b), (d) — This option again carries the faulty statement (b) and additionally drops statement (c), which correctly reports India's fourth place with 28 gold medals. India's tally of 28 gold, 38 silver and 41 bronze put it behind China, Japan and the Republic of Korea in the standings. Choosing this combination usually reflects uncertainty about the exact gold count rather than about the flag bearer, so it is worth fixing the medal breakdown as a single line rather than remembering only the total.
- (3)(b), (c), (d) — This option keeps two correct statements and the false one, and discards the most easily verified statement in the whole set — that the Games were held at Hangzhou in China. It is the option for a candidate who is confident about India's performance but hesitant about the host, perhaps because the event is dated 2022 in its official name while it was actually held in 2023. The host city and the postponement are worth learning together: the 19th Asian Games, awarded to Hangzhou for 2022, were deferred to September-October 2023 and kept their original title.
The Asian Games are the continental multi-sport championship of the Olympic Council of Asia, held every four years. The 19th edition was awarded to Hangzhou in China for 2022, postponed by a year and held from 23 September to 8 October 2023 while keeping the 2022 designation — the same convention followed for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. India sent its largest ever contingent and returned 107 medals: 28 gold, 38 silver and 41 bronze, for fourth place in the table behind China, Japan and the Republic of Korea. China topped the standings by an enormous margin, passing 200 gold medals for the first time at a single edition. India's flag bearers at the opening ceremony were the hockey captain Harmanpreet Singh and the boxer Lovlina Borgohain, and the goalkeeper P. R. Sreejesh carried the flag at the closing ceremony. Athletics and shooting produced the largest share of India's medals, and the total was the first three-figure haul in the country's Asian Games history, up from 70 at Jakarta in 2018.
Sporting events are examined in state services as a set of five or six retrievable facts — host city, host country, dates, India's rank, India's medal count, and the names attached to a ceremonial role. MPSC's method in this question is to keep the role correct and change the sport, which is a harder falsification to catch than a wrong city or a wrong number because the sentence contains a true claim inside it. The general lesson is that a statement can be false for one word, and a candidate who reads statements for their overall plausibility rather than clause by clause will accept it. It is also worth noting how the option grid is built here: the false statement is present in every wrong option and absent from the answer, so a candidate who is certain about that one statement can solve the question without checking anything else. Scanning the option grid for a statement that appears in all the wrong choices is a genuine time-saver on statement-list questions.
- The 19th Asian Games were held at Hangzhou, China from 23 September to 8 October 2023; they retain the official designation 2022 Asian Games because they were postponed by a year.
- India finished fourth in the medal table with 28 gold, 38 silver and 41 bronze — 107 medals, its best ever return and its first three-figure haul.
- China topped the table and crossed 200 gold medals at a single edition for the first time.
- India's flag bearers at the opening ceremony were Harmanpreet Singh, the hockey captain, and Lovlina Borgohain, a boxer; P. R. Sreejesh carried the flag at the closing ceremony.
- Lovlina Borgohain is a boxer from Assam who won bronze at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and a world title in 2023.
- India's previous best at an Asian Games was 70 medals at Jakarta-Palembang in 2018.
Getting the role right and the job description wrong is the cheapest false statement an examiner can write. P. R. Sreejesh carried the flag at the closing ceremony, and China topped the table, passing 200 golds at a single edition for the first time.
- Accepting a statement in which the role is right and the sport is wrong — Lovlina Borgohain is a boxer, not a shooter
- Being confused by the event's two years; the 19th Asian Games are officially the 2022 Games but were held in 2023
- Remembering the medal total without the gold count, when the question asks for the rank and the golds together
- Failing to notice that the same statement appears in every wrong option, which is often the fastest route to the answer
Major sporting events appear in MPSC current-affairs sections as statement lists combining venue, date, India's rank and a named athlete. The falsified element is usually a name-to-discipline mismatch or a medal figure shifted by a few. Prepare each big event as a card carrying host city and country, dates, India's position, the medal breakdown, the flag bearers and two or three individual gold medallists with their disciplines; that set answers almost every form the question can take.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Lovlina Borgohain, one of India's flag bearers at the opening ceremony of the 2023 Asian Games at Hangzhou, competes in which sport ?
- (a)Shooting
- (b)Boxing
- (c)Archery
- (d)Wrestling
Answer(b) Boxing — she is a boxer from Assam who won a bronze medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and a world title in 2023. She shared the flag-bearing role at Hangzhou with the hockey captain Harmanpreet Singh.
- practice — not a real PYQ
At the 19th Asian Games, India finished in which position in the medal table ?
- (a)Second
- (b)Third
- (c)Fourth
- (d)Fifth
Answer(c) Fourth — India finished behind China, Japan and the Republic of Korea, with 28 gold medals and 107 medals in all, its best performance at any Asian Games.