How many gold, silver and bronze Medals India secure at the 'World Para Athletics Grand Prix 2026' New Delhi ?

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Correct — option (2), Gold 75, Silver 69, Bronze 64. India topped the medal table at the New Delhi leg of the World Para Athletics Grand Prix 2026, held over three days at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium and concluding on 13 March 2026, with 208 medals in all: 75 gold, 69 silver and 64 bronze. Russia was a distant second with 35 medals, of which 15 were gold. Look carefully at what the four options do, because it changes how you should attack the question. Every option uses the same three numbers — 75, 69 and 64 — merely rearranged. That means the total is 208 in all four cases, and any attempt to solve by recalling India's overall haul will fail. The question is not about how many medals India won; it is about which medal each number belongs to. The distribution that actually occurred descends from gold to bronze: most golds, fewer silvers, fewest bronzes. That is worth pausing on, because it is not the usual shape of a national medal tally. It reflects how lopsided this meet was — India entered by far the largest contingent, 219 athletes in a field of roughly 257 from eight nations, so Indian athletes were often competing mainly against each other, filling several places on the same podium and, more often than not, the top one. Among the golds was Preethi Pal's in the 200 metres; she had already won two bronze medals on the track at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. So the reasoning route is: recognise that the three numbers are fixed and only the ordering is in question, then recall that the ordering was strictly descending — 75, 69, 64 from gold to bronze. Option (1) is the exact reverse of the truth, option (3) swaps silver and bronze, and option (4) swaps gold and silver. Only option (2) has all three in place.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) This is the mirror image of the correct distribution — ascending from 64 golds to 75 bronzes instead of descending from 75 golds to 64 bronzes. It is the most seductive wrong option because an ascending tally is the more usual pattern for a national team at an international meet, where finals are harder to win than places. At this home leg the reverse held: India won more golds than silvers and more silvers than bronzes.  (c) The gold figure is right at 75, but silver and bronze have been exchanged: India won 69 silvers and 64 bronzes, not the other way round. This is the near-miss for a candidate who has fixed the headline number — the golds — and then guessed the tail of the tally. Since all four options share the same three numbers, getting one of them in place is worth nothing on its own.  (d) This keeps the bronze figure at 64 but swaps gold and silver, giving India more silvers than golds. It fails on the very feature that made the meet notable — India took the top step of the podium more often than the second, finishing with 75 golds against 69 silvers, in a competition it dominated with much the largest contingent.

Concept: The World Para Athletics Grand Prix is an international series of para athletics meets sanctioned by the body that governs the sport under the International Paralympic Committee. Individual legs are hosted by member countries, and results count towards world rankings and qualification pathways, which is why national federations enter large squads at a home leg. New Delhi's leg in 2026 ran for three days at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium and closed on 13 March, drawing roughly 257 athletes from eight nations — India, Russia, Nepal, Bhutan, Hong Kong China, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Egypt. India's entry of 219 athletes was by a wide margin the largest, and the final tally reflected that: 208 medals for India against 35 for Russia in second place and three for Bosnia and Herzegovina in third.

State PCS 2026 Q97 — Current Affairs PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2026 Q97 — Current Affairs PYQ with Answer