Rajeshwari Kumari, who stood fifth in the recently held World Championship at Baku, Azerbaijan, has qualified for the Paris Olympics. She is related to which of the following sports ?
- (1)Shooting
- (2)Archery
- (3)Long Jump
- (4)Gymnastics
Answer
Why
Correct — option (1), Shooting.
Rajeshwari Kumari is a trap shooter. Trap is a shotgun event in which the shooter fires at clay targets thrown into the air.
The ISSF World Championship in Baku, Azerbaijan, ran from 14 August to 1 September 2023. In the women's trap final on 24 August 2023, the ISSF's official result lists her fifth, with 19 hits.
The final was won by Lin Yi-chun of Chinese Taipei (40), ahead of Italy's Jessica Rossi (39) and Germany's Kathrin Murche (28). China's Wu Cuicui was fourth (22).
Wikipedia's table of Paris 2024 shooting qualification lists India among the four nations that took a women's trap quota place at these championships, with Rajeshwari Kumari as the qualified athlete.
The idea to remember: Rajeshwari Kumari: trap shooting, fifth at Baku 2023, Paris 2024 quota.
Why the others are wrong
- (2)Archery — Rajeshwari Kumari's event is women's trap, a shotgun discipline under the ISSF, the shooting federation.
Archery had its own world championships in August 2023, in Berlin, where India's Aditi Gopichand Swami won the women's individual compound title and Ojas Deotale the men's.
- (3)Long Jump — Long jump is an athletics event, and Rajeshwari Kumari competes in shooting, in women's trap.
Long jump is the event of India's Murali Sreeshankar, who won silver at the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok with 8.37 m.
- (4)Gymnastics — Rajeshwari Kumari's fifth place at Baku came in the women's trap final of the ISSF World Championship, a shooting event.
Gymnastics is the sport of Dipa Karmakar, who finished fourth in the women's vault at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
Concept
Trap is one of the shotgun disciplines governed by the ISSF, the International Shooting Sport Federation. Clay targets are released from a trench in front of the shooter, and hits are counted.
The top shooters in qualification reach a final, where shooters drop out in stages. That is why the scores in the Baku final fall from 40 for the winner to 19 for fifth place.
Olympic shooting quota places are won at designated qualifying competitions; the 2023 ISSF World Championship was one of them.
RPSC's 2023 syllabus lists "Persons, Places and Institutions in News." and "Games and Sports related activities." under Current Affairs.
The 53rd ISSF World Shooting Championships in Baku covered rifle, pistol and shotgun events and served as a qualifying event for Paris 2024.
Wikipedia's Paris 2024 shooting qualification table gives four women's trap quota places to these championships: Chinese Taipei, Germany, China and India. It lists Italy's Jessica Rossi, second in the final, with a quota earned earlier, at the 2023 European Games.
Key facts
- Rajeshwari Kumari is an Indian trap shooter; trap is a shotgun discipline of the ISSF.
- The ISSF World Championship was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 14 August to 1 September 2023.
- In the women's trap final at Baku on 24 August 2023, she finished fifth with 19 hits (ISSF official result).
- Lin Yi-chun (Chinese Taipei) won the final with 40, Jessica Rossi (Italy) was second with 39, and Kathrin Murche (Germany) third with 28.
- Wikipedia's Paris 2024 shooting qualification table lists a women's trap quota for India from the 2023 World Championships, with Rajeshwari Kumari as the athlete.
Source: ISSF official result of the women's trap final.
Study next
Common traps
- Treating 'World Championship' as an athletics or archery event: the Baku championship in the stem was the ISSF's, a shooting championship.
- Assuming only medallists win Olympic quotas: Rajeshwari Kumari was fifth, and India's women's trap quota is listed against these championships in Wikipedia's Paris 2024 shooting qualification table.
- Confusing trap with skeet: both are shotgun events at clay targets, and Rajeshwari Kumari's Baku final was in trap.
A question can name an athlete and a recent result and ask for the sport, the event or the host city.
A question can also ask which Olympic Games a performance qualified for, or where a championship was held.
Related PYQs
‘Divith Reddy Adulla’ winner of World Cadet Under-8 Championship 2024 is related to which game ?
- (1) Swimming
- (2) Chess
- (3) Table Tennis
- (4) Gymnastics
Answer(2)
Same shape: a named champion and the sport to identify. That question asks which game Divith Reddy Adulla, winner of the World Cadet Under-8 Championship 2024, plays (RPSC's key: Chess); this one asks which sport Rajeshwari Kumari, fifth at the Baku World Championship, competes in.
Practice
- practice — not a real PYQ
In which event did Rajeshwari Kumari finish fifth at the ISSF World Championship held in Baku in August 2023?
- (a)Women's skeet
- (b)Women's 10 m air rifle
- (c)Women's trap
- (d)Women's 25 m pistol
Answer(3) — The ISSF's official result lists her fifth in the women's trap final on 24 August 2023. Options (1), (2) and (4) are other ISSF events, not the final in which she placed fifth. - practice — not a real PYQ
Who won the women's trap final at the ISSF World Championship in Baku on 24 August 2023?
- (a)Jessica Rossi
- (b)Lin Yi-chun
- (c)Rajeshwari Kumari
- (d)Kathrin Murche
Answer(2) — Lin Yi-chun of Chinese Taipei won with 40. Option (1) was second with 39; option (4) was third with 28; option (3) was fifth with 19.