How many medals did India win at the 2024 ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) World Cup in shooting ?
- (1)2
- (2)3
- (3)4
- (4)5
Answer
Why
RPSC deleted this question in its final answer key, so no option is marked correct.
The four options are medal totals, from 2 to 5, for India at "the 2024 ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) World Cup in shooting".
The ISSF World Cup is a season, not a single meet. Stages are held in different host cities through the year, and the season closes with a World Cup Final. Each stage and the Final has its own medal table.
The 2024 season's stages included Cairo, Baku and Munich. It closed with the World Cup Final at Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range, New Delhi, in October 2024.
At that Final, The Hindu reported four medals for India, two silver and two bronze, which placed India ninth. China topped the table with five gold and three bronze.
The idea to remember: a medal total belongs to one named competition. A World Cup stage, the World Cup Final, a World Championship and the Olympics each keep a separate table.
Why the others are wrong
- (1)2 — Option (1) offers a total of 2. RPSC's final key marks no option, so this card treats none of the four totals as right or wrong.
Two does appear inside one breakdown: at the October 2024 World Cup Final, India's medals included two silver, won by Sonam Maskar (women's 10m air rifle) and Vivaan Kapoor (men's trap).
- (2)3 — Option (2) offers a total of 3. The final key marks no option, so this card does not judge it.
Three is India's shooting medal count at the Paris 2024 Olympics, all bronze: Manu Bhaker in women's 10m air pistol, Bhaker with Sarabjot Singh in the 10m air pistol mixed team, and Swapnil Kusale in men's 50m rifle 3 positions. The Olympics are a separate competition from the ISSF World Cup.
- (3)4 — Option (3) offers a total of 4. The final key marks no option, so this card does not judge it.
Four is the total The Hindu reported for India at the ISSF World Cup Final in New Delhi, October 2024: silver for Sonam Maskar and Vivaan Kapoor, bronze for Akhil Sheoran (men's 50m rifle 3 positions) and Anantjeet Singh Naruka (men's skeet). The season's earlier stages kept their own tables, which this card does not total.
- (4)5 — Option (4) offers a total of 5. The final key marks no option, so this card does not judge it.
Five does not match any tally this card has checked. A total like this has to be tested against the medal table of a named stage or of the World Cup Final.
Concept
The International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) governs Olympic shooting: rifle, pistol and shotgun events. It runs several kinds of competition, including World Cup stages, a season-ending World Cup Final and World Championships.
A World Cup season moves between host cities. Some stages hold rifle and pistol events, others shotgun, and some hold all three.
Each competition publishes its own medal table. A national tally is therefore the tally at a particular stage, Final or championship.
RPSC's 2024 syllabus lists "Games and Sports related activities" under Current Affairs.
Shooting gave India half its medals at the Paris 2024 Olympics: three bronze out of six.
The 2024 World Cup Final had a Rajasthan connection. Its two final-day medallists were Jaipur shooters: Anantjeet Singh Naruka was born in Jaipur, and Vivaan Kapoor, born in Mumbai, lists Jaipur as his hometown. The Final was held at Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi.
Key facts
- The ISSF World Cup runs as a season of stages in different host cities, closed by a World Cup Final.
- The 2024 ISSF World Cup Final was held at Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range, New Delhi, in October 2024.
- The Hindu reported India's tally at the 2024 World Cup Final as four medals, two silver and two bronze, ninth in the medals table.
- At that Final, Vivaan Kapoor won silver in men's trap and Anantjeet Singh Naruka bronze in men's skeet.
- India won three shooting medals at the Paris 2024 Olympics, all bronze, through Manu Bhaker, Sarabjot Singh and Swapnil Kusale.
RPSC deleted this question; the card marks no option.
Study next
Common traps
- Treating the ISSF World Cup as one meet: each 2024 stage and the World Cup Final had its own medal table.
- Carrying an Olympic tally into a World Cup question: three bronze at Paris 2024 is an Olympic count.
- Counting only one medal colour: the two silvers at the 2024 World Cup Final were half of India's four medals there.
A question can name an ISSF competition and year and ask for India's medal total, or for the event in which an Indian shooter won a medal. A question can also ask for the host city of a stage or of the Final.
A question can set statements about different shooting competitions side by side and ask which are correct.
Related PYQs
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Practice
- practice — not a real PYQ
At the ISSF World Cup Final held in New Delhi in October 2024, India's Vivaan Kapoor won a silver medal in which event?
- (a)Men's trap
- (b)Men's skeet
- (c)Men's 50m rifle 3 positions
- (d)Women's 10m air rifle
Answer(1) — Vivaan Kapoor took silver in men's trap on the Final's last day. Option (2) is Anantjeet Singh Naruka's bronze; option (3) is Akhil Sheoran's bronze; option (4) is Sonam Maskar's silver, a women's event. - practice — not a real PYQ
Consider the following statements about India in shooting at the Paris 2024 Olympics: A. India won three medals in shooting, all of them bronze. B. Swapnil Kusale's medal came in the men's 50m rifle 3 positions event. Choose the correct option:
- (a)Only A is correct.
- (b)Only B is correct.
- (c)Both A and B are correct.
- (d)Neither A nor B is correct.
Answer(3) — Statement A is correct: Manu Bhaker, Bhaker with Sarabjot Singh, and Swapnil Kusale won three bronze medals. Statement B is correct: Kusale's bronze was in men's 50m rifle 3 positions. Options (1) and (2) each drop a true statement; option (4) rejects both.