SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 13 September 2024, Shift 1 · General Awareness · Question 15 of 100

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Who won the paralympic bronze medal in archery for India at Tokyo in 2020?

(a)Deepika Kumari
(b)Harvinder Singh
(c)Atanu Das
(d)Pravin Jadhav

Answer

Why

Correct — B. Harvinder Singh took bronze in the men's individual recurve open archery event at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, actually held in 2021.

It was India's first Paralympic medal in archery, which is why the item is worth storing as a first rather than as one more medal.

The three names beside his are Olympic recurve archers, not Paralympians, and that separation is the entire question — it settles on option (b).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Deepika Kumari — Deepika Kumari is India's best-known women's recurve archer and a former world number one, but she competes at the Olympics. Sport matches, Games do not.
(c)
Atanu Das — Atanu Das shot for India in the men's recurve event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Putting an Olympic archer into a Paralympic stem is the standard swap here.
(d)
Pravin Jadhav — Pravin Jadhav was also part of India's recurve squad at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. He is an Olympian, so no Paralympic medal can be credited to him.

Concept

Two different Games run in the same host city weeks apart, and SSC leans on candidates blurring them.

The Olympics and the Paralympics shared Tokyo 2020 as a name — both were postponed to 2021 and both kept the 2020 branding — but they have separate athletes, separate classification systems and separate medal tables.

Para archery is shot in classes such as recurve open and compound open, defined by the athlete's impairment class and not by the bow alone.

The stem writes 'at Tokyo in 2020' although the Games were held in 2021 after the pandemic postponement. Answer what SSC means — the Tokyo 2020 edition — instead of reading the year as a trick.

Key facts

Harvinder Singh won bronze in the men's individual recurve open at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
It was India's first Paralympic medal in archery.
Harvinder Singh won gold in the same event at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games were both postponed to 2021 but kept the 2020 name.

Study next

India's medal winners at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games across athletics, shooting and badmintonPara sport classification and what recurve open meansIndia's archery results at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

Common traps

Picking a famous Olympic archer such as Deepika Kumari because the sport matches
Reading 'Tokyo in 2020' as a printing error and hunting for a different edition of the Games

Sports items pin one athlete to one Games and one medal colour. The same shape appears at 09 Sep 2024, 12:30, GA Q.15, which asks at which Olympics Gagan Narang won bronze, and at 19 Sep 2024, 09:00, GA Q.5 on the sport in which India won its first individual Olympic medal.

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