Who among the following won a Gold Medal at the 2021 World Cadet Wrestling Championship held in Budapest, Hungary?
- (a)Vinesh Phogat
- (b)Priya Malik
- (c)Geeta Phogat
- (d)Pooja Dhanda
Answer
Why
Correct — B. Priya Malik won gold at the 2021 World Cadet Wrestling Championships in Budapest, wrestling in the women's 73 kg class.
The word doing the work in the stem is cadet, an age-group category for teenagers rather than an open senior event. That single word rules out the three established senior wrestlers among the options and leaves option (b).
Why the others are wrong
- (a)Vinesh Phogat — Vinesh Phogat is a senior international with Commonwealth Games and Asian Games golds, and was well past cadet age by 2021.
- (c)Geeta Phogat — Geeta Phogat won India's first Commonwealth Games wrestling gold by a woman, at Delhi in 2010, and was the first Indian woman wrestler to qualify for the Olympics — a senior career throughout.
- (d)Pooja Dhanda — Pooja Dhanda took a bronze at the senior World Wrestling Championships in 2018, which is a senior medal and not a cadet title.
Concept
United World Wrestling runs separate world championships by age group: cadet for under-17, junior for under-20, then under-23 and senior.
An age-group title is a real world title, but it is not the senior one, and questions like this are built on candidates who read the medal and skip the category.
Priya Malik's cadet gold at Budapest in 2021 is the fact being tested; the other three names in the options belong to senior wrestling.
Check the qualifier in a tournament's name before you check the athlete. Cadet, junior, under-23 and senior world championships each produce world champions in the same calendar year.
Key facts
- Priya Malik won gold in the 73 kg category at the 2021 World Cadet Wrestling Championships in Budapest.
- United World Wrestling holds cadet, junior, under-23 and senior world championships separately.
- Geeta Phogat was the first Indian woman wrestler to win a Commonwealth Games gold, at Delhi in 2010.
- Pooja Dhanda won a bronze medal at the 2018 World Wrestling Championships.
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Common traps
- Reading past the word cadet and answering with the most famous wrestler in the list.
- Confusing the cadet championship with the under-20 world title, which is a different age group.
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