SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 17 September 2024, Shift 1 · General Awareness · Question 8 of 98

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Who among the following Indian women boxers was elected as the Chairperson and a voting member of the International Boxing Association in 2022?

(a)Mary Kom
(b)Lovlina Borgohain
(c)Nikhat Zareen
(d)Pooja Rani

Answer

Why

Correct — B. Lovlina Borgohain was elected in May 2022 as chair of the International Boxing Association's Athletes' Committee, a post that carries a seat and a vote on the IBA Board of Directors.

She is the Assam boxer who took bronze at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in the women's welterweight division, and she was still competing when the election was held.

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Mary Kom — Mary Kom is the six-time world champion and a London 2012 bronze medallist, but the 2022 IBA committee election went to Lovlina Borgohain.
(c)
Nikhat Zareen — Nikhat Zareen won the world title at the 2022 IBA Women's World Championships in Istanbul. That is a 2022 boxing headline, but it is a competition result, not an office.
(d)
Pooja Rani — Pooja Rani is an Asian Championships gold medallist who boxed at Tokyo 2020. The chair named in 2022 was Lovlina Borgohain.

Concept

The International Boxing Association (IBA) is the sport's international federation.

Its Athletes' Committee speaks for current and recent competitors inside the federation, and the chair of that committee sits on the IBA Board of Directors with a vote. That is how an active athlete gets a hand on governance.

Borgohain went on to win gold at the 2023 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships in New Delhi, beating Australia's Caitlin Parker in the final.

The stem compresses the post into one phrase. What she was elected to chair is the IBA's Athletes' Committee, and the vote on the Board follows from holding that chair.

Key facts

Lovlina Borgohain was elected chair of the IBA Athletes' Committee in May 2022.
That chair carries a voting seat on the IBA Board of Directors.
She won bronze in women's welterweight boxing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
She won gold at the 2023 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships in New Delhi.

Study next

Indian medallists at the Tokyo 2020 OlympicsIndians holding office in international sports federationsIBA Women's World Boxing Championships and India's gold medallists

Common traps

Mary Kom is the reflex answer to any Indian women's boxing stem and is wrong here.
Nikhat Zareen's 2022 world title is a different 2022 achievement and does not answer a question about an office.

SSC's sports block also pairs an athlete with a role rather than a medal.

The brand ambassador for Nikshay Mitra is asked on 17 Sep 2024, 12:30, GA Q.2, where Mary Kom sits in the option list as a distractor and the key is Deepa Malik.

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