SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 24 September 2024, Shift 2 · General Awareness · Question 8 of 100

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Who among the following is the first Indian to win gold at Junior World Weightlifting Championship in May 2022?

(a)Harshada Sharad Garud
(b)Mirabai Chanu
(c)Sathish Sivalingam
(d)Santoshi Matsa

Answer

Why

Correct — A. Harshada Sharad Garud won gold at the Junior World Weightlifting Championships in May 2022, the first Indian weightlifter to take that title.

Read the level word in the stem. It asks for a junior world first, not a senior world title and not an Olympic medal, and that is exactly the distinction the other three names are there to blur.

Option (a) is the name attached to that first.

Why the others are wrong

(b)
Mirabai Chanu — Mirabai Chanu is a senior-level name — world champion in 2017 and Olympic silver medallist at Tokyo 2020 — but the junior world gold is not hers.
(c)
Sathish Sivalingam — Sathish Sivalingam is a male lifter and a Commonwealth Games gold medallist, which is a different championship at a different level.
(d)
Santoshi Matsa — Santoshi Matsa is an Indian weightlifter, but the May 2022 junior world gold went to Garud.

Concept

Sports current affairs in Tier-I is a first-and-year game. SSC picks an achievement that can be stated in one line and asks who owns it.

The habit that pays is storing each name with the level it belongs to — junior world, senior world, Commonwealth, Asian, Olympic — because the options in an item like this are drawn from one sport with different levels attached.

The stem itself supplies the month and the year. Once you can attach the name, no further detail about the meet is needed to answer.

Key facts

Harshada Sharad Garud won India's first gold at the Junior World Weightlifting Championships, in May 2022.
Mirabai Chanu won weightlifting silver at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Mirabai Chanu won the World Weightlifting Championship gold in 2017.
Sathish Sivalingam is a Commonwealth Games gold medallist in weightlifting.

Study next

Indian weightlifting medallists sorted by level — junior world, senior world, Commonwealth, OlympicIndian firsts at world championships across individual sportsTokyo 2020 — India's medallists and their events

Common traps

Answering Mirabai Chanu on name recognition when the stem says junior world.
Skipping the month and year in the stem, which pin the achievement to one meet.

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