SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 24 September 2024, Shift 3 · General Awareness · Question 16 of 99

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The first Indian woman to hold the Under-20 World Wrestling Championship is _________.

(a)Hina Khalifa
(b)Pranati Nayak
(c)Swati Sanjay
(d)Antim Panghal

Answer

Why

Correct — D. Antim Panghal won gold at the Under-20 World Wrestling Championships in 2022, at Sofia in Bulgaria, in the 53 kg freestyle class — the first Indian woman to take that title.

She won the same title again in 2023. The stem's phrase 'hold the Under-20 World Wrestling Championship' means exactly this: the world age-group crown, not a senior world medal and not an Olympic one.

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Hina Khalifa — No world-championship wrestling result attaches to this name. It reads as filler, and an unfamiliar name in a list built around one famous winner is usually the padding rather than a gap in your revision.
(b)
Pranati Nayak — Pranati Nayak is an artistic gymnast, not a wrestler. Her best-known result is a vault bronze at the 2019 Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Fix the sport first, then the result.
(c)
Swati Sanjay — Another name with no world wrestling title behind it. Nothing in the Under-20 championship record answers to it, so it cannot be the first Indian woman to hold that title.

Concept

Sports GA rewards two-step recall: first the sport, then the exact competition.

Antim Panghal is a freestyle wrestler in the 53 kg class, and her first world-level title came at the Under-20 World Championships of 2022.

Age-group world championships — cadet, Under-20, Under-23 — are separate events from the senior World Championships, and SSC names the level it wants. A cadet gold, a U-20 gold and an Olympic medal are three different claims about the same athlete, and mixing them up is how this question is lost.

'First Indian woman to hold' is loose English for 'first Indian woman to win'. Read it as the title, not as a ranking.

Key facts

Antim Panghal won Under-20 World Wrestling Championship gold in 2022 at Sofia, Bulgaria.
She competes in the 53 kg freestyle category.
She won the Under-20 world title again in 2023.
Cadet, Under-20 and senior world championships are distinct competitions.

Study next

Indian medallists at the cadet, Under-20 and senior World Wrestling ChampionshipsWeight classes in Olympic freestyle wrestlingIndian women wrestlers at the Olympic Games

Common traps

Reaching for an Olympic wrestler because the stem says 'first Indian woman'.
Confusing the Under-20 world title with the cadet world title, which is a different age group.

SSC pins one wrestler to one championship and one year. The cadet version of the same shape is at 13 Sep 2024, 16:00, GA Q10 (gold at the 2021 World Cadet Championship in Budapest), and the Olympic version at 18 Sep 2024, 09:00, GA Q24 (first Indian woman wrestler at the 2012 London Games).

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