At the 36th National Games, Hashika Ramchandra won six gold medals in which of the following sports?

Correct — A. Hashika Ramchandra is a swimmer, and her six golds at the 36th National Games were won in the pool.

She was 14 at the time and swam for Karnataka, finishing the Games with seven medals — six gold and one bronze — across freestyle, butterfly, individual medley and the relay.

That haul made her Best Female Athlete of the Games, which is what put her name into current-affairs banks and into option (a).

Why the others are wrong

• (b)
  Boxing — She is a swimmer, not a boxer. The number rules boxing out on its own — a boxer enters a single weight class, so one gold is the ceiling at any one Games.
• (c)
  Wrestling — Wrestling has the same ceiling as boxing: one weight category, one possible gold. Ramchandra's six came in the pool, not on the mat.
• (d)
  Badminton — Badminton offers singles, doubles, mixed doubles and a team event, which cannot add up to six golds for one player. She did not compete in it.

The National Games are India's domestic multi-sport championship, contested by state and services teams. The 36th edition was held in Gujarat in 2022.

This item is a plain athlete-to-sport pairing. The examiner is not testing whether you followed the meet.

The answer is recoverable from the shape of the claim: six golds by one athlete points at a sport with many individual events and relays, and away from combat and racket sports, where an athlete has one entry.

Key facts

• The 36th National Games were held in Gujarat in 2022.
• Hashika Ramachandra won six gold medals and one bronze in swimming at those Games, competing for Karnataka.
• She was named Best Female Athlete of the 36th National Games.
• She was 14 years old at the time, making her National Games debut.

Common traps

• Reading six gold medals as a state team's total rather than one athlete's haul
• Assuming a National Games question must be about an internationally famous name

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