At which Olympics was Kho-Kho featured in an exhibition in the main stadium?

Correct — D. Kho-Kho was shown as a demonstration game at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, played in the main stadium alongside other traditional Indian games. It was never a medal event.

Berlin 1936 is an easy year to anchor from the rest of the syllabus: it is the Games at which India took the hockey gold with Dhyan Chand as captain.

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  2008 — Beijing 2008 is remembered in India for Abhinav Bindra's shooting gold. No Kho-Kho exhibition belongs to it.
• (b)
  2016 — Rio 2016 is the Games that brought golf and rugby sevens onto the programme. Kho-Kho had no place there.
• (c)
  1932 — Los Angeles 1932 was an Indian hockey gold year too, which makes it the tempting guess, but the Kho-Kho demonstration is dated to Berlin.

A demonstration sport is played at the Games to show it to an international audience. It is not part of the medal programme, so nothing it awards counts in the official tally.

Kho-Kho is a pursuit game between two teams, played in India long before it was codified, and given modern written rules in the early twentieth century.

Its international push is recent. India hosted and won the first Kho Kho World Cup, held in 2025, and the sport now has a federation working towards wider recognition.

Key facts

• Kho-Kho was played as a demonstration sport at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
• A demonstration sport is shown at the Games without its results counting in the medal tally.
• India won the hockey gold at Berlin 1936 with Dhyan Chand as captain.
• India hosted and won the first Kho Kho World Cup, held in 2025.

Common traps

• Picking 1932 because India won hockey gold that year as well.
• Reading a demonstration appearance as proof that Kho-Kho was once an Olympic medal sport.

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