SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 14 September 2025, Shift 2 · General Awareness · Question 5 of 100

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Which sports player won the bronze medal in the Mixed Team Compound Open Archery event at the Paris 2024 Paralympics?

(a)Harvinder Singh and Jyoti Baliyan
(b)Sheetal Devi and Rakesh Kumar
(c)Sheetal Devi and Harvinder Singh
(d)Rakesh Kumar and Vivek Chikara

Answer

Why

Correct — B. At the Paris 2024 Paralympics, Sheetal Devi and Rakesh Kumar won the mixed team compound open bronze, beating Italy's Eleonora Sarti and Matteo Bonacina 156-155 in the bronze-medal match.

The pair had topped the ranking round with 1,399 points, a world record. That is option (b).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Harvinder Singh and Jyoti Baliyan — Harvinder Singh shot recurve in Paris and won the men's individual recurve open gold. Jyoti Baliyan, a Tokyo 2020 para-archer, was not in India's six-archer Paris team.
(c)
Sheetal Devi and Harvinder Singh — Sheetal Devi is right, but Harvinder Singh is a recurve archer. The compound mixed team pairs compound archers, and Sheetal's partner was Rakesh Kumar.
(d)
Rakesh Kumar and Vivek Chikara — A mixed team is one man and one woman. Rakesh Kumar and Vivek Chikara are both men, and Rakesh's partner in Paris was Sheetal Devi.

Concept

Para archery runs separate events for the compound and recurve bows, and its mixed team events pair one man with one woman.

At Paris 2024 India medalled with both bows. Harvinder Singh won the men's individual recurve open gold, India's first Paralympic gold in archery, and Sheetal Devi and Rakesh Kumar took the mixed team compound open bronze.

Key facts

Sheetal Devi and Rakesh Kumar won bronze in the mixed team compound open at Paris 2024, beating Italy 156-155.
Their ranking-round total of 1,399 was a world record.
Harvinder Singh won the men's individual recurve open gold at Paris 2024, India's first Paralympic archery gold.
Great Britain's Jodie Grinham and Nathan MacQueen won the mixed team compound open gold, beating Iran 155-151.

Study next

India's medal winners across sports at the Paris 2024 ParalympicsCompound and recurve bows and their separate eventsHarvinder Singh's Tokyo 2020 bronze and Paris 2024 gold

Common traps

Pairing Sheetal Devi with Harvinder Singh, the Paris recurve gold medallist, who does not shoot compound.
Missing that a mixed team needs one man and one woman, which rules out an all-male pair.

Paralympic archery also appears at 12 Sep 2025, 16:00, GA Q.6, which asks India's first Paralympic archery gold (keyed Harvinder Singh), and at 13 Sep 2024, 09:00, GA Q.15, which asks India's Tokyo 2020 archery bronze (keyed Harvinder Singh).

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