SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 17 September 2025, Shift 3 · General Awareness · Question 8 of 100

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Which of the following statements about India’s boxing medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics is correct?

(a)India did not win any boxing medals at Sydney 2000.
(b)India won multiple boxing medals at Sydney 2000.
(c)Karnam Malleswari won a boxing bronze medal at Sydney 2000.
(d)India won its first Olympic boxing medal at Sydney 2000.

Answer

Why

Correct — A. India won one medal at Sydney 2000: Karnam Malleswari's bronze in women's 69 kg weightlifting.

Four Indian boxers entered, and none won a quarter-final, the win that secures a boxing medal. India's first Olympic boxing medal came eight years later, Vijender Singh's bronze at Beijing 2008: option (a).

Why the others are wrong

(b)
India won multiple boxing medals at Sydney 2000. — India won no boxing medal at Sydney. Its one medal of those Games came in weightlifting.
(c)
Karnam Malleswari won a boxing bronze medal at Sydney 2000. — Karnam Malleswari was a weightlifter. Her Sydney bronze came in the women's 69 kg event, the first Olympic medal won by an Indian woman.
(d)
India won its first Olympic boxing medal at Sydney 2000. — India's first Olympic boxing medal was Vijender Singh's middleweight bronze at Beijing 2008, not at Sydney.

Concept

India sent 65 competitors in 13 sports to Sydney and came home with a single bronze. Malleswari's lift made her the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal.

In Olympic boxing both losing semi-finalists receive bronze, so a quarter-final win secures a medal. India's best at Sydney was Gurcharan Singh, who lost his light-heavyweight quarter-final.

Key facts

Karnam Malleswari won bronze in women's 69 kg weightlifting at Sydney 2000, India's one medal of those Games.
She was the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal.
Vijender Singh's middleweight bronze at Beijing 2008 was India's first Olympic boxing medal.

Study next

Mary Kom's flyweight bronze at London 2012Lovlina Borgohain's welterweight bronze at Tokyo 2020Mirabai Chanu's weightlifting silver at Tokyo 2020

Common traps

Accepting option (c) because Malleswari did win at Sydney: her medal was in weightlifting.
Dating India's first boxing medal to Sydney: it came at Beijing 2008.

Here a medal record is tested through four statements about one Games. Vijender Singh's 2008 medal is asked at 14 Sep 2025, 09:00, GA Q.6 (his quarter-final opponent), and his Olympic appearances at 19 Sep 2024, 09:00, GA Q.18.

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