SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 21 September 2025, Shift 1 · General Awareness · Question 13 of 99

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Which of the following statements about India’s participation in the 2008 Beijing Olympics is correct? 1) India won medals in Shooting, Boxing, and Wrestling, including its first-ever individual Olympic Gold. 2) Saina Nehwal participated in the women’s singles badminton event representing India. Which of the above statements are correct?

(a)Only 1 is Correct
(b)Only 2 is Correct
(c)1 and 2 are Correct
(d)Neither 1 nor 2 are Correct

Answer

Why

Correct — C. Statement 1 is correct. India won three medals at Beijing 2008: gold for Abhinav Bindra in the men's 10 m air rifle, India's first individual Olympic gold, and bronzes for Vijender Singh in boxing and Sushil Kumar in wrestling.

Statement 2 is correct. Saina Nehwal played women's singles and reached the quarter-finals. Both statements hold → option (c).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Only 1 is Correct — Only 1 leaves out Saina Nehwal, who did represent India in women's singles at Beijing and lost in the quarter-finals to Maria Kristin Yulianti of Indonesia.
(b)
Only 2 is Correct — Only 2 throws out a true statement. Shooting (Bindra), boxing (Vijender Singh) and wrestling (Sushil Kumar) are exactly the sports India won medals in.
(d)
Neither 1 nor 2 are Correct — Neither cannot be right when both statements check out: the three medals are on record, and so is Saina Nehwal's women's singles run.

Concept

Before Beijing 2008, every Olympic gold India had won came in men's hockey, the last in 1980. Bindra's win in the 10 m air rifle on 11 August 2008 was the first individual gold.

Vijender Singh's bronze was India's first Olympic boxing medal. Saina Nehwal's quarter-final made her the first Indian woman to reach that stage of Olympic badminton, and four years later she won bronze at London.

Statement 2 says only that Saina Nehwal participated. She won no medal in Beijing, but participation is all the statement claims.

Key facts

At Beijing 2008 India won one gold and two bronze medals.
Abhinav Bindra won the men's 10 m air rifle on 11 August 2008, India's first individual Olympic gold.
Vijender Singh (boxing, 75 kg) and Sushil Kumar (freestyle wrestling, 66 kg) won India's bronzes in Beijing.
Saina Nehwal reached the women's singles quarter-finals in Beijing and won bronze at London 2012.

Study next

India's medals at London 2012, including the bronzes of Saina Nehwal and Mary KomK. D. Jadhav's 1952 wrestling bronze at Helsinki, independent India's first individual Olympic medal

Common traps

Rejecting statement 2 because Saina won no medal in Beijing: the statement says she participated, not that she won.

The same Games are asked at 26 Sep 2024, 16:00, GA Q.21 (Bindra's gold) and 14 Sep 2025, 9:00, GA Q.6 (Vijender Singh's quarter-final win).

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