Sports GK Quiz

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Larry won nine straight IPF World Powerlifting Championships from 1971– 1979. Larry won a total of 102 competitions and set 54 World Records during his powerlifting career. Larry is widely regarded as one of the greatest powerlifters of all time, and goes by the nickname “Mr. Powerlifting”.

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The current record is 10.49 seconds set by Florence Griffith-Joyner(USA) on 16 July 1988.

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Mary Kom was born in Kangathei village, Moirang Lamkhai in the Churachandpur district of rural Manipur in India.

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Karnam Malleshwari is a retired Indian weightlifter and became the first Indian woman to win a medal at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000. She also became the first Indian woman to become a weightlifting World Champion in 1994 in Istanbul.

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The 27-years-old Indian Fencer, Bhavani Devi, has created a history and has become the first Indian fencer to qualify for Olympics in Women’s individual Sabre.

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Abhinav Bindra is the first Indian to be awarded the Blue Cross.  The Blue Cross is the highest recognition conferred by the parent body of international shooting, the ISSF.

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The 2021 Thomas & Uber Cup will be the 31st edition of the Thomas Cup and the 28th edition of the Uber Cup, the biennial international badminton championship contested by the men’s and women’s national teams of the member associations of the Badminton World Federation.

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Bajrang Lal Takhar is the first Indian rower to win a gold at the Asian Games in the year 2010.

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Usain Bolt set the current 100m world record at the 2009 IAAF World Championships, clocking an astonishing 9.58 seconds for the feat.

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The first competition for the cup was organized in 1930 by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and was won by Uruguay.

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The last event of the Deaflympics was held in Samsun, Turkey in 2017. They were the Summer Deaflympics.

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The Olympic Games are one of the Panhellenic Games of ancient Greece. They were held in honor of Zeus, and the Greeks gave them a mythological origin. The first Olympics is traditionally dated to 776 BC.

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Rugby is a collective name for the family of team sports of rugby union and rugby league, as well as the earlier forms of football from which both games, as well as Australian rules football and gridiron football, evolved. Rugby football has the largest number (15) of participants in terms of either side.

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The agreement was ratified by the full IOC membership at the IOC Session in Lima on 13 September, confirming that Paris will host the Olympic Games 2024 and that Los Angeles will host the Olympic Games 2028. Read more …

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Cricket World Cup was contested for the first time in England in 1975. It was played as a series of one-day matches of 60 overs per side. Here is the list of Men’s ODI Cricket World Cup winners and runners-up.

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In the 1936 Olympics, Kabaddi was introduced for the first time for promotional purposes as a demonstration sport.

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Bayern Munich won the final 1–0 against UANL for their second FIFA Club World Cup title. By winning the trophy, Bayern Munich became only the second club in European football history to win all six titles on offer in a single calendar year.

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Michael Phelps is a former competitive swimmer from America. He has the highest number of medals in the Olympics till now He won 28 Olympic medals including 23 gold.

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On March 16, 2007, former South Africa opener Herschelle Gibbs became the first player ever to hit six maximum in one over when South Africa took on the Netherlands in the 2007 World Cup in West Indies.

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Cricket is an international game played on a pitch 20.12 m long (22 yards).