Sports Current Affairs 2023 – Welcome to GKcoaching.in! In today’s class we will discuss Sports Current Affairs 2023. Here we have covered all the Sports Current Affairs topics for the year 2022 and 2023. Here we have covered topics from Commonwealth games, Asian cup tournament, Khel ratna, Thomas cup, World blitz chess championship, Shooting world cup, Judo championship, and others.
Sports Current Affairs 2023 – Players and Sports
# Recently Manika Batra won which medal in the Asian Cup Table Tennis Tournament 2022?
a. Silver medal
b. Bronze medal
c. Gold medal
d. Diamond medal
Ans. b
# Who won gold medal in ‘Para Table Tennis’ in the Commonwealth Games 2022?
a. Manika Batra
b. Bhavina Patel
c. Mouma Das
d. Ankita Das
Ans. b
# Who won the ‘Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2022’?
a. Sharath Kamal Achanta
b. Manika Batra
c. Virat Kohli
d. Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
Ans. a
> Sharath Kamal Achanta is a table tennis player
# Who won the Javelin throw competition in the ‘Lausanne Diamond League 2022’?
a. Manvi Mehta
b. Neeraj Chopra
c. Devendra Jhajharia
d. Sumit Rai
Ans. b
# Which team won the ‘Thomas Cup 2022’?
a. Indonesia
b. India
c. Japan
d. Russia
Ans. b
# Who won gold medal in the ‘Thomas Cup 2022’ from men’s team?
a. Lakshya Sen
b. Chirag Shetty
c. Kidambi Srikanth
d. Pramod Bhagat
Ans. a
# Where was the Thomas Cup 2022 held?
a. Bangkok
b. India
c. Dubai
d. Sri Lanka
Ans. a
# Which team won the Women’s Asia Cup 2022 held in Bangladesh?
a. Sri Lanka women’s cricket team
b. Australia women’s cricket team
c. India women’s cricket team
d. Pakistan women’s cricket team
Ans. c
# The biopic ‘800’ is related to which sportsperson?
a. Amit Mishra
b. Sachin Tendulkar
c. Muttiah Muralitharan
d. Yuvraj Singh
Ans. c
> He belongs to Sri Lanka cricket team
# Jhulan Goswami recently announced retirement from which sports?
a. Boxing
b. Cricket
c. Judo
d. Badminton
Ans. b
> She belongs to Indian women’s cricket team
# Who won the Men’s T20 International Cricketer of the year 2022 award by ICC?
a. Rashid Khan
b. MS Dhoni
c. Virat Kohli
d. Surya Kumar Yadav
Ans. d
# Who became the first para athlete to receive Padma Bhusan award 2022?
a. Neeraj Chopra
b. Devendra Jhajharia
c. Manvi Mehta
d. Sarath Kamal
Ans. b
> He is a Javelin throw player from Rajasthan
# Who won silver medal at the Women’s World Blitz Chess Championship 2022?
a. Tania Sachdev
b. Padmini Rout
c. Koneru Humpy
d. Kiran Manisha
Ans. c
> She belongs to Andhra Pradesh
# Who becomes the 23rd Woman Grandmaster of India?
a. Priyanka Nutakki
b. Srija Seshadri
c. Anupama Gokhale
d. Tania Sachdev
Ans. a
# Who becomes the 73rd Grandmaster of India?
a. Nihal Sarin
b. Parimarjan Negi
c. Bharath Subramaniyam
d. Vidit Gujrathi
Ans. c
# Who has won the ‘Para Sport Person of the Year Award’?
a. Bhawna Ben Patel
b. Avani Lekhara
c. Nikhat Zareen
d. Mitali Raj
Ans. b
> She belongs to shooting sports
> She is from Rajasthan
> She won gold medal in 10 meter air rifle and bronze medal in 50 meter rifle at Tokyo Paralympics 2020
> She also won Major Dhyanchand Khel Ratna award in 2021
> She also won Padma Shree award in 2022
# ‘ISSF Shooting World Cup 2023’ was held in?
a. Mumbai
b. Bhopal
c. Ahmedabad
d. Delhi
Ans. b
# Who won gold medal in ‘ISSF Shooting World Cup 2023’?
a. Varun Tomar
b. Sarabjot Singh
c. Gagan Narang
d. Saurabh Chaudhary
Ans. b
Sports GK Questions 2023 – Players of the Year
# Who won gold medal in the ‘Junior Judo Championship 2022’ held in Bangkok?
a. Kalpana Devi Thoudam
b. Garima Chaudhary
c. Shushila Devi Likmabam
d. Linthoi Channambam
Ans. d
> She belongs to Manipur
# Who won gold medal at the ‘Commonwealth Fencing Championship 2022’ held in London?
a. Avani Lekhara
b. Pooja Singh
c. Bhavani Devi
d. Bhavna Ben Patel
Ans. c
> She belongs from Tamil Nadu
# Recently Commonwealth Games champion Sanjita Chanu was banned by NADA for 4 years. She belongs to which sports?
a. Badminton
b. Boxing
c. Weightlifting
d. Table tennis
Ans. c
> NADA = National Anti-Doping Agency
# First Indian woman wrestler who won gold in both Commonwealth and Asian Games?
a. Babita Kumari
b. Sakshi Malik
c. Sonam Malik
d. Vinesh Phogat
Ans. d
# Who won India’s first gold medal in Asian Wrestling Championship 2023 held in Kazakhstan?
a. Anshu Malik
b. Bajrang Punia
c. Aman Sehrawat
d. Ravi Dahiya
Ans. c
# Who won the woman of the match title in Women’s Asia Cup 2022 held in Bangladesh?
a. Smriti Mandhana
b. Suman Kumari
c. Renuka Singh
d. Priti Singh
Ans. c
> Renuka Singh is from Indian Women’s Cricket Team
> Player of the tournament – Deepti Sharma (India)
# Who won gold medal in the ‘Asian Boxing Championship 2022’ held in Amman, Jordan?
a. Sanket Sagar
b. Bajrang Punia
c. Praveen Hooda
d. Lakshya Sen
Ans. c
> Other Indian players who won gold – Lovlina Borgohain, Saweety and Alfiya Pathan
# Who won the ‘Swiss Open Super 300 Badminton 2023’ men’s doubles title?
a. Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty
b. Chai Biao and Hong Wei
c. Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Rian Ardianto
d. Mathias Boe and Carsten Mogensen
Ans. a
> Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty are from India
# The first Indian to win gold at ‘Karate 1 series A 2022’ in Jakarta, Indonesia?
a. Lakshya Sen
b. Pranay Sharma
c. Devendra Singh
d. Sarath Kamal
Ans. b
# Who has won Singapore Open 2022 Super 500 Trophy?
a. Mithali Raj
b. PV Sindhu
c. Lovlina Borgohain
d. Sania Mirza
Ans. b
> Singapore Open belongs to Badminton
> She has won gold medal in Commonwealth Games 2022 (women’s singles)
> She has won silver medal in Commonwealth Games 2022 (mixed team)
> She has won bronze medal in Asia Mixed Team Championship 2023
# Nikhat Zareen belongs to which sports?
a. Weightlifting
b. Boxing
c. Table tennis
d. Shooting
Ans. b
> She has won gold medal at the IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships 2022
> She also won gold medal in 2022 Commonwealth Games (women’s category)
