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GAME ON
CrossWORDS
ACROSS DOWN
1 India won its first Olympic 2 BPCL para-athlete who
gold medal in athletics at won gold in the 100m
the Tokyo 2020 Games, wheelchair race at the
thanks to this javelin star. ONGC Para Games.
4 This multi-sport annual 3 The only Indian woman to
event is considered the win medals in two Olympic
Olympics of Indian public Games in badminton.
sector organizations.
4 Known as the “Sprint Queen
6 At the 2023 Asian Games, of India,” she was the first
India won gold in men's Indian woman to reach an
badminton team event by Olympic final in track and
defeating this powerhouse field.
nation.
5 The Indian wrestler who
7 This sport, played with a became a bronze medalist
racquet and a small hollow in the Tokyo Olympics 2020.
rubber ball, has produced
8 This city hosted the
champions like Joshna
2023 Badminton Asia
Chinappa and Saurav
Championships where
Ghosal.
India clinched gold in
9 The city that hosted the men’s singles.
Khelo India Youth Games
2022, promoting grassroots
sports across the country.
Did you know?
1. Chess grandmasters burn up 4. In 2023, India won its first-ever gold Asian Games medal for India in
to 6,000 calories a day during medal in Men’s 4x400m Relay at women’s golf.
tournaments — due to intense the Asian Athletics Championships,
8. On April 19, 2025, Vaibhav
mental activity, stress, and defeating even traditional giants
Suryavanshi became the youngest
long hours of concentration, like Japan.
player in IPL history at just 14 years
comparable to cycling a stage of
5. The term “hat-trick” originated in and 23 days, debuting for RR with a
the Tour de France.
cricket in 1858, when bowler H.H. six off his very first ball against LSG
2. India’s first-ever Paralympic Stephenson took three wickets in in Jaipur.
medalist, Murlikant Petkar, was three balls—and was awarded a
9. Sachin Tendulkar was a ball boy
also a national-level swimmer hat by fans, leading to the coining
during the 1987 World Cup semifinal
before he lost his limb in the 1965 of the phrase.
between India and England at
war, eventually winning gold in
6. The 1936 Berlin Olympics was the Wankhede Stadium — 12less than 5
1972 — setting a world record in the
first ever to be televised, but only years before making his own World
process.
within Germany. Ironically, the Cup debut.
3. Neeraj Chopra’s Olympic gold- biggest global star to emerge was
10.Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa,
winning javelin throw (87.58m) was Jesse Owens, an African-American
a teenage chess prodigy from
achieved with an outdated javelin athlete whose success countered
India, made headlines in 2023 by
model, which he prefers for its grip Nazi propaganda.
reaching the final of the FIDE World
— a personal technique choice over
7. Aditi Ashok made history by Cup, becoming the youngest Indian
technological upgrades.
winning a silver medal in golf at the ever to do so.
2023 Asian Games — the first-ever
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