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SSC MTS 2022 PYQ — Question 46

SSC MTS - 19 July 2022 - Shift 2 • General Awareness • Q46

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India won eight Olympic gold medals in which sport till 2020?

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Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is option 4 i.e. Field hockey.

  • The Indian hockey men’s team has won eight Olympic gold medals in all, six of them in a row (from 1928-1956) and added two more at Tokyo 1964 and Moscow 1980.
  • India won their first Olympic hockey gold in the 1928 Olympic Games at Amsterdam.
  • Field Hockey is an eleven aside game played on a pitch 100 yards by 60 yards with a ball which has a 23cm circumference.