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| 651. |
Who is to become the first F1 champion to compete in Dakar Rally? |
| Answer» Spain's Fernando Alonso is set to become the first Formula One champion to compete in the Dakar Rally, which starts in Saudi Arabia. Alonso, who won the F1 title in 2005 and 2006, entered the Dakar Rally, whose 2020 edition leaves behind South America for Saudi Arabia, as part of his quest to become a completer and more versatile driver. | |
| 652. |
Who won women's title at the Blitz Chess Championship? |
| Answer» Kateryna Lagno of Russia and Norway's Magnus Carlsen defended their titles in the women's and men's blitz competition. Humpy, who had claimed the World Women's Rapid Chess Championship title after drawing the Armageddon game against Lei Tingjie of China, was placed second with seven points from nine rounds after the opening day of the blitz competition. | |
| 653. |
What is Mirabai Chanu's rank in the Olympics qualifiers ranking list? |
| Answer» On course to seal a berth for the Tokyo Games, former world champion MirabaiChanu maintained her eighth spot in the Olympic qualifiers ranking list released by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) on January 2.In the race for Olympic qualification, the 25-year-old, who competes in the 49 kg category, has gathered 2966.6406 ranking points till now. | |
| 654. |
The fifth IHAI National Ice Hockey Championship 2020 is being organized at which city? |
| Answer» The fifth Ice Hockey Association of India (IHAI) National Ice Hockey Championship 2020 begun in Leh. The inaugural match in the Under-20 Boys category between Chandigarh and Haryana. | |
| 655. |
Who has been picked as captain of ESPN Cricinfo's ODI and Twenty20 teams of the decade? |
| Answer» ESPN Cricinfo picked Charismatic former india captain MS Dhoni as captain of ODI and Twenty 20 teams of the past decade, while skipper Virat Kohli was named as the leader in Tests. The criterua by a 23-member panel for selection was a minimum of 50 Tests or six active years in the longest version of the game while it was 75 ODIs and 100 T20s for the limited-over teams. | |
| 656. |
Who became the first Indian table tennis player to be ranked World No. 1 in the under-21 category? |
| Answer» Manav Thakkar etched his name in the history books, becoming the first Indian table tennis player to be ranked World No. 1 in the under-21 category.The Surat-born paddler revealed how, till the age of five, he took part in various other sports before finding his calling in table tennis. | |
| 657. |
4th All India Police Judo Cluster Championship 2019 is being organized at which city? |
| Answer» Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri Nityanand Rai inaugurated the 4th All India Police Judo Cluster Championship 2019 in New Delhi. The five-day sporting event will draw to a close on the 7th of this month. | |
| 658. |
Who recently became only the fourth batsman to hit six sixes in an over in T20 cricket? |
| Answer» Canterbury batsman Leo Carter hit six sixes in an over on January 5, becoming only the fourth batsman to achieve the feat in T20 cricket, both domestic and international. The unfortunate bowler on this occasion was left-arm spinner Anton Devcich, bowling for Northern Districts, during the T20 Super Smash tournament at Hagley Oval in Christchurch. | |
| 659. |
Which state won the men's title at the senior National volleyball championships? |
| Answer» In the men's final, Tamil Nadu dashed the hopes of Railways, winning 3-1 (25-18, 25-21, 21-25, 25-23). Kerala men, who lost to Railways in the semifinal, finished third by defeating Karnataka in the losers' final (25-21, 26-24, 25-19). | |
| 660. |
Which Indian all-rounder has recently retired from all forms of cricket? |
| Answer» All-rounder Irfan Pathan on January 4 announced his retirement from all forms of cricket, ending an injury-ridden career that prevented him from realising his true potential.The 35-year-old's retirement was on expected lines, considering he last played a competitive game in February 2019 during the Syed Mushtaq Ali trophy for Jammu and Kashmir. | |
| 661. |
Who won the men's 10 metres air pistol gold at the 63rd National Shooting Championship? |
| Answer» The 17-year-old ace shooter from Uttar Pradesh Saurabh Chaudhary has won the men's 10 metres air pistol gold at the 63rd National Shooting Championship in Bhopal on 4 January 2020. Chaudhary shot a 246.4 to finish on top. Sarabjot Singh of Haryana secured second and scored 243.9 and Abhishek Verma won bronze in a high-quality final. | |
| 662. |
Who has retained top spot in latest test match rankings for batsmen? |
| Answer» India skipper Virat Kohli retained his top spot among batsmen while Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane dropped in the latest ICC Test rankings issued on January 8.Kohli's 928 rating points have vaulted him ahead of the second-placed Steve Smith, who sits on 911 points. Pujara was placed sixth, down one rung, with 791 points, while Rahane occupied the ninth spot after slipping a couple of positions with 759 points. | |
| 663. |
Who is the only Indian umpire named for the ICC U-19 World Cup? |
| Answer» Anil Chaudhary is the lone Indian named in the list of 19 match officials, including 16 umpires, for the upcoming ICC U-19 World Cup starting in South Africa from January 17. The 54-year-old Chaudhary has so far officiated in 20 ODIs and 27 T20Is including the ongoing series between India and Sri Lanka. | |
| 664. |
Who won the 7th National Ice Hockey Championship Women trophy? |
| Answer» Ladakh lifted the 7th National Ice Hockey Championship Women trophy. The match was held at the Karzoo Ice Hockey Rink in Leh. The tournament was organised by the Ice Hockey Association of India (IHAI) in association with the Ladakh winter sports club. | |
| 665. |
Who became the first Indian equestrian to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics after 2 decades? |
| Answer» Indian equestrian Fouaad Mirza became the first Indian to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics officially. He ended a wait spanning two decades. International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI) issued the latest rankings that included all results between 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019. | |
| 666. |
Who won the 2020 Maharashtra Kesari title? |
| Answer» Indian wrestler Harshvardhan Sadgir won the Maharashtra Kesari title in the 63rd wrestling event at Balewadi near Pune. He defeated his opponent Shailesh Shelek of Latur to claim the title. | |
| 667. |
Who won the men's doubles title at ATP Qatar Open tennis tournament? |
| Answer» Rohan Bopanna in partnership with Wesley Koolhof of Netherlands beat Luke Bambridge and Santiago Gonzalez 3-6, 6-2, 10-6 to win the first doubles title of the season, in the $1,465,260 ATP tennis tournament in Doha, Qatar. | |
| 668. |
Who is the highest ranked Indian batsman in the latest ICC T20 Internationals players rankings? |
| Answer» India opener K L Rahul retained his sixth position while captain Virat Kohli moved up a place to ninth in the batting chart of the ICC T20I players rankings released on January 11.The ICC T20 rankings were updated after the conclusion of the three-match series between India and Sri Lanka, which Kohli's men won 2-0. | |
| 669. |
Who recently received the Polly Umrigar award? |
| Answer» India spearhead Jasprit Bumrah on January 12 headlined the BCCI Annual Awards function, grabbing the prestigious Polly Umrigar award apart from annexing the Dilip Sardesai honour for his exploits in international cricket in the 2018-19 season.Polly Umrigar award is presented to the best male International cricketer and it carries a citation, trophy and cheque for 15 lakh. | |
| 670. |
Which country won ATP Cup tennis tournament? |
| Answer» Team Serbia defeated Team Spain 2-1 in a blockbuster final to win the first ATP Cup at Ken Rosewall Arena in Sydney. Roberto Bautista Agut gave Spain the early advantage with a 7-5, 6-1 victory over DusanLajovic before Novak Djokovic defeated Rafael Nadal 6-2, 7-6(4) in the battle of the No.1 players. | |
| 671. |
Who won Spanish Super Cup football title? |
| Answer» Real Madrid Beat Atletico Madrid on Penalties to Win 2020 Spanish Super Cup. Real Madrid won the Spanish Super Cup after beating local rivals Atletico Madrid 4-1 in a penalty shootout at the King Abdullah Sport City Stadium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. | |
| 672. |
Who recently set a new 10kmroad run world record? |
| Answer» Kenya's Rhonex Kipruto set a new 10km road world record of 26 minutes 24 seconds in Valencia. Kipruto bettered the previous fastest time set by Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei, also in Valencia in December 2019, by 14 seconds. | |
| 673. |
Who was recently adjudged the 'Sportstar of the Year'? |
| Answer» P.V. Sindhu was adjudged the Sportstar of the Year and Kapil Dev honoured for Lifetime Achievement at the Sportstar Aces Awards here on January 13. Sindhu, who won a historic badminton World Championship gold in 2019, was also declared the Sportswoman of the Year (racquet sports) before an audience of some of the finest Indian sporting stars. | |
| 674. |
Who has set the Guinness world record in Taekwondo for the maximum full contact knee strikes in one-hour non-stop? |
| Answer» Aashman Taneja, a five-year-old boy, from Hyderabad has set the Guinness world record in Taekwondo for the maximum full contact knee strikes in one-hour non-stop.Aashman is a Taekwondo player and an athlete at a very young age. He won silver in the USA World Open Taekwondo. | |
| 675. |
Who won the Delhi Open International Grand Masters Chess Championship? |
| Answer» India's GM Abhijeet Gupta beat Aleksej Aleksandrov of Belrus in the 10th and final round to win the 18th Delhi Open International Grand Masters Chess Championship. | |
| 676. |
Who won silver medal in the women's 57kg freestyle event at 2020 Rome Ranking Series? |
| Answer» Indian teenage wrestler Anshu Malik won in the women's 57kg freestyle event of the season 's first major competition, the Ranking Series in Rome. She lost to Nigeria's Odunayo Adekuoroye for the score 10-0. | |
| 677. |
A stamp has been issued on the captain of India's last Asian Games gold winner football team. What was his name? |
| Answer» Chuni Goswami, the Indian Football stalwart who led India to win the gold medal in the 1962 Asian Games in Bangkok was honoured by the Indian Postal Department, who issued a postal stamp on his 82nd birthday. | |
| 678. |
Who won the 2019 ICC Men's Emerging Cricketer? |
| Answer» Australian batsman Marnus Labuschagne was named as the 2019 ICC Men's Emerging Cricketer. Labuschagne recently reached his career-best ranking and moved to the third place in the latest ICC Test player rankings after a match-winning double-century against New Zealand in Sydney. | |
| 679. |
Who is the President of All India Council of Sports? |
| Answer» Union Government has appointed veteran sports administrator Vijay Kumar Malhotra as President of All India Council of Sports (AICS).With this he became first President of AICS and was given an equivalent rank of a Minister of State (MoS) in the Union Council of Ministers. | |
| 680. |
Who won the women doubles title of WTA International trophy at Hobart? |
| Answer» Sania Mirza lifted the WTA Hobart International trophy with partner Nadiia Kichenok after edging out Shuai Peng and Shuai Zhang in the final. The unseeded Indo-Ukrainian pair pipped the second seed Chinese team 6-4 6-4. | |
| 681. |
Who won the car rally at the Dakar Rally held in Saudi Arabia? |
| Answer» Veteran Spanish driver Carlos Sainz won the Dakar Rally for the third time, finishing with a comfortable winning margin in Saudi Arabia.The 57-year-old led from the third stage and crossed the finish line 6 min 21 sec ahead of nearest challenger and reigning champion Nasser al-Attiyah of Qatar, who had managed to cut Sainz's lead to just 24 seconds but fell back after navigation blunders. | |
| 682. |
Who won the gold medal in the women's 53kg freestyle event at 2020 Rome Ranking Series? |
| Answer» India's VineshPhogat has won gold medal at the 2020 season's first Ranking Series event in Rome. She defeated Ecuador's Luisa Elizabeth Melendres 4-0 in the final (53 kg) of Rome Ranking series on January 17 to win her first gold medal of the 2 020 season. | |
| 683. |
Who won the motorbike rally at the Dakar Rally held in Saudi Arabia? |
| Answer» Ricky Brabec,28, secured his spot in the record books as the first American winner of the Dakar Rally, what many consider the most prestigious and grueling off-road race in the world.Cruising to a second-place finish in Stage 12, Brabec finished the overall race with a 16-minute lead. | |
| 684. |
How many medals India won at the Rome Ranking Series? |
| Answer» India returned with seven medals from the tournament.Vinesh Phogat and Anhsu Malik won a gold and silver respectively in the women's competition. In Greco-roman, Gurpreet Singh (82kg) won gold, Sunil Kumar (97kg) a silver, while Sajan Bhanwal (77kg) settled for a bronze.Bajrang Punia was far from his fluent best but still claimed gold while Ravi Kumar Dahiya showed sparkling form in his gold-winning effort. | |
| 685. |
Who won women's singles title at ATP-WTA Adelaide International tennis? |
| Answer» Australia's Ashleigh Barty has captured her first WTA title on home soil with an emphatic straight-sets victory in the Adelaide International final. The world No 1 downed world No 24 Ukranian Dayana Yastremska 6-2 7-5 in the Finals. | |
| 686. |
Which state won the under-17girls basketball title at Khelo India Youth Games? |
| Answer» Tamil Nadu girls won the under-17 basketball title at Khelo India Youth Games in Guwahati, Assam. Tamil Nadu defeated Rajasthan by 59 to 57 points. Kerala and Karnataka won bronze medals in boys and girls under-17 categories. | |
| 687. |
Who won the Women's Singles title at the 2020 Indonesia Masters? |
| Answer» Thailand's Badminton player RatchanokIntanon won the Indonesia Masters title 2020 in Women's Singles category on 19 January. It was her first badminton title of the year 2020. She defeated former world number one Carolina Marin. She secured 2-1 to claim the title. | |
| 688. |
Who won the men's title at the Tata Mumbai Marathon? |
| Answer» Derara Hurisa wasn't the the favourite for Tata Mumbai Marathon 2020 but the Ethiopian upset the odds to win in a course record of 2:08:09. Hurisa was rewarded with his biggest ever pay day, a $45,000 winners' cheque and a $15,000 course record bonus. | |
| 689. |
Who won the gold medal in women's 10m air rifle at the Meyton Cup? |
| Answer» Indian shooters Apurvi Chandela and Divyansh Singh Panwar won gold at the Meyton Cup international shooting championship in Austria. The four Indian shooters have already secured Olympic quotas for Tokyo Games 2020. Apurvi won the gold in women's 10m air rifle. She secured a final score of 251.4. | |
| 690. |
Who Has been named the new captain of the South African ODI cricket team? |
| Answer» Quinton de Kock has been named as the new captain of the South Africa One-Day International side, taking over from Faf du Plessis, who is dropped altogether for the three-match series against England next month. Faf du Plessis led South Africa in their disastrous 2019 World Cup campaign and has hinted at international retirement from all formats following the Twenty20 global finals in Australia later this year. | |
| 691. |
How medals India won at 9th Nation's Cup women's boxing tournament in Sombor, Serbia? |
| Answer» Indian pugilists pick six medals at Nation's Cup. Cologne World Cup gold medallist M Meena Kumari, along with three of her teammates, picked up silver medals at the 9th Nation's Cup Boxing Tournament for women that was held in Sombor, Serbia. | |
| 692. |
Who won the men's singles title at Thailand Masters badminton in Bangkok? |
| Answer» Hong Kong shuttler Ng Ka-long snatched the men's Thailand Masters title on January 26 after a shaky start against Japan's Kenta Nishimoto. World number nine Ng clinched victory after Nishimoto took the first game in a 16-21, 21-13, 21-12 duel. | |
| 693. |
Who won the Tata Steel Masters chess tournament? |
| Answer» By beating the previously undefeated Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Fabiano Caruana scored his third straight win to secure first place at the 2020 Tata Steel Masters with a round the spare. | |
| 694. |
How many medals India won at the Strandja Memorial Boxing Tournament? |
| Answer» India returned from Strandja Memorial Boxing Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria with three medals. Silver was won by Mohammed Hussamuddin (men's 57kg). Bronzes were won by Sonia Lather (women's 57kg) and Shiva Thapa (men's 63kg). | |
| 695. |
Who won Chennai Open international GM chess tournament? |
| Answer» Top-seed Russian Grand Master Pavel Ponkratov justified his billing to clinch the title in the 12th Chennai Open international GM chess tournament 2020. Pankratov finished with eight points from 10 rounds and won the title on the basis of a superior tie-break score. | |
| 696. |
Who won the Pittsburgh Open squash tournament? |
| Answer» Saurav Ghosal missed out on his maiden PSA world tour event title after suffering a straight-game defeat to top seed Fares Dessouky of Egypt in the final of the Pittsburgh Open squash tournament. Ghosal lost 7-11, 4-11, 9-11 to his Egyptian opponent who played flawless squash in the summit clash. | |
| 697. |
Who won the women's singles title at Thailand Masters badminton in Bangkok? |
| Answer» Japan's Akane Yamaguchi beat South Korea's An Se-young in a hard-fought women's final in the Thailand Masters. Yamaguchi went point-for-point in the second game, the 22-year-old Japanese pulling through with a 21-16, 22-20 victory after an intense rally that had both players diving for the shuttlecock. | |
| 698. |
Who becamethe first Indian woman to play a professional football in the world? |
| Answer» Bala Devi from Manipur Police becomes the first Indian woman to become a professional footballer in the world. The 29-year-old is currently the leading goal scorer for the Indian national women's team netting 52 in 58 outings since 2010, which makes her the top international goal scorer in the South Asian region. | |
| 699. |
Who won Senior National Billiards Championship? |
| Answer» Ace Indian cueist Pankaj Advani on January 28 claimed yet another Senior National Billiards Championship title with a 5-2 win over Sourav Kothari in a pulsating final. After losing the first frame in the best-of-9 150-up tie, Advani bounced back with breaks of 95 and 151 to go 2-1 up. | |
| 700. |
Who is the Indian Javelin thrower who recently qualified for Tokyo Olympics? |
| Answer» Star Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra qualified for the Tokyo Olympics with a throw of 87.86 meters at the Athletics Central North East meeting in South Africa. The 22-year-old Asian Games and Commonwealth Games gold medallist breached the Olympic qualification mark of 85 meters in his fourth attempt. | |