Sports Current Affairs Quiz - April 2019

1. India Open Badminton 2019 (New Delhi) -

1. Men's Singles - Viktor Axelsen (_________________________), Beating India's Kidambi Srikkanth in Final.
2. Women's Singles - Ratchanok Intanon (Thailand)
3. Men's Doubles - Chinese Taipei's Lee Yang AND Wang Chi-lin
4. Women's Doubles - Indonesia's Greysia Polii AND Apriyani Rahayu
5. Mixed Doubles - China'S Wang Yilü AND Huang Dongping

Denmark Russia Spain France None of These

2. 2019 Miami Open Tennis (USA) -

1. Men's Singles - Roger Federer (Switzerland), Defeated John Ishner (USA). It was Roger Federer's __________________ career title. He is now behind only America's Jimmy Connors with 109 career singles titles.
2. Women's Singles - Ashleigh Barty (Australia), defeated Karolína Plíšková (Czech Republic)
3. Men's Doubles - USA's Bob Bryan AND Mike Bryan
4. Women's Doubles - Elise Mertens (Belgium) AND Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus)

111th  121st  101st  131st  None of These

3. India secured Test Cricket Championship Mace for 3rd successive year, along with million dollar prize. New Zealand were 2nd, followed by South Africa were and __________________.

1. Inaugural World Test Championship will begin in August 2019, featuring 9 Test nations competing across 27 series and 71 Test matches to reach ICC World Test Championship Final in 2021, where first World Test champions will be crowned.

Ireland Netherlands England Australia None of These

4. 2019 Malaysia Open Badminton -

1. Men's Singles - Lin Dan (_________________). He Defeated Chen Long (China).
2. Women's Singles - Tai Tzu-ying (Chinese Taipei).
3. Men's Doubles - China's Li Junhui AND Liu Yuchen
4. Women's Doubles - China's Chen Qingchen AND Jia Yifan
5. Mixed Doubles - China'S Zheng Siwei AND Huang Yaqiong

Myanmar Vietnam Russia Japan China

5. 2019 Asian Wrestling Championships (Xi'an, __________________________) -

1. Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
   1	Iran	11	0	6	17
   2	China	5	5	6	16
   3	Japan	4	7	6	17
   4	Uzbekistan	2	3	5	10
   5	Kazakhstan	2	2	12	16
   6	Kyrgyzstan	2	1	5	8
   7	South Korea	2	1	3	6
   8	India	1	6	9	16
   9	North Korea	1	3	2	6
   10	Mongolia	0	2	5	7
   11	Chinese Taipei	0	0	1	1

2. India was ranked 8th, with 16 Medals (1 G, 6 S, 9 B). India's only Gold Medal was won by Bajrang Punia (current World number one). He defeated Kazakhstan's Sayatbek Okassov in 65kg men's freestyle final.
   1. Bajrang Punia is also first Indian wrestler to be invited by American wrestling body for a special fight at iconic Madison Square Garden in New York, US. He will take on two-time US national champion Yianni Diakomahlis.
3. Silver Medals were won by Amit Kumar Dhankar, Parveen Rana, Vicky Chahar, Gurpreet Singh, Harpreet Singh, Sunil Kumar.

Vietnam Japan China Myanmar None of These

6. 2019 Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell Men's Tennis Title (___________________) -

1. Singles - Dominic Thiem (Austria)
2. Doubles - Colombia's Juan Sebastián Cabal AND Robert Farah

Spain Russia France Poland None of These

7. 2019 Kunming Open Tennis Title (_________________) -

1. Men's Singles - Jay Clarke (United Kingdom)
2. Women's Singles - Zheng Saisai (China)
3. Men's Doubles - Australia's Max Purcell AND Luke Saville
4. Women's Doubles - China's Peng Shuai AND Yang Zhaoxuan

Japan China Thailand Indonesia None of These

8. 2019 Monte-Carlo Masters Men's Tennis Title (______________) -

1. Singles - Fabio Fognini (Italy), becoming first Italian to win Monte-Carlo Masters in over 50 years. He defeated Dušan Lajović (Serbia).
2. Doubles - Croatia's Nikola Mektić AND Croatia Franko Škugor

France Germany Russia Spain None of These

9. 2019 Monterrey Open Women's  Tennis (______________) -

1. Singles - Garbiñe Muguruza (Spain). She defeated Victoria Azarenka (Belarus)
2. Doubles - USA's Asia Muhammad AND Maria Sanchez

Mexico USA UK Russia None of These

10. 2019 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix Women's Title (Also Called Stuttgart Open) (________________________) -

1. Singles - Petra Kvitová (Czech Republic), Defeated Estonia's Anett Kontaveit.
2. Doubles - Germany's Mona Barthel AND Anna-Lena Friedsam

France Russia Poland Germany None of These

11. 2019 Singapore Open (Badminton) -

1. Men's Singles - Kento Momota (_______________________). He defeated Anthony Sinisuka Ginting (Indonesia)
2. Women's Singles - Tai Tzu-ying (Chinese Taipei). She defeated Nozomi Okuhara (Japan)
3. Men's Doubles - Japan's Takeshi Kamura AND Keigo Sonoda
4. Women's Doubles - Japan's Mayu Matsumoto AND Wakana Nagahara
5. Mixed Doubles - Thailand's Dechapol Puavaranukroh AND Sapsiree Taerattanachai

Vietnam Russia China Japan None of These

12. 2019 U.S. Men's Clay Court Tennis Championship -

1. Singles - Christian Garín (Chile). Christian Garin became the first Chilean to win an ATP Tour title in 10 years.
2. Doubles - Santiago Gonález (_______________) AND Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi (Pakistan)

USA Mexico UK Russia None of These

13. 2019 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Budapest (Hungary) -

1. Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
   1	____________	5	1	6	12
   2	Japan	0	2	1	3
   3	Sweden	0	1	0	1
   4	Romania	0	0.5	0	0.5
   	Spain	0	0.5	0	0.5
   6	Germany	0	0	1	1
   	Portugal	0	0	1	1
   	South Korea	0	0	1	1

2. Medallists -

   1. Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
      Men's Singles	Ma Long (China)	Mattias Falck (Sweden)	Liang Jingkun (China)
      			An Jae-hyun (South Korea)
      Women's Singles	Liu Shiwen (China)	Chen Meng (China)	Ding Ning (China)
      			Wang Manyu (China)
      Men's Doubles	Ma Long (China) Wang Chuqin (China)	Ovidiu Ionescu (Romania) Álvaro Robles (Spain)	Tiago Apolónia (Portugal) João Monteiro (Portugal)
      			Liang Jingkun (China) Lin Gaoyuan (China)
      Women's Doubles	Sun Yingsha (China) Wang Manyu (China)	Hina Hayata (Japan) Mima Ito (Japan)	Honoka Hashimoto (Japan) Hitomi Sato (Japan)
      			Chen Meng (China) Zhu Yuling (China)
      Mixed Doubles	Xu Xin (China) Liu Shiwen (China)	Maharu Yoshimura (Japan) Kasumi Ishikawa (Japan)	Fan Zhendong (China) Ding Ning (China)
      			Patrick Franziska (Germany) Petrissa Solja (Germany)

Malaysia Vietnam Russia Japan China

14. 23rd Asian Athletics Championships held in Doha (______________________) -

1. 43 nations participated in the events.
2. Medal Table -

   1. Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
      1	Bahrain	11	7	4	22
      2	China	9	13	7	29
      3	Japan	5	4	9	18
      4	India	3	7	7	17
      5	Uzbekistan	3	0	2	5
      6	Qatar	2	1	3	6
      7	Thailand	2	0	2	4
      8	Kazakhstan	1	4	3	8
      9	Kuwait	1	3	0	4
      10	Chinese Taipei	1	2	1	4

3. India with 17 medals (3 Gold, 7 silver and 7 bronze) finished fourth in the events -
   1. Indian Medalists -

      1. S.no	Name	Event	Medal
         1.	Tejinder Pal Singh Toor	Men's shot put	Gold
         2.	Gomathi Marimuthu	Women's 800m	Gold
         3.	PU Chitra	Women's 1500m race	Gold
         4.	Ajay Kumar Saroj	Men's 1500m race	Silver
         5.	Swapna Barman	Women’s heptathlon	Silver
         6.	Annu Rani	Women’s javelin throw	Silver
         7.	Shivpal Singh	Men’s javelin throw	Silver
         8.	Avinash Sable	Men’s 3000m steeplechase	Silver
         9.	Prachi, Poovamma, Saritaben Gayakwad and VK Vismaya	Women's 4x400m relay	Silver
         10.	Muhammed Anas, MP Poovamma, VK Vismaya and Arokia Rajiv	4x400m mixed relay	Silver
         11.	Dutee Chand	Women’s 200m	Bronze
         12.	M R Poovamma	Women’s 400m	Bronze
         13.	Parul Chaudhary	Women’s 5000m race	Bronze
         14.	Sanjivani Jadhav	Women’s 10,000 m	Bronze
         15.	Gavit Murali Kumar	Men’s 10,000m	Bronze
         16.	M P Jabir	Men’s 400m hurdles	Bronze
         17.	Saritaben Gayakwad	Women’s 400m hurdles	Bronze

Qatar Kuwait Iran UAE None of These

15. 39th Badminton Asia Championships 2019 (Wuhan, ___________________) -

1. Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
   Men's singles	Kento Momota (Japan)	Shi Yuqi (China)	Nguyen Tien Minh (Vietnam)
   			Chou Tien-chen (Chinese Taipei)
   Women's singles	Akane Yamaguchi (Japan)	He Bingjiao (China)	Chen Yufei (China)
   			Cai Yanyan (China)
   Men's doubles	Hiroyuki Endo (Japan) Yuta Watanabe (Japan)	Marcus Fernaldi Gideon (Indonesia) Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo (Indonesia)	Takeshi Kamura (Japan) Keigo Sonoda (Japan)
   			Kang Min-hyuk (South Korea) Kim Won-ho (South Korea)
   Women's doubles	Chen Qingchen (China) Jia Yifan (China)	Mayu Matsumoto (Japan) Wakana Nagahara (Japan)	Yuki Fukushima (Japan) Sayaka Hirota (Japan)
   			Della Destiara Haris (Indonesia) Rizki Amelia Pradipta (Indonesia)
   Mixed doubles	Wang Yilü (China) Huang Dongping (China)	He Jiting (China) Du Yue (China)	Zheng Siwei (China) Huang Yaqiong (China)
   			Dechapol Puavaranukroh (Thailand) Sapsiree Taerattanachai (Thailand)

2. Medal Table -

   1. Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
      1	Japan	3	1	2	6
      2	China	2	3	3	8
      3	Indonesia	0	1	1	2
      4	Chinese Taipei	0	0	1	1
      	South Korea	0	0	1	1
      	Thailand	0	0	1	1
      	Vietnam	0	0	1	1

3. Indian Badminton Players did not any medal at the event.

Vietnam Russia Japan China None of These

16. 48th Asian Weightlifting Championships 2019 (Ningbo, ________________________) -

1. 214 athletes from 27 nations participated in. India won 5 medals (3 silver and 2 bronze) medals and finished at 10th place -
2. Medal Table (Big (Total result) and Small (Snatch and Clean & Jerk)) -

   1. Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
      1	China	11	6	2	19
      2	North Korea	2	4	4	10
      3	Iran	2	3	1	6
      4	South Korea	2	0	2	4
      5	Chinese Taipei	1	1	0	2
      	Vietnam	1	1	0	2
      7	Saudi Arabia	1	0	0	1
      8	Philippines	0	1	1	2
      	Uzbekistan	0	1	1	2
      10	India	0	1	0	1
      	Malaysia	0	1	0	1
      	Mongolia	0	1	0	1

3. Medals won by Indian Athletes -

   1. S.No.	Category	Event	Name	Medal
      1.	Women 49-kg	Snatch	Jhili Dalabehera	Silver
      2.	Women 49-kg	Clean and Jerk	Jhili Dalabehera	Silver
      3.	Women 49-kg	Total (Snatch + Clean and Jerk)	Jhili Dalabehera	Silver
      4.	Men 102-kg	Clean and Jerk	Pardeep Singh	Bronze
      5.	Women 49-kg	Clean and Jerk	Mirabai Chanu	Bronze

Japan Vietnam China Cambodia None of These

17. All India Tennis Association (AITA) has signed an MoU with ___________________ Tennis Federation (STF) to train Indian junior players under world-renowned ______________ coaches.

Swedish Serbian Swiss South African None of These

18. Asian Boxing Championships 2019 (Bangkok, _________________________) -

1. India won 13 medals (2 gold, 4 silver, and 7 bronze).
2. Indian Medallists -

   1. S. No.	Category (kg)	Name	Medal
      1.	52	Amit Panghal	Gold
      2.	81	Pooja Rani	Gold
      3.	64	Simranjit Kaur	Silver
      4.	56	Kavinder Singh Bisht	Silver
      5.	49	Deepak Singh	Silver
      6.	75	Ashish Chaudhary	Silver
      7.	51	Nikhat Zareen	Bronze
      8.	54	Manisha Moun	Bronze
      9.	57	Sonia Chahal	Bronze
      10.	60	Sarita Devi	Bronze
      11.	60	Shiva Thapa	Bronze
      12.	69	Ashish	Bronze
      13.	+91	Satish Kumar	Bronze

Indonesia Thailand Malaysia Russia None of These

19. Barcelona FC won 20 Teams Spanish La Liga Football title 2019 by defeating Levante FC. This was Barcelona’s _____________ La Liga league title.

29th 6th 126th 26th None of These

20. Cologne Boxing World Cup 2019 (_________________) -

1. India finished with a haul of five medals (1 Gold, 2 Silver and 2 Bronze).
2. Meena Kumari Maisnam (54kg) won Gold. Sakshi (57kg) and Pwilao Basumatary (64kg) won silver medals and Pinki Rani (51kg), Parveen (60kg) won bronze medals.
3. Cologne Boxing World Cup was earlier known as Chemistry Cup.

Germany Russia Poland Spain None of These

21. FC ________________ (nicknamed The Guard) won 2nd edition of Hero Super Cup 2019 Football title, beating Chennaiyin FC at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar.

Goa Bengaluru Chennai Mumbai City None of These

22. ISSF World Cup 2019 (2nd Leg - Beijing (____________________________)) (Rifle / Pistol) -

1. India Ranked at top. Indian Medalists -
   1. Divyansh Singh Panwar - Silver in 10 metre air rifle
   2. Abhishek Verma - Gold in 10 Metre Air Pistol
   3. Mixed team (Saurabh Chaudhary/Manu Bhaker) - Gold in 10 metre air pistol
   4. Mixed team ( Divyansh Singh Panwar/Anjum Moudgil) - Gold in 10 metre air rifle
   5. In 1st Leg of ISSF World Cup in New Delhi, India had won 3 Gold Medals. Now India is at top with total 7 Medals - 3 in Leg 1 in New Delhi and 4 in Leg 2 in Bejing. India is currently at top of Medal Tally.
   6. Indian Medallists also got Olympic Quota for Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
   7. Upcoming assignments under ISSF World cup 2019 will be in Munich (Germany) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Final is to be decided.
2. Medal Tally -

   Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
   1	India	6	1	0	7
   2	China	3	8	7	18
   3	United States	3	2	0	5
   4	Hungary	3	1	1	5
   5	Russia	2	4	3	9

Japan China Vietnam Malaysia None of These

23. Indian Open Badminton 2019 (__________________________) -

1. Men's Singles - Viktor Axelsen (Denmark), Beating India's Kidambi Srikkanth in Final.
2. Women's Singles - Ratchanok Intanon (Thailand)
3. Men's Doubles - Chinese Taipei's Lee Yang AND Wang Chi-lin
4. Women's Doubles - Indonesia's Greysia Polii AND Apriyani Rahayu
5. Mixed Doubles - China'S Wang Yilü AND Huang Dongping

Patna Guwahati Jaipur New Delhi None of These

24. India’s Harsheel Dani defeated Mads Christophersen of Denmark to win 20th Victor Dutch International Badminton title at Wateringen (____________).

New Zealand Russia Poland Spain The Netherlands

25. Formula One Grand Prix Races in Apr 2019 -

• Mercedes Racer Lewis Hamilton (UK) won Chinese Grand Prix.
• Mercedes Racer Valtteri Bottas (________________) won Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2019.

Poland Sweden Finland Russia None of These

26. Misc. Sports Events (April 2019) -

1. _____________________________ became first Indian male squash player to enter top 10 in Professional Squash Association (PSA) world rankings.
2. Kho-Kho Federation of India (KKFI) launched an franchise-based league for sport named Ultimate Kho-Kho, in collaboration with Dabur India Ltd.
3. 73-year-old Israeli Isaak Hayik set a new world record as world’s oldest person to play in a professional soccer match. He played a match for FC Ironi Or Yehuda against FC Maccabi Ramat Gan.
4. Indian women Hockey Team won bilateral series against Malaysia by 4-0.
5. Indonesian Eni Nuraeni named by Asian Athletic Association (AAA) as the best athletic coach in Asia for the short-haul run category in 2019. Eni coaches young sprinter Lalu Muhammad Zohri, to win 100m gold in 10.20 seconds in 2019 Grand Prix Malaysia Open athletics.
6. American golfer Tiger Woods won Masters at Augusta (US), as his 15th major Title, after 11 years.
7. Former Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) president Jose Maria Marin banned for life from all football activities by FIFA, after being found guilty of bribery activities.
8. International cricket council (ICC) cricket for good in partnership with UNICEF,launched #OneDay4Children, a tournament-wide campaign to help construct a better world for all child, at the World Cup 2019. 48 matches will support #OneDay4Children activity and funds gathered will strengthen UNICEF’s work for children in cricket playing nations across world.
9. Female Cricketer Mithali Raj named as goodwill ambassador of Indian team for Street Child Cricket World Cup 2019. This is first cricket world cup for street-connected children and final will be played at Lord’s in London on May 7.
10. Ethiopian athletes Gelete Burka (Time 2:22:48) and Abrha Milaw (Time 2:07:50) won Female and Male Titles respectively, at 43rd edition of Paris Marathon (France).
11. India’s Bajrang Punia regained world number one spot in the men's 65kg freestyle category, as per the latest rankings issued by United World Wrestling.
12. International Hockey Federation (FIH) imposed fine of one lakh seventy-six thousand Euros (1.3 Crores INR) on Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) for not honouring Pro League commitments.
    1. Indian men’s hockey team would join elite Pro League in early 2020 after International Hockey Federation’s approved it.
13. 18th Asian Billiards, 20th Under-21 Asian Snooker Championship and 3rd Ladies Asian Snooker Championships hosted in Chandigarh.
14. International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) banned 2008 Olympic 1,500m champion and 3-time world champion Asbel Kiprop of Kenya for 4 years for doping until February 2022.
15. India’s 21-time world snooker and billiards champion, Pankaj Advani defeated Ehsan Heydari Nezhad of Iran to win inaugural Asian Snooker Tour title, in Bengaluru.
16. Indian cricketer Ajinkya Rahane became first Indian player to play for Hampshire County Cricket club in England.
17. Integrated Coach Factory (ICF) Chennai beat South Central Railway to win second Marshal of Indian Air Force Arjan Singh Memorial International hockey tournament, in Chandigarh.
18. China’s smartphone maker OPPO became first Asian official sponsor of Wimbledon tennis championships in England.
19. Arjuna awardee Indian golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar won outstanding achievement as a player award at 4th edition of annual India Golf Industry Association (GIA) awards at Delhi Golf Club.
20. Australia’s Claire Polosak became first woman umpire to Officiate in a men’s ODI, in final match of ICC World Cricket League 2.
21. Asian Road Para-Cycling Championships 2019 held in Tashkent (Uzbekistan). Indian para cyclists won a silver (Divij Shah) and two bronze medals (Gurlal Singh and Sudhakar Marathe).
22. India’s Table Tennis player Sathiyan Gnanasekaran became first Indian to break into the world’s top 25 of the latest International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Rankings. Sharath Kamal Achanta is only other Indian beside him in top 50 position, ranked 46th.
23. Raheem Sterling (England) has been named 2019 footballer of year by Football Writers’ Association (FWA). Nikita Parris won FWA Women’s Footballer of Year award.
24. BCCI recommended Cricketers Mohammad Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja and Female Cricketer Poonam Yadav for Arjuna award 2019. Also, All India Football Federation (AIFF) recommended Gurpreet Singh Sandhu and Jeje Lalpekhlua for Arjuna Award 2019.

Saurav Ghosal Harinder Pal Sandhu Cyrus Poncha Ravinder Tandon None of These

27. Namibia won ICC World Cricket League Division 2, defeating Oman in Windhoek (_________________). During the tournament, USA United States Cricket Team gained ODI Cricket status for first time. Oman and Papua New Guinea also got ODI Status.

Zimbabwe Namibia Bermuda Oman None of These

28. Services team won 2019 Santosh Trophy ___________________ Title, defeating Punjab. This is sixth time Services has won Santosh Trophy.

Cricket Tennis Football Volleyball None of These

29. Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2019 -

1. India's Virat Kohli and Smriti Mandhana as Leading male and female cricketer of 2019 respectively. Smriti Mandhana bagged women’s title for first time while Virat Kohli named for 3rd straight year.
2. Virat Kohli is also named among England’s Rory Burns, Jos Buttler, Sam Curran and Tammy Beaumont in receiving the honour Wisden’s Five Cricketers of the Year.
3. __________________ Cricketer Rashid Khan named Leading Twenty20 Cricketer for 2nd successive time.

Nepal Bangladesh UAE Oman Afghanistan

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