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Q.In recent years, Indian women athletes have done India proud in international sports events. The textbook prints photographs of six such athletes — P.V. Sindhu, Mary Kom, Hima Das, Saikhom Mirabai Chanu, Saina Nehwal and Sakshi Malik — with their names given but the photo-to-name matching deliberately scrambled. Identify each athlete correctly, mention the sport/game she plays, and then make a PPT about any one of them.

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Each of the six athletes plays a different sport (Sindhu and Nehwal both badminton), and each has a specific, named achievement in the textbook's own account that a PPT could be built around.

From the chapter's own text on Indian women medallists:

  • P.V. Sindhu — Badminton; won India's first-ever women's silver medal in badminton at the 2016 Rio Olympics, and multiple World Championship medals (bronze 2013/2014, silver 2017/2018, gold 2019).
  • Mary Kom — Boxing; a five-time World Champion who won an Olympic medal at the 2012 London Olympics.
  • Hima Das — Athletics (sprints); won 5 gold medals in 20 days in 2018 across international meets (200m and 400m events).
  • Saikhom Mirabai Chanu — Weightlifting; lifted a total of 201 kg to win the Gold Medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
  • Saina Nehwal — Badminton; won 24 international titles (including ten Superseries titles) and became the first Indian woman to reach the world No. 1 ranking, in 2015.
  • Sakshi Malik — Wrestling; won a medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics. …

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