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Answer: (c)

Martina Navratilova is a retired Czech American tennis player and coach, and a former World No. 1. Billie Jean King said about Navratilova in 2006, “She’s the greatest singles, doubles and mixed doubles player who’s ever lived.”

Navratilova won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, 31 major women’s doubles titles (an all-time record), and 10 major mixed doubles titles. She reached the Wimbledon singles final 12 times, including nine consecutive years from 1982 through 1990, and won the women’s singles title at Wimbledon a record nine times. She and King each won 20 Wimbledon titles, an all-time record.

Navratilova is one of just three women to have accomplished a career in Grand Slam in singles, women’s doubles, and mixed doubles (called the Grand Slam “boxed set”) a record she shares with Margaret Court and Doris Hart.

She holds the open era record for most singles titles (167) and doubles titles (177). She recorded the longest winning streak in the open era (74 consecutive matches) and three of the six longest winning streaks in the women’s open era.

Answer: (b)

Mohammed Shahidwas an Indian field hockey player who passed away on 20 July 2016. He was considered one of India’s best to have played the game and was known for his dribbling skills. He was a member of the Indian team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow.;

Answer: (b)

Jesse Owens, the son of a sharecropper and grandson of a slave, achieved what no Olympian before him had accomplished. His stunning achievement of four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin has made him the best-remembered athlete in Olympic history.

Jesse gave the world a preview of things to come in Berlin, while at the Big Ten Championships in Ann Arbor on May 25, 1935, he set three world records and tied a fourth, all in a span of about 45 minutes.

He became the first American in Olympic Track and Field history to win four gold medals in a single Olympiad by winning four gold medals:

• 100-meter dash in 10.3 seconds (tying the world record),
• long jump with a jump of 26' 5 $1/4$" (Olympic record),
• 200-meter dash in 20.7 seconds (Olympic record), and
• 400-meter relay (first leg) in 39.8 seconds (Olympic and world record).

Answer: (d)

Answer: (d)

Dipa Karmakar became the first Indian to win a medal in artistic gymnastics at a major sporting event.

Answer: (a)

Cricketer Bhuvneshwar Kumar won LG People’s Choice Award 2014. He is the third Indian player after Sachin and Dhoni to win the coveted prize.