Which of the following sportsperson–sport pairs is incorrect?
2015
Which of the following sportsperson–sport pairs is incorrect?
Answer: D. Geeta Zutshi — Shooting — Concept — a match-the-pair item is settled by evidence gathered about each name on its own, never by which name looks most familiar. The discipline an athlete…
- A.
Nirmal Gulia — Gymnastics
- B.
Gurpreet Kaur — Javelin throw
- C.
Sunita Singh — Race
- D.
Geeta Zutshi — Shooting
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Correct answer: D
Concept — a match-the-pair item is settled by evidence gathered about each name on its own, never by which name looks most familiar. The discipline an athlete is documented for is a fact independent of whatever sport happens to be printed beside that name, so the two must be established separately and only then compared. In a well-formed item of this kind exactly one pair will turn out to join two halves that belong to different disciplines.
The test, applied in order:
For each name, fix that athlete's documented primary discipline from an independent record — a federation result, a state sports-department citation or a national award listing.
Compare that documented discipline with the sport printed beside the name in the pair.
The pair whose two halves belong to different disciplines is the mismatch the question asks for; the remaining pairs keep each athlete inside their own discipline.
Application — running that test across the four names gives:
Sportsperson | Documented discipline | Sport in the pair |
|---|---|---|
Nirmal Gulia | Gymnastics — competed as a gymnast, including at the 1985 Indo-Romanian championship | Gymnastics |
Gurpreet Kaur | Athletics, javelin throw — Sirsa athlete, javelin at the 2006 South Asian Games | Javelin throw |
Sunita Singh | Athletics, track running — recorded over 1500 m | Race |
Geeta Zutshi | Athletics, middle-distance running — 800 m and 1500 m | Shooting |
Cross-check — Geeta Zutshi's record sits entirely on the running track. She won the women's 800 m gold at the 1978 Asian Games in Bangkok, added 1500 m silver in 1978 and both 800 m and 1500 m silver in 1982, and set national and Asian records over both distances; she was honoured with the Arjuna Award and later the Padma Shri, and went on to coach India's junior 800 m and 1500 m athletes. No part of that record places her in a rifle, pistol or shotgun event, so the sport printed beside her name belongs to a different discipline altogether. In Haryana general-knowledge material her name is frequently romanised as "Geeta Jutsi".
Result — the pair that does not hold is Geeta Zutshi — Shooting. She is a middle-distance runner, so the discipline that correctly belongs beside her name is athletics, specifically track running; the other three names each stay within the discipline they are documented for.