The name of the Badminton player from India who became the first Indian to win…
2015
The name of the Badminton player from India who became the first Indian to win a silver medal at the World Badminton Championship held at Jakarta, is
- A.
P. V. Sindhu
- B.
Jwala Gutta
- C.
P. Kashyap
- D.
Saina Nehwal
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Correct answer: D
Concept: The BWF World Badminton Championships is the sport's marquee individual event, held in most years. A player's tournament finish is graded by the round reached — champion (gold), runner-up (silver), semi-finalist (bronze) — and 'first player from a country to reach a given medal colour' is tracked as a national milestone in badminton records.
Application: The 2015 edition of the World Championships was held in Jakarta, Indonesia. In the women's singles draw, Saina Nehwal advanced to the final and lost to Carolina Marin of Spain, finishing runner-up. India's earlier World Championships singles medals had all been bronze: Prakash Padukone's in 1983 (men's singles — India's first-ever medal at the tournament) and P. V. Sindhu's in 2013 (Guangzhou) and 2014 (Copenhagen), women's singles; Nehwal herself had reached only the quarter-finals in 2011. So while Padukone's 1983 result had already made him the first Indian to medal at the tournament, Nehwal's 2015 runner-up finish made her specifically the first Indian, of either gender, to win a silver medal at the World Badminton Championships.
Cross-check: the Badminton Association of India's own record credits this milestone — “India's First Silver At BWF World Badminton Championship” — to Saina Nehwal's Jakarta 2015 result, and the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports' 2015-16 Annual Report independently corroborates the same event, venue, and medal.
Prakash Padukone's 1983 bronze in men's singles was India's first World Championships medal overall, but bronze is a lower medal colour than the silver this record asks about, so it does not preempt Nehwal's milestone.
P. V. Sindhu's own World Championships medal run started earlier too (bronze in 2013 and 2014), but her first runner-up finish came later, at the 2017 Glasgow edition — after, not before, Nehwal's 2015 silver.
Jwala Gutta's World Championships medal was in the women's doubles draw (bronze at the 2011 edition with Ashwini Ponnappa), not the singles draw this record concerns.
P. Kashyap's World Championships singles results across multiple editions stopped at the quarter-final stage, without reaching the medal rounds.
Hence, the correct answer is Saina Nehwal.