In which year did Saina Nehwal win the Olympic bronze medal in the individual women's Badminton competition?

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SSC CHSL Tier-I Exam 2022 Official Paper (Held On: 15 March, 2023 Shift 1)

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Correct Answer 2012

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Saina Nehwal won the Olympic bronze medal in the individual women's badminton competition in the year 2012.
She achieved this milestone at the 2012 Summer Olympics held in London, United Kingdom.
Saina Nehwal became the first Indian badminton player to win an Olympic medal in the women's singles category.
Saina Nehwal is a female Indian singles badminton player.
A former world no. 1, she has won over 24 international titles, including eleven titles in the Superseries.
While she reached the 2nd world ranking in 2009, it was only in 2015 that she was able to cross the No. 1 world ranking.
Nehwal is the first Indian to win two Commonwealth Games singles gold medals (2010 and 2018).
In 2016, Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian award, was awarded to her by the Government of India.

Additional Information:

Game	Players
Badminton	Saina Nehwal PV Sindhu Parupalli Kashyap Kidambi Srikanth B Sai Praneeth Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponappa
Chess	Viswanathan Anand Harikrishna Pentala Nihal Sarin S.L. Narayanan
Table Tennis	Sharath Kamal Manika Batra Sathiyan Gnanasekaran Soumyajit Ghosh.
Hockey	Dhyan Chand Dhanraj Pillay PR Sreejesh