Question

Which of the following sportsmen was nicknamed the ‘pocket dynamo’?
1. Sushil Kumar
2. Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav
3. Limba Ram
4. David Warner 

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav

The correct answer is ​Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav.

• Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav was an Indian athlete popularly known as ‘pocket dynamo’.

• He was born in Goleshwar village in Satara, Maharashtra.
• He won a bronze medal in 1952 Summer Olympics held at Helsinki.
• Thus, he was the first athlete from independent India to win an individual medal in the Olympics.

• He also played an active role in the Quit India Movement by providing shelter and a hiding place to the revolutionaries, circulating letters against the British.
• He resolved to unfurl India’s tricolour flag in Olympics on Independence Day August 15, 1947.