Khelo India Youth Games News - Latest Updates & Headlines
PM Modi congratulates podium finishers of Khelo India Youth Games in Bihar
New Delhi, May 25: Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the the podium finishers of the 7th Khelo India Youth Games 2025 - Maharashtra, Haryana, and Bihar and also thanked the athletes for participating in the event in large numbers.
Gujarat shines at 7th Khelo India Youth Games 2025; organised in Bihar
Gandhinagar, May 19: Champions are never made overnight; rather, they are shaped through years of dedication, discipline, and strong support. Under the visionary leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Government of India has been consistently working to discover and nurture sporting talent from every corner of India.
Roundglass Tennis Academy athletes win five medals at Khelo India Youth Games
Mohali, May 16: Roundglass Tennis Academy (RGTA) athletes showcased total dominance, winning five of the six available medals in Boys Tennis at the Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG) being held at Patna, Bihar. Shanker Heisnam, representing Manipur got the better of Arjun Rathi, representing Haryana to win the gold in the singles category.
KIYG 2025: Dr. Mandaviya congratulates Maharashtra for hat-trick of titles, Bihar for hosting Games
Patna, May 15: Having won the team championship in Madhya Pradesh (2023) and Tamil Nadu (2024), Maharashtra completed a hat-trick of titles when they finished on top of the Khelo India Youth Games 2025 medal tally. The seventh edition of KIYG, which began on May 4, ended on Thursday at Patna’s Patliputra Sports Complex.
Inspired by Dangal, backed by dad's faith, Rutuja Gurav wins wrestling gold on Khelo India Youth Games debut
Patna May 15: Wrestler Rutuja Santosh Gurav was just eight when her father, a construction labourer by profession and a sports enthusiast, took her to a wrestling academy, situated nearly two kilometres from their village Panchgaon, in Kolhapur district of Maharashtra.
KIYG 2025: Haryana fencing teams claim all three gold on final day of competition
Rajgir, May 15: Haryana signed off the fencing competition in the Khelo India Youth Games 2025 Bihar by winning all three gold medals on the final day in the Indoor Stadium at the Rajgir Sports Complex here on Thursday. Haryana boys clinched gold in the saber team competition while the girls topped in epee and foil events.
KIYG 2025: Karnataka girls, Uttar Pradesh boys end basketball competition in a blaze of glory
Patna, May 15: Karnataka girls and Uttar Pradesh boys won well-deserved gold medals but in contrasting styles in the basketball competition in the Khelo India Youth Games 2025 Bihar at the Patliputra Sports Complex Indoor Stadium here on Thursday.
TIDC scouts look for qualities in athlete beyond field of play, says top cyclist and coach Maxwell Trevor
Patna, May 15: Talent scouts look out for small things like an athlete's warm-up routine and demeanour besides an athlete's performance on the field of play, the Sports Authority of India's Talent Identification and Development Committee (TIDC) member for Cycling, Maxwell Trevor, has revealed.
KIYG 2025: Maharashtra poised to take team championship title
Patna, May 14: Maharashtra are all set to win the team championship title with a day left for the Khelo India Youth Games 2025 to end. Thanks to their athletes who clinched 10 golds from the track and field competition, Maharashtra have a huge lead over Haryana and Rajasthan, at No. 2 and No. 3 on the medal tally.
Gymnasts Ashish Kumar feels Khelo India Youth Games 2025 provides athletes with fantastic opportunities
New Delhi May 14: By earning a silver and a bronze medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, gymnast Ashish Kumar made history and encouraged male gymnasts to ignite their intrinsic drive to succeed on the world stage, as per Olympic.com
KIYG 2025: Maharashtra set to bag team title as athletes blaze track; Bihar wins more gold (Roundup)
Patna, May 14: With their athletes bagging 10 gold medals, Maharashtra maintained their position at the top of the tally and are all set to win the team championship title with a day left for the Khelo India Youth Games 2025 to end. Thanks to their athletes' dominance in the track and field competition, Maharashtra has a huge lead over Haryana and Rajasthan, at No. 2 and No. 3 on the medal tally on Wednesday.
KIYG 2025: Harschit, Nishika emerge as top performers in Artistic Gymnastics
New Delhi, May 14: Harschit D. of Uttar Pradesh and Nishika Aggarwal of Telangana remained the top stars of the artistic gymnastics competitions in the Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG) 2025 at the IG Stadium Sports complex, here on Wednesday.
KIYG 2025: Bihar, J&K bag first weightlifting medals; 13 national records set in 5-day event
Rajgir (Bihar), May 14: Hosts Bihar and Jammu & Kashmir clinched their first weightlifting medals at the Khelo India Youth Games 2025 on Wednesday.
Broken legs and bruised pride: KIYG 2025 revives Barauni's deep-rooted football culture
Begusarai, May 14: Football ke rang, Begusarai ke sangh. It's more than just a tagline pasted on the pillars of an under-construction flyover leading into this town.
Haryana's gold in boys' hockey highlights impact of SAI's talent spotting and nurturing process
Rajgir, May 14: Haryana boys regained their position in field hockey at the Khelo India Youth Games by breaking the strong resistance posed by Uttar Pradesh to clinch gold in front of a vociferous crowd at the Rajgir Sports Complex here late on Tuesday. Haryana won 1-0, courtesy Nishant's 51st minute field goal in the fourth quarter.
KIYG 2025 Day 10: UP's Kadir Khan breaks 400m record; Tushar Chaudhary sets snatch record in weightlifting
Patna, May 13: Uttar Pradesh's Kadir Khan broke the 400m meet record twice inside 24 hours as Khelo India Youth Games 2025 saw another spate of good performances at the Patliputra Sports Complex here on Tuesday. Aditya Pisal became the fastest boy in the Games with a record performance as Maharashtra continued to lead the medal tally.
KIYG 2025: Nishika Aggrawal retains artistic gymnastics gold as Maharashtra bag top honours
New Delhi, May 13: Telangana’s Nishika Aggrawal continued her stunning form at the Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG) defending her gold in the women’s artistic gymnastics all-around event at the Indira Gandhi Stadium, New Delhi on Tuesday.
KIYG 2025 Day 10: UP's Kadir Khan breaks 400m record; Tushar Chaudhary sets snatch record in weightlifting
Patna, May 13: Uttar Pradesh's Kadir Khan broke the 400m meet record twice inside 24 hours as Khelo India Youth Games 2025 saw another spate of good performances at the Patliputra Sports Complex here on Tuesday.
Shourya Ambure's winning return to Patna comes with greater maturity and Asian medal
Patna, May 13: Shourya Ambure is just 15 but already knows a thing or two about the right amount of effort to exert in competition. In a reflection of her maturity in accepting coach Ajit Kulkarni’s recommendation of not stretching herself in the quest of a Khelo India Youth Games record, she did enough to win 100m Hurdles gold on Monday.
KIYG 2025: Standing upside-down from childhood brings pre-teen Aavya Anan into spotlight
New Delhi, May 13: Aavya Anan of Bihar, the youngest gymnast at the Khelo India Youth Games 2025, Bihar, decided to turn things, quite literally, upside down. Aavya's journey in gymnastics began with this peculiar habit: the little girl loved standing on her head, legs in the air, flipping and arching with joy in her living room.
J-K team, staying strong, hoped for podium finishes in KIYG Kalarippayattu competition
Gaya, May 12: Jammu and Kashmir's Kalarippayattu team has shown great character in the Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG) 2025, Bihar. It has kept its composure despite disturbing news from back home and is now ready to make a mark in the Kalarippayattu competition that kicked off at the IIM Campus on Sunday.
KIYG 2025: Maharashtra's Pardeshi breaks three youth national weightlifting records on way to 81kg gold
Rajgir (Bihar), May 12: Maharashtra weightlifter Sairaj Rajesh Pardeshi shattered three youth national records to clinch gold for Maharashtra in the ongoing Khelo India Youth Games at the Rajgir Sports Complex here on Monday
Abhinav Bindra's legacy inspires Colonel's daughter Agrima Kanwar to attain success
New Delhi, May 12: Agrima Kanwar was 18 months old when Abhinav Bindra won gold in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. But as she became aware of his heroics, she followed him as her guiding light.
KIYG 2025: Aisangfa Gogoi creates weightlifting record; Maharashtra sweep yogasana medals on Day 8
Patna, May 11: Assam’s Aisangfa Gogoi scripted a new National Youth Record for total lifts on her way to gold in the girls 55kg class weightlifting competition in the Khelo India Youth Games 2025 Bihar at the Rajgir Sports Complex on Sunday. She raised the National Youth Record to 183kg, breaking the mark set by Mina Santa in Fiji last year.
KIYG 2025, day 8: Aisangfa Gogoi creates weightlifting record; Maharashtra sweep yogasana medals
Patna, May 11: Assam's Aisangfa Gogoi scripted a new National Youth Record for total lifts on her way to gold in the girls 55kg class weightlifting competition in the Khelo India Youth Games 2025 Bihar at the Rajgir Sports Complex on Sunday. She raised the National Youth Record to 183kg, breaking the mark set by Mina Santa in Fiji last year.
Northeast roars loud in Bihar: Nagaland, Assam clinch KIYG 2025 Sepak Takraw gold
Patna, May 11: The cheers were deafening, the stakes high and yet, in the eye of the storm, three young girls from Nagaland found their calm.
With six world records to her name, Himachal's pride Nidhi Dogra lauds Asmita League for yoga's upliftment
Gaya, May 11: Himachal Pradesh's Nidhi Dogra is ready to showcase her talent in Yogasana at Khelo India Youth Games 2025 (KIYG). She is the only player to represent HP in Yogasana at the KIYG. Nidhi has been playing in the Khelo Asmita League for the last two years and has created six world records, and now she wants to have a big haul in KIYG 2025.
With the target of playing in Pro Kabaddi, dominant Haryana were on roll at KIYG 2025
Rajgir, May 11: Haryana Kabaddi captain Jai Hind Lather, who secured the gold medal in kabaddi during the ongoing Khelo India Youth Games 2025, said that his motivation to bring laurels for the nation is because of fame earned by state's famous Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) stars like Pardeep Narwal, Deepak Niwas Hooda, Mohit Chillar and Monu Goyat, among others.
KIYG 2025: NCOE Lucknow's Aisengfa Gogoi breaks youth national record, clinches 55kg weightlifting gold
Rajgir, May 11: Assam's Aisengfa Gogoi clinched the 55kg weightlifting gold with an overall lift of 183kg in the ongoing Khelo India Youth Games at the Rajgir Sports Complex here on Sunday. The 17-year-old, who trains at Sports Authority of India's (SAI) National Centre of Excellence (NCOE) in Lucknow since 2023 under coach Rahul Sharma, shattered the youth national record for overall lift of 182kg created by Koyel Bar of West Bengal at the 2024 Asian Championships in Doha, Qatar, last December.
KIYG 2025: Daughter of an autorickshaw driver, Asmita Dhone eyes junior world weightlifting medal
Rajgir, May 11: Asmita Dattatray Dhone of Maharashtra broke two youth national weightlifting records on her way to clinching gold medal in the 49kg class in the ongoing Khelo India Youth Games here at the Rajgir Sports Complex. Dhone shattered her own youth national record in both clean and jerk and overall total set at the Commonwealth Championships in Doha, Qatar, five months back. She had won a silver medal at the 2022 Khelo India Youth Games in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.
Aditi Satish Hegde, a swimming star shines in KIYG 2025
Gaya, May 10: Aditi Satish Hegde came to the Khelo India Youth Games 2025 Bihar determined to showcase improvement from the last year when she won five medals, including two gold. Her hard work paid off and the Maharashtra ace set the BIPARD Swimming Pool in Gaya on fire with a haul of seven medals, including five gold.
KIYG: Golden Girls of Bihar; Rugby glory sparked by dreams, grit
Patna, May 10: The Patliputra Sports Complex ground was painted in celebration on Friday as Bihar's girls' rugby team scripted history, clinching a dominant 22-0 win over Odisha to bag the gold medal in the sport's debut at the Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG) 2025.
Sabina pedals her way to three medals in Khelo India Youth Games 2025
New Delhi, May 10: Sabina Kumari started out on a modest track in Jharkhand's Chatra district, far from the glitz of an indoor velodrome. The 18-year-old, daughter of a daily-wage worker and a housewife, has bagged three medals in cycling in her debut participation at the Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG) in Patna, Bihar.
KIYG 2025: Harsabardhan Sahu, Asmita Dhone set national youth records on weightlifting Day 1
Patna, May 10: Barely 10 days after winning medals for India in the World Youth Weightlifting Championships in Lima, Peru, Harsabardhan Sahu and Jyoshna Sabar, showcased world-class skills to an appreciative audience at the Rajgir Sports Complex in the Khelo India Youth Games 2025 Bihar, as they claimed a gold each for Odisha on Saturday.
Jammu and Kashmir volleyball team lifts spirits with hard-fought KIYG gold
Patna, May 10: At a time when the Kashmir valley has found itself in the news for heartbreaking reasons, four young boys from the region offered a different storyline, with an amalgam of courage, resilience, focus and gold.
Khelo India Youth Games 2025: Odisha, Maharashtra shine in Kho Kho in Bihar
Gaya, May 10: The Kho Kho Championship during the Khelo India Youth Games 2025 in the Bihar Institute of Public Administration and Rural Development (BIPARD) Ground at Bodhgaya witnessed electrifying action as Maharashtra and Odisha emerged as the top contenders in both the boys' and girls' categories.
KIYG 2025: Medal hat-tricks for Rajasthan's Harshita Jakhar and Bihar's Suhani Kumari in Cycling
New Delhi, May 7: Harshita Jakhar achieved a golden hat-trick at the Khelo India Youth Games 2025 cycling events, being held at the Velodrome, Indira Gandhi Stadium, here. In her debut participation itself, the 18-year-old from Rajasthan has made the KIYG a memorable one for herself.
KIYG 2025: Hours after grand father's death, Ayush displays grit to inspire Bihar to historic Sepak Takraw silver
Patna, May 7: It was a day of mixed emotions for Ayush Kumar, who showcased remarkable grit and determination as part of the Bihar team that underlined its rising stature in Sepak Takraw by clinching the men’s team silver after going down 1-2 to powerhouse Manipur in a tantalising final of the Khelo India Youth Games 2025.
KIYG 2025: MP teams take motivation from PM Modi's interest and win gold in Mallakhamb
Gaya, May 7: Madhya Pradesh men and women’s Mallakhamb teams swept to the top of the podium with command performances in the IIM Campus here, claiming the pride of placings in the first of the medals decided in indigenous sport in the Khelo India Youth Games 2025 Bihar.
Kho Kho adds to indigenous sporting flavour at Khelo India Youth Games 2025
New Delhi, May 6: The indigenous sport of Kho Kho is witnessing growing enthusiasm and fandom, with hundreds of school students flocking to the BIPARD ground in Bodhgaya to watch the action-packed matches that kicked off on Monday as part of the Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG) 2025. The Games, inaugurated by Honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi, are being held from May 4 to May 15 across five cities in Bihar.