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KIYG 2025: Haryana tops wrestling tally ahead of Bihar, Maharashtra, Delhi
Patna, May 15: Haryana stamped their authority on the wrestling mat at the Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG) 2025 Bihar, finishing with a commanding tally of 21 medals – eight gold, five silver, and eight bronze – across boys and girls' categories. Maharashtra followed in second place with 17, with four gold, while Delhi's boys and Rajasthan's girls rounded out the top three in their respective divisions.
KIYG 2025: Telangana's Nishika Aggarwal breaks cultural stereotypes; bags four medals
New Delhi, May 15: When Nishika Aggarwal of Telangana took to the mats at the Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG) 2025, there was more than just athletic ambition driving her. Coming from a conservative Aggarwal family in Hyderabad, where girls traditionally haven't pursued competitive sports, Nishika not only chose gymnastics but also excelled at it.
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.
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.
KIYG 2025: Maharashtra steals the thunder with most athletics gold; Bihar's Khushi Yadav bags 2000m steeplechase
Patna, May 14: Saket Minj of Jharkhand, Shekh Zeeshan of Uttar Pradesh and the Haryana girls 4x400m relay squad scripted new meet records on the final day of athletics competitions in the Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG) 2025 at the Patliputra Sports Complex here on Wednesday.
KIYG 2025: Hosts Bihar pick up historic gold medals as Manipur dominate in Thang-Ta
Gaya (Bihar), May 14: Manipur's martial art Thang-Ta, one of the five indigenous sports contested at Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG) 2025, concluded on Wednesday at Gaya's Bihar Institute of Public Administration and Rural Development (BIPARD). Host Bihar made history by bagging their first gold medals, while Manipur had the biggest haul with three gold medals.
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.
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: Farmer's daughter, sweet shop owner's son bag five medals for Rajasthan in cycling
Patna, May 13: Rajasthan cyclists' renowned endurance and speed came to the fore yet again at the Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG) 2025 Bihar when they won five of the six medals on offer in the 30km boys' and 20km girls' Time Trials on the picturesque Marine Drive along River Ganga here.
KIYG 2025: Maharashtra's Sairaj Pardeshi breaks weightlifting record, several meet marks in athletics
Patna, May 12: Weightlifters continued to surge to new highs in the Khelo India Youth Games 2025 while athletes were not too far from rewriting old records as action continued in the country's premier multi-discipline competition for youth.
KIYG 2025: Jithin Arjunan leads pack of five boys in rewriting meet records
Patna, May 12: Jithin Arjunan of Tamil Nadu led a group of determined boys who broke five Games Records on the opening day of athletics competitions in the Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG) 2025 Bihar at the Patliputra Sports Complex here on Monday.
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.
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.
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.
Esports to make its mark at KIYG 2025 with BGMI, Street Fighter 6, Chess, eFootball
Patna, May 5: For the first time in the history of the Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG), esports will be stepping into the spotlight as a demonstration event. Currently taking place in Bihar from May 4 to 14, KIYG 2025 will host its esports competitions from May 6 to 7 at the Patliputra Sports Complex, featuring popular titles such as Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI), Street Fighter 6, Chess, and eFootball on both mobile and console.
Maharashtra archers top ranking round in three of four events as KIYG 2025 opens in Bihar
Bhagalpur, May 4: Last year's finalist Tejal Rajendra Salve (Maharashtra) stormed to the top of the charts in the girls' compound qualifying round in the Khelo India Youth Games Archery competition with some fine shooting at the Sandy's Compound Ground here on Sunday, scoring 697 points. She set the tone for Maharashtra archers to top ranking in three of four events.
PM Modi to virtually inaugurate Khelo India Youth Games in Bihar's Patna, CM Nitish to attend
Patna May 4: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will virtually inaugurate the seventh edition of the Khel India Youth Games 2025 in Bihar's Patna on Sunday. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will attend the inauguration ceremony.
Bihar is all set to become sports hub, to host 7th edition of Khelo India Youth Games
Bihar, May 1: Building on its momentum after hosting marquee events like the Women's Asian Hockey Championship 2024, World Cup Women's Kabaddi, and the World Cup Sepak Takraw, Bihar is now set to host the 7th edition of the "Khelo India Youth Games" (KIYG) starting May 4, 2025 on Thursday, according to a press statement.