Now a second-year Master of Commerce student at Jain University, Keerthana delivered the University’s first gold medal outside the swimming pool, stamping her arrival as one of the most exciting young sprinters on the circuit.
Interestingly, deaf shooters fuelled India’s strong display at the Deaflympics, clinching a total of 16 medals, including 7 gold, 6 silver and 3 bronze medals.
Trap shooters Neeru Dhanda and Aditya Bharadwaj helped Guru Nanak Dev University clean sweep all four shotgun medals in the Khelo India University Games Rajasthan 2025 at the Jagatpur Shooting Range, while their cyclists won both the individual road races to take their gold medal tally into double figures.
Like the Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG) in Bihar earlier this year, the University Games too will be spread across seven cities in Rajasthan– Jaipur, Ajmer, Udaipur, Jodhpur, Bikaner, Kota and Bharatpur.
The middle-distance runner pursuing Bachelor of Arts degree, set a new Games record – a remarkable 2:06.27s that eclipsed the previous record held by international Harmilan Kaur Bains, who clocked a time of 2:06.40s in the first edition of KIUG in Odisha.
Chandigarh University made their KIUG debut for the first time in four years thanks to the leadership of Sakshi and went on to win the gold medal in their very first appearance.
Shooting competitions at the Khelo India University Games Uttar Pradesh are being held at the Dr Karni Singh Shooting Ranges here and Hriday will be representing Guwahati’s Cotton University at the Games.
Kiran Rijiju said about 15,000 sportspersons are being trained in Training Centres under Khelo India.
In the mega national event, 830 players from across India will participate in 30 events which include snow skiing, snow boarding, cross-country, snow show, snow cycling and other snow-based events
As many as 3400 athletes from 159 universities across the country will vie for top honours across 17 disciplines, including rugby which is among the six-team events.
