India Wins 48 Medals at Asian Youth Games 2025 in Bahrain

Indian athletes won a total of 48 medals, including 13 gold, 18 silver, and 17 bronze, securing sixth place in the medal tally at the Asian Youth Games 2025 held in Manama, Bahrain.

• Indian athletes concluded the continental competition with a historic performance at the Asian Youth Games 2025 held in Manama, Bahrain, winning a total of 48 medals, including 13 gold, 18 silver, and 17 bronze.
• India secured sixth place in the medal tally, marking its best-ever performance in the history of the championship.
• This continental event, returning after a 12-year gap, was the third edition of the Asian Youth Games.
• In the 2013 edition, Indian athletes competed under the Olympic flag and won 14 medals – three gold, four silver, and seven bronze. In the 2009 Asian Youth Games held in Singapore, India won 11 medals, including five gold, three silver, and three bronze.
• The Asian Youth Games 2025 were held in Manama, Bahrain, from 22 to 31 October 2025.
• The first edition of the Games was held in Singapore in 2009, and the second in China in 2013. The 2029 and 2031 Games will be held in Uzbekistan and Cambodia respectively.

First medals

• In Manama 2025, 15-year-old Khushi won India’s first medal, a bronze, in the girls’ 70 kg Kurash event. Ranjana Yadav opened India’s account in athletics by winning a silver medal in the girls’ 5000m race walk event.
• The Indian girls’ kabaddi team won the competition’s first gold medal by defeating the Islamic Republic of Iran in the final.
• Preetesmita Bhoi secured the top position in the girls’ 44 kg clean and jerk weightlifting event with a world youth record, giving India its first individual gold medal of the competition.
• On the final day of the Asian Youth Games, Indian athletes won 15 medals, including seven gold. Boxers won four gold medals, while beach wrestlers stood on the podium three times.
• A total of 222 Indians – 119 women and 103 men – competed for medals at the Asian Youth Games 2025. The largest Indian contingent was in athletics with 31 athletes, followed by kabaddi (28), handball (16), and boxing (14). Ten Indian athletes each participated in taekwondo, wrestling, and weightlifting.

Asian Youth Games 2025: India’s medal winners

• Gold medalists – Anjali (beach wrestling), Sani Fulmali (beach wrestling), Arjun Ruhil (beach wrestling), Khushi Chand (boxing), Ahana Sharma (boxing), Chandrika Pujari (boxing), Anshika (boxing), girls’ kabaddi team, boys’ kabaddi team, Preetesmita Bhoi (weightlifting), Moni (wrestling), Yashita (wrestling), Jaiveer Singh (wrestling), Shaurya Ambure (athletics).
• Silver medalists – Edwina Jason (athletics), Ranjana Yadav (athletics), Oshin (athletics), girls’ medley relay, Sujay Nagnath Tanpure (beach wrestling), Ravinder (beach wrestling), Harnoor Kaur (boxing), Lunchenba Singh Moibungkhongbam (boxing), Monika Khuyenthem (judo), Kanishka Bidhuri (Kurash), Shreya Milind Satam (mixed martial arts), Tirthank Pegu (swimming), Preetesmita Bhoi (weightlifting), Maharajan Arumugapandian (weightlifting), Maharajan Arumugapandian (weightlifting), Ashwini Vishnoi (wrestling), Gaurav Poonia (wrestling), Bhoomika Nehate (athletics), Jasmin Kaur (athletics).
• Bronze medalists – Palash Mandal (athletics), Jubin Gohain (athletics), Anant Deshmukh (boxing), Harshit (judo), Khushi (Kurash), Arvind (Kurash), Veer Bhadu (mixed martial arts), Alphonsa Zinia Vriang-Mayya, Cinderella Das-Sarthak Arya (table tennis), Debashish Das (taekwondo), Shivanshu Patel/Yashvini Singh (taekwondo), mixed team taekwondo, Parv Chaudhary (weightlifting), Rachna (wrestling), Komal Verma (wrestling).