Khelo India Para Games 2025 Day 4 Wrap: Jaspreet Kaur, Manish break powerlifting national records

Tamil Nadu and Haryana lead the medal tally at the Khelo India Para Games 2025 with 24 gold medals each.

The fourth day of the second edition of the Khelo India Para Games saw Punjab’s powerlifter Jaspreet Kaur and Haryana’s Manish grabbing the headlines. Jaspreet became the first athlete in KIPG 2025 to break a national record. In 45 kg category, the 31-year-old lifted 101 kg to claim the gold medal at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium complex on Sunday. Manish, too, lifted 166 kg, to set a new national record in 54 kg category.

At the end of Sunday’s events, 132 gold medals had been decided with Tamil Nadu and Haryana jointly leading the charts with 24 golds each. Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh followed with 17 and 16 gold medals, respectively.

Jaspreet broke her own national record of 100kg to set a new benchmark at the Khelo India Games 2025. In December 2023, she had also won the gold medal in the same event, with the heaviest lift of 85kg. “But I wanted to do perform even better this time around. Shattering a national record has also helped me climb up the national rankings,” she told SAI Media.

Lifting 16kg more in less than a two years was no easy feat. Jaspreet went through intense training, researched various new techniques, and made changes to her diet to retain fitness. But the biggest challenge to surpass was dealing with the anxiety issues. 

“I made my debut in 2022 where at the nationals. So, I always felt I was quite new to the sport. It took me a while to realise that to develop strength and muscle, it would take time. It does not happen overnight. It took me three years to deliver such performances,” Jaspreet, who had polio since the age of 3,” further said.

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After three days of continuous action, the para-athletics competition also came to an end on Sunday with Tamil Nadu’s Ramesh Shanmugam establishing himself as the next big rising star. By winning the men’s 1500 run (T53/T54 category), Shanmugam claimed his third gold medal of the 2025 Khelo India Para Games.

Bhagyashri Madh Jadhav also won her second gold of the tournament in women shot put in F33/F34 category, after earlier having bagged a gold in women’s javelin throw F33/F34 category yesterday.

At the other end of JLN Stadium, the para-archery events came to a conclusion with star para-archer Sheetal Devi going past rival Payal Nag from Odisha to win the gold medal in compound women open category in a closely contested final.

The 44-year-old para-archer Adil Mohammed Nazir Ansari from Maharashtra, who had won the gold medal in the Khelo India Para Games in December 2023, once again won the gold medal in W1 round men event, defying his age.

At Karni Singh Shooting Range, Sumedha Pathak from Uttar Pradesh caused a major upset in the women’s 10m air pistol SH1 category as she defeated the 2024 Paralympics medallist and tournament favourite Rubina Francis to claim the gold medal. 

Meanwhile, Maharashtra’s Sagar Balasaheb Katale also claimed the top prize MIXED 10m air rifle Prone SH2 categories defeating Tokyo 2020 Paralympian Swaroop Mahavir Unhalkar, who settled for silver.

KIPG 2025 Day 4 Results

Para Shooting

R3 – MIXED 10m Air Rifle Prone SH1: Gold: Sagar Balasaheb Katale (Maharashtra); Silver: Mona Agarwal (Rajasthan); Bronze: Deepak Saini (Haryana)

P2 – WOMEN’S 10m Air Pistol SH1: Gold: Sumedha Pathak (Uttar Pradesh); Silver: Rubina Francis (Madhya Pradesh); Bronze: Anita Kumari (Jammu & Kashmir)

R3 – MIXED 10m Air Rifle Prone SH2: Gold: Satya Janar (Telangana); Silver: Monika (Haryana); Bronze: Vijay Singh (Rajasthan)

Para Archery

Recurve Men’s Open: Gold – Vijay Sundi (Jharkhand); Silver – Vikas Bhakar (Haryana); Bronze – Dhanna Ram Godara (Rajasthan)

Recurve Women’s Open: Gold – Pooja (Haryana); Silver – Rajshri Dhanraj Rathod (Maharashtra); Bronze – Sukriti Singh (Jharkhand)

Compound Men’s Open: Gold – Shyam Sunder Swami (Rajasthan); Silver – Toman Kumar (Chhattisgarh); Bronze – Rakesh Kumar (Jammu & Kashmir)

Compound Women’s Open: Gold – Sheetal Devi (Jammu & Kashmir); Silver – Payal Nag (Odisha); Bronze – Jyoti (Uttar Pradesh)

W1 Round Men: Gold – Adil Mohd Nazir Ansari (Maharashtra); Silver – Naveen Dalal (Haryana); Bronze – Nuruddin (Delhi)

W2 Round Women: Gold – Swati Chaudhary (Uttar Pradesh); Silver – Shriya Joshi (Delhi); Bronze – Anjum Tanwar (Haryana)

Para Powerlifting

ELITE- 41 KG: Gold – Nayna Rabari (Gujrat); Silver – Shukla Bidkar (Maharatra); Bronze – Khusbhu (Haryana)

ELITE- 45 KG: Gold – JASPREET KAUR (Punjab); Silver – SONAM PATIL (Maharashtra); Bronze – KAVIPRIYA RAJA (Tamil Nadu)

ELITE- 49 KG: Gold – Parmjeet Kaur (Punjab); Silver – Shiv Prakash Yadav (Uttar Pradesh); Bronze – Mayabhai Bhammar (Gujarat)

Para Athletics

Men’s Javelin F12/F13: Gold – Ishwar Rampal Tak (Maharashtra); Silver – Manjeet (Haryana); Bronze – Akshay Kumar Meena (Rajasthan)

Men’s Javelin F33/F34: Gold – Arun Goel (Delhi); Silver – Bharat Rawat (Madhya Pradesh); Bronze – Dixitkumar Chaudhary (Gujarat)

Men’s Long Jump T20: Gold – Jeevanantham Thandapan (Tamil Nadu); Silver – Shibin E S (Kerala); Bronze – Ajil Xavier (Kerala)

Men’s Long Jump T37/T38: Gold – Anandharaj Murugan (Tamil Nadu); Silver – Ramsungji Thakor (Gujarat); Bronze – Samir Biswas (West Bengal)

Women’s Shot Put F12/F20: Gold – Khushboo Gill (Rajasthan); Silver – Muthu Meena Vellasamy (Tamil Nadu); Bronze – Ananya Bansal (Punjab)

Women’s Shot Put F11: Gold – Nidhi Mishra (Delhi); Silver – Tamanna Sharma (Haryana); Bronze – PALLAVI NEELAM (Andhra Pradesh)

Women’s Shot Put F32: Gold – Muskan (Haryana); Silver – Durga Gahlot (Rajasthan); Bronze – Banti Kanwar (Rajasthan)

Men’s Javelin Throw F40/F41: Gold – Lakshya Choudhary (Uttar Pradesh); Silver – Ravi Rongali (Andhra Pradesh); Bronze – Ritender (Delhi)

Women’s Discus Throw F57: Gold – Suman Bala (Haryana); Silver – Dropati (Rajasthan); Bronze – Sadika Mir (Gujarat)

Men’s 200m Run T35: Gold – Vipin (Uttar Pradesh); Silver – Vinay (Haryana); Bronze – Jatin Singh (Delhi)

Men’s 200m Run T37: Gold – Rakesh Bhatt (Gujarat); Silver – Dhawan (Delhi); Bronze – Swastik Sahoo (Odisha)

Men’s 1500m Run T53/T54: Gold – Ramesh Shanmugam (Tamil Nadu); Silver – Anil Kumar (Haryana); Bronze – Ankur Sagar (Delhi)

Men’s Javelin Throw F46: Gold – Rinku (Haryana); Silver – Mahendra Kumar Sharma (Rajasthan); Bronze- Ranjit Chanda (Odisha)

Men’s Javelin Throw F54: Gold – (Uttar Pradesh); Silver – Abhishek Chamoli (Delhi); Bronze- Imran Rasool (Tamil Nadu)

Women’s 200m F35/F36/F37: Gold -Priyanka Sharma (Delhi); Silver – Babanpreet Kaur (Chandigarh); Bronze – Harshita Tater (Karnataka)

Women’s 200m RUN T47: Gold – Nishu (Punjab); Silver – Kajal Kumari (Jharkhand); Bronze – Amulya Eshwari (Tamil Nadu)

Women’s 1500m T11/T20: Gold – Pooja (Haryana); Silver – Shalini Choudhary (Rajasthan); Bronze – Athira TK (Kerala)

Women’s Discus Throw F56: Gold – Poonam Sharma (Haryana); Silver – Mina Vilas Pingane (Maharashtra); Bronze – Fatima Khatoon (Uttar Pradesh)

Women’s Shot Put F33/F3: Gold – Bhagyashri Madh Jadhav (Maharashtra); Silver – Medha Jayanth (Karnataka); Bronze – Pooja Dhanka (Rajasthan)

Women’s Shot Put F35/F36/F37: Gold – Lakshmi (Haryana); Silver – Priyanka Sharma (Delhi); Bronze – Priyanka (Rajasthan)

Women’s Shot Put F40: Gold – Akutai Sitaram Ulbhagat (Maharashtra); Silver – Choti Mehra (Chattisgarh); Bronze – Ruhi Satish Shingade (Maharashtra)

Men’s 1500m Run T46: Gold – Vikram Kumar Meena (Rajasthan); Silver – Parmod (Haryana); Bronze – Rakesh Bhaira (Rajasthan)

Men’s 200m Run T64: Gold – Naresh (Rajasthan); Silver – Rajvir Singh (Himachal Pradesh); Bronze – Sahil Kumar (Himachal Pradesh)

Men’s 200m Run T44: Gold – Sandeep (Haryana); Silver – Dharmender Kumar (Uttar Pradesh); Bronze – Shree Ram Singh (Rajasthan)

Women’s 1500m Run T12/T13: Gold – Bharti Choudhary (Rajasthan); Silver – Shabbu Khatoon (Haryana); Bronze – Sonu (Rajasthan)

Men’s Long Jump T11: Gold – Manoj Kumar (Rajasthan); Silver – Gurjar Swaraj (Andhra Pradesh); Bronze – Ambati Kanhu Soren (Odisha)

Women’s Shot Put F41: Gold – Enbatamizhi S (Tamil Nadu); Silver – Usha (Haryana); Bronze – Priti (Haryana)

Men’s Javelin Throw F56/F57: Gold – Parveen Kumar (Haryana); Silver – Hem Chnadra Tulsi Prasad (Uttarakhand); Bronze – Arulraj Balasubramanian (Tamil Nadu)

Men’s Long Jump T12: Gold – Bala Krishna Nallabothula (Andhra Pradesh); Silver – Vishu (Haryana); Bronze – Sujith Ms (Delhi)

Men’s 1500m Run T20: Gold – Sonu (Haryana); Silver – Nalkesh Meena (Rajasthan); Bronze – Bhushan (Haryana)

Women’s Javelin Throw F12/F13: Gold – Kipa Mero (Arunachal Pradesh); Silver – Gangavva Neelap Harijan (Karnataka); Bronze – Rajashri Shanka Kasdekar (Maharashtra)

Men’s Javelin Throw F42/F44: Gold – Pushpendra Singh (Uttar Pradesh); Silver – Mahendra Gurjar (Rajasthan); Bronze – Guru Baskara Sakkappan (Tamil Nadu)

Women’s Discus Throw F55: Gold – Sakshi Kasana (Uttar Pradesh); Silver – Pooja (Haryana); Bronze – Garima M Joshi (Uttarakhand)

Men’s 1500m Run T12/T13: Gold – Sharath M S (Karnataka); Silver – Balwant Singh Rawat (Delhi); Bronze – Naveen Surla (Andhra Pradesh)

Men’s Long Jump T11: Gold – Manoj Kumar Gurjar (Rajasthan); Silver – Swaraj Ambati (Andhra Pradesh); Bronze – Kanhu Soren (Odisha)

Women’s Javelin Throw F46: Gold – Lalita Saini (Rajasthan); Silver – Priyanka (Haryana); Bronze – Riya Singh (Uttar Pradesh)

Women’s Shot Put F46: Gold – Riya Singh (Uttar Pradesh); Silver – Snehal Vijay Benade (Maharashtra); Bronze – Roopa Vasudevan (Tamil Nadu)

Women’s Discus Throw F56: Gold – Fatima Khatoon (Uttar Pradesh); Silver – Poonam Sharma (Haryana); Bronze – Mina Vilas Pingane (Maharashtra)

Women’s 200m Run T11: Gold – Lalitha Killaka (Andhra Pradesh); Silver – Ravanni Valasanain (Andhra Pradesh); Bronze – Shalini Choudhary (Rajasthan)

Women’s 200m Run T12: Gold – Lalita Kumari Garg (Rajasthan); Silver – Manisha Saini (Rajasthan); Bronze – Sandra Davis (Kerala)

Men’s 1500m Run T11: Gold –  Keshavamurthy K G (Karnataka); Silver – Rishabh Kumar (Uttar Pradesh); Bronze – Jatin P Sharma (Uttarakhand)

Women’s Discus Throw F54: Gold – Suvarna Raj (Uttar Pradesh); Silver – Archana Kumari (Bihar); Bronze – Keerthika Jayachandran (Tamil Nadu)

Women’s Discus Throw F51, F52, F53: Gold – Kanchan Lakhani (Haryana); Silver – Pinkkaur (Delhi); Bronze – Sarla Devi (Haryana)

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