India have sent a 17-member contingent for the World Games 2025, scheduled in Chengdu, the People’s Republic of China, from August 6 to 17.
This is the 12th edition of the World Games, which is a quadrennial event for non-Olympic sports.
Running since 1981, the multi-sport event typically takes place a year after the Olympics.
The 2025 World Games will feature 253 medal events across 34 sports and 60 disciplines, with powerboating and cheerleading making their debuts at the quadrennial meet.
India, however, will be represented in 23 medal events across five sports – archery, billiards, racquetball, roller sports or skating and wushu.
The Indian World Games contingent to Chengdu includes multiple medallists from the 2023 Asian Games held in Hangzhou.
The list includes compound archers Abhishek Verma and Parneet Kaur, speedskaters Velkumar Anand Kumar and Aryanpal Singh Ghuman, as well as wushu athlete Naorem Roshibina Devi.
Other notable members include Madhura Dhamangaonkar, who won the women’s individual gold medal at the Shanghai leg of the 2025 Archery World Cup and former billiards world champion Sourav Kothari.
India will also compete in the mixed team compound event, which will also feature at the LA 2028 Olympics.
World Games 2025: India squad
Archery
- Men’s compound target: Rakesh Kumar, Abhishek Verma, Rishabh Yadav
- Women’s compound target: Parneet Kaur, Madhura Dhamangaonkar
- Mixed team compound target: TBD
Billiards
Pool
- Mixed heyball: Shivam Arora
Snooker
- Men’s 15 reds: Sourav Kothari, Kamal Chawla
- Women’s 6 reds: Natasha Chethan
Racquetball
- Men’s singles: Kosetty Jyotheekalyan
- Women’s singles: Shilpa Dalvi
- Mixed doubles: Kosetty Jyotheekalyan/Shilpa Dalvi
Roller sports
Inline freestyle
- Women’s slalom classic: Shreyasi Joshi
- Men’s slalom classic: Jinesh Satyan Nanal
Speed skating
- Men’s elimination race 15000m road: Velkumar Anand Kumar
- Men’s one lap road: Aryanpal Singh Ghuman
- Men’s point race 10000m road: Velkumar Anand Kumar
- Men’s sprint 100m road: Aryanpal Singh Ghuman
- Men’s dual time trial 200m track: Aryanpal Singh Ghuman
- Men’s elimination 10000m track: Velkumar Anand Kumar
- Men’s points 5000m track: Velkumar Anand Kumar
- Men’s sprint 1000m track: Velkumar Anand Kumar, Aryanpal Singh Ghuman
- Men’s sprint 500m +D track: Aryanpal Singh Ghuman
Wushu
- Women’s 52kg sanda: Namrata Batra
- Men’s 56kg sanda: Abhishek Jamwal
- Women’s 60kg sanda: Roshibina Devi Naorem
India have only ever won five medals – one gold, one silver and three bronze medals – at the World Games to date.
Aditya Snehal Mehta accounted for the solitary gold after winning the men’s singles snooker competition at Cali 2013. Sumita Laha won a silver medal in powerlifting at Karlsruhe 1989.
Indian badminton legend Prakash Padukone won a bronze medal in men’s singles at the inaugural 1981 World Games held in Santa Clara – seven years before the sport made its Summer Olympics debut in Seoul.
Abhishake Verma and Jyothi Surekha Vennam won the mixed team compound archery bronze medal at the last edition held in Birmingham in 2022.
Rekha Mal, powerlifting bronze in 1989, is the other Indian World Games medallist.
Where to watch World Games 2025 live in India
Select events from the World Games 2025 will be available on Olympics.com. There will be no live telecast of the event on any TV channel in India.
