Gulmarg– The third day of 2025 Khelo India Winter Games cleared the smoke for medal tally to decide which states or organization will gather maximum medals.
Top contenders from previous day were Army, Ladakh and Maharashtra, but the five events scheduled for the day had left competition open to all in national games event at Gulmarg.
With gradual opening of games, the needle of medal tally began to incline towards Army as their team dominated Men’s Ski Relay Event and raced to Gold while Uttarakhand team scaled Silver, Himachal Pradesh team walked for Bronze medal in the competition.
The Slalom Snowboard event for Women held at Kangdoori saw thrilling contest among the participants. Himachal Pradesh was crowned with Gold & Silver but missed hat-trick of medals as bronze went to Maharashtra. The podium crowned Preeti Thakur as Golden Girl, Prakarti Thakur as Silver Girl both Himachal girls, while Urmila Pable of Maharashtra took pride in bronze.
The Nordic Ski Sprint Women was again dominated by Kusum Rana of ITBP who won second Gold today while three-time Gold Medalist of KWIG Bhavanj Thekkada from Karnataka did a late come back in this competition to obtain Silver. The Bronze was claimed by non other than Selma Soreng from ITBP.
For the Men’s event of 15km Nordic Sprint there were no surprises as Army’s Sunny, Stanzin and Thupstan won Gold, Silver & Bronze respectively.
In Alpine Slalom women, Himachal Pradesh players swept medals with Anchal Thakur, Tanuja Thakur and Promila Thakur winning Gold, Silver and Bronze medals.
Deputy Director General, Sports Authority of India, Vineet Kumar while speaking regarding KIWG said the games had been tremendous success as Sports Authority of India and J&K Sports Council have done marvelous job to conduct games efficiently & smoothly despite the weather conditions like fog which reduces visibility.
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