Important Sports Current Affairs 2024–2025: Winners, Hosts & Highlights

🏅 Khelo India Games 2025

Khelo India Youth Games (7th Edition)

• Inaugurated by: PM Modi
• Mascot: Gajasimha
• Host State: Bihar (Ranked 15th)
• New Sport Introduced: Sepak Takraw
• Winner: Maharashtra (58 Gold, 158 Total Medals)
• Runner-up: Haryana

Khelo India Para Games 2025

• Host: Delhi
• Mascot: Ujjwala (inspired by house sparrow – resilience)
• Winner: Haryana (34 Gold, 104 Total Medals)
• 2nd: Tamil Nadu (74 Total Medals)
• 3rd: Uttar Pradesh (64 Total Medals)

Khelo India Winter Games 2025

• 1st Phase: Ladakh
• 2nd Phase: Gulmarg, Jammu & Kashmir
• Winner: Indian Army (7 Gold, 18 Total)
• Runner-up: Himachal Pradesh (6 Gold, 18 Total)

Khelo India University Games 2024

• Host City: Guwahati
• Edition: 4th
• 1st Place: Chandigarh University (32 Gold, 71 Total)
• 2nd Place: Lovely Professional University (42 Total)

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🏏 Cricket Highlights (2024–2025)

Women’s Premier League (WPL)

• 2025 Winner: Mumbai Indians (2nd title)
• 2024 Winner: Royal Challengers Bangalore (1st title)
• Runners-up (both years): Delhi Capitals

Women’s T20 World Cup 2024

• Host: UAE
• Winner: New Zealand
• Runner-up: South Africa

Men’s T20 World Cup 2024

• Host Countries: West Indies & USA
• Winner: India (2nd title)
• Runner-up: South Africa
• Player of the Series: Jasprit Bumrah
• Most Runs: Rahmanullah Gurbaz (Afghanistan) – 281
• Most Wickets: Fazalhaq Farooqi (Afghanistan) & Arshdeep Singh (India) – 17 each

ICC Champions Trophy 2025 (ODI)

• Hosts: Pakistan & UAE
• Winner: India (3rd Title)
• Runner-up: New Zealand
• Player of the Series / Most Runs: Rachin Ravindra (NZ) – 263
• Most Wickets: Matt Henry (NZ) – 10

Women’s T20 Asia Cup 2024

• Host: Sri Lanka
• Winner: Sri Lanka
• Runner-up: India

U-19 Cricket World Cups

• Men’s U-19 World Cup 2024:
  • Host: South Africa
  • Winner: Australia (4th title)
  • Runner-up: India
  • Player of the Series: Kwena Maphaka (South Africa)
• Women’s U-19 T20 World Cup 2025:
  • Host: Malaysia
  • Winner: India (2nd title)
  • Runner-up: South Africa
  • Player of the Series: Gongadi Trisha (India)

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🏆 Domestic Cricket Tournaments (2024–25)

• Duleep Trophy Winner: India A (Runner-up: India C)
• Ranji Trophy 2025 Winner: Vidarbha (Runner-up: Kerala)
  • Player of the Series: Harsh Dubey
• Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (17th Edition):
  • Winner: Mumbai
  • Runner-up: Madhya Pradesh
• Irani Cup Winner: Mumbai (Defeated Rest of India)

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♟️ Chess Highlights

• India’s 85th Grandmaster: Shyaamnikhil (Tamil Nadu)
• Tata Steel Masters 2025:
  • Winner: R Praggnanandhaa
  • Defeated: Gukesh Dommaraju
• FIDE World Cup 2025:
  • Host: India
  • Founded: 20 July 1924
  • HQ: Lausanne, Switzerland
• World Chess Championship 2024 (Singapore):
  • Winner: Gukesh Dommaraju (Youngest World Champion at 18)
  • Defeated: Ding Liren (China)
• 45th Chess Olympiad 2024 (Budapest, Hungary):
  • Open: India (Gold), USA (Silver), Uzbekistan (Bronze)
  • Women: India (Gold), Kazakhstan (Silver), USA (Bronze)

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🏋️ National Games

38th National Games (2024)

• Host: Uttarakhand
• Mascot: “Mauli” (Inspired by Monal – state bird)
• Tagline: “Sankalp Se Shikhar Tak”
• Official Torch: Tejaswini
• 1st Place: Services (68 Gold, 121 Total)
• 2nd: Maharashtra (54 Gold, 201 Total)
• 3rd: Haryana
• Host State Rank: Uttarakhand – 7th (24 Gold)

39th National Games 2027:

• Host: Meghalaya

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🏑 Hockey

• Women’s Asian Champions Trophy 2024 (Rajgir, Bihar):
  • Winner: India
  • Runner-up: China
  • Best Player: Deepika Sehrawat (India)
• Hockey India League 2024–25:
  • Winner: Rarh Bengal Tigers (1st title)
  • Runner-up: Hyderabad Toofans
• Women’s Junior Asia Cup 2024 (Muscat, Oman):
  • Winner: India (2nd title)
  • Runner-up: China
• Sultan Azlan Shah Cup 2024 (Malaysia):
  • Winner: Japan (1st title)
  • Runner-up: Pakistan
• Men’s Asian Champions Trophy 2024 (China):
  • Winner: India
  • Runner-up: China

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