A total of 73 Indian athletes – 45 men and 28 women – are competing for medals across 11 sports at the ongoing Deaflympics 2025, being held in Tokyo, Japan, from November 15 to 26.
The Tokyo 2025 edition marks the 25th Summer Deaflympics, 101 years after the inaugural edition held in Paris in 1924.
At Tokyo 2025, Olympian Diksha Dagar leads India’s charge. The Tokyo 2020 Olympian and 2021 Summer Deaflympics gold medallist in women’s golf has returned to the Japanese capital, aiming to defend her title.
Jerlin Anika Jayaratchagan, Dhanush Srikanth, Abhinav Deshwal and Prithvi Sekhar are some of the other medal winners from the last edition who are also in action in Tokyo.
Shooting features the biggest Indian contingent with 12 athletes, followed by athletics with 11.
The shooters won India’s first medals at the Tokyo 2025 Deaflympics with Dhanush Srikanth defending his men’s 10m air rifle title with a new world record score of 252.2 and Mohammad Vania winning the silver in the same event.
Mahit Sandhu and Komal Waghmare, meanwhile, won the silver and bronze medals, respectively, in the women’s 10m air rifle event minutes later.
India have won four medals – one gold, two silver and one bronze – at the Deaflympics 2025 in Tokyo so far.
Deaflympics 2025 India’s medal winners
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