FISU World University Games 2023 medal tally: Indian winners - full list
India won 26 medals - 11 gold, five silver and 10 bronze - at Chengdu and finished seventh in the medals table. Know all Indian medal winners.
Close to 230 Indian athletes, including Jyothi Yarraji, Manu Bhaker and Tejaswin Shankar, participated at the FISU World University Games 2023 in Chengdu, the People’s Republic of China. The multi-sport meet ran from July 28 to August 8.
India won 26 medals - 11 gold, five silver and 10 bronze - at the FISU World University Games 2023 in Chengdu to finish seventh the World University Games 2023 medals table. China topped the table with 178 medals, including 103 gold.
This was India's best-ever performance at the Universiade, eclipsing the five medals – one gold, one silver and three bronze - Indian athletes won at Gwangju 2015.
Amlan Borgohain, Priyanka Goswami, Tejaswin Shankar and Srihari Nataraj were among the other high-profile names representing India at the multi-sport meet. Badminton player Tanisha Singh, 18, is the youngest member of the contingent.
The FISU World University Games 2023 featured a total of 269 medal events across 18 different sports. Indians, though, competed in 11 sports - archery, athletics, badminton, fencing, judo, shooting, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis and volleyball. The wushu team was also slated to compete but was withdrawn later.
The 2023 World University Games was the 31st edition of the biennial multi-sport event. The 2021 edition was postponed due to COVID-19.
At the last edition in 2019 held in Naples, Italy, India won four medals – one gold, one silver and two bronze. Dutee Chand won the gold medal in women’s 100m while the remaining three came in shooting.
Shooters also headlined India’s medal rush at Chengdu 2023, winning a total of 14 of the 26 medals.
FISU World University Games 2023: India’s medal winners
India have been part of the Universiade since the inaugural edition in 1959. Get World University Games 2023 medals tally below. For the full table, check here.