Khelo India Youth Games 2021 medal table
Hosts Haryana topped the KIYG 2021 medals tally with with 52 gold medals. Last edition's champions Maharashtra came second with 45. Get full medal tally.
The Khelo India Youth Games 2021 officially concluded at Panchkula, Haryana on June 13.
After being postponed thrice due to COVID-19, the fourth edition of the Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG), the flagship event of the Indian government’s Khelo India initiative, was finally held from June 4 to 13.
KIYG 2021 was hosted in five different cities - Panchkula, Shahabad, Ambala, Chandigarh and Delhi. With the first three cities located in Haryana, the north Indian state was the designated host for the Khelo India Youth Games 2021.
Some 4,700 athletes, including 2,262 women, from all of India’s 36 states and Union Territories participated at KIYG 2021. This was the first time there will be a pan-India representation at the youth meet.
Hosts Haryana had the biggest contingent at KIYG 2021 with 398 athletes. Last edition’s champions Maharashtra, with 357, was the second-largest contingent at the Games.
A total of 903 medals across 25 different sports were awarded at KIYG 2021. Five indigenous sports, mallakhamb, gatka, kalaripayattu, thang-ta and yogasana, also made their KIYG debut.
Hosts Haryana won the KIYG 2021 with 52 gold medals, followed by Maharashtra with 45 and Karnataka with 22.
Haryana topped the medals table in the inaugural edition in 2018, then called the Khelo India School Games, but Maharashtra beat them down to second in 2019 and 2020.
A total of 33 states won at least one medal at KIYG 2021 while 28 won at least one gold.