Live streaming, Khelo India Youth Games 2024: Where to watch - full schedule
KIYG 2024, to be held across four cities in Tamil Nadu, will see over 5,500 athletes compete for medals in 26 sports from January 19 to 31. Watch live.
The Khelo India Youth Games 2024 will be held across four cities - Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai and Trichy - in the state of Tamil Nadu, starting Friday. The Games will be declared open by the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai on Friday.
The Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG) is the flagship event under the government of India’s Khelo India initiative, which promotes sports at the grassroots levels in the country. Fans can watch KIYG 2024 on live streaming and live telecast in India.
The sixth edition of the multi-sport under-18 meet will run till January 31.
The Khelo India Youth Games operates in the format of a team championship, wherein the medals earned by individual athletes or teams contribute to the overall medals tally of their respective state or Union Territory (UT). Upon the event's conclusion, the state or UT securing the highest count of gold medals is declared the winner.
Over 5,500 athletes from the 36 states and Union Territories will compete for 933 medals - 278 gold, 278 silver and 377 bronze - in 26 different sports at KIYG 2024.
Squash is all set to make its KIYG debut in this edition while Silambam - a form of indigenous martial arts - will make an appearance as a demonstration sport.
Khelo India Youth Games 2024 sports list
All KIYG sports: Archery, Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Boxing, Cycling (Road and Track), Fencing, Football, Gatka, Gymnastics, Hockey, Judo, Kabaddi, Kalaripayattu, Kho-kho, Mallakhamb, Shooting, Swimming, Table tennis, Tennis, Thang-ta, Volleyball, Weightlifting, Wrestling, Yogasana, Squash, Silambam (demo)
While a bulk of the events will be held in Chennai, Trichy will host gatka and kho kho while the mallakhamb and kalaripayattu events will be conducted in Madurai. Coimbatore, meanwhile, will have basketball and thag ta.
Maharashtra are the defending KIYG champions while Haryana are the only other team to have won the title.
Haryana topped the Khelo India Youth Games medals table in the inaugural edition in 2018, then called the Khelo India School Games. Maharashtra clinched the KIYG title in 2019 and 2020 before Haryana regained the title in 2022. Maharashtra won the Khelo India Youth Games title last year.
At KIYG 2024, hosts Tamil Nadu will field the largest contingent with 559. Maharashtra will have a 415-member-strong squad competing in 24 sports disciplines while Haryana will have 491 athletes in fray.
Where to watch Khelo India Youth Games 2024 live
Live streaming of the Khelo India Youth Games 2024 will be available on the Prasar Bharati Sports YouTube channel. KIYG 2024 will be telecast live on the DD Sports TV channel in India.