4th edition of Khelo India Winter Games, 2024 culminates with impressive closing ceremony at Golf Course Gulmarg

By  News On Air   Feb 26, 2024

The spectacular display of five days sports show of 4th edition of Khelo India Winter Games, 2024 at Gulmarg in north Kashmir's Baramulla district culminated on Sunday (25th February 2024) with an impressive closing ceremony at Golf Course Gulmarg.

The 4th edition of KIWG crowned Army as new champions which clinched the top position with 10 gold, 5 silver and 6 bronze medals followed by first runner up Karnataka with 9 gold & 2 silver medals and 2nd runner up Maharashtra with 7 gold, 8 silver & 7 bronze medals.

The J&K is perched at 9th position in the medal tally with 1 gold, 6 Silver and 4 bronze medals.

From hosts, Shahid Ahmad Chachi clinched sole Gold medal in Verticle Ski Mountaineering while he also won silver in another discipline of Sprint and shared a bronze with three other colleagues in Ski Mountaineering Men Relay group.

Besides Chachi, Shazi Hassan, Sobia Nabi, Shaista Shabir & Vikar also bagged silver medals in Ski Mountaineering Women Sprint, Alpine Skiing Women Slalom and Alpine Skiing Women Parallel and Men Parallel Slalom respectively.

J&K bagged another Silver in Ski Mountaineering Women Relay in which Shazia Hassan, Maryam Farooq and Noorian Latief teamed up to display enthusiastic spirit to clinch the title.

Four bronze medals also came in the  bucket of J&K including one from Men Relay Ski Mountaineering team and  three others were scored by Gousia Gulzar, Mehraj ud Din Bhat and Mehraj Ud Din Khan in individual events.