Indian Athletes’ Individual World Championship & World Cup Final Achievements in 2025

The year 2025 marked a defining phase for Indian sport at the highest global level. Indian athletes delivered individual medals, historic firsts, and elite podium finishes at World Championships and World Cup Finals, underlining India’s growing consistency across multiple disciplines.

This article documents only individual achievements (including mixed events), and excludes team events and para sports, ensuring a clean, fact-checked historical record.

🥊 Boxing — World Boxing Championships 2025

India recorded its best-ever individual medal haul at the World Boxing Championships, winning four medals.

🥇 Jaismine Lamboria (Women’s 57kg) — Became the first Indian boxer to win an individual gold medal at the World Boxing Championships, a landmark moment for Indian boxing.
🥇 Minakshi Hooda (Women’s 48kg) — Secured gold with a dominant campaign, strengthening India’s standing in elite women’s boxing.
🥈 Nupur Sheoran (Women’s +80kg)
🥉 Pooja Rani (Women’s 80kg)

Total: 4 individual medals

🎯 Shooting — ISSF World Shooting Championships 2025

Indian shooters produced one of their strongest senior World Championship performances.

🥇 Samrat Rana (Men’s 10m Air Pistol) — Became the first Indian to win an individual senior World Championship gold in an Olympic pistol event.
🥈 Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar (Men’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions)
🥈 Anish Bhanwala (Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol)
🥉 Esha Singh (Women’s 25m Pistol)

🎯 Shooting — ISSF World Cup Final 2025

India delivered its most successful ISSF World Cup Final campaign, highlighted by multiple individual gold medals.

🥇 Suruchi Singh Phogat (Women’s 10m Air Pistol)
🥇 Simranpreet Kaur Brar (Women’s 25m Pistol)
🥈 Sainyam (Women’s 10m Air Pistol)
🥈 Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar (Men’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions)
🥈 Anish Bhanwala (Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol)
🥉 Samrat Rana (Men’s 10m Air Pistol)

🏹 Archery — World Cup Final & World Championships

🥉 Jyothi Surekha Vennam — Women’s Individual Compound, Archery World Cup Final
Became the first Indian woman compound archer to win an individual medal at the Archery World Cup Final.
🥈 Jyothi Surekha Vennam & Rishabh Yadav — Mixed Compound Team, World Archery Championships
The Indian pair reached the final and won silver at the World Championships.

🤼 Wrestling — World Wrestling Championships 2025

🥉 Antim Panghal (Women’s Freestyle 53kg) — Won India’s only senior individual medal at the World Championships.

🏸 Badminton — World Championships & World Tour Finals

🥉 Satwiksairaj Rankireddy & Chirag Shetty — Men’s Doubles, BWF World Championships
⭐ Semifinalists — BWF World Tour Finals, underlining their consistency at the elite level.

🏓 Table Tennis — World Tour Milestone

⭐ Manush Shah & Diya Chitale — Became the first Indian mixed doubles pair to qualify for the WTT Finals, marking a historic breakthrough for Indian table tennis on the global circuit.

🛼 Speed Skating — World Speed Skating Championships 2025

India registered a historic first in inline speed skating at the World Championships.

🥇 Gold — Men’s 1000m Sprint
🥇 Gold — Men’s Marathon (42 km)
🥉 Bronze — Men’s 500m Sprint

Anandkumar Velkumar became the first Indian athlete to win a gold medal at the World Speed Skating Championships, and further distinguished himself by winning two individual gold medals at the same world championships — the most successful individual performance by an Indian skater at world level.

🏃 Athletics — Global Historic Milestone

⭐ Neeraj Chopra — Became the first Indian athlete to cross the 90-metre mark in javelin throw at a Diamond League meet, redefining Indian athletics history.

♟️ Chess — World Chess Championship

⭐ Divya Deshmukh — Became the first Indian woman to win the FIDE Women’s Chess World Cup, defeating Koneru Humpy in the final tiebreaks and securing qualification for the 2026 Women’s Candidates Tournament.

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India’s 2025 sporting season was defined by individual excellence at the highest global platforms. From historic world championship golds to consistent World Cup Final podiums, Indian athletes proved their depth across both Olympic and non-Olympic sports.