Hello and welcome to our coverage for the fourth day of FISU World University Games 2025.
Three days have gone and India is yet to open the Medal Tally.
Here is the Schedule for the day & here is on our X Profile & if you missed checking how the Day 3 went by then here we have you covered
The Potential Medal Matches are listed below.
Medal Matches & Key Events at World University Games 2025.
- 12:30 PM – Men’s Sabre Team (Fencing) Round of 32 to Final*
- 12:30 PM – Women’s Epee Team (Fencing) Round of 32 to Final*
- 12:30 PM – Deepanshu vs Ricki Gene Farnes (DEN) – Taekwondo Men’s 58kg Round of 32 to Final*
- 1:42 PM – Jyoti Yadav vs Giulia Maggiore (ITA) – Taekwondo Women’s 67kg Round of 32 to Final*
- 2:42 PM – Twisha Kakadiya vs Dilnoza Tangirova (UZB) – Taekwondo Women’s 49kg Round of 32 to Final*
- 4:00 PM – India vs Chinese Taipei – Badminton Mixed Team Semifinal
- 12:14 AM – Swimming – Women’s 4×200m Freestyle Final (subject to qualification)
- 10:30pm – Swimming – Men 10m Freestyle Semifinal
- 11:31pm – Swimming – Men 50m Backstroke Semifinal
*Note: ‘Round of 32 to Final’ indicates progression through knockout rounds later in the day.
6:20pm | Indian team are behind at the end of the Q1 by 10-25 in the Basketball Women’s Preliminary Round Group A, while in Tennis Vaishnavi & Atharva in the Mixed Doubles Round of 32 are up by a set against the Colombians Angie, Camilo, they won first set 6-1
6:15pm | India has lost to Chinese Taipei, and We have our first ever Badminton medal at the World University Games 2025.
6:00pm | Indian chances are looking very bleak, we lost the first game 3-15, Indian Women are up against Finland in the Basketball group match starting now.
5:50pm | The men doubles pair has lost to Chen/Lin 8-15, 13-15 and Its India 1-2 Chinese Taipei
5:35pm | In the Men Doubles the pair of Sathish & Saneeth have lost the first game to Chen/Lin 8-15
5:25pm | Fabulous from Devikas as she scores an Upset Win over WR74 15-10, 15-10 in 25 minutes, India is back in it Its India 1-1 Chinese Taipei
5:05pm | Devika has done well so far as she leads 10-5, can she continue the push and bring India back in the tie.
4:55pm | So, Its India 0-1 Chinese Taipei as Sathish lost to Li Yang Su 13-15, 15-13, 10-15. Next hopes on Devika now to bring India back in the mix she is up against WR74 Ching Ping Huang.
4:50pm | Its getting difficult for Sathish as now the final game stands at 9-14.
4:40pm | Its getting very interesting in the final game. 5-6 currently. While in Table Tennis, only Harkunwar Singh won his match in the group, he defeated Mongolian player 3-0 while Devarsh lost to Swiss opponent 1-3. While Ayaz lost to Polish opponent Kolasa 1-3. Chitwan was blanked by Ocsai from Hungary 0-3
4:30pm | Sathish has made a comeback and now the score of the match is 1-1. 13-15, 15-13. Interestingly China has lost the first match against South Korea
4:25pm | Sathish Leads 8-3 in the second game currently.
4:20pm | Sathish lost the first game 13-15 and now will look to lead the second one
4:10pm | In the first match its WR47 Sathish Kumar vs WR38 Li Yang Su. The format is MS, WS, MD, WD, XD
4:05pm | Indian Women has lost to Mongolia 1-3, 16-25, 25-16, 16-25, 19-21. Fourth Straight Loss, Lets turn our attention to the most important match of the day, Mixed team tournament. India vs Chinese Taipei
3:50pm | In the Volleyball Women’s Placing 9-16 India has finally won a set, against Mongolia India is currently trailing 1-2 as the set scores are 16-25, 25-16, 16-25, 10-14. In Tennis Anjali Rathi has lost to Li Jongyu in straight sets 1-6, 4-6.
3:30pm | Here is the brief about Taekwondo, Deepanshu was the only player to win a match as he scored a victory over Ricki from Denmark in Rd32 by 2-0 but then he also lost in the Rd16 against Taipei player Kuei-an by 0-2. Jyoti Yadav lost toe Maggiore from Italy 0-2 which Vinay lost to Cyprus athlete Evangelos 0-2. Twisha end her campaign in the very first match 0-2 against Uzbeki athlete Dilnoza
2:50pm | In 200m Breaststroke Swimming Divyanka clocked 2:47.68 for 29 and Anushka clocked 2:55.01 for 35th our of 38 swimmers in action. Last event in the morning session from the pool is 4x200m Freestyle relay and India Did Not Start the race
2:45pm | Here is the recap of the women Singles matches in Table Tennis, wherein we have won three. Suhana got better of Americal Angie in straight games while Pritha got better of Alejandra 3-1 and Sayali closed the morning session for girls at 3-0 win against Laskai. Taneesh lost to Lee from South Korea
2:35pm | India has lost to Germany in Fencing Women Epee team event 21-45. End of contention for Fencing in India for today.
2:20pm | Meanwhile India Men have lost to South Korea in the Rd16 11-45 while Women are about to lose to Germany in Women Epee Fencing.
2:06pm | This has to be the story of the World University Games 2025 so far for India, Srihari Nataraj swims to gruelling races and qualifies for the Semifinals in both while smashing a 17 year old national record in the second race 100m Freestyle Men. Joshua was a respectable 47 of the 78 swimmers in action. The Semifinals is at 10:30pm tonight
Srihari Has broken three National Records at the World University Games 2025
1:57pm | Srihari has broken the 17 year old National Record by clocking a 49.46s in 100m Freestyle. Fabulous performance by young Srihari Nataraj as he keeps pushing the bar above, does two sprints in an hour and makes the Semifinal in one and breaks the National record in second. Srihari Nataraj is really creating NRs for fun. 49.46s in 100FS broke the long standing NR of 49.47s by Virdhawal Khade from 2008 CYG.. Let’s see if he makes it to the SFs!
1:50pm | Next up we have Freestyle 100m Men Heats and we have Joshua & Srihari in action, its a 10 heat competition with Semifinals to progress. Joshua in the H3 has clocked an impressive 51.45s to top the heat3. The fastest 100m Freestyle for India is 49.47 set by Virdhawal Khade 17 years back
1:44pm | Nina was 28th while Nilabjaa was 31st out of 43 swimmers and thus will not make the Semifinals.
You may have missed yesterday action, here is the crisp report
1:32pm | Its a pretty average time from Nina & Nilabjaa as they finish 3rd & 6th in the heat, thus wont make the Semifinals. Nina clocked 1:04.49 while Nilabjaa was 1:05.52, in Men Sabre India has no answers to South Korea as we struggle at 6-34 at the moment and the Table Tennis action has also started Suhana has won the first game while Taneesha lost the first game.
1:27pm | In the next swimming race Indian Nina Venkatesh & Nilabjaa Ghosh are in the H3 of overall six heats of 100m Butterfly. The fastest India time is 1:01.94, while in Men Sabre the South Korean Team has started with a strong 15-4 and it will be difficult for India to make a comeback from here, but lets keep the hope
1:24pm | Srihari Has Sailed into 50m Backstroke Semifinal Dhyaan was 35th among 48 swimmers, the semifinals will be 11:31pm tonight. Srihari Nataraj sails through to the semis in the men’s 50m Backstroke with a solid time of 25.59s.. This is the only BackStroke event that he is participating in Rhine-Ruhr!
1:20pm | With just one heat to go Srihari finds himself at seventh place, he will make the semis
1:18pm | Srihari clocks a 25.59s to win his heat but will have to check whether that is enough to make the Semifinal, he has 24 more swimmers to go while only 16 will make the Semifinal, Dhyaan clocked 26.94 to be placed second in his heat. Remember he has another heat coming in less than an hour so one understands he wont push to the core
1:12pm | And we have swimming up next in the 50m Backstroke Men the tall Srihari Nataraj is going to feature, he is the National Record Holder with a 25.11 set four years back, the second swimmer is Dhyaan who is in H3 while Sri goes in H4 of total 7 heats
1:05pm | In Taekwondo Deepanshu has won PTF (2 – 0) against Ricki Men -58kg Round of 32, while in the Women Epee Indian team has defeated Cambodia 45-19 to make it to the Rd16 of the competition and will be up against host country Germany next
1:00pm | And India Men Sabre have defeated Sweden 45-28 to move into Rd of 16 and will meet South Korea next. Busy day for ahead for Srihari Nataraj
at #FISUWorldUniversityGames as he goes in the 50m back & 100m freestyle events today.
12:45pm | India Men Sabre is running away from Sweden fueled by good performance from Abhay Shinde & Aditya Angal who have not lost their matches uptil now. And Aditya has won his third match as well, India just five points away from winning
In Men’s Sabre team fencing, scoring is achieved by one team reaching 45 points or leading when time expires in a series of nine bouts. Each bout is a one-on-one match between fencers from opposing teams, with the score from each bout carrying over to the next.
12:40pm | In Women Epee India is up against Cambodia & Men Sabre are up against Sweden up front. And India is looking comfortable in both the matches, Women Lead Combodia 12-7 while Men lead Sweden 25-15. The winner of the Men Sabre will play South Korea while in Women Epee the winner plays Germany
12:30pm | And Its not swimming to start the day 🙂 as was the case for last three days, we have Taekwondo & Fencing up front.
