Hello and Welcome to our coverage of the Day 3 of the World University Games 2025.
If you are looking for the blog of Day 2 then here is the link
Also, here is the In depth schedule for today
Medal Opportunities for today, this is subject to qualification on the Day 3 of the World University Games 2025.
- 12:30pm | Fencing | Men Foil | Pool to Final
- 12:30pm | Taekwondo | Men 68 | Rd32 to Final
- 1:00pm | Taekwondo | Women 57 | Rd32 to Final
- 1:54pm | Taekwondo | Men 54 | Rd32 to Final
- 1:54pm | Taekwondo | Women 46 | Rd32 to Final
- 3:30pm | Fencing | Women Sabre | Pool to Final
- 12:22am | Swimming | Mixed 4×100 Medley Final
5:30pm | India has lost to Argentina 57-86 and India will next play Finland in the last match tomorrow and no hopes to make the knockouts in Women Basketball
5:05pm | A horrible fourth Quarter Basketball Women’s Preliminary Round Group Aas India only scored 4 and gave 22 so far. the match has slipped from our hands. In Fencing Jagmeet has lost 5-15 to Summer from Hong Kong. So we now have only Shreya and Aakhri in contention in Rd32 in Women Sabre. Abhinash will be back at 6pm for his match
4:50pm | At the end of Q3 Indian team trails Argentina 51-57, can they make a comeback in the last quarter. Its been a good team play with Riya, Manvi, Priyanka & Yashika all scoring in double digits till now. In Fencing Rishika has lost to Lena from Germany. 5-15 while Aakhri has won a very close 15-14 match against yet another German Marisa. This makes two Indians in the Rd32 Can Jagmeet Join them. She is live now
4:45pm | And Abhinash has defeated Adam 15-9 and he moves into Rd16, he meets Novak from Poland next in the Pre QF.
4:40pm | At the end of period one Abhinash has a slender lead against Israeli fencer Adam 8-6, can he make it count and get 7 points and move to Round of 16
4:35pm | As Abhinash is live now, there is some good news in the Women Sabre as fourIndians have qualified for the knockouts. this is by far the best we have seen in Fencing at the World University Games 2025 from India. Shreya has directly made it to Rd32
Sabre, in case you are wondering is the same discipline that Bhavani Devi participates in. Chadalavada Anandha Sundhararaman Bhavani Devi, also known as C.A. Bhavani Devi, is a trailblazing Indian sabre fencer. She is widely recognized as the first Indian fencer to qualify for and compete in the Olympic Games, specifically at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
4:30pm | In Taekwondo Anika has been defeated by her South Korean opponent 0-2, in Basketball India seems to be giving good fight to Argentina till now and is only trailing by 7 points
4:20pm | In Taekwondo Anika is in action now in the quarterfinal match against Kim and she is leading currently at 1-0
4:15pm | A quick Fencing update as Women Sabre, Aakhri has won two and lost three of her group matches, while Rishika has won 2 and lost 4 of her matches, Shreya has won three and lost two of her matches so far and Jagmeet and won 2 and lost 4 of her matches. in 15 minutes Abhinash is going to be playing his Rd32 match
4:00pm | Indian Women Basketball team is trailing 22-29 against the Argentina team in the group phase. So far Manvi has been in a good form scoring 10 points.
3:45pm | Anika Advances to the Quarterfinals! Anika secured a superb 2–0 victory over local favorite Helin to move into the quarterfinals at the #FISU2025 World University Games. She will next face Kim from 🇰🇷 in the QF at 4:42 PM IST All the best, Anika! 🇮🇳💪
3:30pm | In Table Tennis India has lost the Quarterfinals against the Chinese Taipei side 0-3 as all the three Indian paddlers Suhana, Sayali & Pritha lost their matches. India is playing Argentina in the Basketball Women’s Preliminary Round Group A and currently trailing 6-15
3:15pm | In Fencing the lone Indian fencer Abhinash Meitei to make it to the knockouts has won his Men’s Foil Individual Table of 64 against Qatar Abdalla and has moved in to the Rd32 and will be up against Israeli Eliaz.
3:00pm | A 15-9, 15-9 takes India to the Mixed Team Badminton Quarterfinal and as expected we will face Malaysia in tonight at 11pm. Vaishnavi Adkar has won her match in the Rd32 6-2, 6-4 and she now faces the winner of the Kenya & Australia match.
2:40pm | In Table Tennis Sayali gave a good fight but eventually lost she lost 11-4, 3-11, 11-9, 6–1, 5-11 against Chien. Its India 0 – 2 Chinese Taipei
2:30pm | Devika Lost her match in straight games, 11-15, 20-21 and India now leads 2-1 with the next match in Men Doubles where Saneeth and Sathish will look to close the tie for India in the Badminton Mixed Team
2:25pm | In Badminton Devika Sihag lost the first game while the second one is going at 19-19, do note that India leads 2-0
2:20pm | India finish last 4:12.70 in the 4×100 Medley race, and that ends a disappointing morning from the pools for India. In Tennis Vaishnavi has won the first set 6-2 and is now just one set away from the next round
2:15pm | Last event in the morning session of Swimming for India is the 4×100 Medley race and India is in the Heat 2
2:00pm | India is up against Chinese Taipei in the Table Tennis Quarterfinal and Pritha has lost the first match 9-11, 5-11, 13-11, 4-11, next up is Sayali, interestingly Indian camp has decided to not field Taneesha Kotecha. In Tennis Vaishanavi is leading Venla 4-1 in Women’s Singles Round of 32
1:50pm | In Taekwondo Anika has defeated Ingrid 2-0 in the Women -46kg Round of 32 now she faces an uphill task against Kodaman from Germany at 3:30pm in Rd16 while Armaan lost Izerit 0-2. Anika Enters Round of 16
1:40pm | In the 200m Breaststroke Men Manikanta was 35th with a timing of 2:21.80 and Aditya was 39th with a timing of 2:36.10 in a field with 43 swimmers. In Badminton Saneeth also took three games to give India a 2-0 lead. He defeated Ryan 15-8, 10-15, 15-7.
1:05pm | Pratyasa in the 100m Backstroke had a timing of 1:06.35 and she was 28 of the 39 swimmers. a quick summary of Fencing, Abhinash lost two & won one match while Ajay singh & Harshil lost all three of the matches they have played so far.
1:00pm | In Badminton mixed team event India has defeated USA in the first match after losing the first game, 13-15 the pair of Sathish & Vaishanvi won the next two games 15-3, 15-12 to give India 1-0 lead.
12:50pm | In the 200m Butterfly Men Swimming, Shoan finished 20th while Shubhrant was 34 in 39 swimmers who competed.
12:45pm | In Taekwondo the first Indian match is at 1:54 Armaan vs Aziret from Uzbekistan in Rd32 Men 54 while Anika goes at the same time against Ingdrid from Romania in Rd32 Women 46 then Himanshu plays Theo in Rd32 at 3:10pm in Rd32 Men68
12:40pm | In the 200m Butterfly, Shubhrant clocks a 2:11.45 to be place second in the slowest heat1 while Shoan Ganguly was third with 2:04.18 with five heats in it, its almost sure that they wont be making the semifinals.
12:30pm | Right then, all set for the third day action. We have Fencing, Swimming & Badminton starting now.
11:30am | Two days have seen many ups & down for India, with the bright side being two ( Actually four ) National Records been bettered in Swimming
