Deaflympics 2025: Olympian Diksha Dagar headlines largest-ever India squad in Japan - full schedule, where to watch live

15.11.2025
Diksha is the reigning Deaflympics women’s golf champion and spearheads a 73-member Indian squad. Watch live!

Olympian Diksha Dagar will lead a 73-member Indian contingent at the Deaflympics 2015, scheduled to be held in Japan from November 15 to 26.

The Tokyo 2025 Deaflympics will be available to watch on live streaming in India.

This is the largest-ever Indian squad at the Deaflympics.

Indian athletes will compete for medals across 11 sports – athletics, badminton, golf, judo, karate, shooting, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, wrestling and tennis - at Tokyo 2025.

Diksha Dagar, who represented India at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as well as Paris 2024, returns to the Japanese capital for the Deaflympics as the reigning women’s golf champion.

She won gold in the 2022 edition held in Caxias do Sul, Brazil, and bagged a silver earlier in 2017.

Several of India’s other standout performers from the previous Deaflympics are also set to return.

Jerlin Anika Jayaratchagan, who swept three gold medals in badminton, will lead the contingent as India’s flag-bearer at Deaflympics 2025.

Dhanush Srikanth, the double gold medallist and 10m air rifle world record holder, Abhinav Deshwal, gold medallist in 10m air pistol, and Prithvi Sekhar, who won three medals in tennis, are all in the squad.

Overall, India’s Deaflympics 2025 squad features 45 men and 28 women. Shooting will see the largest contingent with 12, followed by athletics with 11 track and field athletes in action.

The Deaflympics are an international multi-sport event for deaf athletes, sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and organised by the International Committee of Sports for the Deaf (ICSD). They are usually held every four years, with separate Summer and Winter editions.

Tokyo 2025 marks the 25th edition of the Summer Deaflympics, which began back in 1924 with Paris hosting the inaugural edition.

India first participated in the International Deaf Games (now Deaflympics) in 1965 and has won a total of 52 medals at the multi-sport meet.

India’s best-ever performance at the Deaflympics came at Caxias do Sul 2021 with a 16-medal haul - eight gold, one silver and seven bronze - which secured a ninth-place finish among 77 nations.

Where to watch Deaflympics 2025 live in India

Live streaming of the Deaflympics 2025 will be available to watch on the competition’s official YouTube channel in India. The event will not be telecast live on any TV channels in India.

Deaflympics 2025 schedule

India squad for Deaflympics 2025

Athletics

• Nilesh (male)
• Anupam Kumar (male)
• Vivek Rana (male)
• Karthick Mahalingam (male)
• Manikandan Kamaraj (male)
• Balram (male)
• Jaspal Singh (male)
• Ramesh Kumar (male)
• Sameeha Barvin Mujib (female)
• Versha Gulia (female)
• Gayatri Sekar (female)

Badminton

• Abhinav Sharma (male)
• Soumyadeep Chakraborty (male)
• Piyush (male)
• Nisarg Sanjivbhai Panchal (male)
• Jerlin Anika Jayaratchagan (female)
• Aaditya Yadav (female)
• Shreya Singla (female)
• Gauranshi Sharma (female)

Golf

• Vibhu Tyagi (male)
• Harsh Singh (male)
• Jastar Singh Billing (male)
• Diksha Dagar (female)

Judo

• Rakesh Singh (male)
• Sambid Das (male)
• Omkar Suresh Mokashi (male)
• Karambir Singh (male)
• Pragati Kesarwani (female)
• Sakshi Haridas Bansode (female)
• Aditi Sharma (female)
• Vaishnavi Bala More (female)
• Nirchara (female)

Karate

• Perunithi Manickavasagam (male)
• Lowa Swain (female)

Shooting

• Dhanush Srikanth (male)
• Mohammed Murtaza Vania (male)
• Shourya Saini (male)
• Kushagra Singh Rajawat (male)
• Abhinav Deshwal (male)
• Rudar (male)
• Chetan Hanmant Sapkal (male)
• Mahit Sandhu (female)
• Natasha Uday Joshi (female)
• Komal Milind Waghmare (female)
• Anuya Prasad (female)
• Pranjali Prashant Dhumal (female)

Swimming

• Aman Sharma (male)
• Saumitra Purushottam Gore (male)

Table Tennis

• Priom Chakraborty (male)
• Srijit Mazumder (male)
• Ullas Naik (male)
• Suvro Sengupta (male)
• Subhechcha Roy (female)
• Shiney Anthony Gomes (female)
• Aishwin Kaur (female)
• Archana Pandey (female)

Taekwondo

• Kanishka Sharma (female)
• Chavi Singh (female)

Tennis

• Prithvi Sekhar (male)
• Arshit (male)
• Dhananjay Dubey (male)
• Aaryan Humaney (male)
• Bhavani Kedia (female)
• Jafreen Shaik (female)
• Kirtilata (female)

Wrestling

• Pardeep Malik (male)
• Vijay Kumar (male)
• Ajay Kumar (male)
• Amit (male)
• Sumit Dahiya (male)
• Ghan Shyam (male)
• Tanuj Kumar Choudhary (male)
• Ashish Yuvraj Maske (male)