Which edition of the Khelo India Winter Games was held in two phases — at Leh…
2025
Which edition of the Khelo India Winter Games was held in two phases — at Leh in January 2025 and at Gulmarg in March 2025?
- A.
8
- B.
5
- C.
10
- D.
16
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Correct answer: B
The Khelo India Winter Games is a Government of India multi-discipline winter-sports event under the Khelo India scheme, staged in the high-altitude regions of Ladakh and Jammu & Kashmir to develop winter-sports talent. Its editions are numbered sequentially from the series' first edition, and recent editions have sometimes been split across two host legs rather than a single venue.
The edition held in two phases — Leh (Ladakh) in January 2025 and Gulmarg (Jammu & Kashmir) in March 2025 — was the fifth edition of the Khelo India Winter Games. The series has been staged in 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025, with no edition in 2022, so counting along that sequence places the two-phase 2025 Games fifth. Splitting an edition across two legs was not new in 2025: the 2024 edition was also held in two legs, at Leh and then at Gulmarg in February 2024.
This is confirmed by Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports/PIB releases on the 2025 Games, which describe the event as the fifth edition and give the Ladakh leg as 23-27 January 2025 and the Jammu & Kashmir (Gulmarg) leg as 9-12 March 2025.
8 would place the series at its eighth staging by 2025 — more than the documented edition count.
5 matches the documented sequence of editions run since the series began in 2020 through the two-phase 2025 Games.
10 would place the series at its tenth staging by 2025 — well beyond the documented edition count.
16 would place the series at its sixteenth staging by 2025 — far beyond the documented edition count.