NIT-K emerges overall champion at All India Inter NIT Sports Meet
NIT-Karnataka has been declared the overall champion of the All India Inter NIT Sports Meet for the 2025-26 academic year. The institute secured the top position by winning multiple gold medals across various disciplines, including athletics, team sports, and swimming.
Why it matters
This achievement highlights the emphasis on sports excellence within higher technical education institutions in India.
The National Institute of Technology-Karnataka (NIT-K), Surathkal, has emerged as the overall champion among all National Institutes of Technology in India for the academic year 2025-26, topping the All India Inter NIT (AIINIT) Sports Meet with 144 points, the highest tally among the participating NITs.
The result places NIT-K at the top of the national standings across athletics, team sports, racquet sports and strength disciplines, with gold-medal finishes in men’s athletics, men’s kabaddi, women’s badminton, women’s volleyball, women’s kho-kho and women’s swimming, a NIT-K release said on Friday.
Akhil Banoth (Mechanical Engineering), was the standout individual performer, winning three gold medals in the 200m, 400m and 4x100m relay at the sports meet held at NIT Jalandhar. Rohit V. (Ph.D., Physics) won gold in the hammer throw with a 41.60-metre effort and was named the “Most Powerful Man” of the meet.
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