Major Achievements of Female Athletes in International Tournaments

Cricket: The Indian team won the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025.
Blind Cricket: In 2025, the Indian women's blind cricket team won the inaugural Women's Blind T20 World Cup.
Paris 2024 Olympics: Female athletes won 2 out of India's total 6 medals.
Paris 2024 Paralympics: Female athletes secured 11 out of 29 medals won.
2023 Asian Para Games: Women won 40 out of India's total haul of 111 medals.
2022 Commonwealth Games: Female athletes secured 23 out of 61 total medals.

Avani Lekhara: Became the 1st Indian woman in Paralympic history to win two gold medals.

She is the first Indian woman to win a Paralympic gold medal.
In Paralympics 2024 at Paris, she won a gold in women's 10m air rifle standing SH1. She became the first Indian women athlete to win three paralympic medals.
She is from Jaipur, Rajasthan.

Manu Bhaker: Became India's first female shooter to win two bronze medals at a single Olympics (Paris 2024).
PV Sindhu: Created history at the Tokyo Olympics 2020.

2008: 25 female participants.
2012: 23 female participants.
2024: 47 women participated in the Paris Olympics.
Performance Growth: Performance efficiency stood at 54% in 2016 and rose to 57% in 2020.

Financial Allocation: ₹9.5 Crore has been released to date specifically under the ‘Khelo India – Sports for Women’ scheme.
Competitions: 575 competitions have been organized across 21 different sports disciplines under this scheme.
Reach: Over 60,000 female athletes had participated as of February 2024.