Hundreds of players coming from across the country battled over the title in different domains of snow sports including Vertical Ski Mountaineering, Snowboard Gaint Slalom and Sprint. The perseverance and passion of athletes raised the visual warmth over white snow turf as all the scheduled games were officiated according to the fixture to foster real winter sports spirit. Some undisputed champions of previous Khelo India Winter Games again proved their mettle to lay a solid and strong claim for medals and had been exceptionally successful in their endeavour. The Nordic Ski Sprint for men saw medals raining for the Army as the athletes including Manjeet, Shubam Parihar and Sunny Singh took away Gold, Silver and Bronze medals respectively leaving others high & dry amid the snow. Zubair Ahmad Lone from J&K, glided the slopes fiercely to clinch Gold Medal, while Kulvinder Sharma and Karan Sing of Army settled with Silver & Bronze. The ITBP players Kulsum Rana, Selma Soreng & Anjana Devi obtained Gold, silver & Bronze respectively.