Indian Men and Women's team receive National Team of the Year at Sportstar Aces Awards 2025
On 15th February 2025, Sportstar premiered the Sportstar Aces Awards 2025 on their youtube channel. IM Divya Deshmukh received Sportswoman of the year (Non-Olympic). She won the World Junior Girls Championship 2024, double Gold medal (individual and team) at 45th Chess Olympiad Women. Indian Men and Women's team received National Team of the Year for winning historic Gold medals at 45th Chess Olympiad held in Budapest, Hungary. GM Vidit Gujrathi and GM Srinath Narayanan were present to receive the men's award, Divya, IM Vantika Agrawal and GM Abhijit Kunte were present to receive the women's category award. The legends - Vishy Anand and Pravin Thipsay also attended this event and presented awards. Photo: Sportstar
Sportswoman of the Year (Non-Olympic) - Divya Deshmukh
"I think it would be something related to Queen's Gambit, I am not very sure. But maybe something like the Indian Beth." - IM Divya Deshmukh answered when she was asked what would be the name of the channel if she starts streaming on popular social channels.
"The format is simple. It's best four of each country playing the best four. This tournament (45th Olympiad) where we won the Gold, was played by I think more than 180 countries. So it was the best of the best players there." - GM Vidit Gujrathi answered, when he was asked how chess became a team event when it is an individual sport at its core. Vidit and the Captain of the team - GM Srinath Narayanan were present to accept the award.
"First of all, I would like to thank The Hindu group for honoring the Indian men and women team with this award. What they have achieved is, second country in the world in the 100 years of Chess Olympiad, to win men and women title together in more than 100 countries participating. So I think it speaks for itself. The first country was USSR which is not there anymore." - GM Abhijit Kunte, Captain of the Indian Women's team. IM Vantika Agrawal, IM Divya Deshmukh and Abhijit were present to receive the award.
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Sportstar Aces Awards 2025 winners
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