Inter IIT Sports Meet

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Sport14 different Inter collegiate sports
LocationIndia
Established1961
Inter IIT Sports Meet
Tournament information
Sport14 different Inter collegiate sports
LocationIndia
Established1961
AdministratorIndian Institutes of Technology
Participants3500 athletes
WebsiteOfficial Website
Current champion
IIT Madras (2025)

Inter IIT Sports Meet is the annual sports tournament of the Indian Institutes of Technology. It is organized in December, with the Aquatics events held separately in October. It is the longest-running Inter-collegiate meet where all IITs participate, having been held since 1961. In 2024, the event was held at IIT Kanpur and IIT Indore jointly and for 2025, it was held at IIT Hyderabad, IIT Madras and IIT Tirupati.

History

The proposition for an Inter IIT Sports Meet was brought up in 1961, and IIT Bombay hosted the first ever Inter IIT Sports Meet. Only five IITs were in existence then, namely IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Kanpur and IIT Delhi; who competed in five sports only.[1]

History and winners

YearEditionHeld atChampionsYearEditionHeld atChampionsYearEditionHeld atChampions
19611BombayKharagpur198926KanpurKharagpur201551MadrasCancelled due to flooding in Chennai
19632KharagpurKharagpur199027DelhiDelhi201651KanpurKanpur
19643MadrasKharagpur199128KharagpurKharagpur201752MadrasBombay
19664BombayBombay199329BombayBombay201853GuwahatiDelhi
19675DelhiKharagpur199430MadrasNone - last 3 days rained out201954Kharagpur and BhubaneswarKharagpur
19686KanpurKharagpur199531KanpurBombay202055Delhi and RoorkeeCancelled due to COVID-19 Pandemic
19697KharagpurKharagpur199632DelhiMadras202155Delhi and RoorkeeCancelled due to COVID-19 Pandemic
19708MadrasMadras199733KharagpurKharagpur202255Delhi and RoorkeeRoorkee
19729KharagpurMadras199834BombayBombay202356Bombay and GandhinagarMadras
197310BombayMadras199935MadrasMadras202457Kanpur and IndoreBombay
197411DelhiMadras200036KanpurBombay202558Hyderabad, Madras and TirupatiMadras
197512KharagpurMadras200137KharagpurKharagpur202659TBATBA
197613KanpurMadras200238DelhiDelhi
197714MadrasMadras200339BombayMadras
197815BombayMadras200440MadrasMadras
197916DelhiMadras200541RoorkeeKharagpur
198017KanpurMadras200642GuwahatiMadras
198118KharagpurBombay200743BombayBombay
198219BombayMadras200844MadrasBombay
198320MadrasNone - last 2 days rained out (Bombay was ahead)200945KanpurBombay
198421KanpurBombay201046DelhiMadras
198522DelhiBombay201147KharagpurMadras
198623KharagpurKharagpur201248RoorkeeBombay
198724BombayBombay201349GuwahatiKanpur
198825MadrasMadras201450BombayKanpur

Note: Before 1978, the meet numbering was not consistent. For example, IIT Madras annual reports record the 1977 meet as the 13th and the 1975 meet as the 11th [2]

IITs with most overall wins

IITFirst winLast winWins in last 10 editionsTotal wins
IIT Madras19702025221
IIT Bombay19662024215
IIT Kharagpur19612019113
IIT Kanpur2013201633
IIT Delhi1990201813
IIT Roorkee2022202211

Cancellations and Postponements

The meets of 1965 and 1971 were cancelled due to the India-Pakistan wars, while the one in 1992 was to be held at IIT Bombay but was cancelled owing to the communal riots in Mumbai. The 2015 meet that was supposed to be held at IIT Madras was washed out due to unpredictable rains. The 2020 and 2021 meets were cancelled due to COVID.

Unlike the above events which were cancelled / re-scheduled in entirety, the meets of 1983 and 1994, both hosted at IIT Madras, were abandoned after the meet started as scheduled. In both cases, heavy rains made continuation of the meet unviable and the meets were abandoned part way.

Recent championships

References

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