Goa skater Advait Amrut Ghatge wins two golds, one silver
Advait Amrut Ghatge left Kakinada with two golds and a silver, and Goa’s skating gap suddenly looks impossible to ignore.
Advait Amrut Ghatge returned from the 13th Ranking Open National Speed Skating Championship in Kakinada with two gold medals and one silver, a medal haul that put Goa back in the conversation at a national-ranking meet. For a rising skater from a state that has rarely had the infrastructure to match its talent, the result landed as more than a personal breakthrough.
World Skate India and the Roller Skating Federation of India listed the championship as a national ranking speed skating event, with the opening day set for July 13 and the meet running as a multi-day championship through July 17. That matters because these are not small regional medals; Ghatge collected his results against skaters from across the country, in a field built to sort the best of the best.
The performance has sharpened the conversation at home in Goa. Parents in the skating community have used Ghatge’s medals to press for better support, and the list of needs is familiar enough: coaching, facilities, funding and travel support. A medal haul like this usually exposes the gap between athlete output and the system around it. Ghatge did the hard part in Kakinada. The question now is whether Goa can build the structure that keeps the next talented skater from having to chase the same success on limited backing.
That pressure is not abstract. World Skate India’s own registration push for 2026-27 made participation mandatory across club, district, state, national and international levels, which underlines how deep the pathway runs once a skater is in the system. Goa’s challenge is getting enough of its skaters through that pipeline with regular coaching and the means to travel, train and compete without having to treat every trip as a stretch.
For now, Ghatge’s two golds and one silver are the clearest proof that Goa can produce at the national level. The harder test is whether officials treat this as a one-off celebration or the point where the sport finally gets the support its results have already earned.
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