Sport is a social event and as such is influenced by the many psychological factors affecting sports performance, and competitive anxiety is one such factor. This study aimed to investigate competitive anxiety levels of athletes in relation to gender and types of sport participated. d sports. The Sport Anxiety Scale-2 questionnaire was used to collect data from subjects, which was constructed and developed by Smith et al. ^[1]. Seven hundred sports persons who participated at inter-university and state level competitions were sampled from both genders (350 males and 350 females). The type of sports was categorized into team sports (hockey, football and basketball), indigenous sports (kabaddi and kho kho), individual sports (athletics) and combat sports (wrestling). To examine the hypothesis of the study, descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation, ANOVA, and comparative statistics such as multivariate and univariate analysis of variance were applied. The study indicated that females showed significantly greater somatic anxiety and worry than their male counterparts; individual sport exhibited the least anxiety in all the subscales and combat sport showed higher anxiety in somatic and concentration disruption subscales. Indigenous games also showed significant amount of worry. This research confirms many previous studies that females are more predisposed to competitive anxiety while it contradicts notions that individual sport exhibits the highest levels of competitive anxiety.