India might be sending a 228-strong contingent to the Tokyo Olympics, together with 119 athletes, Indian Olympic Association president Narinder Batra stated on Tuesday (July 13). Out of the 119 athletes, 67 are male and 52 feminine contributors, Batra stated throughout Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s interplay with Olympic-bound athletes.
“The total Indian contingent for Tokyo Olympics will be 228. There will be 67 male athletes and 52 female athletes. We are fighting for 85 medal events,” Batra stated within the digital interplay. This might be India’s largest ever contingent of athletes on the Olympics.
Below are the names of all Indians certified for the Olympics in Tokyo…
Archery:
Tarundeep Rai (Men’s Recurve), Atanu Das (Men’s Recurve), Pravin Jadhav (Men’s Recurve),
Deepika Kumari (Women’s Recurve) and the boys’s trio may also compete as a crew
Athletics:
The self-discipline has by no means been India’s robust go well with on the Olympics however rising javelin throwers Neeraj Chopra and Shivpal Singh would be the nation’s greatest hopes this time round.
The 4×400 combined relay, which is able to make its debut at Tokyo 2020, may also see an Indian crew, which had Asian Games gold-medallist Muhammed Anas, after they completed third on the World Athletics Championships in 2019.
Here are the athletes within the completely different athletics occasions…
KT Irfan (Men’s 20km race strolling), Sandeep Kumar (Men’s 20km race strolling), Rahul Rohilla (Men’s 20km race strolling), Gurpreet Singh (Men’s 50km race strolling), Bhawna Jat (Women’s 20km race strolling), Priyanka Goswami (Women’s 20km race strolling), Avinash Sable (Men’s 3000m steeplechase), Murali Sreeshankar (Men’s lengthy bounce), MP Jabir (Men’s 400m hurdles),
Neeraj Chopra (Men’s javelin throw), Shivpal Singh (Men’s javelin throw), Annu Rani (Women’s javelin throw), Tajinderpal Singh Toor (Men’s shot put), Dutee Chand (Women’s 100m and 200m), Kamalpreet Kaur (Women’s discus throw), Seema Punia (Women’s discus throw)
Badminton:
World champion PV Sindhu might be aiming to enhance on her silver medal from the final Games when she hits the courtroom in Tokyo within the girls’s singles occasion.
PV Sindhu (Women’s singles), B Sai Praneeth (Men’s singles), Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty (Men’s doubles)
Boxing:
The Indian boxers punched as many as 9 tickets to the Tokyo Olympics on the Asia Oceania boxing Olympic qualifiers held in Amman, Jordan.
Vikas Krishan (Men’s, 69kg), Lovlina Borgohain (Women’s, 69kg), Ashish Kumar (Men’s, 75kg)
Pooja Rani (Women’s, 75kg), Satish Kumar (Men’s, 91kg), MC Mary Kom (Women’s, 51kg), Amit Panghal (Men’s, 52kg), Manish Kaushik (Men’s, 63kg), Simranjit Kaur (Women’s, 60kg)
Equestrian:
Fouaad Mirza is the primary Indian equestrian to qualify for the Games in 20 years. He sealed his quota in eventing after topping the group within the particular person occasion class on the South East Asia and Oceanic qualifiers in November 2019.
Fencing:
Bhavani Devi grew to become the primary Indian fencer to qualify for the Olympics. The sabre fencer from Chennai booked her slot for Tokyo 2020 by the Adjusted Official Ranking (AOR) methodology on the Budapest Sabre World Cup, an Olympic qualifying occasion, in Hungary in March.
Golf:
India’s participation in golf at Tokyo 2020 will characteristic Anirban Lahiri and Udayan Mane within the males’s and Aditi Ashok within the girls’s occasions. Udayan, who made the lower as a substitute, might be making his Olympic debut.
Gymnastics:
Pranati Nayak is simply the second Indian girl gymnast to qualify for the Olympics. The creative gymnast made the lower in May by way of the Asian quota.
Hockey: Men’s National Team and Women’s National Team
This would be the twentieth Olympic Games list to characteristic the Indian males’s hockey crew whereas the ladies’s aspect might be making their third look and second in succession.
Judo:
Sushila Devi Likmabam might be India’s solely participant in Judo at Tokyo 2020. She made the Olympic lower within the girls’s extra-lightweight (48kg) division because the highest-ranked Asian judoka outdoors the highest 18 on the Olympic Game Quota (OGQ) rankings list.
Rowing:
Indian rowers Arjun Jat and Arvind Singh certified within the males’s light-weight double sculls occasion on the Asian qualifiers in Tokyo, Japan in May.
Sailing:
Nethra Kumanan grew to become the primary Indian girl sailor to qualify for the Olympics on the Mussanah Open Championship 2021 in April. Three different Indian sailors additionally made the Tokyo lower in Oman.
Nethra Kumanan (Laser Radial), Vishnu Saravanan (Laser Standard), KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar (49er)
Shooting:
As many as 15 Indian shooters have achieved Olympic qualification thus far, making it the nation’s largest contingent at any Games.
Anjum Moudgil (10m Women’s Air Rifle), Apurvi Chandela (10m Women’s Air Rifle), Divyansh Singh Panwar (10m Men’s Air Rifle), Deepak Kumar (10m Men’s Air Rifle), Tejaswini Sawant (50m Women’s Rifle 3 Position), Sanjeev Rajput (50m Men’s Rifle 3 Position), Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar (50m Men’s Rifle 3 Position), Manu Bhaker (10m Women’s Air Pistol), Yashaswini Singh Deswal (10m Women’s Air Pistol), Saurabh Chaudhary (10m Men’s Air Pistol), Abhishek Verma (10m Men’s Air Pistol), Rahi Sarnobat (25m Women’s Pistol), Chinki Yadav (25m Women’s Pistol, changed by Elavenil Valarivan), Angad Veer Singh Bajwa (Men’s Skeet), Mairaj Ahmad Khan (Men’s Skeet)
Swimming:
Sajan Prakash grew to become the primary Indian to straight qualify for the Olympics when he achieved the elusive ‘A’ lower. He will compete within the 200m butterfly occasion. Srihari Nataraj too managed to obtain the ‘A’ lower within the 100m backstroke a day later. Maana Patel certified by way of the universality quota, which ensures three Indians swimmers will compete on the Summer Games for the primary time.
Sajan Prakash (males’s 200m butterfly), Srihari Nataraj (males’s 100m backstroke), Maana Patel (girls’s 100m backstroke)
Table Tennis:
Four Indian desk tennis gamers certified for the Olympics on the Asian qualifiers in Doha in March. It contains the veteran Sharath Kamal, who might be making his fourth look on the Games. While G Sathiyan and Sutirtha Mukherjee sealed their Tokyo spots with wins of their respective teams, Manika Batra and Sharath Kamal booked their place on the idea of their rankings.
Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra may also compete collectively within the combined doubles after incomes their Olympic berths on the Asian qualifiers.
Tennis:
For the primary time since 1992, no Indian male tennis participant will play on the Olympic Games. Only Sania Mirza certified for Tokyo 2020 by way of her protected rating and he or she has chosen Ankita Raina to be her accomplice within the girls’s doubles.
Sania Mirza and Ankita Raina (Women’s Doubles)
Weightlifting:
Mirabai Chanu might be India’s solely consultant in weightlifting at Tokyo 2020. Ranked second on the earth, the previous world champion is among the many favourites for a medal within the girls’s 49kg weight division.
Wrestling:
There might be seven wrestlers from India competing at Tokyo 2020. While the grapplers secured a quota place for their nation of their respective classes, the Wrestling Association of India has confirmed their seats for Tokyo 2020. With Sonam Malik profitable the quota within the 62kg class, Rio 2016 bronze medallist Sakshi Malik is not going to be wrestling on the Tokyo Olympics.
Seema Bisla (Women’s Freestyle, 50kg), Vinesh Phogat (Women’s Freestyle 53kg), Anshu Malik (Women’s Freestyle 57kg), Sonam Malik (Women’s Freestyle 62kg), Ravi Kumar Dahiya (Men’s Freestyle 57kg), Bajrang Punia (Men’s Freestyle 65kg), Deepak Punia (Men’s Freestyle 86 kg)
