SunstarTV Bureau: India to send total 126 athlete in different disciplines to Tokyo for representing the country at the Olympics which begins from July 23.
The total strength of the Indian contingent including coaches and staff is total 227. This is the biggest-ever player bunch, India is sending to any Olympics.
A number of debutants also highest in the Olympic history of India. The notable name being Bhavani Devi, who is the first Indian fencer to qualify for the Olympics.
Nethra Kumanan is the first-ever female sailor from India to qualify for the Olympics, while Sajan Prakash and Srihari Nataraj are the first swimmers from India to qualify for Olympic games by achieving the “A” qualification standard in swimming.
Let’s look at the complete list of contingent:
Archery
Tarundeep Rai, Men’s Recurve.
Atanu Das, Men’s Recurve.
Pravin Jadhav, Men’s Recurve.
Deepika Kumari, Women’s Recurve.
Athletics
KT Irfan, Men’s 20km race walking.
Sandeep Kumar, Men’s 20km race walking.
Rahul Rohilla, Men’s 20km race walking.
Gurpreet Singh, Men’s 50km race walking.
Bhawna Jat, Women’s 20km race walking.
Priyanka Goswami, Women’s 20km race walking.
Avinash Sable, Men’s 3000m steeplechase.
Murali Sreeshankar, Men’s long jump.
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. 4×400 Mixed Relay.
Men’s 4x400m Relay.
Badminton
PV Sindhu, Women’s singles.
B Sai Praneeth, Men’s singles.
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, Men’s doubles.
Boxing
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)
Mary Kom (Women’s, 51kg)
Amit Panghal (Men’s, 52kg)
Manish Kaushik (Men’s, 63kg)
Simranjit Kaur (Women’s, 60kg)
Equestrian
Fouaad Mirza.
Fencing
Bhavani Devi.
Golf
Anirban Lahiri.
Udayan Mane.
Aditi Ashok.
Gymnastics
Pranati Nayak.
Hockey
Men’s National Team.
Women’s National Team.
Judo
Sushila Devi Likmabam.
Rowing
Arjun Jat.
Arvind Singh.
Sailing
Nethra Kumanan.
Vishnu Saravanan, Laser Standard.
KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar, 49er.
Shooting
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 (replaced by Elavenil Valarivan)
Angad Veer Singh Bajwa, Men’s Skeet.
Mairaj Ahmad Khan, Men’s Skeet.
Swimming
Sajan Prakash, men’s 200m butterfly.
Srihari Nataraj, men’s 100m backstroke.
Maana Patel, women’s 100m backstroke.
Table Tennis
Sharath Kamal.
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran.
Sutirtha Mukherjee.
Manika Batra.
Tennis
Sania Mirza and Ankita Raina, Women’s Doubles.
Weightlifting
Mirabai Chanu.
Wrestling
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.
