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There are medal hopefuls and also last-ditch qualifiers… Here is a list of the Indian athletes who have made it for the Tokyo Olympics

15 Jul 2021

Indian athletes at the Tokyo Olympics (Representative image, India flag at Rio Olympics).

India are sending a 228-strong contingent (including the officials) for the Tokyo Olympics set to be staged in the Japanese capital from July 23 to August 8. There will be a total of 119 athletes, out of which 67 are male and 52 female. These participants include two relay teams and two hockey squads.

Here is a list of all Indians who qualified for the Olympics:

Archery

Tarundeep Rai, Men’s Recurve
Atanu Das, Men’s Recurve
Pravin Jadhav, Men’s Recurve
Deepika Kumari, Women's Recurve

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, women’s sabre event

Golf

Anirban Lahiri
Udayan Mane
Aditi Ashok

Gymnastics

Pranati Nayak, artistic gymnastics

Hockey

Men’s National Team

PR Sreejesh; Rupinder Pal Singh, Surender Kumar, Harmanpreet Singh, Birendra Lakra, Amit Rohidas, Manpreet Singh (Captain), Hardik Singh, Sumit, Nilakanta Sharma, Vivek Prasad, Dilpreet Singh, Gurjant Singh, Mandeep Singh, Lalit Upadhyay, Shamsher Singh. Varun Kumar, Simranjeet Singh

Women’s National Team

Savita, Deep Grace Ekka, Nikki Pradhan, Gurjit Kaur, Udita, Nisha, Neha, Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam, Monika, Navjot Kaur, Salima Tete, Rani Rampal, Navneet Kaur, Lalremsiami, Vandana Katariya, Sharmila Devi

Judo

Sushila Devi Likmabam, women's extra-lightweight - 48kg

Rowing

Arjun Jat and Arvind Singh (men’s lightweight double sculls)

Sailing

Nethra Kumanan, Laser Radial
Vishnu Saravanan, Laser Standard
KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar, 49er

Shooting

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 (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, 49kg

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

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