India in Tokyo Olympics: List of athletes who’ve certified up to now

A complete of 115 Indian athletes have certified for the Tokyo Olympics up to now, which start on July 23. The males’s and ladies’s hockey groups kind the largest fraction of the contingent, adopted by taking pictures and athletics.
Shooting
Shooting is about to be certainly one of India’s greatest bets for a medal on the Tokyo Games. If India’s London Olympics efficiency of six medals is to be matched or bettered, shooters have to account for a number of medals.
10m Women’s Air Rifle – Anjum Moudgil, Apurvi Chandela
10m Men’s Air Rifle – Divyansh Singh Panwar, Deepak Kumar
10m Women’s Air Pistol – Manu Bhaker, Yashaswini Singh Deswal
10m Men’s Air Pistol – Saurabh Chaudhary, Abhishek Verma
25m Women’s Pistol – Rahi Sarnobat, Elavenil Valarivan
50m Women’s Rifle 3 Position – Tejaswini Sawant
50m Men’s Rifle 3 Position – Sanjeev Rajput, Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar
Men’s Skeet – Angad Veer Singh Bajwa, Mairaj Ahmad Khan
Wrestling
Wrestling is one other robust swimsuit for India on the Tokyo Games. Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia are the largest medal hopes from the contingent.
Women’s Freestyle – Seema Bisla (50kg), Vinesh Phogat (53kg), Anshu Malik (57kg), Sonam Malik (62kg)
Men’s Freestyle – Ravi Kumar Dahiya (57kg), Bajrang Punia (65kg), Deepak Punia (86 kg)
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Hockey
This would be the twentieth Olympic Games to function the Indian males’s hockey group, who sit fourth on the planet rankings as of now.
Men’s National Team
Women’s National Team
Badminton
Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth failing to qualify for the Olympics was one of many largest upsets from an Indian perspective this 12 months. With wrestler Sakshi Malik additionally having didn’t qualify, PV Sindhu is the one Olympic medallist within the Indian contingent for the Tokyo Games.
Women’s singles – PV Sindhu
Men’s singles – B Sai Praneeth
Men’s doubles – Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty
PV Sindhu, who received a silver medal at Rio 2016, would be the just one within the Indian contingent to have beforehand medalled on the Games. (Reuters/FILE)
Archery
While Indians have been among the many greatest performing athletes in archery in numerous world occasions within the latest previous, the Olympics haven’t seen too many notable performances. The largest hope lie on the duo of Atanu Das and Deepika Kumari, who will compete within the particular person occasions in addition to the blended group occasion.
Men’s Recurve – Atanu Das, Tarundeep Rai, Pravin Jadhav
Women’s Recurve – Deepika Kumari
Boxing
India can even have its largest ever boxing contingent in Tokyo, with the long-lasting Mary Kom main the cost.
MC Mary Kom (Women’s, 51 kg), Simranjit Kaur (Women’s, 60kg), Lovlina Borgohain (Women’s, 69kg), Pooja Rani (Women’s, 75kg)
Amit Panghal (Men’s, 52kg), Manish Kaushik (Men’s, 63kg), Vikas Krishan (Men’s, 69kg), Ashish Kumar (Men’s, 75kg), Satish Kumar (Men’s, 91kg)
Weightlifting
Mirabai Chanu, who has been on a redemption run since her non-finish in Rio, would be the solely Indian weightlifter at Tokyo 2020, however she is a medal contender, having breached the 300 kg barrier just lately.
Athletics
Neeraj Chopra is anticipated to be India’s largest medal hope for the elusive athletics Olympic medal.
Men’s 3000m steeplechase – Avinash Sable
Men’s lengthy leap – Murali Sreeshankar
Men’s 400m Hurdles – MP Jabir
Men’s javelin throw – Neeraj Chopra, Shivpal Singh
Men’s shot put – Tajinderpal Singh Toor
Women’s discus throw – Kamalpreet Kaur, Seema Punia
Women’s Javelin throw – Annu Rani
Women’s 100m, 200m – Dutee Chand
Men’s 20km race strolling – KT Irfan, Sandeep Kumar, Rahul Rohilla
Women’s 20km race strolling – Bhawna Jat, Priyanka Goswami
4×400 Mixed Relay, 4×400 Men’s Relay groups
Can Neeraj Chopra finish India’s look forward to the elusive athletics medal?
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Equestrian
Fouaad Mirza is the primary Indian equestrian to qualify for the Games in 20 years.
Fencing
Bhavani Devi is the primary Indian fencer to qualify for the Olympics.
Golf
Anirban Lahiri, Udayan Mane
Aditi Ashok
Gymnastics
Pranati Nayak is the second Indian lady to qualify for the Olympics, following Dipa Karmakar’s success from Rio.
Judo
Sushila Devi Likmabam
Rowing
Arjun Jat and Arvind Singh
Sailing
Nethra Kumanan, Laser Radial
Vishnu Saravanan, Laser Standard
KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar, 49er
Swimming
India can have two swimmers to have routinely certified for the Olympics for the primary time in Tokyo. Both Sajan Prakash and Srihari Nataraj have achieved the ‘A’ qualification time.
Men’s 200m butterfly – Sajan Prakash
Men’s 100m backstroke – Srihari Nataraj
Women’s 100m backstroke – Maana Patel
Table Tennis
Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
Sutirtha Mukherjee, Manika Batra
Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra can even compete within the blended doubles.
Tennis
Women’s doubles – Sania Mirza, Ankita Raina