India at Tokyo 2020: List of Indian Athletes participating at the Olympics

The number of Indian athletes participating in the Summer Olympics has increased in the last three sessions, and all signs indicate that the best athletes continuing the same trend for India in the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Till now, More than 100 Indian athletes have qualified for the Tokyo Olympics. Which includes two relay and two hockey teams.

Here is the list of names of all Indians qualified for the Olympics in Tokyo:

Archery

1. Tarundeep Rai, Men’s Recurve
2. Atanu Das, Men’s Recurve
3. Pravin Jadhav, Men’s Recurve
4. Deepika Kumari, Women’s Recurve

Athletics

1. KT Irfan, Men’s 20km race walking
2. Sandeep Kumar, Men’s 20km race walking
3. Rahul Rohilla, Men’s 20km race walking
4. Gurpreet Singh, Men’s 50km race walking
5. Bhawna Jat, Women’s 20km race walking
6. Priyanka Goswami, Women’s 20km race walking
7. Avinash Sable, Men’s 3000m steeplechase
8. Murali Sreeshankar, Men’s long jump
9. MP Jabir, Men’s 400m hurdles
10. Neeraj Chopra, Men’s javelin throw
11. Shivpal Singh, Men’s javelin throw
12. Annu Rani, Women’s javelin throw
13. Tajinderpal Singh Toor, Men’s shot put
14. Dutee Chand, Women’s 100m and 200m
15. Kamalpreet Kaur, Women’s discus throw
16. Seema Punia, Women’s discus throw
17. 4×400 Mixed Relay
18. Men’s 4x400m Relay

Badminton

1. PV Sindhu, Women’s singles
2. B Sai Praneeth, Men’s singles
3. Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, Men’s doubles

Boxing

1. Vikas Krishan (Men’s, 69kg)
2. Lovlina Borgohain (Women’s, 69kg)
3. Ashish Kumar (Men’s, 75kg)
4. Pooja Rani (Women’s, 75kg)
5. Satish Kumar (Men’s, 91kg)
6. Mary Kom (Women’s, 51kg)
7. Amit Panghal (Men’s, 52kg)
8. Manish Kaushik (Men’s, 63kg)
9. Simranjit Kaur (Women’s, 60kg)

Equestrian

Fouaad Mirza is the first Indian equestrian to qualify for the Olympics in 20 years. He sealed his spot after topping the group in the individual event category at the South East Asia and Oceanic qualifiers in November 2019.

Fencing

Bhavani Devi became the first Indian fencer to qualify for the Olympics. The Chennai fencer booked her slot for Tokyo 2020 through the Adjusted Official Ranking (AOR) method at the Budapest Sabre World Cup, an Olympic qualifying event, in Hungary in March.

Golf

1. Anirban Lahiri
2. Udayan Mane
3. Aditi Ashok

Gymnastics

Pranati Nayak is only the second Indian woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics 2020. she got her spot in May via the Asian quota.

Hockey

1. Men’s National Team
2. Women’s National Team

Both teams, led by Manpreet Singh (men’s) and Rani Rampal (women’s), qualified last year in November 2019 and each team carry an 18-member squad to Tokyo 2020.

Judo

Sushila Devi Likmabam will be India’s only participant in Judo at Tokyo 2020.

Rowing

Indian rowers Arjun Jat and Arvind Singh qualified in the men’s lightweight double sculls event at the Asian qualifiers in Tokyo, Japan in May.

Sailing

1. Nethra Kumanan, Laser Radial
2. Vishnu Saravanan, Laser Standard
3. KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar, 49er

Shooting

1. Anjum Moudgil, 10m Women’s Air Rifle
2. Apurvi Chandela, 10m Women’s Air Rifle
3. Divyansh Singh Panwar, 10m Men’s Air Rifle
4. Deepak Kumar, 10m Men’s Air Rifle
5. Tejaswini Sawant, 50m Women’s Rifle 3 Position
6. Sanjeev Rajput, 50m Men’s Rifle 3 Position
7. Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar, 50m Men’s Rifle 3 Position
8. Manu Bhaker, 10m Women’s Air Pistol
9. Yashaswini Singh Deswal, 10m Women’s Air Pistol
10. Saurabh Chaudhary, 10m Men’s Air Pistol
11. Abhishek Verma, 10m Men’s Air Pistol
12. Rahi Sarnobat, 25m Women’s Pistol
13. Chinki Yadav, 25m Women’s Pistol (replaced by Elavenil Valarivan)
14. Angad Veer Singh Bajwa, Men’s Skeet
15. Mairaj Ahmad Khan, Men’s Skeet

Swimming

1. Sajan Prakash, men’s 200m butterfly
2. Srihari Nataraj, men’s 100m backstroke
3. Maana Patel, women’s 100m backstroke

Table Tennis

1. Sharath Kamal
2. Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
3. Sutirtha Mukherjee
4. Manika Batra

Tennis

1. Sania Mirza and Ankita Raina, Women’s Doubles
2. Sumit Nagal, Men’s Singles

Weightlifting

Mirabai Chanu will be India’s only representative in weightlifting at Tokyo 2020.

Wrestling

1. Seema Bisla, Women’s Freestyle, 50kg
2. Vinesh Phogat, Women’s Freestyle 53kg
3. Anshu Malik, Women’s Freestyle 57kg
4. Sonam Malik, Women’s Freestyle 62kg
5. Ravi Kumar Dahiya, Men’s Freestyle 57kg
6. Bajrang Punia, Men’s Freestyle 65kg
7. Deepak Punia, Men’s Freestyle 86 kg