India at Tokyo Olympics: Where do Indian athletes for the Summer Olympic Games hail from?

Athletes from all across the world have started arriving in the host city for the much anticipated Tokyo Olympics. The quadrennial event is scheduled to take place in Tokyo from July 23^rd to August 8^th, 2021. The Olympics were supposed to take place in 2020 but had to be postponed to this year in light of the global pandemic of COVID-19.

India has sent a record 127 athletes to the Summer Games with many ranked in the top 10 of their respective sports. This is India’s best-ever chance at scripting history on the grand stage. The Indian Olympic contingent has been touted to bring home a historic medal bounty and it will be interesting to see how they cope with the tremendous pressure of the grand stage.

With only 2 days to go for the Tokyo Olympics, the first of its kind following the deadly pandemic, let’s take a look at the states from where India’s Olympians for the first Olympics of the decade come from.

State-wise split of Tokyo Olympics-bound athletes

Haryana and Punjab, who have been the powerhouse of Indian sports are the ones leading the list. Despite housing only 4% of the nation’s population, the north Indian states are home to 40% of the athletes who will be featuring at the Olympic Games.

STATES	NO. OF ATHLETES
Haryana	31
Punjab	14
Kerala	9
Maharashtra	8
Tamil Nadu	8
Uttar Pradesh	8
Karnataka	7
Rajasthan	5
Odisha	4
Andhra Pradesh	3
Delhi	3
Jharkhand	3
West Bengal	3
Assam	1
Himachal Pradesh	1
Madhya Pradesh	1
Mizoram	1
Sikkim	1

Where do Indian athletes qualified for the Tokyo Olympics 2020 hail from?

Archery

ATHLETE	EVENT	STATE
Tarundeep Rai	Men’s Recurve	Sikkim
Atanu Das	Men’s Recurve	West Bengal
Pravin Jadhav	Men’s Recurve	Maharastra
Deepika Kumari	Women’s Recurve	Jharkhand
Atanu Das and Deepika Kumari	Mixed Team recurve	West Bengal/ Jharkhand
Tarundeep Rai, Atanu Das, Pravin Jadhav	Men’s Recurve Team	Sikkim/ West Bengal/ Maharastra

Athletics

ATHLETE	EVENT	STATE
KT Irfan	Men’s 20km race walking	Kerala
Sandeep Punia	Men’s 20km race walking	Haryana
Rahul Rohilla	Men’s 20km race walking	Haryana
Gurpreet Singh	Men’s 50km race walking	Punjab
Avinash Sable	Men’s 3000m steeplechase	Maharashtra
Murali Shreeshankar	Men’s long jump	Kerala
Jabir M Palliayli	Men’s 400m hurdles	Kerala
Neeraj Chopra	Men’s javelin throw	Haryana
Shivpal Singh	Men’s javelin throw	Uttar Pradesh
Tejinder Pal Singh Toor	Men’s shot put	Punjab
Annu Rani	Women’s javelin throw	Uttar Pradesh
Kamalpreet Kaur	Women’s discus throw	Punjab
Seema Punia	Women’s discus throw	Haryana
Bhawna Jat	Women’s 20km race walking	Rajasthan
Priyanka Goswami	Women’s 20km race walking	Uttar Pradesh
Dutee Chand	Women’s 100m and 200m sprint	Odisha
Noah Nirmal Tom, Mohammed Anas Yahiya, Arokia Rajiv and Amoj Jacob	4x400m men’s relay	Kerala/ Kerala/ Tamil Nadu/ Delhi
Alex Antony, Sarthak Bhambri, Revathi Veeramani, Subha Venkatesan and Dhanlakshmi Sekhar	4x400m mixed relay	Kerala/ Delhi/ Tamil Nadu

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Badminton

ATHLETE	EVENT	STATE
PV Sindhu	Women’s singles	Andhra Pradesh
B Sai Praneeth	Men’s singles	Andhra Pradesh
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty	Men’s doubles	Andhra Pradesh/ Maharashtra

Boxing

ATHLETE	EVENT	STATE
Vikas Krishnan	Men’s 69kg	Haryana
Lovlina Borgohain	Women’s 69kg	Assam
Ashish Kumar	Men’s 75kg	Himachal Pradesh
Pooja Rani	Women’s 75kg	Haryana
Satish Kumar	Men’s 91kg	Uttar Pradesh
Mary Kom	Women’s 51kg	Manipur
Amit Panghal	Men’s 52kg	Haryana
Manish Kaushik	Men’s 63kg	Haryana
Simranjit Kaur	Women’s 60kg	Punjab

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Equestrian

ATHLETE	EVENT	STATE
Fouaad Mirza	Men’s individual eventing	Karnataka

Fencing

ATHLETE	EVENT	STATE
Bhavani Devi	Women’s sabre fencing	Tamil Nadu

Gymnastics

ATHLETE	EVENT	STATE
Pranati Nayak	Women’s artistic	West Bengal

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Golf

ATHLETE	EVENT	STATE
Anirban Lahiri	Men’s Individual	Karnataka
Udayan Mane	Men’s Individual	Karnataka
Aditi Ashok	Women’s Individual	Karnataka

Hockey

Team	Players	States
Men’s National Team	Manpreet Singh	Punjab
	PR Sreejesh	Kerala
	Harmanpreet Singh	Punjab
	Rupinder Pal Singh	Punjab
	Surender Kumar	Haryana
	Amit Rohidas	Odisha
	Birendra Lakra	Odisha
	Hardik Singh	Punjab
	Vivek Sagar Prasad	Madhya Pradesh
	Nilakanta Sharma	Manipur
	Sumit	Haryana
	Shamsher Singh	Punjab
	Dilpreet Singh	Punjab
	Gurjant Singh	Punjab
	Lalit Kumar Upadhyay	Uttar Pradesh
	Mandeep Singh	Punjab
Women’s National Team	Rani Rampal	Haryana
	Savita Punia	Haryana
	Deep Grace Ekka	Odisha
	Nikki Pradhan	Jharkhand
	Gurjit Kaur	Punjab
	Udita	Haryana
	Nisha	Haryana
	Neha Goyal	Haryana
	Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam	Manipur
	Monika Malik	Haryana
	Navjot Kaur	Haryana
	Salima Tete	Jharkhand
	Navneet Kaur	Haryana
	Lalremsiami	Mizoram
	Vandana Katariya	Uttar Pradesh
	Sharmila Devi	Haryana

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Judo

ATHLETE	EVENT	STATE
Sushila Devi	Women’s 48kg	Manipur

Rowing

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ATHLETES	EVENT	STATE
Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh	Men’s lightweight double sculls	Rajasthan/Uttar Pradesh

Sailing

ATHLETE	EVENT	STATE
Nethra Kumanan	Women’s laser radial	Tamil Nadu
Vishnu Saravanan	Men’s laser standard	Tamil Nadu
KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar	Men’s skiff 49er	Tamil Nadu

Shooting

ATHLETES	EVENTS	STATE
Apurvi Chandela	10m Women’s Air Rifle	Rajasthan
Divyansh Singh Panwar	10m Men’s Air Rifle	Rajasthan
Deepak Kumar	10m Men’s Air Rifle	Delhi
Tejaswini Sawant	50m Women’s Air Rifle 3 Position	Maharashtra
Sanjeev Rajput	50m Men’s Air Rifle 3 Position	Haryana
Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar	50m Men’s Air Rifle 3 Position	Madhya Pradesh
Manu Bhaker	10m Women’s Air Pistol, Women’s 25m Air Pistol	Rajasthan
Yashaswini Singh Deswal	10m Women’s Air Pistol	Delhi
Saurabh Chaudhary	10m Men’s Air Pistol	Uttar Pradesh
Abhishek Verma	10m Men’s Air Pistol	Haryana
Rahi Sarnobat	25m Women’s Air Pistol	Maharashtra
Elavenil Valarivan	10m Women’s Air Rifle	Tamil Nadu
Angad Veer Singh Bajwa	Men’s skeet	Haryana
Mairaj Ahmad Khan	Women’s skeet	Uttar Pradesh
Divyansh Singh Panwar and Elavenil Valarivan Deepak Kumar and Anjum Moudgil	10m Air Rifle – Mixed Team	Rajasthan/Tamil Nadu Delhi/Punjab
Saurabh Chaudhary and Manu Bhaker Abhishek Verma and Yashaswini Singh Deswal	10m Air Pistol – Mixed Team	Uttar Pradesh/Rajasthan Haryana/Delhi

Swimming

ATHLETE	EVENT	STATE
Sajan Prakash	200m Men’s Butterfly	Kerala
Srihari Nataraj	100m Men’s Backstroke	Karnataka
Maana Patel	100m Women’s Backstroke	Gujurat

Tennis

ATHLETES	EVENT	STATE
Sumit Nagpal	Men’s singles	Haryana
Sania Mirza and Ankita Raina	Women’s doubles	Telangana/Gujurat

Table Tennis

ATHLETE	EVENT	STATE
Achanta Sharath Kamal	Men’s singles	Tamil Nadu
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran	Men’s singles	Tamil Nadu
Manika Batra	Women’s doubles	Delhi
Sutirtha Mukherjee	Women’s doubles	West Bengal
Achanta Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra	Mixed doubles	Tamil Nadu/Delhi

Weightlifting

ATHLETE	EVENT	STATE
Mirabai Chanu	Women’s 49kg	Manipur

Wrestling

ATHLETE	EVENT	STATE
Seema Bisla	Women’s Freestyle 50kg	Haryana
Vinesh Phogat	Women’s Freestyle 53kg	Haryana
Anshu Malik	Women’s Freestyle 57kg	Haryana
Sonam Malik	Women’s Freestyle 62kg	Haryana
Ravi Kumar Dahiya	Men’s Freestyle 57kg	Haryana
Bajrang Punia	Men’s Freestyle 65kg	Haryana
Deepak Punia	Men’s Freestyle 86kg	Haryana

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