India at Tokyo Olympics: Here is the complete list of Indian Athletes qualified for the Summer Olympic Games

Nations all across the world are gearing up for the Tokyo Olympics which is scheduled to take place in Tokyo from July 23^rd to August 8th, 2021. The Olympics which were supposed to take place in the year 2020 had to be postponed to this year in light of the global pandemic of COVID-19. Even as Japan plans everything in accordance with the Covid protocols, a lot of athletes from many countries are facing issues due to travel bans and restrictions.

India is sending a large contingent of 115 athletes in 18 sports so far to the Tokyo Olympics. While you may have already heard of some due to their participation in the previous Olympics, there are some new additions, ready to make a name for themselves.

List of Indian athletes qualified for the Tokyo Olympics 2020

Archery

India has had many ace archers in recent times including Deepika Kumari and Atanu Das who won the gold medals in the Archery World Cup. Their performance is highly awaited in the upcoming Olympics.  

PLAYER NAME	EVENT
Tarundeep Rai	Men’s Recurve
Atanu Das	Men’s Recurve
Pravin Jadhav	Men’s Recurve
Deepika Kumari	Women’s Recurve
Atanu Das and Deepika Kumari	Mixed Team recurve
Tarundeep Rai, Atanu Das, Pravin Jadhav	Men’s Recurve Team

Athletics

While athletics has never been a strong field for India, KT Irfan raised the hopes of all Indians as he became the first Indian athlete to qualify for the 2021 Olympics. Neeraj Chopra’s recent gold in Lisbon shows that India stands a chance at clinching a gold this year.  As the 4x400m Mixed Relay team makes their debut this year, here is the list of athletes qualified for athletics this Olympics –

KT Irfan	Men’s 20km race walking
Sandeep Kumar	Men’s 20km race walking
Rahul Rohilla	Men’s 20km race walking
Avinash Sable	Men’s 3000m steeplechase
Murali Shreeshankar	Men’s long jump
Neeraj Chopra	Men’s javelin throw
Shivpal Singh	Men’s javelin throw
Tejinder Pal Singh Toor	Men’s shot put
Annu Rani	Women’s javelin throw
Kamalpreet Kaur	Women’s discus throw
Seema Punia	Women’s discus throw
Bhawna Jat	Women’s 20km race walking
Priyanka Goswami	Women’s 20km race walking
Dutee Chand	Women’s 100m and 200m sprint
Noah Nirmal Tom, Mohammed Anas Yahiya, Arokia Rajiv and Amoj Jacob	4x400m men’s relay
Muhammed Anas, VK Vismaya, Nirmal Noah, Jisna Mathew	4x400m mixed relay

Badminton

After missing the gold by just a small margin in the Rio Olympics, PV Sindhu steps back into the Olympic field in Tokyo with grit and in better form. A lot of hopes ride on the badminton players this year to win an Olympic medal.

PV Sindhu	Women’s singles
B Sai Praneeth	Men’s singles
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty	Men’s doubles

Boxing

With Mary Kom as the frontrunner, 9 boxers paved their way to Tokyo at the Asia Oceania boxing Olympic qualifiers held in Jordan.

Vikas Krishnan	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

India’s first qualification in an Equestrian event in Olympics came through Fouaad Mirza who sealed his spot with his performance at an event in Poland which helped him achieve the Minimum Eligibility Requirement.

Fouaad Mirza

Men’s individual eventing

Fencing

India shall have its first qualifier for fencing this Olympics. The 27- year old who has trained with the Italian National Fencing Team for the last few weeks has a lot of hopes riding on her.

Bhavani Devi

Women’s sabre fencing

Gymnastics

After Dipa Karmakar, Pranati Nayak is the only gymnast to have qualified for the Olympics. The 26-year old found her way into the Olympics after the Asian Championships of 2021 were cancelled.  

Pranati Nayak

Women’s artistic

Golf

Anirban Lahiri	Men’s Individual
Udayan Mane	Men’s Individual
Aditi Ashok	Women’s Individual

Hockey

Being the national sport, hockey has always been a pride of India. After winning the gold medals on multiple editions of the Olympics in the 20^th century, the hockey team has a reputation to uphold as they shall be the center of attention.

This will be the 20th Olympic Games list to feature the Indian men’s hockey team, who sit fourth in the world rankings, while the women’s side will be making their third appearance and second in succession.

Men’s National Team	Hockey
Women’s National Team	Hockey

Both teams qualified in November 2019 and each of them will carry a 16-member squad to Tokyo 2020.

Judo

Judoka Sushila Devi qualified for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics by claiming the continental quota. She is currently ranked 7th in Asia with in the 48kg category with 989 points.

Sushila Devi

Women’s 48kg

Rowing

Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh qualified for the Tokyo Olympics after finishing second in the Asia/Oceania Continental Qualifying Regatta in Tokyo.

Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh

Men’s lightweight double sculls

Sailing

While Indians have participated in the sailing events in Olympics in the past, this is the first time that they have qualified in multiple events in the same edition of the Olympics. Nethra Kumanan is the first woman sailor to have qualified for the Olympics.

Nethra Kumanan	Women’s laser radial
Vishnu Saravanan	Men’s laser standard
KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar	Men’s skiff 49er

Shooting

As many as 15 Indian shooters including Manu Bhaker and Elavenil Valarivan have achieved Olympic qualification so far, making it the country’s largest contingent at any Games with high medal expectations.

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 Air Rifle 3 Position
Sanjeev Rajput	50m Men’s Air Rifle 3 Position
Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar	50m Men’s Air Rifle 3 Position
Manu Bhaker	10m Women’s Air Pistol, Women’s 25m 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 Air Pistol
Elavenil Valarivan	10m Women’s Air Rifle
Angad Veer Singh Bajwa	Men’s skeet
Mairaj Ahmad Khan	Men’s skeet
Divyansh Singh Panwar and Elavenil Valarivan Deepak Kumar and Anjum Moudgil	10m Air Rifle – Mixed Team
Saurabh Chaudhary and Manu Bhaker Abhishek Verma and Yashaswini Singh Deswal	10m Air Pistol – Mixed Team

Swimming

For the first time in history, two Indians have earned automatic qualification for the Olympic Games.

Sajan Prakash	200m Men’s Butterfly
Srihari Nataraj	100m Men’s Backstroke
Maana Patel	100m Women’s Backstroke

Tennis

Former World No. 1 Sania Mirza will make the Olympics entry on the basis of her injury-protected ranking of No. 9. As per the rule, Sania can make the doubles draw with a partner ranked in the top-300. The 28-year-old Ankita Raina is 183 in singles and 95 in doubles. This will be Sania’s fourth Olympics appearance.

Sumit Nagpal	Men’s singles
Sania Mirza and Ankita Raina	Women’s doubles

Table Tennis

Four Indian players qualified for table tennis at the Asian Qualifiers held in Doha in March.

Achanta Sharath Kamal	Men’s singles
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran	Men’s singles
Manika Batra	Women’s doubles
Sutirtha Mukherjee	Women’s doubles
Achanta Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra	Mixed doubles

Weightlifting

Mirabai Chanu from Manipur qualified for weightlifting in Tokyo Olympics in the 49kg category and is the only weightlifter to have qualified so far.

Mirabai Chanu

Women’s 49kg

Wrestling

Wrestling has always brought India many laurels whether it was in Olympics or World Championships. Following the Phogat legacy, Vinesh Phogat is all set to make a name for herself as she comes back in better form this year after her injury in Rio Olympics. Medal expectations are quite high from the wrestling contingent which has brought at least one medal in the last few editions of Olympics.

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 86kg

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