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List of all Indian athletes qualified for the Tokyo Olympics


Archery

Archery India will send a total of four archers to the Tokyo Olympics in the following categories:
Men's Individual:- Atanu Das Tarundeep Rai Praveen Yadav
Men's Team:- Atanu Das, Tarundeep, Rai Praveen Yadav

Sports Olympics Deepika Kumari

Women's Individual:- Deepika Kumari

Sports Olympics Atanu Das & Deepika Kumari Tokyo

Mixed Team:- Deepika Kumari Atanu Das

Athletics
A total of 19 Indian athletes so far have achieved qualification for the Tokyo Olympics either by reaching the qualifying marks or by world ranking in the following track and field events

Irfan Kolothum Thodi (Men's 20km race walking)

Sandeep Kumar (Men's 20km race walking)

Rahul Rohilla (Men's 20km 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)

Sports Olympics Neeraj Chopra

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), Muhammed Anas Yahiya (Men's 4x400m relay), Noah Nirmal Tom (Men's 4x400m relay), Amoj Jacob (Men's 4x400m relay), Arokia Rajiv (Men's 4x400m relay), Mixed 4x400m Relay (Team not announced yet)

Badminton

Four Indian shuttlers have made their entry into the Tokyo Olympics, representing the country in three disciplines.

Sports Olympics PV Sindhu

PV Sindhu (Women's singles)

B Sai Praneeth (Men's singles), Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty (Men's doubles)

Boxing

India is sending its biggest-ever boxing contingent in the Games at the Tokyo Olympics. A total of nine boxers earned their Olympic qualification during the Asia-Oceania Olympic Qualifiers in Jordan in 2019.

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)

Sports Olympics Mary Kom

Mary Kom (Women's 51kg)

Amit Panghal (Men's 52kg), Manish Kaushik (Men's 63kg), Simranjit Kaur (Women's 60kg)

Equestrian

Sports olympics Fouaad Mirza

Fouaad Mirza
Double Asian Games medallist equestrian Fouaad Mirza officially became the first Indian to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics, ending a wait spanning two decades in January 2020.


Fencing

Sports olympics Bhavani Devi

Bhavani Devi
Tamil Nadu's CA Bhavani Devi has become the first-ever Indian fencer to qualify for the Tokyo Olympic Games in March 2021. Bhavani Devi qualified through the Adjusted Official Ranking (AOR) method. She was ranked 45th and occupied one of the two available slots based on the ranking.


Golf
Only three Indians have so far qualified for Tokyo Olympics in golf. They have qualified directly among the top 60 eligible players for the men's and women's event

Anirban Lahiri (Men's event), Udayan Mane (Men's event)

Sports olympics Aditi Ashok

Aditi Ashok (Women's event)


Gymnastics

Sports olympics Pranati Nayak

Pranati Nayak

Indian gymnast Pranati Nayak, who had claimed a bronze in vault at the Asian Artistic Gymnastic Championships in 2019, is set to compete at the Tokyo Olympics after qualifying through the continental quota.


Hockey

On November 2, 2019, the Indian men's hockey and women's hockey teams ensured their berth at the Tokyo Olympics with their respective victories at the FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifiers. Here's a look a the teams selected for the Tokyo Olympics:


Men's Hockey

Sports olympics Men's Hockey

Goalkeeper: PR Sreejesh Defenders: Harmanpreet Singh, Rupinder Pal Singh, Surender Kumar, Amit Rohidas, Birendra Lakra Midfielders: Hardik Singh, Manpreet Singh, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Nilakanta Sharma, Sumit Forwards: Shamsher Singh, Dilpreet Singh, Gurjant Singh, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Mandeep Singh Standbys: Krishan Pathak (goalkeeper), Varun Kumar (defender) and Simranjit Singh (midfielder)

Women's Hockey

Sports olympics indian Women's Hockey team

Goalkeeper: Savita Defenders: Deep Grace Ekka, Nikki Pradhan, Gurjit Kaur, Udita Midfielders: Nisha, Neha, Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam, Monika, Navjot Kaur, Salima Tete Forwards: Rani, Navneet Kaur, Lalremsiami, Vandana Katariya, Sharmila Devi Standby: E Rajani


Judo

Indian judoka Sushila Devi is the only one who has qualified for the Tokyo Olympics through the continental quota.

Sports olympics Sushila Devi

Sushila Devi Likmabam (Women's 48kg)

Rowing

India will be sending two rowers to the Tokyo Olympics, who will compete in the same category as pairs. It has qualified one boat in the men's lightweight double sculls for the Games by winning the silver medal and securing the first of three berths available at the 2021 FISA Asia & Oceania Olympic Qualification Regatta in Tokyo.

Sports olympics Arjun Jat and Arvind Singh

Arjun Jat and Arvind Singh (Men's lightweight double sculls)

Sailing

Indian sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2018 Sailing World Championships, the class-associated Worlds, the 2018 Asian Games, and the continental regattas, marking the country's return to the sport for the first time since 2008.

Sports Olympics Nethra Kumanan

Nethra Kumanan (Women's Laser Radial)

Vishnu Saravanan (Laser Standard), KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar (49er)

Shooting

Shooting remains one of India's biggest medal hopes at the Olympics, with 15 world-class shooters from the nation earning berths for Tokyo.


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), Yashaswini Singh Deswal (10m Women's Air Pistol)

Sports Olympics Manu Bhaker

Manu Bhaker (10m Women's Air Pistol)

Sports Olympics Saurabh Chaudhary

Saurabh Chaudhary (10m Men's Air Pistol)

Abhishek Verma (10m Men's Air Pistol), Rahi Sarnobat (25m Women's Pistol), Elavenil Valarivan (10m Women's Air Rifle), Angad Veer Singh Bajwa (Men's Skeet), Mairaj Ahmad Khan (Men's Skeet)

Swimming

This is for the first time Indian swimmers have attained direct qualification for an Olympics, breaching the A standard time. At the same time, the female swimmer will receive entry via Universality Invitation.


Men's 200m Butterfly:- Sajan Prakash

Sports Olympics Srihari Nataraj

Men's 100m Backstroke:- Srihari Nataraj

Women's 100m Backstroke:- Maana Patel

Table Tennis

For Indian paddlers, the wait to qualify for the Olympics was long and hard, given that it was only in March of this year that four players secured qualifications.

Men's Singles:- Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Achanta Sharath Kamal,
Women's Singles:- Manika Batra, Sutirtha Mukherjee

Sports Olympics Achanta Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra

Mixed Doubles:- Achanta Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra



Tennis

India has so far entered two athletes into tennis by using Sania Mirza's protected ranking of 9 in women's doubles category.

Sports Olympics Sania Mirza and Ankita Raina

Sania Mirza and Ankita Raina (Women's Doubles)

Weightlifting

India has sent the lone entry of Mirabai Chanu for the Tokyo Olympics after the former World champion was placed second in the women's 49kg Absolute Ranking released by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF). Mirabai gathered 4133,6172 points to come second behind Chinese Hou Zhihui (4926, 4422) in the rankings published by the IWF on Friday. The Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWLF) sent Mirabai's entry after the confirmation of her place from the 'world' quota.

Sports olympics Saikhom Mirabhai Chanu

Mirabai Chanu

Wrestling

India's Olympic contingent will have seven wrestlers who have shown an immense amount of promise. We take a look at the wrestlers who have qualified for the Games:

Seema Bisla (Women's Freestyle 50kg)

Sports Olympics Vinesh Phogat

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)

Sports olympics Bajrang Punia

Bajrang Punia (Men's Freestyle 65kg)

Deepak Punia (Men's Freestyle 86kg)


Top international achievements of India's Tokyo Olympics athletes

Deepika Kumari (Archery) Deepika Kumari born on (13 June 1994) is an Indian archer who will be representing India in women's recurve & mixed team event pairing up with Atanu Das at Tokyo Olympics.

Komalika Bari Deepika Kumari Ankita Bhakat Archery World Cup 2021

Achievements In the 2009 World Youth Championships, she won gold in individual cadet women's recurve event. In the 2010 Commonwealth games, she won gold in both individual women's recurve and women's team event. In the 2012 Turkey World cup, she won the individual recurve gold medal and was crowned as number one in Women's recurve archery in the same year. In the 2014 Wroclaw world cup, she won gold in the team event. In the 2015 World Championships, she won a silver medal in the team event. In the year 2016, Deepika kumara received the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian award in India. In the 2018 World cup, she won the first individual gold after six years in world cup which was held at Salt lake city, United states. In 2021 Paris World cup, she won hat-trick of gold medals winning individual, women's team and mixed team event. Since 2012, Deepika has won a total of 35 medals, including 11 gold medals across various events at the Archery World cup.

MC Mary Kom (Boxing) Mary Kom born on (24 November 1982) is an Indian boxer who will be representing India in 51kg category at Tokyo Olympics.

Sports Olympics Mary Kom

Achievements Women's world boxing championship was introduced in 2001 and Mary Kom has won a medal in each of the eight editions so far. World boxing championship: (2001 – Silver), (2002 – Gold), (2005 – Gold), (2006 – Gold), (2008 – Gold), (2010 – Gold), (2018 – Gold), (2019 – Bronze) She won a bronze medal in the 2010 Asian games in Guangzhou, China. She won a bronze medal in the 2012 London Olympics making her the final Indian woman to win a medal in boxing. At the 2014 Incheon Asian games, she won the gold medal, making her the first Indian woman to win the Asian games title. At the 2018 Commonwealth games, she went on win the gold medal, which was the only missing games medal in her cabinet.


Vinesh Phogat (Wrestling) Vinesh Phogat born on (25 August 1994) is a freestyle wrestler who will be representing India in 53kg category at the Olympics.

Sports Olympics Vinesh Phogat

Achievements Her first major medal was gold in 48kg category at the 2014 Glasgow commonwealth games. At the 2014 Incheon Asian games, she won a bronze medal in the 48kg category. She won gold medal in both 2018 Commonwealth and Asian games. In 2019, she jumped to 53kg category and won bronze medal at the Asian Wrestling Championship in 2019. She won her first gold medal in this category at the Asian Championship 2021 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.


Bajrang Punia (Wrestling) Bajrang Punia born on (26 February 1994) is a freestyle wrestler who will be representing India in 65kg category at the Olympics.

Sports olympics Bajrang Punia

Achievements First major medal came up at the 2013 World championship, where he won bronze medal in 60kg category. Won silver medal in the 2014 Incheon Asian games (61kg category) Won silver medal in the 2014 Commonwealth games (61kg category) Won silver medal in the 2018 World championship (65 kg category) First major gold at the games, when he won in the 2018 Commonwealth games (65kg category) Won bronze medal in the 2019 World championship. Recently, won silver medal in the 2021 Asian championship.


PV Sindhu (Badminton) PV Sindhu born on (5 July 1995) is an Indian professional badminton player who will be representing India in women's singles event at Tokyo Olympics.

Sports Olympics PV Sindhu

Achievements In 2013, she won her first grand prix title at the Malaysian open. In the same year of 2013, she won the bronze medal and made her the second Indian to win a medal at the World Badminton Championships. 2014 was a great year for her as she won bronze in women's singles at the commonwealth games, bronze in women's team event at the Asian games and one more bronze in World Badminton championship. In 2016, she won the silver medal at the Rio Olympics and became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic silver At the 2018 Commonwealth games, she won gold in the women's team and silver in the singles. At the 2018 Asian games, she won silver in the women's singles In 2019, she became the first Indian to win World Badminton championship when she won World Badminton Championship in Basel.

Sania Mirza (Tennis) Sania Mirza born on (15 November 1986) is a professional tennis player who will be representing India in women's doubles at the Tokyo Olympics. She will be pairing up with Ankita Raina in this event. The 34-years-old will be taking part in her fourth Olympics.

Sports Olympics Sania Mirza

Achievements In 2009, she partnered with Mahesh Bhupathi to clinch the Australian Open mixed doubles title. In 2010, she won silver in women's singles and bronze in women's doubles at the Commonwealth games. In 2012, she again partnered with Mahesh Bhupathi to win the French Open. In 2014, she partnered with Bruno Soares to win the US Open. In 2015, she partnered with Martina Hingis and won three back-to-back Grand slam titles ( Wimbeldon, US Open and Australian Open) and she even rose to number one in WTA Doubles Rankings. She has won 8 medals in Asian games starting from 2002 Asian games to 2014 Asian games.

Rani Rampal (Hockey) Rani Rampal born on (4 December 1994) is a hockey player who will be representing India in women's hockey at Tokyo Olympics. She will be leading the Indian women's hockey team in this Olympics.

Sports olympics Rani Rampal

Achievements In 2009, she was named as the "best youngest player of the tournament" in the FIH Women's Champions Challenge. Was part of the team that won silver at the 2009 Asia cup. Was named as the "best young player of the tournament" in the 2010 Women's Hockey World cup. She was named as the "Player of the tournament" at the 2013 Junior World cup. She was part of the team that won bronze medal in the 2014 Asian games. For her consistent performances, she was awarded with Arjuna award in 2016. In 2018, she was part of the team that won silver at the Asian games. In 2020, Government of India honoured her with the Padma Shri.

Saurabh Chaudhary (Shooting) Saurabh Chaudhary born on (12 May 2002) is a sports shooter who will be representing India in men's 10m air pistol & mixed team 10m air pistol at Tokyo Olympics.

Sports Olympics Saurabh Chaudhary

Achievements Won gold medal in 10m air pistol at the 2018 Youth Olympics Won gold medals in all three events: 10m air pistol, team event and mixed team event at the 2018 ISSF Junior World cup. Won gold medal in 10m air pistol at the 2018 Asian games. At the ISSF World cups, he has 13 medals (8 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze) i two gold medals came in 10m air pistol individual event.

Saikhom Mirabhai Chanu (weightlifting) Saikhom Mirabhai Chanu born on (8 August 1994) is an Indian weightlifter who will be representing India in 49kg category at Tokyo Olympics.

Sports olympics Saikhom Mirabhai Chanu

Achievements In 2014, she rose to fame by winning silver medal in 48kg category at the 2014 Commonwealth games in Glagow, Scotland, at the age of 20. In 2017, won gold at the World Weightlifting Championship in United States and became the first Indian weightlifter to achieve it in over two decades. In 2018, she received both Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna and Padma Shri from the government. In 2021, she created new world record in the women's 49kg clean and jerk with a lift of 119kg.

Neeraj Chopra (Athletics) Neeraj Chopra born on (24 December 1997) will be representing India in Javelin throw at the Olympics

Sports Olympics Neeraj Chopra

Achievements In 2016, he won his first international gold medal at the South Asian games in Guwahati. In 2016, he won a gold medal at IAAF World U20 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland. He also set a world junior record of 86.48m In 2017, he won the gold medal at the Asian Championship held in Bhubaneshwar, Odisha In 2018, he won gold at the 2018 Asian games in Jakarta, where he created a national record of 88.06m. In addition to gold in Asian games, he won gold in three more competitions in 2018, including the gold in Commonwealth games in Australia, the Sotteville Athletics Meet in France and the Savo games in Finland. In 2018, he was awarded with Arjuna award by The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India. He broke his own national record by throwing 88.07 at the Indian Grand Prix 3 in Patiala this year.

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