India at Tokyo Olympics: See the full list of all athletes who booked a place at the Olympics

New Delhi, July 1: With Tokyo Olympics taking place in less than a month, more than 100 Indian athletes have already earned a quota for next year’s showpiece event in Japan while there are chances for other athletes to qualify for the world's biggest sports event.

 

 

 

According to the stats, India has won 28 medals in 31 editions of the summer games. However, this time the Indian contingent can hope for more medals than ever, given their incredible performance showcased in various events. So far, the London Olympics in 2012 has proven to be India's best show at the Games as India has bagged six medals. With a total of 117 members, here's a look at the athletes qualified for the Olympics in Tokyo:

 

• Tarundeep Rai, Men’s Recurve
• Atanu Das, Men’s Recurve
• Pravin Jadhav, Men’s Recurve
• Deepika Kumari, Women's Recurve

The men's trio will also compete as a team at Tokyo 2020.

 

Atanu Das and Deepika Kumari will also feature in the mixed team event.

 

 

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:

 

 

MP Jabir

 

 

Muhammed Anas Yahiya

Noah Nirmal Tom

Amoj Jacob

Arokia Rajiv

 

 

Sandeep Kumar

Rahul Rohila

Irfan Kolothum Thodi

 

 

Avinash Sable

 

 

Dutee Chand

 

 

Dutee Chand

 

 

Priyanka Goswami

Bhavna Jat

 

 

 

Neeraj Chopra

Shivpal Singh

 

 

Murali Sreeshankar

 

 

Tajindarpal Singh Toor

 

 

Kamalpreet Kaur

Seema Punia

 

 

Annu Rani

 

 

PV Sindhu, Women’s singles

 

B Sai Praneeth, Men’s singles

 

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, Men’s doubles

 

 

The Indian boxers punched as many as nine tickets to the Tokyo Olympics at the Asia Oceania boxing Olympic qualifiers held in Amman, Jordan.

• 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)
• Mary Kom (Women's, 51kg)
• Amit Panghal (Men's, 52kg)
• Manish Kaushik (Men's, 63kg)
• Simranjit Kaur (Women's, 60kg)

 

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

 

 

Bhavani Devi became the first Indian fencer to qualify for the Olympics. The sabre fencer from Chennai 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.

 

 

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. Here's a look:

 

 

Anirban Lahiri

Udayan Mane

 

 

Aditi Ashok

 

 

Pranati Nayak is only the second Indian woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics. The artistic gymnast made the cut in May via the Asian quota.

 

 

This will be the 20th Olympic Games list to feature the Indian men’s hockey team while the women’s side will be making their third appearance and second in succession. Both teams qualified in November 2019 and each of them will carry a 16-member squad to Tokyo 2020.

 

 

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)

 

 

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

 

 

Indian judoka Sushila Devi is the only one who has qualified for the Tokyo Olympics through the continental quota. She will be competing in 48kg.

 

 

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.

 

 

Nethra Kumanan became the first Indian woman sailor to qualify for the Olympics at the Mussanah Open Championship 2021 in April. Three other Indian sailors also made the Tokyo cut in Oman. For the first time India will be competing in more than one sailing event at the Games - Laser Radial, Laser Standard and 49er. India never had more than two sailors at a single Olympics before.

• Nethra Kumanan, Laser Radial
• Vishnu Saravanan, Laser Standard
• KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar, 49er

 

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

 

 

Divyansh Singh Panwar

Deepak Kumar

 

 

Apurvi Chandela

Elavenil Valarivan

 

 

Saurabh Chaudhary

Abhishek Verma

 

 

Manu Bhaker

Yashaswini Singh Deswal

 

 

Sanjeev Rajput

Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar

 

 

Anjum Moudgil

Tejaswini Sawant

 

 

Manu Bhaker

Rahi Sarnobat

Men's Skeet

Angad Bajwa

Mairaj Ahmad Khan

 

 

Divyansh Singh Panwar and Elavenil Valarivan

Deepak Kumar and Anjum Moudgil

Mixed Team 10m Air Pistol

Saurabh Chaudhary and Manu Bhaker

Abhishek Verma and Yashaswini Singh Deswal

 

 

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.

 

Sajan Prakash

Srihari Nataraj

 

 

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.

 

 

Sathiyan Gnanasekaran

Achanta Sharath Kamal

 

 

Manika Batra

Sutirtha Mukherjee

 

 

Achanta Sharath Kamal

Manika Batra

 

 

Mirabai Chanu will be India's only representative in weightlifting at Tokyo 2020. Ranked second in the world, the former world champion is among the favourites for a medal in the women's 49kg weight division.

 

 

There will be seven wrestlers from India competing at Tokyo 2020. While the grapplers secured a quota place for their country in their respective categories, the Wrestling Association of India has confirmed their seats for Tokyo 2020.

 

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 86 kg