List of Indian Participants at Tokyo Olympics 2020

Covid – 19 turned everybody’s life upside down. Work from home and online learning became the new normal. For the first time, the CBSE class 12th boards were cancelled,  various entrance exams were postponed and many events got cancelled. Much awaited Olympics 2020 was postponed due to the global pandemic. After a year-long wait, the Olympics are finally just a few days away. 

12 Indian athletes have qualified for the Tokyo Olympics so far. In the 2016 Rio Olympics, 117 Indian athletes had qualified but couldn’t match up to the medals haul from the 2012 London Games, which remains India’s highest medal tally at a single Olympic Games – six medals. We are hoping that threshold could be crossed in Tokyo with quite a few Indian athletes topping the world ranking charts.  The men’s and women’s hockey teams form the biggest fraction of the contingent. This is followed by shooting and athletics. In this blog, we have listed the game-wise participants of the Olympics from India.

Weightlifting

• Mirabai Chanu

Could not have asked for a happier start to @Tokyo2020! India is elated by @mirabai_chanu’s stupendous performance. Congratulations to her for winning the Silver medal in weightlifting. Her success motivates every Indian. #Cheer4India #Tokyo2020 pic.twitter.com/B6uJtDlaJo

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) July 24, 2021

I am really happy on winning silver medal in #Tokyo2020 for my country 🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/gPtdhpA28z

— Saikhom Mirabai Chanu (@mirabai_chanu) July 24, 2021

Wrestling

• Seema Bisla (Women’s Freestyle 50kg)
• Ravi Kumar Dahiya (Men’s Freestyle 57kg)
• Bajrang Punia (Men’s Freestyle 65kg)
• Vinesh Phogat (Women’s Freestyle 53kg)
• Anshu Malik (Women’s Freestyle 57kg)
• Sonam Malik (Women’s Freestyle 62kg)
• Deepak Punia (Men’s Freestyle 86kg)

🤼‍♀️🇮🇳🎯

🎥:- @wrestling pic.twitter.com/qv5S2j1QfF

— Vinesh Phogat (@Phogat_Vinesh) April 18, 2021

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Archery

• Tarundeep Rai (Men’s Recurve)
• Deepika Kumari (Women’s Recurve)
• Atanu Das (Men’s Recurve)
• Pravin Jadhav (Men’s Recurve)

The family members of recurve archer @tarundeepraii
were felicitated at the District centre in South Sikkim.

Tarundeep will take part in #Tokyo2020 alongside Pravin Jadhav and @ArcherAtanu in the men's recurve team event.#Cheer4India @WeAreTeamIndia pic.twitter.com/ZxBI1Oh4s5

— Khelo India (@kheloindia) June 28, 2021

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Athletics

• Murali Sreeshankar (Men’s long jump)
• MP Jabir (Men’s 400m hurdles)
• Neeraj Chopra (Men’s javelin throw)
• KT Irfan (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)
• Dutee Chand (Women’s 100m and 200m)
• Kamalpreet Kaur (Women’s discus throw)
• Seema Punia (Women’s discus throw)
• Shivpal Singh (Men’s javelin throw)
• Annu Rani (Women’s javelin throw)
• Tajinderpal Singh Toor (Men’s shot put)
• Muhammed Anas Yahiya (Men’s 4x400m relay)
• Mixed 4x400m Relay (Team not announced yet)
• Noah Nirmal Tom (Men’s 4x400m relay)
• Amoj Jacob (Men’s 4x400m relay)
• Arokia Rajiv (Men’s 4x400m relay)

Olympic games athletics training tracks. pic.twitter.com/xQY2wB5Qc0

— Dutee Chand (@DuteeChand) July 26, 2021

There goes #IND's first #Athletics finalist at #Tokyo2020 🔥🔥

After a slow start with a throw of 60.29m, Kamalpreet Kaur pulled out a monster throw of 64m in her third attempt to qualify for the final of women's discus throw event! 👏#StrongerTogether | #UnitedByEmotion pic.twitter.com/BwO8cIMgF4

— #Tokyo2020 for India (@Tokyo2020hi) July 31, 2021

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Badminton

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

What a wonderful support system you have @pvsindhu1! ❤️#StrongerTogether@WeAreTeamIndia | @bwfmediapic.twitter.com/qWj8Eqh21F

— Olympics (@Olympics) July 21, 2021

No men's singles player from India has ever progressed further than the quarter-final at the Olympics. 🇮🇳🏸

Sai Praneeth has set his sights on ending that drought and believes he holds an advantage going into @Tokyo2020.@saiprneeth92 @bwfmedia ​@bai_media pic.twitter.com/cd58uEb61F

— Olympics (@Olympics) July 6, 2021

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Boxing

• Amit Panghal (Men’s 52kg)
• Vikas Krishan (Men’s 69kg)
• Satish Kumar (Men’s 91kg)
• Mary Kom (Women’s 51kg)
• Manish Kaushik (Men’s 63kg)
• Lovlina Borgohain (Women’s 69kg)
• Ashish Kumar (Men’s 75kg)
• Pooja Rani (Women’s 75kg)
• Simranjit Kaur (Women’s 60kg)

Opening ceremony #TokyoOlympics2020 pic.twitter.com/bSbr5xvIMM

— Lovlina Borgohain (@LovlinaBorgohai) July 23, 2021

My heartiest congratulations @LovlinaBorgohai. My best wishes for your upcoming bouts. #Cheer4India #staystrong #NeverGiveUp pic.twitter.com/irj3TiJ9F0

— M C Mary Kom OLY (@MangteC) July 30, 2021

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Equestrian

• Fouaad Mirza

Srihari Nataraj (swimming), Aditi Ashok (ladies’ golf), and Fouaad Mirza (equestrian) will be part of the Indian contingent at the upcoming Olympicshttps://t.co/Mefx6VB7gs

— Bangalore Mirror (@BangaloreMirror) July 3, 2021

Fencing

• Bhavani Devi

Big Day 🤺
It was Excitement & Emotional.
I won the First Match 15/3 against Nadia Azizi and become the First INDIAN Fencing Player to win a Match at Olympic but 2nd Match I lost 7/15 against world top 3 player Manon Brunet. I did my level best but couldn't win.
I am sorry 🙏 🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/TNTtw7oLgO

— C A Bhavani Devi (@IamBhavaniDevi) July 26, 2021

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Golf

• Anirban Lahiri (Men’s event)
• Aditi Ashok (Women’s event)
• Udayan Mane (Men’s event)

Gymnastics

• Pranati Nayak

Pranati Nayak is in action!

She's scored a 10.633 on the floor and 13.466 on the vault. She will hope that makes the top 8#Tokyo2020 | #Gymnastics

— ESPN India (@ESPNIndia) July 25, 2021

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Hockey

Men’s Hockey Team: 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)

#Tokyo2020 team was announced yesterday. Immensely honoured, blessed & humble to be selected for my 3rd Olympics with @TheHockeyIndia , no doubt will give my all for the country! #HaiTayaar #IndiaKaGame

Full message for the team are up on my Instagram and Facebook Page. pic.twitter.com/Gnbi8jfhgs

— Manpreet Singh (@manpreetpawar07) June 19, 2021

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

• Sushila Devi Likmabam (Women’s 48kg)

Sushila Devi Likmabam, an Indian judoka competing in the Tokyo Olympic Games, was pinned in the first round by Hungarian stalwart Eva Csernoviczki. Shushila, a silver medalist at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, had qualified for the Olympics … https://t.co/pBddUAwYrc

— IBTimes 🇮🇳 (@ibtimes_india) July 24, 2021

Sailing

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

Vishnu Saravanan finishes 20th in the second race of the Laser Standard #Sailing competition in #Tokyo2020. He lost out on a finish among the top half of the fleet after the jury imposed a two-turn penalty on him due to an incident during the race.
Photo: SonyLiv screengrab pic.twitter.com/hUpxbLZ1TF

— G Rajaraman (@g_rajaraman) July 26, 2021

Shooting

• 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)
• Angad Veer Singh Bajwa (Men’s Skeet)
• Mairaj Ahmad Khan (Men’s Skeet)
• Tejaswini Sawant (50m Women’s Rifle 3 Position)
• Abhishek Verma (10m Men’s Air Pistol)
• Rahi Sarnobat (25m Women’s Pistol)
• Sanjeev Rajput (50m Men’s Rifle 3 Position)
• Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar (50m Men’s Rifle 3 Position)
• Manu Bhaker (10m Women’s Air Pistol)
• Yashaswini Singh Deswal (10m Women’s Air Pistol)
• Saurabh Chaudhary (10m Men’s Air Pistol)
• Elavenil Valarivan (10m Women’s Air Rifle)

Rowing

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

Swimming

• Srihari Nataraj
• Maana Patel
• Sajan Prakash

🇮🇳 swimmer @swim_sajan was greeted by IOC President Thomas Bach & FINA President Husain Al-Musallam ahead of his 100m butterfly heat.

We appreciate the training support provided to Sajan under the FINA scholarship. #Swimming#Tokyo2020 #Cheer4India pic.twitter.com/cyvDHS57j2

— SAIMedia (@Media_SAI) July 29, 2021

Table Tennis

• Sutirtha Mukherjee
• Manika Batra
• Sharath Kamal
• Sathiyan Gnanasekaran

Focusing on the positive, always!✨@manikabatra_TT #manikabatra #tabletennis #Tokyo2020 #achievers pic.twitter.com/McH40q44Ih

— Femina (@FeminaIndia) July 28, 2021

Tennis

• Sania Mirza and Ankita Raina (Women’s Doubles)

Shhh… lucky to get on court with a red wrist band. pic.twitter.com/NaFJ7Kyh3w

— Imran Mirza (@imrandomthought) June 28, 2021

This was the complete list of participants for the Tokyo Olympics 2020. Comment down the Olympic match you are excited to watch. For more such informative content, stay tuned with Leverage Edu!