The 2020 Summer Olympic Games are scheduled to take place in 23 July and 8 August, and the Paralympic Games between 24 August and 5 September. It is popularly known as Tokyo 2020 Olympics. In this article, we will provide you the List of Indian athletes qualified for Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
The 2020 Olympics and Paralympics were scheduled in last year but were postponed because of Covid. The Olympics will feature 33 sports at 339 events across 42 venues. The Paralympics will feature 22 sports at 539 events across 21 venues
Indian sportspersons will also participate in Tokyo 2020 Olympics and compete against other sportspersons of the world. A total of 120 Indian athletes across 18 sporting categories have been qualified so far for the upcoming Olympics.
Due to raging COVID-19 cases, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be held under a state of emergency in Japan without spectators from July 23 to August 8.
Here is the List of Indian athletes qualified for Tokyo 2020 Olympics :
Archery
Tarundeep Rai, Men’s Recurve
Atanu Das, Men’s Recurve
Pravin Jadhav, Men’s Recurve
Deepika Kumari, Women’s Recurve
Athletics
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
Murali Sreeshankar, Men’s long jump
MP Jabir, Men’s 400m hurdles
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
4×400 Mixed Relay
Men’s 4x400m Relay
Badminton
PV Sindhu, Women’s singles
B Sai Praneeth, Men’s singles
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, Men’s doubles
Boxing
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)
Equestrian
Fouaad Mirza is the first Indian equestrian to qualify for the Games in 20 years.
Fencing
Bhavani Devi became the first Indian fencer to qualify for the Olympics.
Golf
Anirban Lahiri
Udayan Mane
Aditi Ashok
Gymnastics
Pranati Nayak is only the second Indian woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics.
Hockey
Men’s National Team led by Manpreet Singh
Women’s National Team led by Rani Rampal
Each of them will carry a 16-member squad to Tokyo 2020.
Judo
Sushila Devi Likmabam will be India’s only participant in Judo at Tokyo 2020.
Rowing
Arjun Jat
Arvind Singh
Sailing
Nethra Kumanan, Laser Radial
Vishnu Saravanan, Laser Standard
KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar, 49er
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
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
Manu Bhaker, 10m Women’s 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 Pistol
Chinki Yadav, 25m Women’s Pistol (replaced by Elavenil Valarivan)
Angad Veer Singh Bajwa, Men’s Skeet
Mairaj Ahmad Khan, Men’s Skeet
Swimming
Sajan Prakash, men’s 200m butterfly
Srihari Nataraj, men’s 100m backstroke
Maana Patel, women’s 100m backstroke
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Table Tennis
Sharath Kamal
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
Sutirtha Mukherjee
Manika Batra
Tennis
Sania Mirza and Ankita Raina, Women’s Doubles
Weightlifting
Mirabai Chanu in the women’s 49kg weight division.
Wrestling
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
