With just less than 100 days left for the Tokyo Olympics, qualifying is in full swing across sports. Around 90 athletes have already qualified from India. India sent a contingent of 117 athletes for the 2016 Rio Olympics. While India would like to see the strongest contingent ever sent to the Olympics, here’s a sport wise break up of the list of athletes who have booked their berth at the Olympics so far -
Archery:
Tarundeep Rai, Men’s Recurve, Individual
Atanu Das, Men’s Recurve, Individual
Pravin Jadhav, Men’s Recurve, Individual
Deepika Kumari, Women's Recurve, Individual
Athletics:
Dutee Chand, Women's 100m race, individual
KT Irfan, Men's 20km race walking, individual
Sandeep Kumar, Men's 20km race walking, individual
Rahul Rohilla, Men's 20km race walking, individual
Avinash Sable, Men's 3000m steeplechase, individual
Murali Sreeshankar, Men's long jump, individual
Neeraj Chopra, Men's javelin throw, individual
Shivpal Singh, Men's javelin throw, individual
Kamalpreet Kaur, Women's discus throw, individual
Bhawna Jat, Women's 20km race walking, individual
Priyanka Goswami, Women's 20km race walking, individual
Tajinderpal Toor, Men's Shot put, Individual
Seema Punia, Women's Discus Throw, Individual
MP Jabir, Men's 400m Hurdles Team event: 4x400m Mixed Relay
Team event: Men's 4x400m Relay
Badminton:
PV Sindhu, Women’s singles
B Sai Praneeth, Men’s singles
Chirag Shetty & Satwikswaraj Rankireddy, 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, Men’s Individual category.
Fencing:
Bhavani Devi, Women’s, Individual category.
Golf:
Udayan Mane, Men’s
Anirban Lahiri, Men's
Aditi Ashok, Women’s
Gymnastics:
Pranati Nayak, Women’s artistic gymnastics
Hockey:
Men’s and Women’s national team have qualified
Judo:
Sushila Devi Likmabam, Women’s 48kg
Rowing:
Arun Jat, Men's doubles sculls
Arvind Singh, Men's doubles sculls
Sailing:
Nethra Kumanan, Laser Radial
Vishnu Saravanan, Laser Standard
KC Ganapathy, 49er
Varun Thakkar, 49er
Shooting:
Anjum Moudgil, 10m Women’s Air Rifle, Individual
Apurvi Chandela, 10m Women’s Air Rifle, Individual
Divyansh Singh Panwar, 10m Men’s Air Rifle, Individual
Deepak Kumar, 10m Men’s Air Rifle, Individual
Tejaswini Sawant, 50m Women’s Rifle 3 Position, Individual
Sanjeev Rajput, 50m Men’s Rifle 3 Position, Individual
Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar, 50m Men’s Rifle 3 Position, Individual
Manu Bhaker, 10m Women’s Air Pistol, Individual
Yashaswini Singh Deswal, 10m Women’s Air Pistol, Individual
Saurabh Chaudhary, 10m Men’s Air Pistol, Individual
Abhishek Verma, 10m Men’s Air Pistol, Individual
Rahi Sarnobat, 25m Women’s Pistol, Individual
Chinki Yadav, 25m Women’s Pistol, Individual (replaced by Elavenil Valarivan)
Angad Veer Singh Bajwa, Men’s Skeet, Individual
Mairaj Ahmad Khan, Men’s Skeet, Individual
Swimming:
Srihari Natraj - 100m Men's backstroke
Sajan Prakash - 200m Men's butterfly
Maana Patel - 100m Women's backstroke
Table Tennis:
Sharath Kamal
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
Sutirtha Mukherjee
Manika Batra
Team event: Mixed Doubles
Tennis:
Sania Mirza & Ankita Raina, Women’s Doubles
Rohan Bopanna & Divij Sharan, Men's Doubles
Sumit Nagal, Men' Singles
Wrestling:
Vinesh Phogat, Women’s Freestyle 53kg, Individual
Anshu Malik, Women's Freestyle 57kg, Individual
Sonam Malik, Women's Freestyle 62kg, Individual
Bajrang Punia, Men’s Freestyle 65kg, Individual
Ravi Kumar Dahiya, Men’s Freestyle 57kg, Individual
Deepak Punia, Men’s Freestyle 86 kg, Individual
Seema Bisla, Women's Freestyle 50kg, Individual
Weightlifting:
Mirabai Chanu, Women’s 49kg
While the qualification for few sports are still underway due to postponement of events due to COVID, here are the list of probable athletes who still stand a chance to qualify
Athletics:
Dhanalakshmi, Women’s, 100m, 200m & 400m, individual
Archana Suseendran, Women’s, 200m, individual
Jinson Johnson, Men’s 800m & 1500m, individual
Amol Jacob, Men’s 400m & 800m, individual
Rajeev Arokia, Men’s 400m, individual
Dharun Ayyasami, Men’s 400m & 400m hurdles, individual
Sumit Malik, Men's Freestyle 125 kg, Individual (Suspended and banned for 2 years for doping)
We will keep updating the list of athletes as when they book a berth for the Olympics. Do come back to see the updated list of athletes representing India at the Tokyo Olympics.
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