A complete of 115 Indian athletes have to date certified for the Tokyo Olympics, which begins on June 23. The males’s and girls’s hockey groups have the most important share, adopted by capturing and athletics.
Shooting
Shooting is one in all India’s greatest bets for a medal on the Tokyo Games. Shooters should account for quite a lot of medals if India is to match or outperform India’s six medal tally on the London Olympics.
10m Women’s Air Rifle – Anjum Moudgil, Apurvi Chandel
10m Men’s Air Rifle – Divyansh Singh Panwar, Deepak Kumar
10m Women’s Air Pistol – Manu Bhaker, Yashaswini Singh Deswal
10m males’s air pistol – Saurabh Chaudhary, Abhishek Verma
25m Women’s Pistol – Rahi Sarnobat, Elavenil Valarivan
50m Women’s Rifle 3 Position – Tejaswini Sawant
50m Men’s Rifle 3 Position – Sanjeev Rajput, Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar
Men’s Skeet – Angad Veer Singh Bajwa, Mairaj Ahmad Khan
Wrestling
Wrestling is one other robust go well with for India on the Tokyo Games. The largest medal hopes are from Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia Dal.
Women’s Freestyle – Seema Bisla (50kg), Vinesh Phogat (53kg), Anshu Malik (57kg), Sonam Malik (62kg)
Men’s Freestyle – Ravi Kumar Dahiya (57kg), Bajrang Punia (65kg), Deepak Punia (86kg)
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Hockey
It would be the twentieth Olympic Games to function the Indian males’s hockey staff, which is presently ranked fourth on the planet rankings.
males’s nationwide staff
ladies’s nationwide staff
badminton
Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth failing to qualify for the Olympics was one of many largest upsets from the Indian perspective this 12 months. Wrestler Sakshi Malik additionally didn’t qualify, with PV Sindhu being the one Olympic medalist within the Indian contingent for the Tokyo Games.
Women’s singles – PV Sindhu
Men’s Singles – B Sai Praneeth
Men’s doubles – Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty
PV Sindhu, who received a silver medal at Rio 2016, would be the solely participant within the Indian contingent to have received a medal within the Games earlier. (Reuters/File)
archery
While Indians have been among the many best-performing athletes in archery at numerous world occasions in latest occasions, there haven’t been too many outstanding performances within the Olympics. The largest hopes are positioned on the pair of Atanu Das and Deepika Kumari, who will compete within the particular person occasions in addition to the combined staff occasion.
Mains Recurve – Atanu Das, Tarundeep Rai, Praveen Jadhavi
Women’s Recurve – Deepika Kumari
boxing
Tokyo may also have India’s largest ever boxing contingent, with the enduring Mary Kom main the best way.
MC Mary Kom (Women, 51kg), Simranjit Kaur (Women, 60kg), Lovlina Borgohain (Women, 69kg), Pooja Rani (Women, 75kg)
Amit Panghal (Men’s, 52kg), Manish Kaushik (Men’s, 63kg), Vikas Krishan (Men’s, 69kg), Ashish Kumar (Men’s, 75kg), Satish Kumar (Men’s, 91kg)
lifting weights
Mirabai Chanu, who has been on a redemption run since her non-finish in Rio, would be the solely Indian weightlifter at Tokyo 2020, however she is a medal contender, having crossed the 300kg barrier lately.
Exercise
Neeraj Chopra is anticipated to be India’s largest medal hope for the elusive athletics Olympic medal.
Men’s 3000m steeplechase – Avinash Sable
Men’s Long Jump – Murali Sreeshankar
Men’s 400m Hurdles – MP Jabiri
Men’s javelin throw – Neeraj Chopra, Shivpal Singh
Men’s shot put – Tajinderpal Singh Toor
Women’s discus throw – Kamalpreet Kaur, Seema Punia
Women’s Javelin Throw – Annu Rani
Women’s 100m, 200m – Dutee Chando
Men’s 20km race strolling – KT Irfan, Sandeep Kumar, Rahul Rohilla
Women’s 20km stroll – Bhawna Jat, Priyanka Goswamiwa
4×400 combined relay, 4×400 males’s relay groups
Can Neeraj Chopra finish India’s look forward to the elusive athletics medal?
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horseman
Fouad Mirza is the primary Indian equestrian to qualify for the Games in 20 years.
Fencing
Bhavani Devi is the primary Indian fencer to qualify for the Olympics.
golf
Anirban Lahiri, Udayan Mane
Aditi Ashok
Exercise
Pranati Nayak is the second Indian girl to qualify for the Olympics, after the success of Dipa Karmakar from Rio.
judo
Sushila Devi
rowing
Arjun Jat and Arvind Singh
Sailing
Nethra Right, Radial Laser
Vishnu Saravanan, Laser Standard
KC Ganpati and Varun Thakkar, 49er
swimming
India could have two swimmers to routinely qualify for the Olympics for the primary time in Tokyo. Both Sajan Prakash and Srihari Natraj have achieved ‘A’ qualification time.
Men’s 200m butterfly – Sajan Prakash
Men’s 100m Backstroke – Srihari Nataraji
Women’s 100m backstroke – Mana Patel
desk tennis
Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
Sutirth Mukherjee, Manika Batra
Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra may also conflict in combined doubles.
Tennis
Women’s doubles – Sania Mirza, Ankita Raina
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
