New Delhi
117 players from India will participate in the Paris Olympics. Apart from this, the Sports Ministry has also approved 140 members of the support staff, which also includes sports officials. 72 members of the support staff have been approved at government expense. Among the players who qualified for the Olympics, only the name of shot put athlete Abha Khatua is not in the list.
Athletics has the highest number of players in the list at 29 (11 women and 18 men). They are followed by shooting (21) and hockey (19). Eight players from India will participate in table tennis while seven players including two-time Olympic medalist PV Sindhu will participate in badminton. Six players each will challenge in the Olympics in wrestling (6), archery (6) and boxing (6). This is followed by golf (4), tennis (3), swimming (2), sailing (2). One player each will participate in equestrian, judo, rowing and weightlifting. The shooting team includes 11 women and 10 men players. Table tennis includes four players each in both men's and women's categories. Tokyo Olympics silver medalist Mirabai Chanu is the only weightlifter in the team. She will challenge in the women's 49 kg category.
Full list of players
Punjab
Akshdeep Singh, Athletics – Men's 20km Race Walk
Tajinderpal Singh Toor, Athletics – Men's Shot Put
Vikas Singh, Athletics – Men's 20km Race Walk
Gaganjeet Bhullar, Golf – Men's Individual
Gurjant Singh, Men's Hockey Team
Hardik Singh, Men's Hockey Team
Harmanpreet Singh, Men's Hockey Team
Germanpreet Singh, Men's Hockey Team
Jugraj Singh, Men's Hockey Team
Krishan Bahadur Pathak, Men's Hockey Team
Mandeep Singh, Men's Hockey Team
Manpreet Singh, Men's Hockey Team
Shamsher Singh, Men's Hockey Team
Sukhjit Singh, Men's Hockey Team
Anjum Moudgil, Shooting – Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions
Arjun Cheema, Shooting – Men's 10m Air Pistol, 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team
Sift Kaur Samra, Shooting – Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions
Sandeep Singh, Shooting – Men's 10m Air Rifle, 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team
Prachi Chaudhary Kaliar, Athletics – Reserve
Haryana
Bhajan Kaur, Archery – Women's Individual, Team
Kiran Pahal, Athletics – Women's 400m, 4x400m relay
Neeraj Chopra, Athletics – Men's Javelin Throw
Amit Panghal, Boxing – Men's 51kg
Jasmine Lamboriya, Boxing – Women's 57kg
Nishant Dev, Boxing – Men's 71kg
Preeti Pawar, Boxing – Women's 54kg
Diksha Dagar, Golf – Women's Individual
Sanjay, Hockey – Men’s Hockey Team
Sumit, Hockey – Men’s Hockey Team
Balraj Panwar, – Rowing – Men’s Single Sculls
Anish Bhanwala, Shooting – Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol
Manu Bhaker, Shooting – Women's 10m Air Pistol, 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team, Women's 25m Pistol
Ramita Jindal, Shooting – Women's 10m Air Rifle, 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team
Raiza Dhillon, Shooting – Women's Skeet
Rhythm Sangwan, Shooting – Women's 10m Air Pistol, 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team
Sarabjot Singh, Shooting – Men's 10m Air Pistol, 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team
Sumit Nagal, Tennis – Men's Singles
Aman Sehrawat, Wrestling – Men's Freestyle 57kg
Anshu Malik, Wrestling – Women's 57kg
Antim Panghal, Wrestling – Women’s 53kg
Nisha Dahiya, Wrestling – Women's 68kg
Ritika Hooda, Wrestling – Women's 76kg
Vinesh Phogat, Wrestling – Women's 50kg
Chandigarh
Arjun Babuta, Shooting – Men's 10m Air Rifle, 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team
Vijayveer Sidhu, Shooting – Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol
Rajasthan
Anantjit Singh Naruka, Shooting – Men's Skeet, Skeet Mixed Team
Maheshwari Chauhan, Shooting – Women's Skeet, Skeet Mixed Team
Delhi
Amoj Jacob, Athletics – Men's 4x400m Relay
Tulika Compra, Judo – Women's 78 kg
Rajeshwari Kumari, Shooting – Women's Trap
Manika Batra, Table Tennis – Women's Singles
Bihar
Shreyasi Singh, Shooting – Women's Trap
Uttar Pradesh
Annu Rani, Athletics – Women's Javelin Throw
Parul Chaudhary, Athletics – Women's 3000m Steeplechase, Women's 5000m
Priyanka Goswami, Athletics – Women's 20km Race Walk, Marathon Race Walk Mixed Relay
Ram Babu, Athletics – Men's 20km Race Walk
Shubhankar Sharma, Golf – Men's Individual
Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Men's Hockey Team
Rajkumar Pal, Men's Hockey Team
Andhra Pradesh
Dheeraj Bommadevara, Archery – Men's Individual, Men's Team
Jyoti Yaraji, Athletics – Women's 100m Hurdles
Jyotika Shri Dandi, Athletics – Women's 4x400m Relay
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Badminton – Men's Doubles
Assam
Lovlina Borgohain, Boxing – Women's 70kg
Goa
Tanisha Crasto, Badminton – Women's Doubles
Gujarat
Harmeet Desai, Table Tennis – Men's Singles, Team
Manav Thakkar, Table Tennis – Men's Team
Jharkhand
Deepika Kumari, Archery – Women's Individual, Women's Team
Karnataka
Poovamma MR, Athletics – Women's 4x400m Relay
Ashwini Ponnappa, Badminton – Women's Doubles
Aditi Ashok, Golf – Women's Individual
Srihari Nataraj, Swimming – Men's 100m Backstroke
Dhinidhi Desinghu, Swimming – Women's 200m Freestyle
Archana Kamath, Table Tennis – Women's Team
Rohan Bopanna, Tennis – Men's Doubles
Kerala
Abdullah Abubakar, athletics – men's triple jump
Mohammad Ajmal, Athletics – Men's 4x400m Relay
Muhammed Anas, Athletics – Men's 4x400m Relay
Mizo Chacko, Kurien – Athletics Reserve
PR Sreejesh, Men's Hockey Team
HS Prannoy, Badminton – Men's Singles
Tezzbuzz
Vivek Sagar Prasad, Men's Hockey Team
Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar, Shooting – Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions
Maharashtra
Pravin Jadhav, Archery – Men's Individual, Men's Team
Avinash Sable, Athletics – Men's 3000m Steeplechase
Sarvesh Kushare, Athletics – Men's High Jump
Chirag Shetty, Badminton – Men's Doubles
Swapnil Kusale, Shooting – Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions
Manipur
Mirabai Chanu, Weightlifting – Women's 49kg
Nilakanta Sharma, Men's Hockey Team – Reserve
Odisha
Amit Rohidas, Men's Hockey Team
Kishore Jena, Athletics – Men's Javelin Throw
Sikkim
Tarundeep Rai, Archery – Men's Individual, Men's Team
Tamil Nadu
Jaswin Aldrin, athletics – men's long jump
Praveen Chithravel, Athletics – Men’s Triple Jump
Rajesh Ramesh, Athletics – Men's 4x400m Relay
Santosh Tamilarasan, Athletics – Men's 4x400m Relay
Subha Venkatesan, Athletics – Women's 4×400m Relay
Vithya Ramaraj, Athletics – Women's 4x400m Relay
Nethra Kumanan, rowing – women's one-person dinghy
Vishnu Saravanan, Sailing – Men's One Person Dinghy
Elavenil Valarivan, Shooting – Women's 10m Air Rifle, 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team
Prithviraj Tondaiman, Shooting – Men's Trap
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Table Tennis – Reserve
Sharath Kamal, Table Tennis – Men's Singles, Team
N Sriram Balaji, Tennis – Men's Doubles
Telangana
PV Sindhu, Badminton – Women's Singles
Nikhat Zareen, Boxing – Women's 50kg
Esha Singh, Shooting – Women's 25m Pistol
Sreeja Akula, Table Tennis – Women's Singles, Team
Uttarakhand
Ankita Dhyani, Athletics – Women's 5000m
Paramjeet Bisht, Athletics – Men's 20km Race Walk
Suraj Panwar, Athletics – Marathon Race Walk Mixed Relay
Lakshya Sen, Badminton – Men's Singles
West Bengal
Ankita Bhakat, Archery – Women's Individual
Anush Aggarwal, Equestrian – Dressage Event
Ayhika Mukherjee, Table Tennis – Reserve
