Finally after 1 year of delay, Tokyo Olympics 2020 will be starting on 23rd July 2021 at Olympic Stadium, Tokyo. Earlier it was postponed due to outbreak of the global pandemic issue. All the athletes got some ample time to prepare for the most prestigious event in the world. So it's time to cheer our Indian athletes in Tokyo Olympics 2020. But before that how well do you know Indian Athletes in Tokyo Olympic? More than 100 Indian athletes qualified and play for India for the Tokyo Olympics. Also this includes two relay and two hockey teams.
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| Source: olympics.com |
"UNITED BY EMOTION"
Here is the list of every Indian Team and athlete who will be fighting for the pride and glory and for the medals in the Tokyo Olympic 2020.
Archery:
1.Deepika Kumari, Women's Recurve
2.Tarundeep Rai, Men’s Recurve
3.Atanu Das, Men’s Recurve
4.Pravin Jadhav, Men’s Recurve
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| Deepika Kumari. Source:olympics.com |
Athletics:
Two Relay Teams:
4x400 Mixed Relay
Men's 4x400m Relay
1.KT Irfan, Men's 20km race walking
2.Sandeep Kumar, Men's 20km race walking
3.Rahul Rohilla, Men's 20km race walking
4.Gurpreet Singh, Men's 50km race walking
5.Bhawna Jat, Women's 20km race walking
6.Priyanka Goswami, Women's 20km race walking
7.Avinash Sable, Men's 3000m steeplechase
8.Murali Sreeshankar, Men's long jump
9.MP Jabir, Men's 400m hurdles
10.Neeraj Chopra, Men's javelin throw
11.Shivpal Singh, Men's javelin throw
12.Annu Rani, Women's javelin throw
13.Tajinderpal Singh Toor, Men's shot put
14.Dutee Chand, Women's 100m and 200m
15.Kamalpreet Kaur, Women's discus throw
16.Seema Punia, Women's discus throw
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| Indian Relay Team 4x400m. Source:olympics.com |
Badminton:
1.PV Sindhu, Women’s singles
2.B Sai Praneeth, Men’s singles
3.Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, Men’s doubles
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| PV Sindhu. Source: Olympics.com |
Boxing:
1.Mary Kom (Women's, 51kg)
2.Vikas Krishan (Men's, 69kg)
3.Lovlina Borgohain (Women's, 69kg)
4.Ashish Kumar (Men's, 75kg)
5.Pooja Rani (Women's, 75kg)
6.Satish Kumar (Men's, 91kg)
7.Amit Panghal (Men's, 52kg)
8.Manish Kaushik (Men's, 63kg)
9.Simranjit Kaur (Women's, 60kg)
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| Source: The Quint |
Equestrian:
Fouaad Mirza has qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after finishing first in South East Asia and Oceania Qualifiers in November 2019. Mirza is only the third Indian equestrian to secure a spot at the olympics.
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| Fouaad Mirza. Source: Olympics.com |
Fencing:
Chadalavada Anandha Sundhararaman Bhavani Devi, simply known as Bhavani Devi is the first Indian Fencer to ever qualify for the Olympics. What an achievement already and a proud news for all of us.
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| Bhavani Devi. Source: The Quint |
Golf:
1.Anirban Lahiri
2.Udayan Mane
3.Aditi Ashok
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| Anirban Lahiri |
Gymnastics:
Pranati Nayak
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| Pranati Nayak. Source: espn.com |
Hockey:
1.Men's National Team. Captain: Manpreet Singh
2.Women's National Team. Captain: Rani Rampal
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| Source: Insidesport.co |
Judo:
Sushila Devi Likmabam: Debuting in the Olympics after 7 years of her CWG medal.
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| Sushila Devi Likmabam. Source: Sportskeeda |
Rowing:
Arjun Jatt and Arvind Singh qualified in the men's lightweight double sculls event at the Asian qualifiers.
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| Source: olympics.com |
Sailing:
Nethra Kumanan became the first Indian woman sailor to Qualify for the Olympics.
For the first time India will be participating in more than one event in sailing.
Laser Radial, Laser Standard and 49er.
1.Nethra Kumanan: Laser Radial
2.Vishnu Saravanan: Laser Standard
3.KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar: 49er
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| Nethra Kumanan. Source: olympics.com |
Shooting:
1.Anjum Moudgil, 10m Women’s Air Rifle
2.Apurvi Chandela, 10m Women’s Air Rifle
3.Divyansh Singh Panwar, 10m Men’s Air Rifle
4.Deepak Kumar, 10m Men’s Air Rifle
5.Tejaswini Sawant, 50m Women’s Rifle 3 Position
6.Sanjeev Rajput, 50m Men’s Rifle 3 Position
7.Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar, 50m Men’s Rifle 3 Position
8.Manu Bhaker, 10m Women’s Air Pistol
9.Yashaswini Singh Deswal, 10m Women’s Air Pistol
10.Saurabh Chaudhary, 10m Men’s Air Pistol
11.Abhishek Verma, 10m Men’s Air Pistol
12.Rahi Sarnobat, 25m Women’s Pistol
13.Chinki Yadav, 25m Women’s Pistol (replaced by Elavenil Valarivan)
14.Angad Veer Singh Bajwa, Men’s Skeet
15.Mairaj Ahmad Khan, Men’s Skeet
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| Indian Shooting Team. Source: TOI |
Swimming:
1.Sajan Prakash, men's 100m freestyle, 100m butterfly, 200m butterfly
2.Srihari Nataraj, men's 100m backstroke
3.Maana Patel, women's 100m backstroke
Table Tennis:
1.Sharath Kamal
2.Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
3.Sutirtha Mukherjee
4.Manika Batra
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| Source: Times of India |
Tennis:
1.Sania Mirza and Ankita Raina, Women's Doubles
2.Sumit Nagal, Men's Singles
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| Source: Indianexpress |
Weightlifting:
Mirabhai Chanu.
Ranked second in the world and the former World champion.
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| Mirabhai Chanu. Source:olympics.com |
Wrestling:
1.Seema Bisla, Women's Freestyle, 50kg
2.Vinesh Phogat, Women’s Freestyle 53kg
3.Anshu Malik, Women's Freestyle 57kg
4.Sonam Malik, Women's Freestyle 62kg
5.Ravi Kumar Dahiya, Men’s Freestyle 57kg
6.Bajrang Punia, Men’s Freestyle 65kg
7.Deepak Punia, Men’s Freestyle 86 kg
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| Source: the bridge.in |
So I hope today this article will help us to know about our Indian athletes and to cheer for them.
All the best to every Indian Athletes in Tokyo 2020. Support them so that they can play with the Olympic motto "citius, altius, fortius" (faster, higher, stronger).