Tokyo 2020 - India at Tokyo 2020

 

After so much anxiety whether the Summer Games will happen and after getting postponed by a year we are just 2 weeks away from the start of Tokyo 2020. 

In this post we will talk about Indian participation in the Olympics we have a huge contingent of 120 athletes participating in this Olympics participating across 18 sports (out of the total 33).

Going by alphabetical order 

Archery - We have the men's team(Atanu Das, Tarundeep Rai, Pravin Jadhav) and Deepika Kumari qualifying for the Games. Disappointment - Women's team missing out. - Total Athletes - 4 

Athletics - We have a 26 member Athletics contingent. 2 Relay teams (4*400 Men's and Mixed relay teams), 6 walkers (4 Men - 3 in 20Km KT ---- Irfan, Rahul Rohila, Sandeep Kumar and 1 in 50KM --- Gurpreet Singh and 2 Women in 20 Km --- Priyanka Goswami and Bhavna Jat), 1 male Steeplechaser(Avinash Sable who was one of the earliest qualifiers), 1 400m Hurdler (MP Jabir), Dutee Chand in the sprints. In the field events we have Neeraj Chopra and Shivpal Singh in Men;s Javelin, M Shreeshankar in Long Jump, Tajinder Pal Toor in Shot put, Kamalpreet Kaur and Seema Punia in Women's Discuss and Annu Rani in Women's Javelin. Disappointment - Womens' Relay team not making it, Hima Das injuries and Tejaswin Shankar missing out in the High Jump. Total Athletes - 26

Badminton - We have Sindhu and Sai Praneeth in the singles and Satwik and Chirag in the Doubles. Disappointment - We had so many stars missing out Saina, Srikanth, in women's Double Ashwinin Ponappa and Siki Reddy. Total Athletes - 4 

Boxing - We have 5 Men (Amit Panghal - Flyweight, Manish Kaushik - Light Weight, Vikas Krishan - Welter Weight, Ashish Kumar - Middle Weight and Satish Kumar - Super Heavyweight) and 4 Women (Mary Kom - Flyweight, Simranjit Kaur - Light Weight, Lovlina Borgohain - Welter Weight and Pooja Rani - Middleweight). This is a very large team we have, not disappointed about anyone missing out except probably Shiva Thapa. Total Athletes - 9

Equestrian - We have Fouaad Mirza qualifying after a long break. We last qualified for Sydney 2000. Total Athletes - 1 

Fencing - Bhavani Devi became the first Indian to qualify for Olympics in Fencing in Women's Sabre. Total Athletes - 1

Field Hockey - We have both the men's and women's team in the Games. Total Athletes - 32

Golf - We have Anirban Lahiri and Udayan Mane in Men's and Aditi Ashok in the Women's. Total Athletes - 3

Gymnastics - We have Pranati Nayak as the only representative. Total Athletes - 1

Judo - We have Sushila Likmabam in the women's 48kg weight category. Total Athletes - 1

Rowing - We have Arjun Lal and Arvind Singh in the Men's Light weight  double skulls category. Total Athletes - 2

Sailing - We are returning to sailing at the games after 12 years. We have Vishnu Saravanan in Men's laser, KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakar in Men's 49er and Nethra Kumanan in Women's Laser Radial events. Total Athletes - 4

Shooting - We have 8 Men (Angad Bhajwa and Mairaj Ahmad Khan in Skeet, Saurabh Chaudhary and Abhishek Verma in 10m Air Pistol, Deepak Kumar and Divyansh Parmar in 10 m Air Rifle, Sanjeev Rajput and Aishwary Tomar in 50m 3 position) and 7 Women ( Manu Bhaker, Yashaswini Deswal in 10m air pistol, Manu Bhaker, Rahi Sarnobat in 25 m pistol, Apurvi Chandela and Elavenil Valarivan in 10 m Air Rifle, Anjum Modgil and Tejaswini Sawant in 50m 3 position). Disappointment - No participation in 25m Rapid Pistol or Trap events. Total Athletes - 15

Swimming - We have 2 men qualifying for the first time - Srihari Nataraj(100m Backstroke) and Sajan Prakash(200 Butterfly). We also got Maana Patel (100m Backstroke) getting through with the Universality Quota. Total Athletes - 3

Table Tennis - We have 2 men (Sharath Kamal Achanta, Sathiyan) and 2 women (Manika Batra and Sutirtha Mukherjee). Total Athletes - 4

Tennis - We have Sania Mirza and Ankita Rana in the women's doubles. Total Athletes - 2

Weighlifting - We have Mirabhai Chanu in the Women's 49kg category. Disappointment - No male lifters, not that they were competitive in any of the previous games. Total Athletes - 1

Wrestling - We have 3 Men (Ravi Kumar Dahiya - 57kg, Bajrang Punia - 65kg, Deepak Punia - 86kg) and 4 women (Seema Bisla - 50kg, Vinesh Phogat - 53kg, Anshu Malik - 57kg and Sonam Malik - 62kg). Total Athletes - 7 

 

Next post will be on who among these 120 have a good chance of winning medals.