45 days left for Paris Olympics: List of Indian athletes who have qualified so far
With only 45 days left for the Paris Olympics, the Indian athletes are preparing as well as they can to improve their tally of seven from Tokyo 2020, and will try to hit double digits this time around.
At Tokyo, the Indian contingent consisted of 124 athletes, which was the largest ever sent by the country in history.
Here’s the list of Indian athletes who have qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics so far:
Archery
Recurve Men: Dhiraj Bommadevara
Athletics
Men:
Long Jump: Murali Sreeshankar*
Javelin Throw: Neeraj Chopra, Kishore Jena
20km racewalk: Akshdeep Singh, Vikas Singh, Paramjeet Bisht, Ram Baboo
3000m steeplechase: Avinash Sable
Women:
20km racewalk: Priyanka Goswami
3000m steeplechase: Parul Chaudhary
Mixed events:
Marathon race walk mixed relay: Priyanka Goswami/Akshdeep Singh
Relay:
Men’s 4x400m: Muhammed Anas Yahiya/Muhammed Ajmal/Arokia Rajiv/Amoj Jacob
Women’s 4x400m: Rupal/Jyothika Sri Dandi/ MR Poovamma/Subha Venkatesan
Badminton
Men’s Singles: Lakshya Sen, HS Prannoy
Women’s Singles: PV Sindhu
Men’s Doubles: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty
Women’s Doubles: Tanisha Crasto/Ashwini Ponnappa
Boxing
Men: Amit Panghal (51kg), Nishant Dev (71kg)
Women: Nikhat Zareen (50kg), Preeti Pawar (54kg), Jaismine Lamboria (57kg), Lovlina Borgohain (75kg)
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Equestrian
Dressage
Men: Anush Agarwalla
Hockey
Men’s team
Rowing
Men: Balraj Panwar (Single Scull)
Sailing
Men’s ILCA7: Vishnu Saravanan
Women’s ILCA6: Nethra Kumanan
Shooting
10m Air Rifle
Men: Sandeep Singh, Arjun Babuta
Women: Elavenil Valarivan, Ramita
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50m Rifle 3-position
Men: Swapnil Kusale, Aishwary Tomar
Women: Sift Kaur Samra, Anjum Moudgil
10m Air Pistol
Men: Sarabjot Singh, Arjun Cheema
Women: Manu Bhaker, Rhythm Sangwan
25m Rapid Fire Pistol
Men: Anish Bhanwala, Vijayveer Sidhu
25m Pistol
Women: Manu Bhaker, Esha Singh
Trap**
Men: Bhowneesh Mendiratta
Women: Rajeshwari Kumari
Skeet**
Men: Anantjeet Singh Naruka
Women: Raiza Dhillon, Maheshwari Chauhan
Mixed events:
10m Air Pistol: Two Indian pairs
10m Air Rifle: Two Indian pairs
Skeet: One Indian pair
Table Tennis
Men’s Team: Sharath Kamal, Harmeet Desai, Manav Thakkar
Women’s Team: Manika Batra, Sreeja Akula, Archana Kamath
Men’s Singles: Sharath Kamal, Harmeet Desai
Women’s Singles: Manika Batra, Sreeja Akula
Wrestling
Women’s Freestyle
Vinesh Phogat – 50kg, Antim Panghal – 53kg, Anshu Malik – 57kg, Nisha Dahiya – 68kg, Reetika Hooda – 76kg
Men’s Freestyle
Aman Sehrawat – 57kg
*ruled out of Olympics due to injury.
**These are the quota winners. Final shotgun team yet to be announced.