India at Commonwealth Games 2022: Athletes and teams who have made the Birmingham cut

Since the 2010 Commonwealth Games, India have been consistently represented by over 200 athletes at the quadrennial showpiece.

The Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham, UK, is also expected to see a sizable Indian contingent in action.

With the Birmingham 2022 Games scheduled to be held from July 28 to August 8, the qualification and team selection processes are still ongoing. Here’s a list of Indian sportpersons who have qualified for the Commonwealth Games 2022 till now.

Athletics

India had initially named a 37-member athletics squad for the Birmingham Commonwealth Games. However, Neeraj Chopra withdrew later due to an injury. Shot putter Tajinderpal Singh too had to drop out after he picked up an injury ahead of CWG 2022.

1. Avinash Sable - men's 3000m steeplechase, men's 5000m
2. Nitender Rawat - men's marathon
3. M Sreeshankar - men's long jump
4. Muhammed Anees Yahiya - men's long jump
5. Abdulla Aboobacker - men's triple jump
6. Praveen Chithravel - men's triple jump
7. Eldhose Paul - men's triple jump
8. DP Manu - men's javelin throw
9. Rohit Yadav - men's javelin throw
10. Sandeep Kumar - men's 10km race walk
11. Amit Khatri - men's 10km race walk
12. Tejaswin Shankar - men's high jump
13. Amoj Jacob - men's 4x400m relay
14. Noah Nirmal Tom - men's 4x400m relay
15. Muhammed Ajmal - men's 4x400m relay
16. Naganathan Pandi - men's 4x400m relay
17. Muhammed Anas Yahiya - men's 4x400m relay
18. Jyothi Yarraji - women's 100m hurdles
19. Ancy Sojan - women's long jump
20. Manpreet Kaur - women's shot put
21. Navjeet Kaur Dhilllon - women's discus throw
22. Seema Punia - women's discus throw
23. Annu Rani - women's javelin throw
24. Shilpa Rani - women's javelin throw
25. Manju Bala Singh - women's hammer throw
26. Sarita Romit Singh - women's hammer throw
27. Bhawna Jat - women's 10km race walk
28. Priyanka Goswami - women's 10km race walk
29. Hima Das - women's 4x100m relay, women's 200m
30. Dutee Chand - women's 4x100m relay, women's 100m
31. Srabani Nanda - women's 4x100m relay
32. NS Simi - women's 4x100m relay

Badminton

1. PV Sindhu - women’s singles, mixed team
2. Aakarshi Kashyap - women’s singles, mixed team
3. Treesa Jolly - women’s doubles, mixed team
4. Gayatri Gopichand - women’s doubles, mixed team
5. Ashwini Ponappa - mixed doubles, mixed team
6. Lakshya Sen - men’s singles, mixed team
7. Kidambi Srikanth - men’s singles, , mixed team
8. Satwiksairaj Rankireddy - men’s doubles, mixed team
9. Chirag Shetty - men’s doubles, mixed team
10. B Sumeeth Reddy - mixed doubles, mixed team

Boxing

Commonwealth Games medallists Amit Panghal and Mohammad Hussamuddin made the cut for Birmingham 2022 along with five-time Asian medallist Shiva Thapa. The men's boxers were selected following trials conducted in Patiala. The women's trials were held in Delhi. Mary Kom didn't qualify for the Commonwealth Games after she suffered an injury during the trials.

1. Amit Panghal - men's 51kg
2. Mohammad Hussamuddin - men's 57kg
3. Shiva Thapa - men's 63.5kg
4. Rohit Tokas - men's 67kg
5. Sumit Kundu - men's 75kg
6. Ashish Kumar Chaudhary - men's 80kg
7. Sanjeet Kumar - men's 92kg
8. Sagar - men's 92+kg
9. Nitu Ganghas - women's 48kg
10. Nikhat Zareen - women's 50kg
11. Jaismine Lamboria - women's 60kg
12. Lovlina Borgohain - women's 70kg

Cricket

Birmingham 2022 will see cricket’s second appearance in the CWG programme. The first, at Kuala Lumpur 1998, featured a men’s 50 over tournament but at Birmingham 2022, a women’s T20I format will be played.

The eight-team affair at CWG 2022 will involve hosts England, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, South Africa, Barbados and Sri Lanka. The Indian cricket team is one of the five teams who qualified for the Commonwealth Games 2022 courtesy its ICC WT20I ranking.

1. Indian women’s cricket team

Cycling

1. Y Rojit Singh - men's team sprint
2. L Ronaldo Singh - men's 1000m time trial, men's team sprint, men’s keirin
3. E David Beckham - men's 1000m time trial, men's team sprint
4. Esow Alben - men's team sprint, men’s keirin
5. Vishvajeet Singh - men's 4000m individual pursuit, men’s 4000m team pursuit, men’s 15km scratch race
6. Naman Kapil - men’s 4000m team pursuit
7. Venkappa Shivappa Kengalugutti - men’s 4000m team pursuit, men’s 40km points race
8. Dinesh Kumar - men's 4000m individual pursuit, men’s 4000m team pursuit
9. Annantha Naryanan - men’s 4000m team pursuit
10. Triyasha Paul - women's 5000m time trial, women’s team sprint, women’s keirin
11. Meenakshi - women's 3000m individual pursuit, women’s 10km scratch race
12. Shushikala Agashe - women’s team sprint
13. Mayuri Dhanraj Lute - women's 5000m time trial, women’s team sprint, women’s keirin

Gymnastics - Artistic

1. Satyajit Mondal - men’s all-around, men’s team
2. Yogeshwar Singh - men’s all-around, men’s team
3. Saif Tamboli - men’s all-around, men’s team
4. Pranati Nayak - women’s all-around, women’s team
5. Ruthuja Nataraj - women’s all-around, women’s team
6. Protishta Samata - women’s all-around, women’s team

Gymnastics - Rhythmic

1. Balveen Kaur - Women’s individual all-around, hoop, ball, clubs, ribbon

Hockey

Both the Indian men’s and women’s hockey teams have already made the cut for the Commonwealth Games 2022 based on their FIH rankings. The men’s and women’s hockey competitions will be 10-team affairs.

Indian women had won the CWG hockey gold in 2002 but the men are still in search of their first, with two silver medals (2010 and 2014) being their best finishes to date.

1. Indian men’s hockey team
2. Indian women’s hockey team

Judo

1. Vijay Kumar Yadav - men’s -60kg
2. Jasleen Singh Saini - men’s -66kg
3. Deepak Deswal - men’s -100kg
4. L Shushila Devi - women’s -48kg
5. Suchika Tariyal - women’s -57kg
6. Tulika Maan - women’s +78kg

Lawn Bowls

1. Dinesh Kumar - men’s triples, men’s fours
2. Chandan Kumar Singh - men’s triples, men’s fours
3. Navneet Singh - men’s triples, men’s fours
4. Sunil Bahadur - men’s singles, men’s pairs
5. Mridul Borgohain - men’s pairs, men’s fours
6. Lovely Choubey - women’s pairs, women’s fours
7. Tania Choudhury - women’s triples, women’s fours
8. Nayanmoni Saikia - women’s singles, women’s pairs
9. Rupa Rani Tirkey - women’s triples, women’s fours
10. Pinki - women’s events

Squash

1. Saurav Ghosal - men’s singles, mixed doubles
2. Ramit Tandon - men’s singles, men’s doubles, mixed doubles
3. Abhay Singh - men’s singles, men's doubles
4. Joshna Chinappa - women’s singles, women’s doubles, mixed doubles
5. Sunayna Kuruvilla - women’s singles, women's doubles
6. Anahat Singh - women’s singles, women's doubles
7. Dipika Pallikal - women’s doubles, mixed doubles
8. Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu - men’s doubles
9. Velavan Senthilkumar - men’s doubles

Swimming

1. Sajan Prakash - men's 50m, 100m and 200m butterfly
2. Srihari Nataraj - men's 50m, 100m and 200m backstroke
3. Kushagra Rawat - men's 200m, 400m and 1500m freestyle
4. Advait Page - men's 1500m freestyle

Table Tennis

The Indian table tennis team for Birmingham 2022 comprises eight players, four men and four women. Two reserve players - Manush Shah and Swastika Ghosh - will also travel with the team. The team was chosen after a week-long national camp late in May.

1. Sharath Kamal - men's team, men’s singles, men’s doubles, mixed doubles
2. Sathiyan Gnanasekaran - men's team, men’s singles, men’s doubles, mixed doubles
3. Sanil Shetty - men's team, men’s singles, men’s doubles, mixed doubles
4. Harmeet Desai - men's team, men’s doubles
5. Manika Batra - women's team, women’s singles, women’s doubles, mixed doubles
6. Diya Chitale - women's team, women’s doubles
7. Sreeja Akula - women's team, women’s singles, women’s doubles, mixed doubles
8. Reeth Rishya - women's team, women’s singles, women’s doubles, mixed doubles

Triathlon

1. Sanjana Joshi - women's individual sprint distance, mixed team relay
2. Pragnya Mohan - women's individual sprint distance, mixed team relay
3. Adarsh MS - men's individual sprint distance, mixed team relay
4. Vishwanath Yadav - men's individual sprint distance, mixed team relay

Weightlifting

To be led by Tokyo Olympics silver medallist and reigning Commonwealth champion Mirabai Chanu, India’s 12-member strong weightlifting contingent for the Commonwealth Games 2022 was one of the first to be finalised.

Jeremy Lalrinnunga, Achinta Sheuli, Ajay Singh and Purnima Pandey secured their spots by winning gold medals in their respective categories at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships 2021 in December while the remaining eight made the cut at the Singapore Weightlifting International 2022.

Mirabai Chanu was expected to compete in the 55kg division at Commonwealth Games 2022 instead of her pet 49kg but had to revert due to late rule changes.

1. Mirabai Chanu - women’s 49kg
2. Bindyarani Devi - women’s 55kg
3. Popy Hazarika - women’s 59kg
4. Harjinder Kaur - women's 71kg
5. Punam Yadav - women's 76kg
6. Usha Kumara - women’s 87kg
7. Purnima Pandey - women’s +87kg
8. Sanket Mahadev - men’s 55kg
9. Gururaja - men's 61kg
10. Jeremy Lalrinnunga - men’s 67kg
11. Achinta Sheuli - men’s 73kg
12. Ajay Singh - men’s 81kg
13. Vikas Thakur - men’s 96kg
14. Lovepreet Singh - men's 109kg
15. Gurdeep Singh - men's +109kg

Wrestling

The following wrestlers made the Indian team by winning their respective categories at the selection trials.

1. Pooja Gehlot - women’s 50kg
2. Vinesh Phogat - women’s 53kg
3. Anshu Malik - women’s 57kg
4. Sakshi Malik - women’s 62kg
5. Divya Kakran - women’s 68kg
6. Pooja Sihag - women’s 76kg
7. Ravi Kumar Dahiya - men's 57kg
8. Bajrang Punia - men's 65kg
9. Naveen - men's 74kg
10. Deepak Punia - men's 86kg
11. Deepak - men's 97kg
12. Mohit Grewal - men's 125kg