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Tokyo 2020: List of Olympic debutants for India

At least 107 Indian athletes -- team and individual events -- have qualified across 17 sporting categories for Tokyo 2020.

3 minBy Olympic Channel Writer
Neeraj Chopra
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The Indian contingent for Tokyo 2020, slated to get underway from July 23 2021, comprises of 107 athletes who have qualified or named by their respective federations to participate across 17 disciplines.

There has been a constant rise in the number of Olympic athletes from India over the past three editions. The Indian contingent for Tokyo 2020 will also have a large number of Olympic debutants.

The India men's hockey team have included 10 debutants in their 16-man squad while the women's squad have named eight debutants in their roster.

Let us have a look at all the Olympic debutants for India at Tokyo 2020 across disciplines:

Archery

  1. Pravin Jadhav, men's recurve (individual and team)

Athletics

  1. Rahul Rohilla, Men's 20km race walking
  2. Avinash Sable, Men's 3000m steeplechase
  3. Murali Sreeshankar, Men's long jump
  4. Neeraj Chopra, Men's javelin throw
  5. Shivpal Singh, Men's javelin throw
  6. Tajinderpal Singh Toor, Men's shot put
  7. Kamalpreet Kaur, Women's discus throw
  8. Bhawna Jat, Women's 20km race walking
  9. Priyanka Goswami, Women's 20km race walking

Badminton

  1. B Sai Praneeth, Men’s singles
  2. Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, Men’s doubles

Boxing

  1. Ashish Kumar (Men's, 75kg)
  2. Pooja Rani (Women's, 75kg)
  3. Satish Kumar (Men's, 91kg)
  4. Amit Panghal (Men's, 52kg)
  5. Manish Kaushik (Men's, 63kg)
  6. Simranjit Kaur (Women's, 60kg)
  7. Lovlina Borgohain (Women's, 69kg)

Equestrian

  1. Fouaad Mirza

Fencing

  1. Bhavani Devi

Gymnastic

  1. Pranati Nayak

India men's hockey team

  1. Amit Rohidas
  2. Hardik Singh
  3. Vivek Sagar Prasad
  4. Nilakanta Sharma
  5. Sumit
  6. Dilpreet Singh
  7. Gurjant Singh
  8. Lalit Kumar Upadhyay
  9. Shamsher Singh
  10. Birendra Lakra
  11. Mandeep Singh

India women's hockey team

  1. Gurjit Kaur
  2. Udita
  3. Nisha
  4. Neha
  5. Navneet Kaur
  6. Sharmila Devi
  7. Lalremsiami
  8. Salima Tete

Judo

  1. Sushila Devi Likmabam (Women's 48kg)

Rowing

  1. Arjun Jat (men’s lightweight double sculls)
  2. Arvind Singh (men’s lightweight double sculls)

Sailing

  1. Nethra Kumanan (Laser Radial)
  2. Vishnu Saravanan (Laser Standard)
  3. KC Ganapathy (49er)
  4. Varun Thakkar (49er)

Swimming

  1. Srihari Nataraj (men's 100m backstroke)
  2. Maana Patel (women's 100m backstroke)

Shooting

  1. Anjum Moudgil, 10m Women’s Air Rifle
  2. Divyansh Singh Panwar, 10m Men’s Air Rifle
  3. Deepak Kumar, 10m Men’s Air Rifle
  4. Tejaswini Sawant, 50m Women’s Rifle 3 Position
  5. Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar, 50m Men’s Rifle 3 Position
  6. Manu Bhaker, 10m Women’s Air Pistol
  7. Yashaswini Singh Deswal, 10m Women’s Air Pistol
  8. Saurabh Chaudhary, 10m Men’s Air Pistol
  9. Abhishek Verma, 10m Men’s Air Pistol
  10. Elavenil Valarivan, 10m Air Rifle Women
  11. Angad Veer Singh Bajwa, Men’s Skeet

Table Tennis

  1. Sutirtha Mukherjee (women's singles)

Wrestling

  1. Seema Bisla, Women's Freestyle, 50kg
  2. Anshu Malik, Women's Freestyle 57kg
  3. Sonam Malik, Women's Freestyle 62kg
  4. Ravi Kumar Dahiya, Men’s Freestyle 57kg
  5. Bajrang Punia, Men’s Freestyle 65kg
  6. Deepak Punia, Men’s Freestyle 86 kg

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