Indian Team to Tokyo Olympics

        The largest sporting event of the world is going to start on 23rd July, 2021.  The 32nd Summer Olympiad will be held in Tokyo, Japan which was scheduled in July 2020, but due to the Corona pandemic all the world kept under lockdown.  The impact of Covid-19 affected the global major sporting events and led to postponement.  One year later, finally the Tokyo Olympics-2020 will start on 23 July and end on August 8, 2021.  
      

       Tokyo was selected as the host city in the 125th International Olympic Committee session which was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2013.  Almost 206 nations are participating in this event.  Nearly 11300 Athletes will compete in 33 sports competitions and 339 events held across 42 competition venues (Stadiums).  Five new sports were introduced in this event.  Baseball, Softball, Karate, Sport Climbing, Skateboarding and Surfing are the new sports included in the Tokyo Olympics.  With this 18 new events and 474 extra athletes were added. 

 

India in Olympics 

        India participated at the Olympics-1900 for the first time. Only one athlete Norman Pritchard participated, and won 2 silver medals. He became the first Asian to win an Olympic medal.  India sent  a team with five members 3 athletes and 2 were wrestling to the Olympics for the first time in 1920, which was held in Belgium.  So far in 100 years (1920-2020) of Olympic journey, India won 28 medals among them 9 are gold medals, 7 are silver medals and 12 are bronze medals.  India won only 1 individual gold medal in shooting; the remaining gold medals were in Men’s Hockey. 

        With new aspirations and hopes of 140 crores of Indians, 125 players landed in Tokyo for Olympics-2021.  Among them 70 are men and 55 are women competitors will challenge in 18 sports categories.  And two alternative players one for reserve goalkeeper in men’s and women’s hockey.  The total number of contingent including coaches, officials and support staff the total team is with 228 members.  Mary Kom and Manpreet Singh are the flag bearers for the opening ceremony whereas Bajrang Punia is the flag bearer for the closing ceremony.  

Indian players in Tokyo Olympics

Athletics

• Neeraj Chopra, Shivpal Singh (Men’s Javelin Throw)
• Bhawna Jat, Priyanka Goswami (Women’s 20 KM race walk)
• KT Irfan Thodi, Sandeep Kumar, Rahul Rohilla (Men’s 20 KM race walk)
• Gurpreet Singh (Men’s 50 KM race walk)
• Avinash Sable (Men’s 3000 metres steeplechase)
• M Shreeshankar (Men’s Long Jump)
• Kamalpreet Kour, Seema Punia (Women’s Discus Throw)
• Tajinderpal Singh Toor (Men’s Shot-Put)
• Dutee Chand (Women’s 100 & 200 metres)
• MP Jabir (Men’s 400 metres Hurdles)
• Annu Rani (Women’s Javelin Throw)
• Amol Jacob, Rajiv Arokia, Muhammad Anals, Naganadan Pandi, Noah Nirmal Tom(Men’s 4X400 metres relay team)
• Sarthak Bhambri, Alex Antony, Revathi Veeramani, Subha Venkatesan, Dhanalaxmi Sekar (Mixed 4X400 metres relay team

Other Sports and Events

• Tarundeep Roy, Atanu Das, Pravin Jadav (Men’s recurve events)
• Deepika Kumari (Women’s recurve events)
• PV Sindhu (Women’s Badminton Singles
• B Sai Praneeth (Men’s Badminton Singles)
• Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty (Men’s Badminton Doubles)
• Satish Kumar (Boxing Men’s 91KG)
• Ashish Kumar (Boxing Men’s 75KG)
• Lovlina Borgohain (Boxing Women’s 69KG)
• Vikas Krishan (Boxing Men’s 69KG)
• Pooja Rani (Boxing Women’s 75KG)
• Amit Panghal (Boxing Men’s 52KG)
• Mary Kom (Boxing Women’s 51KG)
• Simranjit Kour (Boxing Women’s 60KG)
• Manish Koushik (Boxing Men’s 63KG)
• Fouaad Mirza (Equestrian Men’s individual event)
• Bhavani Devi (Fencing Women)
• Anirban Lahiri, Aditi Ashok, Udayan Mane (Golf)
• Pranati Naik (Gymnastics Women’s artistic)
• Susheela Devi (Judo)
• Arjun Lal Jat & Arvind (Rowing Men’s Lightweight doubles)
• Nethra Kumanan (Sailing Women’s laser radial)
• Vishnu Sarvanan (Sailing Men’s laser standard)
• KC Ganapathi & Varun Thakkar (Sailing Men’s Skiff)
• Anjum Moudgil, Tejaswini Sawant (Shooting Women’s 50m rifle)
• Apurvi Chandela, Elavenil Valarivan (Shooting 10m air rifle)
• Manu Bhaker (Shooting Women’s 25m pistol and 10m pistol)
• Yashaswini Deswal (Shooting women’s 10m pistol)
• Divyansh Panwar, Deepak Kumar, (Shooting Men’s 10m air rifle)
• Sanjeev Rajput, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar (Shooting Men’s 50m rifle 3 position)
• Sourab Chowdary, Abhishek Verma (Shooting Men’s 10m air pistol)
• Angad Veer Singh Bajwa, Mairaj Ahmad Khan (Shooting Men’s skeet)
• Divyansh Singh Panwar & Elavenil Vlarivan; Deepu Kumar & Anjum Moudgil; Sourabh Chaudhary & Manu Bhasker; Abhishek Verma & Yashaswini Singh Deswal (Shooting Mixed Team Events)
• Sandeep Singh, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Swapnil Kusale, Chain Singh, Shahzar, Om Prakash Mitharval, Gurjoat Singh Khangura, Sheeraz Sheikh, Anjum Koudgil, Shreya Agarwal, Sunidhi Chouhan, Gaayathri Nithyanandam, P Shri Nivetha, Abhidnya Patil (Shooting Reserve)
• Sanjan Prakash (Swimming Men’s 200m Butterfly)
• Srihari Nataraj (Swimming Men’s 100m Butterfly)
• Maana Patel (Swimming Women’s 100m Backstroke)
• Achanta Sharath Kamal, Sahityan Gnanasekaran (Table Tennis Men’s singles)
• Manika Batra, Sutirtha Mukherjee (Table Tennis Women’s singles)
• Achanta Sharat Kamal & Manika Batra (Table Tennis Mixed doubles)
• Sania Mirza, Ankita Raina (Tennis Women’s doubles)
• Sumit Nagal (Tennis Men’s Singles)
• Saikhom Mirabai Chanu (Weightlifting 48KG)
• Ravi Dahiya (Wrestling Men’s 75KG)
• Bajrang Punia (Wrestling Men’s 65)
• Deepak Punia (Wrestling Men’s 86KG)
• Vinesh Phogat (Wrestling Men’s 53KG)
• Anshu Malik (Wrestling Women’s 57KG)
• Sonam Malik (Wrestling Women’s 62KG)
• Seema Bisla (Wrestling Women’s 50KG)