India at Tokyo 2020: Athletes who booked a place at the Olympics

The number of Indian athletes participating in the Summer Olympic Games has seen a rise in each of its past three editions and all signs point to the finest athletes continuing that trend for India at Tokyo 2020.

More than 70 Indian athletes have already earned a quota for next year’s showpiece event in Japan, with many more in contention to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.

Below are the names of all Indians qualified for the Olympics in Tokyo, sorted by their sport, discipline and category:

Archery

1. Tarundeep Rai, Men’s Recurve, Individual
2. Atanu Das, Men’s Recurve, Individual
3. Pravin Jadhav, Men’s Recurve, Individual
4. Deepika Kumari, Women's Recurve, Individual

The men's trio will also compete as a team at Tokyo 2020.

Athletics

Athletics has never been India’s strong suit at the Olympics but emerging javelin throwers Neeraj Chopra and Shivpal Singh have raised hopes this time around.

The 4x400 mixed relay, which will make its debut at Tokyo 2020, will also see an Indian team, which had Asian Games gold-medallist Muhammed Anas, after they finished third at the World Athletics Championships in 2019.

But it was KT Irfan that offered the first hope when in March 2019, he became the first Indian athlete to qualify for the 2020 Olympics.

1. KT Irfan, Men's 20km race walking, individual
2. Sandeep Kumar, Men's 20km race walking, individual
3. Rahul Rohilla, Men's 20km race walking, individual
4. Avinash Sable, Men's 3000m steeplechase, individual
5. Murali Sreeshankar, Men's long jump, individual
6. Neeraj Chopra, Men's javelin throw, individual
7. Shivpal Singh, Men's javelin throw, individual
8. Kamalpreet Kaur, Women's discus throw, individual
9. Bhawna Jat, Women's 20km race walking, individual
10. Priyanka Goswami, Women's 20km race walking, individual
11. 4x400 Mixed Relay

Boxing

The Indian boxers punched as many as nine tickets to the Tokyo Olympics at the Asia Oceania boxing Olympic qualifiers held in Amman, Jordan.

1. Vikas Krishan (Men's, 69kg)
2. Lovlina Borgohain (Women's, 69kg)
3. Ashish Kumar (Men's, 75kg)
4. Pooja Rani (Women's, 75kg)
5. Satish Kumar (Men's, 91kg)
6. Mary Kom (Women's, 51kg)
7. Amit Panghal (Men's, 52kg)
8. Manish Kaushik (Men's, 63kg)
9. Simranjit Kaur (Women's, 60kg)

Fencing

Bhavani Devi became the first Indian fencer to qualify for the Olympics. The sabre fencer from Chennai booked her slot for Tokyo 2020 through the Adjusted Official Ranking (AOR) method at the Budapest Sabre World Cup, an Olympic qualifying event, in Hungary in March.

Hockey

1. Men’s National Team
2. Women’s National Team

This will be the 20th Olympic Games list to feature the Indian men’s hockey team, who sit fourth in the world rankings, while the women’s side will be making their third appearance and second in succession.

Both teams qualified in November 2019 and each of them will carry a 16-member squad to Tokyo 2020.

Sailing

Nethra Kumanan became the first Indian woman sailor to qualify for the Olympics at the Mussanah Open Championship 2021 in April. Three other Indian sailors also made the Tokyo cut in Oman. For the first time India will be competing in more than one sailing event at the Games - Laser Radial, Laser Standard and 49er. India never had more than two sailors at a single Olympics before.

1. Nethra Kumanan, Laser Radial
2. Vishnu Saravanan, Laser Standard
3. KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar, 49er

Shooting

As many as 15 Indian shooters have achieved Olympic qualification so far, making it the country’s largest contingent at any Games.

Youngsters Divyansh Singh Panwar and Elavenil Valarivan are highest-ranked in the 10m Air Rifle men’s and women’s respectively, while Manu Bhaker has had prolific returns, so medal expectations are quite high.

While the following athletes secured a quota place in their respective category, their participation at the showpiece event was decided by the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI). The final team saw Chinki Yadav's quota handed to rifle shooter Elavenil Valarivan.

1. Anjum Moudgil, 10m Women’s Air Rifle, Individual
2. Apurvi Chandela, 10m Women’s Air Rifle, Individual
3. Divyansh Singh Panwar, 10m Men’s Air Rifle, Individual
4. Deepak Kumar, 10m Men’s Air Rifle, Individual
5. Tejaswini Sawant, 50m Women’s Rifle 3 Position, Individual
6. Sanjeev Rajput, 50m Men’s Rifle 3 Position, Individual
7. Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar, 50m Men’s Rifle 3 Position, Individual
8. Manu Bhaker, 10m Women’s Air Pistol, Individual
9. Yashaswini Singh Deswal, 10m Women’s Air Pistol, Individual
10. Saurabh Chaudhary, 10m Men’s Air Pistol, Individual
11. Abhishek Verma, 10m Men’s Air Pistol, Individual
12. Rahi Sarnobat, 25m Women’s Pistol, Individual
13. Chinki Yadav, 25m Women’s Pistol, Individual (replaced by Elavenil Valarivan)
14. Angad Veer Singh Bajwa, Men’s Skeet, Individual
15. Mairaj Ahmad Khan, Men’s Skeet, Individual

Table Tennis

Four Indian table tennis players qualified for the Olympics at the Asian qualifiers in Doha in March. It includes the veteran Sharath Kamal, who will be making his fourth appearance at the Games. While G Sathiyan and Sutirtha Mukherjee sealed their Tokyo spots with wins in their respective groups, Manika Batra and Sharath Kamal booked their place on the basis of their rankings.

1. Sharath Kamal
2. Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
3. Sutirtha Mukherjee
4. Manika Batra

Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra will also compete together in the mixed doubles after earning their Olympic berths at the Asian qualifiers.

Wrestling

There will be at least six wrestlers from India competing at Tokyo 2020. While the grapplers secured a quota place for their country in their respective categories, the Wrestling Association of India is expected to confirm their seats for Tokyo 2020. With Sonam Malik winning the quota in the 62kg category, Rio 2016 bronze medallist Sakshi Malik will not be wrestling at the Tokyo Olympics.

1. Vinesh Phogat, Women’s Freestyle 53kg, Individual
2. Anshu Malik, Women's Freestyle 57kg, Individual
3. Sonam Malik, Women's Freestyle 62kg, Individual
4. Bajrang Punia, Men’s Freestyle 65kg, Individual
5. Ravi Kumar Dahiya, Men’s Freestyle 57kg, Individual
6. Deepak Punia, Men’s Freestyle 86 kg, Individual.

Equestrian

1. Fouaad Mirza