The Olympics and India, 2021
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The complete. detailed Indian results
The Indpaedia team has been updating this page regularly, often after every few jours, soon after an Indian sportsperson at Tokya achieves a result, negative or positive, so that all Indians—and people interested in India—have one place—that being India’s own national encyclopædia—where the complete results till then are available. (The results are arranged in the chronological order.)
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The Indian contingent
July 16, 2021: The Times of India
Here's the complete list of the contingent:
ARCHERY
Men's recurve individual and team event:
Tarundeep Rai
Atanu Das
Pravin Jadhav
Women's recurve individual: Deepika Kumari
Coach: Mim Bahadur Gurung
Physiotherapist: Chinmay Shrirang Bhide
ATHLETICS
Neeraj Chopra - men's javelin throw
Shivpal Singh - men's javelin throw
Bhawna Jat - women's 20 km race-walk
KT Irfan Thodi - men's 20 km race-walk
Gurpreet Singh - men's 50km race-walk
Avinash Sable - men's 3000m steeplechase
Sandeep Kumar - men's 20 km race-walk
Priyanka Goswami - women's 20 km race-walk
Rahul Rohilla- men's 20 km race-walk
M Sreeshankar - men's long jump
Kamalpreet Kaur - women's discus throw
Tajinderpal Singh Toor - men's shot-put
Seema Punia - women's discus throw
Dutee Chand - women's 100m and 200m
MP Jabir - men's 400m hurdles
Annu Rani - women's javelin throw
Amol Jacob, Rajiv Arokia, Muhammaed Anas, Naganathan Pandi, Noah Nirmal Tom - Men's 4x400m relay team
Sarthak Bhambri, Alex Antony, Revathi Veeramani, Subha Venkatesan, Dhanlakshmi Sekhar - Mixed 4x400m relay team
Coaches: Radhakrishnan Prabhakaran, Mohinder Singh Dhillon, Klaus Bartonietz, Galina Bukharina, Rajmohan, Uew Hohn, M Sivasankaran, Amrish Kumar, Ramesh Nagapuri, Alexander Artsybashev, Physiotherapist: Abhishek Pandey, Ishaan Marwaha, Alexander Sinitsyn, Ketan Hulawale, Simoni Shah, Pawan Kumar
Masseur: Elmira Kiseleva, Chandrej Kumar
Team Doctor: Brajesh Koushle
Medical Staff: Andrei Filimonau
Manager: Madhukant Pathak
BADMINTON
PV Sindhu - women's singles
B Sai Praneeth - men's singles
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty - men's doubles
Coaches: Tae Seng Park, Mathias Boe
Physiotherapist: Evangeline Baddam, Sumansh Sivalanka, Dwi Santosa Agus
BOXING
Satish Kumar - men's 91+ kg
Ashish Kumar - men's 75 kg
Lovlina Borgohain - women's 69 kg
Vikas Krishan - men's 69 kg
Pooja Rani - women's 75 kg
Amit Panghal - men's 52 kg
Mary Kom - women's 51 kg
Simranjit Kaur - women's 60 kg
Manish Kaushik - men's 63 kg
Coach: Santiago Nieva, Raffaele Bergamasco, CA Kuttappa, Mohammad Ali Qamar, Chhote Lal
Physiotherapist: Aayush Yekhande
Doctor: Karanjeet Singh
EQUESTRIAN
Fouaad Mirza - men's individual eventing
Veterinary Doctor: Grigorios Maleas
Groom: Johanna Pohjonen
Physiotherapist: Veronia Sinz
FENCING
Bhavani Devi - women's sabre
Coach: Nicola Zanotti
Psychologist: Angelo Carnemolla
Manager: Ramani Sundhararaman
GOLF
Anirban Lahiri
Aditi Ashok
Udayan Mane
Coach: Ashok Pandit
Caddies: C Seenappa, Rupesh Pardeshi, Maheshwari Bhuyar
GYMNASTICS
Pranati Nayak - women's artistic
Coach: Lakhan Sharma
HOCKEY
Men's team (19 players, including two alternate players and one reserve goalkeeper)
Women's team (19 players, including two alternate players and one reserve goalkeeper)
Coaches: Graham Reid, Sjoerd Marijne, Shivendra Singh, Gregg Clark, Johanna Schopman, Ankitha Suresh, Piyush Dubey
Scientific Advisors: Robin Arkell, Wayne Lombard
Masseur/Masseuse: Arup Naskar, Radhika Chaudhari
Physiotherapists: Kannan Bose, Nivedita Chopra
Video Analysts: Ashok Kumar, A Perumal
JUDO
Sushila Devi
Coach: Jiwan Sharma
ROWING
Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh - men's lightweight double sculls
Coach: Ismail Baig
SAILING
Nethra Kumanan - women's laser radial
Vishnu Saravanan - men's laser standard
KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar - men's skiff 49er
Coaches: Ian Warren, Alexandr Denisiuc
Official: Malav Shroff
SHOOTING
Individual Events:
Anjum Moudgil - women's 50m rifle 3-position
Tejaswini Sawant - women's 50m rifle 3-position
Apurvi Chandela - women's 10m air rifle
Elavenil Valarivan - women's 10m air rifle
Manu Bhaker - women's 10m air pistol, women's 25m pistol
Yashaswini Deswal - women's 10m air pistol
Rahi Sarnobat - women's 25m pistol
Divyansh Panwar - men's 10m air rifle
Sanjeev Rajput - men's 50m rifle 3-position
Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar - men's 50m rifle 3-position
Saurabh Chaudhary - men's 10m air pistol
Abhishek Verma - men's 10m air pistol
Deepak Kumar - men's 10m air rifle
Angad Veer Singh Bajwa - men's skeet
Mairaj Ahmad Khan - men's skeet
Mixed Team Events
10m air rifle - Divyansh Singh Panwar and Elavenil Valarivan; Deepak Kumar and Anjum Moudgil
10m air pistol - Saurabh Chaudhary and Manu Bhaker; Abhishek Verma and Yashaswini Singh Deswal.
Reserves
Men's 10m air rifle - Sandeep Singh and Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar
Men's 50m rifle 3-position - Swapnil Kusale and Chain Singh
Men's 10m air pistol - Shahzar Rizvi and Om Prakash Mitharval
Men's skeet - Gurjoat Singh Khangura and Sheeraz Sheikh
Women's 10m air rifle - Anjum Moudgil and Shreya Agrawal
Women's 50m rifle 3-position - Sunidhi Chauhan and Gaayathri Nithyanandam
Women's 10m air pistol - P Shri Nivetha and Shweta Singh
Women's 25m pistol - Chinki Yadav and Abhidnya Patil
(Names mentioned under 'Reserves' are not counted in the tally of athletes who have qualified/are selected)
Coaches: Suma Shirur, Deepali Deshpande, Oleg Mikhailov, Pavel Smirnov, Samaresh Jung, Ronak Pandit, Mansher Singh
Physiotherapist: Zeinia Samar
SWIMMING
Sajan Prakash - men's 200m butterfly
Srihari Nataraj - men's 100m backstroke
Maana Patel - women's 100m backstroke
Coach: Pradeep Kumar, Nihar Ameen
TABLE TENNIS
Achanta Sharath Kamal - men's singles
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran - men's singles
Manika Batra - women's singles
Sutirtha Mukherjee - women's singles
Achanta Sharath Kamal & Manika Batra - mixed doubles
Coach: Soumyadeep Roy, Sanmay Paranjape
Manager: Mahinder Pal Singh
TENNIS
Sania Mirza and Ankita Raina - women's doubles
Sumit Nagal - men's singles
Physiotherapist: Anand Kumar
WEIGHTLIFTING
Saikhom Mirabai Chanu - women's 48kg
Coaches: Vijay Sharma, Pramod Sharma, Sandip Kumar
Physiotherapist: Aalap Javadekar
WRESTLING
Ravi Dahiya - men's 57 kg freestyle
Bajrang Punia - men's 65 kg freestyle
Deepak Punia - men's 86 kg freestyle
Vinesh Phogat - women's 53 kg freestyle
Anshu Malik - women's 57 kg freestyle
Sonam Malik - women's 62 kg freestyle
Seema Bisla - women's 50 kg freestyle
Coaches: Jagmander Singh, Kuldeep Singh, Anil Maan, Rajeev Tomar, Kamal Malikov, Gaidarov Murad, Emzarios Bentinidis, Wollar Akos
Team Leader: Vinod Tomar
CONTINGENT OFFICIALS
Birendra Baishya, Prem Verma, Kumar Bhowmik, Arun Mathew, Binay Sinha, George Mathew, Puskar Negi, Abhishek Goel
India’s medal hopes
Team TOI Plus, July 12, 2021: The Times of India
Inputs: Jaspreet Sahni and Amit Kumar
Here is a list of some of India’s medal hopes.
SHOOTING
Medal prospects: 4
1. Elavenil Valarivan, 21
Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu
Air rifle, 10m
Elavenil Valarivan is ranked No. 1 in the Tokyo Olympics rankings and 12th in the world in 2021 rankings. She won gold medals at the International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) World Cup at Rio and Putian in 2019.
2. Saurabh Chaudhary, 19
Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
10m air pistol and mixed team 10m air pistol
Saurabh won a bronze at the 2021 ISSF World Cup in Osijek, Croatia.
“He is never satisfied by the score. He comes back and says these were the problems and asks can we sort them out. He has that desire to improve," says his coach Samaresh Jung.
Chaudhary will also partner Manu Bhaker in the 10m air pistol mixed team event. Bhaker herself is an individual medal prospect.
3. Manu Bhaker, 19
Jhajjar, Haryana
10m air pistol, 25m pistol and mixed team 10m air pistol
Bhaker won an individual gold and mixed team gold at the 2019 World Cup Final. She also bagged two golds at the 2019 Asian Championship.
4. Abhishek Verma, 31
Hisar, Haryana
Verma won two individual ISSF World Cup golds in 2019, securing the Tokyo 2020 quota in the process. At the 2019 Asian Championships, he won an individual silver and is currently ranked world No. 2 in the ISSF rankings.
WEIGHTLIFTING
Medal prospect: 1
1. Mirabai Chanu, 26
Imphal, Manipur
Mirabai Chanu, who set the world record in clean and jerk as recently as in April with a lift of 119kg to win the bronze at the Asian Weightlifting Championships, will compete in the 49kg category. Chanu will look to erase the memories of Rio when she failed to record a valid lift.
ARCHERY Medal prospects: 2
1. Atanu Das, 29
Baranagar, West Bengal
Men’s recurve individual and team
While he crashed to a round of 16 defeat in Rio, top podium finish at the 2021 Archery World Cup in Guatemala City has proved to be a confidence boost. Apart from the individual event, he is also a part of the men’s team event with Tarundeep Rai and Pravin Jadhav. Atanu is married to two-time World Championship silver medallist Deepika Kumari.
2. Deepika Kumari, 27
Ranchi, Jharkhand
Deepika Kumari regained the world No. 1 ranking this year after winning three gold medals at the World Cup stage 3 in Paris. She now has nine gold, 12 silver, and seven bronze World Cup medals.
BOXING
Medal prospects: 2
1. Amit Panghal, 25
Rohtak, Haryana
Amit Panghal is ranked No.1 in men’s 52kg in the latest International Boxing Association world rankings. His is also a World Championships silver medalist.
2. M C Mary Kom, 38
Kangathei, Churachandpur, Manipur
The legendary boxer is India's biggest hope to secure a podium finish. She is the only woman to win the World Amateur Boxing Championships six times and the only boxer (male or female) to win eight World Championships medals.
WRESTLING
Medal prospects: 2
1. Vinesh Phogat, 26
Haryana
Vinesh Phogat is the current world No. 1 in 53kg freestyle category. The 26-year-old wrestler clinched her Olympic spot at the 2019 world wrestling championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, winning the bronze at the event. The grappler won bronze at the 2020 Asian championships and her maiden gold in the 2021 edition in Almaty, Kazakhstan. She also won the gold at the Matteo Pellicone tournament in Rome in March this year.
2. Bajrang Punia, 27
Jhajjar, Haryana
One of India’s most experienced wrestlers, Punia will represent India in the men's freestyle 65kg category. Punia has won three medals for India at the World Wrestling Championships and this will be his best chance to bring home an Olympic medal.
BADMINTON
Medal prospect: 1
1. P V Sindhu, 26
Hyderabad, Telangana
Five years after her Rio silver, P V Sindhu will be eyeing the Olympic gold in Tokyo. Since Rio, she has gone on to become the first Indian to win a Badminton World Federation (BWF) World Championships title, bagged her maiden BWF World Tour Finals crown in the inaugural edition in 2018 and achieved a career-best ranking of world No. 2. Currently ranked seventh on BWF’s rankings, Sindhu will have to be at her best in Tokyo.
HOCKEY
Tokyo is India’s chance to regain its past glory. Ranked fifth in the world, Indian men have put in some good performances against the world’s top teams. According to pundits, the Indians have it in them to reach the semi-finals. After that, anything is possible.
The stars in the squad include Manpreet Singh, Rupinder Pal Singh, P R Sreejesh and Birendra Lakra. The team also has 10 Olympic debutants.
TRACK AND FIELD
Medal prospect: 1
Flying Sikh Milkha Singh died carrying an unfulfilled dream. He wanted to see someone win an Olympic medal from India in a track and field event. Could it be javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra?
1. Neeraj Chopra, 23
Panipat, Haryana
He threw 87.86m at the first event he competed at after recovering from an elbow injury. The throw won him a qualification for Tokyo. Chopra has been a junior world champion and an Asian Games gold medalist. He recently hit the 88.07m mark, fourth highest in the world in 2021 and his career best. If he touches 90m, he will be in the contention.
See also
The Olympics: India (1900-2016)
The Olympics and India, 2021
