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With the 2021 Tokyo Olympics drawing closer, preparations are well on course in the Japanese capital. Special emphasis is being accorded to ensure that COVID-19 protocols are maintained at each step, especially given the backlash and resistance from local people against staging the event in the middle of a pandemic.
But, once the opening ceremony gets underway on July 23, the focus of the entire world will turn to the sporting spectacle that is the Olympics.
India will be aiming for its best-ever outing at the Games, but its contingent is unfortunately suffering major hiccups in the build-up to the event. Travel restrictions and lockdowns have hit them hard. Indian athletes are thus far from the level of preparations they would have liked to have before appearing at the Tokyo Olympics.
In fact, many of them might not even qualify for the Olympics, given that participating in tournaments has now become a distant dream.
So far, 95 Indian athletes have made the Tokyo Olympics cut, across 12 categories, as per the final list prepared by their respective federations for the Games.
Here is the list of Indian athletes qualified for 2021 olympics so far:
Archery
Tarundeep Rai - Men’s Individual, Men’s Team
Atanu Das - Men’s Individual, Men’s Team
Pravin Jadhav - Men’s Individual, Men’s Team
Deepika Kumari - Women’s Individual
Athletics
Muhammed Anas, VK Vismaya, Nirmal Noah, Jisna Mathew - 4x400m Mixed Relay
Bhawna Jat - Women's 20 km Race walk
Irfan Thodi - Men's 20 km Race walk
Sandeep Kumar - Men's 20 km Race walk
Priyanka Goswami - Women's 20 km Race walk
Rahul - Men's 20 km Race walk
Avinash Sable - Men's 3000m Steeplechase
M Sreeshankar - Men's Long Jump
Kamalpreet Kaur - Women's Discus Throw
Neeraj Chopra - Men's Javelin Throw
Shivpal Singh - Men's Javelin Throw
Seema Punia - Discus Throw
Dutee Chand - 100m and 200m Sprints
Tajinderpal Singh Toor - Shot Put
Annu Rani - Javelin Throw
MP Jabir - 400m Hurdles
Boxing
Amit Panghal - Men's 52kg
Manish Kaushik - Men's 63kg
Vikas Krishan - Men's 69kg
Ashish Kumar - Men's 75kg
Satish Kumar - Men's 91+kg
Mary Kom - Women's 51kg
Simranjit Kaur - Women's 60kg
Lovlina Borgohain - Women's 69kg
Pooja Rani - Women's 75kg
Equestrian
Fouaad Mirza - Men's Individual Eventing
Fencing
Bhavani Devi - Women's Sabre
Gymnastics
Pranati Nayak - Women's Artistic Gymnastics
Golf
Anirban Lahiri
Udayan Mane
Aditi Ashok
Swimming
Srihari Nataraj - Men's 100m Backstroke
Sajan Prakash - Men's 200m Butterfly
Maana Patel - 100m backstroke
Hockey
Men's team (16-member squad)
Women's team (16-member squad)
Rowing
Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh - Men's Lightweight Double Sculls
Weightlifting
Mirabai Chanu - Women's 49 kg
Sailing
Nethra Kumanan - Women's Laser Radial
Vishnu Saravanan - Men's Laser Standard
KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar - Men's skiff | 49er
Shooting
Saurabh Chaudhary - 10m Men’s Air Pistol, Individual and Mixed Team
Abhishek Verma - 10m Men’s Air Pistol, Individual and Mixed Team
Deepak Kumar - 10m Men’s Air Rifle, Individual and Mixed Team
Divyansh Singh Panwar - 10m Men’s Air Rifle, Individual and Mixed Team
Sanjeev Rajput - 50m Men’s Rifle 3 Position, Individual
Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar - 50m Men’s Rifle 3 Position, Individual
Angad Veer Singh Bajwa - Men’s Skeet, Individual
Mairaj Ahmad Khan - Men’s Skeet Individual
Manu Bhaker - 10m Women’s Air Pistol, Individual and 25m Pistol Women, Individual and Mixed Team
Yashaswini Singh Deswal - 10m Women’s Air Pistol, Individual and Mixed Team
Apurvi Chandela - 10m Women’s Air Rifle, Individual
Elavenil Valarivan - 10m Women’s Air Rifle, Individual and Mixed Team
Rahi Sarnobat - 25m Women’s Pistol, Individual
Anjum Moudgil - 50m Women’s Air Rifle 3 positions, Individual and Mixed Team
Tejaswini Sawant - 50m Women’s Rifle 3 Position, Individual
Badminton
PV Sindhu - Women's Singles
P Sai Praneeth - Men's Singles
Saitwiksairaj Rankireddy - Men's Doubles
Chirag Shetty - Men's Doubles
Table Tennis
Achanta Sharath Kamal - Men's Singles, Mixed Doubles
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran - Men's Singles
Manika Batra - Women's Singles, Mixed Doubles
Sutirtha Mukherjee - Women's Singles
Wrestling
Ravi Dahiya - Men's 57 kg Freestyle
Bajrang Punia - Men's 65 kg Freestyle
Deepak Punia - Men's 86 kg Freestyle
Sumit Malik - Men's 125 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
Judo
Sushila Devi - Women's lightweight 48 kg
