Tokyo Olympics that got delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic is scheduled to begin on July 23. It will be held at the newly-built National Stadium in the Japanese capital. India is sending a 228-strong contingent to the Olympic events, including 119 athletes. With the numbers, this will be India’s largest-ever contingent of athletes at the Olympics.
Out of 119 athletics, 52 are female participants expected to give tough competitions to their opponents in 18 sporting events. Let’s take a look at who are these 52 athletes and out of 33 sports events, which ones they will be participating in:
- Deepika Kumari (Women’s Recurve)- Archery
- PV Sindhu (Women’s singles)- Badminton
- Mary Kom (Women’s, 51kg)- Boxing
- Pooja Rani (Women’s, 75kg)- Boxing
- Simranjit Kaur (Women’s, 60kg)- Boxing
- Bhavani Devi- Fencing
- Aditi Ashok- Golf
- Pranati Nayak- Gymnastics
- Gurjit Kaur, Udita, Nisha, Neha, Navneet Kaur, Sharmila Devi, Lalremsiami, Salima Tete (Women’s National Team)- Hockey
- Sushila Devi Likmabam (Women’s extra-lightweight 48kg)- Judo
- Nethra Kumanan, Laser Radial- Sailing
- Apurvi Chandela (10m Women’s Air Rifle)- Shooting
- Anjum Moudgil (10m Women’s Air Rifle)- Shooting
- Chinki Yadav, replaced by Elavenil Valarivan (25m Women’s Pistol)- Shooting
- Manu Bhaker (10m Women’s Air Pistol)- Shooting
- Rahi Sarnobat (25m Women’s Pistol)- Shooting
- Tejaswini Sawant (50m Women’s Rifle 3 Position)- Shooting
- Yashaswini Singh Deswal (10m Women’s Air Pistol)- Shooting
- Maana Patel (women’s 100m backstrokes)- Swimming
- Sathiyan Gnanasekaran- Table tennis
- Sutirtha Mukherjee- Table tennis
- Manika Batra- Table tennis
- Sania Mirza and Ankita Raina (Women’s Doubles)- Tennis
- Seema Bisla (Women’s Freestyle, 50kg)- Wrestling
- Vinesh Phogat (Women’s Freestyle 53kg)- Wrestling
- Anshu Malik (Women’s Freestyle 57kg)- Wrestling
- Sonam Malik (Women’s Freestyle 62kg)- Wrestling
- Bhawna Jat (Women’s 20km race walking)- Athletics
- Priyanka Goswami (Women’s 20km race walking)- Athletics
- Annu Rani (Women’s javelin throw)- Athletics
- Kamalpreet Kaur (Women’s discus throw)- Athletics
- Seema Punia (Women’s discus throw)- Athletics
- Dutee Chand (Women’s 100m and 200m)- Athletics
