120 Indian Athletes to Compete in the Summer Olympics at Rio de Janeiro

On July 19, IOA, along with Bollywood superstar Salman Khan and music maestro A R Rahman, bid farewell to the Rio bound athletes.

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India is set to field its largest ever delegation for the upcoming summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The athletes will compete at the Olympics from 5 to 21 August. Watch: Rio Olympics Opening Ceremony Indian time

The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) selected a strong 120 member contingent to represent India in the 15 sports. At the London Olympics four years ago, the highest number of athletes by India was 83. Read: 2016 Rio Olympics India Schedule in IST

On July 19, IOA, along with Bollywood superstar Salman Khan and music maestro A R Rahman, bid farewell to the Rio bound athletes.

The 120 member roster comprises of 66 men and 54 women, up from 23 women athletes in the last Olympics. This year, there has been an unprecedented jump in the track and field athletes . From 14 athletes competing in 11 events in 2012 to 36 athletes making their mark in 16 games. The other sport that has the highest representation includes Field Hockey with 32 members  with men’s and women’s hockey teams combined, followed by Shooting (12), Wrestling (8) and Badminton (7)

The 2016 Indian Olympic Team will feature 70 returning Olympians including India’s lone individual gold medallist, shooter Abhinav Bindra, who will be seen carrying the tricolor at the opening ceremony. It will be Bindra’s final appearance at the Olympics.

With the strongest contingent ever, India is looking to improve its medals tally of six at London Olympics.

At the 2012 London Olympics, we saw winners such as Gagan Narang Bronze (Shooting Men’s 10m Air Rifle), Vijay Kumar Silver (Shooting Men’s 25 Rapid Fire Pistol), Saina Nehwal Bronze (Badminton Women’s Singles), Mary Kom Bronze (Boxing Women’s Flyweight), Yogeshwar Dutt Bronze (Wrestling Men’s 60 kg Freestyle), Sushil Kumar Silver (Wrestling Men’s 66 kg Freestyle).

India first participated at the Olympic Games in 1990, with lone athlete Norman Pritchard, who won India two silver medals the same year for 200 meters and 200 meters hurdles. The nation first sent a team to the Olympics Games in 1920 and has participated in every game since then.

India has won 26 medals—nine gold medals, six silver and 11 bronze medals—in 30 Olympics games.

Here is the complete list of all those who will represent India in Rio:

Archery (women)

Deepika Kumari

Laxmirani Majhi

Bombayla Devi

Archery (men)

Atanu Das

Athletics (men)

Dharambir (200m)

Muhammad Anas Yahiya (400m & 4x400m Relay)

Jinson Johnson  (800m)

Ankit Sharma (Long jump)

Renjit Maheswary (Triple Jump)

Inderjeet Singh (Shot Put)

Vikas Gowda (Discus Throw)

Nitendra Singh Rawat (Marathon)

Gopi Thonakal (Marathon)

Kheta Ram (Marathon)

Manish Singh Rawat (20 Km Race Walking)

Gurmeet Singh (20 Km Race Walking)

Ganapathi Krishnan (20 Km Race Walking)

Sandeep Kumar (50 Km Race Walking)

Arokia Rajiv (4x400m Relay)

Kunhu Muhammaed Puthanpurakal (4x400m Relay

Dharun Ayyasamy (4x400m Relay)

Mohankumar Raja (4x400m Relay)

Lalith Mathur (4x400m Relay)

Athletics (women)

Dutee Chand (100m)

Srbani Nanda (200m)

Nirmla (400m & 4x400m Relay)

Tintu Luka (800m)

Sudha Singh (3000 Steeple Chase)

Lalit Shivaji Babar (3000 Steeple Chase)

Manpreet Kaur (Shot Put)

Seema Punia (Discus Throw)

O.P. Jaisha (Marathon)

Kavita Tungar Raut (Marathon)

Khushbir Kaur (20 Km Race Walking)

Sapana (20 Km Race Walking)

Poovamma Raju Machettira (4x400m Relay)

Anilda Thomas (4x400m Relay)

Jisna Mathew (4x400m Relay)

Aswani Chidananda Akkunji (4x400m Relay)

Debashree Mazumdar (4x400m Relay)

Badminton (Men)

Kidambi Srikanth Nammal War

Manu Atthri

Sumeet Reddy Buss

Badminton (Women)

Sania Nehwal

P.V. Sindhu

Jwala Gutta

Ashwini Ponnappa

Boxing (men)

Shiv Thapa (56 kg)

Manoj Kumr (64 kg)

Vikas Krishan (75 kg)

Golf (men)

Anirban Lahiri

Shivsankar Prasad Chawrasia

Golf (women)

Aditi Ashok

Gymnastics (women)

Dipa Karmakar (Artistic – Individual Around)

Judo (men)

Avtar Singh (90 KG)

Rowing (men)

Bhokanal Dattu Baban (M1x Men’s Singles Sculls)

Shooting (men)

Abhinav Bindra

Kynan Chenai

Mairaj Ahmad Khan

Prakash Nanjappa

Gagan Narang

Gurpreet Singh

Jitu Rai

Chain Singh

Shooting (women)

Heena Sidhu

Apurvi Chandela

Ayonika Paul

Swimming

Sajan Prakash (200M BUTTERFLY)

Shivani (200M FREESTYLE)

Table Tennis (men)

Achanta Sharath Kamal (Single)

Soumyajit Ghosh (Single)

Table Tennis (women)

Mouma Das (Single)

Manik Batra (Single)

Wrestling (men)

Yogeshwar Dutt (FR) (65 kg)

Narsingh Pancham Yadav (FR) (74 kg)

Sandeep Tomar (FR) (57 kg)

Hardeep – GR (98 kg)

Ravinder Khatri (GR) (85 kg)

Wrestling (women)

Sakshi Malik (FR) (58 kg)

Vinesh (FR) (48 Kg)

Babita Kumari (FR) (53 kg)

Weightlifting

Sathish Kumar Sivalingam (men’s 77 kg)

Mirabhai Chanu Saikhom (women’s 48 kg)

Tennis (men)

Rohan Bopanna (men’s doubles)

Leander Paes (men’s doubles)

Tennis (women)

Sania Mirza (women’s doubles)

Prarthana Thombare (women’s doubles)

Hockey (men)

Sreejesh P.R. (Captain)

Rupinder Pal Singh (Player)

Raghunath V.R. (Player)

Kothajit Singh (Player)

Surender Kumar (Player)

Harmanpreet Singh (Player)

Danish Mujtaba (Player)

Chinglensana Singh Kangujam (Player)

Manpreet Singh (Player)

Sardar Singh (Player)

Uthappa S.K. (Player)

Devindar Sunil Walmiki (Player)

Sunil S.V. (Player)

Akashdeep Singh (Player)

Ramandeep Singh (Player)

Chandanda Aiyanna Nikkin Thimmaiah (Player)

Vikas Dahiya (Alternate Athlete)

Pardeep Mor (Alternate Athlete)

Hockey (women’s team)

Navjot Kaur (Player)

Deep Grace Ekka (Player)

Monika (Player)

Nikki Pradhan (Player)

Anuradha Devi Thockcha (Player)

Savita (Player)

Poonam Rani (Player)

Vandana Katariya (Player)

Deepika (Player)

Namita Toppo (Player)

Renuka Yadav (Player)

Sunita Lakra (Player)

Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam (Captain)

Rani (Player)

Preeti Dubey (Player)

Lilima Minz (Player)

Rajani Etimarpu (Alternate Athlete)

Ruat Feli, Hnialum (Alternate Athlete)