India will be one of 45 nations participating at the Asian Games 2023, which will be held at Hangzhou, People's Republic of China, from September 23 to October 8, 2023.
The continental event, which was originally scheduled for 2022 and postponed to 2023 due to COVID-19, will feature 40 sports with thousands of Asia's top athletes and sports stars battling for medals across events.

In 18 appearances at the Asian Games, India have sent many athletes to compete in the quadrennial event. In the last edition in Jakarta 2018, India had sent a contingent of 570 to compete in 36 different sports. Even this time the number is above 500.
India will look to better their medal haul at the event with their previous best finish being a total of 70 medals in 2018. Overall, India has won a total of 672 medals, including 155 gold so far.
The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS) has sanctioned 634 athletes across 38 sporting disciplines for participation in the upcoming games in Hangzhou. Here is a look at the Indian athletes and squads qualified for the 19th Asian Games Hangzhou 2023.
Men's Recurve: Dhiraj Bommadevara, Atanu Das, Tushar Shelke, Mrinal Chauhan
Women's Recurve: Bhajan Kaur, Prachi Singh, Ankita Bhakat, Simranjeet Kaur
Men's Compound: Prathamesh Jawkar, Rajat Chauhan, Ojas Deotale, Abhishek Verma
Women's Compound: Avneet Kaur, Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Aditi Swami, Parneet Kaur
Men's Javelin Throw: Neeraj Chopra, Kishore Kumar Jena
Men's Shot Put: Tajinderpal Singh Toor, Sahib Singh
Men's 20km Race Walk: Sandeep Kumar, Vikash Singh
Men's Long Jump: Murali Sreeshankar, Jeswin Aldrin, Praveen Chithravel
Men's Triple Jump: Abdulla Aboobacker
Men's 1500m: Ajay Kumar Saroj, Jinson Johnson
Men's 800m: Krishan Kumar, Mohammed Afsal Pulikkalakath
Men's 400m Hurdles: T Santhosh Kumar, Yashas Palaksha
Men's 400m: Muhammed Anas Yahiya
Men's 200m: Amlan Borgohain
Men's 10000m: Karthik Kumar, Gulveer Singh
Men's 3000m Steeplechase: Avinash Sable
Men's 5000m: Avinash Sable, Gulveer Singh
Men's High Jump: Sarvesh Anil Kushare, Jesse Sandesh
Men's Decathlon: Tejaswin Shankar
Men's Marathon: Man Singh, Belliappa Appachangada Bopaiah
Men's 4x400m Relay: Muhammed Anas Yahiya, Muhammed Ajmal, Arokia Rajiv, Amoj Jacob, Mijo Chacko Kurian, Rajesh Ramesh, Arul Rajalingam
4x400m Mixed Relay: Nihal Joel William, Rahul Baby, Muhammed Anas Yahiya, Soniya Baishya, Aishwarya Kailash Mishra, Jisna Mathew
Mixed 35km Race Walk: Ram Baboo, Manju Rani
Women's Long Jump: Shaili Singh, Ancy Sojan
Women's 5000m: Ankita, Parul Chaudhary
Women's 3000m Steeplechase: Parul Chaudhary, Priti Lamba
Women's Javelin Throw: Annu Rani
Women' Shot Put: Kiran Baliyan, Manpreet Kaur
Women's 20km Race Walk: Priyanka
Women's 400m Hurdles: Vithya Ramraj, Sinchal Kaveramma Ravi
Women's 400m: Aishwarya Kailash Mishra, Himanshi Malik
Women's Heptathlon: Swapna Barman, Nandini Agasara
Women's 800m: Harmilan Bains, Chanda
Women's 1500m: Harmilan Bains, Deeksha
Women's Hammer Throw: Tanya Chaudhary, Rachna Kumari
Women's High Jump: Rubina Yadav, Pooja
Women's 100m hurdles: Jyothi Yarraji, Nithya Ramraj
Women's 200m: Jyothi Yarraji
Women's Pole Vault: Pavithra Vengatesh
Women's Triple Jump: Sheena Nellickal Varkey
Women's 4x400m Relay: Soniya Baishya, Florence Barla, Subha Venkateshan, Aishwarya Kailash Mishra, Himanshi Malik, Jisna Mathew
Women's Discus Throw: Seema Punia
Men's Singles: HS Prannoy, Kidambi Srikanth, Lakshya Sen, Mithun Manjunath
Men's Doubles: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy & Chirag Shetty, Dhruv Kapila & MR Arjun
Women's Singles: PV Sindhu, Ashmita Chaliha, Anupama Upadhyaya, Malvika Bansod
Women's Doubles: Gayatri Gopichand & Treesa Jolly, Ashwini Ponnappa & Tanisha Crasto
Mixed Doubles: Rohan Kapoor & N Sikki Reddy, Sai Pratheek K & Tanisha Crasto
5x5 women's basketball team: Manmeet Kaur, Stephy Nixon, Poonam Chaturvedi, Madhu Kumari, Shireen Vijay Limaye, Sreekala Ran, Sruthy Rathinavel, Pushpa Senthil Kumar, Sathiya Senthilkumar, Dharshini Thirunavukkarasu.
3x3 men's basketball team: Amarendra Nayak, Kanwar Gurbaz Singh Sandhu, Lokendra Singh, Sejin Mathew.
3x3 women's basketball team: Anumaria Chenganamattathil Shaju, Siya Deodhar, Kavya Singla, Vaishnavi Yadav.
Men: Deepak Bhoria (51kg), Sachin Siwach (57kg), Shiva Thapa (63.5kg), Nishant Dev (71kg)
Lakshya Chahar (80kg), Sanjeet (92kg), Narender Berwal (+92kg).
Women: Nikhat Zareen (51kg), Preeti Pawar (54kg), Parveen Hooda (57kg), Jaismine Lamboria (60kg), Arundhati Chaudhary (66kg), Lovlina Borgohain (75kg).
Open Teams: Jaggy Shivdasani, Sandeep Thakral, Rajeshwar Tiwari, Sumit Mukherjee, Raju Tolani, Ajay Khare
Mixed Team: Kiran Nadar, B Satyanarayana, Himani Khandelwal, Rajeev Khandelwal, Marianne Karmarkar, Sandeep Karmarkar
Ladies Team: Asha Sharma, Puja Batra, Alka Kshirsagar, Bharti Dey, Kalpana Gurjar, Vidya Patel
Men's C1 1000m: Sunil Singh Salam
Men's Slalom (Kayak): Hitesh Kewat, Subham Kewat
Men's Slalom (Canoe): Vishal Kewat Sein
Men's C2 500m (team): Ribason Singh Ningthoujam, Gyaneshwor Singh Philem
Men's C2 100m (team): Arjun Singh, Niraj Verma
Women's Slalom (Kayak): Shikha Chouhan
Women's C2 500m (team): Shivani Verma, Megha Pradeep
Women's C2 200m (team): Kaveri, Neha Devi Leichondam
Women's K4 500m (team): Binita Chanu Oinam, Parvathy Geeta, Dimita Devi Touam, Soniya Devi Phairembam
Men: Gukesh D, Vidit Gujrathi, Arjun Erigaisi, Pentala Harikrishna, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa
Women: Koneru Humpy, Harika Dronavalli, Vaishali Rameshbabu, Vantika Agrawal, Savitha Shri B
Men's speed climbing: Aman Verma, Dhiraj Dinkar Birajdar
Men's lead and bouldering: Bharath Stephen Pereira Kamath
Women's speed climbing: Anisha Verma, Shivpreet Pannu
Women's lead and bouldering: Prateeksha Kajane Arun, Saniya Farooque Shaikh
Team India Men: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rahul Tripathi, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma, Washington Sundar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan, Arshdeep Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Akash Deep, Shivam Dube, Prabhsimran Singh, Yash Thakur, Sai Kishore, Venkatesh Iyer, Deepak Hooda, Sai Sudarsan.
Indian Women's Team: Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh, Amanjot Kaur, Devika Vaidya, Titas Sadhu, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Minnu Mani, Kanika Ahuja, Uma Chetry, Anusha Bareddy, Harleen Deol, Kashvee Gautam, Sneh Rana, Saika Ishaque, Pooja Vastrakar.
Men's sprint: Ronaldo Singh Laitonjam, Rojit Singh Yanglem, David Beckham Elkatohchoongo, Esow
Men's madison: Harshveer Singh Sekhon, Vishavjeet Singh
Women's sprint: Celestina, Triyasha Paul, Mayuri Lute, Sushikala Agashe
Men: Siddharth Bajrang Pardeshi, Heman London Singh
Eventing: Raju Singh Bhadoria, Apoorva Dabade, Vikas Kumar, Ashish Limaye
Dressage: Hriday Chheda, Anush Agarwalla, Divyakriti Singh, Sudipti Hajela
Show Jumping: Yash, Tias Dhingra, Kirat Singh Nagra
FIFA Online 4: Charanjot Singh, Karman Singh Tikka
Street Fighter V: Champion Edition - Mayank Prajapati, Ayan Biswas
League of Legends: Akshaj Shenoy, Samarth Arvind Trivedi, Mihir Ranjan, Aditya Selvaraj, Aakash Shandilya, Sanindhya Malik
DOTA 2: Darshan Bata, Krish Gupta, Abhishek Yadav, Ketan Goyal, Shubham Goli
Men's foil: Dev, Arjun, Bibish Kathiresan, Akash Kumar
Women's epee: Taniksha Khatri, Ena Arora, Yashikeerat Kaur Hayer, Jyothika Dutta
Women's individual sabre: Bhavani Devi
Indian men's football team: Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, Gurmeet Singh, Dheeraj Singh Moirangthem, Sandesh Jhingan, Anwar Ali, Narender Gahlot, Lalchungnunga, Akash Mishra, Roshan Singh, Ashish Rai, Jeakson Singh Thounaojam, Suresh Singh Wangjam, Apuia Ralte, Amarjit Singh Kiyam, Rahul KP, Naorem Mahesh Singh, Siva Sakthi Narayanan, Rahim Ali, Aniket Jadhav, Vikram Partap Singh, Rohit Danu, Sunil Chhetri.
Indian women's football team: Bala Devi, Astam Oraon, Jyoti, Manisha, Renu, Ritu Rani, Sanju, Sangita Basfore, Elangbam Chanu, Dalima Chhibber, Grace Dangmei, Soumya Guguloth, Shreya Hooda, Indumathi Kathiresan, Ashalata Devi, Priyangka Devi, N Sowmiya, Sweety Devi, R Sandhiya, Ranjana Chanu, Anju Tamang, Pyari Xaxa.
Men: Anirban Lahiri, Shubhankar Sharma, SSP Chawrasia, Khalin Joshi
Women: Aditi Ashok, Avani Prashanth, Pranavi Urs
Women: Pranati Nayak
Indian Women's Team: Bhawana, Diksha Kumari, Menika, Priyanka, Sonika, Sushma, Pooja Kanwar, Asha Rani, Mitali Sharma, Nidhi Sharma, Nina Shil, Jyoti Shukla, Shiva Singh, Tejaswani Singh, Priyanka Thakur, Shalini Thakur.
Indian men's hockey team: Abhishek, Gurjant Singh, Hardik Singh, Harmanpreet Singh, Jarmanpreet Singh, Mandeep Singh, Manpreet Singh, Sanjay, Shamsher Singh, Sukhjeet Singh, Sumit, Varun Kumar, PR Sreejesh, Krishan Bahadur Pathak, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Amit Rohidas, Nilakanta Sharma, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay.
Indian women's hockey team: Deepika, Lalremsiami, Monika, Navn Eet Kaur, Neha, Nisha, Savita, Sonika, Udita, Ishika Chaudhary, Deep Grace Ekka, Vandana Katariya, Bichu Devi Kharibam, Sangita Kumari, Vaishnavi Vitthal Phalke, Nikki Pradhan, Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam, Salima Tete.
Men: Avtar Singh (100kg)
Women: Garima Choudhary (70kg), Indubala Devi Maibam (78kg), Tulika Maan (+78kg)
Men: Amarjeet Singh (85kg)
Women: Nanvya Pandey (48kg), Rohini Kalam (52kg), Anupama Swain (52kg), Angitha Shyju (57kg), Kiran Kumari (63kg)
Indian men's team: Nitesh Kumar, Parvesh Bhainswal, Sachin, Surjeet Singh, Vishal Bhardwaj, Arjun Deshwal, Aslam Inamdar, Naveen Kumar, Pawan Sehrawat, Sunil Kumar, Nitin Rawal, Akash Shinde.
Indian women's team: Akshima, Jyoti, Pooja, Pooja, Priyanka, Pushpa, Sakshi Kumari, Ritu Negi, Nidhi Sharma, Sushma Sharma, Snehal Pradeep Shinde, Sonali Vishnu Shingat.
Men: Yash Kumar Chauhan (90kg)
Women: Pincky Balhara (52kg)
Men: Vishvesh Ganesh Patil (speed slalom), Jinesh Satyan Nanal (speed slalom/lnline/free style (pair)), Vikram Rajendra Ingale (relay team 3000m), Siddhant Rahul Kamble (relay team 3000m), Aryanpal Singh Ghuman (relay team 3000m), Anandkumar Velkumar (relay team 3000m)
Women: Aarthy Kasturi Raj (speed skating (10000m)/relay skateboarding team 3000m), Sai Samithas Akula (free skating), Greeshma Dontara (free skating), Merlin Dhanam Arpoudam Charles (speed slalom), Heeral Sadhu (relay team 3000m), Karthika Jagadeeswaran (relay team 3000m), Sanjana Bathula (relay team 3000m), Shreyashi Joshi (inline free style (pair))
Men: Mayank Chapheker
Men's Scull: Balraj Panwar, Satnam Singh, Parminder Singh, Jakar Khan, Sukhmeet Singh, Arvind Singh, Arjun Lal Jat, Kulwinder Singh (substitute)
Men's Coxless: Babu Lal Yadav, Lekh Ram, Jaswinder Singh, Bheem Singh, Punit Kumar, Ashish, Neeraj, Naresh Kalwaniya, Neetesh Kumar, Charanjeet Singh, DU Pande - Men's coxed eight
Men's Sweep: Ashish Goliyan (substitute)
Women's Scull: Kiran, Anshika Bharti
Women's Coxless: Aswathi PB, Mrunamayee Nilesh S, Thangjam Priya Devi, Rukmani, Sonali Swain, Ritu Kaudi, Varsha KB, H Tendenthoi Devi, G Geetanjali
Women's Substitutes: Rose Mestica Meril A
Indian Women's Team: Akanksha Anand Katkade, Dumuni Marndi, Mama Naik, Tarulata Naik, Lachmi Oraon, Kalyani Krishnat Patil, Vaishnavi Dattatray Patil, Sandhya Rai, Nirmalya Rout, Sweta Shahi, Sheetal Sharma, Shikha Yadav.
Men's ILCA7: Vishnu Saravanan
Men's Kiteboarding: Chitresh Tatha
Men's iQFoil: Jerome Kumar Savarimuthu
Men's RS:X: Eabad Ali
Men's ILCA4: Adhvait Menon
Men's 49er [team]: Ganapathy Kelapanda Chengappa, Varun Ashok Thakkar
Nacra 17 Mixed: Siddeshwar Indar Doiphode, Ramya Saravanan
470 Mixed: Sudhanshu Shekhar, Preeti Kongara
Women's ILCA6: Nethra Kumanan
Women's RS:X: Ishwariya Ganesh
Women's ILCA4: Neha Thakur
Women's 49 er (team): Harshita Tomar, Shital Verma
Indian Men's Team (Regu): Arun, Niken Singh Khangembam, John Meitei Laishram, Henary Singh Wahengbam, Akash Yumnam
Indian Men's Team (Quadrant): Shiva Kumar Chakali, Sandeep Kumar and Malemnganba Singh Sorokhaibam
Indian Women's Team (Regu): Khushbu, Maipak Devi Ayekam, Leirentonbi Devi Elangbam, Priya Devi Elangbam
Indian Women's Team (Quadrant): Chaoba Devi Oinam, Ayekpam Priya Devi, Sezovelu Dozo Dada Teas, Seyiekhrieno Tepa
Men's Rifle: Divyansh Singh Panwar, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Rudrankksh Patil, Swapnil Kusale, Akhil Sheoran
Women's Rifle: Ramita, Mehuli Ghosh, Ashi Chouksey, Sift Kaur Samra, Manini Kaushik
Men's Pistol: Sarabjot Singh, Shiva Narwal, Arjun Singh Cheema, Anish, Vijayveer Sidhu, Adarsh Singh
Women's Pistol: Divya TS, Esha Singh, Palak, Rhythm Sangwan, Manu Bhaker
Men's Trap: Prithviraj Toindaman, Kynan Chenai, Zoravar Singh Sandhu
Women's Trap: Manisha Keer, Preeti Rajak, Rajeshwari Kumari
Men's Skeet: Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Angad Vir Singh Bajwa, Gurjoat Singh Khangura
Women's Skeet: Ganemat Sekhon, Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Darsha Rathore
Men: Jay Meena, Aniket Chirag Patel, Rajveer Mahendrasinh, Amaliyar, Aditya Dubey, Rohit Dhiman
Women: Aadhya Tiwari, Tushita Singh, Nikita Bishnoi, Raga Sri Kulandaivelu Manogarbabu, Anusha
Men: Saurav Ghosal, Abhay Singh, Mahesh Mangaonkar, Harinderpal Singh Sandhu
Women: Joshna Chinappa, Dipika Pallikal Karthik, Anahat Singh, Tanvi Khanna
Men: Aneesh Gowda, Advait Page, Aryan Nehra, Anand AS, Kushagra Rawat, Likith SP, Sajan Prakash, Srihari Nataraj, Tanish George Matthew, Utkarsh Satosh Patil, Vishal Grewal, Virdhawal Khade
Women: Dinidhi Desinghu, Hashika Ramachandran, Linyesha AK, Maana Patel, Nina Venkatesh, Palak Joshi, Shivangi Sarma, Vritti Agarwal
Men: Sharath Kamal, G. Sathiyan, Harmeet Desai, Manav Thakkar, Manush Shah
Women: Manika Batra, Sreeja Akula, Sutirtha Mukherjee, Ayhika Mukherjee, Diya Chitale
Men: Rohan Bopanna, Sumit Nagal, Yuki Bhambri, Saketh Myneni, Ramkumar Ramanathan
Women: Rutuja Bhosle, Ankita Raina, Karman Kaur Thandi, Prarthana Thombare
Indian Men's team: Gurmeet Singh, Dheeraj Singh Moirangthem, Sumit Rathi, Narender Gahlot, Amarjit Singh Kiyam, Samuel James, Rahul KP, Abdul Rabeeh Anjukandan, Ayush Dev Chhetri, Bryce Miranda, Azfar Noorani, Rahim Ali, Vincy Bareto, Sunil Chhetri, Rohit Danu, Gurkirat Singh, Aniket Jadhav.
Indian Men's team: Amit, Vinit Kumar, S Ammarambath, Muthusamy Appavu, Hari Prasad, Rohit Kumar, Manoj Lakshmipuram Manjunatha, U Mohan, Ashwal Rai, Santhosh Sahaya Anthoni Raj, Guru Prasanth Subramanian Venkatasubbu, Erin Varghese.
Indian women's team: Minimol Abraham, Jincy Johnson, Anusree Kambrath Poyilil, Aswani Kandoth, Jini Kovat Shaji, Saranya, Shilpa Rajendran Nair Sindhu, Aswathi Raveendran, Shaalini Saravanan, Suji Vijayan.
Women: Mirabai Chanu (49kg), Bindyarani Devi (55kg)
Women (Freestyle): Pooja Gehlot (50kg), Antim Panghal (53kg), Mansi Ahlawat (57kg), Sonam Malik (62kg), Radhika (68kg), Kiran (76kg)
Men (Greco-Roman): Gyanender (60kg), Neeraj (67kg), Vikash (77kg), Sunil Kumar (87kg), Narinder Cheema (97kg), Naveen (130kg)
Men (Freestyle): Aman Sehrawat (57kg), Bajrang Punia (65kg) (Vishal Kaliraman as standby), Yash (74kg), Deepak Punia (86kg), Vicky (97kg), Sumit (125kg)
Men: Surya Bhanu Partap Singh (60kg), Vikrant Baliyan (60kg), Sunil Singh Mayanglambam (56kg), Anjul Namdeo (Changguan), Suraj Singh Mayanglambam (changgquan), Rohit Jadhav (daoshu)
Women: Onilu Tega (52kg), Roshibina Devi Naorem(60kg), Nyeman Wangsu (changguan), Mepung Lamgu (taijiquan)