Commonwealth Games 2022: Complete List of Indian Athletes Qualified For Birmingham CWG

Indian athletes qualified for Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham

India will be one of 72 Commonwealth Games Associations that will be participating in the Commonwealth Games 2022 (also known as Birmingham 2022), scheduled to be held from July 28 to August 8 in Birmingham, England.

The appearance in Birmingham 2022 will be India's 18th at the CWG and among the 20 sports/discipline, the country's athletes or players will take part in 9 sports including cricket, which will make it's debut at the games.

A total of 202 athletes or players - 107 men and 105 women - have qualified for Birmingham 2022. Tokyo 2020 Olympics medallists PV Sindhu, Mirabai Chanu, Lovlina Borgohain and the men's hockey team are some of the names that will represent the country.

Indians will be participating in Badminton, Boxing, Cricket, Athletics, Judo, Wrestling, Squash, Cycling, Weightlifting, Hockey, Swimming, Triathlon and Table Tennis. The draw for hockey and cricket have already been done as well. Cricket will be a women's only event and will be in T20 format.

In cricket, the women's team, who qualified via the ICC rankings, have been drawn alongside arch-rivals Pakistan, Australia and Barbados in Group A. Meanwhile, New Zealand, South Africa, England and Sri Lanka have been drawn in Group B.

Hockey men's team have been drawn alongside Ghana, England, Canada and Wales in Pool B of the men's pool stage, while the women's team have been drawn alongside the same teams in Pool A of the women's pool stage.

Now, let's take a look at the players or athletes that have qualified for CWG 2022 from India:

Athletics (20 - men & 19 - women)

Men's Long Jump: M. Sreeshankar, Muhammed Anees Yahiya

Men's Javelin Throw: DP Manu, Rohit Yadav

Men's Triple Jump: Abdulla Aboobacker, Eldose Paul, Praveen Chitravel

Men's High Jump: Tejaswin Shankar

Men's 3000m Steeple Chase: Avinash Sable

Men's 5000m: Avinash Sable

Men's Marathon: Nitender Rawat

Men's 4x400m Relay: Noah Nirmal Tom, Muhammed Ajmal, Naganathan Pandi, Muhammed Anas

Men's Race Walking: Sandeep Kumar, Amit Khatri

Women's Long Jump: Ancy Sojan

Women's Shot Put: Manpreet Kaur

Women's Hammer Throw: Sarita Romit Singh, Manju Bala Singh

Women's 4x100m Relay: Dutee Chand, Hima Das, Srabani Nanda, NS Simi

Women's 100m: Dutee Chand

Women's 200m: Hima Das

Women's 100m Hurdles: Jyothi Yarraji

Women's 10000m Race Walk: Priyanka Goswami, Bhawna Jat

Women's Discuss Throw: Navjeet Dhillon, Seema Punia

Women's Javelin Throw: Annu Rani, Shilpa Rani

Para-Athletics

Men's Discus Throw F42-44/F61-64: Devender Kumar, Denvendra Gahlot, Aneesh Kumar

Women's Shot Put F55-57: Santosh, Sharmila, Poonam Sharma

Badminton

Men

Singles: Lakshya Sen, Srikanth Kidambi

Doubles: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty, B. Sumeeth Reddy

Women

Singles: PV Sindhu, Aakarshi Kashyap

Doubles: Ashwini Ponnappa, Gayathri Gopichand, Treesa Jolly

Boxing (8 - men and 4 - women)

Men

Boxer	Weight Category
Shiva Thapa	Flyweight (51 kg)
Mohammad Hussamuddin	Featherweight (57 kg)
Amit Panghal	Light Welterweight (63.5 kg)
Rohit Tokas	Welterweight (67 kg)
Sumit Kundu	Middleweight (75 kg)
Ashish Kumar	Light Heavyweight (80 kg)
Sanjeet Kumar	Heavyweight (92 kg)
Sagar	Super Heavyweight (+92 kg)

Women

Boxer	Weight Category
Nitu Ganghas	Minimumweight (48 kg)
Nikhat Zareen	Light Flyweight (50 kg)
Jasmire Lamboria	Lightweight (60 kg)
Lovlina Borgohain	Light Middleweight (70 kg)

Cricket (Women - 18)

Batters: Smriti Mandhana (vice-captain), Shafali Verma, Sabbhineni Meghana, Jemimah Rodrigues

Wicketkeepers: Yastika Bhatia, Taniya Bhatia

All-rounders: Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Harleen Deol, Deepti Sharma, Pooja Vastrakar

Bowlers: Radha Yadav, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Meghna Singh, Renuka Thakur, Sneh Rana

STAND BY: Richa Ghosh, Simran Dil Bahadur, Poonam Yadav

Cycling (9 - Men & 4 - Women)

Men

L Ronaldo Singh

E David Beckham

Y Rojit Singh

Esow Alben

Vishvajeet Singh

Naman Kapil

Venkappa Shivappa Kengalugutti

Dinesh Kumar

Annantha Narayanan

Women

Triyasha Paul

Meenakshi

Shushikala Agashe

Mayuri Dhanraj Lute

Hockey

Indian Men's Squad for CWG:

Goalkeepers: Sreejesh P.R., Krishan Bahadur Pathak

Defenders: Varun Kumar, Surender Kumar, Harmanpreet Singh (vice captain), Amit Rohidas, Jugraj Singh, Jarmanpreet Singh

Midfielders: Manpreet Singh (captain), Hardik Singh, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Shamsher Singh, Akashdeep Singh, Nilakanta Sharma

Forwards: Mandeep Singh, Gurjant Singh, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Abhishek

Indian Women's Squad for CWG:

Goalkeepers: Savita (captain), Rajani Etimarpu

Defenders: Deep Grace Ekka (vice captain), Gurjit Kaur, Nikki Pradhan, Udita

Midfielders: Nisha, Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam, Monika, Neha, Jyoti, Navjot Kaur, Salima Tete

Forwards: Vandana Katariya, Lalremsiami, Navneet Kaur, Sharmila Devi, Sangita Kumari

Judo (Men - 3 and Women - 3)

Athlete	Weight Category
Vijay Kumar Yadav	Men's 60 kg
Jasleen Singh Saini	Men's 66 kg
Deepak Deswal	Men's 100 kg
Shushila Likmabam	Women's 48 kg
Suchika Tariyal	Women's 57 kg
Tulika Maan	Women's +78 kg

Squash (5 - Men and 4 - Women)

Men's Team

Saurav Ghosal

Ramit Tandon

Abhay Singh

Harinder Pal Sandhu

Velavan Senthilkumar

Women's Team

Dipika Pallikal

Joshna Chinappa

Sunyana Kuruvilla

Anahat Singh

Swimming (Men - 4)

Swimmer	Event
Sajan Prakash	50m, 100m and 200m Butterfly
Srihari Nataraj	50m, 100m and 200m Backstroke
Kushagra Rawat	1500m, 200m and 400m freestyle
Advait Page	1500m freestyle

Para Swimming

Mukundan Niranjan (S7)

Suyash Narayan Jadhav (S7)

Ashish Kumar Singh (S9)

Table Tennis (5 - men and 5 - women)

Men's team: Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Harmeet Desai, Sanil Shetty

Women's team: Manika Batra, Diya Chitale, Sreeja Akula, Reeth Rishya

Para Men: Raja Aravindhan

Para Women: Bhavina Patel, Sonalben Manubhai Patel, Baby Sahana Ravi

Triathlon (men - 2 and women - 2) (Image Courtesy: Pragnya Mohan Twitter)

Men: Adarsh Muralidharan Nair Sinimol, Vishwanath Yadav

Women: Sanjana Joshi, Pragnya Mohan

Weightlifting (men - 8 and women - 7)

Men

Weightlifter	Event/Category
Sanket Sargar	55 kg
Gururaja Poojary	61 kg
Jeremy Lalrinnunga	67 kg
Achinta Sheuli	73 kg
Ajay Singh	81 kg
Vikas Thakur	96 kg
Lovepreet Singh	109 kg
Gurdeep Singh	+109 kg

Women

Weightlifter	Event/Category
Saikhom Mirabai Chanu	49 kg
Bindyarani Devi	55 kg
Popy Hazarika	59 kg
Harjinder Kaur	71 kg
Punam Yadav	76 kg
Bannur Natesh Usha	87 kg
Purnima Pandey	+87 kg