Indian contingent for Paris Olympics 2024: Full List of Athletes, Events, and Historical Performance

The Paris Olympics 2024 is scheduled to start on July 26 and will conclude on August 11. A total of 32 sports have been picked in the Olympics this year and it will witness 329 events.

Indian athletes will compete in 16 sports in the Olympics this year. Achanta Sharath Kamal, a table tennis player from Chennai, will be the flag bearer for the Indian team during the opening ceremony.

Athletes Qualified for Paris Olympics 2024

1. Athletics

*Player Injured

2. Archery

3. Table Tennis

4. Boxing

5. Shooting

6. Wrestling

7. Badminton

8. Equestrian

9. Field Hockey

10. Golf

11. Judo

12. Rowing

13. Sailing

14. Swimming

15. Tennis

16. Weightlifting

Data updated as of July 2024.

Indian athletes have participated in the Summer Olympic Games since 1920. At the Tokyo Olympics, 124 Indian athletes participated but this year the number has been reduced to 111. The number of sports has also been reduced to 16 from 18. No Indian athlete managed to qualify for Fencing and Gymnastics this year.

India finished with seven medals at the Tokyo Olympics 2020. Neeraj Chopra was the sole gold medal winner for the Indian team. Saikhom Mirabai Chanu and Ravi Kumar Dahiya won the silver medals. P. V. Sindhu, Lovlina Borgohain, Bajrang Punia, and the men's hockey team won the bronze medals.

India bettered its medal tally record. The previous best performance was during the London Olympics 2012 when the team won six medals. India won a gold medal at the Olympics last year for the first time since the Beijing Olympics 2008.

The contingent this year will be the third-highest for India at the Olympics. The second-highest contingent from India went to the Olympics during the 2016 Rio de Janeiro event which saw a participation of 117 athletes.

India has won eight gold, one silver, and three bronze medals in field hockey. From 1928 to 1980, it won 11 medals. The only time it missed a medal was during the Montreal Olympics 1976. India won a medal in field hockey for the first time in Tokyo. The team lost the semi-final against Belgium and won the bronze medal game against Germany.

Shooting and Athletics are the other two sports where Indian athletes have won gold medals. Wrestling has been the second-most successful for India at the Olympics as the team has won a total of seven medals. Since 2008, India has won at least one medal in Wrestling every time in the Olympics. Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav was the first wrestler to win a medal for India at the Olympics in Helsinki Olympics 1952. He was the first athlete to win a medal for India in an individual sport after independence.

India has won four medals in Shooting. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore won a silver medal in Shooting during the Athens Olympics 2004. Abhinav Bindra won the first gold medal in Shooting during the Beijing Olympics 2008, the first gold medal for India at the Olympics since the Moscow Olympics of 1980. Vijay Kumar won a silver medal while Gagan Narang won a bronze medal at the London Olympics 2012.

India has won three medals in each of Athletics, Badminton, and Boxing. P. V. Sindhu has won two of these three medals in Badminton. Norman Pritchard won two of the three medals in Athletics. He won silver medals in the Men’s 200 meters and 200-meter hurdles events at the Paris Olympics 1900. Neeraj Chopra won the first gold medal in athletics in Tokyo. He is the first Indian athlete to win a medal in athletics after independence.

In Boxing, Vijender Singh, Mary Kom, and Lovlina Borgohain have won the three medals. Lovlina won the medal during the last Olympics in Tokyo. Karnam Malleswari and Saikhom Mirabai Chanu have won the medals for India in Weightlifting. Mirabai Chanu won a silver medal in Tokyo in the Women's 49 kg event.