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.

Indian contingent for Paris Olympics 2024 — India are expected to send a bigger contingent than Tokyo Olympics (Photo: AP)

Athletes Qualified for Paris Olympics 2024

1. Athletics

Number	Athlete	Event
1	Akshdeep Singh	Men's 20km race walk
2	Priyanka Goswami	Women's 20km race walk
3	Vikas Singh	Men's 20km race walk
4	Paramjeet Bisht	Men's 20km race walk
5	Murali Sreeshankar*	Men's long jump
6	Avinash Sable	Men's 3000m steeplechase
7	Neeraj Chopra	Men's javelin throw
8	Parul Chaudhary	Women's 3000m steeplechase
9	Kishore Jena	Men's javelin throw
10	Ram Baboo	Men's 20km race walk
11	Priyanka Goswami/Akshdeep Singh	Marathon race walk mixed relay
12	Muhammed Anas Yahiya/ Muhammed Ajmal/ Arokia Rajiv/ Amoj Jacob	Men's 4x400m relay
13	Rupal/ Jyothika Sri Dandi/ MR Poovamma/ Subha Venkatesan	Women's 4x400m relay
14	Kiran Pahal	Women's 400m

*Player Injured

2. Archery

Number	Athlete	Event
1	Dhiraj Bommadevara	Men's individual and men's team
2	Bhajan Kaur	Women's individual and women's team
3	Tarundeep Rai	Men's individual and men's team
4	Pravin Jadhav	Men's individual and men's team
5	Deepika Kumari	Women's individual and women's team
6	Ankita Bhakat	Women's individual and women's team

3. Table Tennis

Number	Athlete	Event
1	Indian men's team	Men 's team and two in men's singles
2	Indian women's team	Women's team and two in women's singles

4. Boxing

Number	Athlete	Event
1	Nishant Dev	Men's 71kg
2	Amit Panghal	Men's 51kg
3	Jaismine Lamboria	Women's 57kg
4	Nikhat Zareen	Women's 50kg
5	Preeti Pawar	Women's 54kg
6	Lovlina Borgohain	Women's 75kg

5. Shooting

Number	Athlete	Event
1	Prithviraj Tondaiman	Men's trap
2	Sandeep Singh	Men's 10m air rifle and 10m air rifle mixed team
3	Swapnil Kusale	Men's 50m rifle 3 positions
4	Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar	Men's 50m rifle 3 positions
5	Elavenil Valarivan	Women's 10m air rifle and 10m air rifle mixed team
6	Sift Kaur Samra	Women's 50m rifle 3 positions
7	Rajeshwari Kumari	Women's trap
8	Sarabjot Singh	Men's 10m air pistol and 10m air pistol mixed team
9	Arjun Babuta	Men's 10m air rifle and 10m air rifle mixed team
10	Ramita Jindal	Women's 10m air rifle and 10m air rifle mixed team
11	Manu Bhaker	Women's 10m air pistol, 10m air pistol mixed team, and women's 25m pistol
12	Anish Bhanwala	Men's 25m rapid fire pistol
13	Anjum Moudgil	Women’s 50m rifle 3 positions
14	Arjun Cheema	Men's 10m air pistol and 10m air pistol mixed team
15	Esha Singh	Women’s 25m pistol
16	Rhythm Sangwan	Women's 10m air pistol and 10m air pistol mixed team
17	Vijayveer Sidhu	Men's 25m rapid fire pistol
18	Raiza Dhillon	Women's skeet
19	Anantjeet Singh Naruka	Men's skeet and skeet mixed team
20	Shreyasi Singh	Women's trap
21	Maheshwari Chauhan	Women's skeet and skeet mixed team

6. Wrestling

Number	Athlete	Event
1	Antim Panghal	Women's 53kg
2	Vinesh Phogat	Women's 50kg
3	Anshu Malik	Women's 57kg
4	Reetika Hooda	Women's 76kg
5	Nisha Dahiya	Women's 68kg
6	Aman Sehrawat	Men's freestyle 57kg

7. Badminton

Number	Athlete	Event
1	PV Sindhu	Women's singles
2	HS Prannoy	Men's singles
3	Lakshya Sen	Men's singles
4	Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty	Men's doubles
5	Ashwini Ponnappa/Tanisha Crasto	Women's doubles

8. Equestrian

Number	Athlete	Event
1	Anush Agarwalla	Dressage

9. Field Hockey

Number	Athlete	Event
1	Team India	Men's hockey

10. Golf

Number	Athlete	Event
1	Shubhankar Sharma	Men's
2	Gaganjeet Bhullar	Men's
3	Aditi Ashok	Women's
4	Diksha Dagar	Women's

11. Judo

Number	Athlete	Event
1	L. Sushila Devi	Women's 48kg

12. Rowing

Number	Athlete	Event
1	Arvind Singh	Men's lightweight double sculls
2	Arjun Lal Jat	Men's lightweight double sculls

13. Sailing

Number	Athlete	Event
1	Vishnu Saravanan	Men's laser class
2	Nethra Kumanan	Women's laser class

14. Swimming

Number	Athlete	Event
1	Srihari Nataraj	Men's 50m backstroke
2	Maana Patel	Women's 50m backstroke

15. Tennis

Number	Athlete	Event
1	Rohan Bopanna	Men's doubles
2	Ramkumar Ramanathan	Men's doubles
3	Ankita Raina	Women's singles
4	Karman Thandi	Women's singles

16. Weightlifting

Number	Athlete	Event
1	Mirabai Chanu	Women's 49kg
2	Bindyarani Devi	Women's 55kg

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.

Story first published: Monday, July 1, 2024, 23:46 [IST]

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