India at the 2020 Summer Olympics

India at the
2020 Summer Olympics
India at the; 2020 Summer Olympics
IOC code	IND
NOC	Indian Olympic Committee
Website	www.olympic.ind.in
in Tokyo, Japan
Competitors	120 in 18 sports
Flag bearer	Mary Kom & Manpreet Singh (opening); Bajrang Punia (closing)
Medals; Ranked 18th	Gold 0 Silver 1 Bronze 0 Total 1
Summer Olympics appearances
	1900; 1904–1912; 1920; 1924; 1928; 1932; 1936; 1948; 1952; 1956; 1960; 1964; 1968; 1972; 1976; 1980; 1984; 1988; 1992; 1996; 2000; 2004; 2008; 2012; 2016; 2020;

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India is competing at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games had been postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[3] India has sent its largest contingent of 120 competitors to these Games. India has appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympics since 1920, although it made its official debut at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris.

Medalists[edit]

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Silver	Saikhom Mirabai Chanu	Weightlifting	Women's 49 kg	24 July

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Weightlifting	0	1	0	1
Total	0	1	0	1

Medals by date
Date				Total
24 July	0	1	0	1
Total	0	1	0	1

Competitors[edit]

Union Minister of Sports, Kiren Rijiju unveils the Team India Official Kit, for Tokyo 2020 Olympics, on June 03, 2021.

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Archery	3	1	4
Athletics	17	8	25
Badminton	3	1	4
Boxing	5	4	9
Equestrian	1	0	1
Fencing	0	1	1
Field hockey	16	16	32
Golf	2	1	3
Gymnastics	0	1	1
Judo	0	1	1
Rowing	2	0	2
Sailing	3	1	4
Shooting	8	7	15
Swimming	2	1	3
Table tennis	2	2	4
Tennis	1	2	3
Weightlifting	0	1	1
Wrestling	3	4	7
Total	68	52	120

Archery[edit]

Three Indian archers qualified for the men's events by reaching the quarterfinal stage of the men's team recurve at the 2019 World Archery Championships in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.^[4] Another Indian archer scored a shoot-off victory in the quarterfinal round of the women's individual recurve to book one of three available spots at the 2019 Asian Championships in Bangkok, Thailand.^[5]

The full Indian archery squad was officially announced on 8 March 2021, with veteran Tarundeep Rai and world-number-nine seed Deepika Kumari slated to shoot at their third Olympics.^[6]

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Atanu Das	Men's individual	653	35	Deng Y-c (TPE) 29-Jul-21
Pravin Jadhav		656	31	Bazarzhapov (ROC) 28-Jul-21
Tarundeep Rai		652	37	Hunbin (UKR) 28-Jul-21
Atanu Das Pravin Jadhav Tarundeep Rai	Men's team	1961	9	N/A		Kazakhstan (KAZ) 26-Jul-21
Deepika Kumari	Women's individual	663	9	Karma (BHU) 28-Jul-21
Pravin Jadhav Deepika Kumari	Mixed team	1319	9	N/A		Chinese Taipei (TPE) W 5–3	South Korea (KOR) L 2–6	Did not advance

Athletics[edit]

Indian athletes further achieved the entry standards, either by reaching the qualifying marks or by world ranking, in the following track and field events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):^[7]^[8]

Key

Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
Q = Qualified for the next round
q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
NR = National record
N/A = Round not applicable for the event
Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

Track & road events

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Jabir M Palliyalil	400 m hurdles
Muhammed Anas Yahiya Noah Nirmal Tom Amoj Jacob Arokia Rajiv Naganathan Pandi (RES)	4 × 400 m relay			N/A
Sandeep Kumar	20 km walk	N/A
Rahul Rohila		N/A
Irfan Kolothum Thodi		N/A
Gurpreet Singh	50 km walk	N/A
Avinash Sable	3000 m steeplechase			N/A

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Dutee Chand	100 m
Dutee Chand	200 m
Priyanka Goswami	20 km walk	N/A
Bhawna Jat	20 km walk	N/A

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Sarthak Bhambri Alex Antony Revathi Veeramani Subha Venkatesan	4 × 400 m relay

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Neeraj Chopra	Men's javelin throw
Shivpal Singh	Men's javelin throw
Murali Sreeshankar	Men's long jump
Tajinder Pal Toor	Men's shot put
Kamalpreet Kaur	Women's discus throw
Seema Punia	Women's discus throw
Annu Rani	Women's javelin throw

Badminton[edit]

India entered four badminton players for each of the following events into the Olympic tournament based on the BWF World Race to Tokyo Rankings; one entry each in the men's and women's singles and a pair in the men's doubles.^[9]

Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Elimination	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
B. Sai Praneeth	Men's singles	Zilberman (ISR) L (17–21, 15–21)	Caljouw (NED) ( , )	N/A
P. V. Sindhu	Women's singles	Polikarpova (ISR) W (21–7, 21–10)	Cheung (HKG) ( , )	N/A
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Chirag Shetty	Men's doubles	Lee / Wang (TPE) W (21–16, 16–21, 27–25)	Gideon / Sukamuljo (INA) 26-Jul-21 ( , )	Lane / Vendy (GBR) ( , )		N/A

Boxing[edit]

India entered nine boxers (five men and four women) into the Olympic tournament. Two-time Olympian Vikas Krishan Yadav (men's welterweight), 2014 Asian Games bronze medalists Satish Kumar (men's super heavyweight) and reigning Asian champion Pooja Rani (women's middleweight), London 2012 bronze medalist and six-time world champion Mary Kom (women's flyweight), 2019 world silver medalist Amit Panghal (men's flyweight), and 2018 Commonwealth Games runner-up Manish Kaushik, along with Ashish Kumar (men's middleweight), Simranjit Kaur (women's lightweight), and reigning world championship bronze medalist Lovlina Borgohain (women's welterweight), secured the spots on the Indian squad in their respective weight divisions, either by advancing to the semifinal match or by scoring a box-off triumph, at the 2020 Asia & Oceania Qualification Tournament in Amman, Jordan.^[10]^[11]

Men[edit]

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Amit Panghal	Flyweight	Bye	TBD 31-Jul
Manish Kaushik	Lightweight	McCormack (GBR) L (1-4)	Did not advance
Vikas Krishan Yadav	Welterweight	Okazawa (JPN) L (0-5)	Did not advance
Ashish Kumar	Middleweight	Tuoheta (CHN) 26-Jul
Satish Kumar	Super heavyweight	Bye	Brown (JAM) 29-Jul

Women[edit]

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Mary Kom	Flyweight	Hernández (DOM) W 4–1	Valencia (COL) 29-Jul
Simranjit Kaur	Lightweight	Bye	TBD 30-Jul
Lovlina Borgohain	Welterweight	Bye	Apetz (GER) 27-Jul
Pooja Rani	Middleweight	N/A	Chaib (ALG) 28-Jul

Equestrian[edit]

India entered one eventing rider into the Olympic equestrian competition for the first time in two decades, by finishing in the top two, outside the group selection, of the individual FEI Olympic rankings for Group G (Southeast Asia and Oceania).^[12]^[13]

Eventing[edit]

Athlete	Horse	Event	Dressage		Cross-country			Jumping						Total
			Dressage		Cross-country			Qualifier			Final			Total
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Fouaad Mirza	Seigneur	Individual

Fencing[edit]

India entered one fencer for the first time into the Olympic competition. C. A. Bhavani Devi claimed a spot in the women's sabre as one of the two highest-ranked fencers vying for qualification from Asia and Oceania in the FIE Adjusted Official Rankings.^[14]

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
C. A. Bhavani Devi	Women's sabre	26-Jul

Field hockey[edit]

Summary

Key:

FT – After full time.
P – Match decided by penalty-shootout.

Team	Event	Group Stage						Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
India men's	Men's tournament	New Zealand W 3–2	Australia L 1–7	Spain 27-Jul-21	Argentina 29-Jul-21	Japan 30-Jul-21
India women's	Women's tournament	Netherlands L 5–1	Germany 26-Jul-21	Great Britain 28-Jul-21	Ireland 30-Jul-21	South Africa 31-Jul-21

Men's tournament[edit]

India men's national field hockey team qualified for the Olympics by securing one of the seven tickets available and defeating Russia in a playoff at the Bhubaneswar leg of the 2019 FIH Olympic Qualifiers.^[15]

Women's tournament[edit]

India women's national field hockey team qualified for the Olympics by securing one of the seven tickets available and defeating the United States in a playoff at the Bhubaneswar leg of the 2019 FIH Olympic Qualifiers.^[16]

Golf[edit]

India entered two male and one female golfer into the Olympic tournament. Anirban Lahiri , Udayan Mane and Aditi Ashok are qualified directly among the top 60 eligible players for the men's and women's event.

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Total
Athlete	Event	Score	Score	Score	Score	Score	Par	Rank
Anirban Lahiri	Men's individual	29-Jul	30-Jul	31-Jul	01-Aug
Udayan Mane	Men's individual	29-Jul	30-Jul	31-Jul	01-Aug
Aditi Ashok	Women's individual	04-Aug	05-Aug	06-Aug	07-Aug

Gymnastics[edit]

Artistic[edit]

India entered one artistic gymnast into the Olympic competition. With the cancellation of the 2021 Asian Championships in Hangzhou, China, Pranati Nayak secured the last of two available places in the women's individual all-around, as the next highest-ranked gymnast vying for qualification from her continent at the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart, Germany.^[17]

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Apparatus				Total	Rank	Total	Rank
		V	UB	BB	F	Total	Rank	Total	Rank
Pranati Nayak	All-around	13.466	9.033	9.433	10.633	42.565	63	Did not advance	-

Judo[edit]

India entered one female judoka into the Olympic tournament based on the International Judo Federation Olympics Individual Ranking.^[18]

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Shushila Likmabam	Women's –48 kg	Csernoviczki (HUN) L 000–100	Did not advance

Rowing[edit]

India qualified one boat in the men's lightweight double sculls for the Games by winning the silver medal and securing the first of three berths available at the 2021 FISA Asia & Oceania Olympic Qualification Regatta in Tokyo, Japan.^[19]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Arjun Lal Arvind Singh	Men's lightweight double sculls	6:40.33	5 R	6.51.36	3 SA/B

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Sailing[edit]

Indian sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2018 Sailing World Championships, the class-associated Worlds, the 2018 Asian Games, and the continental regattas, marking the country's return to the sport for the first time since 2008.^[20]

Athlete	Event	Race													Net points	Final rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	M*	Net points	Final rank
Nethra Kumanan	Women's Laser Radial	33	16	26-Jul	26-Jul	27-Jul	27-Jul	29-Jul	29-Jul	30-Jul	30-Jul	N/A
Vishnu Saravanan	Men's Laser	14	25-Jul	26-Jul	26-Jul	27-Jul	27-Jul	29-Jul	29-Jul	30-Jul	30-Jul	N/A
K.C. Ganapathy Varun Thakkar	Men's 49er	27-Jul	27-Jul	27-Jul	28-Jul	28-Jul	28-Jul	30-Jul	30-Jul	30-Jul	31-Jul	31-Jul	31-Jul

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race

Shooting[edit]

Indian shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2018 ISSF World Championships, the 2019 ISSF World Cup series, and the 2019 Asian Championship, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by May 31, 2020.^[21]

On 5 April 2021, National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) officially announced a squad of fourteen Indian shooters for the rescheduled Games, including the reigning Commonwealth Games champion Manu Bhaker, Asian Games gold medalists Saurabh Chaudhary and Rahi Sarnobat in the pistol events, rifle marksman and two-time Olympian Sanjeev Rajput (2008 and 2012), and the current world-number-one Divyansh Singh Panwar and Elavenil Valarivan in the men's and women's air rifle, respectively. With a double starter (owned by Bhaker) securing quota places in two women's pistol events, NRAI opted to exchange the women's 25 m pistol (won by Chinki Yadav) for an additional place in the women's 50 m rifle 3 positions, eventually awarded to Anjum Moudgil.^[22]

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Point	Rank	Points	Rank
Saurabh Chaudhary	10 m air pistol	586	1 Q	N/A		137.4	7
Abhishek Verma	10 m air pistol	575	17	N/A		Did not advance
Mairaj Ahmad Khan	Skeet	71/75	25
Angad Bajwa	Skeet	73/75	11
Deepak Kumar	10 m air rifle	624.7	26	N/A		Did not advance
Divyansh Singh Panwar	10 m air rifle	622.8	32	N/A		Did not advance
Sanjeev Rajput	50 m rifle 3 positions	02-Aug		N/A
Aishwary Tomar	50 m rifle 3 positions	02-Aug		N/A

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Manu Bhaker	10 m air pistol	575	12	Did not advance
Yashaswini Deswal	10 m air pistol	574	13	Did not advance
Apurvi Chandela	10 m air rifle	621.9	36	Did not advance
Elavenil Valarivan	10 m air rifle	626.5	16	Did not advance
Rahi Sarnobat	25 m pistol	30-Jul
Manu Bhaker	25 m pistol	30-Jul
Tejaswini Sawant	50 m rifle 3 positions	31-Jul
Anjum Moudgil	50 m rifle 3 positions	31-Jul

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Deepak Kumar Anjum Moudgil	10 m air rifle team	27-Jul
Divyansh Singh Panwar Elavenil Valarivan	10 m air rifle team	27-Jul
Saurabh Chaudhary Manu Bhaker	10 m air pistol team	27-Jul
Abhishek Verma Yashaswini Deswal	10 m air pistol team	27-Jul

Swimming[edit]

Sajan Prakash and Srihari Natraj became the first-ever Indian swimmers to qualify for the Olympic Games by breaching the A standard time. Maana Patel received entry via Universality Invitation.

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Srihari Nataraj	Men's 100 m backstroke	54.31	27	Did not advance
Sajan Prakash	Men's 100 m butterfly	29-Jul
Sajan Prakash	Men's 200 m butterfly	26-Jul
Maana Patel	Women's 100 m backstroke	1.05.20	39	Did not advance

Table tennis[edit]

India entered four athletes into the table tennis competition at the Games. Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Sutirtha Mukherjee scored the zonal-match triumphs for the South Asia zone to secure one of the five available places each in the men's and women's singles, while three-time Olympian Sharath Kamal Achanta and 2018 Commonwealth Games champion Manika Batra notched the remaining spots on the Indian team, as the highest-ranked eligible table tennis players across all regional zones, at the Asian Qualification Tournament in Doha, Qatar.^[23]

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Sharath Kamal Achanta	Men's singles	Bye		Apolonia T. (POR) 26-Jul-21
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran	Men's singles	Bye		Lam S H (HKG) L 3–4	Did not advance
Manika Batra	Women's singles	Bye	Ho (GBR) W 4–0	Pesotska (UKR) W 4–3	Polcanova (AUT)
Sutirtha Mukherjee	Women's singles	Bye	Bergström (SWE) W 4–3	Yu (POR) 26-Jul-210
Sharath Kamal Achanta Manika Batra	Mixed doubles	N/A				Lin Y-j / Cheng I-c (TPE) L 0–4	Did not advance

Tennis[edit]

India entered two athletes into tennis by using Sania Mirza's protected ranking of 9 in women's doubles category.^[24] Sumit Nagal qualified for men's singles after several players withdrew resulted due to a positive COVID-19 test or personal reasons.^[25]

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Sumit Nagal	Men's singles	Istomin (UZB) W 6–4, 6–7^(6–8), 6–4	Medvedev (ROC) 0
Sania Mirza Ankita Raina	Women's doubles	N/A	L Kichenok / N Kichenok (UKR)0 L 6–0, 6–7^(0–7), [8–10]	Did not advance

Weightlifting[edit]

India entered one female weightlifter into the Olympic competition. Rio 2016 Olympian Saikhom Mirabai Chanu finished second of the eight highest-ranked weightlifters in the women's 49 kg category based on the IWF Absolute World Rankings.

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Total	Rank
Saikhom Mirabai Chanu	Women's −49 kg	87	2	115	2	202

Wrestling[edit]

India qualified eight wrestlers for each of the following classes into the Olympic competition. Four of them finished among the top six to book Olympic spots in the men's freestyle (57, 65 and 86 kg) and women's freestyle 53 kg at the 2019 World Championships, while two additional licenses were awarded to the Indian wrestlers, who progressed to the top two finals of the women's freestyle 57 and 62 kg, respectively, at the 2021 Asian Qualification Tournament in Almaty, Kazakhstan.^[26] Two Indian wrestlers claimed one of the remaining slots each in the men's freestyle 125 kg and women's freestyle 50 kg, respectively, to complete the nation's roster at the 2021 World Qualification Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria.^[27]^[28]

Freestyle wrestler (125 kg) Sumit Malik was disqualified and the quota place he had claimed was stripped off following a positive dope test, hence leaving India with a total of seven wrestlers in the contingent.^[29]