India have sent their largest contingent ever comprising 117 athletes for the Paris Olympics 2024 starting on Friday, 26 July 2024. It is going to be India's 26th Olympics appearance and expectations are very high. (More Sports News)
Out of those 117 athletes, 72 are going to make their Olympic debut over the next two weeks in Paris. Athletes from different parts of the country are going to compete in 16 various sports and represent the Indian tricolour in Paris.
The youngest among the Indian contingent is a 14-year-old swimmer, Dhinidhi Desinghu whereas the oldest player is none other than Indian tennis stalwart Rohan Bopanna (44), who will be competing in the men's doubles category with N Sriram Balaji.
The northern state of Haryana has the biggest representation with 24 athletes followed by Punjab (19) and Tamil Nadu (13). Other states include Karnataka (7), Uttar Pradesh (7), Kerala (6), Maharashtra (5), Delhi (4), Andhra Pradesh (4), Telangana (4), Uttarakhand (4), West Bengal (3), Madhya Pradesh (2), Manipur (2), Odisha (2), Rajasthan (2), Gujarat (2), Chandigarh (2), Bihar (1), Assam (1), Sikkim (1), Jharkhand (1) and Goa (1).
Let's see a state-wise distribution of Indian athletes competing in the Paris Olympics 2024:
Andhra Pradesh (4): Dhiraj Bommadevara - Archery (Men's individual, Men's team), Jyothika Sri Dandi - Athletics (Women’s 4X400m Relay), Jyothi Yarraji - Athletics (Women's 100m hurdles), Satwiksairaj Rankireddy - Badminton (Men's doubles)
Assam (1): Lovlina Borgohain - Boxing (Women's 70kg)
Bihar (1): Shreyasi Singh - Shooting (Women's trap)
Chandigarh (2): Arjun Babuta - Shooting (Men's 10m air rifle, 10m air rifle mixed team), Vijayveer Sidhu - Shooting (Men's 25m rapid fire pistol)
Delhi (4): Amoj Jacob - Athletics (Men's 4x400m relay), Tulika Maan - Judo (Women's +78kg), Rajeshwari Kumari - Shooting (Women's trap), Manika Batra - Table Tennis (Women's singles, team)
Goa (1): Tanisha Crasto - Badminton (Women's doubles)
Gujarat (2): Harmeet Desai - Table Tennis (Men's singles, team), Manav Thakkar - Table Tennis (Men's team)
Haryana (24): Bhajan Kaur - Archery (Women's individual, team), Kiran Pahal - Athletics (Women's 400m, 4x400m relay), Neeraj Chopra - Athletics (Men's javelin throw), Amit Panghal - Boxing (Men's 51kg), Jaismine Lamboria - Boxing (Women's 57kg), Nishant Dev - Boxing (Men's 71kg), Preeti Pawar - Boxing (Women's 54kg), Diksha Dagar - Golf (Women's individual), Sanjay - Men's hockey team, Sumit - Men's hockey team, Balraj Panwar - Rowing (Men's single sculls), Anish Bhanwala - Shooting (Men's 25m rapid fire pistol), Manu Bhaker - Shooting (Women's 10m air pistol, 10m air pistol mixed team, women's 25m pistol), Ramita Jindal - Shooting (Women's 10m air rifle, 10m air rifle mixed team), Raiza Dhillon - Shooting (Women's skeet), Rhythm Sangwan - Shooting (Women's 10m air pistol, 10m air pistol mixed team), Sarabjot Singh - Shooting (Men's 10m air pistol, 10m air pistol mixed team), Sumit Nagal - Tennis (Men's singles), Aman Sehrawat - Wrestling (Men's freestyle 57kg), Anshu Malik - Wrestling (Women's 57kg), Antim Panghal - Wrestling (Women's 53kg), Nisha Dahiya - Wrestling (Women's 68kg), Reetika Hooda - Wrestling (Women's 76kg), Vinesh Phogat - Wrestling (Women's 50kg),
Jharkhand (1): Deepika Kumari - Archery (Women's individual, women's team)
Karnataka (7): Poovamma MR - Athletics (Women's 4x400m relay), Ashwini Ponnappa - Badminton (Women's doubles), Aditi Ashok - Golf (Women's individual), Srihari Nataraj - Swimming (Men's 100m backstroke), Dhinidhi Desinghu - Swimming (Women's 200m freestyle), Archana Kamath - Table Tennis (Women's team), Rohan Bopanna - Tennis (Men's doubles)
Kerala (6): Abdulla Aboobacker - Athletics (Men's triple jump), Muhammed Ajmal - Athletics (Men's 4x400m relay), Muhammed Anas - Athletics (Men's 4x400m relay), Mijo Chacko Kurian - Athletics (Reserve), PR Sreejesh - Men's hockey team, HS Prannoy - Badminton (Men's singles)
Madhya Pradesh (2): Vivek Sagar Prasad - Men's hockey team, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar - Shooting (Men's 50m rifle 3 positions)
Maharashtra (5): Pravin Jadhav - Archery (Men's individual, Men's team), Avinash Sable - Athletics (Men's 3000m steeplechase), Sarvesh Kushare - Athletics (Men's high jump), Chirag Shetty - Badminton (Men's doubles), Swapnil Kusale - Shooting (Men's 50m rifle 3 positions)
Manipur (2): Saikhom Mirabai Chanu - Weightlifting (Women's 49kg), Nilakanta Sharma - Men's hockey team (reserve)
Odisha (2): Amit Rohidas - Men's hockey team, Kishore Jena - Athletics (Men's javelin throw)
Punjab (19): Akshdeep Singh - Athletics (Men's 20km race walk), Tajinderpal Singh Toor - Athletics (Men's shot put), Vikas Singh - Athletics (Men's 20km race walk), Gaganjeet Bhullar - Golf (Men's individual), Gurjant Singh - Men's hockey team, Hardik Singh - Men's hockey team, Harmanpreet Singh - Men's hockey team, Jarmanpreet Singh - Men's hockey team, Jugraj Singh - Men's hockey team (reserve), Krishan Bahadur Pathak - Men's hockey team (reserve), Mandeep Singh - Men's hockey team, Manpreet Singh - Men's hockey team, Shamsher Singh - Men's hockey team, Sukhjeet Singh - Men's hockey team, Anjum Moudgil - Shooting (Women's 50m rifle 3 positions), Arjun Cheema - Shooting (Men's 10m air pistol, 10m air pistol mixed team), Sift Kaur Samra - Shooting (Women's 50m rifle 3 positions), Sandeep Singh - Shooting (Men's 10m air rifle, 10m air rifle mixed team), Prachi Chouhdary Kaliyar- Athletics (reserve)
Rajasthan (2): Anantjeet Singh Naruka - Shooting (Men's skeet, Skeet mixed team), Maheshwari Chauhan - Shooting (Women's skeet and skeet mixed team)
Sikkim (1): Tarundeep Rai - Archery (Men's individual, Men's team)
Tamil Nadu (13): Jeswin Aldrin - Athletics (Men's long jump), Praveel Chithravel - Athletics (Men's triple jump), Rajesh Ramesh - Athletics (Men's 4x400m relay), Santhosh Tamilarasan - Athletics (Men's 4x400m relay), Subha Venkatesan - Athletics (Women's 4x400m relay), Vithya Ramraj - Athletics (Women's 4x400m relay), Nethra Kumanan - Sailing (Women's one-person dinghy), Vishnu Saravanan - Sailing (Men's one-person dinghy), Elavenil Valarivan - Shooting (Women's 10m air rifle, 10m air rifle mixed team), Prithviraj Tondaiman - Shooting (Men's trap), Sathiyan Gnanasekaran - Table Tennis (reserve), Sharath Kamal - Table Tennis (Men's singles, team), N Sriram Balaji - Tennis (Men's doubles)
Telengana (4): PV Sindhu - Badminton (Women's singles), Nikhat Zareen - Boxing (Women's 50kg), Esha Singh - Shooting (Women's 25m pistol), Sreeja Akula - Table Tennis (Women's singles, team)
Uttarakhand (4): Ankita Dhyani - Athletics (Women's 5000m), Paramjeet Bisht - Athletics (Men's 20km race walk), Suraj Panwar - Athletics (Marathon race walk mixed relay), Lakshya Sen - Badminton (Men's singles)
Uttar Pradesh (7): Annu Rani - Athletics (Women's javelin throw), Parul Chaudhary - Athletics (Women's 3000m steeplechase, Women's 5000m), Priyanka Goswami - Athletics (Women's 20 km race walk, Marathon race walk mixed relay), Ram Baboo - Athletics (Men's 20km race walk), Shubhankar Sharma - Golf (Men's individual), Lalit Kumar Upadhyay - Men's hockey team, Rajkumar Pal - Men's hockey team
West Bengal (3): Ankita Bhakat - Archery (Women's individual, team), Anush Agarwalla - Equestrian (Dressage), Ayhika Mukherjee - Table Tennis (reserve)
India have won 35 medals including 10 gold, nine silver and 16 bronze in the Olympics so far. In the last Olympic at Tokyo, India managed to bag seven medals including their first-ever athletic gold with Neeraj Chopra winning it in the Javelin throw event.
Indian men's national hockey team ended the medal drought with a bronze after 41 years. Wrestlers Ravi Dahiya and Bajrang Punia won silver and bronze respectively. Mirabai Chanu won a silver in Weightlifting whereas Boxer Lovlina Borgohain and ace shuttler PV Sindhu settled with bronze. Now, India eye for a double-digit medal count in this Olympics.
