The Tokyo Olympics 2020 has so far seen 115 Indians qualify for the marquee event that will begin on July 23. Here is the entire list of people from all the states.
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The Tokyo Olympics 2020 is less than three weeks away. The event, which was postponed by one year due to the coronavirus pandemic, will have severe restrictions. No fans will reportedly be allowed for the games. There are several restrictions on the media covering the events as well.
When it comes to the Indian contingent, a total of 115 athletes have qualified for the marquee event so far. If one looks at the statewise distribution of athletes from India, then the maximum of them have come from Haryana. The state has often produced medal-winning athletes in the past decade in Olympics, Commonwealth and the Asian Games. Here is the statewise distribution of Athletes for Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Haryana: Sandeep Kumar, Rahul Rohilla, Neeraj Chopra, Seema Punia, Vikas Krishan, Pooja Rani, Amit Panghal, Manish Kaushik, Surender Kumar, Sumit, Savita Punia, Udita, Nisha, Neha Goyal, Monika Malik, Navjot Kaur, Rani Rampal, Navneet Kaur, Sharmila Devi, Sanjeev Rajput, Manu Bhaker, Abhishek Verma, Seema Bisla, Vinesh Phogat, Anshu Malik, Sonam Malik, Ravi Kumar Dahiya, Bajrang Punia, Deepak Punia
Maharashtra: Pravin Jadhav, Avinash Sable, Chirag Shetty, Anirban Lahiri, Udayan Mane, Vishnu Saravanan, Tejaswini Sawant, Rahi Sarnobet
Sikkim: Tarundeep Rai
West Bengal: Atanu Das, Pranati Nayak, Sutirtha Mukherjee
Jharkhand: Deepika Kumari, Nikki Pradhan, Salima Tete
Kerala: KT Irfan, Murali Sreeshankar, MP Jabir, Muhammed Anas, Noah Nirmal Tom, PR Sreejesh, Sajan Prakash
Rajasthan: Bhawna Jat, Arjun Lal Jat, Apurvi Chandela, Divyansh Singh Panwar
Uttar Pradesh: Priyanka Goswami, Shivpal Singh, Annu Rani, Satish Kumar, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Arvind Singh, Saurabh Chaudhary, Mairaj Ahmed Khan
Punjab: Tajinder Pal Singh Toor, Kamalpreet Kaur, Simranjit Kaur, Harmanpreet Singh, Rupinder Pal Singh, Hardik Singh, Manpreet Singh, Shamsher Singh, Dilpreet Singh, Gurjant Singh, Mandeep Singh, Krishan Pathak, Varun Kumar, Simranjeet Singh, Gurjit Kaur, Anjum Moudgil, Angad Vir Singh Bajwa
Odisha: Dutee Chand, Amit Rohidas, Birendra Lakra, Deep Grace Ekka
Delhi: Amoj Jacob, Deepak Kumar, Yashaswini Singh Deswal, Manika Batra
Tamil Nadu: Arokia Rajiv, Bhavani Devi, Nethra Kumanan, Varun Thakkar, KC Ganapathy, Elavenil Valarivan, Achanta Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
Telangana: PV Sindhu, B Sai Praneeth, Sania Mirza
Andhra Pradesh: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Rajani Etimarpu
Assam: Lovlina Borgohain
Himachal Pradesh: Ashish Kumar
Manipur: MC Mary Kom, Nilakanta Sharma, Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam, Sushila Devi Likmabam, Saikhom Mirabai Chanu
Karnataka: Fouaad Mirza, Aditi Ashok, Srihari Nataraj
Madhya Pradesh: Vivek Sagar Prasad, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar
Mizoram: Lalremsiami
Uttarakhand: Vandana Katariya
Gujarat: Maana Patel, Ankita Raina
Haryana tops the list with the maximum number of representations followed by Punjab. There are no athletes from Jammu and Kashmir, Chhattisgarh, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Tripura, Nagaland, Bihar and Arunachal Pradesh. There are no athletes from the Union Territories of Ladakh, Daman and Diu, Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar and Puducherry.
Haryana and Punjab dominate in wrestling and hockey while there is a fair representation from the state even in shooting. Shooting is considered to be India’s best bet for a medal in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
