The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) on Tuesday announced the contingent for the upcoming Asian Games to be held in Jakarta from August 18. The 524-member contingent features 277 men and 247 women athletes from a total of 36 sports disciplines. With hockey and few other disciplines yet to announce their teams, here is a look at how the Indian contingent is shaping up for the country.
Table tennis squad
Women: Manika Batra, Mouma Das, Madhurika Patkar, Sutirtha Mukherjee, Ayhika Mukherjee
Men: Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Anthony Amalraj, Achanta Sharath Kamal, Manav Thakkar, Harmeet Desai
Tennis squad
Women: Ankita Raina, Karman Kaur Thandi, Rutuja Bhosale, Pranjala Yadlapalli, Riya Bhatia, Prarthna Thombare.
Men: Ramkumar Ramanathan, Prajnesh Gunneswaran, Sumit Nagal, Rohan Bopanna, Divij Sharan, Leander Paes.
Squash squad
Women: Dipika Pallikal, Joshna Chinappa, Sunayna Kuruvilla, and Tanvi Khanna
Men: Saurav Ghosal, Harinder Pal Sandhu, Ramit Tandon and Mahesh Mangaonkar
Bridge squad
Women: Rita Choksi, Feroza Chothia, Hema Deora, Bharati Dey, Marianne Karmarkar, Himani Khandelwal, Kiran Nadar, Aparna Sain, Vasanti Shah.
Men: Pranab Bardhan, Sapan Desai, Subhash Gupta, Rajeev Khandelwal, Ajay Khare, Finton Lewis, Debabrata Majumder, Gopinath Manna, Sumit Mukherjee, Shibhnath Dey Sarkar, Bachiraju Satyanarayana, Jaggy Shivdasani, Arun Kumar Sinha, Rajeshwar Tewari, Raju Tolani.
Reserves: Alka Kshrisagar, Keyzad Anklesaria, Abhijit Chakraborty, Sunit Chokshi, Sridhar Padmanabhan, Sunderram S.
Archery squad
Recurve Men’s: Atanu Das (PSPB), Sukchain Singh, Vishwas, Jagdish Choudhary (all SSCB)
Recurve Women’s: Promila Daimary (Assam), Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakat (both Jharkhand), Laxmirani Majhi (RSPB).
Compound Men’s: Abhishek Verma (Delhi), Aman Saini (both Delhi), Rajat Chauhan (Rajasthan), Sangamprit Bisla (Punjab)
Compound women’s: Muskan Kiran (MP), Jyothi Surekha Vennam (AP), Trisha Deb (Bengal), Madhumita Kumari (Jharkhand).
Wrestling squad:
Women’s: Sakshi Malik (50kg), Vinesh Phogat (62 kg), Pinki (53kg), Pooja Dhanda (57kg), Divya Kakran (68kg) and Kiran (72kg).
Men’s: Gyanendra (60kg), Manish (67 kg), Gurpreet Singh (77kg), Harpreet Singh (87 kg), Hardeep (97kg), Naveen (125 kg), Mausam Khatri (74kg) and Pawan Kumar (61kg)
Swimming squad:
Swimming: Vidhawal Khade, Sandeep Sejwal, Sajan Prakash, Srihari Nataraj, Advait Page, Aaron Agnel D’Souza, Anshul Kothari, Arvind Mani, Saurabh Sangvekar, Avinash Mani, Neel Roy.
Diving: K. Ramanand Sharma, Siddharth Pardeshi, H. London Singh
Water Polo: Aneesh Babu (GK), Akshay Kumar Kunde, Ashwini Kumar Kunde, Adarsh V S, Uday Uttekar, Prithish Das, Sarang Vaidya, Aneesh Kumar, Karthik Ch. Das, Shibin Lal, Manimaran D, S Ratheesh Kumar, Monjith Hasan, Lal Krishna, J Shreejith.
Weightlifting squad:
Women: 48 kg Saikhom Mirabai Chanu; 63 kg Rakhi Halder
Men: 77 kg Sathish Kumar Sivalingam, Ajay Singh; 94 kg: Vikas Thakur
Boxing squad:
Men: Amit Panghal (49kg), Gaurav Solanki (52kg), Mohammed Hussamuddin (56kg), Shiva Thapa (60kg), Dheeraj Rangi (64kg), Manoj Kumar (69kg), Vikas Krishan (75kg).
Women: Sarjubala Devi (51kg), Sonia Lather (57kg), Pavitra (60kg).
Shooting squad:
Senior Rifle
Men: 3 Positions: Sanjeev Rajput, Akhil Sheoran
Air Rifle: Ravi Kumar, Deepak Kumar
300m Standard Rifle: Harjinder Singh, Amit Kumar
Air Rifle Mixed: Ravi Kumar, Apurvi Chandela.
Women: 3 Positions: Anjum Moudgil, Gaayathri N
Air Rifle: Apurvi, Elavenil Valarivan.
Senior Pistol:
Men: Air Pistol: Abhishek Verma, Saurabh Chaudhary
Rapid Fire Pistol: Shivam Shukla, Anish
Air Pistol Mixed: Abhishek Verma, Manu Bhaker.
Women: Air Pistol: Manu, Heena Sidhu
Sports Pistol: Rahi Sarnobat, Manu.
Senior Shotgun:
Men: Trap: Lakshay, Manavjit Singh Sandhu
Skeet: Sheeraz Sheikh, Angadwir Bajwa
Double trap: Ankur Mittal, Shradul Vihaan
Trap Mixed: Lakshay, Shreyasi Singh.
Women: Trap: Shreyasi Singh, Seema Tomar
Skeet: Ganemat Sekhon, Rashmmi Rathore
Double Trap: Shreyasi Singh, Varsha Varman.
Badminton squad:
Men: Kidambi Srikanth, HS Prannoy, Sai Praneeth, Sameer Verma, Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty, Sumeeth Reddy, Manu Attri, Pranav Jerry Chopra, Sourabh Verma
Women: Saina Nehwal, PV Sindhu, Sikki Reddy, Ashwini Ponnappa, Sai Rao, Ashmita Chaliha, Rutaparna Panda, Aarthi Sara Sunil, Aakarshi Kashyap, Gayathri Gopichand
Athletics squad
Women
100m – Dutee Chand
200m – Hima Das, Dutee Chand
400m- Hima Das, Nirmala
800m- Tintu Luka
1500m- PU Chitra, Monika Chaudhary
5000m- Sanjivani Jadhav, L Surya
10000m- Sanjivani Jadhav, L Surya
400mH- Juana Murmu, Anu Raghvan
3000m SC- Sudha Singh, Chinta Yadav
Long Jump- Nayana James, Neena Varakkil Pinto
20km Race Walk- Sowmya B, Khushbir Kaur
Heptathalon- Swapna Barman, Purnima Hembram
Discus Throw- Seema Poonia, Sandeep Kumari
Hammer Throw- Sarita Singh
Javelin Throw- Annu Rani
4x400m Relay- MR Poovamma, Saritaben Gaikwad, Sonia Vaishya, Vijayakumari, VK Vismaya, Jisna Matthew
Men
200m- Mohammed Anas
400m- Mohammed Anas, Rajiv Arokia
800m- Jinson Johnson, Manjit Singh
1500m- Jinson Johnson, Manjit Singh
5000m- G Lakshmanan
10000m- G Lakshmanan
400mH- Dharun Ayyasamy, Santosh Kumar
3000m SC- Naveen Kumar Dagar, Shankarlal Swami
High Jump- Chetan B
Long Jump- Sreeshankar
Triple Jump- Arpinder Singh, Rakesh Babu
Shot put- Tejinder Toor, Naveen Chikara
Javelin Throw- Neeraj Chopra, Shivpal Singh
20km Race Walk- Manish Singh Rawat, Irfan KT
50km Race Walk- Sandeep Kumar
4x400m Relay- Mohammed Anas, Jeevan KS, Jithu Baby, Kunhu Mohammed, Rajiv Arokia, Santosh Kumar
Mix Relay- Mohammed Anas, Rajiv Arokia, Hima Das, Poovamma.
Hockey squad:
Men: PR Sreejesh (Captain), Krishan B Pathak, Harmanpreet Singh, Varun Kumar, Birendra Lakra, Surender Kumar, Rupinder Pal Singh, Amit Rohidas, Manpreet Singh, Chinglensana Singh Kangujam (Vice-Captain), Simranjeet Singh, Sardar Singh, Vivek Sagar Prasad, SV Sunil, Mandeep Singh, Akashdeep Singh, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Dilpreet Singh.
Women: Savita (Vice-Captain), Rajani Etimarpu, Deep Grace Ekka, Sunita Lakra, Deepika, Gurjit Kaur, Reena Khokhar, Namita Toppo, Lilima Minz, Monika, Udita, Nikki Pradhan, Neha Goyal, Rani Rampal (Captain), Vandana Katariya, Lalremsiami, Navneet Kaur, Navjot Kaur.
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