Asian Games 2022: List of Indian athletes to have secured qualification

These players will represent the country at the continental meet.

The Asian Games 2022 is set to be held from 23 September 2023 to October 8, 2023 in Hangzhou, China. The 19th Asian Games will feature 40 sports with top players set to participate in the 15-day-long quadrennial event. India were the host of the inaugural edition of the Asian Games and has hosted the continental games twice. In the last edition, India sent a strong contingent of 570 players across 36 sports.

In this article, let us look at the teams/players that have already secured qualification for the Asian Games 2022.

Hockey

The winner will automatically progress to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. The Indian men’s team finished third whereas the women’s team finished second in the last edition of the Asian Games in 2018. Japan claimed the gold medal in both the men’s and women’s events in Jakarta.

Indian men’s Hockey team

Indian women’s Hockey team

Boxing

Women’s Boxing

The women's boxers won four gold medals at the recently concluded IBA World Women’s Boxing Championships. Nitu Ghanghas won the gold medal in the 48kg weight category but will not make it to the Asian Games as Nikhat Zareen has already booked her spot in the 51kg category. Nitu will be on standby in case of any injury concerns before the Asian Games 2022.

Women's Boxing

Nikhat Zareen (51kg), Preeti Pawar (54kg), Parveen Hooda (57kg), Jaismine Lamboria (60kg), Arundhati Chaudhary (66kg), Lovlina Borgohain (75kg)

Men’s Boxing

Deepak Bhoria (51kg), Sachin Siwach (57kg), Shiva Thapa (63.5kg), Nishant Dev (71kg), Lakshya Chahar (80kg), Sanjeet 92kg, Narender Berwal (+92kg)

Golf

The selection trials for golf were held last year and it remains to be seen if the trials will be held once again this year as well. Seven golfers were selected for the Asian Games 2022 based on their rankings and the performance of the trial. Anirban Lahiri and Aditi Ashok will be leading the men’s and women’s contingents respectively. 

Men’s Event

1. Anirban Lahiri

2. Khalin Joshi

3. Shubhankar Sharma

4. SSP Chawrasia

Women’s Event

1. Aditi Ashok

2. Pranavi Urs

3. Avani Prasanth

Softball

The Indian women’s softball team will be making their debut at the Asian Games 2022. India and Singapore were awarded wildcard entry in the continental event. Softball made its debut in the 1990 edition of the Asian Games held in Beijing, China.

Indian women’s softball team

E-Sports

E-Sports will be making its debut at the 2022 Asian Games. 16 member Indian contingent has been selected across four games (FIFA 22, Street Fighter V, DOTA 2, and League of Legends).

1. Karman Singh Tikka - FIFA 22

2. Charanjot Singh - FIFA 22

3. Ayan Biswas - Street Fighter V

4. Mayank Prajapati - Street Fighter V

5. Moin Ejaz, Abhishek, Krish, Ketan, Darshan, and Shubham - DOTA 2

6. Akshaj Shenoy, Mihir Ranjan, Samarth Arvind, Aditya Selvaraj, Aakash Shandilya, Sanindhya Malik - League of Legends

Badminton

The squad in both the men’s and women’s badminton for Asian Games 2022 was selected earlier this through world rankings and trials.

Men's Singles - HS Prannoy (Individual and team), Kidambi Srikanth (Individual and team), Lakshya Sen (team), and Mithun Manjunath (team).

Women’s singles: PV Sindhu (Individual and Team), Ashmita Chaliha (Individual and Team), Anupama Upadhyaya (Team), and Malvika Bansod (Team)

Men’s doubles: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty (Doubles and Team), Dhruv Kapila/MR Arjun (Doubles and Team)

Women’s doubles: Gayatri Gopichand/Treesa Jolly (Doubles and Team), Ashwini Ponnappa /Tanisha Crasto (Doubles and Team)

Mixed doubles: Rohan Kapoor /N Sikki Reddy (Doubles and Team), Sai Prateek K/Tanisha Crasto (Individual and Team)

Archery

The trials for the 2022 Asian Games were held in February 2023 and star archer Deepika Kumari failed to make the cut. Olympian Atanu Das made the cut in the men’s recurve event alongside experienced Tarundeep Rai.

Recurve Men: Bommadevara, Atanu Das, Tarundeep Rai, Neeraj Chauhan, Tushar Shelke, Mrinal Chauhan, Jayanta Talukdar, Indrachand Swami.

Recurve Women: Bhajan Kaur, Aditi Jaiswal, Ankita Bhakat, Simranjeet Kaur, Madhu Vedwan, Sangeeta, Tanisha Verma, Prachi Singh.

Compound Men: Prathamesh Jawkar, Rajat Chauhan, Ojas Deotale, Rishabh Yadav, Abhishek Verma, Amit, Harsh Borate, Kushal Dalal.

Compound Women: Avneet Kaur, Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Aditi Swami, Sakshi Chaudhary, Pragati, Raginee Marko, Parneet Kaur, Taniparthi Chikitha.

Athletics

AFI has set a designated limit for each event across track and field events. Ram Baboo, and Harmilan Bains to name a few have made the cut for the Asian Games 2022 but the official list will be announced after the conclusion of the Federation Cup and Inter State Athletics Meet.

Men's

10000m - Kartik Kumar, Gulveer Singh, Pritam Kumar, and Harman Jot Singh

400m - Muhammad Anas Yahiya, Muhammed Ajmal, and Amoj Jacob

800m - Krishan Kumar, Muhammed Afsal, and Pradeep Senthil Kumar

High Jump - Sarvesh Anil Kushare and Jesse Sandhesh

Triple Jump - Praveen Chitravel, Abdulla Aboobacker, and Eldhose Paul

Decathlon - Tejaswin Shankar

400m hurdles - Yashas and Santhosh Kumar

Javelin Throw - Rohit Yada, Kishore Kumar Jena, and Shivpal Singh

Long Jump - Murali Sreeshankar and Jeswin Aldrin

Shot Put - Tejinder Pal Singh Toor and karanveer Singh

1500m - Jinson Johnson, Ajay Kumar Saroj

5000m - Gulveer Singh, Harman Jot Singh

Women's

Triple Jump - Sheena

400m - Anjali Devi, Himanshi Malik, Vithya Ramaraj, and Aishwarya Kailash Mishra

1500m - Deeksha, Harmilan Bains, Chanda, and Pooja

3000m steeplechase - Parul Chaudhary

Pole Vault - Pavitra Vengatesh

100m hurdles - Jyothi Yarraji, Nithya, and Agasara Nandhini

Heptathlon - Swapna Barman and Agasara Nandhini

Hammer Throw - KM Racha and Tanya Chaudhary

Javelin Throw - Annu Rani

Long Jump - Ancy Sojan and Shaili Singh

Shot Put - Kiran Baliyan, Manpreet Kaur, and Abha Khatua

High Jump - Pooja

400m hurdles - Vithya Ramaraj and Sinchal

800m - Harmilan Bains, Chanda, and Deeksha

Aquatics

Swimming

Men's - Aneesh Gowda, Advait Page, Aryan Nehra, AS Anand, Kushagra Rawat, SP Likith, Sajan Prakash, Srihari Natraj, Tanish Matthew, Utkarsh Patil, Vishal Grewal, and Virdhawal Khade

Women's - Ananya Nayak, Dinidhi Desinghu, Hanshika Ramachandran, AK Linyesha, Maana Patel, Nina Venkatesh, Palak Joshi, and Vritti Agarwal.

Diving Siddharth Pardeshi and Heman Singh Waterpolo

Bridge

Open Team

Sandeep Thakral, Rajeshwari Tiwari, Jaggy Shivdasani, Sumit Mukherjee, Raju Tolani, and Ajay Khare.

Mixed Team

B. Satyanarayana, Himani Khandelwal, Rajeev Khandelwal, Kiran Nadar, Marianne Karmarkar, and Sandeep Karmarkar.

Ladies Team

Bharti Dey, Alka Kshirsagar, Puja Batra, Asha Sharma, Kalpan Gurjar, and Vidya Patel.

Tennis

The gold medalist automatically qualifies for the Paris Olympic Games 2024 in singles (both men and women).

Men’s Team

Sumit Nagal, Sasikumar Mukund, Ramkumar Ramanathan, Yuki Bhambri, Rohan Bopanna, and Saketh Myneni

Captain - Rohit Rajpal

Women’s Team

Ankita Raina, Karman Kaur Thandi, Rutuja Bhosale, Sahaja Yamalapalli, Vaidehi Chaudhari, and Prarthna Thombare

Captain - Ankita Bhambri

Judo

Lalhumhimi

Swimming

Aryan Nehra - 800m and 1500m freestyle

Fencing

Men's

Individual Foil: Arjun and Dev

Team Foil: Arjun, Dev, Bibish Kathireshan, and Akash Kumar

Individual Epee: Sunil Kumar, Shankar Pandey

Team Epee: Sunil Kumar, Shankar Pandey, Udayvir Singh and Sherjin R. S.

Individual Sabre: Karan Singh Gurjar and Gisho Kumaresan

Team Sabre: Karan Singh Gurjar, Gisho Kumaresan, Vishal Thapar and Abhay Shinde

Women's

Individual Epee: Taniksha Khatri and Ena Arora

Team épéee: Taniksha Khatri, Ena Arora, Yashkeerat Kaur, and Jyotika Dutta

Individual foil: Radhika Awati and Mariya Akshita

Team foil: Radhika Awati, Mariya Awati, V. P. Mahalakshmi, and Jenisha N. V.

Individual sabre: C. A. Bhavani Devi and Jagmeet Kaur

Team sabre: C. A. Bhavani Devi, Jagmeet Kaur, Rishika Khujuria, and Joshna Christy Jose

Ju-Jitsu

Men's

62 KG: Kamal Singh, Tarun Yadav

69 KG: Siddharth Singh, Akshat Sahu

77 KG: Anirudh Verma, Vinod Rana

85 KG: Amarjeet Singh, Uma Maheshwar Reddy

Women's

48 KG: Nanvya Pandey, Anwesha Deb

52 KG: Rohini Kalam, Anupama Swain

57 KG: Angitha Shyju, Nikita Choudhary

63 KG: Kiran Kumari, Annu

Skateboarding

Women's

Urmila Padable, Aadya Aditi, and Dhruvi Lakhotia, and Sonam.

Sailing

IQFoil: Katya Ida Coelho

Triathlon

Women's - Pragnya Mohan

Shooting

Individual Events

Air Rifle Men - Divyansh Singh Panwar, Aishwary Pratap Singh, and Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil

Air Rifle Women - Ramita, Mehuli Ghosh, and Ashi Chouksey

50m Rifle 3P Men - Aishwary Pratap Singh, Swapnil Suresh Kusale, and Akhil Sheoran

50m Rifle 3P Women - Kaur Samra, Ashi Chouksey, and Manini Kaushik

Air Pistol Men - Sarabjot Singh, Shiva Narwal, and Arjun Singh

Air Pistol Women - TS Divya, Esha Singh, and Palak

25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men - Anish, Vijayveer Sidhu, and Adarsh Singh

25m Rapid Fire Pistol Women - Rhythm Sangwan, Manu Bhaker, and Esha Singh

Mixed Team Events

Air Rifle Mixed Team - Divyansh Singh Panwar/Ramita and Aishwary Pratap Sing/Mehuli Ghosh

Air Pistol Mixed Team - Sarabjot Sing/TS Divya and Shiva Narwal/Esha Singh

Weightlifting

Men's

73kg - Achintha Sheuli and N.Ajith

Women's

49kg - Mirabai Chanu

55kg - Bindyarani Devi

Rowing

Men's

Balraj Panwar (Single Scull), Satnam Singh (Double Scull and Quadruple Scull), Parminder Singh (Double Scull and Quadruple Scull), Jakar Khan (Quadruple Scull), Sukhmeet Singh (Quadruple Scull), Arvind Singh (Light Weight Double Scull), Arjun Lal Jat (Light Weight Double Scull), Babu Lal Yadav (Coxless Pair), Lekh Ram (Coxless Pair), Jaswinder Singh (Coxless Four and Coxed Eight), Bheem Singh (Coxless Four and Coxed Eight), Punit Kumar (Coxless Four and Coxed Eight), Ashish (Coxless Four and Coxed Eight), Neeraj (Coxed Eight), Naresh Kalwaniya (Coxed Eight), Neetesh Kumar (Coxed Eight), Charanjeet Singh (Coxed Eight), D U Pande (Coxed Eight), Ashish Goliyan (Substitute, Sweep), Kulwinder Singh (Substitute, Sculls).

Women's

Kiran (Light Weight Double Scull), Anshika Bharti (Light Weight Double Scull), Aswathi P B (Coxless Four and Coxed Eight), Mrunamayee Nilesh S (Coxless Four and Coxed Eight), Thangjam Priya Devi (Coxless Four and Coxed Eight), Rukmani (Coxless Four and Coxed Eight), Sonali Swain (Coxed Eight), Ritu Kaudi (Coxed Eight), Varsha K B (Coxed Eight), H Tendenthoi Devi (Coxed Eight), G Geetanjali (Coxed Eight), Rose Mestica Meril A (Substitute), Archa Aji (Substitute).

Table Tennis

Men's - Achanta Sarath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Harmeet Desai, Manav Vikas Thakkar, and Utpalbhai Shah.

Reserves - Snehit Suravajjula and Sanil Shetty

Women's - Manika Batra, Sreeja Akula, Sutirtha Mukherjee, Ayhika Mukherjee, and Diya Chitale.

Reserves - Archana Kamath and Reeth Sethiya

Men's Doubles - Sarath Kamal/Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Manav Thakkar/Utpal Shah

Women's Doubles - Sutirtha Mukherjee/Ayhika Mukherjee and Sreeja Akula/Diya Chitale

Mixed doubles - Sathiyan Gnansekaran/Manika Batra and Sreeja Akula/Harmeet Desai

Chess

Men: Gukesh D, Vidit Gujrathi, Arjun Erigaisi, Pentala Harikrishna, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa

Women: Koneru Humpy, Harika Dronavalli, Vaishali Rameshbabu, Vantika Agrawal, Savitha Shri

Wrestling

Men's 65kg - Bajrang Punia

Women's 53 kg - Vinesh Phogat

Equestrian

Anush Agarwalla, Hriday Chedda, Divyakriti Singh, and Sudipti Hajela

*The list will be updated accordingly once the list for other sports is out for Asian Games 2022.