Sports-wise breakdown of India’s Asian Games squad

Published at :August 28, 2023 at 4:43 PM

Modified at :January 13, 2024 at 6:31 PM

(Courtesy : The Times of India)

From the initial list of 850 athletes only 634 are set to take part in the Continental Games.

The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS) released the final list of the qualified athletes from India who will be representing the country at the upcoming Hangzhou Asian Games, on Friday. The contingent is set to feature 634 athletes in the squad a rise of 62 from the 2018 edition; marking this the largest squad for the Asiad’s.

Prior to the confirmed list, close to 850 athletes were advised by the Indian Olympic Association (IOC) and respective Sports Federation for participation. From the subsequent list the Sports Ministry selected 634 athletes for the the 19th edition of the Asian Games which are going to be held in Hangzhou, China from August 23 to October 8.

Out of the 634 athletes – men (320) and women (314) constitute close to equal participation. India had sent 572 athletes in the previous edition of the Games and stood on the eighth position in the medals table. With a spike in the number of athletes, there is a possibility of players winning more medals and utimately make it to top 5 in medals tally.

Complete Squad of Indian Athletes at the Asian Games 2023:

Archery

Men’s

Recurve – Dhiraj Bommadevara, Atanu Das, Tushar Shelke, Mrinal Chauhan

Compound – Abhishek Verma, Ojas Deotale, Rajat Chauhan, Prathamesh Jawkar

Women’s

Recurve – Prachi Singh, Ankita Bhakat, Bhajan Kaur, Simranjeet Kaur

Compound – Avneet Kaur, Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Aditi Swami, Parneet Kaur

Athletics

Men’s – Neeraj Chopra, Kishore Jena, Tajinder Toor, Sahib Singh, Sandeep Kumar, Vikash Singh, Sreeshankar, Jeswin Aldrin, Praveen Chitravel, Abdullah Aboobacker, Ajay Saroj, Jinson Johnson, Krishan Kumar, Md Afsal, Santhosh Kumar, Yashas P, Kartik Kumar, Gulveer Singh, Avinash Sable, Sarvesh Kushare, Jesse Sandesh, Tejaswin Shankar, Ram Baboo, Man Singh, BA Bopaiah, Nihal William, Rahul Baby, Md Anas, Md Ajmal, Arokia Rajiv, Amoj Jacob, Mijo Kurian, Rajesh Ramesh, Arul R, Amlan Borgohain.

Women’s – Shaili Singh, Ancy Sojan, Ankita, Parul Chaudhary, Annu Rani, Kiran Baliyan, Manpreet Kaur, Priyanka, Manju Rani, Vithya Ramraj, Sinchal Ravi, Swapna Barman, Nandini Agasara, Harmilan Bains, Chanda, Diksha, Tanya Kumari, Rachna Kumari, Rubina Yadav, Pooja, Jyothi Yarraji, Pavithra V, Sheena N, Nithya Ramraj, Soniya Baishya, Florence Barla, Subha V, Aishwarya Mishra, Himanshi Malik, Jisna Mathews, Seema Punia, Priti Lamba, Prachi.

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5*5 Basketball

Women’s – Manmeet Kaur, Anmolpreet Kaur, Poonam Chaturvedi, Madhu Kumari, Shirin Limaye, Bhandavya Mahesha, Sanjana Ramesh, Sreekala Rani, Shruthi Rathinavel, Kavitha Jose, Sathiya Senthilkumar, Sahana Mohan

3*3 Basketball

Men’s – Sahaji Pratap Singh, Princepal Singh, Pranav Prince, Lokendra Singh

Women’s – Anumaria CS, Siya Deodhar, Yashneet Kaur, Vaishnavi Yadav

Badminton

Men’s – HS Prannoy, Kidambi Srikanth, Lakshya Sen, Mithun Manjunath, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty, Dhruv Kapila/ MR Arjun, Rohan Kapoor, Sai Pratheek K

Women’s – PV Sindhu, Ashmita Chaliha, Anupama Upadhyaya, Malvika Bansod, Gayatri Gopichand/Treesa Jolly, Ashwini Ponnappa, Tanisha Crasto, N Sikki Reddy

Boxing

Men’s – Deepak Bhoria, Sachin Siwach, Shiva Thapa, Nishant Dev, Lakshya Chahar, Sanjeet, Narender Berwal

Women’s – Nikhat Zareen, Preeti Pawar, Parveen Hooda, Jaismine Lamboria, Arundhati Chaudhary, Lovlina Borgohain

Bridge

Men’s – Jaggy Shivdasani, Sandeep Thakral, Rajeshwar Tiwari, Sumit Mukherjee, Raju Tolani, Ajay Khare – Men Team

Women’s – Asha Sharma, Puja Batra, Alka Kshirsagar, Bharti Dey, Kalpana Gurjar, Vidya Patel – Women’s Team

Mixed Team – Kiran Nadar, B Satyanarayana, Himani Khandelwal, Rajeev Khandelwal, Marianne Karmarkar, Sandeep Karmarkar

Chess

Men’s – Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, Gukesh D, Vidit Gujrathi, Arjun Erigaisi, Pentala Harikrishna

Women’s – Koneru Humpy, Harika Dronavalli, Vaishali Rameshbabu, Vantika Agrawal, Savitha Shri B

Cricket

Men’s – Ruturaj Gaikwad, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rahul Tripathi, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma, Washington Sundar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan, Arshdeep Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Shivam Mavi, Shivam Dube, Prabhsimran Singh

Women’s – Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh, Amanjot Kaur, Devika Vaidya, Pooja Vastrakar, Titas Sadhu, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Minnu Mani, Kanika Ahuja, Uma Chetry, Anusha Bareddy

Cycling

Men’s – Ronaldo Singh, Rohit Singh, David Beckham, Esow Alben, Harshveer Singh, Vishwajeet Singh, Venkappa Sivappa Kengalgutti, Neeraj Kumar, Manjeet Kumar Dinesh Kumar

Women’s – Celestina, Triyasha Paul, Mayuri Lute, Sushikala Agashe

Diving

Siddharth Pardeshi, London Singh

Equestrian

Men’s – Anush Agarwalla, Hriday Chheda, Ashish Limaye, Apoorva Dabade, Vikas Kumar, Kirat Singh, Yash Nensee, Tejas Dhingra

Women’s – Divyakirti Singh, Sudipti Hajela

Esports

FIFA Online 4 – Charanjot Singh and Karman Singh

Street Fighter V: Champion Edition – Mayank Prajapati and Ayan Biswas

League of Legends – Akshaj Shenoy (captain), Samarth Arvind Trivedi, Mihir Ranjan, Aditya Selvaraj, Aakash Shandilya, and Sanindhya Malik

DOTA 2 – Darshan Bata (captain), Krish Gupta, Abhishek Yadav, Ketan Goyal, and Shubham Goli

Fencing

Men’s Foil – Arjun, Dev, Bibish Kathireshan, Akash Kumar

Women’s Epee – Taniksha Khatri, Ena Arora, Yashkeerat Kaur, Jyotika Dutta

Women’s Sabre – Bhavani Devi

Football

Men’s – Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, Gurmeet Singh, Liston Colaco, Sandesh Jhingan, Anwar Ali, Narender Gahlot, Lalchungnunga, Akash Mishra, Abdul Rabeeh, Vincy baretto, Jeakson Singh Thounaojam, Suresh Singh Wangjam, Apuia Ralte, Amarjit Singh Kiyam, Rahul KP, Naorem Mahesh Singh, Samuel Kynshi, Rahim Ali, Aniket Jadhav, Vikram Partap Singh, Vishal Yadav, Ayush Dev Chettri, Sunil Chhetri

Women’s – Astam Oraon, Jyoti, Manisha, Renu, Ritu Rani, Sanju, Sangita Basfore, Elangbam Chanu, Dalima Chhibber, Grace Dangmei, Soumya Guguloth, Shreya Hooda, Indumati Kathiresan, Ashalata Devi, Priyanka Devi, Sweety Devi, Soumya N, Bala Devi, Sandhiya Ranganathan, Ranjana Chanu, Anju Tamang, Pyari Xaxa

Golf

Men’s – Anirban Lahiri, Shubhankar Sharma, Shiv Chawrasia, Khalin Joshi

Women’s – Aditi Ashok, Avani Prashanth, Pranavi Urs

Gymnastics

Pranati Nayak

Handball

Women’s – Bhawana, Diksha Kumari, Menika, Priyanka, Sonika, Sushma, Pooja Kanwar, Asha Rani, Mitali Sharma, Nidhi Sharma, Nina Shil, Jyoti Shukla, Shiva Singh, Tejaswini Singh, Priyanka Thakur, Shalini Thakur

Hockey

Men’s – PR Sreejesh, Krishan Pathak, Amit Rohidas, Abhishek, Gurjant Singh, Hardik Singh, Harmanpreet Singh, Jarmanpreet Singh, Mandeep Singh, Manpreet Singh, Sanjay, Shamsher Singh, Sukhjeet Singh, Varun Kumar, Sumit, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Nilakanta Sharma, Lalit Kumar Upadhyaya

Women’s – Deepika, Lalremsiami, Monika, Navneet Kaur, Neha, Nisha, Savita, Sonika, Udita, Ishika Chaudhary, Deep Grace Ekka, Vandana Katariya, Bichu Devi, Sangita Kumari, Vaishnavi Phalke, Nikki Pradhan, Sushila Chanu, Salima Tete

Judo

Men’s – Avtar Singh (100kg)

Women’s – Tulika Maan (78+ kg), Garima Choudhary (70kg), Indubala Devi (70kg)

Ju-Jitsu

Men’s – Amarjeet Singh, Kamal Singh, Tarun Yadav

Women’s – Anupama Swain, Kiran Kumari, Navya Pandey, Angitha Shyju, Rohini Kalam, Anwesha Deb, Nikitha Chaoudhary, Uma Maheshwar

Kabaddi

Men’s – Nitesh Kumar, Parvesh, Sachin, Surjeet, Vishal Bharadwaj, Arjun Deshwal, Aslam Mustafa, Naveen Kumar, Pawan Kumar, Sunil Kumar, Nitin Rawal, Akash Shinde

Women’s – Akshima, Jyoti, Pooja, Pooja, Priyanka, Pushpa, Sakshi Kumari, Ritu Negi, Nidhi Sharma, Sushma Sharma, Snehal Shinde, Sonali Shingate

Kurash

Men’s – Yash Chauhan, Vishal Ruhil, Keshav

Women’s – Pincky Balhara, Jyoti Tokas, Suchika Tariyal

Kayaking and Canoeing

Men’s – Sunil Singh, Hitesh Kewat, Subham Kewat, Vishal Kewat, Ribason Singh, Gyaneshwor Singh, Arjun Singh, Niraj Verma

Women’s – Shikha Chauhan, Shivani Verma, Megha Pradeep, Kaveri, Neha Devi, Binita Chanu, Parvathy Geeta, Dimita Devi, Soniya Devi

Modern Pentathlon

Men’s: Mayank Chapekar

Roller Skating and Skateboarding

Men’s – Vishwesh Patil, Jinesh Nanal, Vikram Ingale, Siddhant Kambale, Aryanpal Ghuman, Anandkumar Velkumar

Women’s – Aarthy Raj, Sai Akula, Greeshma Dontara, Merlin Charles, Heeral Sadhu, Kartheeka Jagadeswaran, Sanjana Bathula, Shreyashi Joshi

Rowing

Men’s – Balraj Panwar, Satnam Singh, Parminder Singh, Jakar Khan, Sukhmeet Singh, Arvind Singh, Arjun Lal Jat, Babu Lal Yadav, Lekh Ram, Jaswinder Singh, Bheem Singh, Punit Kumar, Ashish, Neeraj, Naresh Kalwaniya, Neetesh Kumar, Charanjeet Singh, DU Pande

Women’s – Kiran, Anshika Bharti, Aswathi P.B, Mrunamayee Nilesh S, Thangjam Priya Devi, Rukmani, Sonali Swain, Ritu Kaudi, Varsha K.B., H Tendenthoi Devi, G Geetanjali

Rugby 7s

Women’s – Priya Bansal, Dumini Marandi, Mama Naik, Tarulata Naik, Lachmi Oraon, Kalyani Patil, Vaishnavi Patil, Sandhya Rai, Shweta Shahi, Sheetal Sharma, Shikha Yadav, Hupi Majhi

Sailing

Men’s – Chitresh Tatha, Adhvait Menon, Vishnu Saravanan, Jerome Kumar, Ebad Ali, K. C. Ganapathy, Varun Thakkar, Sudhanshu Shekhar, Siddheswar Doipode

Women’s – Ishwariya Ganesh, Neha Thakur, Nethra Kumanan, Harshita Tomar, Ramya Sarvanan, Preeti Kongara, Shital Verma

Sepak Takraw

Men’s – Arun, Niken Singh, John Meitei, Henary Singh, Akash Yumnam, Shiva Kumar, Sandeep Kumar, Malemnganba Singh

Women’s – Khushbu, Maipak Devi, Leirentonbi Devi, Priya Devi, Chaoba Devi, Ayekpam Priya Devi, Sezovelu Dozo, S Tepa

Shooting

Men’s – Sarabjot Singh, Shiva Narwal, Arjun Singh Cheema, Divyansh Singh Panwar, Rudrankksh Patil, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Anish Bhanwala, Vijayveer Sidhu, Adarsh Singh, Akhil Sheoran, Swapnil Kusale, Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Gurjoat Singh Khangura, Prithviraj Toindaman, Kynan Chenai, Zoravar Singh Sandhu, Angad Vir Singh Bajwa,

Women’s – Divya T.S., Esha Singh, Palak Gulia, Ramita, Mehuli Ghosh, Ashi Chouksey, Sift Kaur Samra, Manini Kaushik, Rhythm Sangwan, Manu Bhaker, Ganemat Sekhon, Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Rajeshwari Kumari, Darshana Rathore, Maneesha Keer, Preeti Rajak,

Soft Tennis

Men’s – Jay Meena, Aniket Patel, Rajveer Amaliyar, Aditya Dubey, Rohit Dhiman

Women’s – Aadhya Tiwari, Tushita Singh, Nikita Bishnoi, Raga Sri, Anusha Nelukaditi

Sport Climbing

Men’s – Aman Verma, Dhiraj Dinkar, Bharath Stepehn

Women’s – Anisha Verma, Shivpreet Pannu, Prateeksha Arun, Saniya Sheikh

Squash

Men’s – Saurav Ghosal, Abhay Singh, Mahesh Mangaonkar, Harinderpal Singh Sandhu

Women’s – Joshna Chinappa, Dipika Pallikal Karthik, Anahat Singh, Tanvi Khanna

Swimming

Men’s – Srihari Nataraj, Aryan Nehra, Virdhawal Khade, Kushagra Rawat, Sajan Prakash, Tanish Mathew, Anand Shylaja, Vishal Grewal, Aneesh Gowda, Likhith Prema, Advait Page, Utkarsh Patil

Women’s – Palak Joshi, Shivangi Sharma, Dhinidhi Desinghu, Maana Patel, Hashika Ramachandra, Vritti Agarwal, Nina Venkatesh, Lineysha, Jahnvi Choudhary

Table Tennis

Men’s – Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Harmeet Desai, Manav Thakkar, Manush Shah

Women’s – Manika Batra, Sreeja Akula, Sutirtha Mukherjee, Ayhika Mukherjee, Diya Chitale

Tennis

Men’s – Sumit Nagal, Ramkumar Ramanathan, Rohan Bopanna, Saketh Myneni, Yuki Bhambri

Women’s – Ankita Raina, Karman Kaur Thandi, Rutuja Bhosle, Prarthana Thombare

Volleyball

Men’s – Amit, Vinit Kumar, Shameemudheen, A Muthusamy, Hari Prasad, Rohit Kumar, Maonoj L, Ukkrapandian Mohan, Ashwal Rai, Santosh Sahaya, Guru Prasanth, Erin Varghese

Women’s – Nirmal, Surya, Minimol Abraham, Jincy Johnson, Anusree Kambrath, Aswani Kandoth, Jini Kovat, Saranya N, Shilpa Rajendran, Aswathy Raveendran, Shalini Saravanan, Suji Vijayan

Weightlifting

Mirabai Chanu (49kg) and Bindyarani Devi (55 kg)

Wrestling

Men’s – Aman Sehrawat, Bajrang Punia, Yash, Deepak Punia, Vicky, Sumit, Gyanender, Neeraj, Vikash, Sunil Kumar, Narinder Cheema, Naveen

Women’s – Pooja Gehlot, Antim Panghal, Mansi Ahlawat, Sonam Malik, Radhika, Kiran Bishnoi

Wushu

Men – Surya Singh, Vikrant Baliyan, Sunil Singh, Anjul Namdeo, Suraj Singh, Rohit Jadhav, Suraj Yadav

Women – Onilu Tega, Roshibina Devi, Nyeman Wangsu, Mepung Lamgu

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