1st Indian Open 2025, Bhubaneswar: Full list of athletes from India participating

Indian athletes gear up for historic debut at the first-ever Indian Open 2025 in Bhubaneswar

The Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneshwar is all set to host the country’s first-ever Indian Open, a World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze meet, which is an annual series of track and field competitions – the second tier of global meetings after the elite Diamond League, on Sunday, August 10.

Organized annually by World Athletics, the Continental Tour has four levels, namely Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Challenger. The first-ever Indian Open is set to be a bronze-level meet with more than 150 athletes from 17 different countries participating in the prestigious event in 20 disciplines.

While the men’s athletics events at the Indian Open 2025 include, the 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 5000m, long jump, triple jump, javelin throw, and the 4x400m relay, the women’s events will have the 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m, 100m hurdles, long jump, javelin throw 4x400m relay and a mixed 4x400m relay.

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Athletes from these countries would be participating in the Indian Open 2025: India, Malaysia, Iraq, Philippines, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, Republic of Korea, Portugal, Somalia, Iran, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Bhutan, Djibouti, Turkmenistan, Australia, and Sri Lanka.

The Continental Tour is set to have a lot of top Indian athletes participating, namely Jeswin Aldrin, Murali Sreeshankar, Annu Rani, Animesh Kaur, Mohamed Afsal, Amlan Borgohain, and many more. 

The men’s javelin throw event is set to steal the limelight at the Continental Tour. Though Neeraj Chopra is set to miss the competition, Sachin Yadav and Yashvir Singh will lead India’s challenge. 

While India has 99 athletes participating in this event, Nepal has 13, with Sri Lanka and Malaysia sending 10 and nine athletes, respectively. South Africa and Great Britain will have four athletes each representing their countries. 

“This is the country’s first Continental Tour event, and we are hoping for a successful competition so that the world knows we can host this kind of event,” Athletics Federation of India (AFI) President Bahadur Singh Sagoo said in a press conference in Delhi.

On that note, let’s take a look at the list of Indian athletes competing at the 1st Indian Open 2025, scheduled to take place at The Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneshwar.

List of Indian athletes competing at 1st Indian Open 2025

Men’s 100m:

Animesh Kujur, Amlan Borgohain, S Tamilarasu, Ragul Kumar, Lalu Prasad Bhoi

Men’s 200m: 

Animesh Kujur, Amlan Borgohain, Abhin Devadiga, Ragul Kumar G, Vishal TK 

Men’s 400m:

Vishal TK, Rince Joseph, Rajesh Ramesh, Jay Kumar, Amoj Jacob, Dharamveer Chaudhary, Santosh Kumar T, Suraj A

Men’s 800m: 

Mohamed Afsal P, Aman Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Prakash Balu Gadade

Men’s 5000m:

Shadab Ayyub Pathan, Sawas Barwal, Kiran Matre, Lovepreet Singh, Saurabh Kumar, Gagan Singh, Abhishek Pal

Men’s long jump:

Jeswin Aldrin, Murali Sreeshankar, Muhammed Anees, David P, Lokesh Sathyanathan,  Shahnavaz Khan, Jithin Arjunan, Mohammed Muhassin

Men’s triple jump:

Karthik Unnikrishnan, Abdulla Aboobacker N, Mohammed Muhassin, Vimal Mukesh T, Gailey Venister D, Yuva Raj

Men’s javelin throw:

Vikrant Malik, Sachin Yadav, Shivam Lohakare, Yashvir Singh, Rohit Yadav

Women’s 100m:

Daneshwari AT, Sneha SS, Vijaya Kumari, Sudheekasha V, Angel Silvia M, Sudheshna Shivankar, Abinaya Rajarajan, Srabani Nanda, Sakshi Chavan, Nithya Gandhe

Women’s 200m:

Unnathi Aiyappa, Madhumita Deb, Vijaya Kumari, Angel Silvi M, Nithya Ramraj, Nithya Gandhe

Women’s 400m:

Aishwarya Mishra, Vithya Ramraj, Subha Venkatesan, Jisna Mathew, Devyaniba Zala, Vijayakumari GK 

Women’s 800m:

Thota Sankeerthana, Huidrom Bhumeshwory, Chanda KM, Amandeep Kaur

Women’s 1500m:

Kajal Ranganath Kunwade, Pooja, Chanda KM, Amandeep Kaur, Vineetha Gurjan, Lili Das, Ankita Dhiyani

Women’s 100m hurdles:

Pranjali Dilip Patil, Anjali C, Pragyan Sahu, Kanimozhi C, Nandhini Kongan, Nithya Ramraj

Women’s long jump: 

Shaili Singh, Ancy Sojan, Bhavani Yadav, Pavana Nagaraj, Sandra Babu, Kusuma Ravada, Mubassina Mohammed, Abinaya Sri 

Women’s javelin throw:

Annu Rani, Jyoti Rakesh, Karishma Sanil, Shilpa Rani, Ramyashree Jain

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