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The Paris 2024 Olympics is starting from the 26th of July 2024 and India are sending 117 athletes for the Summer event. 72 athletes from India will make their Olympic debut in Paris. Haryana will represent the most number of athletes followed by Punjab. This is India’s second-largest contingent for an Olympic Games after Tokyo 2020 in which 121 athletes participated. The biggest miss is the Indian women’s hockey team who failed to qualify for the tournament.
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70 male and 47 female athletes will be representing India in the Summer Olympics. Athletics will have the most number of athletes (29) including two reserves and 21 athletes will be for the shooting events. It's the largest-ever shooting contingent from the country. Wrestling, archery, and boxing will have six athletes each. 19 players are part of the Indian men’s hockey team while eight are in table tennis and seven in badminton.
The Indian contingent includes five former medal winners – Neeraj Chopra, Mirabai Chanu, PV Sindhu, Lovlina Borgohain, and the men’s hockey team. Only Neeraj Chopra of all Indian athletes is a gold medal winner. Parul Chaudhary and Manu Bhaker are the only Indians who will take part in more than one individual event at the Paris Olympics. Parul will play in the women’s 5000m run and 3000m steeplechase events. Manu Bhaker will take part in the women’s 10m air pistol, 10m air pistol mixed team, and 25m pistol shooting events.
14-year-old swimmer Dhinidhi Desinghu will be the youngest Indian athlete at the Paris Olympics. Rohan Bopanna (44) will be the oldest Indian athlete at the Paris Olympics while table tennis player Sharath Kamal (42) is the second oldest athlete who will represent India in the Summer Olympics 2024.
Indian athletes at the Paris Olympics by states
Haryana will represent 24 athletes at the Summer Olympics 2024 followed by 19 from Punjab. Tamil Nadu will represent the third-highest number of (13) athletes followed by Karnataka (7), Uttar Pradesh (7), Kerala (6), Maharashtra (5), Delhi (4), Andhra Pradesh (4), Telangana (4), Uttarakhand (4), West Bengal (3), Madhya Pradesh (2), Manipur (2), Odisha (2), Rajasthan (2), Gujarat (2), Chandigarh (2), Bihar (1), Assam (1), Sikkim (1), Jharkhand (1) and Goa (1).
Full list of athletes from each state participating at the Paris Olympics
Assam (1)
- Lovlina Borgohain – Boxing (Women’s 70kg)
Bihar (1)
- Shreyasi Singh – Shooting (Women’s trap)
Chandigarh (2)
- Arjun Babuta – Shooting (Men’s 10m air rifle, 10m air rifle mixed team)
- Vijayveer Sidhu – Shooting (Men’s 25m rapid fire pistol)
Delhi (4)
- Amoj Jacob – Athletics (Men’s 4x400m relay)
- Tulika Maan – Judo (Women’s +78kg)
- Rajeshwari Kumari – Shooting (Women’s trap)
- Manika Batra – Table Tennis (Women’s singles, team)
Goa (1)
- Tanisha Crasto – Badminton (Women’s doubles)
Gujarat (2)
- Harmeet Desai – Table Tennis (Men’s singles, team)
- Manav Thakkar – Table Tennis (Men’s Team)
Haryana (24)
- Bhajan Kaur – Archery (Women’s individual, team)
- Kiran Pahal – Athletics (Women’s 400m, 4x400m relay)
- Neeraj Chopra – Athletics (Men’s javelin throw)
- Amit Panghal – Boxing (Men’s 51kg)
- Jaismine Lamboria – Boxing (Women’s 57kg)
- Nishant Dev – Boxing (Men’s 71kg)
- Preeti Pawar – Boxing (Women’s 54kg)
- Diksha Dagar – Golf (Women’s Individual)
- Sanjay – Men’s Hockey Team
- Sumit – Men’s Hockey Team
- Balraj Panwar – Rowing (Men’s single sculls)
- Anish Bhanwala – Shooting (Men’s 25m rapid fire pistol)
- Manu Bhaker – Shooting (Women’s 10m air pistol, 10m air pistol mixed team, women’s 25m pistol)
- Ramita Jindal – Shooting (Women’s 10m air rifle, 10m air rifle mixed team)
- Raiza Dhillon – Shooting (Women’s skeet)
- Rhythm Sangwan – Shooting (Women’s 10m air pistol, 10m air pistol mixed team)
- Sarabjot Singh – Shooting (Men’s 10m air pistol, 10m air pistol mixed team)
- Sumit Nagal – Tennis (Men’s singles)
- Aman Sehrawat – Wrestling (Men’s freestyle 57kg)
- Anshu Malik – Wrestling (Women’s 57kg)
- Antim Panghal – Wrestling (Women’s 53kg)
- Nisha Dahiya – Wrestling (Women’s 68kg)
- Reetika Hooda – Wrestling (Women’s 76kg)
- Vinesh Phogat – Wrestling (Women’s 50kg)
Jharkhand (1)
- Deepika Kumari – Archery (Women’s individual, women’s team)
Karnataka (7)
- Poovamma MR – Athletics (Women’s 4x400m relay)
- Ashwini Ponnappa – Badminton (Women’s doubles)
- Aditi Ashok – Golf (Women’s indiviual)
- Srihari Nataraj – Swimming (Men’s 100m backstroke)
- Dhinidhi Desinghu – Swimming (Women’s 200m freestyle)
- Archana Kamath – Table Tennis (Women’s team)
- Rohan Bopanna – Tennis (Men’s doubles)
Kerala (6)
- Abdulla Aboobacker – Athletics (Men’s triple jump)
- Muhammed Ajmal – Athletics (Men’s 4x400m relay)
- Muhammed Anas – Athletics (Men’s 4x400m relay)
- Mijo Chacko Kurian – Athletics (Reserve)
- PR Sreejesh – Men’s Hockey Team
- HS Prannoy – Badminton (Men’s singles)
Madhya Pradesh (2)
- Vivek Sagar Prasad – Men’s Hockey Team
- Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar – Shooting (Men’s 50m rifle 3 positions)
Maharashtra (5)
- Pravin Jadhav – Archery (Men’s individual, Men’s team)
- Avinash Sable – Athletics (Men’s 3000m steeplechase)
- Sarvesh Kushare – Athletics (Men’s high jump)
- Chirag Shetty – Badminton (Men’s doubles)
- Swapnil Kusale – Shooting (Men’s 50m rifle 3 positions)
Manipur (2)
- Mirabai Chanu – Weightlifting (Women’s 49kg)
- Nilakanta Sharma – Men’s Hockey Team (Reserve)
Odisha (2)
- Amit Rohidas – Men’s Hockey Team
- Kishore Jena – Athletics (Men’s javelin throw)
Punjab (19)
- Akshdeep Singh – Athletics (Men’s 20km race walk)
- Tajinderpal Singh Toor – Athletics (Men’s shot put)
- Vikas Singh – Athletics (Men’s 20km race walk)
- Gaganjeet Bhullar – Golf (Men’s individual)
- Gurjant Singh – Men’s Hockey Team
- Hardik Singh – Men’s Hockey Team
- Harmanpreet Singh – Men’s Hockey Team
- Jarmanpreet Singh – Men’s Hockey Team
- Jugraj Singh – Men’s Hockey Team (Reserve)
- Krishan Bahadur Pathak – Men’s Hockey Team (Reserve)
- Mandeep Singh – Men’s Hockey Team
- Manpreet Singh – Men’s Hockey Team
- Shamsher Singh – Men’s Hockey Team
- Sukhjeet Singh – Men’s Hockey Team
- Anjum Moudgil – Shooting (Women’s 50m rifle 3 positions)
- Arjun Cheema – Shooting (Men’s 10m air pistol, 10m air pistol mixed team)
- Sift Kaur Samra – Shooting (Women’s 50m rifle 3 positions)
- Sandeep Singh – Shooting (Men’s 10m air rifle, 10m air rifle mixed team)
- Prachi Chouhdary Kaliyar- Athletics (Reserve)
Rajasthan (2)
- Anantjeet Singh Naruka – Shooting (Men’s skeet, Skeet mixed team)
- Maheshwari Chauhan – Shooting (Women’s skeet and skeet mixed team)
Sikkim (1)
- Tarundeep Rai – Archery (Men’s individual, Men’s team)
Tamil Nadu (13)
- Jeswin Aldrin – Athletics (Men’s long jump)
- Praveel Chithravel – Athletics (Men’s triple jump)
- Rajesh Ramesh – Athletics (Men’s 4x400m relay)
- Santhosh Tamilarasan – Athletics (Men’s 4x400m relay)
- Subha Venkatesan – Athletics (Women’s 4x400m relay)
- Vithya Ramraj – Athletics (Women’s 4x400m relay)
- Nethra Kumanan – Sailing (Women’s one person dinghy)
- Vishnu Saravanan – Sailing (Men’s one person dinghy)
- Elavenil Valarivan – Shooting (Women’s 10m air rifle, 10m air rifle mixed team)
- Prithviraj Tondaiman – Shooting (Men’s trap)
- Sathiyan Gnanasekaran – Table Tennis (Reserve)
- Sharath Kamal – Table Tennis (Men’s singles, team)
- N Sriram Balaji – Tennis (Men’s doubles)
Telangana (4)
- PV Sindhu – Badminton (Women’s Singles)
- Nikhat Zareen – Boxing (Women’s 50kg)
- Esha Singh – Shooting (Women’s 25m pistol)
- Sreeja Akula – Table Tennis (Women’s singles, team)
Uttarakhand (4)
- Ankita Dhyani – Athletics (Women’s 5000m)
- Paramjeet Bisht – Athletics (Men’s 20km race walk)
- Suraj Panwar – Athletics (Marathon race walk mixed relay)
- Lakshya Sen – Badminton (Men’s singles)
Uttar Pradesh (7)
- Annu Rani – Athletics (Women’s javelin throw)
- Parul Chaudhary – Athletics (Women’s 3000m steeplechase, Women’s 5000m)
- Priyanka Goswami – Athletics (Women’s 20 km race walk, Marathon race walk mixed relay)
- Ram Baboo – Athletics (Men’s 20km race walk)
- Shubhankar Sharma – Golf (Men’s individual)
- Lalit Kumar Upadhyay – Men’s Hockey Team
- Rajkumar Pal – Men’s Hockey Team
West Bengal (3)
- Ankita Bhakat – Archery (Women’s individual, Women’s team)
- Anush Agarwalla – Equestrian (Dressage event)
- Ayhika Mukherjee – Table Tennis (Reserve)