INDIAN ATHLETES ON TOKYO OLYMPICS 2021
INDIAN ATHLETES ON TOKYO OLYMPICS 2021

INDIAN ATHLETES ON TOKYO OLYMPICS 2021

The Sentinel INDIAN ATHLETES ON TOKYO OLYMPICS 2021 14.07.2021

NEERAJ CHOPRA

An Indian track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw. He broke the world junior record and won India's first gold medal in 2016 World Junior Athletics Championships by throwing 86.48m.

MURALI SREESHANKAR

An Indian athlete who competes in the long jump event. He holds the national record of 8.26 metres set in 2021.

JABIR M PALLIAYLI

Ace athlete of the Indian Navy, MP Jabir, has qualified for the Tokyo Olympics in 400m hurdles. He qualified through the World ranking quota where there are 14 spots available.

TEJINDERPAL SINGH TOOR

An Indian shot putter who holds the outdoor national record of 21.49m. He is also among the top 100 longest throws in the world.

SHIVPAL SINGH

An Indian javelin thrower, he finished eighth at the 2018 Asian Games and won the silver medal at the 2019 Asian Championships.

KAMALPREET KAUR

An Indian women's discus thrower, she set a new national record of 65.06 metres where Olympic qualification benchmark is 63.5 metres.

DUTEE CHAND

A professional sprinter and current national champion in the women's 100 metres event. She is the first Indian to win a gold medal in 100m race in a global competition.

PRIYANKA GOSWAMI

An Indian track athlete who will compete in 20km race walk event, hails from Uttar Pradesh. She is the national record holder who won National Championship in 2017

BHAWANA JAT

An Indian racewalker who was the formar Indian national record holder for women's 20 kilometres race walk at 1 hour 29 minutes 54 seconds set in February 2020.

AVINASH SABLE

An Indian athlete who specializes in 3000 metres steeplechase and holds the national record of 8:20.21 set in 2021.

ANNU RANI

An Indian javelin thrower from Uttar Pradesh. She is the first Indian woman Javelin thrower to go beyond 60 metres and also reach the finals of the World Athletics Championships.

SEEMA PUNIA

An Indian discus thrower, she is the bronze medallist at the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games, booked her ticket for the Tokyo Olympic Games with a gold medal-winning throw of a 63.72m meters.

SANDEEP KUMAR

A male Indian racewalker, he competed in the 50 kilometres walk event at the 2015 World Championships and also participated in the 2016 Rio Olympics..

RAHUL ROHILLA

An Indian athlete who will take part in the 20km race walking event at the Tokyo Olympics

IRFAN KOLOTHUM THODI

Havildar Irfan Kolothum Thodi is an Indian athlete from Kerala, he participated on 2012 Olympics where he set the Indian national record in the 20 km walk with a timing of 1:20:21 and ranked 10th.

GURPREET SINGH

He qualified for the men's 50km race walk, he ranked 104 in the world in 50km race walk. He assured his participation in this month's Summer Games on the basis of his world ranking.

Muhammad Anas Yahiya, Noah Nirmal Tom, Amoj Jacob, Arokia Rajiv

The Indian men's 4x400m relay team for the olympic 2021. They enhanced chances of qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics with a 3:01.89 effort in the heats on the opening day of the National Inter-State Athletics Championships.

Sarthak Bhambri, Alex Antony, Revathi Veeramani, Subha Venkatesan, Dhanlakshmi Sekhar

The team qualified by virtue of entering the final of the relay competition at the IAAF World Championships in Doha.

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