Asian Games | List of India participants
Team India will take part in the forthcoming Asian Games 2023, which will take place in Hangzhou, China, from September 23 to October 8, 2023. The event which was originally scheduled to take place in 2022, will take place later in the year because of the Covid-19 pandemic in China.
Over 500 athletes in various disciplines have qualified for the championship, where India is a force to reckon with. In the last edition, India had over 570 competitors, who brought home 70 medals including 16 golds. SportsCafe take a look at all the athletes who have qualified for the prestigious event:
Archery
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.
Aquatics
Swimming
Aryan Nehra (Men’s 800m and 1500m freestyle)
Badminton
Men’s singles: HS Prannoy (Individual+Team), Kidambi Srikanth (Individual+Team), Lakshya Sen (Team), Mithun Manjunath (Team)
Women’s singles: PV Sindhu (Individual+Team), Ashmita Chaliha (Individual+Team), Anupama Upadhyaya (Team), Malvika Bansod (Team)
Men’s doubles: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty (Doubles +Team), Dhruv Kapila/MR Arjun (Doubles +Team)
Women’s doubles: Gayatri Gopichand/Treesa Jolly (Doubles +Team), Ashwini Ponnappa /Tanisha Crasto (Doubles+Team)
Mixed doubles: Rohan Kapoor /N Sikki Reddy (Doubles +Team), Sai Prateek K/Tanisha Crasto (Individual+Team)
Boxing
Nikhat Zareen (51 kg), Manisha Moun (57 kg), Jaismine Lamboria (60 kg), Lovlina Borgohain (69 kg), Saweety Boora (75 kg)
Bridge
Open: Jaggy Shivdasani, Sandeep Thakral, Rajeshwar Tiwari, Sumit Mukherjee, Raju Tolani, Ajay Khar
Women’s: Asha Sharma, Puja Batra, Alka Kshirsagar, Bharti Dey, Kalpana Gurjar, Vidya Patel
Mixed: Kiran Nadar, B Satyanarayana, Himani Khandelwal, Rajeev Khandelwal, Marianne Karmarkar, Sandeep Karmarkar
Equestrian
Dressage - Hriday Chheda
Individual eventing - Ashish Limaye, Raju Singh Bhadoriya, Apoorva Dabade, Vikas Kumar
Individual Jumping - Pranay Khare, Yashaan Khambatta, Zahaan Setalvad, Amar Sarin
Esports
FIFA Online 4: Charanjot Singh, Karman Singh Tikka
Street Fighter V: Champion Edition: Mayank Prajapati, Ayan Biswas
League of Legends: Akshaj Shenoy, Samarth Arvind Trivedi, Mihir Ranjan, Aditya Selvaraj, Aakash Shandilya, Sanindhya Malik
DOTA 2: Darshan, Krish, Abhishek, Ketan, Shubham
Fencing
Men
Individual épée: Sunil Kumar, Shankar Pandey
Team épée: Sunil Kumar, Shankar Pandey, Udayvir Singh, Sherjin R. S.
Individual foil: Arjun, Dev
Team foil: Arjun, Dev, Bibish Kathireshan, Akash Kumar
Individual Sabre: Karan Singh Gurjar, Gisho Kumaresan
Team Sabre: Karan Singh Gurjar, Gisho Kumaresan, Vishal Thapar, Abhay Shinde
Women
Individual épéee: Taniksha Khatri, Ena Arora
Team épéee: Taniksha Khatri, Ena Arora, Yashkeerat Kaur, Jyotika Dutta
Individual foil: Radhika Awati, Mariya Akshita
Team foil: Radhika Awati, Mariya Awati, V. P. Mahalakshmi, Jenisha N. V.
Individual sabre: C. A. Bhavani Devi, Jagmeet Kaur
Team sabre: C. A. Bhavani Devi, Jagmeet Kaur, Rishika Khujuria, Joshna Christy Jose
Golf
Men’s: Anirban Lahiri, Shubhankar Sharma, SSP Chawrasia, Khalin Joshi
Women’s: Aditi Ashok, Avani Prashanth, Pranavi Urs
Ju-Jitsu
Men
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
48 KG: Nanvya Pandey, Anwesha Deb
52 KG: Rohini Kalam, Anupama Swain
57 KG: Angitha Shyju, Nikita Choudhary
63 KG: Kiran Kumari, Annu
Karate
Kata
Men’s: Mesom Singhi
Women’s: Abab Sangdo
Kumite
Women’s: Johny Mangkhiya
Skateboarding
Nani Sonam, Urmila Padable, Aadya Aditi, Dhruvi Lakhotia
Sailing
IQFoil: Katya Ida Coelho
RS:X: Ishwariya Ganesh
Shooting
Trap
Men: Prithviraj Tondaiman, Kynan Chenai, Zoravar Singh Sandhu.
Women: Manisha Keer, Preeti Rajak, Rajeshwari Kumari.
Skeet
Men: Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Angad Vir Singh Bajwa, Gurjoat Singh Khangura.
Women: Ganemat Sekhon, Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Darsha Rathore.
Skeet Mixed team: Anantjeet Singh Naruka/Ganemat Sekhon and Angad Vir Singh Bajwa/Parinaaz Dhaliwal.
Squash
Men: Saurav Ghosal, Abhay Singh, Mahesh Mangaonkar, Harinderpal Singh Sandhu
Women: Joshna Chinappa, Dipika Pallikal Karthik, Anahat Singh, Tanvi Khanna
Tennis
Men’s: Rohan Bopanna, Sumit Nagal, Yuki Bhambri, Saketh Myneni, Mukund Sasikumar, Ramkumar Ramanathan
Women’s: Rutuja Bhosale, Ankita Raina, Karman Kaur Thandi, Prarthana Thombare, Vaidehi Chaudhari, Sahaja Yamlapalli
Triathlon
Pragnya Mohan