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Rio Olympics 2016: Full list of India's 120-member contingent

India is set to send its largest ever contingent of 120* athletes for the Olympics 2016 to be held in carnival city of Rio de Janerio, Brazil, from August 5 to 21. Certainly, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) is euphoric about India's chances of improving its medal tally of six at London Olympics in 2012. Though two Indian athletes have courted controversy just before the big games after failing the dope tests conducted by national doping agency, NADA, it shouldn't affect the morale of the entire contingent. The Chef de Mission for the Indian contingent is Rakesh Gupta. Here is the full list of 120 athletes:   Archery (4) Men's individual
  • Atanu Das
Women's individual
  • Bombayla Devi
  • Deepika Kumari
  • Laxmirani Majhi
Women's team
  • Deepika Kumari
  • Bombayla Devi
  • Laxmirani Majhi
  Track and Field (36) Men 200 m
  • Dharambir Singh
400 m
  • Mohammad Anas
800 m
  • Jinson Johnson
4 × 400 m relay
  • Mohammad Anas
  • Ayyasamy Dharun
  • Mohan Kumar
  • Sumit Kumar
  • Mohammed Kunhi
  • Arokia Rajiv
Marathon
  • Thonakal Gopi
  • Kheta Ram
  • Nitender Singh Rawat
20km walk
  • Manish Singh
  • Gurmeet Singh
  • Ganapathi Krishnan
  • 50km walk
  • Sandeep Kumar
  • Manish Singh
Long jump
  • Ankit Sharma
Triple jump
  • Renjith Maheshwary
Shot put
  • Inderjeet Singh*
Discus throw
  • Vikas Gowda
  Women 100 m
  • Dutee Chand
200 m
  • Srabani Nanda
400 m
  • Nirmala Sheoran
800 m
  • Tintu Luka
3000 m steeplechase
  • Lalita Babar
  • Sudha Singh
4 × 400 m relay
  • Ashwini Akkunji
  • Debashree Majumdar
  • Jisna Mathew
  • MR Poovamma
  • Nirmala Sheoran
  • Anilda Thomas
Marathon
  • OP Jaisha
  • Kavita Raut
20 km walk
  • Khushbir Kaur
  • Sapna Punia
Shot put
  • Manpreet Kaur
Discus throw
  • Seema Antil
    Badminton (7) Men's Singles
  • Srikanth Kidambi
Men's Doubles
  • Manu Attri
  • B. Sumeeth Reddy
  Women's Singles
  • Saina Nehwal
  • Pusarla Sindhu
Women's Doubles
  • Jwala Gutta
  • Ashwini Ponnappa
  Boxing (3) Bantamweight
  • Shiva Thapa
Light welterweight                                                                                        
  • Manoj Kumar
Middleweight
  • Vikas Krishan Yadav
  Field Hockey (32) Men
  • Surender Kumar
  • Danish Mujtaba
  • VR Raghunath
  • Akashdeep Singh
  • Chinglensana Singh
  • Harmanpreet Singh
  • Kothajit Singh
  • Manpreet Singh
  • Ramandeep Singh
  • Rupinder Pal Singh
  • Sardara Singh
  • PR Sreejesh (C & GK)
  • SV Sunil
  • Nikkin Thimmaiah
  • SK Uthappa
  • Devinder Walmiki
  • Roelant Oltmans (Head coach)
Women
  • Savita Punia (GK)
  • Deep Grace Ekka
  • Deepika Thakur
  • Namita Toppo
  • Sunita Lakra
  • Sushila Chanu (C)
  • Lilima Minz
  • Renuka Yadav
  • Nikki Pradhan
  • Monika Malik
  • Navjot Kaur
  • Anuradha Devi
  • Poonam Rani
  • Vandana Kataria
  • Preeti Dubey
  • Rani Rampal
  • Neil Hawgood (Head coach)
  Golf (3) Men
  • SSP Chawrasia
  • Anirban Lahiri
Women
  • Aditi Ashok
  Gymnastics (1) Artistic
  • Dipa Karmakar
  Judo (1) Men
  • Avtar Singh (90 kg)
  Rowing (1) Men's single sculls
  • Dattu Baban Bhokanal
  Shooting (12) Men
  • Abhinav Bindra (10 m air rifle)
  • Kynan Chenai (Trap)
  • Mairaj Ahmad Khan (Skeet)
  • Prakash Nanjappa (50 m pistol)
  • Gagan Narang (10 m air rifle, 50 m rifle prone, 50 m rifle 3 positions)
  • Jitu Rai (10 m air pistol, 50 m pistol)
  • Chain Singh (50 m rifle prone, 50 m rifle 3 positions)
  • Gurpreet Singh (10 m air pistol, 25 m rapid fire pistol)
  • Manavjit Singh Sandhu (Trap)
Women
  • Apurvi Chandela (10 m air rifle)
  • Ayonika Paul (10 m air rifle)
  • Heena Sidhu (10 m air pistol, 25 m pistol)
  Swimming (2) Men
  • Sajan Prakash (200 m butterfly)
Women
  • Shivani Kataria (200 m freestyle)
  Table tennis (4) Men's singles
  • Sharath Kamal
  • Achanta Soumyajit
Women's singles
  • Manika Batra
  • Mouma Das
  Tennis (4) Men's doubles
  • Rohan Bopanna
  • Leander Paes
Women's doubles
  • Sania Mirza
  • Prarthana Thombare
Mixed doubles
  • Sania Mirza
  • Rohan Bopanna
  Weightlifting (2) Men's
  • Sathish Sivalingam (77 kg)
Women's
  • Saikhom Mirabai Chanu                (48 kg)
  Wrestling (8) Men's freestyle
  • Sandeep Tomar (57 kg)
  • Yogeshwar Dutt (65 kg)
  • Narsingh Yadav* (74 kg)
Men's Greco-Roman
  • Ravinder Khatri (85 kg)
  • Hardeep Singh (98 kg)
Women's freestyle
  • Vinesh Phogat (48 kg)
  • Babita Kumari (53 kg)
  • Sakshi Malik (58 kg)
  *Athletes tested positive by NADA. Fate uncertain.
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