Indian Table Tennis @ Tokyo2020

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Table Tennis! Demands quick reflexes and hand-eye co-ordination. In Tokyo there are 5 events. 

India has 4 athletes participating in 3 events.

Sharath Kamal - Men's Singles, Mixed Doubles

Sathiyan Gnanasekaran - Men's Singles

Manika batra - Women's Singles, Mixed Doubles

Sutirtha Mukherjee - Women's Singles

Sharath competing his 3rd olympics,Manika into her 2nd olympic, Sathiyan is the first ever Indian Paddler to broke into top 25 in rankings and Sutirtha are into their first olympics.

Schedule:

Men’s singles round 2 (Bye on round 1) 

• Sharath - 26 July 2021 7:30 AM IST
• Sathiyan - 25 July 2021 1:30 PM IST

Women’s singles round 1

• Manika - 24 July 2021 12:30 PM IST
• Sutirtha - 24 July 2021 01:00 PM IST    

Mixed doubles round of 16 – 24 July 2021 8:30 AM IST

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Indian Wrestling @ Tokyo2020

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Wrestling! Has been a India's Saviour in last 3 Olympics! Till now we have won 5 medals in olympics. Second highest number of medals in India's Olympics Tally after our dominace in Hockey.

Shushil Kumar, Silver and Bronze medalist in Olympics London and Beijing respectively, made wresling popular in India. Yogeshwar Dutt, London2012, Bronze Medalist carried the legacy in Mens category. Now there is a huge hope on Bajrang Punia

In Women's category we have notable names like Geeta Phogat, Babita Kumari in Commonwealth and Asian Games. But Sakshi Malik becomes the first indian women wrestler to win bronze in olympics. She did it in Rio2016. In Tokyo we have huge hopes on Vinesh Phogat as she is in prime form. She finished 10th in Rio2016. She is the top seed in her category.

We have 18 events in Tokyo. But we have qualified only for 7 events.

Men's Team

Ravi Kumar Dahiya - 57Kg

Bajrang Punia - 65Kg

Deepak Punia - 86Kg

Women's Team

Seema Bisla -50Kg

Vinesh Phogat -53Kg

Anshu Malik - 57Kg

Sonam Malik - 62Kg

Lets hope even this time wrestling keeps us in Medals Tally!

Schedule:

4th August 2021

Wrestling – Men’s 57kg freestyle round of 16, quarterfinals, semifinals – 8:00 ISTonwards

Wrestling – Men’s 86kg freestyle round of 16, quarterfinals, semifinals – 8:00 IST onwards

Wrestling – Women’s 57kg freestyle round of 16, quarterfinals, semifinals – 8:00 IST onwards

5th August 2021

Wrestling – Men’s 57kg freestyle repechage, final – 7:30 IST onwards

Wrestling – Men’s 86kg freestyle repechage, final – 7:30 IST onwards

Wrestling – Women’s 57kg freestyle repechage, final – 7:30 IST onwards

Wrestling – Women’s 53kg freestyle round of 16, quarterfinals, semifinals – 8:00 IST onwards

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Indian Weightlifting @ Tokyo2020

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Lets see about Weightlifting! There are 14 events in Tokyo2020. India had qualified in only one event.

Saikhom Mirabai Chanu, Commentwealth Gold medalist, World Championship Gold medalist is the only contigent for India in weightlifting. She competes in 48Kg category. She had finished 6th in Rio2016 snatch!

We had won a bronze in SydneyOlympics in 2000 by Karnam Malleshwari, First Indian Women Olympic Medalist.

Saikhom will try to finish in podium this time! 

Schedule:

24th July 2021

Weightlifting – Women’s 49kg – 10:20 AM IST

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Indian Tennis @ Tokyo2020

Hello,

Tennis is one of the most happening and followed sport all over the world.Thanks to likes of Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Djokovic! Rafa and Federer are not participating in Tokyo!

In olympics 5 events are conducted. Men's Singles, Doubles ,Women's Singles, Doubles and Mixed doubles.

Leander paes won a Bronze in Atlanta 1996 olympics. After that he and Mahesh Bhupathy came close on double in Athens2004 finished 4th. 

India had qualified for 2 events in Tokyo. Team below,

Sumit Nagal - Men's Singles

Sania Mirza and Ankita Raina - Women's Doubles

Sania Mirza, former Indian women's no1 pairs up with current Indian women's no1. Sania trying her luck in her 4th olympics and Ankita entering into her maiden olympics.

Sumit, currently highest ranked Indian entering his maiden olympics. He came into limelight when he faced Roger federer in 2019 US Open 1st round. He won a first set against Federer. He got a chance since many withdrawn due to pandemic and injuries.

Rohan Boppana, well know in Indian tennis, failed to make a cut. He had accused Indian Tennis body on this. Whatever, but we missed a sure medal shot.

Whaaattt???If this is true then it's absolutely ridiculous and shameful..by this it also means that we have sacrificed a very good shot at a medal in the mixed doubles if you and I would have played as planned. We were both told that you and sumit's names hav been given .. https://t.co/h3fGkK0im8

— Sania Mirza (@MirzaSania) July 19, 2021

Schedule:

July 24th and 25th July 2021

Men’s singles round one – Sumit Nagal vs Denis Istomin (Uzbekistan)

Women’s doubles round one – Sania Mirza & Ankita Raina vs Liudmyla Kichenok & Nadiia Kichenok (Ukraine)

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Indian Swimming @ Tokyo2020

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Swimming is the sport which has more Gold medals to loot. Any guesses? 37 Gold medals next to atheltics which offers 48.

Medals in swimming gonna determine the top of the table along with athletics. Out of 37 events, India is gonna participate in 5 events. We are sending 3 athlets, 2nd largest after 2008 which is 4.

Srihari Natarajan - Men's 100m Backstroke

Sajan Prakash - Men's 100m Butterfly, Men's 200m Butterfly and Men's 200m Freestyle

Maana Patel - Women's 100m Backstroke

Srihari and Sajan earned FINA A grade qualification for olympics. These 2 are the only now qualified with A grade from India.

Schedule:
Women's 100m Backstroke  Heats-25th July 2021 Evening session
Men's 200m Freestyle Heats - 25th July 2021 Evening Session
Men's100m Backstroke Heats - 25th July 2021 Evening session
Men's 200m Butterfly Heats - 26 July 2021 Evening session
Men's 100m Butterfly Heats - 29th July 2021 Evening session

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Indian Sailing @ Tokyo2020

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Saling is a very challenging sport in sea. It demands skills and determination in a ever changing water. There are about 10 events in Tokyo2020!

We are competing in 3 events!

1.Vishnu Saravanan - Men's Laser Event

2. K.C Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar - Men's 49er Event

3. Nethra Kumanan - Women's Laser Radial Event

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Lets hope India Sails better!!

Schedule:

25th and 26th July - Men's and Women's Laser heats

27th July - Men's 49er

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Indian Rowing @ Tokyo2020

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Lets see about Rowing. It is a racing sport using boats and ores. In Tokyo there are 14 medal events.

From India we have qualified only for Men's Lightweight Doubles sculls. We have a experienced rowers Arjun Lal and Arvind Singh competing for India at international levels. 

Both of are serving Indian Army!

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Schedule:

Heats : 24th July 2021

Repechage: 25th July 2021 (Repechage is best placed losers in heats will compete) 

Final : 29th July 2021

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Indian Judo @ Tokyo2020

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How many of you know what is JUDO? It is Japanese Maritial art. Have a look at this link - Click here, explains in a minute.

Number of events conducted in Tokyo is 15. But India is up on only one.

We have a another lone warrior comepeting in Judo. Sushila Devi Likmabam. She is a Silver medalist in Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2014.

She is competing in Women's Extra-Light Weight (48KG) category. A podium in Judo will change the face on Judo in India. 

Schedule:

24th July 2021

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Indian Hockey @ Tokyo2020

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Let see about a sport in which India won more Gold in Olympics. Field Hockey, National game of India!

Indian Mens hockey team won 11 medal including 8 golds. India had won more medals in hockey than any other team in olympics. But the sad part is last medal won in 1980 😔

In Tokyo both Mens and Womens team are competing!

Men's Team:

Indian team currently ranks 4th in the world. Manpreet Singh, leading Indians hope.

No. Pos. Player

2 FW Dilpreet Singh
3 DF Rupinder Pal Singh
6 DF Surender Kumar
7 MF Manpreet Singh
8 MF Hardik Singh
9 FW Gurjant Singh
11 FW Mandeep Singh
13 DF Harmanpreet Singh
14 FW Lalit Upadhyay
16 GK P. R. Sreejesh
17 MF Sumit
18 MF Nilakanta Sharma
21 FW Shamsher Singh
26 DF Birendra Lakra
30 DF Amit Rohidas
32 MF Vivek Prasad 

Schedule:

Women's Team:

In Rio2016 Women's team finsihed 12th. Rani Rampal captains in Tokyo. This is 3rd time Indian women,s team had qualified for Olympics.

No. Pos. Player

1 MF Navjot Kaur

2 DF Gurjit Kaur

3 DF Deep Grace Ekka

4 MF Monika Malik

6 DF Reena Khokhar

7 FW Sharmila Devi

8 DF Nikki Pradhan

11 GK Savita Punia

15 MF Nisha Warsi

16 FW Vandana Katariya

18 DF Udita Duhan

19 MF Namita Toppo

20 FW Lalremsiami

25 FW Navneet Kaur

27 MF Sushila Chanu

28 FW Rani Rampal(C)

30 MF Salima Tete

32 MF Neha Goyal

Schedule:

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Indian Gymnastics @ Tokyo2020

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Indian Gymnastics has a new name Pranati Nayak. She is a lone warrior for India in gymnastics.

In Tokyo2020 gymnastics are conducted in three categories, Artistic, Rhythmic and Trampolining,

Pranati is competing in Artistic category.

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There is a another name in gymnastic but he in Tokyo2020 as a judge. So no medal hope😉. His name is Deepak kabra, he is the first Indian Gymnastic judge.

Huge miss for Tokyo is Dipa Karmakar was a lone warrior in Rio2016. She finished 4th in valut in Rio2016. She missed this olympics due to 2 major factors, constant injury and covid. latter is most common.

Schedule:

25th July 2021.

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Indian Golf @ Tokyo2020

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For our generation Golf is nothing but Tiger woods! But he doesnt have a Olympic medal to his name.

Since it was included in Rio2016, after 1904. He was suffered from injury in 2016. Even this time in Tokyo he is unfortunate to miss! But USA leading in medals tally and sending a big team!

From India, 3 are contesting in Tokyo2020,

• Anirban Lahiri-Men's Individual
• Udayan Mane-Men's Individual
• Aditi Ashok-Women's Individual

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Aditi and Anirban, competing their second olympics. Udayan in his first olympics. Looking to make India Proud.

Schedule:

Men's events starts on 29th July 2021

Women's event starts on 4th Aug 2021

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Indian Fencing @ Tokyo2020

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Fencing! Yes, it is a combat sport, had it origin from traditional swordmanship. It is one of the 5 activities features in every mordern olympics!

Tokyo2020 will feature 12 events, across 3 discipline (Foil, Eppe, Sabre) for both Men and Women. Involes Individual and Team event!

CA Bhavani Devi, the First Indian to qualify for the olympics!

Bhavani will compete in individual sabre event.

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Overall Italy had won more medals at olympics at fencing. But in Rio2016 Russia had won more!

Lets, hope Bhavani to bring a medal, to make the sport popular across India!

Schedule:

26th July 2021 9AM Japan Time, Bhavani will contest on Individual Sabre

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Indian Equestrian @ Tokyo2020

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Many of us may not know this sport by name Equestrian😅, it is the only sport in olympics involves animals. Now you might have guessed it (horse riding) not exactly.

50 nations are competing in this in Tokyo2020. It contains both individual and team events.

Unfortunatley India competing on individual event, that too in only on Eventing( total 3 disciplines Dressage,Eventing,Juming)

Fouaad Mirza, representing India for the 1st time 2 decades and 3rd time overall.

Dajraa 4, Name of the horse Fouaad picked as his partner for his maiden olympics! let hope for a good show and increase the popularity of the sport in India!

Schedule:

29th July 2021

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Indian Boxing @ Tokyo2020

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Lets see about Boxing! India had won 2 medals in boxing in past. But boxing foundations are getting stronger every year. Vijiender was seen as a nation hero when he won Bronze in Beijing2008! Many kids lookedup to him.

One in Beijing2008 by Vijender Singh and another by Mary Kom in London2012!

Mary Kom is an inspiration! She is a mother of 3 sons and adopted a girl, but she never givenup, competing for a nation again. She is a champion lady competing in International level from 2001.Won 19 medals including 13 Gold!

We have strong team this time! 13 gold medals to hunt, but India will contest in 5 men's and 4 women's so, total 9 categories.

Indian Men will contest in below weight categories: 

Flyweight (52kg) - Amit Panghal

Lightweight (63kg) - Manish Kaushik

Welterweight (69kg) - Vikas Krishan Yadav

Middleweight (75kg) - Ashish Kumar

Super heavyweight (+91kg) - Satish Kumar

Women will contest in below weight categories:

Flyweight (51kg) - Mary Kom

Lightweight (60kg) - Simranjith Kaur

Welterweight (69kg) - Lovlina Borgohain

Middleweight (75kg) - Pooja Rani

All eyes on Mary Kom to repeat the heroics London and better her medal. Vikas krishan the experienced campainer missed out a bronze in Rio2016

Schedule:

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Indian Badminton @ Tokyo2020

Hello!

Today let see a sport which won us 2 medal in till now! Its Badmiton! Saina Nehwal, won us a Bronze in Beijing2008, eight years later P.V Sindhu, betters the color to Silver!

This time Saina had missed-out due to ranking and qualfiying events are conducted less than normal. Another important players who missed out are Kidambi Srikanth, Sikki Reddy, Ashwini Ponnappa

As Carolina Marin defending champion is out of Tokyo2020 due to injury, as our hope raises on Sindhu to better her medal.

Sindhu lost Gold to Marin in Rio2016.

Badmiton Team for Tokyo2020!

PV Sindhu, Women's Singles

Sai praneeth, Men's Single

Men's Doubles:

Satwiksai Raj Rankireddy

Chirag Shetty

Schedule:

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Lets hope to win a medal in badmiton this time to make it 3 in a row! 

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Indian Corner @ Tokyo2020

 Hello,

Yes today, lets see about Indian participation in Tokyo Olympics! 

Any guesses, how many sports India is competing? Its Only 18 out of 33 sports in Tokyo, click on the link to know more!

1. Archery
2. Athletics
3. Badminton
4. Boxing
5. Equestrain
6. Fencing
7. Golf
8. Gymnastics
9. Hockey
10. Judo
11. Rowing
12. Sailing
13. Shooting
14. Swimming
15. Table Tennis
16. Tennis
17. Weightlifting
18. Wrestling

Total of 127 are competing from India. Hoping to better our medal tally.

Mary Kom,2012 London Bronze medalist in Boxing and Manpreet Singh, Captain of Indian Hockey team, will be the flag bearers for the opening cremony parade

Bajrang Punia, Wreslter will be the flag bearer for closing cremony

There is an official anthem relased for Indian contigents,

Checkout this tweet, there is gonna be another legend step in to support India @Tokyo2020

New Sports @ Tokyo2020 and Medal Tally till now !!

Hello!

In the previous post we saw number of countries up for this Tokyo Olympics! Now its time to know about how many events are going to be conducted in Tokyo!

Events were approved by IOC on June 2017.

With lot of speculations of droping Wrestling from Tokyo Olympics 2020, finally it has been included after rules change and with addtion of womens competition in 2016 olympics.

No of Sports,events in last 2 olympics and Tokyo2020

• London2012 - 26 Sports with 302 events*
• Rio2016 - 28 Sports with 306 events (Newly added Golf and Rugby Sevens)
• Tokyo2020 - 33 Sports with 339 events

5 new sports are added in Tokyo (baseball/softball, karate, sport climbing, surfing, and skateboarding)

*Events = No of Golds, As simple as that 339 Golds are in hunt for athelets

All time Olympic Medals Tally

Rank	Team	Total games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	27	1022	795	706	2523
2	Germany *	24	428	444	474	1346
3	Soviet Union #	10	440	357	325	1122
4	Great Britain	28	263	295	293	851
5	France	28	212	241	263	716
6	Italy	27	206	178	193	577
7	China	10	224	167	155	546
8	Australia	26	147	163	187	497
9	Sweden	27	145	170	179	494
10	Hungary	26	175	147	169	491

* Combining the result of USSR and 1992 unified Team

#Combining the result of Germany, East Germany, West Germany and the United Team of Germany

Facts:

• India ranked @ 53rd along with Colombia and Slovakia
• China had moved up so quickly after they hosted in Beijing in 2008
• Monoco had attended most games without a medal (20 Olympics)
• Malaysia had won most medals without gold (0 gold, 7 silver, 4 bronze)

Refernces:

2020_Summer_Olympics

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