Indian Shooting @ Tokyo2020

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Shooting! Indian shooting team has been always expected win medal at olympics. But we had only won 4 medals till now. Only gold other than hockey in India's overall medals tally is from shooting. Abhinav bhindra, won in Men's 10 m Air Rifle in Beijing2008.

Other Olympic medalists are Rajyavardhan Rathore - Silver,Athens2004, Vijay kumar - Silver,London2012, Gagan Narag- Bronze,London2012

We had sent a team of 11 to Rio2016, now to Tokyo 15 are shooting for India.

There are 15 Gold medals to shoot in Tokyo. But we are aiming only 10. 

This is the largest Indian shooting contingent at the Olympic Games, and probably the most prolific too with multiple current and former world No 1 and World Cup gold medallists. They are a largely young side, with all but four on their first Olympics campaign. 

Team:

Anjum Moudgil, 10m Women’s Air Rifle

Apurvi Chandela, 10m Women’s Air Rifle

Divyansh Singh Panwar, 10m Men’s Air Rifle

Deepak Kumar, 10m Men’s Air Rifle

Tejaswini Sawant, 50m Women’s Rifle 3 Position

Sanjeev Rajput, 50m Men’s Rifle 3 Position

Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar, 50m Men’s Rifle 3 Position

Manu Bhaker, 10m Women’s Air Pistol

Yashaswini Singh Deswal, 10m Women’s Air Pistol

Saurabh Chaudhary, 10m Men’s Air Pistol

Abhishek Verma, 10m Men’s Air Pistol

Rahi Sarnobat, 25m Women’s Pistol

Elavenil Valarivan, 25m Women’s Pistol 

Angad Veer Singh Bajwa, Men’s Skeet

Mairaj Ahmad Khan, Men’s Skeet

Schedule:

24th July 2021

Women’s 10m air rifle qualification, final – 5:00, 7:15 IST

Men’s 10m air pistol qualification, final – 9:30, 12:00 IST

25th July 2021

Women’s 10m air pistol qualification, final – 5:30, 7:45 IST

Men’s 10m air rifle qualification, final – 9:30, 12:00 IST

Men’s skeet qualification – 6:00 IST

26th July 2021

Men’s skeet final – 12:20 IST

27th July 2021

Mixed 10m air pistol team qualification, bronze medal match, final – 5:30 IST onwards

Mixed 10m air rifle team qualification, final – 9:45 IST onwards

29th July 2021

Women’s 25m pistol precision qualification – 5:30 IST

30th July 2021

Women’s 25m pistol rapid qualification, final – 5:30 IST onwards

31st July 2021

Women’s 50m rifle 3 positions qualification, final – 8:30 IST onwards

2nd August 2021

Men’s 50m rifle 3 positions qualification, final – 8:00 IST onwards

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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 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 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 Badminton @ Tokyo2020

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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:

Click here for the schedule.

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

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Indian Athletics @ Tokyo2020

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Athletics has never been India's cup of tea. Its more than 121 years to be exact since we won medal in athletics in Olympics.

Norman Pritchard won Silver in both Men's 200 Metres and Men's 200 Metres Hurdles in Paris 1900. Those are the only medals which is on India's name in Athletics.

We had many legends Milkha Singh, PT Usha, Anju Bobby George who tried to make us proud in Asian Games and Commentwealth games. Hima Das is a promising sprinter coundn't qualify as she struggled through injuries.

This time Indian athletics have given us hope with the raise of Neeraj Chopra, Shivpal Singh.

Total of 26 member competing from India, hopefully we will open our medal account this time.

Athletic Team with their Instagram link! Follow and Support them!!

KT Irfan, Men's 20km race walking

Sandeep Kumar, Men's 20km race walking

Rahul Rohilla, Men's 20km race walking

Gurpreet Singh, Men's 50km race walking

Bhawna Jat, Women's 20km race walking

Priyanka Goswami, Women's 20km race walking

Avinash Sable, Men's 3000m steeplechase

Murali Sreeshankar, Men's long jump

MP Jabir, Men's 400m hurdles

Neeraj Chopra, Men's javelin throw

Shivpal Singh, Men's javelin throw

Annu Rani, Women's javelin throw

Tajinderpal Singh Toor, Men's shot put

Dutee Chand, Women's 100m and 200m

Kamalpreet Kaur, Women's discus throw

Seema Punia, Women's discus throw

4x400 Mixed Relay

Sarthark bhambri

Alex Anthony

Shuba venkatesan

Revathi Veeramani

Dhanalakshmi Sekar

Men's 4x400m Relay

Muhammed Anas Yahiya

Noah Nirmal Tom

Amoj Jacob

Arokia Rajiv

Naganathan Pandian

Atheltics starting on 30th July 2021 to 8th August 2021!

India’s athletics campaign begins with discus throwers Kamalpreet Kaur and Seema Punia on 31 July 2021

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Indian Archery @ Tokyo2020

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Archery is an interesting sport for India, because it always does well world cup, tops the recent world cup (2021_Archery_World_Cup) but fails in Olympics. This time 4 contigents will aim for India @ Tokyo

Till now India had never won a medal in Olympics, hopefully luck shines for Deepika Kumari, current world number 1 and Triple gold medalist in recent Archery World Cup and her husband Atanu Das.

Hopefull the young couple will aim for BullEye @ Tokyo2020

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Also a veteren Tarundeep Rai competing his last olympics, will look to give his best shot.

We are competing in Men's Individual, Women's Individual,Mixed Team, Men's Team. Unfortunately, Women's Team dint qualify😔

Indian Archery Team for Tokyo2020, Click on the hyperlink for Instagram profiles and follow them, lets #cheer4india, why always crickter, footballers should have more follower and get paid enourmaously for a single post.

Tarundeep Rai, Men’s Recurve

Atanu Das, Men’s Recurve

Pravin Jadhav, Men’s Recurve

Deepika Kumari, Women's Recurve, Individual and Mixed Team

The men's trio will also compete as a team at Tokyo 2020.

Archery Schedule (JST) :

Japan (JST) is 3:30 hrs ahead of India (IST )

(9AM Japan time is 5:30 AM Indian Time)

Date and Time: Fri 23 July 9:00 – 11:00
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Women’s Individual Ranking Round

Date and Time: Fri 23 July 13:00 – 15:00
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Men’s Individual Ranking Round

Date and Time: Sat 24 July 9:30 – 12:05

Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Mixed Team 1/8 Eliminations

Date and Time: Sat 24 July 14:15 – 17:25
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Mixed Team Quarterfinals
Mixed Team Semifinals
Mixed Team Bronze Medal Match
Mixed Team Gold Medal Match
Mixed Team Victory Ceremony

Date and Time: Mon 26 July 9:30 – 11:05
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Men’s Team 1/8 Eliminations

Date and Time: Mon 26 July 13:45 – 17:25
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Men’s Team Quarterfinals
Men’s Team Semifinals
Men’s Team Bronze Medal Match
Men’s Team Gold Medal Match
Men’s Team Victory Ceremony

Date and Time: Tue 27 July 9:30 – 13:25
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Men’s Individual 1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations
Women’s Individual 1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations

Date and Time: Tue 27 July 16:00 – 19:55
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Men’s Individual 1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations
Women’s Individual 1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations

Date and Time: Wed 28 July 9:30 – 13:25
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Men’s Individual 1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations
Women’s Individual 1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations

Date and Time: Wed 28 July 16:00 – 18:40
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Men’s Individual 1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations
Women’s Individual 1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations

Date and Time: Thu 29 July 9:30 – 13:25
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Men’s Individual 1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations
Women’s Individual 1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations

Date and Time: Thu 29 July 16:00 – 18:40
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Men’s Individual 1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations
Women’s Individual 1/32 & 1/16 Eliminations

Date and Time: Fri 30 July 9:30 – 11:15
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Women’s Individual 1/8 Eliminations

Date and Time: Fri 30 July 14:45 – 17:20
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Women’s Individual Quarterfinals
Women’s Individual Semifinals
Women’s Individual Bronze Medal Match
Women’s Individual Gold Medal Match
Women’s Individual Victory Ceremony

Date and Time: Sat 31 July 9:30 – 11:15
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Men’s Individual 1/8 Eliminations

Date and Time: Sat 31 July 14:45 – 17:20
Venues: Yumenoshima Park Archery Field
Men’s Individual Quarterfinals
Men’s Individual Semifinal
Men’s Individual Bronze Medal Match
Men’s Individual Gold Medal Match
Men’s Individual Victory Ceremony

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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