India At The 2023 Asian Games: A Look At The Athletes And Squads Who Have Qualified

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The 2023 Asian Games will be held in Hangzhou, China, from September 23 to October 8. The games were initially scheduled for 2022 but were postponed due to COVID-19. The 15-day event will feature 40 sports, and athletes from all over Asia will compete for top honours.

The games will feature 482 events in 40 sports, including newly added esports and breakdancing. Over 10,000 athletes from 45 countries are expected to compete. The opening ceremony will be held at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center, and the closing ceremony will be held at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Stadium. The mascot for the games is a panda named "Àihuā" (爱化), which means "lovely flower" in Chinese.

The Asian Games are the second largest multi-sport event in the world after the Olympic Games. They are a chance for athletes from all over Asia to compete in a variety of sports and showcase their talents to the world. The 2023 Asian Games are sure to be a major sporting event, and they are sure to produce some exciting competition.

The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has organised the Asian Games every four years since 1982. The Asian ...
... Games is a major continental multi-sport event that brings together athletes from all over Asia. The upcoming 2023 Asian Games will be the 19th edition of this prestigious event.

India at the Asian Games

India has a long and storied history at the Asian Games. The country has participated in every edition of the games since the inaugural event in 1951 and has won a total of 672 medals, including 155 golds. In recent years, Indian participation in the Asian Games has increased significantly. At the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, India sent a contingent of 570 athletes to compete in 36 different sports. This was the most prominent Indian contingent ever sent to the Asian Games.

India has a unique historical connection to the Asian Games. The country hosted the inaugural event in 1951 and finished second in the medal table behind Japan. India has also hosted the Asian Games on two other occasions, in 1982 and 1998.

India will be looking to improve their medal tally at the 2023 Asian Games. Their best finish was in 2018 when they won a total of 70 medals. India has won a total of 672 medals in the Asian Games, including 155 gold medals.

Asian Games
(Courtesy: Asian Games 2023/ OCA Twitter)

Here is a look at the Indian athletes and squads who have qualified for the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou (Will be updated as more players qualify):

Archery
Men - Tarundeep Rai, Neeraj Chauhan, Dhiraj Bommadevara, Atanu Das (Recurve); Ojas Deotale, Rajat Chauhan, Prathamesh Jawkar (Compound) Women - Aditi Jaiswal, Ankita Bhakat, Bhajan Kaur, Simranjeet Kaur (Recurve); Avneet Kaur, Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Aditi Swami, Sakshi Chaudhary (Compound)

Women - Aditi Jaiswal, Ankita Bhakat, Bhajan Kaur, Simranjeet Kaur (Recurve); Avneet Kaur, Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Aditi Swami, Sakshi Chaudhary (Compound)

Badminton
Men - HS Prannoy, Kidambi Srikanth, Lakshya Sen, Mithun Manjunath, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty, Dhruv Kapila/ MR Arjun, Rohan Kapoor, Sai Pratheek K Women - PV Sindhu, Ashmita Chaliha, Anupama Upadhyaya, Malvika Bansod, Gayatri Gopichand/Treesa Jolly, Ashwini Ponnappa, Tanisha Crasto, N Sikki Reddy

Women - PV Sindhu, Ashmita Chaliha, Anupama Upadhyaya, Malvika Bansod, Gayatri Gopichand/Treesa Jolly, Ashwini Ponnappa, Tanisha Crasto, N Sikki Reddy

Boxing
Men - Deepak Bhoria, Sachin Siwach, Shiva Thapa, Nishant Dev, Lakshya Chahar, Sanjeet, Narender Berwal

Women - Nikhat Zareen, Preeti Pawar, Parveen Hooda, Jaismine Lamboria, Arundhati Chaudhary, Lovlina Borgohain

Bridge

Men - Jaggy Shivdasani, Sandeep Thakral, Rajeshwar Tiwari, Sumit Mukherjee, Raju Tolani, Ajay Khare - Men Team

Women - Asha Sharma, Puja Batra, Alka Kshirsagar, Bharti Dey, Kalpana Gurjar, Vidya Patel - Women's Team

Mixed Team - Kiran Nadar, B Satyanarayana, Himani Khandelwal, Rajeev Khandelwal, Marianne Karmarkar, Sandeep Karmarkar

Chess
Men - Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, Gukesh D, Vidit Gujrathi, Arjun Erigaisi, Pentala Harikrishna

Women - Koneru Humpy, Harika Dronavalli, Vaishali Rameshbabu, Vantika Agrawal, Savitha Shri B

Cricket

Cricket has been featured in the Asian Games twice, in 2010 and 2014. Bangladesh won the men's gold medal in 2010, while Sri Lanka won in 2014. Pakistan won the women's gold medal in both editions. The sport was not included in the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta.

Indian men's cricket team: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rahul Tripathi, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma, Washington Sundar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan, Arshdeep Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Shivam Mavi, Shivam Dube, Prabhsimran Singh, Yash Thakur, Sai Kishore, Venkatesh Iyer, Deepak Hooda, Sai Sudarsan

Indian women's cricket team: Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh, Amanjot Kaur, Devika Vaidya, Anjali Sarvani, Titas Sadhu, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Minnu Mani, Kanika Ahuja, Uma Chetry, Anusha Bareddy, Harleen Deol, Kashvee Gautam, Sneh Rana, Saika Ishaque, Pooja Vastrakar

Diving

Men - Siddharth Bajrang Pardeshi, Heman London Singh

Equestrian

Anush Agarwalla, Hriday Chheda, Divyakirti Singh, Sudipti Hejala, Ashish Limaye, Raju Singh Bhadoria, Apoorva Dabade, Vikas Kumar, Pranay Khare, Yashaan Khambatta, Zahaan Setalvad, Amar Sarin

Esports

Charanjot Singh, Karman Singh Tikka, Mayank Prajapati, Ayan Biswas, Akshaj Shenoy, Samarth Arvind Trivedi, Mihir Ranjan, Aditya Selvaraj, Aakash Shandilya, Sanindhya Malik, Darshan, Krish, Abhishek, Ketan, Shubham

Fencing

Men - Sunil Kumar, Shankar Pandey, Udayvir Singh, Sherjin, Arjun, Dev, Bibish Kathireshan, Akash Kumar, Karan Singh Gurjar, Gisho Kumaresan, Vishal Thapar, Abhay Shinde

Women - Taniksha Khatri, Ena Arora, Yashkeerat Kaur, Jyotika Dutta, Radhika Awati, Mariya Akshita, V. P. Mahalakshmi, Jenisha, Bhavani Devi, Jagmeet Kaur, Rishika Khujuria, Joshna Christy Jose

Football
The men's football event at the Asian Games has been an under-23 competition since 2002, with each team allowed a maximum of three players over the age of 23.

The Indian men's football team has been drawn in Group A alongside hosts China, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.

India has won two gold medals (1951, 1962) and one bronze medal (1970) in the men's football event at the Asian Games. The 2023 Asian Games will be the 16th appearance of the Indian men's football team at the event.

Indian men's football team: Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, Gurmeet Singh, Dheeraj Singh Moirangthem, Sandesh Jhingan, Anwar Ali, Narender Gahlot, Lalchungnunga, Akash Mishra, Roshan Singh, Ashish Rai, Jeakson Singh Thounaojam, Suresh Singh Wangjam, Apuia Ralte, Amarjit Singh Kiyam, Rahul KP, Naorem Mahesh Singh, Siva Sakthi Narayanan, Rahim Ali, Aniket Jadhav, Vikram Partap Singh, Rohit Danu, Sunil Chhetri

Women's team TBA

Golf
Men - Anirban Lahiri, Shubhankar Sharma, Shiv Chawrasia, Khalin Joshi

Women - Aditi Ashok, Avani Prashanth, Pranavi Urs

Gymnastics
Men - Yogeshwar Singh, Rakesh Patra, Tapan Mohanty, Gaurav Kumar, Satyajit Mondal

Women - Dipa Karmakar, Pranati Das, Pranati Nayak, Protistha Samanta

Handball
Indian women's handball team TBA

Hockey
Indian men’s hockey team TBA

Indian women’s hockey team TBA

Ju-Jitsu
Men - Kamal Singh, Tarun Yadav, Siddharth Singh, Akshat Sahu, Anniruddha Verma, Vinod Rana, Amarjeet Singh, Uma Maheshwar Reddy

Women - Nanvya Pandey, Anwesha Deb, Rohini Kalam, Anupama Swain, Angitha Shyju, Nikita Choudhary, Kiran Kumari, Annu - Women’s 63kg

Karate
Men - Mesom Singhi

Women - Abab Sangdo, Johny Mangkhiya

Rowing
Men - Balraj Panwar, Satnam Singh, Parminder Singh, Jakar Khan, Sukhmeet Singh, Arvind Singh, Arjun Lal Jat, Babu Lal Yadav, Lekh Ram, Jaswinder Singh, Bheem Singh, Punit Kumar, Ashish, Neeraj, Naresh Kalwaniya, Neetesh Kumar, Charanjeet Singh, DU Pande

Women - Kiran, Anshika Bharti, Aswathi P.B, Mrunamayee Nilesh S, Thangjam Priya Devi, Rukmani, Sonali Swain, Ritu Kaudi, Varsha K.B., H Tendenthoi Devi, G Geetanjali

Rugby
Women’s Team TBA

Sailing
Men - Chitresh Tatha, Adhvait Menon, Vishnu Saravanan, Jerome Kumar, Ebad Ali, K. C. Ganapathy, Varun Thakkar, Sudhanshu Shekhar

Women - Katya Ida Coelho, Ishwariya Ganesh, Neha Thakur, Nethra Kumanan, Harshita Tomar, Ramya Sarvanan, Kiran Doiphode, Preethi Kongara

Sepak Takraw
Indian men's sepak takraw team (quadrant and regu) TBA

Indian women's sepak takraw team (quadrant and regu) TBA

Shooting
Men - Divyansh Singh Panwar, Rudrankksh Patil, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Akhil Sheoran, Swapnil Kusale, Sarabjot Singh, Shiva Narwal, Arjun Singh Cheema, Anish Bhanwala, Vijayveer Sidhu, Adarsh Singh, Prithviraj Toindaman, Kynan Chenai, Zoravar Singh Sandhu, Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Angad Vir Singh Bajwa, Gurjoat Singh Khangura

Women - Ramita, Mehuli Ghosh, Ashi Chouksey, Sift Kaur Samra, Manini Kaushik, Divya T.S., Esha Singh, Palak Gulia, Rhythm Sangwan, Manu Bhaker, Manisha Keer, Preeti Rajak, Rajeshwari Kumari, Ganemat Sekhon, Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Darsha Rathore

Skateboarding
Women - Nani Sonam, Urmila Padable, Aadya Aditi, Dhruvi Lakhotia

Squash
Men - Saurav Ghosal, Abhay Singh, Mahesh Mangaonkar, Harinderpal Singh Sandhu

Women - Joshna Chinappa, Dipika Pallikal Karthik, Anahat Singh, Tanvi Khanna

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