Indians In Tokyo Olympics 2020; Manpreet Singh, Mary Kom to be India’s Flag Bearers for Opening Ceremony of Tokyo Olympics 2020

MC Mary Kom, a legendary boxer; and Manpreet Singh, a captain from Indian Men’s hockey team; stated on Monday that they will be the flag bearers. During the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony. MC Mary Kom and Manpreet Singh are both famous Indian sports players. Within their own sports category and are to be the flag bearers in the Tokyo Olympic opening ceremony. They will lead the Indians In Tokyo Olympics 2020.

However, a flag bearer for the closing ceremony on August 8 will be hosted by one of India’s greatest hopes this year in Wrestling, Bajrang Punia. The decision was notified evidently to the Games Organizing Committee by the Indian Olympic Association (IOA). Undoubtedly, in the next Tokyo Games India will have two flag bearers — one male and one female — to ensure “gender equality.”

While at the opening of the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Games, the country’s lone individual Olympic gold medalist, Abhinav Bindra, became the flag-bearer.

The Tokyo Games will start on 23 July and over 100 Indian competitors will take to a podium at the display that has been postponed by one year because of the COVID-19 epidemic.

The Following are some of the Names of the Selected Indians in Tokyo Olympics 2020

Archery

#NameCategory
1Tarundeep RaiMen’s Recurve
2Atanu DasMen’s Recurve
3Pravin JadavMen’s Recurve
4Deepika KumariWomen’s Recurve

Athletics

#NameCategory
1KT IrfanMen’s 20km race walking
2Sandeep KumarMen’s 20km race walking
3Rahul RohillaMen’s 20km race walking
4Bhawna JatWomen’s 20km race walking
5Priyanka GoswamiWomen’s 20km race walking
6Avinash SableMen’s 3000m steeplechase
7Murali SreeshankarMen’s long jump
8MP JabirMen’s 400m hurdles
9Neeraj ChopraMen’s javelin throw
10Shivpal SinghMen’s javelin throw
11Annu RaniWomen’s javelin throw
12Tajinderpal Singh ToorMen’s shot put
13Dutee ChandWomen’s 100m and 200m
14Kamalpreet KaurWomen’s discus throw
15Seema PuniaWomen’s discus throw

Badminton

#NameCategory
1PV SindhuWomen’s singles
2B Sai PraneethMen’s singles
3Satwiksairaj RankireddyMen’s doubles
4Chirag ShettyMen’s doubles

Boxing; Indians In Tokyo Olympics 2020

#NameCategory
1Vikas Krishan(Men’s, 69kg)
2Lovlina Borgohain(Women’s, 69kg)
3Ashish Kumar(Men’s, 75kg)
4Pooja Rani(Women’s, 75kg)
5Satish Kumar(Men’s, 91kg)
6Mary Kom(Women’s, 51kg)
7Amit Panghal(Men’s, 52kg)
8Manish Kaushik(Men’s, 63kg)
9Simranjit Kaur(Women’s, 60kg)

Equestrian

For the first time on the contrary among all the Indians in Tokyo Olympics and qualified as a rider is Fouaad Mirza. He screened his quota when he finished in South East Asia and Oceanic qualifying in November 2019 in the individual category of the event.

Fencing

As per the information, As revealed by IOA Bhavani Devi is of course the only Indian who is nominated for the Tokyo Olympic Games 2021. She is a Chennai based fencer and indeed she had qualified for the Olympics after her performance in a qualifying event in Hungary in March 2020. On the contrary, she was declared the winner for the said event as per the AOR (Adjusted Official Ranking).

Golf

#NameCategory
1Anirban LahiriMen’s Golf
2Aditi AshokWomen’s Golf

Gymnastics

Art gymnastics is known to be very adaptive as well as the players must be very flexible. In the section of gymnastics, we have of course a Female candidate namely Pranati Nayak. She was selected one among the Indian nationals consequently who will represent our proud country in Tokyo Olympics 2020.

Hockey

Men’s National Hockey TeamWomen’s National Hockey Team
Manpreet Singh (Captain)Rani Rampal (Captain)
PR Sreejesh (Goalkeeper)Savita (Gaolkeeper)
Harmanpreet SinghDeep Grace Ekka
Rupinder Pal SinghNikki Pradhan
Surendra KumarGurjit Kaur
Amit RohidasUdita
Birendra LakraNisha
Hardik SinghNeha
Mandeep SinghSushila Chanu Pukharambam
Vivek Sagar PrasadMonika
Nilakanta SharmaNanjot Kaur
SumitSalima Tete
Samsher SinghNavneet Kaur
Dilpreet SinghLalremsiami
Gurjant SinghVandana Katariya
Lalit Kumar UpadhyaySharmila Devi

Judo

The only player which is going to clearly and evidently represent Indians in the Tokyo Olympics for 2020 in the category of Women’s extra-lightweight of 48kg division in Judo is Sushila Devi Likmabam.

Rowing; Indians In Tokyo Olympics 2020

Rowing is a competitive boat sport that uses oars. It varies from paddling in that rudders are joined to the boat by means of oarlocks, whereas paddles are not connected with the boat. Rowing is split into two areas: sculpture and sweep. Every rower holds two oars in its sculling—one in each hand and each rower holds an oar with both hands in a sweep.
Athletes can participate in a number of boat classes, including individual sculls, inhabited by one person, shells of eight rowers and a coxswain, known as eight.

#NameCategory
1Arjun JatMen’s Lightweight
2Arvind SinghMen’s Lightweight

Sailing

#NameCategory
1Nethra KumananLaser Radial
2Vishnu SaravananLaser Standard
3KC Ganapathy49er
4Varun Thakkar49er

Shooting

#Player NameGames Category
1Anjum Amoudgil10m Women’s Air Rifle
2Apurvi Chandela10m Women’s Air Rifle
3Divyansh Singh Panwar10m Men’s Air Rifle
4Deepak Kumar10m Men’s Air Rifle
5Tejaswini Sawant50m Women’s Rifle 3 Position
6Sanjeev Rajput50m Men’s Rifle 3 Position
7Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar50m Men’s Rifle 3 Position
8Manu Bhaker10m Women’s Air Pistol
9Yashaswini Singh Deswal10m Women’s Air Pistol
10Saurabh Chaudhary10m Men’s Air Pistol
11Abhishek Verma10m Women’s Air Pistol
12Rahi Sarnobat25m Women’s Pistol
13Chinki Yadav25m Women’s Pistol
14Angad Veer Singh BajwaMen’s Skeet
15Mairaj Ahmad KhanMen’s Skeet

Swimming

#Selected Player NameCategory
1Sajan PrakashMen’s
2Sri Hari NatrajMen’s
3Meena PatelWomen’s

Table Tennis; Indians In Tokyo Olympics 2020

#Selected Player NameCategory
1Sharath KamalMen’s
2Sathiyan GnanMen’s
3Sutirtha MukherjeeWomen’s
4Manika BatraWomen’s

Tennis

#Selected Player NameCategory
1Sania MirzaWomen’s Doubles
2Ankita RainaWomen’s Doubles

Weightlifting

Indian former world champion and so currently, with second ranking in world Mirabai Chanu is the only player to represent Indians in Tokyo Olympics 2020. Since weightlifting is a famous sport, it is expected indeed to have of course

Wrestling

#NameRepresented Category
1Seema BislaWomen’s Freestyle 50kg
2Venesh PhogatWomen’s Freestyle 53kg
3Anshu MalikWomen’s Freestyle 57kg
4Sonam MalikWomen’s Freestyle 62kg
5Ravi Kumar DahiyaMen’s Freestyle 57kg
6Bajrang PuniaMen’s Freestyle 65kg
7Deepak PuniyaMen’s Freestyle 86kg

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