India at the 2020 Summer Olympics

India at the
2020 Summer Olympics
India at the; 2020 Summer Olympics
IOC code	IND
NOC	Indian Olympic Committee
Website	olympic.ind.in
in Tokyo, Japan; July 23, 2021 – August 8, 2021
Competitors	122 in 18 sports
Flag bearers (opening)	Mary Kom; Manpreet Singh
Flag bearer (closing)	Bajrang Punia
Medals; Ranked 48th	Gold 1 Silver 2 Bronze 4 Total 7
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
	1900; 1904–1912; 1920; 1924; 1928; 1932; 1936; 1948; 1952; 1956; 1960; 1964; 1968; 1972; 1976; 1980; 1984; 1988; 1992; 1996; 2000; 2004; 2008; 2012; 2016; 2020; 2024;

India competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1] India has appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympics since 1920, although it made its official debut at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. The nation sent its largest-ever contingent of 126 competitors to the 2020 Games. To date, the 2020 Summer Olympics are the most successful Games for India since its first regular Olympics appearance in 1920,^[2]^[3]^[4] with Indian Olympians winning 7 medals (1 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze).^[5] The Indian contingent participated in a record 69 events, and earned medals across 18 athletic disciplines.^[2]^[4]

In the men's javelin throw, Neeraj Chopra won India's first-ever gold medal in athletics,^[3] the nation's second ever individual gold and first individual gold since the Beijing 2008 Olympics, won by Abhinav Bindra (Shooting). This was also India's first athletics medal since its first Olympics appearance as an independent nation in 1948, and its third overall after Norman Pritchard's silver medals in 1900. Saikhom Mirabai Chanu won India's first-ever silver in women's weightlifting (49 kg), becoming the first Indian Olympic medallist in the sport since 2000. P. V. Sindhu won a bronze in women's badminton to become the first Indian female athlete and second Indian to win two consecutive Olympic medals in individual events (having won a silver medal in 2016).^[2] The men's national field hockey team won the bronze medal, their first Olympic medal since 1980.^[6] The men's 4 x 400m relay team set a new Asian record of 3:00.25. Aditi Ashok in women's golf and Deepak Punia in men's freestyle wrestling (86 kg) both placed fourth in final rankings, as did the women's national field hockey team, which achieved its best performance since its Olympics debut in 1980.

Medalists

Medals by gender

Medals by gender
Gender	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Male	1	1	2	4
Female	0	1	2	3
Total	1	2	4	7

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Neeraj Chopra	Athletics	Men's javelin throw	7 August
Silver	Saikhom Mirabai Chanu	Weightlifting	Women's 49 kg	24 July
Silver	Ravi Kumar Dahiya	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 57 kg	5 August
Bronze	P. V. Sindhu	Badminton	Women's singles	1 August
Bronze	Lovlina Borgohain	Boxing	Women's welterweight	4 August
Bronze	India men's national field hockey team Dilpreet Singh Rupinder Pal Singh Shamsher Singh Manpreet Singh (C) Hardik Singh Gurjant Singh Simranjeet Singh Mandeep Singh Harmanpreet Singh Lalit Upadhyay P. R. Sreejesh Sumit Nilakanta Sharma Surender Kumar Varun Kumar Birendra Lakra Amit Rohidas Vivek Prasad	Field hockey	Men's tournament	5 August
Bronze	Bajrang Punia	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 65 kg	7 August

Competitors

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Archery	3	1	4
Athletics	17	9	26
Badminton	3	1	4
Boxing	5	4	9
Equestrian	1	0	1
Fencing	0	1	1
Field hockey	16	16	32
Golf	2	2	4
Gymnastics	0	1	1
Judo	0	1	1
Rowing	2	0	2
Sailing	3	1	4
Shooting	8	7	15
Swimming	2	1	3
Table tennis	2	2	4
Tennis	1	2	3
Weightlifting	0	1	1
Wrestling	3	4	7
Total	68	54	122

Archery

Three Indian archers qualified for the men's events by reaching the quarterfinal stage of the men's team recurve at the 2019 World Archery Championships in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.^[7] Another Indian archer scored a shoot-off victory in the quarterfinal round of the women's individual recurve to book one of three available spots at the 2019 Asian Championships in Bangkok, Thailand.^[8]

The full Indian archery squad was officially announced on 8 March 2021, with veteran Tarundeep Rai and world-number-nine seed Deepika Kumari slated to shoot at their third Olympics.^[9]

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Atanu Das	Men's individual	653	35	Deng Y-c (TPE) W 6–4	Oh J-h (KOR) W 6–5	Furukawa (JPN) L 4–6	Did not advance
Pravin Jadhav		656	31	Bazarzhapov (ROC) W 6–0	Ellison (USA) L 0–6	Did not advance
Tarundeep Rai		652	37	Hunbin (UKR) W 6–4	Shanny (ISR) L 5–6	Did not advance
Atanu Das Pravin Jadhav Tarundeep Rai	Men's team	1961	9	—		Kazakhstan (KAZ) W 6–2	South Korea (KOR) L 0–6	Did not advance
Deepika Kumari	Women's individual	663	9	Karma (BHU) W 6–0	Mucino-Fernandez (USA) W 6–4	Perova (ROC) W 6–5	An S (KOR) L 0–6	Did not advance
Pravin Jadhav Deepika Kumari	Mixed team	1319	9	—		Chinese Taipei (TPE) W 5–3	South Korea (KOR) L 2–6	Did not advance

Athletics

Indian athletes further achieved the entry standards, either by reaching the qualifying marks or by world ranking, in the following track and field events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):^[10]^[11]

Key

Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
Q = Qualified for the next round
q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
NR = National record
N/A = Round not applicable for the event
Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round
DNF = Did Not Finish

Track & road events
Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
M. P. Jabir	400 m hurdles	50.77	7	Did not advance
Avinash Sable	3000 m steeplechase	8:18.12 NR	13	Did not advance
Amoj Jacob Naganathan Pandi* Arokia Rajiv Noah Nirmal Tom Muhammed Anas Yahiya	4 × 400 m relay	3:00.25 AR	9	—		Did not advance
Sandeep Kumar	20 km walk	—				1:25:07	23
Rahul Rohilla						1:32:06	47
Irfan Kolothum Thodi						1:34:41	51
Gurpreet Singh	50 km walk	—				DNF

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Dutee Chand	100 m	Bye		11.54	7	Did not advance
Dutee Chand	200 m	23.85	7	—		Did not advance
Priyanka Goswami	20 km walk	—						1:32:36	17
Bhawna Jat	20 km walk	—						1:37:38	32

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Muhammed Anas Arokia Rajiv Revathi Veeramani Subha Venkatesan	4 × 400 m relay	3:19.93	8	Did not advance

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Murali Sreeshankar	Men's long jump	7.69	25	Did not advance
Tajinderpal Singh Toor	Men's shot put	19.99	24	Did not advance
Neeraj Chopra	Men's javelin throw	86.65	1 Q	87.58
Shivpal Singh	Men's javelin throw	76.40	27	Did not advance
Kamalpreet Kaur	Women's discus throw	64.00	2 Q	63.70	6
Seema Punia	Women's discus throw	60.57	16	Did not advance
Annu Rani	Women's javelin throw	54.04	29	did not advance

Badminton

India entered four badminton players for each of the following events into the Olympic tournament based on the BWF World Race to Tokyo Rankings; one entry each in the men's and women's singles and a pair in the men's doubles.^[12]

Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Elimination	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
B. Sai Praneeth	Men's singles	Zilberman (ISR) L (17–21, 15–21)	Caljouw (NED) L (14–21, 14–21)	—	3	Did not advance
P. V. Sindhu	Women's singles	Polikarpova (ISR) W (21–7, 21–10)	Cheung N Y (HKG) W (21–9, 21–16)	—	1 Q	Blichfeldt (DEN) W (21–15, 21–13)	Yamaguchi (JPN) W (21–13, 22–20)	Tai T-y (TPE) L (18–21, 12–21)	He Bj (CHN) W (21–13, 21–15)
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Chirag Shetty	Men's doubles	Lee Y / Wang C-l (TPE) W (21–16, 16–21, 27–25)	Gideon / Sukamuljo (INA) L (13–21, 12–21)	Lane / Vendy (GBR) W (21–17, 21–19)	3	Did not advance

Boxing

India entered nine boxers (five men and four women) into the Olympic tournament. Two-time Olympian Vikas Krishan Yadav (men's welterweight), 2014 Asian Games bronze medalists Satish Kumar Yadav (men's super heavyweight) and reigning Asian champion Pooja Rani (women's middleweight), London 2012 bronze medalist and six-time world champion Mary Kom (women's flyweight), 2019 world silver medalist Amit Panghal (men's flyweight), and 2018 Commonwealth Games runner-up Manish Kaushik, along with Ashish Kumar (men's middleweight), Simranjit Kaur (women's lightweight), and reigning world championship bronze medalist Lovlina Borgohain (women's welterweight), secured the spots on the Indian squad in their respective weight divisions, either by advancing to the semifinal match or by scoring a box-off triumph, at the 2020 Asia & Oceania Qualification Tournament in Amman, Jordan.^[13]^[14]

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Amit Panghal	Flyweight	Bye	Martínez (COL) L 1–4	Did not advance
Manish Kaushik	Lightweight	L McCormack (GBR) L 1–4	Did not advance
Vikas Krishan Yadav	Welterweight	Okazawa (JPN) L 0–5	Did not advance
Ashish Kumar	Middleweight	Tuoheta (CHN) L 0–5	Did not advance
Satish Kumar	Super heavyweight	Bye	Brown (JAM) W 4–1	Jalolov (UZB) L 0–5	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Mary Kom	Flyweight	Hernández (DOM) W 4–1	Valencia (COL) L 2–3	Did not advance
Simranjit Kaur	Lightweight	Bye	Seesondee (THA) L 0–5	Did not advance
Lovlina Borgohain	Welterweight	Bye	Apetz (GER) W 3–2	Chen N-c (TPE) W 4–1	Sürmeneli (TUR) L 0–5	Did not advance
Pooja Rani	Middleweight	—	Chaib (ALG) W 5–0	Li Q (CHN) L 0–5	Did not advance

Equestrian

India entered one eventing rider into the Olympic equestrian competition for the first time in two decades, by finishing in the top two, outside the group selection, of the individual FEI Olympic rankings for Group G (Southeast Asia and Oceania).^[15]^[16]

Eventing

Athlete	Horse	Event	Dressage		Cross-country			Jumping						Total
			Dressage		Cross-country			Qualifier			Final			Total
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Fouaad Mirza	Seigneur	Individual	28.00	9	11.20	39.20	22	8.00	47.20	25 Q	12.40	59.60	23	59.60	23

Fencing

India qualified one fencer for the first time. C. A. Bhavani Devi earned a spot in the women's sabre as one of the two highest-ranked fencers from the Asia and Oceania region, in the FIE Adjusted Official Rankings.^[17]

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
C. A. Bhavani Devi	Women's sabre	Ben Azizi (TUN) W 15–3	Brunet (FRA) L 7–15	Did not advance

Field hockey

Summary

Key:

FT – After full time.
P – Match decided by penalty-shootout.

Team	Event	Group Stage						Quarter final	Semi final	Final / BM
Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
India men's	Men's tournament	New Zealand W 3–2	Australia L 1–7	Spain W 3–0	Argentina W 3–1	Japan W 5–3	2 Q	Great Britain W 3–1	Belgium L 2–5	Germany W 5–4
India women's	Women's tournament	Netherlands L 1–5	Germany L 0–2	Great Britain L 1–4	Ireland W 1–0	South Africa W 4–3	4 Q	Australia W 1–0	Argentina L 1–2	Great Britain L 3–4	4

Men's tournament

India men's national field hockey team qualified for the Olympics by securing one of the seven tickets available and defeating Russia in a playoff at the Bhubaneswar leg of the 2019 FIH Olympic Qualifiers.^[18]

Team roster

The squad was announced on 18 June 2021.^[19]

Head coach: Graham Reid^[20]

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
2	FW	Dilpreet Singh	(1999-11-12)12 November 1999 (aged 21)	44	18	Petroleum Sports Promotion Board
3	DF	Rupinder Pal Singh	(1990-11-11)11 November 1990 (aged 30)	216	115	Indian Overseas Bank
6	DF	Surender Kumar	(1993-11-23)23 November 1993 (aged 27)	135	3	Food Corporation of India
7	MF	Manpreet Singh (Captain)	(1992-06-26)26 June 1992 (aged 29)	269	22	Punjab Armed Police
8	MF	Hardik Singh	(1998-09-23)23 September 1998 (aged 22)	39	1	Petroleum Sports Promotion Board
9	FW	Gurjant Singh	(1995-01-26)26 January 1995 (aged 26)	47	15	Petroleum Sports Promotion Board
10	FW	Simranjeet Singh	(1996-12-27)27 December 1996 (aged 24)	47	13	Petroleum Sports Promotion Board
11	FW	Mandeep Singh	(1995-01-25)25 January 1995 (aged 26)	159	82	Petroleum Sports Promotion Board
13	DF	Harmanpreet Singh	(1996-01-06)6 January 1996 (aged 25)	119	74	Petroleum Sports Promotion Board
14	FW	Lalit Upadhyay	(1993-12-01)1 December 1993 (aged 27)	108	26	Petroleum Sports Promotion Board
16	GK	P. R. Sreejesh	(1988-05-08)8 May 1988 (aged 33)	236	0	Kerala
17	MF	Sumit	(1996-12-20)20 December 1996 (aged 24)	66	2	Petroleum Sports Promotion Board
18	MF	Nilakanta Sharma	(1995-05-02)2 May 1995 (aged 26)	59	11	Petroleum Sports Promotion Board
21	FW	Shamsher Singh	(1997-07-29)29 July 1997 (aged 23)	6	1	Punjab National Bank
22	DF	Varun Kumar	(1995-07-25)25 July 1995 (aged 25)	85	22	Petroleum Sports Promotion Board
26	DF	Birendra Lakra	(1990-02-03)3 February 1990 (aged 31)	197	10	Petroleum Sports Promotion Board
30	DF	Amit Rohidas	(1993-05-10)10 May 1993 (aged 28)	97	17	Petroleum Sports Promotion Board
32	MF	Vivek Prasad	(2000-02-25)25 February 2000 (aged 21)	62	15	Petroleum Sports Promotion Board

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	5	4	1	0	22	9	+13	13	Quarter-finals
2	India	5	4	0	1	15	13	+2	12
3	Argentina	5	2	1	2	10	11	−1	7
4	Spain	5	1	2	2	9	10	−1	5
5	New Zealand	5	1	1	3	11	16	−5	4
6	Japan (H)	5	0	1	4	10	18	−8	1

Source: Tokyo 2020 and FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result; 6) field goals scored.
(H) Hosts

24 July 2021
10:00
v

New Zealand	2–3	India
Russell 6' Jenness 43'	Report	Rupinder 10' Harmanpreet 26', 33'

South Pitch
Umpires:
Martin Madden (SCO)
Coen van Bunge (NED)

25 July 2021
18:30
v

India	1–7	Australia
Dilpreet 34'	Report	Beale 10' Hayward 21' Ogilvie 23' Beltz 26' Govers 40', 42' Brand 51'

North Pitch
Umpires:
Ben Göntgen (GER)
Marcin Grochal (POL)

27 July 2021
10:00
v

India	3–0	Spain
Simranjeet 14' Rupinder 15', 51'	Report

South Pitch
Umpires:
Jakub Mejzlík (CZE)
Peter Wright (RSA)

29 July 2021
09:30
v

India	3–1	Argentina
Varun 43' Vivek 58' Harmanpreet 59'	Report	Casella 48'

North Pitch
Umpires:
Jakub Mejzlík (CZE)
Ben Göntgen (GER)

30 July 2021
18:30
v

Japan	3–5	India
Ke. Tanaka 19' Watanabe 33' Murata 59'	Report	Harmanpreet 13' Gurjant 17', 56' Shamsher 34' Nilakanta 51'

North Pitch
Umpires:
David Tomlinson (NZL)
Lim Hong Zhen (SGP)

Quarterfinal

1 August 2021
21:00
v

India	3–1	Great Britain
Dilpreet 7' Gurjant 16' Hardik 57'	Report	Ward 45'

Umpires:
Marcin Grochal (POL)
Simon Taylor (NZL)

Semifinal

3 August 2021
10:30
v

India	2–5	Belgium
Harmanpreet 7' Mandeep 8'	Report	Luypaert 2' Hendrickx 19', 49', 53' Dohmen 60'

Umpires:
Ben Göntgen (GER)
Coen van Bunge (NED)

Bronze medal game

5 August 2021
10:30
v

Germany	4–5	India
Oruz 2' Wellen 24' Fürk 25' Windfeder 48'	Report	Simranjeet 17', 34' Hardik 27' Harmanpreet 29' Rupinder 31'

Umpires:
Adam Kearns (AUS)
Simon Taylor (NZL)

Women's tournament

India women's national field hockey team qualified for the Olympics by securing one of the seven tickets available and defeating the United States in a playoff at the Bhubaneswar leg of the 2019 FIH Olympic Qualifiers.^[21]

Team roster

The squad was announced on 17 June 2021.^[22]

Head coach: Sjoerd Marijne

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
1	MF	Navjot Kaur	(1995-03-07)7 March 1995 (aged 26)	172	Railway Sports Promotion Board
2	DF	Gurjit Kaur	(1995-10-25)25 October 1995 (aged 25)	87	Railway Sports Promotion Board
3	DF	Deep Grace Ekka	(1994-06-03)3 June 1994 (aged 27)	202	Railway Sports Promotion Board
4	MF	Monika Malik	(1993-11-05)5 November 1993 (aged 27)	150	Hockey Haryana
7	FW	Sharmila Devi	(2001-10-10)10 October 2001 (aged 19)	9	Hockey Him
8	DF	Nikki Pradhan	(1993-12-08)8 December 1993 (aged 27)	104	Railway Sports Promotion Board
11	GK	Savita Punia	(1990-07-11)11 July 1990 (aged 31)	202	Hockey Haryana
15	MF	Nisha Warsi	(1995-07-09)9 July 1995 (aged 26)	9	Railway Sports Promotion Board
16	FW	Vandana Katariya	(1992-04-15)15 April 1992 (aged 29)	240	Railway Sports Promotion Board
18	DF	Udita Duhan	(1998-01-14)14 January 1998 (aged 23)	32	Hockey Haryana
20	FW	Lalremsiami	(2000-03-30)30 March 2000 (aged 21)	64	Railway Sports Promotion Board
25	FW	Navneet Kaur	(1996-01-26)26 January 1996 (aged 25)	79	Railway Sports Promotion Board
27	MF	Sushila Chanu	(1992-02-25)25 February 1992 (aged 29)	181	Railway Sports Promotion Board
28	FW	Rani Rampal (Captain)	(1994-12-04)4 December 1994 (aged 26)	241	Hockey Haryana
30	MF	Salima Tete	(2001-12-27)27 December 2001 (aged 19)	29	Hockey Jharkhand
32	MF	Neha Goyal	(1995-11-15)15 November 1995 (aged 25)	75	Railway Sports Promotion Board

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Netherlands	5	5	0	18	2	+16	15	Quarterfinals
2	Germany	5	4	1	13	7	+6	12
3	Great Britain	5	3	2	11	5	+6	9
4	India	5	2	3	7	14	−7	6
5	Ireland	5	1	4	4	11	−7	3
6	South Africa	5	0	5	5	19	−14	0

Source: Tokyo 2020 and FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result; 6) field goals scored.

24 July 2021
20:45
v

Netherlands	5–1	India
Albers 6', 43' Van Geffen 33' Matla 45' Van Maasakker 52'	Report	Rani 10'

North Pitch
Umpires:
Carolina de la Fuente (ARG)
Amber Church (NZL)

26 July 2021
21:15
v

Germany	2–0	India
Lorenz 12' Schröder 35'	Report

South Pitch
Umpires:
Sarah Wilson (GBR)
Emi Yamada (JPN)

28 July 2021
10:00
v

Great Britain	4–1	India
Martin 2', 19' Owsley 41' Balsdon 57'	Report	Sharmila 23'

South Pitch
Umpires:
Laurine Delforge (BEL)
Aleisha Neumann (AUS)

30 July 2021
11:45
v

Ireland	0–1	India
	Report	Navneet 57'

North Pitch
Umpires:
Aleisha Neumann (AUS)
Annelize Rostron (RSA)

31 July 2021
12:15
v

India	4–3	South Africa
Vandana 4', 17', 49' Neha 32'	Report	Glasby 15' Hunter 30' Marais 39'

South Pitch
Umpires:
Amber Church (NZL)
Liu Xiaoying (CHN)

Quarterfinal

2 August 2021
12:00
v

Australia	0–1	India
	Report	Gurjit 22'

Umpires:
Carolina de la Fuente (ARG)
Irene Presenqui (ARG)

Semifinal

4 August 2021
19:00
v

Argentina	2–1	India
Barrionuevo 18', 37'	Report	Gurjit 2'

Umpires:
Amber Church (NZL)
Sarah Wilson (GBR)

Bronze medal game

6 August 2021
10:30
v

Great Britain	4–3	India
Rayer 16' Robertson 24' Pearne-Webb 35' Balsdon 48'	Report	Gurjit 25', 26' Vandana 29'

Umpires:
Michelle Joubert (RSA)
Michelle Meister (GER)

Golf

India entered two male and one female golfer into the Olympic tournament. Anirban Lahiri, Udayan Mane and Aditi Ashok are qualified directly among the top 60 eligible players for the men's and women's event.

On 28 July 2021, Indian golfer Diksha Dagar received an invitation from the International Golf Federation to complete in the women's individual event at the 2020 Summer Olympics following a late withdrawal of South African golfer Paula Reto.^[23]

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Total
Athlete	Event	Score	Score	Score	Score	Score	Par	Rank
Anirban Lahiri	Men's individual	67	72	68	72	279	−5	=42
Udayan Mane	Men's individual	76	69	70	72	287	+3	56
Aditi Ashok	Women's individual	67	66	68	68	269	−15	4
Diksha Dagar	Women's individual	76	72	72	70	290	+6	=50

Gymnastics

Artistic

India entered one artistic gymnast into the Olympic competition. With the cancellation of the 2021 Asian Championships in Hangzhou, China, Pranati Nayak secured the last of two available places in the women's individual all-around, as the next highest-ranked gymnast vying for qualification from her continent at the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart, Germany.^[24]

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Apparatus				Total	Rank	Total	Rank
		V	UB	BB	F	Total	Rank	Total	Rank
Pranati Nayak	All-around	13.466	9.033	9.433	10.633	42.565	79	Did not advance

Judo

India entered one female judoka into the Olympic tournament based on the International Judo Federation Olympics Individual Ranking.^[25]

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Shushila Likmabam	Women's –48 kg	Csernoviczki (HUN) L 00–10	Did not advance

Rowing

India qualified one boat in the men's lightweight double sculls for the Games by winning the silver medal and securing the first of three berths available at the 2021 FISA Asia & Oceania Olympic Qualification Regatta in Tokyo, Japan.^[26]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Arjun Lal Arvind Singh	Men's lightweight double sculls	6:40.33	5 R	6:51.36	3 SA/B	6:24:41	6 FB	6:29.66	11

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Sailing

Indian sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2018 Sailing World Championships, the class-associated Worlds, the 2018 Asian Games, and the continental regattas, marking the country's return to the sport for the first time since 2008.^[27]

Athlete	Event	Race													Total	Net points	Final rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	M*	Total	Net points	Final rank
Vishnu Saravanan	Men's Laser	14	20	24	23	22	12	27	23	3	15	—		EL	183	156	20
K.C. Ganapathy Varun Thakkar	Men's 49er	18	18	17	19	14	5	17	11	15	16	9	14	EL	173	154	17
Nethra Kumanan	Women's Laser Radial	33	16	15	40	32	38	22	20	37	38	—		EL	291	251	35

M = Medal race
EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race
* = Discarded race not counted in the overall result

Shooting

Indian shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2018 ISSF World Championships, the 2019 ISSF World Cup series, and the 2019 Asian Championship, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by May 31, 2020.^[28]

On 5 April 2021, National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) officially announced a squad of fourteen Indian shooters for the rescheduled Games, including the reigning Commonwealth Games champion Manu Bhaker, Asian Games gold medalists Saurabh Chaudhary and Rahi Sarnobat in the pistol events, rifle marksman and two-time Olympian Sanjeev Rajput (2008 and 2012), and the current world-number-one Divyansh Singh Panwar and Elavenil Valarivan in the men's and women's air rifle, respectively. With a double starter (owned by Bhaker) securing quota places in two women's pistol events, NRAI opted to exchange the women's 25 m pistol (won by Chinki Yadav) for an additional place in the women's 50 m rifle 3 positions, eventually awarded to Anjum Moudgil.^[29]

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Deepak Kumar	10 m air rifle	624.7	26	Did not advance
Divyansh Singh Panwar	10 m air rifle	622.8	32	Did not advance
Aishwary Tomar	50 m rifle 3 positions	1167	21	Did not advance
Sanjeev Rajput	50 m rifle 3 positions	1157	32	Did not advance
Saurabh Chaudhary	10 m air pistol	586	1 Q	137.4	7
Abhishek Verma	10 m air pistol	575	17	Did not advance
Angad Bajwa	Skeet	120	18	Did not advance
Mairaj Ahmad Khan	Skeet	117	25	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Apurvi Chandela	10 m air rifle	621.9	36	Did not advance
Elavenil Valarivan	10 m air rifle	626.5	16	Did not advance
Anjum Moudgil	50 m rifle 3 positions	1167	15	Did not advance
Tejaswini Sawant	50 m rifle 3 positions	1154	33	did not advance
Manu Bhaker	10 m air pistol	575	12	Did not advance
Yashaswini Deswal	10 m air pistol	574	13	Did not advance
Manu Bhaker	25 m pistol	582	15	Did not advance
Rahi Sarnobat	25 m pistol	573	32	Did not advance

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Semifinal		Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Deepak Kumar Anjum Moudgil	10 m air rifle team	623.8	18	Did not advance
Divyansh Singh Panwar Elavenil Valarivan	10 m air rifle team	626.5	12	Did not advance
Saurabh Chaudhary Manu Bhaker	10 m air pistol team	582	1 Q	380	7	Did not advance
Abhishek Verma Yashaswini Deswal	10 m air pistol team	564	17	Did not advance

Swimming

Sajan Prakash and Srihari Natraj became the first-ever Indian swimmers to qualify for the Olympic Games by breaching the A standard time. Maana Patel received entry via Universality Invitation.

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Srihari Nataraj	Men's 100 m backstroke	54.31	27	Did not advance
Sajan Prakash	Men's 100 m butterfly	53:45	46	Did not advance
Sajan Prakash	Men's 200 m butterfly	1:57:22	24	Did not advance
Maana Patel	Women's 100 m backstroke	1:05.20	39	Did not advance

Table tennis

India entered four athletes into the table tennis competition at the Games. Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Sutirtha Mukherjee scored the zonal-match triumphs for the South Asia zone to secure one of the five available places each in the men's and women's singles, while three-time Olympian Sharath Kamal Achanta and 2018 Commonwealth Games champion Manika Batra notched the remaining spots on the Indian team, as the highest-ranked eligible table tennis players across all regional zones, at the Asian Qualification Tournament in Doha, Qatar.^[30]

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Sharath Kamal Achanta	Men's singles	Bye		Apolónia (POR) W 4–2	Ma L (CHN) 0L 1–4	Did not advance
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran	Men's singles	Bye		Lam S-h (HKG) L 3–4	Did not advance
Manika Batra	Women's singles	Bye	Ho (GBR) W 4–0	Pesotska (UKR) W 4–3	Polcanova (AUT) L 0–4	Did not advance
Sutirtha Mukherjee	Women's singles	Bye	Bergström (SWE) W 4–3	Fu (POR) L 0–4	Did not advance
Sharath Kamal Achanta Manika Batra	Mixed doubles	—				Lin Y-j / Cheng I-c (TPE) L 0–4	Did not advance

Tennis

India entered two athletes into tennis by using Sania Mirza's protected ranking of 9 in women's doubles category.^[31] Sumit Nagal qualified for men's singles after several players withdrew resulted due to a positive COVID-19 test or personal reasons.^[32]

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Sumit Nagal	Men's singles	Istomin (UZB) W 6–4, 6–7^(6–8), 6–4	Medvedev (ROC) L 2–6, 1–6	Did not advance
Sania Mirza Ankita Raina	Women's doubles	—	L Kichenok / N Kichenok (UKR) L 6–0, 6–7^(0–7), [8–10]	Did not advance

Weightlifting

India entered one female weightlifter into the Olympic competition. Rio 2016 Olympian Saikhom Mirabai Chanu finished second of the eight highest-ranked weightlifters in the women's 49 kg category based on the IWF Absolute World Rankings.

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Total	Rank
Saikhom Mirabai Chanu	Women's −49 kg	87	2	115	2	202

Wrestling

India qualified eight wrestlers for each of the following classes into the Olympic competition. Four of them finished among the top six to book Olympic spots in the men's freestyle (57, 65 and 86 kg) and women's freestyle 53 kg at the 2019 World Championships, while two additional licenses were awarded to the Indian wrestlers, who progressed to the top two finals of the women's freestyle 57 and 62 kg, respectively, at the 2021 Asian Qualification Tournament in Almaty, Kazakhstan.^[33] Two Indian wrestlers claimed one of the remaining slots each in the men's freestyle 125 kg and women's freestyle 50 kg, respectively, to complete the nation's roster at the 2021 World Qualification Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria.^[34]^[35]

Freestyle wrestler (125 kg) Sumit Malik was disqualified and the quota place he had claimed was stripped off following a positive doping test, hence leaving India with a total of seven wrestlers in the contingent.^[36]

Key:

VT (ranking points: 5–0 or 0–5) – Victory by fall.
VB (ranking points: 5–0 or 0–5) – Victory by injury (VF for forfeit, VA for withdrawal or disqualification)
PP (ranking points: 3–1 or 1–3) – Decision by points – the loser with technical points.
PO (ranking points: 3–0 or 0–3) – Decision by points – the loser without technical points.
ST (ranking points: 4–0 or 0–4) – Great superiority – the loser without technical points and a margin of victory of at least 8 (Greco-Roman) or 10 (freestyle) points.
SP (ranking points: 4–1 or 1–4) – Technical superiority – the loser with technical points and a margin of victory of at least 8 (Greco-Roman) or 10 (freestyle) points.

Freestyle

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ravi Kumar Dahiya	Men's −57 kg	Tigreros (COL) W 4–1 ^SP	Vangelov (BUL) W 4–1 ^SP	Sanayev (KAZ) W 5–0 ^VT	—	Uguev (ROC) L 1–3 ^PP
Bajrang Punia	Men's −65 kg	Akmataliev (KGZ) W 3–1 ^PP	Ghiasi (IRI) W 5–0 ^VT	Aliyev (AZE) L 1–3 ^PP	Bye	Niyazbekov (KAZ) W 3–0 ^PO
Deepak Punia	Men's −86 kg	Agiomor (NGR) W 4–1 ^SP	Lin Zs (CHN) W 3–1 ^PP	Taylor (USA) L 0–4 ^ST	Bye	Amine (SMR) L 1–3 ^PP	5
Seema Bisla	Women's −50 kg	Hamdi (TUN) L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance				13
Vinesh Phogat	Women's −53 kg	Mattsson (SWE) W 3–1 ^PP	Kaladzinskaya (BLR) L 0–5 ^VT	Did not advance			9
Anshu Malik	Women's −57 kg	Kurachkina (BLR) L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance		Koblova (ROC) L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance	9
Sonam Malik	Women's −62 kg	Khürelkhüü (MGL) L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance				11

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India at the 2020 Summer Olympics

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Medalists

Medals by gender

Medalists

Competitors

Archery

Athletics

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Fencing

Field hockey

Men's tournament

Women's tournament

Golf

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Artistic

Judo

Rowing

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Shooting

Swimming

Table tennis

Tennis

Weightlifting

Wrestling

See also

References