Asian Games 2023: So far, India have had a storied history at the event with the participation in the past couple of decades having risen considerably
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The Asian Games 2023 is slated to be held at Hangzhou, People's Republic of China between September 23 and October 8. The continental showpiece, which has been shifted from 2022 to this year due to COVID-19, will feature a total of 40 sports this year, with Asia’s best competing for the top honours.
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So far, India have had a storied history at the event with the participation in the past couple of decades having risen considerably. In the last edition, Jakarta 2018, India sent a contingent of 570 to compete in 36 different sports. Below is a list of Indian sportspersons who have qualified for the Asian Games 2023 so far.
Archery
- Dhiraj Bommadevara - Men’s recurve
- Atanu Das - Men’s recurve
- Tarundeep Rai - Men’s recurve
- Neeraj Chauhan - Men’s recurve
- Bhajan Kaur - Women’s recurve
- Aditi Jaiswal - Women’s recurve
- Ankita Bhakat - Women’s recurve
- Simranjeet Kaur - Women’s recurve
- Prathamesh Jawkar - Men’s compound
- Rajat Chauhan - Men’s compound
- Ojas Deotale - Men’s compound
- Rishabh Yadav - Men’s compound
- Avneet Kaur - Women’s compound
- Jyothi Surekha Vennam - Women’s compound
- Aditi Swami - Women’s compound
- Sakshi Chaudhary - Women’s compound
Badminton
- HS Prannoy - Men’s singles
- Kidambi Srikanth - Men’s singles
- Lakshya Sen - Men’s singles
- Mithun Manjunath - Men’s singles
- Satwiksairaj Rankireddy - Men's doubles
- Chirag Shetty - Men's doubles
- Dhruv Kapila - Men's doubles
- MR Arjun - Men's doubles
- PV Sindhu - Women's singles
- Ashmita Chaliha - Women's singles
- Anupama Upadhyaya - Women's singles
- Malvika Bansod - Women's singles
- Gayatri Gopichand - Women’s doubles
- Treesa Jolly - Women’s doubles
- Ashwini Ponnappa - Women’s doubles
- Tanisha Crasto - Women’s/mixed doubles
- Rohan Kapoor - Mixed doubles
- N Sikki Reddy - Mixed doubles
- Sai Pratheek K - Mixed doubles
Boxing
- Nikhat Zareen - Women's 51kg
- Preeti Pawar - Women's 54kg
- Parveen Hooda - Women's 57kg
- Jaismine Lamboria - Women's 60kg
- Arundhati Chaudhary - Women's 66kg
- Lovlina Borgohain - Women's 75kg
- Deepak Bhoria - Men's 51kg
- Sachin Siwach - Men's 57kg
- Shiva Thapa - Men's 63.5kg
- Nishant Dev - Men's 71kg
- Lakshya Chahar - Men's 80kg
- Sanjeet - Men's 92kg
- Narender Berwal - Men's +92kg
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Bridge
- Jaggy Shivdasani - Open teams
- Sandeep Thakral - Open teams
- Rajeshwar Tiwari - Open teams
- Sumit Mukherjee - Open teams
- Raju Tolani - Open teams
- Ajay Khare - Mixed team
- Kiran Nadar - Mixed team
- B Satyanarayana - Mixed team
- Himani Khandelwal - Mixed team
- Rajeev Khandelwal - Mixed team
- Marianne Karmarkar - Mixed team
- Sandeep Karmarkar - Mixed team
- Asha Sharma - Ladies team
- Puja Batra - Ladies team
- Alka Kshirsagar - Ladies team
- Bharti Dey - Ladies team
- Kalpana Gurjar - Ladies team
- Vidya Patel - Ladies team
Chess
- Gukesh D - Men’s
- Vidit Gujrathi - Men’s
- Arjun Erigaisi - Men’s
- Pentala Harikrishna - Men’s
- Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa - Men’s
- Koneru Humpy - Women’s
- Harika Dronavalli - Women’s
- Vaishali Rameshbabu - Women’s
- Vantika Agrawal - Women’s
- Savitha Shri B - Women’s
Cricket
- 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
- Siddharth Bajrang Pardeshi - Men's
- Heman London Singh- Men's
Equestrian
- Deepanshu Sheoran - Eventing
- Raju Singh Bhadoria - Eventing
- Apoorva Dabade - Eventing
- Vikas Kumar - Eventing
- Ashish Limaye - Eventing
- Hriday Chheda - Dressage
- Pranay Khare - Jumping
- Yashaan Khambatta - Jumping
- Zahaan Setalvad - Jumping
- Amar Sarin - Jumping
Esports
- Charanjot Singh - FIFA Online 4
- Karman Singh Tikka - FIFA Online 4
- Mayank Prajapati - Street Fighter V: Champion Edition
- Ayan Biswas - Street Fighter V: Champion Edition
- Akshaj Shenoy - League of Legends
- Samarth Arvind Trivedi - League of Legends
- Mihir Ranjan - League of Legends
- Aditya Selvaraj - League of Legends
- Aakash Shandilya- League of Legends
- Sanindhya Malik - League of Legends
- Darshan - DOTA 2
- Krish - DOTA 2
- Abhishek - DOTA 2
- Ketan - DOTA 2
- Shubham - DOTA 2
Fencing
- Sunil Kumar - Men’s epee and team epee
- Shankar Pandey - Men’s epee and team epee
- Udayvir Singh - Men’s team epee
- Sherjin R. S. - Men’s team epee
- Arjun - Men’s individual foil and team foil
- Dev - Men’s individual foil and team foil
- Bibish Kathireshan - Men’s team foil
- Akash Kumar - Men’s team foil
- Karan Singh Gurjar - Men’s sabre and team sabre
- Gisho Kumaresan - Men’s sabre and team sabre
- Vishal Thapar - Men’s team sabre
- Abhay Shinde - Men’s team sabre
- Taniksha Khatri - Women’s epee and team epee
- Ena Arora - Women’s epee and team epee
- Yashkeerat Kaur - Women’s team epee
- Jyotika Dutta - Women’s team epee
- Radhika Awati - Women’s foil and team foil
- Mariya Akshita - Women’s foil and team foil
- V. P. Mahalakshmi - Women’s team foil
- Jenisha N. V. - Women’s team foil
- Bhavani Devi - Women’s sabre and team sabre
- Jagmeet Kaur - Women’s sabre and team sabre
- Rishika Khujuria - Women’s team sabre
- Joshna Christy Jose - Women’s team sabre
Football
- 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
- Indian women's football team
Golf
- Anirban Lahiri - Men’s
- Shubhankar Sharma - Men’s
- SSP Chawrasia - Men’s
- Khalin Joshi - Men’s
- Aditi Ashok - Women’s
- Avani Prashanth - Women’s
- Pranavi Urs - Women’s
Gymnastics
- Yogeshwar Singh - Men’s
- Rakesh Patra - Men’s
- Tapan Mohanty - Men’s
- Gaurav Kumar - Men’s
- Satyajit Mondal - Men’s
- Anas Ali Shaikh - Men’s reserve
- Saif Tamboli - Men’s reserve
- Dipa Karmakar - Women’s
- Pranati Das - Women’s
- Pranati Nayak - Women’s
- Protistha Samanta - Women’s
- Bidisha Gayen - Women’s reserve
Handball
- Indian women's handball team
Hockey
- Indian men’s hockey team
- Indian women’s hockey team
Ju-Jitsu
- Kamal Singh - Men’s 62kg
- Tarun Yadav - Men’s 62kg
- Siddharth Singh - Men’s 69kg
- Akshat Sahu - Men’s 69kg
- Anirudh Verma - Men’s 77kg
- Vinod Rana - Men’s 77kg
- Amarjeet Singh - Men’s 85kg
- Uma Maheshwar Reddy - Men’s 85kg
- Nanvya Pandey - Women’s 48kg
- Anwesha Deb - Women’s 48kg
- Rohini Kalam - Women’s 52kg
- Anupama Swain - Women’s 52kg
- Angitha Shyju - Women’s 57kg
- Nikita Choudhary - Women’s 57kg
- Kiran Kumari - Women’s 63kg
- Annu - Women’s 63kg
Karate
- Mesom Singhi - Men’s kata
- Abab Sangdo - Women’s kata
- Johny Mangkhiya - Women’s kumite
Rowing
- Balraj Panwar - Men’s single scull
- Satnam Singh - Men’s double scull and quadruple scull
- Parminder Singh - Men’s double scull and quadruple scull
- Jakar Khan - Men’s quadruple scull
- Sukhmeet Singh - Men’s quadruple scull
- Arvind Singh - Men’s lightweight double scull
- Arjun Lal Jat - Men’s lightweight double scull
- Babu Lal Yadav - Men’s coxless pair
- Lekh Ram - Men’s coxless pair
- Jaswinder Singh - Men’s coxless four and coxed eight\
- Bheem Singh - Men’s coxless four and coxed eight
- Punit Kumar - Men’s coxless four and coxed eight
- Ashish - Men’s coxless four and coxed eight
- Neeraj - Men’s coxed eight
- Naresh Kalwaniya - Men’s coxed eight
- Neetesh Kumar - Men’s coxed eight
- Charanjeet Singh - Men’s coxed eight
- DU Pande - Men’s coxed eight
- Ashish Goliyan - Men’s sweep (substitute)
- Kulwinder Singh - Men’s sculls (substitute)
- Kiran - Women’s lightweight double scull
- Anshika Bharti - Women’s lightweight double scull
- Aswathi PB - Women’s coxless four and coxed eight
- Mrunamayee Nilesh S - Women’s coxless four and coxed eight
- Thangjam Priya Devi - Women’s coxless four and coxed eight
- Rukmani - Women’s coxless four and coxed eight
- Sonali Swain - Women’s coxed eight
- Ritu Kaudi - Women’s coxed eight
- Varsha KB - Women’s coxed eight
- H Tendenthoi Devi - Women’s coxed eight
- G Geetanjali - Women’s coxed eight
- Rose Mestica Meril A - Women’s (substitute)
- Archa Aji - Women’s (substitute)
Sailing
- Katya Ida Coelho - Women’s IQFoil
- Ishwariya Ganesh - Women’s RS:X
Sepak Takraw
- Indian men's sepak takraw team (quadrant and regu)
- Indian women's sepak takraw team (quadrant and regu)
Shooting
- Divyansh Singh Panwar - Men’s 10m air rifle, air rifle mixed team
- Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar - Men’s 10m air rifle, Men’s 50m rifle 3-position, air rifle mixed team
- Rudrankksh Patil - Men’s 10m air rifle
- Ramita - Women’s 10m air rifle, air rifle mixed team
- Mehuli Ghosh - Women’s 10m air rifle, air rifle mixed team
- Ashi Chouksey - Women’s 10m air rifle, Women’s 50m rifle 3-position
- Swapnil Kusale - Men’s 50m rifle 3-position
- Akhil Sheoran - Men’s 50m rifle 3-position
- Sift Kaur Samra - Women’s 50m rifle 3-position
- Manini Kaushik - Women’s 50m rifle 3-position
- Sarabjot Singh - Men’s 10m air pistol, air pistol mixed team
- Shiva Narwal - Men’s 10m air pistol, Air pistol mixed team
- Arjun Singh Cheema - Men’s 10m air pistol
- Divya TS - Women’s 10m air pistol, air pistol mixed team
- Esha Singh - Women’s 10m air pistol, Women’s 25m sports pistol, air pistol mixed team
- Palak - Women’s 10m air pistol
- Anish - Men’s 25m rapid fire pistol
- Vijayveer Sidhu - Men’s 25m rapid fire pistol
- Adarsh Singh - Men’s 25m rapid fire pistol
- Rhythm Sangwan - Women’s 25m sports pistol
- Manu Bhaker - Women’s 25m sports pistol
- Prithviraj Toindaman - Men’s trap
- Kynan Chenai - Men’s trap
- Zoravar Singh Sandhu - Men’s trap
- Manisha Keer - Women’s trap
- Preeti Rajak - Women’s trap
- Rajeshwari Kumari - Women’s trap
- Anantjeet Singh Naruka - Men’s skeet, skeet mixed team
- Angad Vir Singh Bajwa - Men’s skeet, skeet mixed team
- Gurjoat Singh Khangura - Men’s skeet
- Ganemat Sekhon - Women’s skeet, skeet mixed team
- Parinaaz Dhaliwal - Women’s skeet, skeet mixed team
- Darsha Rathore - Women’s skeet
Skateboarding
- Nani Sonam - Women's
- Urmila Padable - Women's
- Aadya Aditi - Women's
- Dhruvi Lakhotia - Women's
Squash
- Saurav Ghosal - Men’s
- Abhay Singh - Men’s
- Mahesh Mangaonkar - Men’s
- Harinderpal Singh Sandhu - Men’s
- Joshna Chinappa - Women’s
- Dipika Pallikal Karthik - Women’s
- Anahat Singh - Women’s
- Tanvi Khanna - Women’s
Swimming
- Aneesh Gowda - Men’s
- Advait Page - Men’s
- Aryan Nehra - Men’s
- Anand AS - Men’s
- Kushagra Rawat - Men’s
- Likith SP - Men’s
- Sajan Prakash - Men’s
- Srihari Nataraj - Men’s
- Tanish George Matthew - Men’s
- Utkarsh Satosh Patil - Men’s
- Vishal Grewal - Men’s
- Virdhawal Khade - Men’s
- Anannya Nayak - Women’s
- Dinidhi Desinghu - Women’s
- Hashika Ramachandran - Women’s
- Linyesha AK - Women’s
- Maana Patel - Women’s
- Nina Venkatesh - Women’s
- Palak Joshi - Women’s
- Shivangi Sarma - Women’s
- Vritti Agarwal - Women’s
Table Tennis
- Sharath Kamal - Men's singles, doubles
- G. Sathiyan - Men's singles, doubles, mixed doubles
- Harmeet Desai - Men's singles, mixed doubles
- Manav Thakkar - Men's singles, doubles
- Manush Shah - Men's singles, doubles
- SFR Snehit - Men's reserve
- Sanil Shetty - Men's reserve
- Manika Batra - Women's singles, mixed doubles
- Sreeja Akula - Women's singles, doubles, mixed doubles
- Sutirtha Mukherjee - Women's singles, doubles
- Ayhika Mukherjee - Women's singles, doubles
- Diya Chitale - Women's singles, doubles
- Archana Kamath - Women's reserve
- Reeth Rishya - Women's reserve
Tennis
- Rohan Bopanna - Men's
- Sumit Nagal - Men's
- Yuki Bhambri - Men's
- Saketh Myneni - Men's
- Mukund Sasikumar - Men's
- Ramkumar Ramanathan - Men's
- Rutuja Bhosle - Women's
- Ankita Raina - Women's
- Karman Kaur Thandi - Women's
- Prarthana Thombare - Women's
- Vaidehi Chaudhari - Women's
- Sahaja Yamlapalli - Women's
Triathlon
- Pragnya Mohan - Women's
Volleyball
- Indian men's volleyball team
- Indian women's volleyball team
Weightlifting
- Mirabai Chanu - Women's 49kg
- Bindyarani Devi - Women's 55kg
- Achinta Sheuli - Men's 73kg
- N Ajith - Men's 73kg
Wrestling
- Pooja Gehlot - Women’s 50kg
- Vinesh Phogat - Women’s 53kg (Antim Panghal as standby)
- Mansi Ahlawat - Women’s 57kg
- Sonam Malik - Women’s 62kg
- Radhika - Women’s 68kg
- Kiran - Women’s 76kg
- Gyanender - Greco-Roman 60kg
- Neeraj - Greco-Roman 67kg
- Vikash - Greco-Roman 77kg
- Sunil Kumar - Greco-Roman 87kg
- Narinder Cheema - Greco-Roman 97kg
- Naveen - Greco-Roman 130kg
- Aman Sehrawat - Men's 57kg
- Bajrang Punia - Men's 65kg (Vishal Kaliraman as standby)
- Yash - Men's 74kg
- Deepak Punia - Men's 86kg
- Vicky - Men's 97kg
- Sumit - Men's 125kg
(Note: The list will be updated as and when more Indians qualify)