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Commonwealth Games 2022: Full list of athletes in the Indian contingent

The Commonwealth Games 2022 is scheduled to start from 28th July

Indian athletes (Source: Twitter)

With the 22nd edition of the Commonwealth Games set to begin in Birmingham in 2 days, the excitement for the event has reached sky-high. The quadrennial event is scheduled to take place from 28th July to 8th August. A large number of Indian athletes will be seen participating across various sports. India have announced a 215 – member contingent for the ‘marquee event’.

Having made their debut at the Grand event way back in 1934, India have won 503 medals at the event in their 18 appearances so far, and are ranked fourth in the all-time medal tally of the mega event. The Indian contingent finished at the third spot in the last edition of the event in 2018 Gold Coast, Australia. The Indian athletes bagged a total of 66 medals including 26 Gold and 20 silver.

India’s best performance at the Commonwealth Games came in the year 2010 as the hosts of the event where they finished at the second spot in the medals tally after. They had won 38 Gold, 27 Silver and 36 bronze medals. India finished with 101 medals against its name at the 2010 edition held in Delhi.

The Indian contingent is all set to make the entire nation proud by giving their all on the field this year as well. Here’s looking at the entire squad for India at the Commonwealth Games 2022.

CRICKET

Full squad: Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Smriti Mandhana (vice captain), Shafali Verma, S. Meghana, Taniya Bhatia (wicketkeeper), Yastika Bhatia (wicketkeepeer), Deepti Sharma, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Pooja Vastrakar, Meghna Singh, Renuka Thakur, Jemimah Rodrigues, Radha Yadav, Harleen Deol, Sneh Rana

ATHLETICS

Men’s athletics team: Avinash Sable (3000m steeplechase), Murali Sreeshankar, Muhammed Anees (long jump), Praveen Chitravel, Abdulla Aboobacker, Eldhose Paul (all triple jump), Tajinderpal Singh Toor (shotput), DP Manu, Rohit Yadav (all javelin), Sandeep Kumar, Amit Kharti (race walking), Amoj Jacob, Noah Nirmal Tom, Muhammed Ajmal, Naganathan Pandi, Rajesh Ramesh (4x400m relay)

Women’s athletics team: S Dhalalakshmi (100m and 4x100m relay), Jyothi Yarraji (100m hurdles), Aishwarya B (long jump and triple jump), Ancy Sojan (long jump), Manpreet Kaur (shotput), Navjeet Kaur Dhillon, Seema Punia (discus)*, Annu Rani, Shilpa Rani (javelin), Manju Bala and Sarita Singh (hammer throw), Bhawana Jat, Priyanka Goswami (race walking), Hima Das, Dutee Chand, Srabani Nanda, MV Jilna, NS Simi (4x100m relay)

SWIMMING

Sajan Prakash – men’s 50m, 100m and 200m butterfly, Srihari Nataraj – men’s 50m, 100m and 200m backstrokes, Kushagra Rawat – men’s 200m, 400m and 1500m freestyle, Advait Page – men’s 1500m freestyle

 BOXING

Men’s Boxing Team: Shiva Thapa (63.5kg), Mohammad Hussamuddin (57 kg), Amit Panghal (51kg), Rohit Tokas (67 kg), Sumit Kundu (75 kg), Ashish Chaudhary (80 kg), Sanjeet Kumar (92 kg), Sagar (+92 kg)

Women’s Boxing Team: Nitu (48kg), Nikhat Zareen (50kg), Jaismine (60kg) Lovlina Borgohain (70kg)

BADMINTON

Men’s Badminton Team: Lakshya Sen, Kidambi Srikanth, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty, B Sumeeth Reddy

Women’s Badminton Team: PV Sindhu, Aakarshi Kashyap, Treesa Jolly, Gayatri Gopichand, Ashwini Ponappa

 HOCKEY

Women’s Hockey Team: Savita Punia (captain), Rajani Etimarpu, Deep Grace Ekka (vice-captain), Gurjit Kaur, Nikki Pradhan, Udita, Nisha, Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam, Monika, Neha, Jyoti, Navjot Kaur, Salima Tete, Vandana Katariya, Lalremsiami, Navneet Kaur, Sharmila Devi, Sangita Kumari

Men’s Hockey Team: PR Sreejesh, Krishan Bahadur Pathak, Varun Kumar, Surender Kumar, Harmanpreet Singh (vice-captain), Amit Rohidas, Jugraj Singh, Jarmanpreet Singh, Manpreet Singh (captain), Hardik Singh, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Shamsher Singh, Akashdeep Singh, Nilakanta Sharma, Mandeep Singh, Gurjant Singh, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Abhishek

TABLE TENNIS

Women’s Table Tennis Team: Manika Batra, Sreeja Akula, Reeth Rishya, Diya Chitale, Swastika Ghosh (Reserve)

Men’s Table Tennis Team: Sharath Kamal, Gnanasekaran Sathiyan, Harmeet Desai, Sanil Shetty, Manush Shah (Reserve)

WEIGHTLIFTING

Men’s Weightlifting Team: Sanket Mahadev (55kg), Chanambam Rishikanta Singh (55kg), Jeremy Lalrinnunga (67kg), Achinta Sheuli (73kg), Ajay Singh (81kg), Vikas Thakur (96kg), Ragala Venkat Rahul (+96kg)

Women’s Weightlifting Team: Mirabai Chanu (49kg), Bindyarani Devi (55kg), Popy Hazarika (59kg), Usha Kumara (87kg), Purnima Pandey (+87kg)

WRESTLING

Men’s Wrestling Team: Freestyle: Ravi Kumar Dahiya (57 kg), Bajrang Punia (65 kg), Naveen (74 kg), Deepak Punia (86 kg), Deepak (97 kg), and Mohit Grewal (125 kg)

Women’s Wrestling Team: Pooja Gehlot (50 kg), Vinesh Phogat (53 kg), Anshu Malik (57 kg), Sakshi Malik (62 kg), Divya Kakran (68 kg), Pooja Sihag (76 kg)

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