Neeraj Chopra to Mirabai Chanu: Complete List of Indian Athletes for Commonwealth Games 2022
The Commonwealth Games 2022 will begin in Birmingham from 28 July, with the Games ending on 8 August. India finished third behind the leaders of Australia and England in the medal tally at the Commonwealth Games 2018 with 26 gold, 20 silver and 20 bronze.
With the Birmingham Games due from 28 July, the qualification and team selection process is still ongoing. Here is the list of Indian sportspersons who have qualified for the 2022 Commonwealth Games so far…
exercise
India named a 37-member athletics team comprising Neeraj Chopra, Dutee Chand and Hima Das for the Birmingham Commonwealth Games.
Avinash Sable – Men’s 3000m steeplechase
Nitender Rawat – Men’s Marathon
M Sreeshankar – Men’s long jump
Mohammad Anees Yahia – Men’s long jump
Abdullah Abubakar – Men’s triple jump
Praveen Chitravel – Men’s triple jump
Aldhos Paul – Men’s triple jump
Tajinderpal Singh Toor – Men’s Shot Put
Neeraj Chopra – Men’s javelin throw
DP Manu – Men’s Javelin Throw
Rohit Yadav – Men’s javelin throw
Sandeep Kumar – Men’s 10km race walk
Amit Khatri – Men’s 10km Race Walk
Amoz Jacob – Men’s 4x400m relay
Noah Serene Tom – Men’s 4x400m relay
Arokia Rajeev – Men’s 4x400m relay
Mohammad Ajmal – Men’s 4x400m relay
Naganathan Pandy – Men’s 4x400m relay
Rajesh Ramesh – Men’s 4x400m relay
Dhanalakshmi Sekar – Women’s 100m and 4x100m relay
Jyoti Yaraji – Women’s 100m hurdles
Aishwarya B – Women’s long jump and triple jump
Ansie Sojen – Women’s long jump
Manpreet Kaur – Women’s Shot Put
Navjeet Kaur Dhillon – Women’s Discus Throw
Seema Punia – Women’s Discus Throw
Annu Rani – Female Javelin Thrower
Shilpa Rani – Female Javelin Thrower
Manju Bala Singh – Women’s Hammer Throw
Sarita Romit Singh – Women’s Hammer Throw
Bhawna Jat – Women’s 10km Race Walk
Priyanka Goswami – Women’s 10km Run Walk
Hima Das – Women’s 4x100m relay
Dutee Chand – Women’s 4x100m relay
Sarbani Nanda – Women’s 4x100m relay
MV Jilana – Women’s 4x100m relay
NS Simi – Women’s 4x100m relay
Tough conditions with the weather, but happy to have my first win of the season here in Cuortane. I am feeling well and looking forward to starting my Diamond League season on the 30th at @BAUHAUSGALAN.
Thanks for all the messages and support. pic.twitter.com/C1ulI0mktN – neeraj chopra (@neeraj_chopra1) June 19, 2022
badminton
PV Sindhu (Female)
Akash Kashyap (Female)
Treesa Jolly (Female)
Gayatri Gopichand (Female)
Ashwini Ponnappa (Female)
Lakshya Sen (Male)
Kidambi Srikanth (Male)
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (Male)
Chirag Shetty (Male)
B Sumeeth Reddy (Male)
boxing
Commonwealth Games medalists Amit Panghal and Mohammad Hussamuddin made it to Birmingham 2022, along with five-time Asian medalist Shiv Thapa.
Amit Panghal – Men’s 51kg
Mohammad Husamuddin – Men’s 57kg
Shiv Thapa – Men’s 63.5kg
Rohit Tokas – Men’s 67kg
Sumit Kundu – Men’s 75kg
Ashish Chowdhary – Men’s 80kg
Sanjeet – Men’s 92kg
Sagar – Men’s 92+kg
Neetu – Women’s 48kg
Nikhat Zareen – Women’s 50kg
Jasmine – Women’s 60kg
Lovlina Borgohain – Women’s 70kg
Cricket
Birmingham 2022 will see cricket’s second appearance at the CWG event. The first, in Kuala Lumpur 1998, was a men’s 50-over tournament, but in Birmingham 2022, a women’s T20I format will be played.
The hosts England, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, South Africa, Barbados and Sri Lanka will be involved in an eight-team match at the Commonwealth Games 2022. The Indian cricket team is one of the five teams that qualified for the Commonwealth Games 2022, courtesy their ICC WT20I rankings.
Hockey
Both the Indian men’s and women’s hockey teams have already made it to the Commonwealth Games 2022 based on their FIH rankings. The men’s and women’s hockey competitions will be 10-team affairs.
Indian women won CWG hockey gold in 2002, but men are still looking for their first, with two silver medals (2010 and 2014) being their best performances to date.
table tennis
The Indian table tennis squad for Birmingham 2022 consists of eight players, four men and four women. The team was selected after a weeklong national camp in late May.
Achanta Sharath Kamal (Male)
Sathiyan Gyanasekaran (Male)
Sanil Shetty (Male)
Harmeet Desai (Male)
Manika Batra (Female)
Diya Chitale (Female)
Sreeja Akula (Female)
Reeth Rishi (Female)
lifting weights
Led by Tokyo Olympic silver medalist and reigning Commonwealth champion Mirabai Chanu, India’s 12-member strong weightlifting contingent for the Commonwealth Games 2022 was the first to be finalised.
Mirabai Chanu – Women’s 49kg
Bindyarani Devi – Women’s 55kg
Poppy Hazarika – Women’s 59kg
Usha Kumara – Women’s 87kg
Poornima Pandey – Female + 87 kg
Sanket Mahadev – Men’s 55kg
Chanambam Rishikant Singh – Men’s 55kg
Jeremy Lalrinnunga – Men’s 67kg
Achinta Shuli – Men’s 73kg
Ajay Singh – Men’s 81kg
Vikas Thakur – Men’s 96kg
Ragala Venkat Rahul – Men’s 96kg
Wrestling
The following wrestlers made it to the Indian team by winning their respective categories in the selection trials.
Pooja Gehlot – Women’s 50kg
Vinesh Phogat – Women’s 53kg
Anshu Malik – Women’s 57kg
Sakshi Malik – Women’s 62kg
Divya Kakran – Women’s 68kg
Pooja Sihag – Women’s 76kg
Ravi Kumar Dahiya – Men’s 57kg
Bajrang Punia – Men’s 65kg
Naveen – Men’s 74kg
Deepak Punia – Men’s 86kg
Deepak – Men’s 97kg
Mohit Grewal – Men’s 125kg