Pride of India
Neeraj Chopra
Athletics
Men's Javelin Throw
Gold
Mirabai Chanu
Weightlifting
Women's 49kg
Silver
Ravi Kumar Dahiya
Wrestling
Men's 57KG
Silver
PV Sindhu
Badminton
Women's Singles
Bronze
Lovlina Borgohain
Boxing
Women's 69KG - Welterweight
Bronze
Indian Hockey Team
Hockey
Men's
Bronze
Bajrang Punia
Wrestling
Men's 65KG
Bronze
Tamilians in Tokyo
Bhavani Devi
Fencing
Women's Sabre
Nethra Kumanan
Sailing
Women's Laser Radial
Vishnu Saravanan
Sailing
Men's Laser
K.C. Ganapathy
Sailing
Men's 49er
Varun Thakkar
Sailing
Men's 49er
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
Table Tennis
Men's Singles
Achanta Sharath Kamal
Table Tennis
Men's Singles
Elavenil Valarivan
Shooting
Women's 10 M Air Rifle
Arokia Rajiv
Athletics
Men's 4x400m Relay
Naganathan Pandi
Athletics
Men's 4x400m Relay
Subha Venkatesan
Athletics
Mixed 4x400m Relay
Revathi Veeramani
Athletics
Mixed 4x400m Relay
Dhanlakshmi Sekar
Athletics
Mixed 4x400m Relay
India Participating Events
The objective is to shoot arrow as close as possile to the inner circle which has a diameter of 12.2cm. The distance between the archers and the target is 70 cm.
Individual events
Both archers will shoot three arrows in each sets with the best scorer receiving two points. If drawn each player receives one point. The match would go on until one player gets six points.If the match was drawn after five sets, a single arrow shoot-off was held in which the closest arrow to the center of the target wins.
Team and mixed events are also held with set system.
In team event, each team set has six arrows and the team to receive five set points wins. If the match ends with a tie, each archer shoots on arrow and the team which has highest score wins.
Mixed events are conducted same as the team event with four arrows each set instead of six.
Athlete | Event | Ranking Record | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final/BM | ||
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Score | Seed | Score (Opposition) | Score (Opposition) | Score (Opposition) | Score (Opposition) | Score (Opposition) | Score (Opposition) | |||
Atanu Das | Men's Individual | 653 | 35 | W 6-4 (Deng Yu- Cheng - Chinese Taipei) | W 6-5 (Oh Jin-Hyek - South Korea) | L 4-6 (Takaharu Furukawa - Japan) | Did not advance | |||
Tarundeep Rai | 656 | 31 | W 6-4 (Oleksii Hunbin - Ukraine) | L 5-6 (Itay Shanny - Israel) | Did not advance | |||||
Pravin Jadhav | 652 | 37 | W 6-0 (Galsan Bazarzhapov - Russia) | L 0-6 (Brady Ellison - USA) | ||||||
Atanu Das | Men's Team | 1961 | 9 | N/A | W 6-2 (Kazakhstan) | L 0-6 (South Korea) | Did not advance | |||
Pravin Jadhav | ||||||||||
Tarundeep Rai | ||||||||||
Deepika Kumari | Women's Individual | 663 | 9 | W 6-0 (Karma - Bhutan) | W 6-4 (Jennifer Mucino-Fernandez - USA) | W 6-5 (Ksenia Perova - Russia) | L 0-6 (An San - South Korea) | |||
Pravin Jadhav | Mixed Team | 1319 | 9 | N/A | W 5-3 (Chinese Taipei) | L 2-6 ( South Korea) | ||||
Deepika Kumari |
Men's 400m Hurdles involves athletes crossing obstacles successfully
4x400 Mixed Relay
Two men and two women participate in the event. The events start with heats and the fastest team will reach semifinals and finals.
Men's 20k race walk
Athletes must stay in contact with the ground all through the 20 kilometer race. Competed as road race,the athletes' supporting leg should stay straight till the raised leg passes it.
30000m steeplechase
The athletes has to jump over barriers placed at five points around the track. The height of these obstacles is fixed at 36 inches (91.4cm) for men. The events start with heats and the fastest athlete will reach semifinals and finals.
Women's 20k race walk
Athletes must stay in contact with the ground all through the 20 kilometer race. Competed as road race,the athletes' supporting leg should stay straight till the raised leg passes it.
Men throw the javelin or spear with 2.6 to 2.7 m of the length and the athlete with the longest legal throw progresses further. The throw is considered legal only if the tip of the javelin touches the ground before any other part. The distance is measures from the throwing arc to the point where the tip touched the ground. Twelve competitors will qualify to the final and the athlete that manages the longest legal throw in the final wins.
The athletes who makes the longest jump from a wooden board qualifies further and in the end one who makes the longest leap is declared winner. If the athlete leaps by placing a foot past the foul line is declared a foul jump and the distance is not recorded.
In Shot Put, the athletes’ goal is to put the shot, which weighs 7.26kg/16lb for men as far as possible using one hand from a circle with the diameter 2.135 diameter that also has a toe board . The athlete should not the leave the circle or touch the toe board during the competition.
Athletes have to throw a disc called discus standing inside a circle with a diameter of 2.5 m and the one that reaches the farther distance progresses further in the competition. Athletes are not permitted to touch the top rim and if the players leave the circle it will be considered as foul throw. Each athlete is given 8 chances.
Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | ||
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Distance | Position | Distance | Position | ||
M.P Jabir | Men's 400m Hurdles | 50.77 | 33 | Did not advance | |
Muhammed Anas | Men's 4x400m Relay | 3:00:25 | 9 | Did not advance | |
Noah Nirmal Tom | |||||
Naganathan Pandi | |||||
Amoj Jacob | |||||
Arokia Rajiv | |||||
Sarthak Bhambri | 4x400m Mixed Relay | 3:19.93 | 15 | Did not advance | |
Alex Antony | |||||
Subha Venkatesan | |||||
Revathi Veeramani | |||||
Dhanalakshmi Sekaran | |||||
Sandeep Kumar | Men's 20KM Race Walk | Did not advance | 1:25.07 | 23 | |
Rahul Rohila | 1:32.06 | 47 | |||
Irfan Kolothum Thodi | 1:34.31 | 51 | |||
Gurpreet Singh | Men's 50km Walk | Did Not Finish | |||
Avinash Sable | Men's 3000M Steeplechase | 8:18.12 | 13 | Did not advance | |
Dutee Chand | Women's 100m | 11.54 | 45 | ||
Dutee Chand | Women's 200m | 23.85 | 38 | ||
Priyanka Goswami | Women's 20 km Race Walk | N/A | 1:32:36 | 17 | |
Bhavna Jat | 1:37:38 | 32 | |||
Neeraj Chopra | Men's Javelin Throw | 86.65 m | 1 | 87.58 | 1 |
Shivpal Singh | 76.4 m | 27 | Did not advance | ||
Annu Rani | Women's Javelin Throw | 54.04 m | 29 | ||
Murali Sreeshankar | Men's Long Jump | 7.69 m | 25 | ||
Tajindarpal Singh Toor | Men's Shot Put | 19.99 m | 24 | ||
Kamalpreet Kaur | Women's Discus Throw | 64 m | 2 | 63.7 | 6 |
Seema Punia | 60.57 m | 16 | Did not advance |
A match has three games and the player or team that wins two out of the three games wins the match. The first player or team that reaches 21 points wins the game. If the games gets tied up with 20-all the match continues until a side gains two- point lead. If the score gets 29-all, the player or team that reaches 30 wins the game.
Athlete | Event | Group Stage | Elimination | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final/BM | |||
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Score (Opposition) | Score (Opposition) | Score (Opposition) | Rank | Score (Opposition) | Score (Opposition) | Score (Opposition) | Score (Opposition) | ||
Sai B Praneeth | Men's Singles | L 0-2 (Misha Zilberman - Israel) | L 0-2 (Mark Caljouw - Netherlands) | N/A | 3 | Did not advance | |||
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy | Men's Doubles | W 2-1 (Chinese Taipei) | L 0-2 (Indonesia) | W 2-0 (Britain) | 3 | ||||
Chirag Shetty | |||||||||
PV Sindhu | Women's Singles | W 2-0 (Ksenia Polikarpova - Israel) | W 2-0 (Ngan Yi Cheung - Hong Kong) | N/A | 1 | W 2-0 (Mia Blichfeldt - Denmark) | W 2-0 (Akane Yamaguchi - Japan) | L 0-2 (T.Y.Tai - Taipei) | W 2-0 (He Bing Jiao - China) BRONZE MEDAL |
A boxer scores everytime he/she lands a successful hit in the head and torso. They are prohibited from hitting below the belt or in the back of the head. An bout consists of three round of three minutes each. The winner that wins each bout progresses and the boxer winning the finals wins gold.
Athlete | Event | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final/BM | |
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Result (Opposition) | Result (Opposition) | Result (Opposition) | Result (Opposition) | Result (Opposition) | Rank | ||
Amit Panghal | Men's 52kg-Flyweight | Bye | L 1-4 (Yurberjen Herney - Colombia) | Did not advance | 9 | ||
Manish Kaushik | Men's 63kg-Lightweight | L 1-4 (Luke McCormack - Great Britain) | Did not advance | 17 | |||
Vikas Krishan | Men's 69kg-Welterweight | L 0-5 (Quincy Okazawa - Japan) | 17 | ||||
Ashish Kumar | Men's 75kg-Middleweight | L 0-5 (Erbieke Tuoheta - China) | 17 | ||||
Satish Kumar | Men's+91kg-Super Heavyweight | Bye | W 4-1 (Ricardo Brown - Jamaica) | L 0-5 (Bakhodir Jalolov - Uzbekistan) | Did not advance | 5 | |
Mary Kom | Women's 51kg-Flyweight | W 4-1 (Miguelina Hernandez - Dominican Republic) | L 2-3 (Ingrit Valencia - Colombia) | Did not advance | 9 | ||
Simranjit Kaur | Women's 60kg-Lightweight | Bye | L 0-5 (Sudaporn Seesondee - Thailand) | 9 | |||
Lovlina Borgohain | Women's 69kg-Welterweight | Bye | W 3-2 (Nadine Apetz - Germany) | W 4-1 (Nien Chin Chen - Chinese Taipei) | L 0-5 (Li Qian - China) | Did not advance | 3 |
Pooja Rani | Women's 75kg-Middleweight | N/A | W 5-0 (Ichrak Chaib - Algeria) | L 0-5 (Li Qian - China) | Did not advance | 5 |
Eventing consists of stadium jumping, dressage and cross country jumps. The horse has to be 9 years old to compete. In Stadium Jumping the horses and riders makes a course of jumps without faults withing the given time. In Dressage, points are given based on obedience, suppleness, accuracy, attitude, and how well one rides.The rider and horse rides at different gaints inside the dressage rings. In Cross Country jumping, the horse and rider are required to ride over a course with obstacles and are tested for speed, endurance and jumping ability.
Women's Sabre
Two periods are held with a break when the first fencer reaches eight points. The first fencer to reach 15 points or has the most points is declared winner. The target area for sabre is the torso, head and the arms. Electrical scoring systems are used and it also features rule of priority.
Athlete | Event | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final/BM |
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Score (Opposition) | Score (Opposition) | Score (Opposition) | Score (Opposition) | Score (Opposition) | Score (Opposition) | ||
Bhavani Devi | Women's sabre | W 15-3 (Nadia Ben Azizi - Tunisia) | L 7-15 (Manon Brunet - France) | Did not advance |
Olympic Golf follows Stroke play format where the players play 18 holes of the same course for four times. The player who has the least number of strokes at the end of the fourth round wins.
Women's Artistic Gymnastics
It has a variant of 4 competition, Vault, Uneven Bars, Balance beam, Floor exercise. Vault with height at 125, 95cm surface width and 120cm long whcih is used by the gymnast for their launch. Uneven bars - one at 2.5m above grounds and the second at 1.7m flexed between 1.3 and 1.8 m. Balance beam - 10cm wide bar with 5m in length and 1.25m above the ground. Floor exercise - 90 second routine. Athletes must compete from same levels in all events. If an athlete's performance crosses the time limit, 0.1 points of penalty must be paid.
Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | ||||||||||
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Apparatus | Total | Rank | Apparatus | Total | Rank | ||||||||
V | UB | BB | F | V | UB | BB | F | ||||||
Pranati Nayak | Women's Artistic Gymnastics | 13.466 | 9.033 | 9.433 | 10.6333 | 42.565 | 79 | Did not advance |
Each team had 11 players who play for four quarters of 15 minutes with two minutes interval between each quarter. The team that scores most goals wins the match.
Team | Event | Group Stage | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Medal Match | ||||||
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Score (Opposition) | Score (Opposition) | Score (Opposition) | Score (Opposition) | Score (Opposition) | Rank | Score (Opposition) | Score (Opposition) | Score (Opposition) | Rank | ||
India | Men's | W 3-2 New Zealand | L 1-7 Australia | W 3-0 Spain | W 3-1 Argentina | W 5-3 Japan | 2 | W 3-1 Great Britain | L 2-5 Belgium | W 4-3 Germany | 3 |
Women's | L 1-5 Netherlands | L 0-2 Germany | L 1-4 Great Britain | W 1-0 Ireland | W 4-3 South Africa | 2 | W 1-0 Australia | L 1-2 Argentina | L 3-4 Great Britain | 4 |
Judokas compete in seven weight categories. The matches will be held for four minutes during which many round will be conducted. Judoko who scores an ippon, score two waza-aris are ideal ways to wins the round.
Athlete | Event | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final/BM | |
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Score (Opposition) | Score (Opposition) | Score (Opposition) | Score (Opposition) | Score (Opposition) | Rank | ||
Sushila Likmabam | Women's 48kg | L 0-1 (Eva Csernoviczki - Hungary) | Did not advance |
The boat that reaches the finish line first will be declared the winner.
Lightweight Double Sculls
Each male competitors' weight should not exceed 72.5 kilos while the average weight should not exceed 70 kilos. For females, individual weight cannot exceed 59 kilos and the average should not exceed 57 kilos.
Timings of the Participant crossing the finish line in decides the winner of this sport. The series of races will have the one finishing first one point and finishing second will have two. Sailing is a sport of winning by scoring low points. The finals which is called as the medal race will have the points doubled according to the position of the sailors.
.49er - Skiff (Men)
Laser Radial - One Person Dinghy (Women)
Laser - One Person Dinghy (Men)
Athlete | Event | Race | Net Points | Final Rank | ||||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | M* | ||||
Vishnu Saravanan | Men's Laser | 14 | 20 | 24 | 23 | 22 | 12 | 27 | 23 | 3 | 15 | N/A | EL | 156 | 20 | |
K.C. Ganapathy | Men's 49er | 18 | 18 | 17 | 19 | 14 | 5 | 17 | 11 | 15 | 16 | 9 | 14 | EL | 154 | 17 |
Varun Thakkar | ||||||||||||||||
Nethra Kumanan | Women's Laser Radial | 33 | 16 | 15 | 40 | 32 | 38 | 22 | 20 | 37 | 38 | N/A | EL | 251 | 35 |
The participants take target with different distances like 10m, 25m and 50m. Shotguns, rifles and pistols are used in the sport.
10m air rifle and air pistol
The air pistol competition takes place with the shooter placed at a distance of 10 metres from the target. The qualification shots are 60 which needs to be completed in 75 minutes and the those with top scores qualifies for the final. Final takes place with the top eight scorers with 24 competition shots each. The shooter must handle the pistol with one hand alone with no support in a standing position.
Air rifle contest too functions with the 60 shots qualifier and 24 shots final. The limitations with the hand position in the pistol competition is not applicable to the air rifle competition.
25m Pistol
The women-only competition will have the 60 competition shots split evenly between precision shooting and rapid shooting. The eight finalists will have five shots each for four additional rapid-fire stage.
50m Rifle men and women
This competition takes place with the shooters in three positions, kneeling, prone and standing. 40 competition shots of three rounds (for three positions) are taken into account to decide the finalists. The finals will have 45 competition shots divided by three, after 10 of the 15 shoots from the standing stage (last one) are done the two bottom scores will be eliminated with the final five shots taken by the others decides the winner. For women the qualifiers are simplified with 20 shots per each position, while the other rules are similar with the men.
Skeet
This kind of shooting competition involves a shooter aiming at a moving target, a target launched from different heights. A series of five rounds with 25 shots each decides the finalists. Finals will have the targets with different colours.
Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | ||
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Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||
Divyansh Singh Panwar | Men's 10m Air Rifle | 622.8 | 32 | DNQ | |
Deepak Kumar | 624.7 | 26 | DNQ | ||
Apurvi Chandela | Women's 10m Air Rifle | 621.9 | 36 | DNQ | |
Elavenil Valarivan | 626.5 | 16 | DNQ | ||
Saurabh Chaudhary | Men's 10m Air Pistol | 586 | 1 | 137.4 | 7 |
Abhishek Verma | 575 | 17 | DNQ | ||
Manu Bhaker | Women's 10m Air Pistol | 575 | 12 | DNQ | |
Yashaswini Singh Deswal | 574 | 13 | DNQ | ||
Sanjeev Rajput | Men's 50m Rifle 3 Position | 1157 | 32 | DNQ | |
Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar | 1167 | 21 | DNQ | ||
Anjum Moudgil | Women's 50m Rifle 3 Position | 1167 | 15 | DNQ | |
Tejaswini Sawant | 1154 | 33 | DNQ | ||
Manu Bhaker | Women's 25m Pistol | 582 | 15 | DNQ | |
Rahi Sarnobat | 573 | 32 | DNQ | ||
Angad Bajwa | Men's Skeet | 120 | 18 | DNQ | |
Mairaj Ahmad Khan | 117 | 25 | DNQ | ||
Divyansh Singh Panwar | Mixed Team 10m Air Rifle | 313.3 | 12 | DNQ | |
Elavenil Valarivan | 313.2 | 12 | DNQ | ||
Deepak Kumar | 314.2 | 18 | DNQ | ||
Anjum Moudgil | 311.4 | 18 | DNQ | ||
Saurabh Chaudhary | Mixed Team 10m Air Pistol | 194 | 7 | DNQ | |
Manu Bhaker | 186 | 7 | DNQ | ||
Abhishek Verma | 283 | 17 | DNQ | ||
Yashaswini Singh Deswal | 281 | 17 | DNQ |
Swimming has the swimmers cover the given distance in fastest time with a given stroke with exception to freestyle.
Backstroke
Swimmers need to compete lying on their backs and slide across the water surface.
Butterfly stroke
The swimmers need to resemble a butterfly's movement by moving their arms symmetrically with a simultaneous leg kick.
The match begins with a toss to decide who serves first and who stands in which side of the table. The match-winner is decided by the best-of-seven-games format. One who scores 11 points first will be the winner of the game. In case of a 10-10 tie, the game is decided by a two-point lead.
Doubles
Other than winning by the best-of-five-games format and partners sharing serves, doubles and singles do not differ much.
Athlete | Event | Preliminary | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final/BM | |
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Result (Opposition) | Result (Opposition) | Result (Opposition) | Result (Opposition) | Result (Opposition) | Result (Opposition) | Result (Opposition) | Result (Opposition) | Rank | ||
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran | Men's Singles | Bye | L 3-4 (Siu Hang Lam - Hong Kong) | Did not advance | ||||||
Achanta Sharath Kamal | Bye | W 4-2 (Tiago Apolonia - Portugal) | L 1-4 (Ma Long - China) | Did not advance | ||||||
Manika Batra | Women's Singles | Bye | W 4-0 (Tin Tin-Ho - Great Britain) | W 4-3 (Margaryta Pesotska - Ukraine) | L 0-4 (Sofia Polcanova - Austria) | |||||
Sutirtha Mukherjee | W 4-3 (Linda Bergstroem - Sweden) | W 4-2 (Tiago Apolonia - Portugal) | Did not advance | |||||||
Achanta Sharath Kamal | Mixed Doubles | N/A | L 0-4 Chinese Taipei | Did not advance | ||||||
Manika Batra |
Tennis
A coin toss decides who serves and who receives. A game is won by scoring four points. The game is played in the best-of-three-sets format. The first player to win six games with a two-point advantage wins the set. In the occurence of a 5-5, a player wins by two-point advantage and in the event of a 6-6 situation, a tie-breaker decides the winner.
Classification of points in Tennis lingo
zero - love
one - 15
two - 30
three - 40
Athlete | Event | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final/BM | |
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Result (Opposition) | Result (Opposition) | Result (Opposition) | Result (Opposition) | Result (Opposition) | Result (Opposition) | Rank | ||
Sania Mirza | Women's Doubles | N/A | L 1-2 Ukraine | Did not advance | ||||
Ankita Raina | ||||||||
Sumit Nagal | Men's Singles | W 2-0 (Dennis Istomin - Uzbekistan) | L 0-2 (Daniil Mededev- Russia) |
weightlifting
There are two rounds the snatch and the clean and jerk. With three attempts in each round. Snatch is a plain and continuous lift with unshaky arms and in-line feet. Failing in any of their three attempts in a snatch will result in the elimination of the lifter, he/she cannot proceed for the clean and jerk round. The clean and jerk focusses on various body movements to consider a valid lift. The clean is when the lifter brings the barbell to his/her chest and jerk is when the lifter has to lift the barbell over the head with steady arms and with feet in line. If the lifter drops the barbell before the signal, the lift becomes invalid.
Athlete | Event | Snatch | Clean & Jerk | Total | Rank | ||
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Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||||
Mirabai Chanu | Women's 49 Kg | 87 | 2 | 115 | 2 | 202 | 2 |
Two rounds of three minutes is the duration of a wrestling match. The wrestler scoring maximum points will be declared the winner of the bout. However, if a wrestler has an eight-point advantage over his opponent the match need not extend any further. Points for both Greco Roman and Freestyle wrestling is the same. One point for pushing opponent out of the circle mat; two for a takedown with the opponent's back on the mat; four for throwing a standing opponent and five for a throw with a great amplitude.
Greco Roman
This style of wrestling involves a lot of upper body strength and balance. Maneuvering with legs and tripping the opponent using legs is not legal.
Freestyle
Like the name suggests, Freestyle wrestling has no restrictions placed on Greco Roman.