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List of Athletes Under Target Olympic Podium Scheme List of Athletes under Target Olympic Podium Scheme S.No. Name Discipline Event 1 Atanu Das Archery Recurve 2 Pravin Jhadhav Archery Recurve 3 Tarundeep Rai Archery Recurve 4 Deepika Kumari Archery Recurve 5 Komalika Bari Archery Recurve 6 Ankita Bhakat Archery Recurve 7 Neeraj Chopra Athletics Men's Javelin Throw 8 Shivpal Singh Athletics Men's Javelin Throw 9 Hima Das Athletics Women's 200m & 400m 10 Mohammed Anas Yahiya Athletics Men's 400m, 4x400m Relays 11 Dharun Ayyasamy Athletics Men's 400m Hurdles 12 Tajinderpal Singh Toor Athletics Men's Shot Put 13 Jinson Johnson Athletics Men's 1500m 14 Avinash Sable Athletics Men's 3000m Steeplechase 15 Sreeshankar Murali Athletics Men's Long Jump 16 Seema Punia Athletics Women's Discus Throw 17 Dutee Chand Athletics Women's 100m & 200m 18 Annu Rani Athletics Women's Javelin Throw 19 K T Irfan Athletics Men's 20km Race Walk 20 Arokia Rajiv Athletics Men's 400m & 4x400m Relays 21 Noah Nirmal Tom Athletics Men's 400m & 4x400m Relays 22 Alex Anthony Athletics Men's 400m & 4x400m Relays 23 Poovamma M R Athletics Women's 400m & 4x400m Relays 24 Archana Suseendran Athletics Women's 100m & 200m 25 Rahul Athletics Men's 20km Race Walk 26 Sandeep Kumar Athletics Men's 20km Race Walk 27 Priyanka Goswami Athletics Women's 20km Race Walk 28 Bhawna Jat Athletics Women's 20km Race Walk 29 Kamalpreet Kaur Athletics Women's Discus Throw 30 Vismaya V K Athletics Women's 400m & 4x400m Relays 31 Jisna Mathew Athletics Women's 400m & 4x400m Relays 32 Srikanth Kidambi Badminton Men's Singles 33 Sai Praneeth B Badminton Men's Singles 34 P. V. Sindhu Badminton Women's Singles 35 Saina Nehwal Badminton Women's Singles 36 Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Badminton Men's Doubles 37 Chirag Shetty Badminton Men's Doubles S.No. Name Discipline Event 38 Ashwini Ponnappa Badminton Women's Doubles 39 Sikki N Reddy Badminton Women's Doubles 40 Amit Panghal Boxing 52 Kg 41 Kavinder Singh Bisht Boxing 57 Kg 42 Manish Kaushik Boxing 63 Kg 43 Vikaa Krishan Boxing 69 Kg 44 Mary Kom Boxing 51 Kg 45 Lovlina Boroghain Boxing 69 Kg 46 Ashish Kumar Boxing 75 Kg 47 Pooja Rani Boxing 75 Kg 48 Satish Kumar Boxing Plus 91 Kg 49 Simranjit Kaur Boxing 60 Kg 50 Fouaad Mirza Equestrian Individual Eventing 51 Harvinder Singh Para Archery recurve men 52 Vivek Chikara Para Archery recurve men 53 Shyam Sundar Para Archery compound men 54 Rakesh Kumar Para Archery compound men 55 Amit Kumar Saroha Para Athletics Men's Club Throw F51 56 Rinku Hooda Para Athletics Javelin Throw F46 57 Sandeep Chaudhary Para Athletics Javelin Throw F44/64 58 Sharad Kumar Para Athletics High Jump T42/63 59 Sumit Antil Para Athletics Javelin Throw F64 60 Sundar Singh Gurjar Para Athletics Javelin Throw F46 61 Nishad Kumar Para Athletics High Jump T47 62 Ajeet Singh Para Athletics Javelin Throw F46 63 Yogesh Kathuniya Para Athletics Discus Throw F56 64 Mariyappan T Para Athletics High Jump T63 65 Ajit Kumar Panchal Para Athletics Discus Throw F52 66 Praveen Kumar Para Athletics High Jump T64 67 Ramsingh Govindbhai Para Athletics High Jump T42/63 68 Vinod Kumar Para Athletics Discus Throw F52 69 Suhas Yathiraj Para Badminton MS SL4 70 Krishna Nagar Para Badminton MS SH6 71 Pramod Bhagat Para Badminton MS SL3 72 Manoj Sarkar Para Badminton MS SL3 73 Tarun Dhillon Para Badminton MS SL4 74 Palak Kohli Para Badminton SU 5 75 Parul Parmar Para Badminton SL 3 S.No. Name Discipline Event 76 Avani Lekhara Para Shooting 50m Rifle Prone SH1 Mixed 77 Manish Narwal Para Shooting P1 10m Air Pistol SH1 78 Singhraj Adana Para Shooting 50m Pistol SH1 Mixed 79 Rubina Francis Para Shooting P2 10m Air Pistol SH1 80 Siddartha Babu Para Shooting R6 50m Rifle Prone SH1 Para Table 81 Bhavina Patel W - Class 4 Tennis 82 Suyash Jadhav Para Swimming Men's 50m Butterfly S7 83 Deepak Kumar Shooting 10m Air Rifle Men 84 Divyansh Singh Panwar Shooting 10m Air Rifle Men 85 ApurviChandela Shooting 10m Air Rifle Women 86 ElavenilValarivan Shooting 10m Air Rifle Women 87 Sanjeev Rajput Shooting 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men 88 Aishwary Pratap Tomar Shooting 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women & 10m Air 89 Anjum Moudgil Shooting Rifle Women 90 Tejaswini Sawant Shooting 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women 91 Saurabh Chaudhary Shooting 10m Air Pistol Men 92 Abhishek Verma Shooting 10m Air Pistol Men 93 Manu Bhaker Shooting 10m Air Pistol Women & 25m Pistol Women 94 Yashaswini Singh Deswal Shooting 10m Air Pistol Women 95 Chinki Yadav Shooting 25m Pistol Women 96 RahiSarnobat Shooting 25m Pistol Women 97 Angad Veer Singh Bajwa Shooting Skeet Men 98 Mairaj Ahmad Khan Shooting Skeet Men 99 Achanta Sharath Kamal Table Tennis Men's Singles & Mixed Doubles 100 Sathiyan Gnanasekaran Table Tennis Men's Singles 101 Manika Batra Table Tennis Women's Singles & Mixed Doubles 102 Sutirtha Mukherjee Table Tennis Women's Singles 103 Divij Sharan Tennis Tennis 104 Rohan Bopanna Tennis Tennis 105 Sania Mirza Tennis Women's Doubles 106 Saikhom Mirabai Chanu Weightlifting 49 Kg Women 107 Jeremy Lalrinnunga Weightlifting 67 kg Men 108 Ravi Kumar Wrestling Men's FS 57 Kg 109 Bajrang Punia Wrestling Men's FS 65 Kg 110 Deepak Punia Wrestling Men's FS 86 Kg 111 Vinesh Phogat Wrestling WW 53 Kg 112 Anshu Malik Wrestling WW 57 Kg 113 Sonam Malik Wrestling WW 62 Kg S.No. Name Discipline Event 114 Hockey Team (Men) (18 members) Hockey - Hockey Team (Women) (18 115 Hockey - members) 116 C.A. Bhavani Devi Fencing Women Sabre 117 Mr. KC Ganapathy Sailing 49er Skiff 118 Mr. Varun Ashok Thakkar Sailing 119 Mr. Vishnu Saravanan Sailing 120 Ms. Nethra Kumanan Sailing 121 Shushila Devi Judo 48kg .
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