The first batch of the athletes from India’s star-studded contingent touched down in Tokyo for the 32nd edition of the Olympic Games hosted by Japan on Sunday. The 2020 edition of the Summer Games which was postponed to 2021 due to the coronavirus crisis is set to get underway from next week in the capital of Japan. India have assembled its largest-ever contingent of athletes for the 2020 edition of the Summer Games in Tokyo.
India will be sending a 228-member strong contingent for Tokyo 2020 that will include 119 athletes competing for 85 medal events at the Olympics. This is the largest contingent that will be representing the nation at the Games with 67 male and 52 female participants.
For India, there would be a lot of medal hopes this time. PV Sindhu, Deepika Kumari and Mary Kom are big medal contenders. Eyes would be on them. The opening ceremony would be held on Friday (July 23) and the Games would end with a closing ceremony on August 8. India would be competing in 85 medal events.
Here is the full fixture of Indian athletes at Tokyo 2020.
India’s Archery schedule at Tokyo Olympics: Start Date – 23rd July
- Friday, 23 July, (05:30 – 07:30) (IST)
– Women’s Individual ranking round (Deepika Kumari)
- Friday, 23 July, (09:30 – 11:30) (IST)
– Men’s Individual ranking round (Atanu Das, Pravin Jadhav and Tarundeep Rai)
India’s Athletics schedule at Tokyo Olympics: Start Date – 30th July
India’s Badminton schedule at Tokyo Olympics: Start Date – 24th July
- Saturday, 24 July (05:30 – 11:00) (IST)
– Men’s Singles Group Play Stage (B. Sai Praneeth)
– Women’s Singles Group Play Stage (P.V. Sindhu)
– Mixed Doubles Group Play stage (Satwiksairaj Rankireddy & Chirag Chetty)
India’s Boxing schedule at Tokyo Olympics: Start Date – 24th July
- Saturday, 24 July (07:30 – 11:00) (IST)
– Women’s Welterweight – Round of 32 (Lovlina Borgohain)
– Men’s Welterweight – Round of 32 (Vikas Krishan Yadav)
- Saturday, 24 July (13:30 – 17:00) (IST)
– Men’s Super Heavyweight – Round of 32 (Satish Kumar)
- Sunday, 25 July (07:30 – 11:15) (IST)
– Women’s Flyweight – Round of 32 (Mary Kom)
– Women’s Middleweight – Round of 32 ( Pooja Rani)
– Men’s Lightweight – Round of 32 (Manish Kaushik)
- Monday, 26 July (07:30 – 11:15) (IST)
– Men’s Lightweight – Round of 32 (Amit Panghal)
– Men’s Middleweight – Round of 32 (Ashish Kumar)
- Tuesday, 27 July (07:30 – 11:15) (IST)
– Women’s Lightweight – Round of 32 (Simranjit Kaur)
India’s Equestrian schedule at Tokyo Olympics: Start Date – 30th July
- Friday, 30 July (05:00 – 07:30) (IST)
– Eventing Individual Day 1 (Fouaad Mirza)
India’s Fencing schedule at Tokyo Olympics: Start Date – 26th July
- Monday, 26 July (05:30 – 12:50) (IST)
– Women’s Sabre Individual Table of 64 (C.A. Bhavani Devi)
India’s Men’s Hockey schedule at Tokyo Olympics: Start Date – 24th July
- Saturday, 24 July (06:30 – 10:15) (IST)
– India vs New Zealand
- Sunday, 25 July (15:00 – 18:45) (IST)
– India vs Australia
- Tuesday, 27 July (06:30 – 10:15) (IST)
– India vs Spain
- Thursday, 29 July (06:00 – 09:45) (IST)
– India vs Argentina
- Friday, 30 July (15:00 – 18:45) (IST)
– India vs Japan
India’s Women’s Hockey schedule at Tokyo Olympics: Start Date – 24th July
- Saturday, 24 July (15:00 – 18:45)
– India vs Netherlands
- Monday, 26 July (15:30 – 19:15) (IST)
– India vs Germany
- Wednesday, 28 July (06:30 – 10:15) (IST)
– India vs Great Britain
- Friday, 30 July (06:00 – 09:45) (IST)
– India vs Ireland
- Saturday, 31 July (06:30 – 10:15) (IST)
– India vs South Africa
Tokyo Olympics in India will be LIVE Broadcasted on Sony Sports Network & will be LIVE Streamed on SonyLIV –
India’s Golf schedule at Tokyo Olympics: Start Date – 29th July
- Thursday, 29 July (04:00 – 12:30) (IST)
– Men’s Individual Stroke Play Round 1 (Anirban Lahiri & Udayan Mane)
- Wednesday, 4 August (04:00 – 12:30) (IST)
– Women’s Individual Stroke Play Round 2 (Aditi Ashok)
India’s Gymnastics schedule at Tokyo Olympics: Start Date – 25th July
- Sunday, 25 July (06:30 – 10:05) (IST)
– Women’s Qualification (Pranati Nayak)
India’s Judo schedule at Tokyo Olympics: Start Date – 24th July
- Saturday, 24 July (07:30 – 11:00)
– Women’s 48 kg Elimination Rounds (Shushila Likmabam)
India’s Rowing schedule at Tokyo Olympics – Start Date – 24th July
- Saturday, 24 July (05:00 – 09:00)
– Lightweight Men’s Double Sculls Heats (Arjun Lal & Arvind Singh)
India’s Sailing schedule at Tokyo Olympics: Start Date – 25th July
- Sunday, 25 July (08:30 – 14:30)
– Laser Men (Vishnu Saravanan)
– Laser Radial Women (Nethra Kumanan)
- Tuesday, 27 July (08:30 – 14:30)
49er Men (K.C. Ganapathy & Varun Thakkar)
India’s Shooting schedule at Tokyo Olympics: Start Date – 24th July
- Saturday, 24 July, (5:00 – 13:00) (IST)
– 10m Air Rifle Women’s Qualification (Apurvi Chandela and Elavenil Valarivan)
– 10m Air Pistol Men’s Qualification (Saurabh Chaudhary and Abhishek Verma)
- Sunday, 25 July (05:30 – 12:30) (IST)
– Skeet Men’s Qualification – Day 1 (Angad Bajwa and Miraj Ahmad Khan)
– 10m Air Pistol Women’s Qualification (Manu Bhaker and Yashaswini Deswal)
– 10m Air Rifle Men’s Qualification (Deepak Kumar and Divyansh Singh Panwar)
- Tuesday, 27 July (05:30 – 13:00) (IST)
– 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team Qualification (Saurabh Chaudhary & Manu Bhaker) ( Abhishek Verma & Yashaswini Deswal)
– 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team Qualification (Deepak Kumar & Anjum Moudgil) (Divyansh Singh Panwar & Elavenil Valarivan)
- Thursday, 29 July, (05:30 – 09:15) (IST)
– 25m Pistol Women’s Precision Stage
- Saturday, 31 July, (08:30 – 13:40) (IST)
– 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women’s Qualification (Anjum Moudgil and Tejaswini Sawant)
- Monday, 2 August, (05:00 – 14:30) (IST)
– 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men’s Qualification (Sanjeev Rajput and Aishwary Tomar)
India’s Swimming schedule at Tokyo Olympics: Start Date – 25th July
- Sunday, 25 July, (15:30 – 18:00) (IST)
– Men’s 100m Backstroke – Heats (Srihari Nataraj)
– Women’s 100m Backstroke – Heats (Maana Patel)
– Monday, 26 July, (15:30 – 18:00) (IST)
– Men’s 200m Butterfly – Heats (Sajan Prakash)
India’s Table tennis schedule at Tokyo Olympics: Start Date – 24th July
- Saturday, 24 July, (05:30 – 09:15)
– Men’s Singles Preliminary Round (Achanta Sharath Kamal) (Sathiyan Gnanasekaran)
– Women’s Singles Preliminary Round (Manika Batra) (Sutirtha Mukherjee)
– Mixed Doubles Round of 16 (Sharath Kamal & Manika Batra)
India’s Tennis schedule at Tokyo Olympics: Start Date – 24th July
- Saturday, 24 July, (07:30 – 16:30)
– Women’s Doubles First Round (Sania Mirza & Ankita Raina)
India’s Weightlifting schedule at Tokyo Olympics: Start Date – 24th July
- Saturday, 24 July, (06:20 – 08:30) (IST)
– Women’s 49 kg (Saikhom Mirabai Chanu)
India’s Wrestling schedule at Tokyo Olympics: Start Date – 3rd August
- Tuesday, 3 August, (07:30 – 10:00) (IST)
– Women’s Freestyle 62kg 1/8 Finals (Sonam Malik)
- Wednesday, 4 August, (07:30 – 10:00) (IST)
– Women’s Freestyle 57kg 1/8 Finals (Anshu Malik)
– Men’s Freestyle 57kg 1/8 Finals (Ravi Kumar Dahiya)
– Men’s Freestyle 86kg 1/8 Finals (Deepak Punia)
- Thursday, 5 August, (07:30 – 10:00) (IST)
– Women’s Freestyle 53kg 1/8 Finals (Vinesh Phogat)
- Friday, 6 August, (07:30 – 10:00) (IST)
– Men’s Freestyle 65kg 1/8 Finals (Bajrang Punia)
– Women’s Freestyle 50kg 1/8 Finals (Seema Bisla).
