It’s going to be the Olympics soon! Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has wished the best for the upcoming Tokyo 2020. This year the Tokyo Olympics will begin on July 23 and will run up to August 8. Slated to be held last year, the Tokyo Olympics was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Today in our list of Top 10 we have 10 things you can expect from India at the Tokyo Olympics:
- India is expected to send its largest-ever contingent for the Tokyo Olympics!
India’s largest contingent to date at an Olympics was at the Rio 2016, where India sent 117 athletes. Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president Narinder Batra said earlier that the Indian contingent for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics will be around 190, including 135 athletes. By far, 102 Indian athletes have confirmed their entry into the Olympics.
2. India will be having a bumper harvest at the Olympics for the first time!
Considering the number of medals going double-digit, India will have a bumper harvest at the Olympics for the very first time. Earlier in April this year, Olympic analysts Gracenote projected that if the Tokyo Olympics were to be held in that month, India would equal its combined tally of the last 12 games to win 17 medals, including four gold.
3. India will grab its biggest medal harvest in shooting!
Indian shooters have kept on dominating the world circuit with some extremely well performances in the ISSF World Cups. Shooters - Saurabh Chaudhury, Manu Bhaker, Divyansh Singh Panwar, Anjum Moudgil, Abhishek Verma have time and again consistently performed over a couple of years, making them some of the best to cast winning multiple medals in the Tokyo Olympics. This must be the eye-catching segment that you should expect from India at the Tokyo Olympics.
4. Shooter Saurabh Chaudhury could win a gold medal in shooting at the Tokyo Olympics!
Chaudhury came into the scene at the 2018 Asian Games where he bagged a gold medal in the 10m Air Pistol. Ever since there’s been no stopping the teenager, he secured a quota for the Olympics with a gold medal on home soil at the ISSF World Cup in New Delhi in 2019. Saurabh Chaudhary has already won five gold medals at ISSF World Cups and also nabbed a silver medal at the 2019 Asian Shooting Championships in Qatar.
5. Pistol shooter, Manu Bhaker’s moves
She has time and again proved herself at the global level and will surely be one of India’s best medal-bets at the Tokyo Olympics.
6. Abhishek Verma’s shooter skills
Verma is currently ranked on the number 1 position in the Tokyo 2020 Rankings and world number 3 in 2021 World Rankings. Competing along with Saurabh Chaudhary in the 10m air pistol event, there are chances of seeing them together sharing the podium at Tokyo.
7. A rifle shooter from the state of Rajasthan, Divyansh Panwar’s shots at winning!
There has been no looking back for the young Panwar, who currently is ranked number 2 in Tokyo 2020 Rankings, and number 3 in 2021 World Rankings. He will be entering Tokyo as India’s best shooter in men’s 10m air rifle.
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8. Elavenil Valarivan’s bolder shots at the game
Even though she wasn’t the one who won the quota for India, she was accommodated into the squad due to her consistency as noticed in the past few years. She is currently ranked number 1 in the Tokyo 2020 Rankings and number 12 in the 2021 World Rankings, and we expect to see her make a podium finish in Tokyo.
9. Rifle shooter Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar
Tomar is currently ranked number 2 in Tokyo 2020 Rankings and number 1 in the 2021 World Rankings. With the kind of form, he was in during the recently concluded ISSF World Cup in New Delhi, a podium finish at Tokyo might not be a tough job to accomplish for Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar.
10. India said to field its biggest ever women’s contingent!
The highest number of Indian women representing at the Olympics has been 54 in the Rio 2016 Games. With already 46 women making it into the Tokyo Games and several others in the contention, the number could well exceed the total of Rio games.
What did you think would be the one thing you didn’t see coming in our Top 10 list above!
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