With 100 days left for the Video games, right here’s how Indian contingent is shaping up

The 2024 Paris Olympics are actually formally 100 days away. India loved its best-ever outing at an Olympic Video games in Tokyo three years in the past and expectations from the Indian contingent is excessive this time round.

India despatched its largest contingent to an Olympic Video games with 126 athletes competing in 18 occasions in Tokyo – returning with seven medals, a gold, two silver and 4 bronze medals.

April 17 marks 100 days to go for the Paris Olympics to get underway.

Thus far, a complete of 42 Indian athletes have certified, however that quantity is anticipated to extend within the subsequent few weeks with many sports activities holding their ultimate Olympic qualification occasions.

Right here’s how the Indian contingent is shaping up with 100 days to go:

Archery

A complete of 128 recurve archers – 64 males and 64 ladies – will compete in 5 occasions on the Paris Olympics. Thus far, 72 of the 128 quota locations have been received from the 2023 World Championships, Continental Championships and Continental Qualification Tournaments.

Dhiraj Bommadevara is the one Indian to have secured a quota, successful it on the Asian Continental Qualification Match final yr.

As issues stand, India has two extra possibilities to ship a full contingent of six archers to Paris: the Closing Crew Qualification Match which can be held in Antalya, Turkey in June, and through the world rankings.

Within the males’s occasion, 12 spots are up for grabs – 9 in workforce and three in particular person, whereas 16 spots can be found within the ladies’s occasion – 12 in workforce and 4 in particular person. Each groups want to complete within the prime three in Turkey to ebook their tickets to Paris.

If India don’t win any quota in Turkey, they are going to have one final likelihood to qualify for the Olympics through world rankings – the highest two greatest ranked groups that haven’t certified can be given a quota. As issues stand, the boys’s workforce has a superb likelihood with their world No 3 rating. The Indian ladies’s workforce additionally has an honest likelihood. They’re positioned eight within the rankings, however the prime 5 groups have already secured quotas.

Athletics

13 Indian athletes have met the qualification commonplace in monitor and area occasions for the Paris Olympics.

Every Nationwide Olympic Committee can solely ship three athletes per occasion per gender. Within the case of the boys’s 20km race stroll, seven athletes have met the qualification commonplace set by World Athletics.

Will probably be as much as the Athletics Federation of India to determine who among the many seven will make the minimize for Paris.

Other than race stroll, the boys’s javelin throw occasion is anticipated to see an unprecedented three Indian athletes qualifying for Paris. Defending champion Neeraj Chopra and Asian Video games silver medallist Kishore Kumar Jena certified for the Video games after assembly the qualification commonplace.

DP Manu can also be in line to make the minimize through world rankings the place he’s at present ranked tenth on the earth.

With the qualification interval ending on June 30, many athletes can be gunning to satisfy the qualification commonplace for the Olympics.

Asian Video games 100m hurdles silver medallist Jyothi Yarraji is simply 0.01s off the qualification time of 12.77s. Even when she doesn’t dip under the time, Yarraji might qualify based mostly on her rating.

The likes of Jeswin Aldrin (lengthy bounce), Abdulla Aboobacker (triple bounce), Praveen Chitravel (triple bounce), Annu Rani (javelin), KM Chanda (800m) and Ankita (5000m) are heading in the right direction to qualify through their respective World Rankings.

Badminton

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty will shoulder India’s hopes of securing a medal in badminton in Paris. Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu has additionally certified for her third Olympics however is just not a favorite to complete on the rostrum.

Sindhu has struggled for kind since struggling an damage on the 2022 Commonwealth Video games and has chopped and altered her teaching workforce to attempt to get again to her greatest.

HS Prannoy and Lakshya Sen will spearhead the Indian problem within the males’s singles occasion whereas Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa will compete within the ladies’s doubles occasion.

Boxing

A complete of 197 boxing quotas have been awarded with 4 being received by Indian ladies boxers.

Quite a bit was anticipated from the Indian boxing contingent however the previous few years have been disappointing. Bernard Dunne stepped down as Excessive Efficiency Director after India did not safe a single quota on the first World Olympic Qualifiers in Italy.

India have one final likelihood so as to add to the 4 quotas they’ve received once they take to the ring on the second World Olympic Qualifiers in Could.

Equestrian

Anush Aggarwala secured India’s solely quota in equestrian after being awarded a quota spot in dressage on the premise of his performances in FEI occasions in 2023.

The Equestrian Federation of India will maintain a trial to determine who will signify India in Paris.

Fencing

CA Bhavani Devi, the one Indian fencer to compete on the Olympics, when she made the minimize in Tokyo, must win the Asia and Oceania Zonal Match to qualify for Paris.

Bhavani Devi, at world No 33, is the highest-ranked fencer on the match which can be held in Fujairah, UAE on April 28. Given the extent of competitors on the match, anticipate Bhavani Devi to punch her ticket for Paris.

Golf

The highest 60-ranked males’s and ladies’s golfers will qualify for the Video games with every nation allowed to call two golfers per gender.

Aditi Ashok, who got here near ending on the rostrum in Tokyo, Dikhsa Dagar, Shubhankar Sharma and Gaganjeet Bhullar are all ranked within the prime 60 and are in pole place to make the minimize for Paris.

Gymnastics

Dipa Karmakar and Pranati Nayak are ranked fourth and fifth within the vault Olympic Qualification World Cup Rating Checklist. Solely the highest two gymnasts get direct entry for the Olympics.

With the Doha World Cup getting underway on April 19, North Korea’s An Chang Okay and Bulgaria’s Valentina Georgieva have mathematically certified for the Olympics from the World Cup Rating Checklist.

Karmakar and Nayak’s ultimate alternative to qualify for the Olympics can be on the Asian Championships which can be held in Tashkent in Could to qualify for the Paris Olympics. Nonetheless, just one quota is up for grabs on the Asian Championships.

Hockey

The Indian males’s hockey workforce certified for the Olympics by successful gold on the Hangzhou Asian Video games. After ending a 4 decade anticipate an Olympic medal in Tokyo, India can be wanting so as to add one other medal to their spectacular medal haul within the sport through the years.

Judo

As issues stand, Avtar Singh (males’s 100kg) can be India’s sole judoka in Paris having provisionally certified through continental quota.

Rowing

India hasn’t secured any quotas in rowing to this point with two qualification tournaments left. The Asian & Oceania Continental Qualification Regatta can be held in Chungju, South Korea from April 19 to 21 with the Closing Qualification Match scheduled from Could 19 to 21 in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Crusing

Vishnu Saravanan secured India’s solely Olympic quota in crusing to this point on the 2024 ICLA World Championships in January.

Indian sailors have just one alternative to make the minimize for Paris on the Semaine Olympique Francaise from April 18 to 27 in Hyeres, France.

Capturing

India have secured a report 20 quota spots out of a permissible 24. Thus far, India is the one nation other than hosts France who may have a shooter in every of the 12 disciplines in Paris.

India will look to clinch 4 extra quotas – one every in males’s and ladies’s skeet capturing and entice capturing – on the Shotgun Olympic Qualifiers which can be held from April 19 to 29 in Doha, Qatar.

Ought to they fail to win any quotas in Doha, the Indian shooters might nonetheless make the minimize for Paris by means of the World Olympic rankings.

In capturing, the quota belongs to the nation and never the person. The Nationwide Rifle Affiliation of India will maintain trials to determine who will signify India in Paris.

Desk Tennis

India have secured two quotas every within the males’s and ladies’s singles occasion with an extra quota of their respective workforce occasions.

G Sathiyan and Manika Batra missed the minimize for the blended doubles occasion by means of the qualification match and can be hoping to qualify through their rating.

Weightlifting

Mirabai Chanu is the one Indian weightlifter heading in the right direction to qualify for the Paris Olympics. The Tokyo Olympics silver medallist has solely returned from damage and can be trying to transfer on from her Hangzhou Asian Video games disappointment.

At her greatest, Chanu is in a superb place to as soon as once more end on the rostrum in Paris.

Wrestling

Antim Panghal is the one wrestler to have received a quota spot for India.

Indian wrestlers have two extra possibilities to qualify for the Olympics. Two spots per weight class are up for grabs on the Asian Qualification Match which occur from April 19 to 21 in Tashkent.

An extra three spots per class can be accessible on the World Qualification Match which can be held from Could 9 to 12 in Istanbul, Turkey.

On the Olympics nonetheless, just one wrestler per nation is allowed to compete in a weight class. Moreover, nationwide federations get to determine which wrestler will utilise the quota received for the nation.