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Indian 4x400m relay teams for Tokyo 2020 4x400m men’s relay: Amoj Jacob, Arokia Rajiv, Muhammed Anas, Noah Nirmal Tom, Naganathan Pandi 4x400m mixed relay: Sarthak Bhambri, Alex Antony, Revathi Veeramani, Subha Venkatesan and Dhanalakshmi Sekar

IOA has named Manpreet along with Mary Kom as the flag bearers of the Indian contingent in Tokyo Olympic

India’s super heavyweight wrestler Sumit Malik, on Friday, was handed a two-year ban by the United World Wrestling (UWW). He had qualified for the Tokyo Olympics in the 125kg freestyle category. The ban also means India will lose the Olympic quota.

Sania Mirza, Ankita Raina make Tokyo 2020 in women’s tennis doubles. Men’s doubles team of Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan have missed the cut.

Dutee Chand, men’s 4x400m relay team seal Tokyo 2020 berths In the women’s 100m and 200m races, 56 entries each were slotted for Tokyo 2020. Dutee Chand was ranked 41st in the 100m and 51st in the 200m, thus making the cut. Meanwhile, the teams for the men’s 4x400m are chosen based on their performance at the two designated qualifying events - the 2019 World Athletics Championships and the 2021 World Relays and rankings for Tokyo 2020.

Indian women’s golfer Aditi Ashok has qualified for Tokyo Olympics, the International Golf Federation (IGF) confirmed on Tuesday. Aditi Ashok was 45th in the Olympic Golf Rankings as the top 60 made the Tokyo cut.

Quota no 73 Pranti Nayak has officially Qualify for Olympic . She get Continental quota as a result of reallocated done after cancellation of Continental qualifier Congrats

Indian boxers’ ranking for Tokyo 2020 Amit Panghal (Men’s 52kg) - World No. 1 Simranjit Kaur (Women’s 60kg) - World No. 4 Lovlina Borgohain (Women’s 69kg) - World No. 5 Mary Kom (Women’s 51kg) - World No. 7 Pooja Rani (Women’s 75kg) - World No. 8 Ashish Kumar (Men’s 75kg) - World No. 9 Satish Kumar (Men’s 91+ kg) - World No. 9 Vikas Krishan (Men’s 69kg) - World No. 10 Manish Kaushik (Men’s 63kg) - World No. 18

Rahi Won Gold in Final 25m Pistol Women

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Archery Indian Husband/Wife duo of Atanu Das and Deepika Kumari beat Netherlands pair by 5-3 to won Gold in Mixed Team Recurve event at World Cup Stage 3. Also, Indian women team of Deepika Kumari , Komalika & Ankita beats Mexican by 5-1 to won the Gold Medal in Recieve women team Deepika Kumari beat Osipova by 6-0 to make it 3 Gold and will move to Tokyo Olympic as World no 1 . Three Gold in 3 event for Deepika Kumari

Archery Indian Husband/Wife duo of Atanu Das and Deepika Kumari beat Netherlands pair by 5-3 to won Gold in Mixed Team Recurve event at World Cup Stage 3. Also, Indian women team of Deepika Kumari , Komalika & Ankita beats Mexican by 5-1 to won the Gold Medal in Recieve women team

The national tennis federation (AITA) has requested the International Tennis Federation (ITF) to consider Ankita Raina's bronze-medal winning performance at the 2018 Asian Games for a place in the women's singles draw of the Tokyo Olympics since the gold and silver medallists from China are eligible for a direct entry due to their higher ranks. It remains to be seen if Rohan Bopanna (38) and Divij Sharan (75) will get entry in the men's doubles. Their combined rank of 113 as of 14 June means that their qualification would depend on withdrawal of teams from other nations. If India won't be able to field a team in the men's doubles, then the country will also go unrepresented in the mixed doubles event since the 16-team competition will have players only from main draws of other events.

Star sprinter Hima Das on Saturday suffered an injury scare after sustaining a muscle pull during the 100m heats at the ongoing National Inter-State Athletics Championships. However, the severity of her injury could not be ascertained.

The Indian men’s 4x400m relay team of Muhammed Anas, Amoj Jacob, Arokia Rajiv and Noah Nirmal Tom edged closer to a Tokyo Olympics berth with a fine performance at the 60th National Inter State Senior Athletics Championships. The Indian quartet clocked 3:01.89s to win their heats at the National Institute of Sports in Patiala. The run is set to lift them up to the 13th spot on World Athletics’ Road to Olympic Games 2020 rankings. They were previously on 16th, courtesy a 3:02.59s run at a meet in Turkey back in 2019.

Indian swimmer Srihari Nataraj came agonisingly close to achieving the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT) in 100m backstroke at the 2021 Sette Colli Trophy in Rome, Italy, on Friday. He clocked 53.90 seconds to win the time-trial race but was 0.05 seconds short of the OQT set at 53.85 seconds for the Tokyo Olympics. The Bengaluru-based athlete is one of the two swimmers recommended by the Swimming Federation of India (SFI) for the Tokyo Games under the universality quota.

Indian shooters Saurabh Chaudhary and Manu Bhaker won the silver medal in the 10m air pistol mixed team event at the ISSF World Cup in Osijek, Croatia The second Indian team of Abhishek Verma and Yashaswini Singh Deswal, meanwhile, lost their bronze medal match In the 10m air rifle mixed team event, the Indian team of Divyansh Singh Panwar and Elavenil Valarivan failed to qualify for the medal matches

Indian shooters Manu Bhaker, Rahi Sarnobat and Yashaswini Singh Deswal won the women’s air pistol team bronze medal at the ISSF World Cup in Osijek, Croatia, The men’s air rifle team of Divyansh Singh Panwar, Deepak Kumar and Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar fell just short of the bronze medal as they lost 16-14 to Serbia. Meanwhile, the women’s air rifle team of Apurvi Chandela, Anjum Moudgil and Elavenil Valarivan finished 11th in the first qualification round and could not progress further. In the individual men’s skeet event, Gurjoat Khangura finished 56th in the qualifying round with a score of 115 and could not make the final.

Quota Update: Sushila Devi Likmabam has been awarded the continental quota in the women’s extra-lightweight (48kg) division.

The Indian women’s recurve team of Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakat and Komalika Bari made it through to the final of the Archery World Cup Stage 3 in Paris. Meanwhile, the men’s recurve team of Atanu Das, Pravin Jadhav and Tarundeep Rai - all Tokyo-bound archers - bowed out in the quarter-finals after a 5-4 loss to Germany. The men’s compound team of Abhishek Verma, Aman Saini and Rajat Chauhan exited in the quarter-finals after a loss to France.

Ramkumar Ramanathan went down to 32nd seed Marc Polmans in a thrilling match 3-6, 6-3, 6-7, 6-3, 9-11 in the third round of qualifiers at Wimbledon on Thursday.

Indian golfer Udayan Mane is in line to join compatriot Anirban Lahiri at the Tokyo Olympics next month. Udayan Mane was ranked outside the top-60 in the ‘Olympic Golf Rankings’ and was named in the reallocation reserve list. He will be the first replacement for Argentine golfer Emiliano Grillo - the No. 26 in the leaderboard.

ISSF World Cup India's Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar finished seventh in the men's final, while the country's women shooters failed to get past the qualifying round in the 10m air rifle event of the ISSF World Cup here on Thursday.

Archery World Cup Stage 3 he husband-wife duo Deepika Kumari and Atanu Das stormed into the final of the recurve mixed team event at the ongoing Archery World Cup Stage 3 in Paris. They will meet The Netherlands’ Gabriela Schloesser and Sjef Van Den Berg in the Archery World Cup gold medal match. Deepika Kumari also reached semi in Individual event.

Quota no 70 Anirban Lahiri qualify for Olympic as he finish inside Olympic cut off ranking. Second Olympic for Anirban Lahiri