The Commonwealth Games 2022 is scheduled to be held from July 28 to August 8 in Birmingham. The multi-sport event has created a huge buzz and expectations are soaring high. India will be participating in Cricket, Hockey, Badminton, Triathlon, Cycling, Weightlifting, Swimming, Squash, Wrestling, Judo, Athletics, Boxing and Table Tennis.
Players from in and around the country are competing with the best to do the best for the country. This will be India’s 18th appearance in the Commonwealth Games 2022. 213 players will be playing the multi-sport event, out of which, 108 are men and 105 are women. This gives India a great chance for piling up the medal tally and making it to the top.
Here is the complete list of athletes participating in the event:
Indian Women Cricket Team Squad:
Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Smriti Mandhana (VC), Tanya Bhatia (wk), Yastika Bhatia (wk), Deepti Sharma, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Pooja Vastrakar, Meghna Singh, Renuka Thakur, Jemimah Rodrigues, Radha Yadav, Shafali Verma, S. Meghana, Harleen Deol and Sneh Rana.
Indian Men’s Hockey Team Squad:
Manpreet Singh (C), Hardik Singh, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Shamsher Singh, Akashdeep Singh, Nilakanta Sharma, Mandeep Singh, Gurjant Singh, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Abhishek, Varun Kumar, Surender Kumar, Harmanpreet Singh, Amit Rohidas, Jugraj Singh, Jarmanpreet Singh, PR Sreejesh, Krishan Bahadur Pathak.
Indian Women’s Hockey Team Squad:
Savita Punia (captain), Rajani Etimarpu, Deep Grace Ekka (vice-captain), Gurjit Kaur, Nikki Pradhan, Udita, Nisha, Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam, Monika, Neha, Jyoti, Navjot Kaur, Salima Tete, Vandana Katariya, Lalremsiami, Navneet Kaur, Sharmila Devi, Sangita Kumari.
BOXING (8 men and 4 women):
Men: Shiva Thapa – Flyweight (51 kg), Mohammad Hussamuddin – Featherweight (57 kg), Amit Panghal – Light Welterweight (63.5 kg), Rohit Tokas – Welterweight (67 kg), Sumit Kundu – Middleweight (75 kg), Ashish Kumar – Light Heavyweight (80 kg), Sanjeet Kumar – Heavyweight (92 kg), Sagar – Super Heavyweight (+92 kg).
Women: Nitu Ganghas – Minimumweight (48 kg), Nikhat Zareen – Light Flyweight (50 kg), Jasmire Lamboria – Lightweight (60 kg), Lovlina Borgohain – Light Middleweight (70 kg)
Badminton:
Men Singles: Lakshya Sen, Srikanth Kidambi
Doubles: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty, B. Sumeeth Reddy
Women Singles: PV Sindhu, Aakarshi Kashyap
Doubles: Ashwini Ponnappa, Gayathri Gopichand, Treesa Jolly
Squash (5 – Men and 4 – Women):
Men’s Team: Saurav Ghosal, Ramit Tandon, Abhay Singh, Harinder Pal Sandhu, Velavan Senthilkumar
Women’s Team: Dipika Pallikal, Joshna Chinappa, Sunyana Kuruvilla, Anahat Singh
Judo (Men – 3 and Women – 3):
Vijay Kumar Yadav – Men’s 60 kg, Jasleen Singh Saini – Men’s 66 kg, Deepak Deswal – Men’s 100 kg, Shushila Likmabam – Women’s 48 kg, Suchika Tariyal – Women’s 57 kg, Tulika Maan – Women’s +78 kg.
Cycling (9 – Men & 4 – Women):
Men – L Ronaldo Singh, E David Beckham, Y Rojit Singh, Esow Alben, Vishvajeet Singh, Naman Kapil, Venkappa Shivappa Kengalugutti, Dinesh Kumar, Annantha Narayanan
Women – Triyasha Paul, Meenakshi, Shushikala Agashe, Mayuri Dhanraj Lute.
Gymnastics (Total 7 Members):
Men – Satyajit Mondal, Yogeshwar Singh, Saif Tambouli.
Women – Pranati Nayak, Ruthuja Nataraj, Protishta Samata, Bavleen Kaur
Wrestling (6 – men and 6 – women):
Men – Ravi Kumar Dahiya 57 kg, Bajrang Punia 65 kg, Naveen 74 kg, Deepak Punia 86 kg, Deepak 97 kg, Mohit Dahiya 125 kg.
Women – Pooja Gehlot 50 kg, Vinesh Phogat 53 kg, Anshu Malik 57 kg, Sakshi Malik 62 kg, Divya Kakran 68 kg, Pooka Sihag 76 kg.
Swimming (Men – 4):
Sajan Prakash – 50m, 100m and 200m Butterfly Srihari Nataraj – 50m, 100m and 200m Backstroke, Kushagra Rawat – 1500m, 200m and 400m freestyle, Advait Page – 1500m freestyle.
Para Swimming:
Mukundan Niranjan (S7), Suyash Narayan Jadhav (S7), Ashish Kumar Singh (S9).
Weightlifting (men – 8 and women – 7):
Men – Sanket Sargar – 55 kg, Gururaja Poojary – 61 kg, Jeremy Lalrinnunga – 67 kg, Achinta Sheuli – 73 kg, Ajay Singh – 81 kg, Vikas Thakur – 96 kg, Lovepreet Singh – 109 kg, Gurdeep Singh +109 kg.
Women: Saikhom Mirabai Chanu – 49 kg, Bindyarani Devi – 55 kg, Popy Hazarika – 59 kg, Harjinder Kaur – 71 kg, Punam Yadav – 76 kg, Bannur Natesh Usha – 87 kg, Purnima Pandey +87 kg.
Para Powerlifting:
Men: Paramjeet Kumar – Lightweight, Sudhir – Heavyweight.
Women: Sakina Khatun – Lightweight, Manpreet Kaur – Lightweight, Geeta – Heavyweight
Table Tennis (5 – men and 5 – women):
Men’s team: Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Harmeet Desai, Sanil Shetty
Women’s team: Manika Batra, Diya Chitale, Sreeja Akula, Reeth Rishya
Para Men: Raja Aravindhan
Para Women: Bhavina Patel, Sonalben Manubhai Patel, Baby Sahana Ravi
Athletics (21 – men & 19 – women):
Men’s Long Jump: M. Sreeshankar, Muhammed Anees Yahiya
Men’s Javelin Throw: Neeraj Chopra, DP Manu, Rohit Yadav
Men’s Triple Jump: Abdulla Aboobacker, Eldose Paul, Praveen Chitravel
Men’s High Jump: Tejaswin Shankar
Men’s 3000m Steeple Chase: Avinash Sable
Men’s Marathon: Nitender Rawat
Men’s 4x400m Relay: Noah Nirmal Tom, Muhammed Ajmal, Naganathan Pandi, Rajesh Ramesh
Men’s Race Walking: Sandeep Kumar, Amit Khatri
Women’s Long Jump: Ancy Sojan
Women’s Shot Put: Manpreet Kaur
Women’s Hammer Throw: Sarita Romit Singh, Manju Bala Singh
Women’s 4x100m Relay: Dutee Chand, Hima Das, Srabani Nanda, MV Jilna, NS Simi
Women’s 100m Hurdles: Jyothi Yarraji
Women’s 10000m Race Walk: Priyanka Goswami, Bhawna Jat
Women’s Discuss Throw: Navjeet Dhillon, Seema Punia
Women’s Javelin Throw: Annu Rani, Shilpa Rani
Para-Athletics:
Men’s Discus Throw F42-44/F61-64: Devender Kumar, Denvendra Gahlot, Aneesh Kumar
Women’s Shot Put F55-57: Santosh, Sharmila, Poonam Sharma
Lawn Bowls (Total – 10 members):
Men: Sunil Bahadur, Chandan Kumar Singh, Navneet Singh, Dinesh Kumar, Mridul Borgohain.
Women: Pinki, Tania Choudhury, Rupa Rani Tirkey, Nayan Moni Saikia, Lovely Choubey
Gymnastics (Total 7 Members)
Men: Satyajit Mondal, Yogeshwar Singh, Saif Tambouli.
Women: Pranati Nayak, Ruthuja Nataraj, Protishta Samata, Bavleen Kaur.
