Asian Games 2026: Complete List Of Indian Contingent

Last Updated:September 16, 2026, 15:56 IST

India have sent a strong contingent to the 20th Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan with an aim to improve on their record 106-medal haul.

(From left) Mirabhai Chanu, Manu Bhaker and Tejaswin Shankar. (Agencies)

The 20th Asian Games will be held in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, from September 19 to October 4, bringing together athletes from 45 countries and regions across 43 sports. India arrives after a record 106-medal haul at Hangzhou (China) a tally that included 28 gold, 38 silver and 40 bronze medals. With a wide-ranging contingent featuring established champions and emerging talent, India will look to build on that performance and improve its medal tally across individual and team events.

Here’s a look at their updated contingent for the continental event.

ARCHERY

• Men’s recurve: Dhiraj Bommadevara, Neeraj Chauhan, Yashdeep Bhoge
• Women’s recurve: Kirti Sharma, Kumkum Mohod, Ankita Bhakat
• Men’s compound: Sahil Jadhav, Kushal Dalal, Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru
• Women’s compound: Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Chikitha Taniparthi, Prithika Pradeep

ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS

• Women’s vault and all-around: Pranati Nayak

ATHLETICS

• Men’s 100m: Gurindervir Singh, Animesh Kujur
• Men’s 200m: Animesh Kujur
• Men’s 400m: Rajesh Ramesh, Vishal Thennarasu Kayalvizhi
• Men’s 800m: Krishan Kumar, Mohammed Afsal Pulikkalakath
• Men’s 1500m: Yoonus Shah, Gulveer Singh
• Men’s 5000m: Gulveer Singh
• Men’s 10,000m: Gulveer Singh
• Men’s marathon: Sawan Barwal, Kartik Karkera
• Men’s 400m hurdles: Yashas Palaksha, Santhosh Kumar Tamilarasan
• Men’s 3000m steeplechase: Avinash Sable
• Men’s 4x400m relay: Rajesh Ramesh, Vishal Thennarasu Kayalvizhi, Mohammed Ashfaq, Dharmveer Choudhary, Jay Kumar, Manu Thekkinalil Saji
• Men’s mixed 4x100m relay: Gurindervir Singh, Animesh Kujur, Pranav Pramod Gurav, Jay Kumar, Manu Thekkinalil Saji
• Men’s high jump: Aadarsh Ram Jothi Shankar, Sarvesh Kushare
• Men’s pole vault: Kuldeep Kumar, Dev Meena
• Men’s long jump: Murali Sreeshankar
• Men’s triple jump: Praveen Chithravel, Karthik Unnikrishnan
• Men’s shot put: Karanveer Singh, Tajinderpal Singh Toor
• Men’s hammer throw: Damneet Singh, Praveen Kumar
• Men’s javelin throw: Rohit Yadav, Yash Vir Singh
• Men’s decathlon: Thowfeeq Noushad, Tejaswin Shankar
• Women’s 200m: Harita Bhadra, Unnathi Aiyappa Bolland
• Women’s 400m: Prachi Choudhary, Kiran Pahal
• Women’s 800m: Gowthami Jayaraman, Pooja
• Women’s 1500m: Pooja, Parul Chaudhary
• Women’s 5000m: Parul Chaudhary, Seema
• Women’s 10,000m: Seema
• Women’s marathon race walk: Priyanka Goswami, Manju Rani
• Women’s 100m hurdles: Jyothi Yarraji, Nandhini Kongan
• Women’s 400m hurdles: Anu Raghavan, Vithya Ramraj
• Women’s 3000m steeplechase: Parul Chaudhary, Ankita Dhyani
• Women’s 4x100m relay: Tamanna, Srabani Nanda, Abinaya Rajarajan, Sneha Sathyanarayana, Sudeshna Shanuvalli
• Women’s 4x400m relay: Prachi Choudhary, Kiran Pahal, Vithya Ramraj, Rashdeep Kaur, Ansa Babu, Machettira Raju Poovamma, Kumari Saloni, Neeru Pathak
• Women’s mixed 4x100m relay: Harita Bhadra, Unnathi Aiyappa Bolland, Tamanna, Sneha Sathyanarayana
• Women’s mixed 4x400m relay: Rashdeep Kaur, Ansa Babu
• Women’s high jump: Pooja Singh, Supriya Sindigere Basavaraju
• Women’s pole vault: Baranica Elangovan, Sindhushree Ganesh
• Women’s long jump: Shaili Singh, Ancy Sojan Edappilly
• Women’s triple jump: Niharika Vashisht, Asha Ilango
• Women’s shot put: Manpreet Kaur, Krishna Jayasankar Menon
• Women’s discus throw: Sanya Yadav, Seema Kaliramna
• Women’s hammer throw: Tanya Chaudhary, Anushka Yadav
• Women’s heptathlon: Pooja, Anamika Kozhinjaparambil Aneesh

BADMINTON

• Men’s singles: Lakshya Sen, Ayush Shetty
• Men’s team: Lakshya Sen, Ayush Shetty, HS Prannoy, Kidambi Srikanth, Tharun Mannepalli, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty, Hariharan Amsakarunan, MR Arjun, Dhruv Kapila
• Men’s doubles: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty, Hariharan Amsakarunan, MR Arjun
• Mixed doubles: Dhruv Kapila, Tanisha Crasto
• Women’s singles: PV Sindhu, Unnati Hooda
• Women’s team: PV Sindhu, Unnati Hooda, Devika Sihag, Tanvi Sharma, Isharani Baruah, Treesa Jolly, Gayatri Gopichand, Kavipriya Selvam, Simran Singhi, Tanisha Crasto
• Women’s doubles: Treesa Jolly, Gayatri Gopichand, Kavipriya Selvam, Simran Singhi
• Mixed doubles: Tanisha Crasto

BOXING

• Men’s 55kg: Jadumani Singh
• Men’s 60kg: Sachin Siwach
• Men’s 70kg: Sumit Kundu
• Men’s 80kg: Ankush
• Men’s 90kg: Kapil Pokhariya
• Men’s +90kg: Narender Berwal
• Women’s 51kg: Sakshi Chaudhary
• Women’s 54kg: Preeti Pawar
• Women’s 60kg: Priya Ghanghas
• Women’s 65kg: Parveen Hooda
• Women’s 75kg: Lovlina Borgohain

CANOE

• Men’s canoe slalom: Hitesh Kewat, Pradhyumna Singh Rathod
• Women’s canoe slalom: Shikha Chouhan, Pallavi Jagtap, Rina Sen
• Men’s canoe sprint: Prohit Baroi, Prasanna Kumar Chempadiyil Sathyaprakash, Naocha Singh Laitonjam, Gyaneshwor Singh Philem, Raju Rawat, Harshwardhan Singh Shaktawat, Varinder Singh, Oinam Arun Singh
• Women’s canoe sprint: Neha Devi Leichonbam, Soniya Devi Phairembam, Megha Pradeep, Pooja, Parvathy Geetha, Dhanamanjuri Devi Khwairakpam

CRICKET

• Men’s team: Shreyas Iyer (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson, Ishan Kishan, Shivam Dube, Tilak Varma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Varun Chakravarthy, Ravi Bishnoi, Jasprit Bumrah, Yash Thakur, Arshdeep Singh, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi
• Women’s team: Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Pratika Rawal, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh, Gunalan Kamalini, Bharti Fulmali, Sree Charani, Renuka Thakur, Kranti Gaud, Arundhati Reddy, Shreyanka Patil, Radha Yadav, Nandani Sharma

CYCLING TRACK

• Men’s: Vishavjeet Singh, David Beckham Elkatohchoongo, Jemsh Singh Keithellakpam, Ronaldo Singh Laitonjam, Harshveer Singh Sekhon, Rojit Singh Yanglem
• Women’s: Celestina Chelobroy, Meenakshi Rohilla, Keerthi Rangaswamy Chikka, Pooja Baban Danole, Harshita Jakhar, Sarita Kumari, Triyasha Paul, Swasti Singh

EQUESTRIAN

• Dressage: Hriday Chheda, Gaurav Pundir, Jai Sud, Shruti Vora
• Eventing: Ahaan Kumar, Ashish Limaye, Fouaad Mirza, Arjan Singh Nagra

ESPORTS

• eFootball: Chinmay Sahoo, Danial Shakeel Patel
• League of Legends: Ahmed Shahid Israr, Rahul Bisht, Sanindhya Malik, Mihir Ranjan, Aakash Shandilya, Akshaj Shenoy
• Pokémon Unite: Adnan Mohammed Badshah, Reuben Godfrey Fernandes, Sai Krishna Nalluri, Dipjyoti Laxman Nath, Rudra Narayan Nayak, Deepkumar Vipulbhai Patel
• Puyo Puyo Champions: Paritosh

FENCING

• Men’s foil: Sachin, Aditya Badser, Tejas Manoj Patil, Hemash Singh Sanasam
• Men’s sabre: Lakshay Badser, Gisho Nidhi Kumaresan Padma, Karan Singh, Vishal Thapar
• Women’s foil: Mina Devi Naorem, Joys Ashitha Stalinraj, Kanupriya Chawla, Sonia Devi Waikhom
• Women’s épée: Mitva Jesangbhai Chaudhari, Yashkeerat Kaur Hayer, Taniksha Khatri, Prachi Lohan
• Women’s sabre: CA Bhavani Devi, Shreya Gupta, Jefarlin Jani Rexlin Simla, Shruti Joshi

GOLF

• Men’s: Yuvraj Sandhu, Veer Ahlawat, Saptak Talwar
• Women’s: Aditi Ashok, Diksha Dagar, Pranavi Urs

HOCKEY

• Men’s team: Harmanpreet Singh (captain), Mohith HS, Suraj Karkera, Jarmanpreet Singh, Amit Rohidas, Jugraj Singh, Sanjay, Sumit, Yashdeep Siwach, Rajinder Singh, Raj Kumar Pal, Hardik Singh, Manpreet Singh, Nilakanta Sharma, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Dilpreet Singh, Shilanand Lakra, Sukhjeet Singh, Mandeep Singh, Abhishek
• Women’s team: Salima Tete (captain), Savita Punia, Bichu Devi Kharibam, Ishika Chaudhary, Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam, Lalthantluangi, Jyoti, Shilpi Dabas, Nikki Pradhan, Sakshi Rana, Sunelita Toppo, Neha, Deepika Soreng, Lalremsiami Hmarzote, Rutuja Pisal, Navneet Kaur, Deepika, Ishika, Baljeet Kaur, Beauty Dungdung

JUDO

• Women’s -48kg: Asmita Dey
• Women’s -57kg: Yamini Mourya
• Women’s -70kg: Inunganbi Takhellambam

KABADDI

• Men’s team: Sunil Kumar (captain), Ankit Jaglan, Devank Dalal, Rahul Sethpal, Sumit, Jaideep Dahiya, Ayan Lochab, Arjun Deshwal, Aslam Inamdar, Gaurav Khatri, Pawan Sehrawat, Ashu Malik
• Women’s team: Pushpa Rana (captain), Jyoti Thakur, Nikita Hathwala, Pooja, Raj Rani, Ritu Sheoran, Bhavna Devi, Sanju Devi, Manisha Kumari, Ritu Negi, Pinki Roy, Sonali Vishnu Shingate

KARATE

• Men’s kumite -84kg: Chetan Bhatt
• Women’s kumite -55kg: Alisha Choudhary

KURASH

• Men’s -66kg: Vipin Kumar
• Men’s +90kg: Vishal, Yash Kumar
• Women’s -57kg: Bharti, Sangita Balhara
• Women’s -78kg: Pincky Chauhan

Mixed MARTIAL ARTS

• Men’s traditional -77kg: Varun Sanyal
• Women’s traditional -60kg: Suchika Tariyal

ROWING

• Men’s single sculls: Arvind Singh
• Men’s double sculls: Navdeep Singh, Kulwinder Singh
• Lightweight men’s double sculls: Ujjwal Kumar Singh
• Men’s quadruple sculls: Satnam Singh Ghurde, Jakar Khan, Salman Khan, Balraj Panwar
• Men’s pair: Vipul Satish, Saurav Kumar
• Men’s four: Nitin Kumar, Yogesh Kumar, Jaswinder Singh, Babu Lal Yadav
• Reserves: Rohit, Ajay Tyagi, Jasmail Singh
• Women’s four: Poonam, Aleena Anto, Tendenthoi Devi Haobijam, Gurbani Kaur
• Women’s reserve: Anshika Bharti

RUGBY SEVENS

• Women’s team: Amandeep Kaur, Guriya Kumari, Ujjwala Ghuge, Parbati Hansdah, Arti Kumari, Dumuni Marndi, Vaishnavi Dattatray Patil, Kalyani Krishnat Patil, Sandhya Rai, Nirmalya Rout, Bhumika Shukla, Sandhyarani Tudu, Shikha Yadav

SAILING

• Men’s: Vishnu Saravanan, Manu Francis, Prince Kurisinkal Noble
• Mixed: Ravindra Kumar Sharma, Shraddha Verma
• Women’s: Katya Ida Coelho, Nethra Kumanan, Harshita Tomar, Shital Verma
• Girls’ dinghy: Mahi Verma

SEPAK TAKRAW

• Men’s team regu and quadrant: Arun, Jasvir, Ashish Chundawat, Shyam Singh, Lokhon Singh Elangbam, Bobby Kumar, Ashok Singh Mayengbam, Ram Kumar Sharma, O Amarjit Singha, Malemnganba Singh Sorokhaibam, Henary Singh Wahengbam, Akash Yumnam
• Women’s double: Leirentonbi Devi Elangbam, Prity Langoljam, Menenu Tsukru
• Women’s quadrant: Maipak Devi Ayekpam, Priya Devi Elangbam, Shilpa Elangbam, Chaoba Devi Oinam, Seyiekhrieno Tepa, Malemnganbi Yumnam

SHOOTING

• Men’s 10m air pistol: Kamaljeet, Aakash Bharadwaj, Kedarling Uchaganve
• Men’s 25m rapid fire pistol: Anish Bhanwala
• Men’s 10m air rifle: Himanshu Dhillon, Parth Mane, Rudrankksh Patil

SPORT CLIMBING

• Men’s Speed: Deepu Mallesh
• Women’s Speed: Joga Purty

SQUASH

• Women’s singles: Anahat Singh, Tanvi Khanna
• Men’s singles: Veer Chotrani, Abhay Singh
• Women’s team: Anahat Singh, Joshana Chinappa, Tanvi Khanna, Shameena Riaz
• Men’s Team: Veer Chotrani, Velavan Senthilkumar, Abhay Singh, Suraj Kumar
• Mixed doubles: Suraj Kumar, Velavan Senthilkumar, Joshana Chinappa, Shameena Riaz

SURFING

• Men’s Shortboard: Kishore Kumar, Sivaraj Babu
• Women’s Shortboard: Kamali Moorthy, Sugar Shanti Banarse

SWIMMING

• Men’s 50m butterfly: Benediction Rohit Beniston Manickaraj
• Men’s 100m butterfly: Benediction Rohit Beniston Manickaraj, Sajan Prakash
• Men’s 100m freestyle: Benediction Rohit Beniston Manickaraj, Akash Mani
• Men’s 50m backstroke: Rishabh Das, Srihari Nataraj
• Men’s 100m backstroke: Rishabh Das, Utkarsh Santosh Patil
• Men’s 200m backstroke: Vedaant Madhavan, Utkarsh Santosh Patil
• Men’s 200m freestyle: Vedaant Madhavan, Aneesh Sunil Kumar Gowda
• Men’s 400m freestyle: Dhakshan Shashikumar, Aneesh Sunil Kumar Gowda
• Men’s 800m freestyle: Aryan Nehra
• Men’s 1500m freestyle: Aryan Nehra
• Men’s 50m freestyle: Akash Mani, Heer Gitesh Shah
• Men’s 100m breaststroke: Danush Suresh
• Men’s 50m breaststroke: Danush Suresh
• Men’s 200m butterfly: Sajan Prakash
• Men’s 4x100m freestyle relay: Benediction Rohit Beniston Manickaraj, Akash Mani, Heer Gitesh Shah, Aneesh Sunil Kumar Gowda
• Men’s 4x200m freestyle relay: Vedaant Madhavan, Dhakshan Shashikumar, Aneesh Sunil Kumar Gowda
• Men’s 4x100m medley relay: Benediction Rohit Beniston Manickaraj, Rishabh Das, Akash Mani, Danush Suresh

TENNIS

• Men’s singles: Sumit Nagal
• Men’s doubles: Yuki Bhambri, Dhakshineswar Suresh, Anirudh Chandrasekar, N. Sriram Balaji
• Women’s doubles: Ankita Raina, Rutuja Bhosale

TEQBALL

• Men’s doubles: Mohamed Anas Imran Beg, Declan Marshall Gonsalves
• Women’s singles: Quimcy Dsouza
• Mixed doubles: Mohamed Anas Imran Beg, Quimcy Dsouza

TAEKWONDO

• Women’s individual poomsae: Rupa Bayor
• Women’s -57kg: Kashish Malik
• Women’s +67kg: Jyoti Yadav

SOFT TENNIS

• Men’s team: Yogesh Choudhary, Om Yadav, Jay Meena, Aniket Chirag Patel, Aryan Thakur
• Men’s singles: Jay Meena, Aryan Thakur
• Mixed doubles: Aniket Chirag Patel, Aadhya Tiwari
• Women’s singles: Aadhya Tiwari

TABLE TENNIS

• Men’s singles: Manush Shah, Manav Thakkar
• Men’s doubles: Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Manush Shah, Manav Thakkar, Harmeet Desai
• Men’s team: Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Payas Jain, Manush Shah, Manav Thakkar, Harmeet Desai
• Mixed doubles: Payas Jain, Harmeet Desai, Diya Chitale, Yashaswini Ghorpade
• Women’s singles: Sreeja Akula, Yashaswini Ghorpade
• Women’s doubles: Sreeja Akula, Diya Chitale, Syndrela Das
• Women’s team: Sreeja Akula, Diya Chitale, Syndrela Das, Yashaswini Ghorpade, Sutirtha Mukherjee

VOLLEYBALL

• Men’s team: Chirag, Amit, Muthusamy Appavu, Jerome Vinith Charles, Muhammad Nihal Chatham Kulangara, John Joseph Eanthungal Joseph, Joel Benjamin Jebaraj, Anand Kottarathil, Om Vasant Lad, Ashwal Rai, Shikhar Singh, Hemanth Pulparambil

WEIGHTLIFTING

• Women’s 49kg: Mirabai Chanu
• Women’s 53kg: Gyaneshwari Yadav
• Women’s 61kg: Seram Nirupama Devi
• Women’s 69kg: Harjinder Kaur

WRESTLING

• Women’s 50kg: Dipanshi
• Women’s 53kg: Antim Panghal
• Women’s 57kg: Manisha Bhanwala
• Women’s 62kg: Mansi Ahlawat
• Women’s 68kg: Nisha Dahiya
• Women’s 76kg: Priya Malik
• Men’s freestyle 57kg: Aman Sehrawat
• Men’s freestyle 65kg: Sujeet Kalkal
• Men’s freestyle 74kg: Sagar Jaglan
• Men’s freestyle 97kg: Deepak Punia
• Men’s freestyle 125kg: Rajat Ruhal
• Men’s Greco-Roman 60kg: Sumit Dalal
• Men’s Greco-Roman 67kg: Deepak
• Men’s Greco-Roman 77kg: Aman
• Men’s Greco-Roman 87kg: Sunil Kumar
• Men’s Greco-Roman 97kg: Nitesh Kumar

WUSHU

• Men’s 56kg: Aryan
• Men’s 75kg: Vikrant Baliyan
• Men’s changquan: Suraj Singh Mayanglambam
• Women’s changquan: Nyeman Wangsu
• Women’s 52kg: Aparna
• Women’s 60kg: Naorem Roshibina Devi
• Women’s nanquan & nandao: Langlentombi Devi Hanjabam

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