It’s almost six months to go to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and players from all over the globe are ready for the competition. In the last Olympic in Rio 2016, it was India’s largest-ever delegation sent to the Olympics, with a total of 117 Indian athletes participated including 63 men and 54 women, across 15 sports at the Games.

In 2016 Rio Olympic, P. V. Sindhu in Badminton Women’s singles won a Silver medal for the country, on the other hand, Sakshi Malik won Bronze in Wrestling.

This year total of 63 participants are participating including 36 men and 27 women in 6 sports which include- Archery, Athletics, Equestrian, Field hockey, Shooting, Wrestling.
With wrestlers, shooters, & boxers especially the consistently returning with medals, we have seen Indian athletes sporting fare well in world events.

In the London 2012 Olympics, Deepika Kumari entered the event as the number one archer in the world after clinching gold in the World Championships. However, at the grandest stage, she failed to perform well. In the 2016 Rio Olympics, shooter Jitu Rai, who had been termed as the ‘Golden Man in India’ found it tough to keep up with the pressure and returned empty-handed.

The study by Gracenote takes into account India’s performance in the past World Championships and the World Cups for the end result, which is not necessarily a projection of how many medals will be won in Tokyo this year. So remember, it’s just a projection and not the final numbers.

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Last year in Rio Olympic, India won several medals in Wrestling, Badminton, Shooting, Athletics and much more. After Rio’s Olympic, India got many structures and grass-roots work in the correct format since a lot of games weren’t properly placed. Eyeing the Tokyo Olympic, India reworked on having a good structure to grind athletes and getting the best out of them. After 2014, now there is a system in place, there is accountability, there are good structures in place. Also, a proper federation in place for the athletics, and it’s a real professional set-up that has been sown for larger vision such as Olympic.

About 62 Indians have qualified for the Olympics in six sports till now—Shooting, Archery, Equestrian, Wrestling, Hockey, and Athletics including Vinesh Phogat, Deepika Kumari, KT. Irfan and Fouaad Mirza.

India will be eyeing a whole lot of medals to what they gathered in Rio Olympic. Reports suggest that India will win 12 medals in the Summer Tokyo Olympic. We are wishing the very best to everyone representing India at Tokyo 2020 Olympic.

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