Indian Athletics Team Tokyo Olympics: 26 athletes, 23 coaches & staff to accompany the team, AFI says ‘all required’
Tokyo Olympics – India Athletics Team Tokyo Olympics: The Indian Olympic Association & the host Japan had declared that not many officials will…
Tokyo Olympics – India Athletics Team Tokyo Olympics: The Indian Olympic Association & the host Japan had declared that not many officials will be allowed to accompany the athletes this time during the Olympics. For the same reason, National Chief Coach of Badminton Pullela GopiChand had to withdraw from Olympics in favor of Sai Praneeth’s personal coach. But it seems Athletics Federation of India is not bound by any kind of such decisions. AFI has announced team of 23 officials & staff to accompany 26 member Indian Athletic team for Tokyo Olympics.
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Indian Athletics Team Tokyo Olympics: 26 athletes, 23 coaches & staff to accompany the team, AFI says ‘all required’
Tokyo Olympics – India Athletics Team Tokyo Olympics: National chief athletics coach P Radhakrishnan Nair will lead a team — 13 coaches, eight support staff and two officials — that will accompany the Indian athletes for the Tokyo Olympics commencing from July 23.
“We have selected coaches and support staff as per requirement of our athletes who have qualified for the Games, ” AFI chief Adille J Sumariwalla said in a press release.
The 26-member Indian athletics team was announced early this week. Personal coaches Rakhi Tyagi of women’s discus thrower Kamalpreet Kaur, Gurpreet Singh of race walker Sandeep Kumar, S Murali, father and coach, of men’s long jumper M Sreeshankar too have been included in the list released by the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) on Saturday evening.
Coaches: P Radhakrishnan Nair, Galina Bukharina, Dr Klaus, Mohinder Singh, Uwe Hohn, Rajmohan K, Amrish Kumar, Alexander Artsybashev, S Murali, N Ramesh, Alexander Sinitsyn, Rakhi Tyagi and Gurmeet Singh.
Support staff: Elmira Kiseleva, Abhishek Pandey, Ishaan Marwaha, Dr Andrei, Simoni Shah, Chandre, Pawan Kumar, Ketan Hulawale; Team Doctor: Dr Brajesh Koushle; Team Leader: Dr Madhukant Pathak
Indian Olympics Athletics squad: A total of 19 athletes have qualified to represent India in Athletics at Olympics. Let’s look at the athletes and their events
Men
- Jabir M Palliyalil (400M hurdles)
· Muhammed Anas Yahiya (4x400m relay)
· Noah Nirmal Tom (4x400m relay)
· Amoj Jacob (4x400m relay)
· Arokia Rajiv (4x400m relay)
· Naganathan Pandi (4x400m relay)
· Sandeep Kumar (20km Race walk)
· Rahul Rohila (20km Race walk)
· K.T Irfan (20km Race walk)
· Gurpreet Singh (50km Race walk)
· Avinash Sable (3000m steeplechase)
· Neeraj Chopra (Javelin throw)
· Shivpal Singh (Javelin throw)
· Murali Sreeshankar (Long jump)
· Tajinder Pal Toor (Shot put)
· Sarthak Bhambri (Mixed 4x400m relay)
· Alex Anthony (Mixed 4x400m relay)
Women
- Dutee Chand (100m & 200m)
· Priyanka Goswami (20km Race walk)
· Bhawna Jat (20km Race walk)
· V Revathi (Mixed 4x400m relay)
· Subha Venkatesan (Mixed 4x400m relay)
· Dhanalakshmi Sekhar (Mixed 4x400m relay)
· Kamalpreet Kaur (Discus throw)
· Seema Punia (Discus throw)
· Annu Rani (Javelin throw)
Medal contenders
- Neeraj Chopra (Javelin throw)
· Murali Sreeshankar
Schedule: The athletics at Tokyo Olympics is scheduled to take place from 30th July to 8th August
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India’s Athletics Schedule Tokyo Olympics
- Friday, 30 July, (05:30 – 09:00) (IST)
– Men’s 3000m Steeplechase Round 1 (Avinash Sable)
– Men’s 400m Hurdles Round 1 (Jabir M Palliyalil)
– Women’s 100m Round 1 (Dutee Chand)
- Friday, 30 July, (15:30 – 17:30) (IST)
– Mixed 4x400m Relay Round 1 (Sarthak Bhambri, Alex Anthony, Subha Venkatesan, Dhanalakshmi Sekhar and V Revathi)
- Saturday, 31 July (05:30 – 08:30) (IST)
– Women’s Discus Throw Qualifying Round (Seema Punia & Kamalpreet Kaur)
- Saturday, 31 July (15:30 – 18:25) (IST)
– Men’s Long Jump Qualifying Round (Murali Sreeshankar)
– Mixed 4x400m Relay Final (Subject to Qualification)
- Monday, 2 August, (05:30 – 08:25) (IST)
– Women’s 200m Round 1 (Dutee Chand)
- Tuesday, 3 August, (05:30 – 09:05) (IST)
– Women’s Javelin Throw Qualifying Round (Annu Rani)
- Tuesday, 3 August, (15:30 – 18:25) (IST)
– Men’s Shot Put Qualifying Round (Tajinder Pal Toor)
- Wednesday, 4 August, (05:30 – 08:55) (IST)
– Men’s Javelin Throw Qualifying Round (Neeraj Chopra & Shivpal Singh)
- Thursday, 5 August, (05:30 – 11:35) (IST)
– Men’s 4x100m Relay Round 1 (Muhammed Anas Yahiya, Noah Nirmal Tom, Amoj Jacob, Arokia Rajiv and Naganathan Pandi)
- Thursday, 5 August, (13:00 – 14:35) (IST)
– Men’s 20km Race Walk Final ( Sandeep Kumar, Rahul Rohila and K.T Irfan)
- Friday, 6 August (02:00 – 06:30) (IST)
– Men’s 50km Race Walk Final (Gurpreet Singh)
- Friday, 6 August (13:00 – 14:45) (IST)
Women’s 20km Race Walk Final (Priyanka Goswami & Bhawna Jat)
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