Sania Mirza, Ankita Raina to represent India in women's doubles at Tokyo Olympics
Tennis | July 02, 2021 8:43 ISTThe 34-year-old Sania will become the first female athlete to represent India at four Olympics when she competes at Tokyo 2020.
The 34-year-old Sania will become the first female athlete to represent India at four Olympics when she competes at Tokyo 2020.
Various bodies responsible for the preparations including the world governing body of badminton were working very hard to make the Games a success.
Twelve individual athletes, including star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, booked automatic quota for the Olympics by breaching the qualification mark.
When he competes in the Tokyo Olympics, Jabir would be the first Indian male athlete to participate in the 400m hurdles in Olympics.
The 27-year-old 65kg freestyle wrestler has qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Games starting July 23
Two-time Paralympian Saroha will be representing the country in the F51 category in discus throw and club throw.
The 37-year-old Punia, who had won a silver in the 2018 Commonwealth Games and a bronze in the 2018 Asian Games, breached the Olympic qualifying mark of 63.50m.
Aditi thus joined Anirban Lahiri and Udayan Mane to make it a team of three to Tokyo.
Spain won the Olympics in men's soccer in 1992 in Barcelona. It won the silver medal in 2000 in Sydney and in 1920 in Antwerp.
The 27-year-old clocked 1:56:38 seconds in the men's 200m butterfly event at the Sette Colli Trophy in Rome to make the 'A' cut for the Tokyo Games.
Tokyo is under a quasi-state of emergency until July 11 with COVID-19 cases rising again.
Mary Kom will take off for Assisi in a day or two to join the eight other Olympic-bound boxers, who are set to leave for Tokyo from there itself.
The Australian squad was announced Tuesday, hours before Barty’s scheduled first-round match at Wimbledon against Carla Suárez Navarro.
Sarnobat's gold is India's first in the ongoing edition after the country secured one silver and two bronze medals earlier in the tournament.
On Sunday night at US Olympic track trials, McLaughlin finally outraced former record holder Dalilah Muhammad with a new record time of 51.90 seconds.
More than 100 Indian sportspersons have qualified for the mega-event, which will be held under strict health safety protocols from July 23 to August 8 in the Japanese capital.
The 38-year-old Farah had won a grand double, clinching the 5,000m and 10,000m gold at the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Olympics.
Hima, who is on the verge of missing out on Tokyo Olympics as she is yet to qualify for the showpiece, did complete the race and finished third in heat 3 with a timing of 12.01 seconds.
Over 100 athletes from India have so far qualified for the Games and Rijiju said over 6000 selfie points will be set up in the country for people to show their support.
This time, India will have one male and female athlete as the flag bearer at the opening ceremony. The Olympics begin July 23.
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