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India at Paris 2024 Olympics: Schedule and fixtures revealed

India will start their campaign on July 25th, while July 26th has been earmarked for official inauguration.

Recently, the Indian Olympic Association revealed India’s complete schedule for the Paris 2024 Olympics. Gagan Narang will be the chef-de-mission for the Indian Olympic team. Narang is a former shooter who won a bronze medal at the London Olympics. Currently, the vice president of the IOA Narang will be the chief of the Indian contingent during the event, which is considered quite important. 

Table tennis will have eight players, and badminton will have seven players, among them PV Sindhu, who is a two-time Olympic medalist.

Here’s the full schedule for Indian athletes at the Paris Olympics 2024:

Discipline
Start Date
End Date
Timings
ArcheryJuly 25August 41pm IST
AthleticsAugust 1August 11 11am IST
11Am IST
BadmintonJuly 27August 512pm IST
BoxingJuly 27August 11 7pm IST7pm IST
EquestrianJuly 27August 61pm IST
GolfAugust 1
August 10
August 10 12:30 pm IST
HockeyJuly 27
August 8
August 8 1:30 pm IST
JudoJuly 27
August 2
August 2 1:30 pm IST
RowingJuly 27August 312:30 pm IST
SailingJuly 28August 83:45 pm IST
ShootingJuly 26August 512:30 pm IST
Swimming July 27August 42:30pm IST
Table TennisJuly 27August 106:30PM IST
TennisJuly 27August 43:30 PM IST
Wrestling August 5August 116:30PM IST
WeightliftingAugust 7August 116:30PM IST

India will start their campaign on July 25th, while July 26th has been earmarked for official inauguration. On July 25, individual ranking rounds will take place where archers will participate and shoot arrows. The main events will start by July 27th, and they will see Indian badminton players, boxers, equestrian players, the hockey teams, judo athletes, rowers, swimmers, table tennis players, and tennis players all starting their campaigns in different venues.

For wrestling, archery, and boxing, there will be six competitors each. There will be four participants in golf, three in tennis, two in swimming, and two in sailing. There will be one rider, one judoka, one rower, and one weightlifter. The shooting team, the second largest team, consists of eleven women and ten men. Table tennis will be played with four players in both the men and women categories.

Paris 2024 Olympics
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Mirabai Chanu, the Olympian who clinched silver at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, is the only weightlifter in the delegation. On this page alone, she will be competing in the women’s 49 kg event. In the Tokyo Olympics, India, with 119 delegates, also landed its best Olympic podium finish by winning seven medals, of which Neeraj Chopra is the new champion in the javelin throw final.

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