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 |
Archery | July 25 | August 4 | 1pm IST |
Athletics | August 1 | August 11 11am IST | 11Am IST |
Badminton | July 27 | August 5 | 12pm IST |
Boxing | July 27 | August 11 7pm IST | 7pm IST |
Equestrian | July 27 | August 6 | 1pm IST |
Golf | August 1 | August 10 | August 10 12:30 pm IST |
Hockey | July 27 | August 8 | August 8 1:30 pm IST |
Judo | July 27 | August 2 | August 2 1:30 pm IST |
Rowing | July 27 | August 3 | 12:30 pm IST |
Sailing | July 28 | August 8 | 3:45 pm IST |
Shooting | July 26 | August 5 | 12:30 pm IST |
Swimming | July 27 | August 4 | 2:30pm IST |
Table Tennis | July 27 | August 10 | 6:30PM IST |
Tennis | July 27 | August 4 | 3:30 PM IST |
Wrestling | August 5 | August 11 | 6:30PM IST |
Weightlifting | August 7 | August 11 | 6:30PM 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.
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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