The 32-sport Paris Olympics will have 329 gold medals up for grabs. Indian athletes will try their strength against the best of the world in grace-based archery and power sport weightlifting, strategic chess-like or agile badminton. This time, the Games are particularly fancy with the inclusion of four new sports such as breaking, skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing.
The archery team, led by seasoned Deepika Kumari, stands ready with a temperament to hit bull's eye after bull's eye. With an athletics contingent of good strength, spearheaded by Neeraj Chopra, the sensation of the javelin throw, and race walker Akshdeep Singh, it is mustering hopes at large for the nation.
The badminton courts will see Indian shuttlers such as H S Prannoy and P V Sindhu gunning for glory in the Olympics. In the boxing ring, some fierce competitors will include Nikhat Zareen and Amit Phangal.
Indian Athletes Paris Olympics 2024 Full List
Archery:
- Dhiraj Bommadevara: Men's team
- Tarundeep Rai: Men's team
- Pravin Jadhav: Men's team
- Bhajan Kaur: Women's team
- Deepika Kumari: Women's team
- Ankita Bhakat: Women's team
Athletics:
- Akshdeep Singh: Men's 20km race walk
- Vikash Singh: Men's 20km race walk
- Paramjeet Singh Bisht: Men's 20km race walk
- Priyanka Goswami: Women's 20km race walk
- Avinash Sable: Men's 3000m steeplechase
- Parul Chaudhary: Women's 3000m steeplechase, women's 5000m steeplechase
- Jyothi Yarraji: Women's 100m hurdles
- Kiran Pahal: Women's 400m
- Tajinderpal Singh Toor: Men's shot put
- Abha Khatua: Women's shot put
- Neeraj Chopra: Men's javelin throw
- Kishore Jena: Men's javelin throw
- Annu Rani: Women's javelin throw
- Sarvesh Kushare: Men's high jump
- Praveen Chithravel: Men's triple jump
- Abdulla Aboobacker: Men's triple jump
- Muhammed Anas Yahiya, Muhammed Ajmal, Amoj Jacob, Santhosh Tamilarasan, and Rajesh Ramesh: Men's 4x400m relay
- Mijo Chaco Kurian: 4x400m relay and 4x400m mixed relay
- Vidhya Ramaraj, Jyothika Sri Dandi, MR Poovamma, Subha Venkatesan, and Prachi: Women's 4x400m relay
- Prachi: 4x400m mixed relay
- Priyanka Goswami/Suraj Panwar: Race walk mixed marathon
Badminton:
- H S Prannoy: Men's singles
- Lakshya Sen: Men's singles
- P V Sindhu: Women's singles
- Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty: Men's doubles
- Ashwini Ponappa and Tanisha Crasto: Women's doubles
Boxing:
- Nikhat Zareen: Women's 50kg
- Amit Phangal: Men's 51kg
- Nishant Dev: Men's 71kg
- Preeti Pawar: Women's 54kg
- Lovlina Borgohain: Women's 75kg
- Jaismine Lamboria: Women's 57kg
Equestrian:
- Anush Agarwalla: Dressage
Golf:
- Subhankar Sharma: Men's golf
- Gaganjeet Bhullar: Men's golf
- Aditi Ashok: Women's golf
- Diksha Dagar: Women's golf
Hockey:
P R Sreejesh, Jarmanpreet Singh, Amit Rogidas, Harmanpreet Singh (c), Sumit, Sanjay, Rajkumar Pal, Shamsher Singh, Manpreet Singh, Hardik Singh, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Abhishek, Sukhjeet Singh, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Mandeep Singh, Gurjant Singh.
Judo:
Tulika Mann: Women's 78kg
Rowing:
Balraj Panwar: M1x
Sailing:
- Vishnu Saravanan: Men's one-person dinghy
- Nethra Kumanan: Women's one-person dinghy
Shooting:
- Prithviraj Tondaiman: Men's trap
- Rajeshwari Kumari: Women's trap
- Shreyasi Singh: Women's trap
- Anantjeet Singh Naruka: Men's skeet
- Raiza Dhillon: Women's skeet
- Maheshwari Chauhan: Women's skeet
- Anantjeet Singh Naruka/Maheshwari Chauhan: Skeet mixed team
- Sandeep Singh: Men's 10m air rifle
- Arjun Babuta: Men's 10m air rifle
- Elavenil Valarivan: Women's 10m air rifle
- Ramita Jindal: Women's 10m air rifle
- Swapnil Kusale: Men's 50m rifle 3 position
- Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar: Men's 50m rifle 3 position
- Sift Kaur Samra: Women's 50m rifle 3 positions
- Anjum Moudgil: Women's 50m rifle 3 positions
- Sandeep Singh/Elavenil Valarivan: 10m air rifle mixed team
- Arjun Babuta/Ramita Jindal: 10m air rifle mixed team
- Arjun Cheema: Men's 10m air pistol
- Sarabjot Singh: Men's 10m air pistol
- Manu Bhaker: Women's 10m air pistol
- Rhythm Sangwam: Women's 10m air pistol
- Vijayveer Sidhu: Men's 25m rapid fire pistol
- Anish Bhanwala: Men's 25m rapid fire pistol
- Manu Bhaker: Women's 25m pistol
- Esha Singh: Women's 25m pistol
- Sarabjot Singh/Manu Bhaker: 10m air pistol mixed team
- Arjun Cheema/Rhythm Sangwam: 10m air pistol mixed team
Swimming:
- Dhinidhi Desinghu: Women's 200m freestyle
- Srihari Nataraj: Men's 100m backstroke
Table Tennis:
- Sharath Kamal: Men's singles and men's team
- Harmeet Desai: Men's singles and men's team
- Manav Thakkar: Men's team
- Manika Batra: Women's singles and women's team
- Sreeja Akula: Women's singles and women's team
- Archana Kamath: Women's team
Tennis:
- Sumit Nagal: Men's singles
- Rohan Bopanna and Sriram Balaji: Men's doubles
- Weightlifting:
- Mirabai Chanu: Women's 49kg
Wrestling:
- Aman Sehrawat: Men's freestyle 57kg
- Vinesh Phogat: Women's 50kg
- Anshu Malik: Women's 57kg
- Nisha Dahiya: Women's 68kg
- Reetika Hooda: Women's 76kg
- Antim Phangal: Women's 53kg

As the Olympic flame approaches Paris, these athletes carry the hopes and aspirations of a nation. Their journey to the Games has been remarkable, and their performances will undoubtedly inspire millions back home.
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