Asian Games 2026: Full list of India's contingent going to Aichi-Nagoya

ESPN staffSep 17, 2026, 06:00 AM ET

India will be represented by 499* athletes at the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, which begins on September 19. The squad includes 267 male and 232 women athletes across 36 sports disciplines.

Athletics has the greatest number of representatives with 74 names, team sports such as field hockey (40), cricket (30) and kabaddi (24), with shooting also featuring a 30-member squad. India sent 661 athletes in comparison to the 2022 Asiad in Hangzhou, with the contingent earning a record 106 medals.

ESPN takes a look at every single Indian athlete who has qualified for the games in Aichi-Nagoya.

*subject to change

ARCHERY

Dhiraj Bommadevara (Recurve, Men's Individual & Team)
Neeraj Chauhan (Recurve, Men's Individual & Team)
Yashdeep Bhoge (Recurve, Men's Individual & Team)
Kumkum Mohod (Recurve, Women's Individual & Team)
Kirti Sharma (Recurve, Women's Individual & Team)
Ankita Bhakat (Recurve, Women's Individual & Team)
Thirumuru Ganesh Mani Ratnam (Compound, Men's Individual & Team)
Sahil Jadhav (Compound, Men's Individual & Team)
Kushal Dalal (Compound, Men's Individual & Team)
Jyothi Surekha Vennam (Compound, Women's Individual & Team)
Chikitha Taniparthi (Compound, Women's Individual & Team)
Prithika Pradeep (Compound, Women's Individual & Team)

ATHLETICS

Track - Men

Animesh Kujur - 100m, 200m, 4x100 Mixed Relay
Gurindervir Singh - 100m, 4x100 Mixed Relay
Rajesh Ramesh - 400m, 4x400m Men's Relay
Vishal TK - 400m, 4x400m Men's Relay
Manu TS - 4x400m Mixed Relay, 4x400m Men's Relay
Jay Kumar - 4x400m Mixed Relay, 4x400m Men's Relay
Mohammed Ashfaq - 4x400m Men's Relay
Dharmveer Singh - 4x400m Men's Relay
Pranav Gurav - 4x100 Mixed Relay
Yashas Palaksha - 400m Hurdles
Santhosh Thamilarasan - 400m Hurdles
Mohammed Afsal - 800m
Krishna Kumar - 800m
Gulveer Singh - 1500m, 5000m, 10000m
Yoonus Shah - 1500m
Avinash Sable - 3000m Steeplechase, 5000m
Kartik Karkera - Marathon
Sawan Barwal - Marathon

Track - Women

Jyothi Yarraji - 100m Hurdles
Nandhini Kongan - 100m Hurdles
Unnathi Bollanda - 200m, 4x100m Mixed Relay
Harita Bhadra - 200m, 4x100m Mixed Relay
Tamanna Dhankeri - 4x100m Mixed Relay, 4x100 Women's Relay
Srabani Nanda - 4x100m Women's Relay
Sneha Gowda Sathyanarayana - 4x100m Mixed Relay, 4x100 Women's Relay
Abinaya Rajarajan - 4x100m Women's Relay
Sudeshna Shivankar Hanmant Shanuvalli - 4x100m Women's Relay
Prachi Choudhary - 400m, 4x400m Women's Relay
Kiran Pahal - 400m, 4x400m Women's Relay
Ansa Babu - 4x400m Mixed Relay, 4x400m Women's Relay
Rashdeep Kaur - 4x400m Mixed Relay, 4x400m Women's Relay
Neeru Pathak - 4x400m Women's Relay
Poovamma R Machettira - 4x400m Women's Relay
Kumari Saloni Nagar - 4x400m Women's Relay
Anu Raghavan - 400m Hurdles
Vithya Ramraj - 400m Hurdles, 4x400m Women's Relay
Gowthami Jayaraman - 800m
Pooja Olla - 800m, 1500m
Parul Chaudhary - 1500, 3000 Steeplechase, 5000m
Seema Kumari - 5000m, 10000m
Ankita - 3000 Steeplechase
Priyanka Goswami - Marathon Race Walk
Manju Rani - Marathon Race Walk

Field - Men

Sarvesh Kushare - High Jump
J Aadarsh Ram - High Jump
Sreeshankar Murali - Long Jump
Praveen Chithravel - Triple Jump
Karthik Unnikrishnan - Triple Jump
Tajinderpal Singh Toor - Shot Put
Karanveer Singh - Shot Put
Praveen Kumar - Hammer Throw
Damneet Singh - Hammer Throw
Yash Vir Singh - Javelin Throw
Rohit Yadav - Javelin Throw
Kuldeep Kumar - Pole Vault
Dev Meena - Pole Vault

Field - Women

Pooja Singh - High Jump
Supriya Basavaraju - High Jump
Ancy Sojan - Long Jump
Shaili Singh - Long Jump
Niharika Vashisht - Triple Jump
Asha Ilango - Triple Jump
Manpreet Kaur - Shot Put
Krishna Jayasankar Menon - Shot Put
Seema Kaliramna - Discus Throw
Sanya Yadav - Discus Throw
Anushka Yadav - Hammer Throw
Tanya Chaudhary - Hammer Throw
Sindhushree Ganesh - Pole Vault
Baranica Elangovan - Pole Vault

Combined

N Thowfeeq - Decathlon '
Tejaswin Shankar - Decathlon
Anamika Aneesh Kozhinjaparambil - Heptathlon
Pooja Sharma - Heptathlon

BADMINTON

Men

Lakshya Sen - Singles, Team
Ayush Shetty - Singles, Team
HS Prannoy - Team
Kidambi Srikanth - Team
Tharun Mannepalli - Team
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy - Doubles, Team
Chirag Shetty - Doubles, Team
Hariharan Amsakarunan - Doubles, Team
Arjun MR - Doubles, Team
Dhruv Kapila - Mixed Doubles, Team

Women

PV Sindhu - Singles, Team
Unnati Hooda - Singles, Team
Devika Sihag - Team
Tanvi Sharma - Team
Isharani Baruah - Team
Treesa Jolly - Doubles, Team
Gayatri Gopichand - Doubles, Team
Kavipriya Selvam - Doubles, Team
Simran Singhi - Doubles, Team
Tanisha Crasto - Mixed Doubles, Team

BOXING

Jadumani Singh - Men's 55 kg
Sachin Siwach - Men's 60 kg
Sumit Kundu - Men's 70 kg
Ankush Panghal - Men's 80 kg
Kapil Pokhariya - Men's 90 kg
Narender Berwal - Men's 90+ kg y
Sakshi Choudhary - Women's 51 kg
Preeti Pawar - Women's 54 kg
Priya Ghanghas - Women's 60 kg
Parveen Hooda - Women's 65 kg
Lovlina Borgohain - Women's 75 kg

CANOEING

Slalom

Hitesh Kewat - Men's K-1, Men's Kayak cross
Pradhyumna Singh Rathod - Men's K-1, Men's Kayan cross
Pallavi Jagtap - Women's K-1
Rina Sen - Women's K-1
Shikha Chouhan - Women's Kayak cross

Sprint

Gyaneshwor Singh Philem - Men's C-2 500m, Mixed C-2 500m
Raju Rawat - Men's C-2 500m
Soniya Devi Phairembam - Women's C-1 200m, Women's K-2 500m, Women's K-4 500m
Neha Devi Leichonbam - Women's C-2 500m
Megha Pradeep - Women's C-2 500m, Mixed C-2 500m
Prohit Baroi - Men's K-2 500m
CS Prasanna Kumar - Men's K-2 500m, Mixed K-2 500m
Naocha Singh Laitonjam - Men's K-4 500m
Harshwardhan Singh Shaktawat - Men's K-4 500m
Varinder Singh - Men's K-4 500m
Oinam Arun Singh - Men's K-4 500m
Dhanamjuri Devi Khwairakpam - Women's K-2 500m, Women's K-4 500m
Paravathy Geetha - Women's K-4 500m, Mixed K-2 500m
Pooja - Women's K-4 500m

CRICKET

Men

Shreyas Iyer (capt)
Tilak Varma (vice-capt)
Abhishek Sharma
Sanju Samson (wk)
Ishan Kishan (wk)
Shivam Dube
Axar Patel
Washington Sundar
Ravi Bishnoi
Jasprit Bumrah
Arshdeep Singh
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi
Yash Thakur
Vipraj Nigam

Women

Harmanpreet Kaur (c)
Smriti Mandhana (vc)
Shafali Verma
Deepti Sharma
Richa Ghosh (wk)
Gunalan Kamalini (wk)
Bharti Fulmali
Shree Charani
Renuka Singh Thakur
Kranti Gaud
Arundhati Reddy
Shreyanka Patil
Radha Yadav
Nandani Sharma
Pratika Rawal

CYCLING

Men

Harshveer Singh Sekhon - Keirin, Omnium, Madison
Vishavjeet Singh - Madison
Ronaldo Singh Laitonjam - Individual Sprint, Team Sprint
David Beckham Elkatohchoongo - Individual Sprint, Team Sprint
Jemsh Singh Keithellakpam - Team Sprint
Rojit Singh - Team Sprint

Women

Keerthi Chikka Rangaswamy - Keirin, Team Sprint
Harshita Jakhar - Madison, Omnium, Team Pursuit
Swasti Singh - Madison, Team Pursuit
Meenakshi Rohilla - Team Pursuit
Pooja Danole - Team Pursuit
Sarita Kumari - Individual Sprint, Team Sprint
Triyasha Paul - Individual Sprint, Team Sprint
Celestina Chelobroy - Team Sprint

EQUESTRIAN

Dressage

Shruti Vora (Magnanimous) - Individual, Team
Gaurav Pundir (Milli) - Individual, Team
Jai Sud (Goofy La Perla) - Team
Hriday Chheda (Dono Di Maggio) - Team

Eventing

Ahaan Kumar (Bolivar Gio Granno) - Individual, Team
Ashish Limaye (Willy Be Dun) - Individual, Team
Arjan Nagra (Cooley Goodwood) - Team
Fouaad Mirza (Camouflage 38) - Team

ESPORTS

Chinmay Sahoo - eFootball
Danial Patel - eFootball
Paritosh - Puyo Puyo Champions
Ahmed Israr - League of Legends
Rahul Bisht - League of Legends
Sanindhya Malik - League of Legends
Akshaj Shenoy - League of Legends
Aakash Shandilya - League of Legends
Mihir Ranjan - League of Legends
Adnan Badshah - Pokémon UNITE
Deepkumar Patel - Pokémon UNITE
Dipjyoti Nath - Pokémon UNITE
Reuben Fernandes - Pokémon UNITE
Rudra Nayak - Pokémon UNITE
Sai Krishna Nalluri - Pokémon UNITE

FENCING

Men

Sachin - Individual & Team Foil
Hemash Singh Sanasam - Individual & Team Foil
Aditya Badser - Team Foil
Tejas Patil - Team Foil
Gishonidhi P Kumarasen - Individual & Team Sabre
Karan Singh - Individual & Team Sabre
Lakshya Badser - Team Sabre
Vishal Thapar - Team Sabre

Women

Bhavani Devi - Individual & Team Sabre
Shreya Gupta - Individual & Team Sabre
Jefarlin Jani S - Team Sabre
Shruti Joshi - Team Sabre
Tanishka Khatri - Individual & Team Épée
Anupriya - Individual & Team Épée
Mitva Chaudhari - Team Épée
Yashkeerat Kaur Hayer - Team Épée
Mina Devi Naorem - Individual & Team Foil
Joys Ashita Stalinraj - Individual & Team Foil
Kanupriya Chawla - Team Foil
Sonia Devi Waikhom - Team Foil

FIELD HOCKEY

Men

Harmanpreet Singh (capt)
Mohith HS (gk)
Suraj Karkera (gk)
Jarmanpreet Singh
Amit Rohidas
Jugraj Singh
Sanjay Rana
Sumit Kumar
Yashdeep Siwach
Rajinder Singh
Raj Kumar Pal
Hardik Singh
Manpreet Singh
Nilakanta Sharma
Vivek Sagar Prasad
Dilpreet Singh
Shilanand Lakra
Sukhjeet Singh
Mandeep Singh
Abhishek Nain

Women

Salima Tete (capt)
Savita (gk)
Bichu Devi Kharibam (gk)
Ishika Chaudhary
Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam
Lalthantluangi
Jyoti Singh
Shilpi Dabas
Nikki Pradhan
Sakshi Rana
Sunelita Toppo
Neha Goyal
Deepika Soreng
Lalremsiami Hmarzote
Rutuja Dadaso Pisal
Navneet Kaur
Deepika Sehrawat
Ishika
Baljeet Kaur
Beauty Dungdung

GOLF

Men

Veer Ahlawat - Individual & Team
Yuvraj Sandhu - Individual & Team
Saptak Talwar - Individual & Team

Women

Aditi Ashok - Individual & Team
Pranavi Urs - Individual & Team
Diksha Dagar - Individual & Team

GYMNASTICS

Pranati Nayak - All-Around & Vault

JUDO

Women

Asmita Dey - 48 kg
Yamini Mourya - 57 kg
Inunganbi Takhellambam - 70 kg

KABADDI

Men

Sunil Kumar (c)
Pawan Kumar Sehrawat
Ashu Malik
Ankit Jaglan
Devank Dalal
Rahul Sethpal
Sumit Sangwan
Jaideep Dahiya
Ayan Lohchab
Arjun Deshwal
Gaurav Khatri
Aslam Inamdar

Women

Pushpa Rana (c)
Jyoti Thakur
Nikita
Pooja Hathwala
Raj Rani
Ritu Sheoran
Bhavna Devi Thakur
Sanju Devi
Manisha Kumari
Ritu Negi
Pinki Roy
Sonali Shinghate

KARATE

Chetan Bhatt - Men's Kumite 84 kg
Alisha Choudhary - Women's Kumite 55 kg

KURASH

Men

Vipin Kumar - 66 kg
Vishal - +90 kg
Yash Chauhan - +90 kg

Women

Bharti - 57 kg
Sangita - 57 kg
Pincky Balhara - 78 kg

MIXED MARTIAL ARTS

Varun Sanyal - Men's Traditional 77 kg
Suchika Tariyal - Women's Traditional 60 kg

ROWING

Sculling

Balraj Panwar - Men's quadruple
Jakar Khan - Men's quadruple
Salman Khan - Men's quadruple
Satnam Singh Ghurde - Men's quadruple
Ajay Tyagi - Men's lightweight double
Ujjwal Kumar Singh - Men's lightweight double
Navdeep Singh - Men's double
Kulwinder Singh - Men's double
Arvind Singh - Men's single

Sweep Rowing

Vipul Satish - Men's pair
Saurav Kumar - Men's pair
Jaswinder Singh - Men's four
Babu Lal Yadav - Men's four
Yogesh Kumar - Men's four
Nitin Kumar - Men's four
Poonam - Women's four
Aleena Anto - Women's four
Tendenthoi Devi Haobijam - Women's four
Gurbani Kaur - Women's four

RUGBY SEVENS

Women

Shikha Yadav (c)
Amandeep Kaur
Guriya Kumari
Ujjwala Ghuge
Parbati Hansdah
Arti Kumari
Dumuni Marandi
Kalyani Patil
Vaishnavi Patil
Sandhya Rai
Nirmalya Raut
Bhumika Shukla
Sandhyarani Tudu

SAILING

Men

Vishnu Saravanan - Men's ILCA 7
Manu Francis - Men's 49er (Team)
Prince Noble - Men's 49er (Team)
Ravindra Sharma - Mixed 470 (Team)

Women

Nethra Kumanan - Women's ILCA 6
Katya Coelho - Women's IQ Foil
Harshita Tomar - Women's 49er Fx (Team)
Shital Verma - Women's 49er Fx (Team)
Mahi Verma - Women's ILCA 4
Shraddha Verma - Mixed 470 (Team)

SEPAK TAKRAW

Men

Arun Raju - Team Regu, Quadrant
Jasvir Sukhbir Singh - Team Regu
Ashish Chundawat - Team Regu
Shyam Chundawat - Team Regu
Lokhon Singh Elangbam - Team Regu, Quadrant
Bobby Kumar - Team Regu, Quadrant
Ashok Singh Mayengbam - Team Regu
Ram Kumar Sharma - Team Regu
Amarjit Singha - Team Regu, Quadrant
Malemnganba Singh Sorokhaibam - Team Regu, Quadrant
Henary Singh Wahengbam - Team Regu
Akash Yumnam - Team Regu, Quadrant

Women

Maipak Devi Ayekpam - Quadrant
Priya Devi Elangbam - Quadrant
Shilpa Elangbam - Quadrant
Chaoba Devi Oinam - Quadrant
Seyiekhrieno Tepa - Quadrant
Malemnganbi Yumnam - Quadrant
Leirentonbi Devi Elangbam - Doubles
Prity Langoljam - Doubles
Menenu Tsukru - Doubles

SHOOTING

Rifle

Rudrankksh Patil - Men's 10m Air Rifle, Men's 50m Rifle Three Positions
Parth Mane - Men's 10m Air Rifle, Mixed 10m Air Rifle
Himanshu Dhillon - Men's 10m Air Rifle
Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar - Men's 50m Rifle Three Positions
Niraj Kumar - Men's 50m Rifle Three Positions
Elavenil Valarivan - Women's 10m Air Rifle, Mixed 10m Air Rifle
Sonam Maskar - Women's 10m Air Rifle
Vidarsha Vinod - Women's 10m Air Rifle, Women's 50m Rifle Three Positions
Tilottama Sen - Women's 50m Rifle Three Positions
Ashi Chouksey - Women's 50m Rifle Three Positions

Pistol

Anish Bhanwala - Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol
Kedarling Uchaganve - Men's 10m Air Pistol, Mixed 10m Air Pistol
Kamaljee - Men's 10m Air Pistol
Aakash Bharadwaj - Men's 10m Air Pistol
Manu Bhaker - Women's 10m Air Pistol, Women's 25m Pistol
Esha Singh - Women's 10m Air Pistol, Women's 25m Pistol
Suruchi Singh - Women's 10m Air Pistol, Mixed 10m Air Pistol
Rahi Sarnobat - Women's 25m Pistol

Shotgun

Kynan Chenai - Men's Trap, Mixed Skeet
Ahvar Rizvi - Men's Trap
Shapath Bharadwaj - Men's Trap
Anantjeet Singh Naruka - Men's Skeet, Mixed Trap
Bhavtegh Singh Gill - Men's Skeet
Mairaj Ahmad Khan - Men's Skeet
Manisha Keer - Women's Trap
Neeru Dhanda - Women's Trap, Mixed Skeet
Aashima Ahlawat - Women's Trap
Parinaaz Dhaliwal - Women's Skeet
Raiza Dhillon - Women's Skeet
Maheshwari Chauhan - Women's Skeet, Mixed Trap

SOFT TENNIS

Men

Jay Meena - Singles, Team
Aryan Thakur - Singles, Team
Aniket Chirag Patel - Mixed Doubles, Team
Yogesh Choudhary - Team
Om Yadav - Team

Women

Aadhya Tiwari - Singles, Mixed Doubles

SPORT CLIMBING

Deepu Mallesh - Men's Speed
Joga Purty - Women's Speed

SQUASH

Men

Abhay Singh - Singles, Team
Veer Chotrani - Singles, Team
Velavan Senthilkumar - Mixed Doubles, Team
Suraj Chand Kumar - Mixed Doubles, Team

Women

Anahat Singh - Singles, Team
Joshna Chinappa - Mixed Doubles, Team
Tanvi Khanna - Singles, Team
Shameena Riaz - Mixed Doubles, Team

SURFING

Kishore Kumar Anbarashu - Men's Shortboard
Sivaraj Babu - Men's Shortboard
Kamali Prakash - Women's Shortboard
Sugar Shanti Gayen - Women's Shortboard

SWIMMING

Men

Akash Mani - 50m Freestyle, 100m Freestyle, 4x100m Freestyle Relay, 4x100m Medley Relay, 4x200m Freestyle Relay
Aneesh Gowda - 200m Freestyle, 400m Freestyle, 4x100m Freestyle Relay, 4x200m Freestyle Relay
Aryan Nehra - 800m Freestyle, 1500m Freestyle
Danush Suresh - 50m Breaststroke, 100m Breaststroke, 4x100m Medley Relay
Dhakshan Shashikumar - 400m Freestyle, 4x200m Freestyle Relay
Heer Gitesh Shah - 50m Freestyle, 4x100m Freestyle Relay
Rishabh Das - 50m Backstroke, 100m Backstroke, 4x100m Medley Relay
Rohit Benedicton - 50m Butterfly, 100m Butterfly, 100m Freestyle, 4x100m Freestyle Relay, 4x100m Medley Relay
Sajan Prakash - 100m Butterfly, 200m Butterfly
Srihari Nataraj - 50m Backstroke
Utkarsh Santosh Patil - 100m Backstroke, 200m Backstroke
Vedaant Madhavan - 200m Freestyle, 200m Backstroke, 4x200m Freestyle Relay