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India at CWG 2022: Know your Athletes

Indian athletes Lovlina Borgohain and Sakshi Malik during the Commonwealth Games kit unveiling and send-off ceremony. Photo by Sonu Mehta/Hindustan Times via Getty Images

All eyes will be on the Indian contingent at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. The Indian squad has four Tokyo Olympics medallists in PV Sindhu, Mirabai Chanu, Lovlina Borgohain and the Indian men's hockey team. The Indian women's cricket team will be in action as well.

Here is India's full squad for the Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022 Games, which will be held from July 28 to August 8


ATHLETICS

Abdulla Aboobacker

Age: 26

Event: Men's triple jump

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Amit Khatri

Age: 18

Event: Men's 10km race walk

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Amoj Jacob

Age: 24

Event: Men's 4x400m relay

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Ancy Sojan

Age: 21

Event: Women's long jump

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Annu Rani

Age: 29

Event: Women's javelin throw

CWG history: 8th in 2014

Avinash Sable

Age: 26

Event: Men's 3000m steeplechase

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Read more: Who is Avinash Sable and why is his 5000m national record special?

Bhawna Jat

Age: 26

Event: Women's 10km race walk

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Read more: Bhawna Jat's journey from grazing cattle to the Olympics

DP Manu

Age: 22

Event: Men's javelin throw

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Read more: DP Manu raises benchmark for India's next-gen javelin stars

Dutee Chand

Age: 26

Event: Women's 4x100m relay

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Read more: Dutee Chand aims to defy age in bid to go faster, higher, stronger

Eldhose Paul

Age: 25

Event: Men's triple jump

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Hima Das

Age: 22

Event: 200m, Women's 4x100m relay

CWG history: 6th in 2018 (women's 400m), 7th in 2018 (4 × 400 m relay)

Read more: Hima Das' meteoric rise from an Assam village to the CWG

Jyothi Yarraji

Age: 22

Event: Women's 100m hurdles

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Read more: Racing across Europe, breaking records: How hurdler Jyothi Yarraji rewrote NR thrice in 16 days

Manpreet Kaur

Age: 32

Event: Women's shot put

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Manju Bala Singh

Age: 33

Event: Women's hammer throw

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

M Sreeshankar

Age: 23

Event: Men's long jump

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Read more: M Sreeshankar 2.0: How mixing with world's best jumpers may help him join the elite

Muhammed Anas

Age: 27

Event: Men's 4x400m relay

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Muhammed Anees Yahiya

Age: 26

Event: Men's long jump

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Read more: Sreeshankar vs Anees gets Indian athletics off to an unprecedented start in 2022

Muhammed Ajmal

Age: 24

Event: Men's 4x400m relay

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

MV Jilna

Age: 24

Event: Women's 4x100m relay

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Naganathan Pandi

Age: 26

Event: Men's 4x400m relay

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Navjeet Kaur Dhilllon

Age: 27

Event: Women's discus throw

CWG history: Bronze in 2018

Nitender Rawat

Age: 35

Event: Men's marathon

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Noah Nirmal Tom

Age: 27

Event: Men's 4x400m relay

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

NS Simi

Age: 24

Event: Women's 4x100m relay

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Praveen Chithravel

Age: 21

Event: Men's triple jump

CWG history: Making his debut in Birmingham

Priyanka Goswami

Age: 26

Event: Women's 10km race walk

CWG history: Making her debut in Birmingham

Read more: Priyanka Goswami and Sandeep Kumar take their friendly rivalry all the way to the Olympics

Rohit Yadav

Age: 21

Event: Men's javelin throw

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Read more: Watching Neeraj Chopra with the next generation of India's javelin stars

Sandeep Kumar

Age: 36

Event: Men's 10km race walk

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Sarita Romit Singh

Age: 32

Event: Women's hammer throw

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Seema Punia

Age: 39

Event: Women's discus throw

CWG history: Silver in 2006, bronze in 2010, silver in 2014, silver in 2018

Read more: Without a coach and her favourite discus, Punia still wins silver

Shilpa Rani

Age: 26

Event: Women's javelin throw

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Srabani Nanda

Age: 31

Event: Women's 4x100m relay

CWG history: Part of relay team in 2014, 2010

Tejaswin Shankar

Age: 23

Event: Men's high jump

CWG history: 6th in 2018

Read more: Higher, further, faster: Tejaswin Shankar hungry for more after heptathlon national record


BADMINTON

Aakarshi Kashyap

Age: 20 years

Event: women's singles, mixed team

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Ashwini Ponappa

Age: 32 years

Event: mixed doubles, mixed team

CWG history: Gold in 2010 (women's doubles), silver in 2014 (women's doubles), bronze in 2018 (women's doubles), fourth place in 2018 (mixed doubles)

Read more: Patience key in Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Ashwini Ponnappa resurgence

B Sumeeth Reddy

Age: 30 years

Event: mixed doubles, mixed team

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Chirag Shetty

Age: 25 years

Event: men's doubles, mixed team

CWG history: Silver medal in 2018 (men's doubles)

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Gayatri Gopichand

Age: 19 years

Event: women's doubles, mixed team

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Read more: Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand: From reserves to history books

Lakshya Sen

Age: 20 years

Event: men's singles, mixed team

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Read more: Heart, soul and mind: Lakshya beats Ginting after losing the first game

Kidambi Srikanth

Age: 29 years

Event: men's singles, mixed team

CWG history: Quarterfinals in 2014, Silver medal in 2018 (men's singles)

Read more: Kidambi Srikanth starts from scratch on his long road back to the top

PV Sindhu

Age: 21 years

Event: women's singles, mixed team

CWG history: Bronze in 2014, Silver medal in 2018 (women's singles)

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Satwiksairaj Rankireddy

Age: 21 years

Event: men's doubles, mixed team

CWG history: Silver medal in 2018 (men's doubles), fourth place in 2018 (mixed doubles)

Treesa Jolly

Age: 19 years

Event: women's doubles, mixed team

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Note: In the mixed team event, India won silver in 2010, finished fourth in 2014 and won gold in 2018


BOXING

Amit Panghal

Age: 26

Event: Men's 51kg

CWG history: Silver in 2018 [49kg]

Nikhat Zareen

Age: 26

Event: Women's 50kg

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Lovlina Borgohain

Age: 24

Event: Women's 70kg

CWG history: Quarterfinals in 2018 [69kg]

Ashish Kumar Chaudhary

Age: 28

Event: Men's 80kg

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Mohammad Hussamuddin

Age: 28

Event: Men's 57kg

CWG history: Bronze in 2018 [56kg]

Jaismine Lamboria

Age: 20

Event: Women's 60kg

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Nitu Ganghas

Age: 21

Event: Women's 48kg

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Rohit Tokas

Age: 28

Event: Men's 67kg

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Sagar

Age: 23

Event: Men's 92+kg

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Sanjeet Kumar

Age: 25

Event: Men's 92kg

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Shiva Thapa

Age: 28

Event: Men's 63.5kg

CWG history: Round-of-16 in 2014 [Bantamweight]

Sumit Kundu

Age: 19

Event: Men's 75kg

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham


CRICKET

CWG history: Women's cricket is making its debut at the Games.

India's squad

Deepti Sharma, Harmanpreet Kaur, Harleen Deol, Jemimah Rodrigues, Meghna Singh, Pooja Vastrakar, Radha Yadav, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Renuka Thakur, S. Meghana, Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Sneh Rana, Taniya Sapna Bhatia, Yastika Bhatia


CYCLING

Anantha Narayanan

Age: 20

Event: Men's 4000m

Team pursuit

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Dinesh Kumar

Age: 22

Event: Men's 4000m Individual Pursuit, Men's 4000m Team Pursuit

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

E David Beckham

Age: 18

Event: Men's 1000m Time Trial, Men's Team Sprint

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Esow Alben

Age: 21

Event: Men's team sprint, Men's Keirin

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

L Ronaldo Singh

Age: 20

Event: Men's Sprint, Men's 1000m Time Trial, Men's Team Sprint, Men's Keirin

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Mayuri Dhanraj Lute

Age: 21

Event: Women's Sprint, Women's 5000m Time Trial, Women's Team Sprint, Women's Keirin

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Meenakshi

Age: 20

Event: Women's 3000m Individual Pursuit, Women's 10km Scratch Race

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Naman Kapil

Age: 22

Event: Men's 4000m Team Pursuit

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Shushikala Agashe

Age: 23

Event: Women's Team Sprint

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Triyasha Paul

Age: 20

Event: Women's Sprint, Women's 5000m Time Trial, Women's Team Sprint, Women's Keirin

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Vishvajeet Singh

Age: 20

Event: Men's 4000m individual pursuit, Men's 4000m team pursuit, Men's 15km scratch race

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Venkappa Shivappa Kengalugutti

Age: 21

Event: Men's 4000m Team Pursuit, Men's 40km Points Race

CWG history:Making his debut at Birmingham

Y Rojit Singh

Age: 20 Event: Men's Team Sprint

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham


GYMNASTICS

Pranati Nayak

Age: 27

Event: Artistic Gymnastics - Women's All-Around and Women's team

CWG history: 11th-place [women's team] in 2014; Seventh-place [women's all-around team] in 2018

Bavleen Kaur

Age: 18

Event: Rhythmic Gymnastics - Individual All-Around [Hoop, Ball, Clubs and Ribbon]

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Protishta Samata

Age: 18

Event: Artistic Gymnastics - Women's All-Around and Women's team

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Ruthuja Nataraj

Age: 18

Event: Artistic Gymnastics - Women's All-Around and Women's team

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Saif Tamboli

Age: 24

Event: Artistic Gymnastics - Men's All-Around and Men's team

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Satyajit Mondal

Age: 22

Event: Artistic Gymnastics - Men's All-Around and Men's team

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Yogeshwar Singh

Age: 24

Event: Artistic Gymnastics - Men's All-Around and Men's team

CWG history: Ninth-place [men's team all-around] in 2018


HOCKEY

Women's team

CWG history: Fourth in 1998; gold in 2002; silver in 2006; fifth in 2010 and 2014; fourth in 2018

Deep Grace Ekka, Gurjit Kaur, Jyoti, Lalremsiami, Monika, Navjot Kaur, Navneet Kaur, Neha, Nikki Pradhan, Nisha, Rajani Etimarpu, Salima Tete, Sangita Kumari, Savita Punia, Sharmila Devi, Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam, Udita, Vandana Katariya

Men's team

CWG history: Fourth in 1998; sixth in 2006; silver in 2010 and 2014; fourth in 2018

Abhishek, Amit Rohidas, Akashdeep Singh, Gurjant Singh, Hardik Singh, Harmanpreet Singh, Jarmanpreet Singh, Jugraj Singh, Krishan Bahadur Pathak, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Mandeep Singh, Manpreet Singh, Nilakanta Sharma, PR Sreejesh, Shamsher Singh, Surender Kumar, Varun Kumar, Vivek Sagar Prasad


JUDO

L Shushila Devi

Age: 27

Event: Women's 48kg

CWG history: Silver in 2014

Deepak Deswal

Age: 21

Event: Men's 100kg

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Jasleen Singh Saini

Age: 24

Event: Men's 66kg

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Suchika Tariyal

Age: 31

Event: Women's 57kg

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Vijay Kumar Yadav

Age: 26

Event: Men's 60kg

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Tulika Maan

Age: 23

Event: Women's +78kg

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham


LAWN BOWLS

Sunil Bahadur

Age: 45

Event: Men's singles, men's pairs

CWG history: Qualifying stage [men's triples] in 2010; Qualifying stage [singles and men's triples] in 2014; Quarterfinals [men's fours] and qualifying stage [men's triples] in 2018

Chandan Kumar Singh

Age: 37

Event: Men's triples and men's fours

CWG history: Fourth place [men's fours] and qualifying stage [men's [pairs] in 2014; Quarterfinals [men's fours] and qualifying stage [men's triples] in 2018

Dinesh Kumar

Age: 45

Event: Men's triples, men's fours

CWG history: Qualifying stage [men's pairs] in 2010; Fourth place [men's fours] and qualifying stage [men's [pairs] in 2014; Quarterfinals [men's fours] and qualifying stage [men's triples] in 2018

Mridul Borgohain

Age: 42

Event: Men's pairs, men's fours

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Navneet Singh

Age: 27

Event: Men's triples, men's fours

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Lovely Choubey

Age: 41

Event: Women's pairs, women's fours

CWG history: Qualifying round [women's triples and fours] in 2014; Quarterfinals [women's pairs and women's fours] in 2018

Nayanmoni Saikia

Age: 33

Event: Women's singles, women's pairs

CWG history: Qualifying round [women's singles] in 2014; Qualifying round [women's triples] in 2014; Quarterfinals [women's fours] and qualifying round [women's triples] in 2018

Pinki

Age: 41

Event: Women's triples, women's fours

CWG history: Fourth-place [women's triples] in 2010; Qualifying round [women's pairs and fours] in 2014; Qualifying round [women's singles] and qualifying round [women's triples] in 2018 in 2018

Rupa Rani Tirkey

Age: 34

Event: Women's triples, women's fours

CWG history: Fourth-place [women's triples] in 2010; Qualifying round [women's triples and fours] in 2014; Quarterfinals [women's pairs and fours] in 2018

Tania Choudhury

Age: 27

Event: Women's triples, women's fours

CWG history: Fourth-place [women's triples] in 2010; Qualifying round [women's pairs and fours] in 2014;


SQUASH

Dipika Pallikal-Karthik

Age: 30

Event: Women's doubles and mixed doubles

CWG history: Gold [Women's doubles] and quarterfinals [women's singles and mixed doubles] in 2014; Silver [women's doubles and mixed doubles] in 2018

Saurav Ghosal

Age: 35

Event: Men's singles and mixed doubles

CWG history: Third round [men's singles] in 2010 and quarterfinals [mixed doubles]; Fourth-place [men's singles], quarterfinals [mixed doubles] and round-of-16 [men's doubles] in 2014; Silver [mixed doubles] in 2018

Joshna Chinappa

Age: 35

Event: Women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles

CWG history: Third round [women's singles] and quarterfinals [mixed doubles] in 2010; Gold [Women's doubles] and quarterfinals [mixed doubles] in 2014; Silver [women's doubles] in 2018

Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu

Age: 33

Event: Men's doubles CWG history: Quarterfinals [mixed doubles], second round [men's singles] and round-of-16 [men's doubles] in 2014; round-of-32 [men's singles] in 2018

Ramit Tandon

Age: 29

Event: Men's singles, men's doubles and mixed doubles CWG history: Quarterfinals [men's doubles] in 2018

Sunayna Kuruvilla

Age: 23

Event: Women's singles

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Abhay Singh

Age: 23

Event: Men's singles and men's doubles

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Anahat Singh

Age: 14

Event: Women's singles

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

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Velavan Senthilkumar

Age: 24

Event: Men's doubles

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham


SWIMMING

Sajan Prakash

Age: 28

Event: Men's 50m, 100m and 200m butterfly

CWG history: Finished eighth in 200m butterfly and seventh in 1500m freestyle in 2018; did not reach final round in 2014

Srihari Nataraj

Age: 21

Event: Men's 50m, 100m and 200m backstroke

CWG history: Did not progress to final round in 2018

Advait Page

Age: 20

Event: Men's 1500m freestyle

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Kushagra Rawat

Age: 22

Event: Men's 200m, 400m and 1500m freestyle

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham


TABLE TENNIS

Sharath Kamal

Age: 40

Event: Men's singles/doubles

CWG history: Gold [men's singles and men's team] in 2006; gold [men's doubles] and bronze [men's team] in 2010; gold [men's team], siver [men's doubles] and bronze [men's singles and mixed doubles] in 2018

Sathiyan Gnanasekaran

Age: 29

Event: Men's singles/doubles

CWG history: Gold [men's team], silver [men's doubles] and bronze [mixed doubles] in 2018

Manika Batra

Age: 27

Event: Women's singles/doubles

CWG history: Gold [women's singles and women's team], silver [women's doubles] and bronze [mixed doubles] in 2018

Harmeet Desai

Age: 29

Event: Men's singles/doubles

CWG history: Gold [men's team] and bronze [men's doubles] in 2018

Reeth Rishya

Age: 27

Event: Women's singles/doubles

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Sanil Shetty

Age: 32

Event: Men's singles/doubles

CWG history: Gold [men's team] and bronze [men's doubles] in 2018

Sreeja Akula

Age: 23

Event: Women's singles/doubles

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Diya Chitale

Age: 19

Event: Women's singles

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Manush Shah

Age: 21

Event: Men's singles - reserve player

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Swastika Ghosh

Age: 19

Event: Women's singles - reserve player

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham


TRIATHLON

Adarsh MS

Age: 23

Event: Men's individual sprint distance, mixed team relay

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Pragnya Mohan

Age: 27

Event: women's individual sprint distance, mixed team relay

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Sanjana Joshi

Age: 16

Event: women's individual sprint distance, mixed team relay

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Vishwanath Yadav

Age: 23

Event: Men's individual sprint distance, mixed team relay

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham


WEIGHTLIFTING

Mirabai Chanu

Age: 27

Event: Women's 49kg

CWG history: Silver in 2014; Gold in 2018 [48kg category on both occasions]

Vikas Thakur

Age: 28

Event: Men's 96kg

CWG history: Silver [85kg] in 2014; bronze [94kg] in 2018

Punam Yadav

Age: 27

Event: Women's 76kg

CWG history: Bronze [63kg] in 2014, gold [69kg] in 2018

Achinta Sheuli

Age: 20

Event: Men's 73kg

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Ajay Singh

Age: 25

Event: Men's 81kg

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Bindyarani Devi

Age: 23

Event: Women's 55kg

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Gurdeep Singh

Age: 26

Event: Men's +109kg

CWG history: Finished fourth in 2018

Gururaja Poojary

Age: 29

Event: Men's 61kg

CWG history: Won silver in 2018 [56kg]

Harjinder Kaur

Age: 25

Event: Women's 71kg

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Jeremy Lalrinnunga

Age: 19

Event: Men's 67kg

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Lovepreet Singh

Age: 24

Event: Men's 109kg

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Popy Hazarika

Age: 21

Event: Women's 59kg

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Purnima Pandey

Age: 24

Event: Women's +87kg

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Sanket Mahadev

Age: 21

Event: Men's 55kg

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Usha Kumari

Age: 27

Event: Women's 87kg

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham


WRESTLING

Vinesh Phogat

Age: 27

Event: Women's 53kg

CWG history: Gold in 2014 [48kg]; gold in 2018 [50kg]

Bajrang Punia

Age: 28

Event: Men's 65kg

CWG history: Silver in 2014 [61kg]; gold in 2018 [65kg]

Ravi Kumar Dahiya

Age: 24

Event: Men's 57kg

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Sakshi Malik

Age: 29

Event: Women's 62kg

CWG history: Silver in 2014 [58kg]; bronze in 2018 [62kg]

Anshu Malik

Age: 20

Event: Women's 57kg

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Deepak Punia

Age: 23

Event: Men's 86kg

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Divya Kakran

Age: 23

Event: Women's 68kg

CWG history: Bronze in 2018

Mohit Grewal

Age: 23

Event: Men's 125kg

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Deepak

Age: 19

Event: Men's 97kg

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Naveen,/h3>

Age: 19

Event: Men's 74kg

CWG history: Making his debut at Birmingham

Pooja Gehlot

Age: 25

Event: Women's 50kg

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham

Pooja Sihag

Age: 23

Event: Women's 76kg

CWG history: Making her debut at Birmingham