20 athletes were added to the TOPS list for the 2024 Olympics, a total of 148

As many as 20 new athletes were added to the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) list on Monday, bringing the total number of athletes funded by the Ministry of Sport to 148 at the 2024 Paris Games.

Seven Olympic and six Paralympic sports were supported within the TOPS meeting of the Ministry of Sports’ Mission Olympic Cell (MOC). More athletes will be added to the TOPS list at the next MOC meeting later this month.

The MOC, which was re-established earlier this month to include seven more former international athletes, met here for the first time since the Tokyo Olympics.

Eligible athletes were in the Olympic sports for cycling, sailing, shooting, swimming, table tennis, weightlifting and wrestling. Archery, athletics, badminton, boxing, equestrian, fencing, golf, gymnastics, judo, rowing and tennis will be discussed at the next meeting later this month. The athletes admitted on Monday were archery, athletics, badminton, shooting, swimming and table tennis.

“Although the planning and preparation for the Paris 2024 Olympics began much earlier, the MOC meeting marks the official start of the shortened Olympic cycle,” the sports ministry said in a statement. “As many as seven athletes have earned a rise from the Khelo India program and are among the new members of the TOPS Development Group.”

The ministry said the athletes ’lists for the Core and Development teams are jointly compiled by the TOPS team and each sports federation.

“It required careful research, evaluation and predictions of the athletes’ performance before they were placed before the MOC for consideration, ”it said.

It was also agreed that the MOC would meet every two weeks. The recently re-formed MOC offered proposals to prepare for the 2024 Paris Games so India can build on the victories in the Tokyo Olympics, where the country won seven medals, including gold.

TOPS is the flagship program of the Department of Sports, which adds support to athletes in accordance with the annual training and competition calendar.

List of athletes supported under TOPS:

Cycling: Development group: Esow Alben, Keithellakpam Jemsh Singh, Laitonjam Ronaldo Y Rojit Singh and E David Beckham (new member).

Sailing: Core group: Vishnu Saravanan, Varun Thakkar, KC Ganapathy and Nethra Kumanan.

Shooting: Core group: Divyansh Singh Panwar, Aishwary Pratap Tomar, Saurabh Chaudhary, Abhishek Verma, Elavenil Valarivan, Anjum Moudgil, Manu Bhaker and Rahi Sarnobat Vijayveer Sidhu.

Development team: Yasahwini Deswal and Chinki Yadav, Niraj Kumar, Sartaj Singh Tiwana, Dhanush Srikanth, Shahu Tushar Mane, Hriday Hazarika, Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil, Parth Makhija, Anish Bhanwala, Adarsh ​​Singh, Khanush Sidingh, Uday Kapoor, Gurjoat Singh, N Gaayathri, Sunidhi Chauhan, Nishchal, Ayushi Podder, Shreya Agarwal, Shriyanka Sadarangi, Zeena Khitta, Abhindnya Ashok Patil, Tejaswin, Esha Singh, Rhythm Karti Rathewan ,, Kirishi Karti Rathewan, Singh Shaktaw Suresh Kusale, Arjun Babuta, Anantjeet Singh Naruka and Nisha Kanwar.

Swimming – core group: Sajan Prakash and Srihari Nataraj.

Table tennis – core group: Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Manika Batra and Sutirtha Mukherjee, Harmeet Desai and Archana Kamat.

Development group: Manav Thakkar, Manush Shah and Ayikha Mukherjee, Payas Jain, SFR Snehit, Swatiska Ghosh, Diya Chitale, Suhana Saini and Sreeja Akula.

Weightlifting – Core Group: Jeremy Lalrinnunga and Mirabai Chanu.

Development group: Achinta Sheuli, Soumya Sunil Dalvi, Garud Harshada Sharad, Kolli Varalakshmi Pavani Kumari, Mangkhya Boni, R Arockiya Alish, Sanker Sargar, Gogoi Sidhanta, Charu Pesi, Markio Tario and Sorkhaibam Bindyarani Devi, N Tomcho Komal Kohar, Sarika Shingare and Ajay Singh.

Wrestling – core group: Ravi Kumar, Bajrang Punia, Deepak Punia, Vinesh Phogat, Anshu Malik and Sonam Malil.

Development group: Sunil Kumar, Ravi, Ravinder, Gourav Baliyan, Sajan, Sanju Devi, Aman, Aman, Rohit, Yash Tushir, Sandeep Singh, Deepak, Anirudh Kumar, Arjun Halakurki, Sandeep, Ashu, Hanni Kumari, Sarita, Nisha, Bhateri and Bipasha.

Parasports – core group:

Archery: Harvinder Singh; Athletics: T Mariyappan, Sharad Kumar, Praveen Kumar, Sandeep Chaudhary, Sumit Antil, Sundar Singh Gurjar, Amit Saroha, Devendra Jhajharia, Nishad Kumar, Navdeep and Yogesh Kathunia; Badminton: Suhas Yathiraj, Krishna Nagar, Pramod Bhagat, Manoj Sarkar, Tarun Dhillon and Parul Parmar; Shooting: Avani Lekhara, Manish Narwal and Singhraj Adana; Swimming: Suyash Jadhav; Table tennis: Bhavina Patel.

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