Top athletes from across several sports disciplines will be in action in the Paris Olympics 2024 which starts from July 26. The quadrennial international multi-sport event is one of the most-awaited competitions of the year and fans would be waiting with bated breath to find out the athletes who secure podium finishes in the several events at the competition. This will be the 33rd edition of the prestigious Olympic Games and it will start from July 26 and continue till August 11.  The Olympic Games will subsequently be followed by the Paralympic Games, which start from August 28. In this article, we shall take a look at the list of sporting events in which Indian athletes will take part at the Paris Olympic Games 2024. India at Olympics 2024: Full List of Athletes Part of Indian Contingent for Paris Summer Olympic Games, Check Complete Squad.

India will be looking to put on a dominant show this time around at the Summer Olympic Games. The Indian contingent had its best-ever outing at an Olympics when it bagged seven medals in Tokyo in 2021. Fans will be expecting a performance from the Indian contingent that betters that of Tokyo. Since the 1900 edition, India have had 35 medals to their name and the athletes would be looking forward to add many more to that this time. India at Paris Olympics 2024: A Look At Top 10 Medal Contenders In Upcoming Summer Olympic Games in France.

List of Sporting Events Indian Athletes Will Be Participating In At Paris Olympics 2024

  • Archery (men's team, women's team)

  • Athletics (men’s 3000m steeplechase, men’s javelin throw, men’s javelin throw, men’s shot put, men’s triple jump, men’s high jump, men’s 20km race walk, men’s 4x400m relay, race walk mixed marathon, men's long jump, women’s 400mwomen’s 3000m steeplechase and 5,000m, women’s 100m hurdles, women’s javelin throw, women’s shot put, women’s 4x400m relay, women’s 20km race walk, race walk mixed marathon, women's 5000m?

  • Badminton (men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles)

  • Boxing (Women's 50kg, Men's 51kg, Men's 71kg, Women's 54kg, Women's 75kg, Women's 57kg)

  • Equestrian (Dressage)

  • Field Hockey (Men's Hockey)

  • Golf (Men's and women's golf events)

  • Judo (women's 78kg)

  • Rowing (M1X)

  • Sailing (men's one person dinghy, women's one person dinghy)

    Shooting (men's trap, women's trap, men's skeet, women's skeet, Skeet mixed team, men's 10m air rifle, women's 10m air rifle, men's 50m rifle 3 position, women's 50m rifle 3 position, 10m air rifle mixed team, men's 10m air pistol, women's 10m air pistol, men's 25m rapid fire pistol, women's 25m pistol, 10m air pistol mixed team)

  • Swimming (men's 100m backstroke, women's 200m freestyle)

  • Table Tennis (men's singles, women's singles, men's team, women's team)

  • Tennis (Men's singles and men's doubles)

  • Weightlifting (women's 49kg)

  • Wrestling (men's freestyle 57kg, women's 59kg, women's 57kg, women's 68kg, women's 76kg, women's 53kg)

Paris Olympics 2024 is also set to witness a first: the opening ceremony will not be held inside a stadium. Instead, the event will be a parade on the popular Seine River, with athletes travelling on boats. The river parade will end near the iconic Eiffel Tower, which is a popular tourist spot in France. Meanwhile, PV Sindhu and Achanta Sharath Kamal were named as India's flag-bearers for the Paris Olympics. Gagan Narang also replaced Mary Kom as India's Chef-de-Mission.

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