Hyderabad: Over 100 athletes, 18 categories -- India has sent it largest contingent to the Tokyo Olympics. While the nation's hope hinges on country's athletes to return home with a medal hanging on their necks, the contenders themselves would be looking forward to their events with bated breath.
Here is the full schedule of Indian players in the 32nd edition of the Olympics:
ARCHERY
July 23: Men’s, Women’s Individual Qualification Rounds -- 5:30 AM
July 24: Mixed Team Eliminations, Medal Matches — Atanu Das, Deepika Kumari -- 6 AM
July 26: Men’s Team Eliminations, Medal Matches — Atanu Das, Pravin Jadhav, Tarundeep Rai -- 6 AM
July 27 to 30: Men’s and Women’s Individual Eliminations, Medal Matches, TBD
ATHLETICS
July 30: Men’s 3000m Steeplechase Heats – 5:47 AM (Avinash Sable)
Men’s 400m Hurdles Heats – 7:25 AM (Jabir M Palliyalil)
Women’s 100m Heats – 3:10 PM (Dutee Chand)
4x400m Mixed Relay (Heat) – 5:30 PM (Sarthak Bhambri, Alex Antony, Revathi Veeramani, Subha Venkatesan, Dhanlakshmi Sekhar)
July 31: Women’s Discus throw qualifiers – 6 AM (Kamalpreet Kaur, Seema Punia)
Men’s Long Jump qualifiers – 3:40 PM (Murali Sreeshankar)
Women’s 100m semifinals (if Dutee qualifies) – 3:45 PM
4x400m Mixed Relay Gold medal match (if India qualifies) – 6:05 PM
Women’s 100m Gold Medal Match (if Dutee qualifies) – 6:20 PM
August 2: Men’s Long Jump final (if India qualifies) – 6:50 AM
Women’s 200m Heats – 7 AM (Dutee Chand)
Women’s Discus Throw Gold Medal match (if India qualifies) – 5:30 PM
Men’s Steeplechase Gold Medal match (if India qualifies) – 5:45 PM
August 3: Women’s Javelin Throw qualifiers – 5:50 AM (Annu Rani)
Men’s 400m Hurdles Gold Medal Match (if India qualifies) – 8:50 AM
Men’s Shotput qualification - 5:45 PM (Tajinder Pal Singh Toor)
Women’s 200m Final (if India qualifies) – 6:20 PM
August 4: Men’s Javelin Throw qualification – 5:35 PM (Neeraj Chopra)
August 5: Men’s Shot Put Gold Medal match (if India qualifies) – 7:35 AM
Men’s 20 KM Race Walk Gold Medal match – 1 PM (Sandeep Kumar, Rahul Rohila and Irfan Kolothum Thodi)
August 6: Men’s 50km Race Walk Gold Medal match – 2 AM-7:30 AM (Gurpreet Singh)
Women’s 20km Race Walk Gold Medal match – 1 PM (Priyanka Goswami, Bhawna Jat)
Men's 4x400m Relay Round 1 Heats - 4:55 PM (Amoj Jacob, Arokia Rajiv, Noah Nirmal Tom, Muhammed Anas Yahiya)
Women’s Javelin throw Gold Medal match (if India qualifies) – 5:20 PM
August 7: Men’s Javelin Throw Final (if India qualifies) – 4:30 PM
BADMINTON
July 30: Men’s Singles round-of-16 – 5:30 AM and 12 PM (B Sai Praneeth)
Men’s Doubles quarterfinals – 5:30 AM (Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty)
Women’s Singles round-of-16 – 12 PM (PV Sindhu)
July 31: Men’s Doubles semifinals – 5:30 AM (if India qualifies)
Women’s Singles quarterfinals – 3:30 PM (if India qualifies)
August 1: Men’s Singles quarterfinals – 9:30 AM (if India quaifies)
Women’s Singles semifinals – 5 PM (if India qualifies)
Men’s Doubles bronze medal match – 5 PM
August 2: Men’s Singles Semifinals/Women’s Singles Final/Men’s Doubles Final – 10:30 AM
Men’s Singles Final: 4:30 PM
BOXING (only first round timings, the rest would be on basis of qualification)
July 24: Women’s Welter, RO-32 – 7:30 AM (Lovlina Borgohain)
Men’s Welter, RO-32 – 9:54 AM and 3:40 PM (Vikas Krishan)
July 25: Women’s Fly, RO-32 – 7:30 AM and 1:30 PM (Mary Kom)
Women’s Middle, RO-32 – 8:30 AM (Pooja Rani)
Men’s Light, RO-32 – 8:48 AM and 2:48 PM (Manish Kaushik)
July 26: Men’s Fly, RO-32 – 7:30 AM and 1:30 PM (Amit Panghal)
Men’s Middle, RO-32 – 9:06 AM and 3:06 PM (Ashish Kumar)
July 27: Women’s Light, RO-32 – 3:30 PM (Simranjit Kaur)
July 29: Men’s Super Heavy, RO-16 – 8:30 AM and 2:30 PM (Satish Kumar)
EQUESTRIAN – Fouaad Mirza is the only Indian in the event
July 24, 25: Dressage – 1:30 PM
July 28: Dressage Final – 2 PM
July 30, 31: Eventing – 5 AM and 2 PM
August 1: Eventing Cross Country – 4:15 AM
August 2: Eventing qualifier – 1:30 PM, Eventing Final – 7:15 PM
August 3: Jumping qualifier – 3:30 PM
August 4: Jumping Final – 3:30 PM
FENCING
July 26: Women’s Sabre (All rounds on same day) – 5:30 AM-5:15 PM (C.A. Bhavani Devi)
FIELD HOCKEY
Men’s Group matches
July 24: India vs New Zealand – 6:30 AM
July 25: India vs Australia – 3 PM
July 27: India vs Spain – 6:30 AM
July 29: India vs Argentina – 6 AM
July 30: India vs Japan – 3 PM
Women’s Group matches
July 24: India vs Netherlands – 5:15 PM
July 26: India vs Germany – 5:45 PM
July 28: India vs Great Britain – 6:30 AM
July 30: India vs Ireland – 8:15 AM
July 31: India vs South Africa – 8:45 AM
GOLF
July 29, 30, 31: Men’s Individual – 4 AM (Anirban Lahiri, Udayan Mane)
August 1: Men’s individual gold medal round
August 4, 5, 6: Women’s indiviudal – 4 AM (Aditi Ashok)
August 7: Women’s individual gold medal round
ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS
July 25: Women’s qualification – 6:30 AM-4:45 PM (Pranati Nayak)
July 29: Women’s All-Round Final – 4:20 PM
JUDO
July 24: Women’s 48kg (All rounds including final) – Starting from 7:30 AM (Shushila Likmabam)
ROWING – (Only one event has Indian participation)
July 24: Men’s lightweight double sculls heats – 7:50 AM (Arjun Lal and Arvind Singh)
July 25: Men’s lightweight double sculls repechage – 6:30 AM
July 27: Semifinals – 7:48 AM
July 29: Final – 6:20 AM
SAILING
July 24: Men’s Laser (race 1 and 2) – 11:05 AM (Vishnu Sarvanan)
July 25: Men’s Laser (race 3 and 4) – 8:35 AM
July 25: Women’s Laser Radial (race 1, 2) – 8:35 AM (Nethra Kumanan)
July 26: Men’s Laser (race 5 and 6) – 8:35 AM
July 26: Women’s Laser Radial (race 3, 4) – 11:05 AM
July 27: Women’s Laser Radial (race 5 and 6) – 8:35 AM
July 27: Men’s 49er (Race 1, 2, 3) – 11:20 AM (K.C. Ganapathy, Varun Thakkar)
July 28: Men’s 49er (Race 4, 5, 6) – 8:35 AM
July 29: Men’s Laser (race 7 and 8) – 8:35 AM
July 29: Women’s Laser Radial (race 7, 8) – 8:45 AM
July 30: Women’s Laser Radial (race 9, 10) – 8:35 AM
July 30: Men’s 49er (race 7, 8, 9) – 8:35 AM
July 31: Men’s 49er (race 10, 11, 12) – 8:35 AM
August 1: Men’s Laser Gold Medal race – 11:03 AM
August 1: Women’s Laser Gold Medal race – 12:03 AM
August 2: Men’s 49er Medal Race – 12:03 PM
SHOOTING
July 24: Women’s 10m Air Rifle Qualification (5 AM) and Final (7:15 AM) – Apurvi Chandela, Elavenil Valarivan
Men’s 10m Air Pistol Qualification (9:30 AM) and Final (11:15 AM) – Saurabh Chaudhary, Abhishek Verma
July 25: Women’s 10m Air Pistol Qualification (5:30 AM) and Final (7:45 AM) – Manu Bhaker, Yashaswini Deswal
Men’s 10m Air Rifle Qualification (9:30 AM) and Final (12 PM) – Deepak Kumar, Divyansh Singh Panwar
July 26: Men’s Skeet Qualification (6:30 AM) and Final (12:20 PM) – Angad Bajwa, Mairaj Ahmad Khan
July 27: 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team Qualification (5:30 AM) and Medal matches (7:30 AM) – Saurabh Chaudhary and Manu Bhaker, Abhishek Verma and Yashaswini Deswal
10m Air Rifle Mixed Team Qualification (9:45 AM) and Medal matches (11:45 AM) – Deepak Kumar and Anjum Moudgil, Divyansh Singh Panwar and Elavenil Valarivan
July 30: Women’s 25m Pistol Qualification (5:30 AM) and Final (11:20 AM) – Manu Bhaker, Rahi Sarnobat
July 31: Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions Qualification (8:30 AM) and Final (12:30 PM) – Anjum Moudgil, Tejaswini Sawant
August 2: Men’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions Qualification (8 AM) and Final (1:20 PM) – Sanjeev Rajput, Aishwary Tomar
SWIMMING (only heats timings)
July 25: Women’s 100m backstroke– 3:30 PM (Mana Patel)
Men’s 100m backstroke– 4:50 PM (Srihari Nataraj)
July 26: Men’s 200m butterfly – 4 PM (Sajan Prakash)
TABLE TENNIS (First round details only)
July 24: Men’s/Women’s Singles Prelims – 5:30 AM (Sharath Kamal, G Sathiyan; Manika Batra, Sutirtha Mukherjee). Round 1 in two different sessions - 9:45 AM/4 PM
Mixed Doubles RO-16 – 7:45 AM (Sharath Kamal/Manika Batra)
TENNIS – Order of play will be available an evening before the game
WEIGHTLIFTING
July 24: Women’s 49kg – begins at 6:20 AM, Final at 10:20 AM (Mirabai Chanu)
WRESTLING – Timings not confirmed yet