India Full Squad, Asian Games 2026: Manu Bhaker, PV Sindhu, Shreyas Iyer, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi Among 503 Athletes | Check Contingent List

India Full Squad, Asian Games 2026: The Asian Games 2026 will bring together athletes from 45 countries and regions across 43 sports in Aichi and Nagoya, Japan. For India, the Games represent another major opportunity to strengthen its position as one of Asia’s leading sporting nations. The country created history at Hangzhou 2023 by winning 107 medals — 28 gold, 38 silver and 41 bronze, its best-ever medal haul at the Asian Games.

India will enter the 2026 edition with several high-profile names capable of challenging for medals across multiple disciplines. Five individual Olympic medallists — PV Sindhu, Manu Bhaker, Lovlina Borgohain, Aman Sehrawat and Mirabai Chanu — are part of the contingent. However, one notable absentee will be Olympic and world champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, who has withdrawn from the Games after an ankle injury.

The Indian squad also features defending Asian Games champions in cricket, with Shreyas Iyer set to captain the men’s T20 side and Harmanpreet Kaur leading the women’s team. Teenage batting prospect Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is another name attracting considerable attention.

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Hockey will carry additional importance in Japan, as both the men’s and women’s competitions will have a direct bearing on qualification for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics. The Asian Games hockey champions will secure direct qualification for LA 2028.

India’s preparations have not been without setbacks. There have been changes to the contingent because of doping violations, injuries and selection criteria. Wrestlers Mukul Dahiya and Deepanshu were removed from the squad following doping-related violations, while shooter Gaurav Kumar Masoori was also dropped and replaced by Akash Bharadwaj. India’s show-jumping team was excluded after failing to satisfy the Sports Ministry’s selection requirements.

The women’s cricket squad also underwent a late change after Jemimah Rodrigues suffered a hamstring injury during her stint in The Hundred. She was replaced by Pratika Rawal.

Despite these changes, India’s contingent remains packed with medal hopefuls and experienced competitors.

India will take a large and star-studded contingent to the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026, with athletes competing across a wide range of sports and disciplines. From Olympic medallists such as Manu Bhaker, PV Sindhu, Lovlina Borgohain, Mirabai Chanu and Aman Sehrawat to established Asian Games performers and emerging youngsters, Team India will have representation across individual, team, relay, mixed and weight-category events.

Here is the complete sport-wise Indian squad, with each athlete’s event, category or discipline specified.

Dhiraj Bommadevara — Men’s Recurve Individual, Men’s Recurve Team

Neeraj Chauhan — Men’s Recurve Individual, Men’s Recurve Team

Yashdeep Bhoge — Men’s Recurve Individual, Men’s Recurve Team

Sahil Jadhav — Men’s Compound Individual, Men’s Compound Team

Kushal Dalal — Men’s Compound Individual, Men’s Compound Team

Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru — Men’s Compound Individual, Men’s Compound Team

Kirti Sharma — Women’s Recurve Individual, Women’s Recurve Team

Kumkum Mohod — Women’s Recurve Individual, Women’s Recurve Team

Ankita Bhakat — Women’s Recurve Individual, Women’s Recurve Team

Jyothi Surekha Vennam — Women’s Compound Individual, Women’s Compound Team

Chikitha Taniparthi — Women’s Compound Individual, Women’s Compound Team

Prithika Pradeep — Women’s Compound Individual, Women’s Compound Team

Pranati Nayak — Women’s Vault, Women’s All-Around

Animesh Kujur — 100m, 200m, Mixed 4x100m Relay

Rajesh Ramesh — 400m, 4x400m Relay

Vishal Thennarasu Kayalvizhi — 400m, 4x400m Relay

Mohammed Afsal Pulikkalakath — 800m

Gulveer Singh — 1500m, 5000m, 10,000m

Kartik Karkera — Marathon

Yashas Palaksha — 400m Hurdles

Santhosh Kumar Tamilarasan — 400m Hurdles

Avinash Sable — 3000m Steeplechase

Pranav Pramod Gurav — Mixed 4x100m Relay

Mohammed Ashfaq — 4x400m Relay

Dharmveer Choudhary — 4x400m Relay

Jay Kumar — 4x400m Relay, Mixed 4x400m Relay

Manu Thekkinalil Saji — 4x400m Relay, Mixed 4x400m Relay

Aadarsh Ram Jothi Shankar — High Jump

Sarvesh Kushare — High Jump

Kuldeep Kumar — Pole Vault

Murali Sreeshankar — Long Jump

Shahnavaz Khan — Long Jump

Praveen Chithravel — Triple Jump

Karthik Unnikrishnan — Triple Jump

Karanveer Singh — Shot Put

Tajinderpal Singh Toor — Shot Put

Damneet Singh — Hammer Throw

Praveen Kumar — Hammer Throw

Rohit Yadav — Javelin Throw

Yash Vir Singh — Javelin Throw

Thowfeeq Noushad — Decathlon

Tejaswin Shankar — Decathlon

Gowthami Jayaraman — 800m

Parul Chaudhary — 1500m, 5000m, 3000m Steeplechase

Priyanka Goswami — Marathon Race Walk

Manju Rani — Marathon Race Walk

Jyothi Yarraji — 100m Hurdles

Nandhini Kongan — 100m Hurdles

Unnathi Aiyappa Bolland — 200m

Anu Raghavan — 400m Hurdles

Vithya Ramraj — 400m Hurdles

Ankita Dhyani — 3000m Steeplechase

Tamanna — 4x100m Relay, Mixed 4x100m Relay

Nithya Gandhe — 4x100m Relay

Srabani Nanda — 4x100m Relay

Abinaya Rajarajan — 4x100m Relay

Sneha Sathyanarayana — 4x100m Relay, Mixed 4x100m Relay

Sudeshna Shanuvalli — 4x100m Relay

Rashdeep Kaur — 4x400m Relay, Mixed 4x400m Relay

Ansa Babu — 4x400m Relay, Mixed 4x400m Relay

Machettira Raju Poovamma — 4x400m Relay

Kumari Saloni — 4x400m Relay

Neeru Pathak — 4x400m Relay

Supriya Sindigere Basavaraju — High Jump

Baranica Elangovan — Pole Vault

Sindhushree G — Pole Vault

Ancy Sojan Edappilly — Long Jump

Niharika Vashisht — Triple Jump

Asha Ilango — Triple Jump

Krishna Jayasankar Menon — Shot Put

Sanya Yadav — Discus Throw

Seema Kaliramna — Discus Throw

Tanya Chaudhary — Hammer Throw

Anushka Yadav — Hammer Throw

Annu Rani — Javelin Throw

Anamika Kozhinjaparambil Aneesh — Heptathlon

Lakshya Sen — Men’s Singles, Men’s Team

Ayush Shetty — Men’s Singles, Men’s Team

Kidambi Srikanth — Men’s Team

Tharun Mannepalli — Men’s Team

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy — Men’s Doubles, Men’s Team

Chirag Shetty — Men’s Doubles, Men’s Team

Hariharan Amsakarunan — Men’s Doubles, Men’s Team

MR Arjun — Men’s Doubles, Men’s Team

Dhruv Kapila — Mixed Doubles, Men’s Team

PV Sindhu — Women’s Singles, Women’s Team

Unnati Hooda — Women’s Singles, Women’s Team

Devika Sihag — Women’s Team

Tanvi Sharma — Women’s Team

Isharani Baruah — Women’s Team

Treesa Jolly — Women’s Doubles, Women’s Team

Gayatri Gopichand — Women’s Doubles, Women’s Team

Kavipriya Selvam — Women’s Doubles, Women’s Team

Simran Singhi — Women’s Doubles, Women’s Team

Tanisha Crasto — Mixed Doubles, Women’s Team

Hitesh Kewat — Men’s Kayak Single, Kayak Cross

Pradhyumna Singh Rathod — Men’s Kayak Cross, Kayak Single

Shikha Chouhan — Women’s Kayak Cross

Pallavi Jagtap — Women’s Canoe Single

Rina Sen — Women’s Canoe Single

Prohit Baroi — Men’s Kayak Double 500m

Prasanna Kumar Chempadiyil Sathyaprakash — Mixed Kayak Double 500m, Men’s Kayak Double 500m

Naocha Singh Laitonjam — Men’s Kayak Four 500m

Gyaneshwor Singh Philem — Men’s Canoe Double 500m

Raju Rawat — Men’s Canoe Double 500m

Harshwardhan Singh Shaktawat — Men’s Kayak Single 500m, Men’s Kayak Four 500m

Varinder Singh — Men’s Kayak Four 500m

Oinam Arun Singh — Men’s Kayak Four 500m

Neha Devi Leichonbam — Women’s Canoe Double 500m

Soniya Devi Phairembam — Women’s Kayak Double 500m, Women’s Kayak Four 500m, Women’s Canoe Single 200m

Megha Pradeep — Mixed Canoe Double 500m, Women’s Canoe Double 500m

Pooja — Women’s Kayak Four 500m

Parvathy Geetha — Mixed Kayak Double 500m, Women’s Kayak Four 500m

Dhanamanjuri Devi Khwairakpam — Women’s Kayak Double 500m, Women’s Kayak Four 500m

Abhishek Sharma — Men’s T20

Nitish Kumar Reddy — Men’s T20

Washington Sundar — Men’s T20

Varun Chakravarthy — Men’s T20

Jasprit Bumrah — Men’s T20

Arshdeep Singh — Men’s T20

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi — Men’s T20

Harmanpreet Kaur — Captain

Smriti Mandhana — Women’s T20

Shafali Verma — Women’s T20

Pratika Rawal — Women’s T20

Deepti Sharma — Women’s T20

Richa Ghosh — Women’s T20

Gunalan Kamalini — Women’s T20

Bharti Fulmali — Women’s T20

Sree Charani — Women’s T20

Renuka Thakur — Women’s T20

Kranti Gaud — Women’s T20

Arundhati Reddy — Women’s T20

Shreyanka Patil — Women’s T20

Radha Yadav — Women’s T20

Nandani Sharma — Women’s T20

Vishavjeet Singh — Madison

David Beckham Elkatohchoongo — Team Sprint, Sprint

Jemsh Singh Keithellakpam — Team Sprint

Ronaldo Singh Laitonjam — Sprint, Team Sprint

Harshveer Singh Sekhon — Keirin, Omnium, Madison

Rojit Singh Yanglem — Team Sprint

Celestina Chelobroy — Keirin, Team Sprint

Meenakshi Rohilla — Team Pursuit

Keerthi Rangaswamy Chikka — Team Sprint, Keirin

Pooja Baban Danole — Team Pursuit

Harshita Jakhar — Omnium, Team Pursuit, Madison

Sarita Kumari — Team Sprint, Sprint

Triyasha Paul — Team Sprint, Sprint

Swasti Singh — Madison, Team Pursuit

Hriday Chheda / Dono Di Maggio — Team Dressage

Gaurav Pundir / Milli — Individual Dressage, Team Dressage

Jai Sud / Goofy La Perla — Team Dressage

Shruti Vora / Magnanimous — Individual Dressage, Team Dressage

Ahaan Kumar / Bolivar Gio Granno — Individual Eventing, Team Eventing

Ashish Limaye / Willy Be Dun — Individual Eventing, Team Eventing

Fouaad Mirza / Camouflage 38 — Team Eventing

Arjan Singh Nagra / Cooley Goodwood — Team Eventing

Chinmay Sahoo — eFootball

Danial Shakeel Patel — eFootball

Deepkumar Vipulbhai Patel

Sachin — Individual Foil, Team Foil

Aditya Badser — Team Foil

Tejas Manoj Patil — Team Foil

Hemash Singh Sanasam — Individual Foil, Team Foil

Lakshay Badser — Team Sabre

Gisho Nidhi Kumaresan Padma — Individual Sabre, Team Sabre

Karan Singh — Individual Sabre, Team Sabre

Vishal Thapar — Team Sabre

Mina Devi Naorem — Individual Foil, Team Foil

Joys Ashitha Stalinraj — Individual Foil, Team Foil

Kanupriya Chawla — Team Foil

Sonia Devi Waikhom — Team Foil

Mitva Jesangbhai Chaudhari — Team Épée

Yashkeerat Kaur Hayer — Team Épée

Taniksha Khatri — Individual Épée, Team Épée

Prachi Lohan — Individual Épée, Team Épée

CA Bhavani Devi — Individual Sabre, Team Sabre

Shreya Gupta — Individual Sabre, Team Sabre

Jefarlin Jani Rexlin Simla — Team Sabre

Shruti Joshi — Team Sabre

Yuvraj Sandhu — Individual Stroke Play, Team

Veer Ahlawat — Individual Stroke Play, Team

Saptak Talwar — Individual Stroke Play, Team

Aditi Ashok — Individual Stroke Play, Team

Diksha Dagar — Individual Stroke Play, Team

Pranavi Urs — Individual Stroke Play, Team

Harmanpreet Singh — Captain

Event: Men’s Hockey Tournament

Event: Women’s Hockey Tournament

Asmita Dey — Women’s -48kg

Yamini Mourya — Women’s -57kg

Inunganbi Takhellambam — Women’s -70kg

Chetan Bhatt — Men’s Kumite -84kg

Alisha Choudhary — Women’s Kumite -55kg

Vipin Kumar — Men’s -66kg

Sangita Balhara — Women’s -57kg

Pincky Chauhan — Women’s -78kg

Suchika Tariyal — Women’s Traditional MMA -60kg

Arvind Singh — Single Sculls

Navdeep Singh — Double Sculls

Kulwinder Singh — Double Sculls

Ujjwal Kumar Singh — Lightweight Double Sculls

Satnam Singh Ghurde — Quadruple Sculls

Jakar Khan — Quadruple Sculls

Salman Khan — Quadruple Sculls

Balraj Panwar — Quadruple Sculls

Rohit — Double Sculls, Quadruple Sculls, Lightweight Double Sculls

Ajay Tyagi — Lightweight Double Sculls

Jasmail Singh — Pair, Coxless Four

Anshika Bharti — Women’s Coxless Four

Aleena Anto — Women’s Four

Tendenthoi Devi Haobijam — Women’s Four

Gurbani Kaur — Women’s Four

Vaishnavi Dattatray Patil

Event: Women’s Rugby Sevens

Vishnu Saravanan — Men’s Dinghy

Manu Francis — Men’s Skiff

Prince Kurisinkal Noble — Men’s Skiff

Ravindra Kumar Sharma — Mixed Dinghy

Katya Ida Coelho — Women’s Windsurfing

Nethra Kumanan — Women’s Dinghy

Harshita Tomar — Women’s Skiff

Shital Verma — Women’s Skiff

Mahi Verma — Girls’ Dinghy

Shraddha Verma — Mixed Dinghy

Malemnganba Singh Sorokhaibam

Leirentonbi Devi Elangbam

Kamaljeet — 10m Air Pistol

Aakash Bharadwaj — 10m Air Pistol

Kedarling Uchaganve — 10m Air Pistol

Anish Bhanwala — 25m Rapid Fire Pistol

Himanshu Dhillon — 10m Air Rifle

Parth Mane — 10m Air Rifle

Rudrankksh Patil — 10m Air Rifle, 50m Rifle 3 Positions

Niraj Kumar — 50m Rifle 3 Positions, 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team

Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar — 50m Rifle 3 Positions

Kynan Chenai — Trap, Trap Mixed Team

Bhavtegh Singh Gill — Skeet

Mairaj Ahmad Khan — Skeet

Anant Jeet Singh Naruka — Skeet, Skeet Mixed Team

Suruchi Singh — 10m Air Pistol, 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team

Manu Bhaker — 10m Air Pistol, 25m Pistol, Team Events

Esha Singh — 10m Air Pistol, 25m Pistol

Rahi Sarnobat — 25m Pistol

Vidarsa Kochalumkal Vinod — 10m Air Rifle, 50m Rifle 3 Positions

Sonam Uttam Maskar — 10m Air Rifle

Elavenil Valarivan — 10m Air Rifle, Mixed Team

Ashi Chouksey — 50m Rifle 3 Positions

Tilottama Sen — 50m Rifle 3 Positions

Neeru Dhanda — Trap, Trap Mixed Team

Maheshwari Chauhan — Skeet

Parinaaz Dhaliwal — Skeet, Skeet Mixed Team

Deepu Mallesh — Men’s Speed

Joga Purty — Women’s Speed

Suraj Kumar Chand — Men’s Team, Mixed Doubles

Veer Chotrani — Men’s Singles, Men’s Team

Velavan Senthilkumar — Mixed Doubles, Men’s Team

Abhay Singh — Men’s Singles, Men’s Team

Anahat Singh — Women’s Singles, Women’s Team

Joshana Chinappa — Mixed Doubles, Women’s Team

Tanvi Khanna — Women’s Singles, Women’s Team

Shameena Riaz — Mixed Doubles, Women’s Team

Kishore Kumar — Men’s Shortboard

Sivaraj Babu — Men’s Shortboard

Kamali Moorthy — Women’s Shortboard

Sugar Shanthi Banarse — Women’s Shortboard

Benediction Rohit Beniston Manickaraj — 50m Butterfly, 100m Butterfly, 100m Freestyle, 4x100m Freestyle Relay, 4x100m Medley Relay

Rishabh Das — 50m Backstroke, 100m Backstroke, 4x100m Medley Relay

Vedaant Madhavan — 200m Backstroke, 200m Freestyle, 4x200m Freestyle Relay

Akash Mani — 50m Freestyle, 100m Freestyle, 4x100m Freestyle Relay, 4x100m Medley Relay

Srihari Nataraj — 50m Backstroke

Aryan Nehra — 800m Freestyle, 1500m Freestyle

Utkarsh Santosh Patil — 100m Backstroke, 200m Backstroke

Sajan Prakash — 100m Butterfly, 200m Butterfly

Heer Gitesh Shah — 50m Freestyle, 4x100m Freestyle Relay

Dhakshan Shashikumar — 400m Freestyle, 4x200m Freestyle Relay

Aneesh Sunil Kumar Gowda — 200m Freestyle, 400m Freestyle, 4x100m Freestyle Relay, 4x200m Freestyle Relay

Danush Suresh — 50m Breaststroke, 100m Breaststroke, 4x100m Medley Relay

Sathiyan Gnanasekaran — Men’s Doubles, Men’s Team

Payas Jain — Men’s Team, Mixed Doubles

Manush Shah — Men’s Singles, Men’s Doubles, Men’s Team

Manav Thakkar — Men’s Singles, Men’s Doubles, Men’s Team

Harmeet Desai — Men’s Doubles, Men’s Team, Mixed Doubles

Sreeja Akula — Women’s Singles, Women’s Doubles, Women’s Team

Diya Chitale — Women’s Doubles, Women’s Team, Mixed Doubles

Syndrela Das — Women’s Doubles, Women’s Team

Yashaswini Ghorpade — Women’s Singles, Women’s Team, Mixed Doubles

Sutirtha Mukherjee — Women’s Team

Rupa Bayor — Women’s Individual Poomsae

Kashish Malik — Women’s -57kg

Jyoti Yadav — Women’s +67kg

Sumit Nagal — Men’s Singles

Yuki Bhambri — Men’s Doubles

Dhakshineswar Suresh — Men’s Doubles

Anirudh Chandrasekar — Men’s Doubles

N. Sriram Balaji — Men’s Doubles

Ankita Raina — Women’s Doubles

Rutuja Bhosale — Women’s Doubles

Yogesh Choudhary — Men’s Team

Jay Meena — Men’s Singles, Men’s Team

Aniket Chirag Patel — Men’s Team, Mixed Doubles

Aryan Thakur — Men’s Singles, Men’s Team

Aadhya Tiwari — Women’s Singles, Mixed Doubles

Mohamed Anas Imran Beg — Men’s Doubles, Mixed Doubles

Declan Marshall Gonsalves — Men’s Doubles

Quimcy Dsouza — Women’s Singles, Mixed Doubles

Muhammad Nihal Chatham Kulangara

John Joseph Eanthungal Joseph

Event: Men’s Volleyball Tournament

Rishikanta Singh Chanambam — Men’s 60kg

Mirabai Chanu — Women’s 49kg

Gyaneshwari Yadav — Women’s 53kg

Seram Nirupama Devi — Women’s 61kg

Harjinder Kaur — Women’s 69kg

Suraj Singh Mayanglambam — Changquan

Nyeman Wangsu — Changquan

Langlentombi Devi Hanjabam — Nanquan & Nandao

One of the biggest talking points surrounding India’s contingent is the absence of Neeraj Chopra. The Olympic and world champion javelin thrower was expected to be among the headline attractions at the Games but withdrew after an ankle injury.

His absence removes one of India’s most dependable gold-medal prospects. Nevertheless, the squad has enough depth and star power to mount another serious challenge across the medal table.

Note: The Indian contingent and individual entries may undergo further changes before the Asian Games 2026 due to injuries, eligibility, selection decisions or other circumstances.