Bhubaneswar: India has entered with a strong 95-member squad, including 47 women, in the 22nd Asian Athletics Championships to be held at the refurbished Kalinga Stadium here from July 6 to 9.
The Men squad:
- 100m and 200m : Amiya Kumar Mallick;
- 400m :Muhammed Anas, Amoj Jacob and Arokia Rajiv;
- 800m :Jinson Johnson and Vishambhar Keolkar;
- 1500m :Ajay Kumar Saroj and Siddhantha Adhikari;
- 5000m :G Lakshmanan and Murli Kumar Gavit;
- 10,000m : Lakshmanan, Gopi Thonakal and Kalidas Hirave;
- 3000m steeplechase : Naveen Kumar and Durga Bahadur Budha;
- 110m hurdles : Siddhant Thingalaya* and Prem Kumar;
- 400m hurdles : Jabir MP, Santhosh Kumar T and Durgesh Kumar Pal;
- Pole vault : S Siva;
- High jump : Chethan B and Ajay Kumar;
- Long jump :Ankit Sharma, Samsheer SE and Siddharth Mohan Naik*;
- Triple jump : Arpinder Singh and Karthik U*;
- Shot put : Tajinder Pal Toor, Jasdeep Singh Dhillon and Omprakash Singh Karhana;
- Discus throw : Vikas Gowda*, Dharamraj Yadav and Kirpal Singh;
- Hammer throw :Niraj Kumar;
- Javelin throw : Neeraj Chopa, Davinder Singh Kang and Abhishek Singh;
- Decathlon : Jagtar Singh and Abhishek Shetty;
- 4x100m relay : Amiya Kumar Mallick, Jyotishankar Debnath, Anuroop John, VK Elakkiya Dasan, Pravin Muthukumaran and Chintha Sudhakar;
- 4x400m relay: Muhammed Anas, Amoj Jaco, Arokia Rajiv, Sachi Roby, Mohan Kumar and Kunju Muhammed.
The Female Squad:
- 100m and 200m : Dutee Chand and Srabani Nanda;
- 400m : Nirmala, MR Poovamma and Jisna Mathew;
- 800m :Tintu Luka, Archana Adhav and Lili Das;
- 1500m :Monika Choudhary;
- 5000m :L Suriya and Sanjivani Jadhav;
- 10,000m : L Suriya, Sanjivani Jadhav and Meenu;
- 3000m :steeplechase: Sudha Singh and Parul Chaudhary;
- 100m hurdles : Nayana James*;
- 400m hurdles :Anu R, Jauna Murmu and Arpitha M.
- Pole vault :KM Sangeeta; High jump: Sahana Kumari and Swapna Barman;
- Long jump :Nayana James*, Neena V and G Karthika;
- Triple jump :Sheena NV and Joyline Murali Lobo*.
- Shot put :Manpreet Kaur, Ramanpreet Kaur and Anamika Das;
- Discus throw :Kamalpreeet Kaur Bal, Seema Punia and Himani Singh;
- Hammer throw :Sarita R Singh and Gunjan Singh;
- Javelin throw :Annu Rani, Poonam Rani Singh and Suman Devi.
- Heptathlon :Swapna Barman, Purnima Hembram and Liksy Joseph.
- 4x100m relay :Dutee Chand, Srabani Nanda, Merlin Joseph, Reena George, Ruma Sarkar and Himashree Roy;
- 4x400m relay :Nirmala, Poovamma, Jisna Mathew, Vijayakumari GK, Sarita Ben Gayakwad and Debashree Mazumdar.