2020 Olympics: Indian Performance in Athletics

17 Men and 9 women represented Indian Athletics team in 9 Track and 5 Field events. The 26 athletes aim to win India’s first medal in Athletics at Olympics since the two medals won by Norman Pritchard in 1900. Kamalpreet Kaur and Neeraj Chopra made it 15th and 16th instance of Indians in Athletics finals of Olympics.

Indian History at Summer Olympics: Performances in Every Olympics
Indian Medals In Olympics: When and Who Got It!!
Indian Performance in 2020 Olympics

Highlights

• Neeraj Chopra won first ever Gold for India in Athletics.
• Men’s 4x400m relay team created Asian record but were not able to advance further.
• Kamalpreet Kaur created Indian history of being the first woman to reach Discus Throw final at Olympics.
• Kamalpreet Kaur and Neera Chopra became 13th and 14th Indian to reach Finals of any Athletics event since 1900.

Schedule and Results Track Events

Event	Athlete	Heat	Semifinal	Final
Men’s 400m hurdles	Jabir M Palliyalil	Finished 33	x	x
Men’s 3000m steeplechase	Avinash Sable	Finished 13	x	x
Men’s 4x400m relay	Mohammed Anas Yahiya, Noah Nirmal Tom, Amol Jacob, Rajiv Arokia, Naganathan Pandi (Reserve)	Asian record 3:00.25 9	x	x
Men’s 20 Km walk	Sandeep Kumar, Rahul Rohila, Irfan Kolothum Thodi			23, 47 and 51
Men’s 50 Km walk	Gurpreet Singh			Did not finish
Mixed 4x400m relay	Sarthak Bhambri, Alex Antony, Revathi Veeramani, Subha Venkatesan, Dhanalakshmi Sekhar	Finished 15	NA	x
Women’s 100m	Dutee Chand	Finished 45	x	x
Women’s 200m	Dutee Chand	Finished 38	x	x
Women’s 20 Km walk	Priyanka Goswami, Bhawna Jat			17 & 32

Schedule and Results Field Events

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Final
Murali Sreeshankar	Men’s long jump	Rank 25 (7.69)	x
Kamalpreet Kaur	Women’s Discus throw	Rank 2 (64.00)	Rank 6 (63.25)
Seema Punia	Women’s Discus throw	Rank 16 (60.57)	x
Annu Rani	Women’s javelin throw	Rank 14 (54.04)	x
Tajinder Pal Singh Toor	Men’s shot put	Rank 24 (19.99)	x
Neeraj Chopra	Men’s javelin throw	Rank 1 (86.65)	Gold (87.58 m)
Shivpal Singh	Men’s javelin throw	Rank 27 (76.40)	x