New Delhi: Under-20 World Athletics silver medalist long jumper Shaili Singh Includes 50 players from eight disciplines, who have been added to the core group. target olympic podium plan ,Top most), the Sports Ministry announced on Friday.
The decision was taken at a meeting of the Mission Olympic Cell (MOC) on Thursday, in which 143 athletes were included in the development group.
By selecting 50 athletes in the core group and 143 in the development group from eight disciplines in the second list, the MOC has increased the count to 291, including 102 in the core group.
Athletes from 13 Olympic disciplines and six Paralympic disciplines have so far been identified for support in preparation for the 2024 Games.
Considered one of the brightest rising stars in Indian athletics, the 17-year-old had won a silver medal in the long jump event at the World U20 Athletics Championships earlier this year.
Riddhima Virendra Kumar is the youngest swimmer among those recognized for support. The 14-year-old won several medals at the National Junior Championships in October and also made it to the National Championships a week later.
He was named among the 17 swimmers in the development group in addition to the two swimmers previously identified for the core group.
“The MoC accepted the recommendation of a sub-committee that the swimming list be reviewed after the World Championships in June next year and the archery list after the national ranking tournament next month. Some other sports such as equestrian, golf, etc. , gymnastics, judo and tennis will be taken up later,” the ministry said.
There were no surprises in the selections made in other sports as well, with Tokyo Olympians such as PV Sindhu, Deepika Kumari, MC Mary Kom, and Mohammad Anas Yahiya retaining their place in the core group.
Veteran shuttler Saina Nehwal has also managed to make it to her core group despite failing to qualify for the Tokyo Games.
List of athletes selected for TOPS Core and Development groups:
Archery:
Core Group- Atanu Das and Deepika Kumari.
Development Group- Pravin Jadhav, Bommaravera Dhiraj, Parth Sushant Salunkhe, Aditya Choudhary, Yasdhdeep Bhoge, Divyansh Kumar Panwar, Kapish Singh, Vickey Ruhal, Neeraj Chauhan, Amit Kumar, Sudanshu Bisht, Bishal Changmai, Komalika Bari, Ankita Jadhav, Madhu Vedwan, Simranjeet Kaur, Simranjeet Kaur Deepti Kumari, Tamna, Soniya Thakur, Avni, Manjari Alone and Tisha Punia.
Athletics:
Core Group- Mohammad Anas Yahia, Dharun Ayyasamy, Naganathan Pandy, Arokia Rajeev, Amoz Jacob, Noah Nirmal Tom, Avinash Sable, Murli Sreeshankar, Neeraj Chopra, Tajinderpal Singh Toor, Sandeep Kumar, Dutee Chand, Hima Das, Revathi Veeramani, VK Vismay , Jisna Mathew, Subha Venkatesan, S Dhanalakshmi, Priyanka Goswami, Bhavna Jat, Shaili Singh, Kamalpreet Kaur, Seema Punia and Annu Rani.
Development Group – Vikrant Panchal, Ayush Dabas, Kapil, Ajay Kumar Saroj, Tejaswin Shankar, Praveen Chitravel, Rohit Yadav, Sahil Silwal, Jesvin Aldrin, Mohammad Ajmal, Karanvir Singh, Yashvir Singh, Amit Khatri, AT Daneshwari, Anjali Devi, Priya Mohan Jyothika Dandi, Kaveri, R Vithya, NS Simi, PD Anjali, Sandra Babu, Ansi Sojan and Sherin Abdul Ghafoor.
Badminton:
main group- Target Sen., Kidambi Srikanto, B Sai Praneeth, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty, PV Sindhu, Saina Nehwal, Sikki Reddy and Ashwini Ponnappa.
Development Group – Shankar Muthusamy, Pranav Rao Gandham, Maisnam Miraba, K Satish Kumar, Rohan Gurbani, Sai Charan Koya, Kiran Geroge, Priyanshu Rajawat, Ishaan Bhatnagar, P Vishnuvardhan Gaur, Krishna Prasad Ji, Dhruv Kapil, MR Arjun, Sai Prateek Krishna Prasad, Tasneem Mir, Pullela Gayatri Gopichand, Samia Imar Farooqui, Akarshi Kashyap, Malvika Bansod, Ashmita Chaliha, Aditi Bhatt, Tanisha Krasto, Tarissa Jolly, Ashwini Bhat, Rutuparna Panda and Shikha Gautam.
Boxing:
Core Group- Amit Pangal, Deepak Kumar, Manish Kaushik, Sanjeet, Satish Kumar, MC Mary Kom, Lovlina Borgohain and Pooja Rani.
Development Group – Kavinder Bisht, Ashish Kumar, Vishwamitra Chongtham, Akash Kumar, Sachin Siwach, Mohammad Husamuddin, Rohit More, Sachin, Ankit Narwal, Mohammad Etash Khan, Varinder, Shiv Thapa, Akash Sangwan, Naveen Bura, Nishant Dev, Hemant Yadav, Sumit, Sachin Kumar, Lakshya Chahar, Naman Tanwar, Naveen Kumar, Vishal Gupta, Aman Singh, Narendra, Neetu, Rani Manju, Nikhat Zareen, Anamika, Babyrogisana, Narom Chanu, Jamuna Boro, Poonam Poonia, Sakshi, Jasmine, Simranjit Kaur, Parveen Hooda, Ankushita Boro, Vinka, Arundhati Choudhary and Sanamcha Chanu.
Fencing:
Core Group- Bhavani Devi.
Development Group – Karan Singh, Abhay Shinde, C Jaitley, RS Sherzin, SN Shiv Magesh, Bennett Joseph, Laishram Moramba, Oinam Jubraj, Tanishka Khatri, Sheetal Dalal, Vedika Khushi and Shreya Gupta.
Rowing:
Core Group- Arjun Lal Jat, Arvind Singh, Sukhmeet Singh, Bittu Singh, Jakhar Khan and Ravi.
Development Group- Parminder Singh.
Swimming:
Development Group – Advait Page, Kushagra Rawat, Aryan Nehra, Neel Roy, Shon Ganguly, Tanish George Mathew, Anish S Gowda, Swadesh Mandal, Aryan Panchal, R Sambhav, Mana Patel, Kenisha Gupta, Ananya Wala, Apeksha Fernandes, Bhavya Sachdeva, Suvana C Bhaskar and Ridhima Virendra Kumar.
Table Tennis:
Development Group: Yashaswini Ghorpade and Prati Sen.
The decision was taken at a meeting of the Mission Olympic Cell (MOC) on Thursday, in which 143 athletes were included in the development group.
By selecting 50 athletes in the core group and 143 in the development group from eight disciplines in the second list, the MOC has increased the count to 291, including 102 in the core group.
Athletes from 13 Olympic disciplines and six Paralympic disciplines have so far been identified for support in preparation for the 2024 Games.
Considered one of the brightest rising stars in Indian athletics, the 17-year-old had won a silver medal in the long jump event at the World U20 Athletics Championships earlier this year.
Riddhima Virendra Kumar is the youngest swimmer among those recognized for support. The 14-year-old won several medals at the National Junior Championships in October and also made it to the National Championships a week later.
He was named among the 17 swimmers in the development group in addition to the two swimmers previously identified for the core group.
“The MoC accepted the recommendation of a sub-committee that the swimming list be reviewed after the World Championships in June next year and the archery list after the national ranking tournament next month. Some other sports such as equestrian, golf, etc. , gymnastics, judo and tennis will be taken up later,” the ministry said.
There were no surprises in the selections made in other sports as well, with Tokyo Olympians such as PV Sindhu, Deepika Kumari, MC Mary Kom, and Mohammad Anas Yahiya retaining their place in the core group.
Veteran shuttler Saina Nehwal has also managed to make it to her core group despite failing to qualify for the Tokyo Games.
List of athletes selected for TOPS Core and Development groups:
Archery:
Core Group- Atanu Das and Deepika Kumari.
Development Group- Pravin Jadhav, Bommaravera Dhiraj, Parth Sushant Salunkhe, Aditya Choudhary, Yasdhdeep Bhoge, Divyansh Kumar Panwar, Kapish Singh, Vickey Ruhal, Neeraj Chauhan, Amit Kumar, Sudanshu Bisht, Bishal Changmai, Komalika Bari, Ankita Jadhav, Madhu Vedwan, Simranjeet Kaur, Simranjeet Kaur Deepti Kumari, Tamna, Soniya Thakur, Avni, Manjari Alone and Tisha Punia.
Athletics:
Core Group- Mohammad Anas Yahia, Dharun Ayyasamy, Naganathan Pandy, Arokia Rajeev, Amoz Jacob, Noah Nirmal Tom, Avinash Sable, Murli Sreeshankar, Neeraj Chopra, Tajinderpal Singh Toor, Sandeep Kumar, Dutee Chand, Hima Das, Revathi Veeramani, VK Vismay , Jisna Mathew, Subha Venkatesan, S Dhanalakshmi, Priyanka Goswami, Bhavna Jat, Shaili Singh, Kamalpreet Kaur, Seema Punia and Annu Rani.
Development Group – Vikrant Panchal, Ayush Dabas, Kapil, Ajay Kumar Saroj, Tejaswin Shankar, Praveen Chitravel, Rohit Yadav, Sahil Silwal, Jesvin Aldrin, Mohammad Ajmal, Karanvir Singh, Yashvir Singh, Amit Khatri, AT Daneshwari, Anjali Devi, Priya Mohan Jyothika Dandi, Kaveri, R Vithya, NS Simi, PD Anjali, Sandra Babu, Ansi Sojan and Sherin Abdul Ghafoor.
Badminton:
main group- Target Sen., Kidambi Srikanto, B Sai Praneeth, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty, PV Sindhu, Saina Nehwal, Sikki Reddy and Ashwini Ponnappa.
Development Group – Shankar Muthusamy, Pranav Rao Gandham, Maisnam Miraba, K Satish Kumar, Rohan Gurbani, Sai Charan Koya, Kiran Geroge, Priyanshu Rajawat, Ishaan Bhatnagar, P Vishnuvardhan Gaur, Krishna Prasad Ji, Dhruv Kapil, MR Arjun, Sai Prateek Krishna Prasad, Tasneem Mir, Pullela Gayatri Gopichand, Samia Imar Farooqui, Akarshi Kashyap, Malvika Bansod, Ashmita Chaliha, Aditi Bhatt, Tanisha Krasto, Tarissa Jolly, Ashwini Bhat, Rutuparna Panda and Shikha Gautam.
Boxing:
Core Group- Amit Pangal, Deepak Kumar, Manish Kaushik, Sanjeet, Satish Kumar, MC Mary Kom, Lovlina Borgohain and Pooja Rani.
Development Group – Kavinder Bisht, Ashish Kumar, Vishwamitra Chongtham, Akash Kumar, Sachin Siwach, Mohammad Husamuddin, Rohit More, Sachin, Ankit Narwal, Mohammad Etash Khan, Varinder, Shiv Thapa, Akash Sangwan, Naveen Bura, Nishant Dev, Hemant Yadav, Sumit, Sachin Kumar, Lakshya Chahar, Naman Tanwar, Naveen Kumar, Vishal Gupta, Aman Singh, Narendra, Neetu, Rani Manju, Nikhat Zareen, Anamika, Babyrogisana, Narom Chanu, Jamuna Boro, Poonam Poonia, Sakshi, Jasmine, Simranjit Kaur, Parveen Hooda, Ankushita Boro, Vinka, Arundhati Choudhary and Sanamcha Chanu.
Fencing:
Core Group- Bhavani Devi.
Development Group – Karan Singh, Abhay Shinde, C Jaitley, RS Sherzin, SN Shiv Magesh, Bennett Joseph, Laishram Moramba, Oinam Jubraj, Tanishka Khatri, Sheetal Dalal, Vedika Khushi and Shreya Gupta.
Rowing:
Core Group- Arjun Lal Jat, Arvind Singh, Sukhmeet Singh, Bittu Singh, Jakhar Khan and Ravi.
Development Group- Parminder Singh.
Swimming:
Development Group – Advait Page, Kushagra Rawat, Aryan Nehra, Neel Roy, Shon Ganguly, Tanish George Mathew, Anish S Gowda, Swadesh Mandal, Aryan Panchal, R Sambhav, Mana Patel, Kenisha Gupta, Ananya Wala, Apeksha Fernandes, Bhavya Sachdeva, Suvana C Bhaskar and Ridhima Virendra Kumar.
Table Tennis:
Development Group: Yashaswini Ghorpade and Prati Sen.
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