India in Rio Olympics 2016

The Rio Olympic Games 2016 opened with colourful ceremony celebrating Brazil's history and diverse culture.

The Rio Olympics officially started with a long and loud celebration of Brazilian culture that also featured some unfortunate reminders of the troubled backdrop to these Games.Marathon runner Vanderlei Cordeiro, who was denied victory at the 2004 Athens Games when he was attacked by a spectator, lit the cauldron on Friday after an exuberant show of Brazilian cultural touchstones and breathtaking fireworks.

Despite the resentful undercurrent and protests against the Games just hours earlier, spirits were high among the thousands of athletes, performers, fans and officials at the 78,000-capacity Maracana.

The creative minds behind the opening ceremony were determined to put on a simple show that would not offend a country in dire economic straits, but would showcase the famously upbeat nature of Brazilians.

The Rio show dazzled with light effects, colourful costumes, singing, dancing, drumming and fireworks as the audience was taken on a journey through Brazil's history and its diversity.

Each flagbearer was also accompanied by a child holding a plant, while the Olympic rings were displayed in green vegetation. "More than 70,000 people that were in the Maracana stadium and more than two dozen world leaders cheered all of the athletes, but there was really a touching moment when people took to their feet cheering on this refugee team competing for the first time in the Olympics."

The 2016 Olympics run until August 21.

India have qualified 118 players for the Rio event. It's For the first time ever, India has sent more than 100-sportsperson to an Olympics for the Rio Games in August,2016. Complete list of all those who will represent India in Rio is as follows :

Archery×

Atanu Das, Deepika Kumari, Laxmirani Majhi, Bombayla Dev

Atheletics

Vikas Gowda (Discus Throw)

Seema Antil (Discus Throw)

Manpreet Kaur (Shot Throw)

Gurmeet Singh (men’s 20km walk)

Baljinder Singh (men’s 20km walk)

Irfan Kolothum Thodi (men’s 20km walk)

Sandeep Kumar (men’s 50km walk)

Manish Singh Rawat (men’s 50km walk)

Nitender Singh Rawat (Marathon)

Thonakal Gopi (Marathon)

Kheta Ram (Marathon)

Muhammad Anas (400m)

Lalita Babar (3000m steeplechase)

Tintu Luka (800m)

Kavita Raut (Marathon)

Sudha Singh (Marathon and 3000m steeplechase)

OP Jaisha (Marathon)

Khushbir Kaur (Walk)

Sapna Punia (Walk)

Dutee Chand (100m)

Sarbani Nanda (200m)

Ankit Sharma (Long jump)

Nirmala Sheoran (400m)

Dharambir (200m)

Muhammad Anas Yahiya (400m & 4x400m Relay)

Jinson Johnson (800m)

Renjith Maheswary (Triple Jump)

Nitendra Singh Rawat (Marathon)

Gopi Thonakal (Marathon)

Ganapathi Krishnan (20Km Race Walking)

Arokia Rajiv (4x400m Relay)

Kunhu Muhammaed Puthanpurakal (4x400m Relay)

Dharun Ayyasamy (4x400m Relay)

Mohankumar Raja (4x400m Relay)

Badminton

Saina Nehwal (Women’s singles)

PV Sindhu (Women’s singles)

Kidambi Srikanth (Men’s singles)

Manu Attri and Sumeeth Reddy (Men’s Doubles)

Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa (Women’s doubles)

Boxing

Shiva Thapa (56kg)

Manoj Kumar (61kg)

Vikas Krishan (75kg)

Judo

Avtar Singh

Gymnastics

Dipa Karmakar

Hockey

Men’s team – 16 members

Women’s team – 16 members

Rowing

Dattu Bhokanal (Singles sculls)

Shooting

Jitu Rai

Apurvi Chandela

Gagan Narang

Abhinav Bindra

Gurpreet Singh

Prakash Nanjappa

Chain Singh

Mairaj Ahmed Khan

Heena Sidhu

Kynan Chenai

Ayonika Paul

Manavjit Singh Sandhu

Swimming

Sajan Prakash (men’s 200m butterfly)

Shivani Katariya (women’s 200m freestyle)

Table Tennis

Achanta Sharath Kamal

Manika Batra

Soumyajit Ghosh

Mouma Das

Tennis

Rohan Bopanna (Men’s doubles, Mixed doubles)

Leander Paes (Men’s doubles)

Sania Mirza (Women’s doubles, Mixed doubles)

Prarthana Thombare (Women’s doubles)

Weightlifting

Sivalingam Sathish Kumar (Men’s 77kg)

Saikhom Mirabai Chanu

Wrestling

Narsingh Pancham Yadav (Men’s FS 74kg)

Yogeshwar Dutt (Men’s FS 65kg)

Hardeep Singh (Men’s GR 98kg)

Sandeep Tomar (Men’s FS 57kg)

Ravinder Khatri (Men’s GR 86kg)

Vinesh Phogat (Women’s 48kg)

Sakshi Malik (Women’s 60kg)

Babita Kumari (Women’s 55kg)