India's athletes, on one page.

Arokia Rajiv

Subedar Arokia Rajiv (born 22 May 1991) is an Indian sprinter and a Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) in Indian Army who specialises in the 400 metres distance. He won silver medals in the men's and mixed 4 × 400 m relays at the 2018 Asian Games and placed third in the individual 400 m in 2014. He won medals in both the 400 m and 4 × 400 m events at the 2016 South Asian Games and 2017 Asian Championships.

Arpinder Singh

Arpinder Singh (born 30 December 1992) is an Indian triple jumper. He was a gold medallist at the 2018 Asian Games and 2017 Asian Indoor Games. He also claimed a bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Arul Swami

Christopher Sebastian Arul Swami (31 December 1913 – 22 October 1997), better known as C. S. A. Swami, was an Indian journalist and athlete. He competed in the marathon at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Aged 22 in 1936, he was the youngest participant for India at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games.

Arun Bhardwaj

Arun Bhardwaj (born 24 February 1969) is a career civil servant and an ultramarathon runner from New Delhi, India. In 2009, he won the 567 km George Archer 6 day race in South Africa. 8 mi) in 24 hours in Kolkata, India and thus beat his previous best of running 177 km in 24 hours.

Asha Agarwal

Asha Agarwal (born 26 September 1962) is an Indian former long-distance runner and a recipient of Arjuna Award. She began competing in marathon events in 1983 and soon made a mark at the domestic level. Asha Agarwal won the Hong Kong Marathon on 27 January 1985.

Asha Roy

Asha Roy (born 5 January 1990) is an Indian professional sprinter who won the silver medal for 200m in the Asian Track and Field at the 20th Asian Athletics Championships in Pune on 7 July 2013. 85 seconds in a 100-meter dash at the 51st National Open Athletics Championships, held at the Yuva Bharti Krirangan, Kolkata in 2011. 38 seconds, which was set by Rachita Mistry in Thiruvananthapuram in 2000.

Ashis Roy

Wing Commander Ashis Roy, MD FRCS (born 1 June 1932) is a runner, author, and cardiologist best known as the first Indian man to run 100 marathons. As of 2015, he has completed 145 total races, 115 of which are full marathons.

Ashwini Chidananda Akkunji

Ashwini Chidananda Shetty Akkunji (born 7 October 1987) is an Indian sprint athlete from Siddapura, Udupi who specializes in 400 metres. Ashwini has won gold medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and the 2010 Asian Games in 4 × 400 m relay team event with Manjeet Kaur, Mandeep Kaur and Sini Jose and an individual gold medal in the 400 metres hurdles on 25 November 2010 at the 2010 Asian Games held at Guangzhou, in China.

Ashwini Nachappa

Ashwini Nachappa (born 21 October 1967) is an Indian former track and field athlete and actress from Madikeri. T. Usha on two occasions.

Aslam Kader

Aslam Kader (9 December 1962 – 9 October 2025) was an Indian champion jockey. Kader rode over 1700 winning horses, including 75 wins in classic horse races over his two-decade career. He won the Champion Jockeys title at every racing centre in India.

Asprihanal Pekka Aalto

Ashprihanal Pekka Aalto (born August 27, 1970) is a Finnish ultramarathon runner who began running as a hobby at age 25. He currently works as a courier. Aalto is a member of The Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team.

Ayyasamy Dharun

Dharun Ayyasamy (born 31 December 1996) is an Indian track athlete who specializes in 400 m and 400 m hurdles events. He is the first and only Indian to run below 49sec (48.80sec) in 400 m hurdles. Dharun represented India in the men's 4×400 m relay event at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

B. V. Satyanarayan

Bondata Venkata Satyanarayan (9 May 1935 – 23 April 2004) was an Indian athlete. He competed in the men's long jump at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Bahadur Prasad

Bahadur Prasad Singh (born 1 September 1965) is a former Indian middle distance runner. He held the national record in 5000 metres. 70) in Birmingham, England, on 27 July 1992, when finishing second behind Jack Buckner at the 1992 AAA Championships.

Bahadur Singh

Bahadur Singh Sagoo (born 7 May 1973) is an Indian former shot putter who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics and in the 2004 Summer Olympics. He is a recipient of the civilian honour of Padma Shri.

Bahadur Singh Chauhan

Bahadur Singh Chauhan, born on 8 February 1946 in a Sikh Rajput family is a former Indian shot putter. Between 1973 and 1985 he won three gold, two silver and three bronze medals at the Asian Games and Championships. He placed 15th at the 1980 Summer Olympics, and was honoured with Arjuna award and Padma Shri.

Baldev Singh

Baldev Singh (born c. 1920) was an Indian athlete. He competed in the men's long jump and the men's decathlon at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Baljinder Singh

Baljinder Singh (born 18 September 1986) is an Indian athlete who competes in the 20 kilometres race walk event. He has qualified in the 20 kilometres race walk event at the London Olympics 2012. His personal best in this event is 1:22:12.

Balkrishan Akotkar

Balkrishna Akotkar (born 1 July 1937) is an Indian long-distance runner. He competed in the marathon at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He stood 33rd in the marathon event at the 1964 Olympics.

Basanta Bahadur Rana

Sepoy Basanta Bahadur Rana (born 18 January 1984 in Chamkipur, Nawalparasi District, Nepal) is an Indian athlete who competes in racewalking. He represented India in the 50 km race walk event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. His personal best in this event before the Games was 4:02:13 and he bettered it by clocking a time of 3:56:48, a new national record.

Bharatinder Singh

Bharatinder Singh (born 23 October 1988) is an Indian track and field athlete from Haryana who specializes in decathlon. Bharatinder set the Indian National record of 7,658 points during the 51st National Senior Inter-State Athletics Championship held in Bangalore on 12 June 2011. He broke Jora Singh's previous mark of 7,502 points, registered in New Delhi in August 2006.

Bhawna Jat

Bhawna Jat (born 1 March 1996) is an Indian racewalker from Rajasthan who participated in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, finishing on 32nd position in 20 kilometres race walk.

Bhim Singh

Bhim Singh (born 13 April 1945) is a former Indian high jump athlete. He won the gold medal in the men's high jump at the 1966 Asian Games and the bronze medal in the same event at the 1970 Asian Games. He also represented India at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1970 Commonwealth Games.

Bhogeswar Baruah

Bhogeswar Baruah (born 3 September 1940) is a former athlete, coach, and military driver from India. He is the first Arjuna award recipient from Assam. He won a gold medal at the 1966 Asian Games.

Bibin Mathew

Bibin Mathew (born 16 January 1987) is an Indian track and field sprinter who competes in the 400 metres. He was the 2010 Asian Indoor Champion in the event and is a two-time South Asian Games gold medallist. 81 seconds, set in 2010.

Bobby Aloysius

Bobby Aloysius (born 22 June 1974) is an Indian athlete from Kerala, who competes in the high jump event. Currently, she is residing in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. 91m.

Budhia Singh

Budhia Singh (born 2002) is an Indian long-distance runner who became notable for his athletic feats as a child. He has been acclaimed as the world's youngest marathon runner. He ran from Puri to Bhubaneswar at the age of five covering 65 kilometres (40 miles) in seven hours and two minutes and was listed as the world's youngest marathon runner in the 2006 edition of the Limca Book of Records, an Indian records book.

Bunoo Sutton

Mervyn Ernest "Bunoo" Sutton (2 June 1909 – 20 December 1956) was an Indian sprinter. He competed in the men's 100 metres at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

Chand Ram

Siri Chand Ram (born 26 January 1958) is a former Indian athlete who won gold medal at 1982 Asian Games at Delhi in 20 kilometre road walk event. He also represented India at the 1984 Olympics. He was presented the Arjuna Award and the Padma Shri.

Chandan Singh

Chandan Singh (born 8 June 1987) is an Indian racewalker who competes in the 20 kilometres and 20 kilometres walk events.

Charles Borromeo

Charles Borromeo (born 1 December 1958) is a former Indian track and field athlete. He was awarded Arjuna Award in 1982 for winning gold at the 1982 Asian Games in Delhi at a record time of 1:46:81 seconds in India. He represented India in the 1984 Summer Olympics at Los Angeles.

Cheruvari Lakshmanan

Cheruvari Kottieth "C. " Lakshmanan (5 April 1898 – 3 October 1970) was an Indian sportsman and activist. He represented British India in the 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris.

Chhota Singh

Chhota Singh (born 1918, date of death unknown) was an Indian long-distance runner. He was one of the top Indian marathon runners of the 1930s and 1940s. He competed in the marathon at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Chinnain Thirugnanadurai

Chinnain Thirugnanadurai also written as Chinnain Thirugnan Durai and Thirugnan Durai (born 1 May 1974) is an Indian former sprinter. He competed in the men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He won a bronze medal at the 2003 Afro-Asian Games.

Chitra K. Soman

Chitra Kulathummuriyil Soman (born 10 July 1983) is an Indian athlete. She was born in Mattakkara, Kottayam, Kerala. Her father is from Kottayam and her mother is from kanjirappally, Kerala.

Christine Brown

Christine Brown (born September 1938) is an Indian track-and-field athlete. She won a gold medal in 4×100m relay (with Stephie d'Souza, Violet Peters and Mary d'Souza) and bronze in the 100 metres in the 1954 Asian Games. This was the first gold by an Indian women's team at the Asian Games.

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Dalip Singh

Dalip Singh Grewal (27 April 1899 - between 1971 and 1982) was an Indian track and field athlete who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics and in the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Davinder Singh Kang

Davinder Singh Kang (born 18 December 1988) is an Indian track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw event. 29m. 22m, the seventh best mark in the qualification round.

Deanna Syme Tewari

Deanna Syme Tewari (1939 – 28 March 2024) was an Indian athlete from Bangalore in 1950s and early 1960s. She was the torch bearer for India in the 1982 Asian Games in New Delhi.

Debashree Mazumdar

Debashree Mazumdar (born 6 April 1991) is an Indian sprint athlete from Kolkata who specializes in 4 × 400 metres relay races.

Deena Ram

Deena Ram (born 1964 in Rajasthan state) is a former Indian track and field athlete who specialised in the 3000 meters steeplechase. He won the gold medal at the 1989 Asian Athletics Championships and the silver medal at Asian Games. He was awarded Arjuna Award in 1990.

Deepa Malik

Deepa Malik (born 30 September 1970) is an Indian para athlete from Haryana. She won a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in shot put, becoming the first Indian woman to win a medal in the Paralympic Games. In 2020, she was elected as President of the Paralympic Committee of India.

Dev Meena

Dev Kumar Meena (born 7 May 2005) is an Indian pole vaulter.

Devendra Jhajharia

Devendra Jhajharia (born 10 June 1981) is an Indian Paralympic javelin thrower. He won his first gold in the javelin throw at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, becoming the second gold medalist at the Paralympics for his country. At the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, he won a second gold medal in the same event, bettering his previous record.

Dhanalakshmi Sekhar

Dhanalakshmi Sekar (born 5 June 1998) is an Indian athlete from Tamil Nadu. She rose to limelight after beating veteran Indian sprinters Dutee Chand and Hima Das in the 200m event at the 2021 Federation Cup. She made her debut appearance at the Olympics representing India at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Dharam Singh Uppal

Dharam Singh Uppal (21 July 1959 - 16 January 2013) was a former Indian international track and field athlete and a Superintendent of Police in Punjab. He was in the field event of men's 800 m and 1500 m race and won several medals for the country as well as state. He represented India in Asian Games and South Asian Games.

Dharambir Nain

Dharambir Nain (born 18 January 1989) is an Indian para club thrower. 92 m, setting a new Asian record.