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NEW DELHI, NOV 10: The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) today announced a final list of 22 disciplines comprising a contingent of around 300 for participation in the 13th Asian Games to be held in Bangkok from December 6 to 20.
The apex sports body, which had already selected 19 disciplines for India’s participation ahead of the November 6 deadline, added men’s volleyball, women’s football, golf and squash besides table tennis to the list today.
Following is the complete list.
Archery: Satya Dev Prasad, Skalzang Dorji, Mangal Singh and Rajesh Hasdak. Coach: Valentine Tublin.
Athletics
Men: Paramjit Singh, Jata Shankar, Bahadur Prasad, Manoj Lal KJ, Gulab Chand, Ramachandran P, Lijo David, Dinesh Rawat, Shakti Singh, Anil Kumar, Ajit Bhaduria, Satbir Singh, Jagdish Kumar, Bahadur Singh.
Women: PT Usha, Rachita Mistri, Vinita Tripathi, Rosa Kutty, Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, Sunita Rani, Shyla EB, Jayalakshmi V, KM Beenamol, Jenny Philips, Asha MK, Lekha Thomas, Neelam J Singh,Swaranjit Kaur, Gurmeet Kaur, V Pandeshwari and Harbans Kaur.
Coaches: Bahadur Singh, Hargobind Singh, Harbans Singh, JS Bhatia, Jaswant Singh and Yadvinder Singh. Foreign Coaches: Aleksei Ivanov, Valeri Moshkovsky and Gueorfui Tchernychev. Managers: W I Davaram and R Sunny Joshua.
Boxing: NG Dinko Singh, Jitender Kumar, Gurcharan Singh and Harpal Singh. Coach: GS Sandhu. Asst coach: BI Fernandez.
Billiards & Snooker: Geet Sethi, Yasin Merchant, Alok Kumar, Devendra Joshi, Ashok Shandilya, Dharminder Singh Lily, Manan Chandra, Shyam Jagtiani, Prem Gosder, Rafat Habib, Arun Agarwal, Manoj Kothari, Mukesh Rehani and B Bhaskar. Coaches: Michael Ferreira and Arvind Savur. Manager: RK Tandon.
Badminton: P Gopichand, Aparna Popat. Manager-cum-coach: Prakash Padukone.
Canoeing: Vinod Pavithran, Subhash Sivankutty, PK Baroi, Karma Toppo, SK Sadanandan, PK Rai, Vaga Ram and Ashish Kumar. Coaches: Vladmir Obrotsov, FE Andrew.Manager: GPS Bindra.
Equestrian: Kapil Modi, Imtiaz Anees, Amolakjit Singh, Rajesh Pattu and Palvinder Singh. Coach-cum-manager: Yudhvir Singh Ahlawat. Foreign coach: Carlo Cadona. Veterinarian: Anand Saini. Grooms: Maha Singh, Madhuchander Roy.
Football (Men): Hemanta Dora, Juje Siddi, Firoz Sheriff, Robert Fernandez, Franky Baretto, Debjit Ghosh, Khalid Jameel, Rajan Dey, Jiju Jacob, KB Dhanesh, Jo Paul Ancheri, Carlton Chapman, Tushar Rakshit, Sabir Pasha, IM Vijayan, Baichung Bhutia, Raman Vijayan, Najib, Basudeb Mondal and Abdul Khalique. Chief coach: S Nayeemuddin. Asst coach: Gabriel Joseph. Manager: Chuni Goswami.
Women: Binshori Devi, Rabita Devi, Khambi Devi, Kumari Devi, Chaitali Devi, Bantla De’Cousta, Maria Rebello, Ezhilarasi, Chouba Devi, Bem Bem Devi, S Rani Devi, Alpana Sil, Gurmeet Kaur, Sujata Kar, Tababi Devi, Lokeshwari Devi, Shraddhanjali Roy and Gracye Pereira. Coach: S Arumainayagam. Asstcoach: K Ghosh Dastidar. Manager: A Borchand.
Golf (Men): Amit Luthra, Harmit Kahlon, Amit Dubey and Digvijay Singh. Manager: Lakshman Singh.Women: Parnita Garewal, Urvashi Sethi, Anjali Chopra and Nonita Lal Qureshi. Manager-cum-coach: Ajay Gupta.
Hockey (Men): Ashish Ballal, A B Subbaiah, Dilip Tirkey, Lazarus Barla, Anil Aldrin, Baljit Singh Saini, Sandeep Somesh, Ramandeep Singh, Thirumalvalavan, Mukesh Kumar, Dhanraj Pillay, Sabu Varkey, Mohd Riaz, Baljit Singh Dhillon, Sameer Dad and L Prabhakaran. Chief coach: MK Kaushik. Asstt coach: Mir Ranjan Negi. Manager: MS Mallick.
Women: KT Chanu, Sandeep Kaur, Marystella Tirkey, Sunita Dalal, Sita Gossain, Surjalata Devi, Nidhi Khullar, Manjinder Kaur, Pritam Thakran, Kamla Dalal, Jyoti Kulu, Helen Mary Innocent, Amandeep Kaur, Lakshmi Shree Chidananda, Neha Singh and Surinder Kaur. Coach: GS Bangu. Asst Coach: NS Saini. Manager: Rupa Saini.
Judo:Arvind Kumar, Yashpal Verma, Ashwini Kumar, Kamla Rawat, Anuradha and Arti Kohli. Coaches: Ranbir Singh and Nusratkhon Valiev.
Swimming — Women: Nisha Millet, Shikha Tandon, Richa Mishra, Abhinaya Shetty. Men: Sandeep Kakkar, Sebastian Xavier. Coach: KV Sharma. Asst Coach: Mohan R Mohite.Shooting — Men: Jaspal Rana, Ashok Pandit, Vivek Singh, Kumar Satendra Singh, V P Pilaniya, Mansher Singh, Manavjeet Singh, Anwar Sultan, Harinder Singh, Inderjit Rao Singh, Rahul Rai, Moraad Ali Khan, Rajyavardhan Singh. Women: Roopa Unnikrishnan, Kuheli Gangulee, Suma Dixit, Anjali Vedpathak and Anuja Tere. Coaches: Tibor Gonczol, Marcello Dradi, Sunny Thomas and Mahender Lal. Armourer: Dhiren Bhatia. Manager: Maj DRL Nanda.
Squash (Women): Mekhala Subedar, Sohini Kumari. Coach-cum-manager: Cdr KS Randhawa.
Rowing: Johnson Xavier, Tarlochan Singh, Jagjit Singh Lohat, Birbal Singh, Papi Rajender Singh, Rampal Singh, KasamKhan, BKK Thankachan, RR Pillai. Coach: Dmitri Riabourkha. Manager: RS Bhanwala.
Tennis — Men: Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi, P Srinath, S Fazaluddin, Vijay Kumar, Nitin Kirtane. Women: Nirupama Vaidyanathan, Manisha Malhotra, Uzma Khan, Sai Jayalakshmi, Rushmi Chakravarthy, Shruti Dhawan. Coach: Jaideep Mukherjea.
Table Tennis: Chetan Baboor. Manager-cum-coach: Kamlesh Mehta.
Volleyball (Men): Ravikanth Reddy, Shankar Ganesh, MS Rajesh, Roy Joseph, Ratan Lal, Yavar Ali, Joby Joseph, Amir Singh, Raj Vinod, Venkateswara Rao, Surjit Singh and Premjit. Chief Coach: GE Sreedharan. Coach: Abdel Hamid El Wassimy. Manager: Raj Kumar.
Weightlifting — Men: K Pandian, Satish Rai. Women: Kunja Rani Devi, ST Chanu, Pratima Kumari, K Malleswari, Ujwala Mane. Coaches: Ajay Kumar Sirohi, PS Sandhu, Stoychey Trendafil.
Wrestling: Gurbinder Singh, KS Patel, Rakesh Kumar, Sujeet Mann, Jagdish Singh. Erkha Bayar(freestyle coach), PR Sodhi (FS coach-cum-manager) & RS Pangal (greco-roman coach).
Yachting: Mahesh Ramachandran, Ashim Mongia, Pushpendra Garg, Gautma Dutta, Naresh Yadav. Coach: Farokh Tarapore. Foreign coach: Carl Schmidt. Manager: Vice-Admiral PJ Jacob. Asst manager: Sandip Kapoor.
