India is set to send its largest ever contingent of 120* athletes for the Olympics 2016 to be held in carnival city of Rio de Janerio, Brazil, from August 5 to 21. Certainly, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) is euphoric about India's chances of improving its medal tally of six at London Olympics in 2012. Though two Indian athletes have courted controversy just before the big games after failing the dope tests conducted by national doping agency, NADA, it shouldn't affect the morale of the entire contingent. The Chef de Mission for the Indian contingent is Rakesh Gupta.
Here is the full list of 120 athletes: Archery (4) Men's individual Women's individual - Bombayla Devi
- Deepika Kumari
- Laxmirani Majhi
Women's team - Deepika Kumari
- Bombayla Devi
- Laxmirani Majhi
Track and Field (36) Men 200 m 400 m 800 m 4 × 400 m relay - Mohammad Anas
- Ayyasamy Dharun
- Mohan Kumar
- Sumit Kumar
- Mohammed Kunhi
- Arokia Rajiv
Marathon - Thonakal Gopi
- Kheta Ram
- Nitender Singh Rawat
20km walk - Manish Singh
- Gurmeet Singh
- Ganapathi Krishnan
- 50km walk
- Sandeep Kumar
- Manish Singh
Long jump Triple jump Shot put Discus throw Women 100 m 200 m 400 m 800 m 3000 m steeplechase 4 × 400 m relay - Ashwini Akkunji
- Debashree Majumdar
- Jisna Mathew
- MR Poovamma
- Nirmala Sheoran
- Anilda Thomas
Marathon 20 km walk - Khushbir Kaur
- Sapna Punia
Shot put Discus throw Badminton (7) Men's Singles Men's Doubles - Manu Attri
- B. Sumeeth Reddy
Women's Singles - Saina Nehwal
- Pusarla Sindhu
Women's Doubles - Jwala Gutta
- Ashwini Ponnappa
Boxing (3) Bantamweight Light welterweight Middleweight Field Hockey (32) Men - Surender Kumar
- Danish Mujtaba
- VR Raghunath
- Akashdeep Singh
- Chinglensana Singh
- Harmanpreet Singh
- Kothajit Singh
- Manpreet Singh
- Ramandeep Singh
- Rupinder Pal Singh
- Sardara Singh
- PR Sreejesh (C & GK)
- SV Sunil
- Nikkin Thimmaiah
- SK Uthappa
- Devinder Walmiki
- Roelant Oltmans (Head coach)
Women - Savita Punia (GK)
- Deep Grace Ekka
- Deepika Thakur
- Namita Toppo
- Sunita Lakra
- Sushila Chanu (C)
- Lilima Minz
- Renuka Yadav
- Nikki Pradhan
- Monika Malik
- Navjot Kaur
- Anuradha Devi
- Poonam Rani
- Vandana Kataria
- Preeti Dubey
- Rani Rampal
- Neil Hawgood (Head coach)
Golf (3) Men - SSP Chawrasia
- Anirban Lahiri
Women Gymnastics (1) Artistic Judo (1) Men Rowing (1) Men's single sculls Shooting (12) Men - Abhinav Bindra (10 m air rifle)
- Kynan Chenai (Trap)
- Mairaj Ahmad Khan (Skeet)
- Prakash Nanjappa (50 m pistol)
- Gagan Narang (10 m air rifle, 50 m rifle prone, 50 m rifle 3 positions)
- Jitu Rai (10 m air pistol, 50 m pistol)
- Chain Singh (50 m rifle prone, 50 m rifle 3 positions)
- Gurpreet Singh (10 m air pistol, 25 m rapid fire pistol)
- Manavjit Singh Sandhu (Trap)
Women - Apurvi Chandela (10 m air rifle)
- Ayonika Paul (10 m air rifle)
- Heena Sidhu (10 m air pistol, 25 m pistol)
Swimming (2) Men - Sajan Prakash (200 m butterfly)
Women - Shivani Kataria (200 m freestyle)
Table tennis (4) Men's singles - Sharath Kamal
- Achanta Soumyajit
Women's singles Tennis (4) Men's doubles - Rohan Bopanna
- Leander Paes
Women's doubles - Sania Mirza
- Prarthana Thombare
Mixed doubles - Sania Mirza
- Rohan Bopanna
Weightlifting (2) Men's - Sathish Sivalingam (77 kg)
Women's - Saikhom Mirabai Chanu (48 kg)
Wrestling (8) Men's freestyle - Sandeep Tomar (57 kg)
- Yogeshwar Dutt (65 kg)
- Narsingh Yadav* (74 kg)
Men's Greco-Roman - Ravinder Khatri (85 kg)
- Hardeep Singh (98 kg)
Women's freestyle - Vinesh Phogat (48 kg)
- Babita Kumari (53 kg)
- Sakshi Malik (58 kg)
*Athletes tested positive by NADA. Fate uncertain.