2016 Rio Games: India’s first-time Olympians

Das will represent India in the men's recurve event at the Rio Olympics. It will be the 24-year-old's first Olympics and he will be the only one representing the country in the event. The Kolkata boy edged out veterans Jayanta Talukdar and Mangal Singh Champia to bag a ticket to Rio.

Punjab shot putter Manpreet Kaur created a new national record and qualified for Rio at the National Open Athletics Championship in 2015. The 25-year-old registered a throw of 17.96m.

Lalita broke the national record and her personal best while winning the Asian championship’s steeplechase gold at Wuhan in 2015 to qualify for Rio.

Dutee broke the 100m national record to qualify for the Rio Olympics and will be the first Indian female sprinter at the Olympics in 36 years. She challenged the hyperandrogenism verdict in the CAS and they overturned the ban.

India shuttler PV Sindhu is seeded ninth in the women's singles at the upcoming Olympic Games at Rio de Janeiro.

Avtar qualified for the Rio Olympic under the continental quota in under 90kg weight category. The 24-year-old policeman competed in just six events in the past year and jumped from No. 200 to the current 70th in the ranking.

Dipa will be the first woman gymnast to represent India at Olympics with a strong performance at the final qualifying and test event in Rio paving her way paved the way for the quadrennial extravaganza.

Jitu is ranked second in the world in the 50m pistol event and third in the 10m air pistol event and was India's first shooter to qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Apurvi qualified for the Rio Games by virtue of a bronze medal at the World Cup in Changwon, South Korea last year. In 2016, she broke the world record for the finals round by shooting 211.2 in 10m air rifle.

Indian table tennis player Manika Batra booked her Olympic ticket by topping the group in the Asian Qualifiers in Hong Kong.

The 22-year-old will be partnering Sania Mirza, the World No. 1 in women's doubles, in the Olympics.

The 21-year-old from Manipur, who earned her spot at the 2016 Rio Olympics in the 48kg category by winning silver in the selection trials held in Patiala, carries serious hope into the Summer Games.

Vinesh Phogat clinched gold to secure Rio Games berth in 48 kg category at the second World Olympic Qualifying tournament.

Under Sushila Chanu Indian junior women's team won bronze medal at the 2013 Junior World Cup in Germany and she will be leading the women’s team at Rio