India Unveils Largest-Ever Contingent for World Para Athletics Championships 2025: Full Roster and Athlete Classification Breakdown

India plays host to the 2025 World Para Athletics Championships in New Delhi from 27 September to October 5, with over 2200 para-athletes from 104 countries set to participate.

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India has named a 73-member team (largest-ever), with hopes for an improved showing than the previous world championships in 2024, when India won 17 medals in Kobe, Japan. The 2025 edition will feature 186 medal events (101 male, 84 female, 1 mixed).

Here's how the events and athletes are classified, and the full list of Indian athletes taking part in them:

World Para-Athletics Classification

The World Para-Athletics Championships feature the following track-and-field events:

Track: 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m, 5000m, Marathon, 4x100m relay (mixed), High Jump (only men), Long Jump

Field: Shot Put, Discus, Javelin, Club Throw

They are further classified into categories that specify the nature of the athlete's impairments (track events are denoted by T, field events by F):

Visually-impaired athletes - T11, T12, T13, F11, F12, F13

Blind athletes are denoted by 11, while visually impaired athletes take 12-13. The track athletes are usually assisted by a guide.

1. Simran - Women's 100m T12, Women's 200m T12

2. Vishu - Men's Long Jump T12

3. Sagar - Men's Shot Put F11

4. Monu Ghangas - Men's Shot Put F11, Men's Discus Throw F11

5. Manjeet - Men's Javelin F12/13

Intellectually-impaired athletes - T20, F20

Athletes with an intellectual impairment feature in categories denoted by 20.

1. Deepthi Jevanji - Women's 400m T20

Cerebral Palsy athletes ( - T31, T32, T33, T34, T35, T36, T37, T38, F31, F32, F33, F34, F35, F36, F37, F38

Athletes who have cerebral palsy or other impairments, with wheelchair events denoted by 31-34, and running events for 35-38

1. Banothu Akira Nandan - Men's 400m T35/T38

2. Preethi Pal - Women's 100m T35, Women's 200m T35

3. Rakeshbhai Bhatt - Men's 100m T37

4. Shreyansh Trivedi - Men's 100m T37

5. Anandhi Kulanthaisamy - Women's Club Throw F31/F32

6. Bhagyashri Madhavrao Jadhav - Women's Shot Put F34

7. Hanry - Men's Discus Throw F37

8. Manu - Men's Shot Put F37

Restricted Growth athletes - T40, T41, F40, F41

Athletes with dwarfism or restricted growth are placed into the 40 and 41 categories

1. Navdeep - Men's Javelin F40/F41

2. Ravi Rongali - Men's Shot Put F40/F41

Amputee athletes - T42, T43, T44, T45, T46, T47, F42, F43, F44, F45, F46, F47

Athletes who are amputees, and some events will require a seated position

1. Sandeep - Men's 200m T44

2. Dilip Mahadu Gavit - Men's 400m T45/T46/T47

3. Anjanaben Rohitbhai Bumbadiya - Women's 400m T45/T46/T47

4. Rahul - Men's High Jump T42/T63

5. Varun Singh Bhati - Men's High Jump T42/T63

6. Shailesh Kumar - Men's High Jump T42/T63

7. Banti - Men's High Jump T44/T64

8. Praveen Kumar - Men's High Jump T44/T64

9. Nishad Kumar - Men's High Jump T45/T46/T47

10. Ram Pal - Men's High Jump T45/T46/T47

11. Pardeep - Men's Long Jump T43/T44

12. Mit Bharatbhai Patel - Men's Long Jump T43/T44

13. Unni Renu - Men's Long Jump T43/T44

14. Vikas - Men's Long Jump T45/T46/T47

15. Ajay Singh - Men's Long Jump T45/T46/T47

16. Suresh Nimisha - Women's Long Jump T45/T46/T47

17. Mahendra Gurjar - Men's Javelin F42/F44, Men's Long Jump T42/T61/T63

18. Sandeep - Men's Javelin F42/F44

19. Sandip Sanjay Sagar - Men's Javelin F42/F44

20. Pushpendra Singh - Men's Javelin F42/F44

21. Sundar Singh Gurjar - Men's Javelin F45/F46

22. Rinku - Men's Javelin F45/F46

23. Ajeet Singh - Men's Javelin F45/F46

24. Bhavanaben Ajabaji - Women's Javelin F45/F46

25. Devender Kumar - Men's Discus Throw F43/F44

26. Sagar Thayat - Men's Discus Throw F43/F44

27. Pardeep - Men's Discus Throw F43/F44

28. Mohd. Yasser - Men's Shot Put F45/F46

29. Parveen - Men's Shot Put F45/F46

30. Sachin Sarjerao Khilari - Men's Shot Put F45/F46

31. Amisha Rawat - Women's Shot Put F45/F46

Wheelchair athletes - T51, T52, T53, T54, T55, T56, T57, T58, F51, F52, F53, F54, F55, F56, F57, F58

Athletes with a spinal cord injury or disability are placed in categories 51-58. Field events may take place in a seated position.

1. Dharambir Nain - Men's Club Throw F51

2. Pranav Soorma - Men's Club Throw F51

3. Ekta Bhyan - Women's Club Throw F51

4. Kashish Lakra- Women's Club Throw F51

5. Yogesh Kathuniya - Men's Discus Throw F54/F55/F56

6. Birbhadra Singh - Men's Discus Throw F57

7. Atul Kaushik - Men's Discus Throw F57

8. Priyansh Kumar - Men's Discus Throw F57

9. Kanchan Lakhani - Women's Discus Throw F51/F53

10. Karamjyoti - Women's Discus Throw F54/F55

11. Pooja - Women's Discus Throw F54/F55

12. Sakshi Kasana - Women's Discus Throw F54/F55

13. Pradeep Kumar - Men's Javelin F52/F53/F54

14. Parveen Kumar - Men's Javelin F55/F56/F57

15. Hem Chandra - Men's Javelin F55/F56/F57

16. Suchitra Parida - Women's Javelin F55/F56

17. Ayush Verma - Men's Shot Put F53

18. Hokato Hotozhe Sema - Men's Shot Put F56/F57

19. Shubham Juyal - Men's Shot Put F56/F57

20. Soman Rana - Men's Shot Put F56/F57

21. Keerthika Jayachandran - Women's Shot Put F53/F54

22. Sharmila - Women's Shot Put F55/F56/F57

Prosthesis athletes - T61, T62, T63, T64, F61, F62, F63, F64

Athletes with a prosthesis due to a limb deficiency or leg length difference

1. Dharmaraj Solairaj - Men's Long Jump T62/T64

2. Sumit Antil - Men's Javelin F61/F62/F63/F64

3. Pardeep Kumar - Men's Discus Throw F62/F64, Men's Javelin F61/F62/F63/F64

4. Dayawanti - Women's Shot Put F61/F62/F63/F64, Women's Discus Throw F62/F64

Co-ordination impairment athletes - T71, T72, F71, F72

Athletes who have coordination impairments, like athetosis, ataxia, or hypertonia.

• India does not have any representatives in these categories