Overview

• The AFI-announced contingent features 13 men and six women for the September 13–21 championships in Tokyo.
• Steeplechaser Avinash Sable and heptathlete Nandini Agasara will miss the event due to injuries, reducing expected participants to 17.
• Animesh Kujur earned a 200m spot to become the first Indian male sprinter to qualify for the World Championships.
• Long jumper Murali Sreeshankar secured the last world-ranking berth after a knee-surgery comeback despite missing the 8.27m entry standard.
• Four met automatic marks — Parul Chaudhary (women’s 3000m steeplechase), Gulveer Singh (5000m), Praveen Chithravel (triple jump) and Sable — while others, including javelin throwers Sachin Yadav and Yashvir Singh, qualified via rankings.