Country's top golfers Anirban Lahiri, Aditi Ashok and Diksha Dagar, Olympian equestrian Fawad Mirza and alpine skier Mohammad Arif Khan are among the 10 athletes who have recently been included in the Sports Ministry's Lakshya Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS). Lahiri, Aditi, Diksha, Mirza and Khan have been included in the core group, while golfers Shubhankar Sharma, Tevesa Malik and judoka Yash Ghangas, Unnati Sharma and Linthoi Channambam will be placed in the 'Development Group'. .

According to the Sports Authority of India (SAI), after the addition of new players, the total number of TOPS has increased to 301. Khan, who hails from Gulmarg in Jammu and Kashmir, is the first alpine skier in the country to qualify for the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in Beijing. Horseman Mirza won a silver medal at the Jakarta Asian Games 2018 and finished 23rd at the Tokyo Olympics last year. Aditi, 23, from Bengaluru has grabbed the attention of the countrymen with her performance in the Tokyo Olympic Games. She was in fourth place.

The 21-year-old, who hails from Jhajjar in Haryana, had finished 50th in the Olympic Games last year. Judokas Ghangas (above 100kg), Channambam (57kg) and Unnati (63kg) also won silver medals at the Asia-Oceania Junior Championships in Lebanon last month.

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