[7] Shooter Manu Bhaker, who won two medals at the edition, and the field hockey team's goalkeeper P. R. Sreejesh were the flag bearers for the closing ceremony.

[4] As per the qualification system drawn up by the World Archery Federation, each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was permitted to enter a maximum of six competitors, three per gender.

[46] In the women's javelin throw event, Asian Games champion Annu Rani finished 15th in Group A and failed to qualify for the final.

[46] In the men's triple jump, Abdulla Aboobacker and Praveen Chithravel finished 21st and 26th respectively in the qualification rounds and failed to make it to the finals.

[61] In the quarterfinals, Sen overcame 12th seed Chou Tien-chen of Chinese Taipei to become the first Indian shuttler to reach semi-finals in the men's individual event.

Women boxers Nikhat Zareen,[74] Preeti Pawar,[75] and Lovlina Borgohain qualified for their respective weight divisions by virtue of their finish in the Asian Games 2022.

[81] The boxing events took place from 27 July to 10 August with the preliminary matches conducted at Arena Paris Nord in Villepinte and the medal rounds scheduled at the Stade Roland Garros.

[82][83] In the men's events, Panghal faced off against higher seeded Patrick Chinyemba of Zambia, whom he had beaten en route to the 2022 Commonwealth Games title.

[81][87] In the women's middleweight category, Borgohain beat Norwegian Sunniva Hofstad to reach the quarterfinals, where she was drawn against reigning Asian Games champion and top seed Li Qian of China.

[106] In the penultimate group stage game, the team lost to reigning Olympic champions Belgium by a scoreline of 1–2 despite scoring the opening goal in the 18th minute.

Sukhjeet Singh later equalised for India in the 36th minute but Germany scored a later goal through Marco Miltkau to win the match and qualify for the finals.

[136] India qualified one boat in the men's single sculls for the Games by securing one of the three berths available at the 2024 FISA Asia & Oceania Olympic Qualification Regatta held at Chungju, South Korea in April 2023.

[140][141] Indian sailor Vishnu Saravanan qualified one boat for the men's laser event at the World Championships held in Adelaide, Australia.

[142] For the Women's laser radial event, Nethra Kumanan was granted an entry as a part of the emerging nations programme at the Last Chance Regetta held in Hyères, France.

[147] Legend: Low-point scoring system; CL = Cancelled; EL = Eliminated – Did not advance to the medal race; * = Worst race result not counted in the overall score As per the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) guidelines, quota places for the Games were allocated to the NOCs based on the results at designated ISSF supervised events held from 14 August 2022 to 9 June 2024.

[150][151] The Indian shooting squad was named based on the shooters' average scores from three of the four selection trials approved by the National Rifle Association of India.

Manu Bhaker, Anjum Moudgil, Aishwary Tomar and Elavenil Valarivan participated in their second Olympic Games while the others made their debuts.

[156] In the men's 25 m rapid fire pistol event, Vijayveer Sidhu was placed fifth after the first stage but a poor score in the next round meant that he finished ninth and missed out on qualification for the finals.

In the final, she started poorly in the first few round to be tied sixth before she progressed up the order to be ranked joint second, one point behind the leader after the seventh series.

[159] In the mixed 10 m air pistol event, she teamed up with Sarabjot Singh to finish third in the qualification and secured entry to the bronze medal match.

[160] In the mixed skeet team event, Indian duo of Maheshwari Chauhan and Anantjeet Singh Naruka finished fourth in the qualifiers to advance to the bronze medal match.

In the pre-quarterfinals, she was beaten by the top ranked Chinese Sun Yingsha in straight sets, which ended India's campaign in the singles events at the Games.

[184][185] Legend: W = Win; L = Loss As per the guidelines set by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), each NOC was allowed to enter one competitor per event with a maximum of three per gender.

The top eight athletes by ranking points obtained from 1 August 2022 to 28 April 2024 in each weight category qualified directly subject to the above condition.

[187] Tokyo 2020 silver medalist Saikhom Mirabai Chanu secured one of the top ten slots in the women's 49 kg weight division based on the IWF Olympic qualification rankings.

[191] Antim Panghal qualified in the women's 53 kg category with a top five result at the 2023 World Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia in September 2023.

But a dislocated shoulder and a finger injury meant that she struggled with pain heading into the final minute of the bout and lost 8–10 after the North Korean took advantage of the situation to score nine straight points in quick succession.

[203] The match was a cagey affair with Susaki leading 2–0 through two penalty points until the final few seconds when the Indian effected a takedown and scored an upset win.

[204] Phogat beat Oksana Livach of Ukraine in the quarterfinals and Yusneylys Guzmán of Cuba in the semifinals by point decisions to qualify for the final.

[208] In the women's 53 kg event, Olympic debutant Panghal lost to Turkey's Zeynep Yetgil in the round of 16 bout, which ended in less than two minutes.