The list includes 58 athletes, 38 men and 20 women, in 15 sports. Among them is only one team, notably the national water polo team who nominated 12 players and one alternate.
This will be the smallest number of athletes competing under the Croatian flag since the country's debut in the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992, when Croatia was represented by 41 athletes in 12 sports. The largest number of Croatian athletes participated in London in 2012, when 107 athletes competed in 18 sports.
In Tokyo, Croatia will compete in athletics, boxing, gymnastics, judo, karate, kayaking and canoeing, rowing, sailing, shooting, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, water polo and wrestling.