List of National Sports Award recipients in Olympic sports

The National Sports Awards is the collective name given to the six sports awards of Republic of India. It is awarded annually by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. They are presented by the President of India in the same ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan usually on 29th August each year along with the national adventure award. As of 2020, a total of eight hundred and twenty-seven individuals have been awarded the various National Sports Awards in Olympic sports. The four awards presented in Olympic sports are Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award, Dhyan Chand Award and Dronacharya Award.[1]

National Sports Awards in Olympic sports
Various civilian awards for contributions to Sports (Individual/Team)
Awarded forVarious sports honour of India
Sponsored byGovernment of India
LocationRashtrapati Bhavan
CountryRepublic of India
Presented byPresident of India
First awarded1961
Last awarded2020
Highlights
Total awarded827
Awards

First presented in the year 1961, a total of six hundred and twenty-nine individuals have been honoured with the Arjuna Award in Olympic sports for their "good performance at the international level" over the period of last four years, with twenty individuals being awarded for their lifetime contribution.[2] First presented in the year 1985, a total of hundred coaches have been honoured with the Dronacharya Award in Olympic sports for their "outstanding work on a consistent basis and enabling sportspersons to excel in international events" over the period of last four years, with thirty coaches being awarded in the lifetime contribution category.[3] First presented in the year 1994–1995, a total of thirty-one sportspersons have been honoured with the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, the highest sporting honour of India, in Olympic sports for their "most outstanding performance at the international level" over the period of last four years.[4] First presented in the year 2002, a total of sixty-seven retired sportspersons have been honoured with the Dhyan Chand Award, the lifetime achievement sporting honour of India, in Olympic sports for their "good performance at the international level and their continued contributions to the promotion of sports even after their career as a sportsperson is over."[5] Five awardees have been honoured posthumously including Sachin Nag, who was awarded Dhyan Chand Award posthumously in the year 2020 in the discipline of swimming.[1]

Recipients

Archery

Key
   + Indicates a Lifetime contribution honour
List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender[1]
Year Recipient Award Gender
1981 Krishna Das Arjuna AwardFemale
1989 Shyam Lal Meena Arjuna AwardMale
1991 Limba Ram Arjuna AwardMale
1992 Sanjeeva Kumar Singh Arjuna AwardMale
2005 Dola Banerjee Arjuna AwardFemale
2005 Tarundeep Rai Arjuna AwardMale
2006 Jayanta Talukdar Arjuna AwardMale
2009 Mangal Singh Champia Arjuna AwardMale
2011 Rahul Banerjee Arjuna AwardMale
2012 Deepika Kumari Arjuna AwardFemale
2012 Bombayla Devi Laishram Arjuna AwardFemale
2013 Chekrovolu Swuro Arjuna AwardFemale
2014 Abhishek Verma Arjuna AwardMale
2015 Sandeep Kumar Arjuna AwardMale
2016 Rajat Chauhan Arjuna AwardMale
2017 V. J. Sureka Arjuna AwardFemale
2020 Atanu Das Arjuna AwardMale
2018 Satyadev Prasad Dhyan Chand AwardMale
2019 C. Lalremsanga Dhyan Chand AwardMale
2020 Dharmendra Tiwary + Dronacharya AwardMale
2007 Sanjeeva Kumar Singh Dronacharya AwardMale
2013 Purnima Mahato Dronacharya AwardFemale

Athletics

Badminton

Basketball

Key
   + Indicates a Lifetime contribution honour
List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender[1]
Year Recipient Award Gender
1961 Sarbjit Singh Arjuna AwardMale
1967 Khushi Ram Arjuna AwardMale
1968 Gurdial Singh Arjuna AwardMale
1969 Hari Dutt Arjuna AwardMale
1970 Gulam Abbas Moontasir Arjuna AwardMale
1971 M. M. Singh Arjuna AwardMale
1973 Surendra Kumar Kataria Arjuna AwardMale
1974 Anil Kumar Punj Arjuna AwardMale
1975 Hanuman Singh Arjuna AwardMale
1977–1978 T. Vijayaraghava Arjuna AwardMale
1979–1980 Om Prakash Arjuna AwardMale
1982 Ajmer Singh Arjuna AwardMale
1983 Suman Sharma Arjuna AwardFemale
1983 Radhey Shyam Arjuna AwardMale
1999 Sajjan Singh Cheema + Arjuna AwardMale
2001 Parmender Singh Arjuna AwardMale
2014 Geethu Anna Jose Arjuna AwardFemale
2017 Prashanti Singh Arjuna AwardFemale
2020 Vishesh Bhriguvanshi Arjuna AwardMale
2002 Aparna Ghosh Dhyan Chand AwardFemale
2003 Ram Kumar Dhyan Chand AwardMale

Boxing

Cycling

List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender[1]
Year Recipient Award Gender
1975 Amar Singh Arjuna AwardMale
1978–1979 Minati Mahapatra Arjuna AwardFemale
1983 Armin R. Arthan Arjuna AwardFemale

Equestrian

List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender[1]
Year Recipient Award Gender
1973 Dafadar Md. Khan Arjuna AwardMale
1976 H. S. Sodhi Arjuna AwardMale
1982 Rupinder Singh Brar Arjuna AwardMale
1982 Raghubir Singh Arjuna AwardMale
1984 Ghulam Mohammed Khan Arjuna AwardMale
1987 J. S. Ahluwalia Arjuna AwardMale
1991 Adhiraj Singh Arjuna AwardMale
2003 Rajesh Pattu Arjuna AwardMale
2004 Deep Kumar Ahlawat Arjuna AwardMale
2019 Fouaad Mirza Arjuna AwardMale
2020 Sawant Ajay Anant Arjuna AwardMale

Football

List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender[1]
Year Recipient Award Gender
1961 P. K. Banerjee Arjuna AwardMale
1962 Tulsidas Balaram Arjuna AwardMale
1963 Chuni Goswami Arjuna AwardMale
1964 Jarnail Singh Arjuna AwardMale
1965 Arun Lal Ghosh Arjuna AwardMale
1966 Yousuf Khan Arjuna AwardMale
1967 Peter Thangaraj Arjuna AwardMale
1969 Inder Singh Arjuna AwardMale
1970 Syed Nayeemuddin Arjuna AwardMale
1971 C. P. Singh Arjuna AwardMale
1973 Magan Singh Rajvi Arjuna AwardMale
1978–1979 Gurdev Singh Gill Arjuna AwardMale
1979–1980 Prasun Banerjee Arjuna AwardMale
1980–1981 Mohammed Habib Arjuna AwardMale
1981 Sudhir Karmakar Arjuna AwardMale
1983 Shanti Mullick Arjuna AwardFemale
1989 Subrata Bhattacharya Arjuna AwardMale
1997 Brahmanand Sankhwalkar Arjuna AwardMale
1998 Bhaichung Bhutia Arjuna AwardMale
2001 Bruno Coutinho Arjuna AwardMale
2002 I. M. Vijayan Arjuna AwardMale
2010 Deepak Mondal Arjuna AwardMale
2011 Sunil Chhetri Arjuna AwardMale
2016 Subrata Pal Arjuna AwardMale
2017 Oinam Bembem Devi Arjuna AwardFemale
2019 Gurpreet Singh Sandhu Arjuna AwardMale
2020 Sandesh Jhingan Arjuna AwardMale
2011 Shabbir Ali Dhyan Chand AwardMale
2017 Syed Shahid Hakim Dhyan Chand AwardMale
2020 Sukhvinder Singh Sandhu Dhyan Chand AwardMale
1990 Syed Naeemuddin Dronacharya AwardMale

Golf

List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender[1]
Year Recipient Award Gender
1961 P. G. Sethi Arjuna AwardMale
1963 Ashok Malik Arjuna AwardMale
1967 Raj Kumar Pitambar Arjuna AwardMale
1972 Anjani N. Desai Arjuna AwardFemale
1973 Vikramjit Singh Arjuna AwardMale
1975 S. K. Jamshed Arjuna AwardMale
1977–1978 Sita Rawlley Arjuna AwardFemale
1982 Lakshman Singh Arjuna AwardMale
1987 Nonita Lal Arjuna AwardFemale
1991 Ali Sher Arjuna AwardMale
1996 Amit Luthra Arjuna AwardMale
1997 Harmik Kahlon Arjuna AwardMale
1999 Jeev Milkha Singh Arjuna AwardMale
2002 Shiv Kapur Arjuna AwardMale
2004 Jyoti Randhawa Arjuna AwardMale
2007 Arjun Atwal Arjuna AwardMale
2013 Gaganjeet Bhullar Arjuna AwardMale
2014 Anirban Lahiri Arjuna AwardMale
2017 Shiv Chawrasia Arjuna AwardMale
2018 Shubhankar Sharma Arjuna AwardMale
2020 Aditi Ashok Arjuna AwardFemale

Gymnastics

Key
   + Indicates a Lifetime contribution honour
List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender[1]
Year Recipient Award Gender
2016 Dipa Karmakar Rajiv Gandhi Khel RatnaFemale
1961 Sham Lal Arjuna AwardMale
1975 Mantu Debnath Arjuna AwardMale
1985 Sunita Sharma Arjuna AwardFemale
1989 Krupali Patel Arjuna AwardFemale
2000 Kalpana Debnath + Arjuna AwardFemale
2011 Ashish Kumar Arjuna AwardMale
2015 Dipa Karmakar Arjuna AwardFemale
2011 Devender Kumar Rathore Dronacharya AwardMale
2016 Bishweshwar Nandi Dronacharya AwardMale

Hockey

Judo

Key
   + Indicates a Lifetime contribution honour
List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender[1]
Year Recipient Award Gender
1992 Sandeep Byala Arjuna AwardMale
1993 Cawas Billimoria Arjuna AwardMale
1996 Poonam Chopra Arjuna AwardFemale
1998 Narender Singh Arjuna AwardMale
2003 Akram Shah Arjuna AwardMale
2004 Angom Anita Chanu Arjuna AwardFemale
2007 Tombi Devi Arjuna AwardFemale
2012 Yashpal Solanki Arjuna AwardMale
2014 Gurcharan Gogi + Dronacharya AwardMale
2018 Jiwan Kumar Sharma + Dronacharya AwardMale

Lawn Tennis

Key
   + Indicates a Lifetime contribution honour
List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender[1]
Year Recipient Award Gender
1996–1997 Leander Paes Rajiv Gandhi Khel RatnaMale
2015 Sania Mirza Rajiv Gandhi Khel RatnaFemale
1961 Ramanathan Krishnan Arjuna AwardMale
1962 Naresh Kumar Arjuna AwardMale
1966 Jaidip Mukerjea Arjuna AwardMale
1967 Premjit Lall Arjuna AwardMale
1974 Vijay Amritraj Arjuna AwardMale
1978–1979 Nirupama Mankad Arjuna AwardFemale
1980–1981 Ramesh Krishnan Arjuna AwardMale
1985 Anand Amritraj Arjuna AwardMale
1990 Leander Paes Arjuna AwardMale
1995 Mahesh Bhupathi Arjuna AwardMale
1996 Gaurav Natekar Arjuna AwardMale
1997 Asif Ismail Arjuna AwardMale
2000 Akhtar Ali + Arjuna AwardMale
2001 Sandeep Kirtane Arjuna AwardMale
2004 Sania Mirza Arjuna AwardFemale
2011 Somdev Devvarman Arjuna AwardMale
2017 Saketh Myneni Arjuna AwardMale
2018 Rohan Bopanna Arjuna AwardMale
2020 Divij Sharan Arjuna AwardMale
2014 Zeeshan Ali Dhyan Chand AwardMale
2015 Shiv Prakash Mishra Dhyan Chand AwardMale
2019 Nitin Kirtane Dhyan Chand AwardMale
2020 Nandan P. Bal Dhyan Chand AwardMale
2020 Naresh Kumar + Dronacharya AwardMale

Rowing

Key
   + Indicates a Lifetime contribution honour
List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender[1]
Year Recipient Award Gender
1983 Parvin K. Uberoy Arjuna AwardMale
1984 Mohd. Amin Naik Arjuna AwardMale
1991 Dalvir Singh Arjuna AwardMale
1994 R. S. Bhanwala Arjuna AwardMale
1996 Surender Singh Waldia Arjuna AwardMale
1999 Jagjit Singh Arjuna AwardMale
2000 Surender Singh Kanwasi + Arjuna AwardMale
2001 Kasam Khan Arjuna AwardMale
2002 Inderpal Singh Arjuna AwardMale
2004 Jenil Krishnan Arjuna AwardMale
2007 Bajrang Lal Takhar Arjuna AwardMale
2009 Satish Joshi Arjuna AwardMale
2014 Saji Thomas Arjuna AwardMale
2015 Sawarn Singh Arjuna AwardMale
2020 Dattu Baban Bhokanal Arjuna AwardMale
2003 Smita Shirole Yadav Dhyan Chand AwardFemale
2016 Rajendra Pralhad Shelke Dhyan Chand AwardMale
2020 Manjeet Singh Dhyan Chand AwardMale
2014 Jose Jacob + Dronacharya AwardMale
2005 Ismail Baig Dronacharya AwardMale

Shooting

Swimming

Key
   + Indicates a Lifetime contribution honour
   # Indicates a posthumous honour
List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender[1]
Year Recipient Award Gender
1961 Bajarangi Prasad Arjuna AwardMale
1966 Rima Dutta Arjuna AwardFemale
1967 Arun Shaw Arjuna AwardMale
1969 Baidyanath Nath Arjuna AwardMale
1971 Bhanwar Singh Arjuna AwardMale
1973 Dhanvir Khatau Arjuna AwardMale
1974 Manjari Bhargava Arjuna AwardFemale
1974 Avinash B. Sarang Arjuna AwardMale
1975 Smita Desai Arjuna AwardFemale
1975 M. S. Rana Arjuna AwardMale
1982 Persis Madan Arjuna AwardFemale
1983 Anita Sood Arjuna AwardMale
1984 Khajan Singh Arjuna AwardMale
1988 Wilson Cherian Arjuna AwardMale
1990 Bula Choudhury Arjuna AwardFemale
1996 V. Kutraleeswaran Arjuna AwardMale
1998 Bhanu Sachdeva Arjuna AwardMale
1999 Nisha Millet Arjuna AwardFemale
2000 J. Abhijith Arjuna AwardMale
2000 Sebastian Xavier Arjuna AwardMale
2005 Shikha Tandon Arjuna AwardFemale
2010 Rehan Poncha Arjuna AwardMale
2011 Virdhawal Khade Arjuna AwardMale
2012 Sandeep Sejwal Arjuna AwardMale
2011 Sushil Kohli Dhyan Chand AwardMale
2014 K. P. Thakkar Dhyan Chand AwardMale
2020 Sachin Nag# Dhyan Chand AwardMale
2015 Nihar Ameen + Dronacharya AwardMale
2016 S. Pradeep Kumar + Dronacharya AwardMale

Table Tennis

Key
   + Indicates a Lifetime contribution honour
List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender[1]
Year Recipient Award Gender
2020 Manika Batra Rajiv Gandhi Khel RatnaFemale
1961 J. C. Vohra Arjuna AwardMale
1964 Gautam R. Diwan Arjuna AwardMale
1966 Usha Sunder Das Arjuna AwardFemale
1967 Faruk R. Khodaiji Arjuna AwardMale
1969 Mir Khasim Ali Arjuna AwardMale
1970 Gudalore Jagannath Arjuna AwardMale
1971 Kaity Farookh Khodaiji Arjuna AwardFemale
1973 Niraj Ramkrishna Bajaj Arjuna AwardMale
1976 Shailaja Salokhe Arjuna AwardFemale
1979–1980 Indu Puri Arjuna AwardFemale
1980–1981 Manjit Dua Arjuna AwardMale
1982 Venugopal Chandrasekhar Arjuna AwardMale
1985 Kamlesh Mehta Arjuna AwardMale
1987 Monalisa Baruah Mehta Arjuna AwardFemale
1989 Niyati Shah Arjuna AwardFemale
1990 M. S. Walia Arjuna AwardMale
1997 Chetan Baboor Arjuna AwardMale
1998 Subramaniam Raman Arjuna AwardMale
2002 Mantu Ghosh Arjuna AwardFemale
2004 Sharath Kamal Arjuna AwardMale
2005 Soumyadeep Roy Arjuna AwardMale
2006 Subhajit Saha Arjuna AwardMale
2009 Poulomi Ghatak Arjuna AwardFemale
2013 Mouma Das Arjuna AwardFemale
2016 Soumyajit Ghosh Arjuna AwardMale
2017 Anthony Amalraj Arjuna AwardMale
2018 Manika Batra Arjuna AwardFemale
2018 Sathiyan Gnanasekaran Arjuna AwardMale
2019 Harmeet Desai Arjuna AwardMale
2020 Madhurika Patkar Arjuna AwardFemale
2019 Arup Basak Dhyan Chand AwardMale
2012 Bhawani Mukherjee + Dronacharya AwardMale
2018 A. Srinivasa Rao Dronacharya AwardMale
2019 Sandip Gupta Dronacharya AwardMale

Volleyball

Key
   + Indicates a Lifetime contribution honour
List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender[1]
Year Recipient Award Gender
1961 A. Palanisamy Arjuna AwardMale
1962 Nripjit Singh Bedi Arjuna AwardMale
1972 Balwant Singh Arjuna AwardMale
1973 G. Mulilini Reddy Arjuna AwardFemale
1974 M. Syamsunder Rao Arjuna AwardMale
1975 K. C. Elamma Arjuna AwardFemale
1975 Ranvir Singh Arjuna AwardMale
1976 Jimmy George Arjuna AwardMale
1977–1978 A. Ramana Rao Arjuna AwardMale
1978–1979 Kutty Krishnan Arjuna AwardMale
1979–1980 Suresh Kumar Mishra Arjuna AwardMale
1982 G. E. Sridharan Arjuna AwardMale
1983 R. K. Purohit Arjuna AwardFemale
1984 Saly Joseph Arjuna AwardFemale
1986 Cyril C. Valloor Arjuna AwardMale
1989 Abdul Basith Arjuna AwardMale
1990 Dalel Singh Ror Arjuna AwardMale
1991 K. Udayakumar Arjuna AwardMale
1999 Sukhpal Singh Arjuna AwardMale
2000 P. V. Ramana + Arjuna AwardMale
2001 Amir Singh Arjuna AwardMale
2002 Ravikant Reddy Arjuna AwardMale
2010 K. J. Kapil Dev Arjuna AwardMale
2011 Sanjay Kumar Arjuna AwardMale
2014 Tom Joseph Arjuna AwardMale
2003 Om Prakash Dhyan Chand AwardMale
2015 T. P. Padmanabhan Nair Dhyan Chand AwardMale
1990 A. Ramana Rao Dronacharya AwardMale
1995 Shyam Sunder Rao Dronacharya AwardMale
2007 G. E. Sridharan Dronacharya AwardMale

Weightlifting

List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender[1]
Year Recipient Award Gender
1994–1995 Karnam Malleswari Rajiv Gandhi Khel RatnaFemale
1995–1996 Nameirakpam Kunjarani Rajiv Gandhi Khel RatnaFemale
2018 Saikhom Mirabai Chanu Rajiv Gandhi Khel RatnaFemale
1961 A. N. Ghosh Arjuna AwardMale
1962 L. K. Dass Arjuna AwardMale
1963 Kamineni Eswara Rao Arjuna AwardMale
1965 Balbir Singh Bhatia Arjuna AwardMale
1966 Mohon Lal Ghosh Arjuna AwardMale
1967 Savarimuthu John Cabriel Arjuna AwardMale
1970 Arun Kumar Dass Arjuna AwardMale
1971 Shyamlal Salwan Arjuna AwardMale
1972 Anil Kumar Mandal Arjuna AwardMale
1974 S. Vellaiswamy Arjuna AwardMale
1975 Dalbir Singh Arjuna AwardMale
1976 K. Balamuruganandam Arjuna AwardMale
1977–1978 M. T. Selvan Arjuna AwardMale
1978–1979 Ekambaram Karunakaran Arjuna AwardMale
1981 Bijaya Kumar Satpathy Arjuna AwardMale
1982 Tara Singh Arjuna AwardMale
1983 Vispy K. Daroga Arjuna AwardMale
1985 Mehar Chand Bhaskar Arjuna AwardMale
1986 Jagmohan Sapra Arjuna AwardMale
1987 G. Devan Arjuna AwardMale
1989 Jyotsna Dutta Arjuna AwardFemale
1990 R. Chandra Arjuna AwardMale
1990 Kunjarani Devi Arjuna AwardFemale
1991 Chhaya Adak Arjuna AwardFemale
1993 Bharati Singh Arjuna AwardFemale
1994 Karnam Malleswari Arjuna AwardMale
1997 N. Laxmi Arjuna AwardFemale
1997 Paramjit Sharma Arjuna AwardMale
1998 Satheesha Rai Arjuna AwardMale
1999 Dalbir Singh Arjuna AwardMale
2000 Sanamacha Chanu Arjuna AwardFemale
2002 Thandava Murthy Muthu Arjuna AwardMale
2006 Geeta Rani Arjuna AwardFemale
2011 Katulu Ravi Kumar Arjuna AwardMale
2012 Ngangbam Soniya Chanu Arjuna AwardFemale
2014 Renu Bala Chanu Arjuna AwardFemale
2015 Sathish Sivalingam Arjuna AwardMale
2010 Anita Chanu Dhyan Chand AwardFemale
1996 Pal Singh Sandhu Dronacharya AwardMale
1999 Ajay Kumar Sirohi Dronacharya AwardMale
2000 Hansa Sharma Dronacharya AwardFemale
2018 Vijay Sharma Dronacharya AwardMale

Winter Sports

List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender[1]
Year Recipient Award Gender
2020 Shiva Keshavan Arjuna AwardMale

Wrestling

Reference

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