Last Updated : 1 August 2023
Before you read the list of Arjuna Award Recipients, let’s have a quick intro about this Award.
The Arjuna Award is the Sports Honor of the Republic of India awarded to Indian Citizens for Outstanding Performance in Sports and Games.
Arjuna Award is named after the character “Arjuna ” from the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata of ancient India. He was one of the Pandavas depicted as a skilled Archer winning the hand of Draupadi in marriage and in the Kurukshetra War.
In Hinduism, Arjuna has been seen as a symbol of Hard Work, Dedication, and Concentration.
The first Arjuna Award was instituted in 1961 and awarded annually by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. The Award comprises a Bronze Statuette of Arjuna, a Certificate, a Ceremonial Dress, and a Cash Prize of ₹15 Lakh (US$19,000).
Interesting Facts About Arjuna Award
The Arjuna Award was the Highest Sporting Honor of India before the introduction of Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna in 1991–1992.
The recipients selected by the committee constituted by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports are honoured for their “Good performance in the field of Sports over a period of Four years” at the international level.
In 1995 Indigenous Games, Physically Handicapped Categories, and Lifetime Contribution Categories were introduced.
The latest revision in 2018 stipulates that Arjuna Award should be given only to the disciplines included in the events like Asian Games, Commonwealth Games, Olympic Games, Paralympic Games, World Championship, and World Cup along with Cricket, Indigenous Games, and Parasports.
After the institution of the Award in 1961, Arjuna Award was not awarded in the year 2008.
As of 2022, a total of 941 Recipients have received the Arjuna Award.
Till 2022, 55 Recipients were awarded for Para Sport “§”, 24 Recipients were awarded for Lifetime Contribution “✝”, and 4 Recipients were awarded Posthumous “#”.
Two recipients have received the Arjuna Award for Para Sport and Lifetime Contribution “§✝”, and one Recipient received the Arjuna Award Posthumous for Lifetime Contribution “#✝”.
The least number of Recipients was in the year 1988 (5 Recipients) and the most number of Recipients in the year 2000 (31 Recipients).
A Team of 20 Members was awarded Arjuna Award in 1965, It was the first & only Team Award to date. It was presented to the entire team of twenty Mountaineers representing the successful Indian Everest expedition of 1965.
“§” Indicates Para Sport “ Indicates A Posthumous Honour
Arjuna Award Recipients (2020–2029)
2022 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Seema Punia Athletics 2 Eldhose Paul Athletics 3 Avinash Sable Athletics 4 Lakshya Sen Badminton 5 Prannoy H. S. Badminton 6 Amit Panghal Boxing 7 Nikhat Zareen Boxing 8 Bhakti Kulkarni Chess 9 R Praggnanandhaa Chess 10 Deep Grace Ekka Hockey 11 Shushila Devi Likmabam Judo 12 Sakshi Kumari Kabaddi 13 Nayanmoni Saikia Lawn Bowl 14 Sagar Kailas Ovhalkar Mallakhamba 15 Elavenil Valarivan Shooting 16 Om Prakash Mitharwal Shooting 17 Sreeja Akula Table Tennis 18 Vikas Thakur Weightlifting 19 Anshu Malik Wrestling 20 Sarita Mor Wrestling 21 Praveen Kumar Wushu 22 Manasi Girishchandra Joshi § Badminton 23 Tarun Dhillon § Badminton 24 Swapnil Sanjay Patil § Swimming 25 Jerlin Anika § Badminton
2021 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Arpinder Singh Athletics 2 Simranjit Kaur Boxing 3 Shikhar Dhawan Cricket 4 Bhavani D. C. A. Sundhararaman Fencing 5 Amit Rohidas Hockey 6 Birendra Lakra Hockey 7 Dilpreet Singh Hockey 8 Gurjant Singh Hockey 9 Hardik Singh Hockey 10 Harman Preet Singh Hockey 11 Lalit Kumar Upadhyay Hockey 12 Mandeep Singh Hockey 13 Monika Hockey 14 Nilakanta Sharma Hockey 15 Rupinder Pal Singh Hockey 16 Shamsher Singh Hockey 17 Simranjeet Singh Hockey 18 Sumit Hockey 19 Surender Kumar Hockey 20 Vandana Katariya Hockey 21 Varun Kumar Hockey 22 Vivek Sagar Prasad Hockey 23 Sandeep Narwal Kabaddi 24 Himani Uttam Parab Mallakhamb 25 Abhishek Verma Shooting 26 Ankita Raina Tennis 27 Deepak Punia Wrestling 28 Harvinder Singh § Para-Archery 29 Nishad Kumar § Para-Athletics 30 Praveen Kumar § Para-Athletics 31 Sharad Kumar § Para-Athletics 32 Yogesh Kathuniya § Para-Athletics 33 Suhash Yathiraj § Para-Badminton 34 Singhraj Adhana § Para-Shooting 35 Bhavina Patel § Para-Table-tennis
2020 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Atanu Das Archery 2 Dutee Chand Athletics 3 Sandeep Chaudhary § Athletics 4 Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Badminton 5 Chirag Shetty Badminton 6 Vishesh Bhriguvanshi Basketball 7 Lovlina Borgohain Boxing 8 Manish Kaushik Boxing 9 Deepti Sharma Cricket 10 Ishant Sharma Cricket 11 Sawant Ajay Anant Equestrian 12 Sandesh Jhingan Football 13 Aditi Ashok Golf 14 Akashdeep Singh Hockey 15 Deepika Thakur Hockey 16 Deepak Niwas Hooda Kabaddi 17 Kale Sarika Sudhakar Kho Kho 18 Divij Sharan Lawn Tennis 19 Dattu Baban Bhokanal Rowing 20 Manu Bhaker Shooting 21 Saurabh Chaudhary Shooting 22 Manish Narwal § Shooting 23 Suyash Jadhav § Swimming 24 Madhurika Patkar Table Tennis 25 Rahul Aware Wrestling 26 Divya Kakran Wrestling 27 Akash Wrestling Greco Roman
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Arjuna Award Recipients (2010–2019)
2019 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Muhammed Anas Athletics 2 Swapna Barman Athletics 3 Tejinder Pal Singh Toor Athletics 4 Sundar Singh Gurjar § Athletics 5 B. Sai Praneeth Badminton 6 Pramod Bhagat § Badminton 7 S. Bhaskaran Bodybuilding 8 Sonia Lather Boxing 9 Ravindra Jadeja Cricket 10 Poonam Yadav Cricket 11 Fouaad Mirza Equestrian 12 Gurpreet Singh Sandhu Football 13 Chinglensana Kangujam Hockey 14 Ajay Thakur Kabaddi 15 Gaurav Gill Motor Sports 16 Simran Singh Shergill Polo 17 Anjum Moudgil Shooting 18 Harmeet Desai Table Tennis 19 Pooja Dhanda Wrestling
2018 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Neeraj Chopra Athletics 2 Hima Das Athletics 3 Jinson Johnson Athletics 4 Ankur Dhama § Athletics 5 N. Sikki Reddy Badminton 6 Manoj Sarkar § Badminton 7 Satish Kumar Boxing 8 Smriti Mandhana Cricket 9 Shubhankar Sharma Golf 10 Savita Punia Hockey 11 Manpreet Singh Hockey 12 Rohan Bopanna Lawn Tennis 13 Ravi Rathore Polo 14 Ankur Mittal Shooting 15 Rahi Sarnobat Shooting 16 Shreyasi Singh Shooting 17 Manika Batra Table Tennis 18 Sathiyan Gnanasekaran Table Tennis 19 Sumit Malik Wrestling 20 Pooja Kadian Wushu
2017 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 V. J. Sureka Archery 2 Khushbir Kaur Athletics 3 Arokia Rajiv Athletics 4 Varun Singh Bhati § Athletics 5 Mariyappan Thangavelu § Athletics 6 Prashanti Singh Basketball 7 Devendro Singh Boxing 8 Harmanpreet Kaur Cricket 9 Cheteshwar Pujara Cricket 10 Oinam Bembem Devi Football 11 Shiv Chawrasia Golf 12 S. V. Sunil Hockey 13 Jasvir Singh Kabaddi 14 Saketh Myneni Lawn Tennis 15 Prakash Nanjappa Shooting 16 Anthony Amalraj Table Tennis 17 Satyawart Kadian Wrestling
2016 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Rajat Chauhan Archery 2 Lalita Babar Athletics 3 Sandeep Singh Maan § Athletics 4 Raj Kumar § Badminton 5 Sourav Kothari Billiards & Snooker 6 Shiva Thapa Boxing 7 Ajinkya Rahane Cricket 8 Subrata Pal Football 9 V. R. Raghunath Hockey 10 Ritu Rani Hockey 11 Apurvi Chandela Shooting 12 Gurpreet Singh Shooting 13 Soumyajit Ghosh Table Tennis 14 Amit Kumar Dahiya Wrestling 15 Vinesh Phogat Wrestling 16 Virender Singh § Wrestling
2015 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Sandeep Kumar Archery 2 M. R. Poovamma Athletics 3 Srikanth Kidambi Badminton 4 Mandeep Jangra Boxing 5 Rohit Sharma Cricket 6 Dipa Karmakar Gymnastics 7 P. R. Sreejesh Hockey 8 Manjeet Chhillar Kabaddi 9 Abhilasha Mhatre Kabaddi 10 Anup Kumar Yama Roller Skating 11 Sawarn Singh Rowing 12 Jitu Rai Shooting 13 Sharath Gayakwad § Swimming 14 Sathish Sivalingam Weightlifting 15 Babita Kumari Wrestling 16 Bajrang Punia Wrestling 17 Yumnam Sanathoi Devi Wushu
2014 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Abhishek Verma Archery 2 Tintu Luka Athletics 3 H. N. Girisha § Athletics 4 Valiyaveetil Diju Badminton 5 Geethu Anna Jose Basketball 6 Jai Bhagwan Boxing 7 Manoj Kumar Boxing 8 Ravichandran Ashwin Cricket 9 Anirban Lahiri Golf 10 Mamatha Poojary Kabaddi 11 Saji Thomas Rowing 12 Heena Sidhu Shooting 13 Anaka Alankamony Squash 14 Tom Joseph Volleyball 15 Renu Bala Chanu Weightlifting 16 Sunil Kumar Rana Wrestling
2013 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Chekrovolu Swuro Archery 2 Amit Kumar Saroha § Athletics 3 P. V. Sindhu Badminton 4 Rupesh Shah Billiards & Snooker 5 Kavita Chahal Boxing 6 Abhijeet Gupta Chess 7 Virat Kohli Cricket 8 Gaganjeet Bhullar Golf 9 Saba Anjum Karim Hockey 10 Rajkumari Rathore Shooting 11 Joshna Chinappa Squash 12 Mouma Das Table Tennis 13 Dharmender Dalal Wrestling 14 Neha Rathi Wrestling
2012 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Deepika Kumari Archery 2 Bombayla Devi Laishram Archery 3 Kavita Raut Athletics 4 Sudha Singh Athletics 5 Deepa Malik § Athletics 6 Ramkaran Singh § Athletics 7 Parupalli Kashyap Badminton 8 Ashwini Ponnappa Badminton 9 Aditya Mehta Billiards & Snooker 10 Vikas Krishan Yadav Boxing 11 Yuvraj Singh Cricket 12 Sardara Singh Hockey 13 Yashpal Solanki Judo 14 Anup Kumar Kabaddi 15 Samir Suhag Polo 16 Joydeep Karmakar Shooting 17 Annu Raj Singh Shooting 18 Omkar Singh Shooting 19 Dipika Pallikal Squash 20 Sandeep Sejwal Swimming 21 Ngangbam Soniya Chanu Weightlifting 22 Rajender Kumar Wrestling 23 Geeta Phogat Wrestling 24 Narsingh Yadav Wrestling 25 M. Bimoljit Singh Wushu
2011 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Rahul Banerjee Archery 2 Vikas Gowda Athletics 3 Preeja Sreedharan Athletics 4 Jwala Gutta Badminton 5 Suranjoy Singh Boxing 6 Zaheer Khan Cricket 7 Sunil Chhetri Football 8 Ashish Kumar Gymnastics 9 Rajpal Singh Hockey 10 Rakesh Kumar Kabaddi 11 Tejaswini Bai V. Kabaddi 12 Somdev Devvarman Lawn Tennis 13 Tejaswini Sawant Shooting 14 Virdhawal Khade Swimming 15 Prasanta Karmakar § Swimming 16 Sanjay Kumar Volleyball 17 Katulu Ravi Kumar Weightlifting 18 Ravinder Singh Wrestling 19 W. Sandhyarani Devi Wushu
2010 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Joseph Abraham Athletics 2 Krishna Poonia Athletics 3 Jagseer Singh § Athletics 4 Dinesh Kumar Boxing 5 Parimarjan Negi Chess 6 Jhulan Goswami Cricket 7 Deepak Mondal Football 8 Jasjeet Kaur Handa Hockey 9 Sandeep Singh Hockey 10 Dinesh Kumar Kabaddi 11 Sanjeev Rajput Shooting 12 Rehan Poncha Swimming 13 K. J. Kapil Dev Volleyball 14 Rajiv Tomar Wrestling 15 Rajesh Chaudhary Yachting
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Arjuna Award Recipients (2000–2009)
2009 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Mangal Singh Champia Archery 2 Sinimole Paulose Athletics 3 Saina Nehwal Badminton 4 Parul Parmar § Badminton 5 Laishram Sarita Devi Boxing 6 Tania Sachdev Chess 7 Gautam Gambhir Cricket 8 Surinder Kaur Hockey 9 Ignace Tirkey Hockey 10 Pankaj Navnath Shirsat Kabaddi 11 Satish Joshi Rowing 12 Ronjan Sodhi Shooting 13 Poulomi Ghatak Table Tennis 14 Yogeshwar Dutt Wrestling 15 Girdhari Lal Yadav Yachting
2007 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Chitra Soman Athletics 2 Anup Sridhar Badminton 3 Varghese Johnson Boxing 4 Harika Dronavalli Chess 5 Arjun Atwal Golf 6 Prabhjot Singh Hockey 7 Tombi Devi Judo 8 Farman Basha § Powerlifting 9 Bajrang Lal Takhar Rowing 10 Avneet Sidhu Shooting 11 Alka Tomar Wrestling
2006 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Jayanta Talukdar Archery 2 K. M. Binu Athletics 3 Chetan Anand Badminton 4 Rohit Bhaker § Badminton 5 Vijender Singh Boxing 6 Pentala Harikrishna Chess 7 Anjum Chopra Cricket 8 Jyoti Sunita Kullu Hockey 9 Navneet Gautam Kabaddi 10 Vijay Kumar Shooting 11 Saurav Ghosal Squash 12 Subhajit Saha Table Tennis 13 Geeta Rani Weightlifting 14 Geetika Jakhar Wrestling
2005 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Dola Banerjee Archery 2 Tarundeep Rai Archery 3 Manjeet Kaur Athletics 4 Aparna Popat Badminton 5 Anuja Thakur Billiards & Snooker 6 Akhil Kumar Boxing 7 Surya Shekhar Ganguly Chess 8 Anju Jain Cricket 9 Viren Rasquinha Hockey 10 Ramesh Kumar Kabaddi 11 Rajinder Singh Rahelu § Powerlifting 12 Gagan Narang Shooting 13 Shikha Tandon Swimming 14 Soumyadeep Roy Table Tennis 15 Sushil Kumar Wrestling
2004 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Anil Kumar Prakash Athletics 2 J. J. Shobha Athletics 3 Devendra Jhajharia § Athletics 4 Abhinn Shyam Gupta Badminton 5 Deep Kumar Ahlawat Equestrian 6 Jyoti Randhawa Golf 7 Helen Mary Hockey 8 Deepak Thakur Hockey 9 Angom Anita Chanu Judo 10 Sunder Singh Kabaddi 11 Sania Mirza Lawn Tennis 12 Jenil Krishnan Rowing 13 Deepali Deshpande Shooting 14 Sharath Kamal Table Tennis 15 Anuj Kumar Wrestling
2003 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Soma Biswas Athletics 2 Madhuri Saxena Athletics 3 Madasu Srinivas Rao § Badminton 4 Pankaj Advani Billiards & Snooker 5 Mary Kom Boxing 6 Koneru Humpy Chess 7 Mithali Raj Cricket 8 Harbhajan Singh Cricket 9 Rajesh Pattu Equestrian 10 Devesh Chauhan Hockey 11 Suraj Lata Devi Hockey 12 Akram Shah Judo 13 Sanjeev Kumar Kabaddi 14 Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Shooting 15 Shokinder Tomar Wrestling
2002 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Anju Bobby George Athletics 2 Saraswati Saha Athletics 3 Ramesh Tikaram § Badminton & Athletics 4 Alok Kumar Billiards & Snooker 5 Mohammed Ali Qamar Boxing 6 Krishnan Sasikiran Chess 7 Virender Sehwag Cricket 8 I. M. Vijayan Football 9 Shiv Kapur Golf 10 Mamta Kharab Hockey 11 Gagan Ajit Singh Hockey 12 Ram Mehar Singh Kabaddi 13 Inderpal Singh Rowing 14 Suma Shirur Shooting 15 Anwer Sultan Shooting 16 Mantu Ghosh Table Tennis 17 Ravikant Reddy Volleyball 18 Thandava Murthy Muthu Weightlifting 19 Palwinder Singh Cheema Wrestling 20 Sujeet Mann Wrestling 21 Nitin Mongia Yachting
2001 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 K. R. Shankar Iyer § Athletics 2 Parmender Singh Basketball 3 Devender Sreekant Joshi Billiards & Snooker 4 VVS Laxman Cricket 5 Bruno Coutinho Football 6 Sita Gussain Hockey 7 Dilip Tirkey Hockey 8 B. C. Ramesh Kabaddi 9 Sandeep Kirtane Lawn Tennis 10 Kasam Khan Rowing 11 Samaresh Jung Shooting 12 Amir Singh Volleyball 13 Ramesh Kumar Wrestling 14 Mahesh Ramchandran Yachting
2000 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 K. M. Beenamol Athletics 2 Vijayamala Bhanot✝ Athletics 3 Rachna Govil✝ Athletics 4 Milkha Singh✝ Athletics 5 Vijay Bhalanchandra Munishwar § Athletics & Powerlifting 6 Joginder Singh Bedi§✝ Athletics 7 Yadvendra Vashishta§ Athletics 8 George Thomas Badminton 9 Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi Chess 10 Venkatesh Prasad Cricket 11 Kalpana Debnath✝ Gymnastics 12 Raghbir Singh Bhola✝ Hockey 13 Tingonleima Chanu Hockey 14 Jalaluddin Rizvi✝ Hockey 15 Baljit Singh Saini Hockey 16 Balkrishan Singh✝ Hockey 17 Madhu Yadav✝ Hockey 18 C. Honappa Kabaddi 19 Akhtar Ali✝ Lawn Tennis 20 Surender Singh Kanwasi✝ Rowing 21 Anjali Bhagwat Shooting 22 Abhinav Bindra Shooting 23 Sandhu Singh Gurbir✝ Shooting 24 J. Abhijith Swimming 25 Sebastian Xavier Swimming 26 P. V. Ramana✝ Volleyball 27 Sanamacha Chanu Weightlifting 28 Naresh Kumar✝ Wrestling 29 Kripa Shankar Patel Wrestling 30 Randhir Singh Wrestling 31 K. D. Jadhav#✝ Wrestling
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Arjuna Award Recipients (1990–1999)
1999 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Parduman Singh Brar✝ Athletics 2 Gulab Chand Athletics 3 Gurmeet Kaur Athletics 4 Sunita Rani Athletics 5 G. Venkataravanappa§ ✝ Athletics 6 Pullela Gopichand Badminton 7 Sajjan Singh Cheema✝ Basketball 8 Jitender Kumar Boxing 9 Gurcharan Singh Boxing 10 Jeev Milkha Singh Golf 11 Haripal Kaushik✝ Hockey 12 Balbir Singh Kullar✝ Hockey 13 Victor Philips✝ Hockey 14 Ramandeep Singh Hockey 15 Tirath Raj✝ Kabaddi 16 Balwinder Singh✝ Kabaddi 17 Jagjit Singh Rowing 18 Vivek Singh Shooting 19 Nisha Millet Swimming 20 Sukhpal Singh Volleyball 21 Dalbir Singh Weightlifting 22 Ashok Kumar✝ Wrestling 23 Aashim Mongia Yachting
1998 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 S. D. Eshan Athletics 2 Rachita Mistry Athletics 3 Sri Chand Ram Athletics 4 Neelam Jaswant Singh Athletics 5 Paramjit Singh Athletics 6 Ranjini Ramanujam§ Badminton 7 T. V. Pauly Bodybuilding 8 Dingko Singh Boxing 9 Rahul Dravid Cricket 10 Nayan Mongia Cricket 11 Bhaichung Bhutia Football 12 Anju Dua§ Gymnastics 13 Baljit Singh Dhillon Hockey 14 Maharaj Krishan Kaushik Hockey 15 S. Omana Kumari Hockey 16 Surjit Singh Randhawa# Hockey 17 Mohammed Riaz Hockey 18 Baldev Singh Hockey 19 Pritam Rani Siwach Hockey 20 Narender Singh Judo 21 Ashan Kumar Kabaddi 22 Biswajit Palit Kabaddi 23 Shobha Narayan Kho Kho 24 Manavjit Singh Sandhu Shooting 25 Roopa Unnikrishnan Shooting 26 Bhanu Sachdeva Swimming 27 Subramaniam Raman Table Tennis 28 Satheesha Rai Weightlifting 29 Kaka Pawar Wrestling 30 Rohtas Singh Wrestling
1997 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Reeth Abraham Athletics 2 M. Mahadev§ Athletics & Cricket 3 Ashok Harishankar Shandilya Billiards & Snooker 4 Sourav Ganguly Cricket 5 Ajay Jadeja Cricket 6 Brahmanand Sankhwalkar Football 7 Harmik Kahlon Golf 8 Harmik Singh Hockey 9 Rajinder Singh Hockey 10 Surinder Singh Sodhi Hockey 11 Randhir Singh Kabaddi 12 Asif Ismail Lawn Tennis 13 Satendra Kumar Shooting 14 Shilpi Singh Shooting 15 Naresh Kumar Sharma§ Shooting 16 Misha Grewal Squash 17 Chetan Baboor Table Tennis 18 N. Laxmi Weightlifting 19 Paramjit Sharma Weightlifting 20 Sanjay Kumar Wrestling 21 Jagdish Singh Wrestling
1996 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Ajit Bhaduria Athletics 2 Padmini Thomas Athletics 3 Kalle Gowda§ Athletics & Cricket 4 Sandeep Singh Dhillon§ Badminton 5 Rajkumar Sangwan Boxing 6 A. Maria Irudayam Carrom 7 Javagal Srinath Cricket 8 Amit Luthra Golf 9 Ashish Ballal Hockey 10 A. B. Subbaiah Hockey 11 Poonam Chopra Judo 12 Shriram Bhavsar Kabaddi 13 Neta Moreshwar Dadwe Kabaddi 14 Gaurav Natekar Lawn Tennis 15 Surender Singh Waldia Rowing 16 Moraad Ali Khan Shooting 17 V. Kutraleeswaran Swimming 18 Kelly Subbanand Rao# Yachting
1995 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Jyotirmoyee Sikdar Athletics 2 Shakti Singh Athletics 3 Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla§ Athletics 4 Venkatesan Devarajan Boxing 5 Anil Kumble Cricket 6 Mukesh Kumar Hockey 7 Dhanraj Pillay Hockey 8 P. Ganesan Kabaddi 9 Mahesh Bhupathi Lawn Tennis
1994 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Rosa Kutty Athletics 2 Sachin Tendulkar Cricket 3 Jude Felix Sabastian Hockey 4 Subbiah Rajaratnam Kabaddi 5 Ashok D. Shinde Kabaddi 6 R. S. Bhanwala Rowing 7 Jaspal Rana Shooting 8 Karnam Malleswari Weightlifting
1993 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 K. Saramma Athletics 2 Mukund Killekar Boxing 3 Manoj Pingale Boxing 4 Kiran More Cricket 5 Manoj Prabhakar Cricket 6 Cawas Billimoria Judo 7 Mansher Singh Shooting 8 Bharati Singh Weightlifting 9 Ashok Kumar Garg Wrestling 10 Homi Motivala Yachting
1992 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Sanjeeva Kumar Singh Archery 2 Bahadur Prasad Athletics 3 Rajendra Prasad Boxing 4 Mervyn Fernandis Hockey 5 Sandeep Byala Judo 6 E. S. Bhaskaran Powerlifting 7 Pappu Yadav Wrestling
1991 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Limba Ram Archery 2 Rajeev Bagga§ Badminton 3 Dharmendra Singh Yadav Boxing 4 Adhiraj Singh Equestrian 5 Ali Sher Golf 6 Dalvir Singh Rowing 7 K. Udayakumar Volleyball 8 Chhaya Adak Weightlifting
1990 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Deena Ram Athletics 2 Anupama Gokhale Chess 3 Jagbir Singh Hockey 4 Hardeep Singh Kabaddi 5 Leander Paes Lawn Tennis 6 M. R. Dharuvala Squash 7 Bula Choudhury Swimming 8 M. S. Walia Table Tennis 9 Dalel Singh Ror Volleyball 10 R. Chandra Weightlifting 11 Kunjarani Devi Weightlifting 12 Ombir Singh Wrestling 13 Pushpendra Kumar Garg Yachting
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Arjuna Award Recipients (1980–1989)
1989 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Shyam Lal Meena Archery 2 Mercy Kuttan Athletics 3 Yasin Merchant Billiards & Snooker 4 Gopal Dewang Boxing 5 Madan Lal Cricket 6 Subrata Bhattacharya Football 7 Krupali Patel Gymnastics 8 Pargat Singh Hockey 9 Niyati Shah Table Tennis 10 Abdul Basith Volleyball 11 Jyotsna Dutta Weightlifting 12 Satyawan Wrestling
1988 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Ashwini Nachappa Athletics 2 M. P. Singh Hockey 3 P. K. Yeshodhra Powerlifting 4 Wilson Cherian Swimming 5 Rajesh Kumar Wrestling
1987 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Vandana Rao Athletics 2 Vandana Shanbagh Athletics 3 Bagicha Singh Athletics 4 Balwinder Singh Athletics 5 Seera Jayaram Boxing 6 Devaki Prasad Chess 7 Bhagyashree Thipsay Chess 8 J. S. Ahluwalia Equestrian 9 Nonita Lal Golf 10 Kuldeep Singh Garcha Polo 11 Naman Virendra Parekh Roller Skating 12 Monalisa Baruah Mehta Table Tennis 13 G. Devan Weightlifting 14 Subhash Verma Wrestling 15 C. S. Pradipak Yachting
1986 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Arti Pradhan Adventure Sports 2 K. S. Rao Adventure Sports 3 Suman Rawat Athletics 4 Premchand Degra Bodybuilding 5 Jaipal Singh Boxing 6 Sandhya Agarwal Cricket 7 Mohammad Azharuddin Cricket 8 Joaquim Carvalho Hockey 9 Rama Sarkar Kabaddi 10 Bhagirath Samai Shooting 11 Cyril C. Valloor Volleyball 12 Jagmohan Sapra Weightlifting 13 Dhruv Bhandari Yachting
1985 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Gulshan Rai Adventure Sports 2 Asha Agarwal Athletics 3 Raghubir Singh Bal Athletics 4 Adille Sumariwala Athletics 5 Geet Sethi Billiards & Snooker 6 Viswanathan Anand Chess 7 Shubhangi Kulkarni Cricket 8 Sunita Sharma Gymnastics 9 Somiya Maney Hockey 10 Prem Maya Sonir Hockey 11 S. B. Kulkarni Kho Kho 12 Anand Amritraj Lawn Tennis 13 Phu Dorjee Mountaineering 14 Soma Dutta Shooting 15 A. J. Pandit Shooting 16 T. N. Shenoy§ Swimming 17 Kamlesh Mehta Table Tennis 18 Mehar Chand Bhaskar Weightlifting 19 Mahabir Singh Wrestling
1984 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Shiny Abraham Athletics 2 Raj Kumar Athletics 3 D. Rajaraman Ball Badminton 4 Pravin Thipsay Chess 5 Ravi Shastri Cricket 6 Ghulam Mohammed Khan Equestrian 7 Rajbir Kaur Hockey 8 S. Prakash Kho Kho 9 D. K. Khullar Mountaineering 10 Bachendri Pal Mountaineering 11 P. J. Joseph Powerlifting 12 Mohd. Amin Naik Rowing 13 Omprakesh Agrawal Snooker 14 Khajan Singh Swimming 15 Saly Joseph Volleyball
1983 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 P. T. Usha Athletics 2 Suresh Yadav Athletics 3 Suman Sharma Basketball 4 Radhey Shyam Basketball 5 Subhash Agarwal Billiards & Snooker 6 Jaslal Pradhan Boxing 7 Dibyendu Barua Chess 8 Diana Edulji Cricket 9 Armin R. Arthan Cycling 10 Shanti Mullick Football 11 Zafar Iqbal Hockey 12 Maya Kashinath Kabaddi 13 Veena Narayan Parab Kho Kho 14 R. S. Sodhi Polo 15 Parvin K. Uberoy Rowing 16 Mohinder Lal Shooting 17 Anita Sood Swimming 18 R. K. Purohit Volleyball 19 Vispy K. Daroga Weightlifting
1982 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Charles Borromeo Athletics 2 Chand Ram Athletics 3 M. D. Valsamma Athletics 4 Madhumita Bisht Badminton 5 Partho Ganguli Badminton 6 Ajmer Singh Basketball 7 Kaur Singh Boxing 8 Mohinder Amarnath Cricket 9 Rupinder Singh Brar Equestrian 10 Raghubir Singh Equestrian 11 Lakshman Singh Golf 12 Bhuvneshwari Kumari Squash 13 Persis Madan Swimming 14 Venugopal Chandrasekhar Table Tennis 15 G. E. Sridharan Volleyball 16 Tara Singh Weightlifting 17 Kartar Singh Wrestling 18 Farokh Tarapore Yachting 19 Fali Unwalla Yachting 20 Jeeje Unwalla Yachting
1981 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Krishna Das Archery 2 Sabir Ali Athletics 3 G. Manoharan Boxing 4 Dilip Vengsarkar Cricket 5 Sudhir Karmakar Football 6 Varsha Soni Hockey 7 Monika Nath Kabaddi 8 Sushma Sarolkar Kho Kho 9 H. M. Takalkar Kho Kho 10 Chandraprabha Aitwal Mountaineering 11 Harshwanti Bisht Mountaineering 12 B. S. Sandhu Mountaineering 13 Rekha Sharma Mountaineering 14 S. P. Chauhan Shooting 15 Bijaya Kumar Satpathy Weightlifting 16 Zarir Karanjia Yachting
1980-1981 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Gopal Saini Athletics 2 Syed Modi Badminton 3 Issac Amaldas Boxing 4 Rohini Khadilkar Chess 5 Chetan Chauhan Cricket 6 Syed Kirmani Cricket 7 Mohammed Habib Football 8 Eliza Nelson Hockey 9 Mohammed Shahid Hockey 10 Shantaram Jadhav Kabaddi 11 Ramesh Krishnan Lawn Tennis 12 Manjit Dua Table Tennis 13 Jagmander Singh Wrestling
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Arjuna Award Recipients (1970–1979)
1979-1980 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Ramaswamy Gnanasekaran Athletics 2 Om Prakash Basketball 3 Sunil Kumar Patra Bodybuilding 4 Bakshish Singh Boxing 5 Kapil Dev Cricket 6 Prasun Banerjee Football 7 Vasudevan Baskaran Hockey 8 Rekha B. Mundhphan Hockey 9 Rajkumar Manchanda Squash 10 Indu Puri Table Tennis 11 Suresh Kumar Mishra Volleyball
1978-1979 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Suresh Babu Athletics 2 Angel Mary Joseph Athletics 3 Monotosh Roy Bodybuilding 4 C. C. Machaiah Boxing 5 Minati Mahapatra Cycling 6 Gurdev Singh Gill Football 7 S. P. Khatavkar Kabaddi 8 Nirupama Mankad Lawn Tennis 9 Shernaz Kermani§ Paraplegics 10 Shubrata Dutta Powerlifting 11 Randhir Singh Shooting 12 Arvind Savur Snooker 13 Kutty Krishnan Volleyball 14 Ekambaram Karunakaran Weightlifting 15 Rajinder Singh Wrestling 16 S. K. Mongia Yachting
1977-1978 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Satish Kumar§ Athletics 2 Kanwal Thakar Singh Badminton 3 T. Vijayaraghava Basketball 4 Birender Singh Thapa Boxing 5 Gundappa Viswanath Cricket 6 Sita Rawlley Golf 7 Leslie Fernandez Hockey 8 Harcharan Singh Hockey 9 A. Ramana Rao Volleyball 10 M. T. Selvan Weightlifting
1976 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Bahadur Singh Chouhan Athletics 2 Geeta Zutshi Athletics 3 Ami Ghia Badminton 4 A. Sam Christ Das Ball Badminton 5 Shantha Rangaswamy Cricket 6 H. S. Sodhi Equestrian 7 S. R. Dharwadkar Kho kho 8 Shailaja Salokhe Table Tennis 9 Jimmy George Volleyball 10 K. Balamuruganandam Weightlifting
1975 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 V. Anusuya Bai Athletics 2 Hari Chand Athletics 3 Devinder Ahuja Badminton 4 L. A. Iqbal Ball Badminton 5 Hanuman Singh Basketball 6 Sunil Gavaskar Cricket 7 Amar Singh Cycling 8 S. K. Jamshed Golf 9 Mantu Debnath Gymnastics 10 B. P. Govinda Hockey 11 Rupa Saini Hockey 12 Shreerang J. Inamdar Kho kho 13 Usha Vasant Nagarkar Kho kho 14 V. P. Singh Polo 15 Smita Desai Swimming 16 M. S. Rana Swimming 17 K. C. Elamma Volleyball 18 Ranvir Singh Volleyball 19 Dalbir Singh Weightlifting
1974 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Shivnath Singh Rajput Athletics 2 T. C. Yohannan Athletics 3 Raman Ghosh Badminton 4 Anil Kumar Punj Basketball 5 Anjan Bhattacharjee§ Cricket 6 Ajinder Kaur Hockey 7 Ashok Kumar Hockey 8 N. C. Sarolkar Kho kho 9 Vijay Amritraj Lawn Tennis 10 Manjari Bhargava Swimming 11 Avinash B. Sarang Swimming 12 M. Syamsunder Rao Volleyball 13 S. Vellaiswamy Weightlifting 14 Satpal Singh Wrestling
1973 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Sriram Singh Athletics 2 A. Kareem Ball Badminton 3 Surendra Kumar Kataria Basketball 4 Shyam Shroff Billiards 5 Mehtab Singh Boxing 6 Dafadar Md. Khan Equestrian 7 Magan Singh Rajvi Football 8 Vikramjit Singh Golf 9 M. P. Ganesh Hockey 10 O. Mascarenhas Hockey 11 Bhola Nath Guin Kabaddi 12 B. H. Parikh Kho kho 13 Dhanvir Khatau Swimming 14 Niraj Ramkrishna Bajaj Table Tennis 15 G. Mulilini Reddy Volleyball 16 Jagroop Singh Wrestling 17 Afsar Hussain Yachting
1972 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Vijay Singh Chauhan Athletics 2 Prakash Padukone Badminton 3 Jayamma Srinivasan Ball Badminton 4 Satish Kumar Mohan Billiards 5 Chandraya Narayanan Boxing 6 B. S. Chandrashekhar Cricket 7 Eknath Solkar Cricket 8 Anjani N. Desai Golf 9 Michael Kindo Hockey 10 S. M. Shetty Kabaddi 11 Udayan Chinubhai Shooting 12 Balwant Singh Volleyball 13 Anil Kumar Mandal Weightlifting 14 Prem Nath Wrestling
1971 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Edward Sequeira Athletics 2 Sobha Morthy Badminton 3 M. M. Singh Basketball 4 Muniswamy Venu Boxing 5 Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan Cricket 6 C. P. Singh Football 7 Krishnamurthy Perumal Hockey 8 Achala Suberao Devra Kho kho 9 Bhim Singh Shooting 10 Bhanwar Singh Swimming 11 Kaity Farookh Khodaiji Table Tennis 12 Shyamlal Salwan Weightlifting
1970 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Mohinder Singh Gill Athletics 2 Damayanti Tambay Badminton 3 J. Pitchayya Ball Badminton 4 Gulam Abbas Moontasir Basketball 5 Michael Ferreira Billiards 6 Dilip Sardesai Cricket 7 Syed Nayeemuddin Football 8 Ajit Pal Singh Hockey 9 Sudhir B. Parab Kho kho 10 Gudalore Jagannath Table Tennis 11 Arun Kumar Dass Weightlifting 12 Sudesh Kumar Wrestling 13 S. J. Contractor Yachting
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Arjuna Award Recipients (1961–1969)
1969 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Harnek Singh Athletics 2 Dipu Ghosh Badminton 3 Hari Dutt Basketball 4 Bishan Singh Bedi Cricket 5 Inder Singh Football 6 Bhuvaneshwari Kumari Shooting 7 Anil Nayar Squash 8 Baidyanath Nath Swimming 9 Mir Khasim Ali Table Tennis 10 Chandgi Ram Wrestling
1968 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Joginder Singh Athletics 2 Manjit Walia Athletics 3 Gurdial Singh Basketball 4 Dennis Swamy Boxing 5 E. A. S. Prasanna Cricket 6 Balbir Singh Kular Hockey 7 Rajyashree Kumari Shooting
1967 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Bhim Singh Athletics 2 Praveen Kumar Sobti Athletics 3 Suresh Goel Badminton 4 Khushi Ram Basketball 5 Ajit Wadekar Cricket 6 Peter Thangaraj Football 7 Raj Kumar Pitambar Golf 8 Mohinder Lal Hockey 9 Harbinder Singh Hockey 10 Jagjit Singh Hockey 11 Premjit Lall Lawn Tennis 12 Arun Shaw Swimming 13 Faruk R. Khodaiji Table Tennis 14 Savarimuthu John Cabriel Weightlifting 15 Mukhtiar Singh Wrestling
1966 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Bhogeswar Baruah Athletics 2 Ajmer Singh Athletics 3 Hawa Singh Boxing 4 Chandu Borde Cricket 5 Yousuf Khan Football 6 John Peter Hockey 7 Sunita Puri Hockey 8 Gurbaksh Singh Hockey 9 Jaidip Mukerjea Lawn Tennis 10 Rima Dutta Swimming 11 Usha Sunder Das Table Tennis 12 Mohon Lal Ghosh Weightlifting 13 Bhim Singh Wrestling
1965 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Kenneth Powell Athletics 2 Dinesh Khanna Badminton 3 Vijay Manjrekar Cricket 4 Arun Lal Ghosh Football 5 Elvera Britto Hockey 6 Udham Singh Hockey 7 Balbir Singh Bhatia Weightlifting
1964 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Makhan Singh Athletics 2 Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi Cricket 3 Jarnail Singh Football 4 Shankar Lakshman Hockey 5 Hanut Singh Polo 6 Gautam R. Diwan Table Tennis 7 Bishambar Singh Wrestling
1963 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Stephie D’Souza Athletics 2 Chuni Goswami Football 3 Ashok Malik Golf 4 Charanjit Singh Hockey 5 Kishen Singh Polo 6 Kamineni Eswara Rao Weightlifting 7 G. Andalkar Wrestling
1962 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Tarlok Singh Athletics 2 Meena Shah Badminton 3 Wilson Jones Billiards 4 Padam Badadur Mal Boxing 5 Tulsidas Balaram Football 6 Naresh Kumar Lawn Tennis 7 Nripjit Singh Bedi Volleyball 8 L. K. Dass Weightlifting 9 Malwa Singh Wrestling
1961 No. Recipient Sport Associated1 Gurbachan Singh Randhawa Athletics 2 Nandu M. Natekar Badminton 3 Sarbjit Singh Basketball 4 Buddy D’Souza Boxing 5 Manuel Aaron Chess 6 Salim Durani Cricket 7 P. K. Banerjee Football 8 P. G. Sethi Golf 9 Sham Lal Gymnastics 10 Ann Lumsden Hockey 11 Prithipal Singh Hockey 12 Ramanathan Krishnan Lawn Tennis 13 Prem Singh Polo 14 Karni Singh Shooting 15 K. S. Jain Squash 16 Bajarangi Prasad Swimming 17 J. C. Vohra Table Tennis 18 A. Palanisamy Volleyball 19 A. N. Ghosh Weightlifting 20 Udey Chand Wrestling
