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It is awarded by India's Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports in honor of exceptional sporting accomplishment.

Arjuna Award Winners List from 1961-2022, History, Winners Name

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Arjuna Award Winners List

The National Sports Awards Winners List is released annually by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports including the Arjuna Award Winners List. Annually the National Sports Awards are presented to honour and reward excellence in sports. The “Arjuna Award for Outstanding Performance in Sports and Games” is granted in recognition of exemplary performance over the course of the previous four years as well as leadership, sportsmanship, and discipline-related attributes. We are providing you here the complete List of Arjuna Award Winners in this article.

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Arjuna Award History

The Arjuna Award was established in 1961 and is named after Arjuna, the major character of the historic Indian epic Mahabharata. It is awarded by India’s Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports in honour of exceptional sporting accomplishment. Before the Khel Ratna was created, it was India’s highest athletic honour.

The Arjuna Award, given out for consistently excellent performance over a four-year period, comes with a statuette of Arjuna, a certificate, and a monetary award. PK Banerjee, an Olympian for India in football, was one of the 20 recipients of the Arjuna Award in its first year, 1961. Anna Lumsden, an Indian hockey player, was the first woman to receive the Arjuna Award.

A Khel Ratna recipient is not eligible to be nominated for the Arjuna Award under the existing regulations. The Khel Ratna can, however, be nominated for an Arjuna winner. Over time, the government changed the requirements for the Arjuna Award. According to the updated rules, a player must not only have consistently performed well at the international level over the previous four years but also receive that year’s recommendation for excellence.

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Arjuna Award 2022 Winners List

A total of 25 athletes were given Arjuna Awards for their commendable performances in the 2022 Sports and Games. Here is the Arjuna Award Winners List 2022 given below:

Sportsperson Awarded	Sports related with
Ms Seema Punia	Athletics
Shri Eldhose Paul	Athletics
Shri Avinash Mukund Sable	Athletics
Shri Lakshya Sen	Badminton
Shri Prannoy	Badminton
Shri Amit	Boxing
Ms Nikhat Zareen	Boxing
Ms Bhakti Pradip Kulkarni	Chess
Shri R Praggnanandhaa	Chess
Ms Deep Grace Ekka	Hockey
Ms Shushila Devi	Judo
Ms Sakshi Kumari	Lawn Bowl
Shri Sagar Kailas Ovhalkar	Mallakhamb
Ms ElavenilValarivan	Shooting
Shri Omprakash Mitharval	Shooting
Ms Sreeja Akula	Table Tennis
Shri Vikas Thakur	Weightlifting
Ms Anshu	Wrestling
Ms Sarita	Wrestling
Shri Parveen	Wushu
Ms Manasi Girishchandra Joshi	Para-Badminton
Shri Tarun Dhillon	Para-Badminton
Shri Swapnil Sanjay Patil	Para Swimming
Ms Jerlin Anika J	Deaf Badminton

List of Arjuna Award Winners 1961 to 2022

The winners of the Arjuna Awards are given below, it is a Full list of Arjuna Award Winners (1961 to 2022) according to respective Sports.

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Arjuna Award Winner List for Athletics

The Arjuna Award Winner List for Athletics has been provided in the table below from the years 1961 to 2022.

Year	Sportsperson Name
1961	Gurbachan Singh Randhawa
1962	Tarlok Singh
1963	Steffie d’souza
1964	Makhan Singh
1965	Kenneth powell
1966	Ajmer Singh
1966	Bhogeshwar Barua
1967	Praveen Kumar
1967	Bhim singh
1968	Joginder Singh
1968	Manjeet Walia
1969	Harnek Singh
1970	Mohinder Singh Gill
1971	Edward Sequeira
1972	Vijay Singh Chauhan
1973	Shriram Singh
1974	T. C. Yohannan
1974	Shivnath Singh
1975	Hari Chand V. Anasuya Bai
1976	Bahadur Singh Geeta Zutshi
1977	Satish Kumar
1978	Suresh Babu Angel mary joseph
1979	R. Gyanasekaran
1980	Gopal Saini
1981	Sabir Ali
1982	Charles Borromeo Chand Ram M. D. Valsamma
1983	Suresh Yadav P T Usha
1984	Prince Shiney Abraham
1985	Raghubir Singh Bal Asha Agarwal Adille Sumriwala
1986	Suman Rawat
1987	Balwinder Singh Vandana Rao Garden lion Vandana Shanbaug
1988	Ashwini Nachappa
1989	Daya kuttan
1990	Dina Ram
1992	Bahadur Prasad
1993	K Saramma
1994	Rosa Kutty
1995	Shakti Singh Jyotirmoy Sikdar Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla K Kalegowda
1996	Ajit Bhaduria Padmini Thomas
1997	M. Mahadeva Reeth Abraham
1998	Sirchand ram Neelam Jaswant Singh S. D. Ishan Rachita Mistry Paramjit Singh
1999	Gulab Chand K. Venkataravanappa Gurmeet Kaur Pradyuman Singh Sunita Rani
2000	K. M. Beenmol Yadvendra Vashishtha Joginder Singh Bedi
2001	KR Shankar Iyer
2002	Saraswati Saha
2003	Soma Biswas Madhuri Saxena
2004	Anil Kumar J. J. Grace Devendra Jhajharia
2005	Manjeet Kaur
2006	K M Binu
2007	Chitra K. Soman
2009	Cinimol Polos
2010	Joseph Abraham Krishna Punia Jagseer Singh
2011	Peerja Sreedharan
2012	Sudha Singh Kavita Ramdas Raut Deepa Malik Ramkaran Singh
2013	Amit Kumar Saroha
2014	Chintu luka
2015	M. R Poovamma
2016	Lalita Babar Sandeep Singh Mann
2017	Khushbir Kaur Arokia Rajeev Mariyappan Thangavelu Varun Bhati
2018	Jinson Johnson Hima Das Neeraj Chopra Ankur Dhama
2019	Mohammad Anas Yahiya Tajinder Pal Singh Swapna Burman Sundar Singh Gurjar
2020	Sandeep Dutee Chand
2021	Arpinder Singh Yogesh Kathunia Nishad Kumar Praveen Kumar Sharad Kumar
2022	Seema Punia Eldhoj Paul Avinash Mukund Sable

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Arjuna Award Winners List for Archery

The Arjuna Award Winner List for Archery has been provided below in the table from the year 1981 to 2022.

Year	Sportsperson Name
1981	Krishna Das
1989	Harish Nangunuri
1991	Baba Shravan Kishore
1992	Sanjeev Kumar Singh
2005	Tarundeep Rai
2005	Dola Banerjee
2006	Jayant Talukdar
2009	Mangal Singh Champia
2011	Rahul Banerjee
2012	Deepika Kumari
2012	Laishram Bombayla Devi
2013	Chekrovolu Swuro
2014	Abhishek Verma
2015	Sandeep Kumar
2016	Rajat Chauhan
2017	VJ Surekha
2020	Atanu Das
2021	Harvinder Singh
2022	Harvinder Singh

Arjuna Award Winners List for Badminton

The Arjuna Award Winner List for Badminton has been provided below in the table from the year 1961 to 2022.

Year	Sportsperson Name
1961	Nandu Natekar
1962	Meena Shah
1965	Dinesh Khanna
1967	Suresh Goyal
1969	Dipu Ghosh
1970	Damayanti Tambe
1971	Shobha Murthy
1972	Prakash Padukone
1974	Raman Ghosh
1975	Davinder Ahuja
1976	Ami ghia
1977	Kanwal Thakur Singh
1980	Syed Modi
1982	Partho Ganguly
1982	Madhumita Bisht
1991	Rajeev Bagga
2000	Pullela Gopichand
1999	George Thomas
2002	Ramesh Tikaram (para athlete)
2003	Madasu Srinivasa Rao (para athlete)
2004	Abhinav Shyam Gupta
2005	Aparna Popat
2006	Chetan Anand
2006	Rohit Bhaker (para athlete)
2008	Anoop Sridhar
2009	Saina Nehwal
2009	Parul Parmar (para athlete)
2011	Jwala Gutta
2012	Ashwini Ponnappa
2012	Parupalli Kashyap
2013	PV Indus
2014	Valiyaveettil Diju
2015	Shrikant Kidambi
2018	Sikki Reddy
2019	B. Sai Praneeth
2019	Pramod Bhagat (Para athlete)
2020	Satwiksairaj Rankireddy
2020	Chirag Chandrasekhar Shetty
2021	Suhash Yathiraj (Para Badminton)
2022	Lakshya Sen (Badminton)
2022	HS Prannoy (Badminton)
2022	Mansi Girishchandra Joshi (Para Badminton)
2022	Tarun Dhillon (Para Badminton)
2022	Swapnil Sanjay Patil (Para Badminton)
2022	Gerlin Anika (deaf badminton).

Arjuna Award Winners List for Ball Badminton

The Arjuna Award Winner List for Ball Badminton has been provided below in the table from the year between 1970 to 1984.

Year	Sportsperson Name
1970	J. Peaches
1972	J. srinivasan
1973	A. Kareem
1975	L.A. Iqbal
1976	Sam Cristudas
1984	D. Rajaraman

Arjuna Award Winners List for Basketball

The Arjuna Award Winner List for Basketball has been provided below in the table from the year 1961 to 2020.

Year	Sportsperson Name
1961	Sarabjeet Singh
1967	Khushi Ram
1968	Gurdial Singh
1969	Havildar Hari Dutt
1970	Ghulam Abbas Montseer
1971	Manmohan Singh
1973	S. K. kottalay
1974	A.K. beam
1975	Hanuman Singh
1977	T. Selvaragavan
1979	Om Prakash
1982	Ajmer Singh
1983	Suman Sharma
1982	Radheshyam
1991	A.S. Sharma
1999	Sajjan Singh Cheema
2001	Parminder Singh
2003	Truth (Sports)
2014	Gethu Anna Jose
2017	Prashanti Singh
2020	Special Bhriguvanshi

Arjuna Award Winners List for Billiards & Snooker

The Arjuna Award Winner List for Billiards & Snooker has been provided below in the table from the year between 1963 to 2016.

Year	Sportsperson Name
1963	Wilson jones
1973	Michael Ferreira
1983	Subhash Agarwal
1986	Geet Sethi
1997	Ashok Shandilya
2002	Alok Kumar
2003	Pankaj Advani
2005	Anuja Prakash Thakur
2009	R Umadevi Nagraj
2012	Aditya S. Mehta
2013	Rupesh Shah
2016	Sourav Kothari

Arjuna Award Winners List for Boxing

The Arjuna Award Winner List for Boxing has been provided below in the table from the year 1961 to 2022.

Year	Sportsperson Name
1961	Ale. buddy d’souza
1962	Sergeant. P. Baddur Mal
1966	Hawa Singh
1968	Sergeant Dennis Swami
1971	Havildar Muniswamy Venu
1972	Havildar Chandra Narayan
1973	Havildar Mehtab Singh
1977	B. s. Thapa
1978	C. C. Machaya
1979	B. Lion
1980	Issac Amaldas
1981	Sergeant. Yes. Manoharan
1982	Sergeant. Kaur Singh
1983	Jas Lal Pradhan
1986	Jai Pal Singh
1987	Seva Jayaram
1989	Gopal Devang
1991	Dharmendra Singh Yadav
1992	Rajendra Prasad
1993	Manoj Pingle
1993	Mukund Killekar
1995	V. Devarajan
1996	Raj Kumar Sangwan
1998	Dingko Singh
1999	Gurcharan Singh
1999	Jitendra Kumar
2002	Mohammed Ali Qamar
2003	Mary Kom
2005	Akhil Kumar
2006	Vijender Singh
2008	Gergis johnson
2009	Laishram Sarita Devi
2010	Dinesh Kumar
2011	Suranjay singh
2012	Vikas Krishnan
2013	Kavita Chahal
2014	Manoj Kumar
2015	Mandeep Jangra
2016	Shiv Thapa
2017	Devendro Laishram
2019	Sonia Lather
2020	Subedar Manish Kaushik
2020	Lovlina Borgohain
2021	Simranjeet Kaur
2022	Boundless
2022	Nikhat Zareen

Arjuna Award Winners List for Chess

The Arjuna Award Winner List for Chess has been provided below in the table from the year 1961 to 2022.

Year	Sportsperson Name
1961	Manuel aaron
1980	Rohini Khadilkar
1983	Dibyendu Barua
1984	Praveen Thipsay
1985	Viswanathan Anand
1987	D. V. Prasad
1987	Bhagyashree Thipsey
1990	Anupama Gokhale
2000	Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi
2002	Krishnan Sasikiran
2003	Koneru Hampi
2005	Surya Shekhar Ganguly
2006	Pantala Harikrishna
2008	Dronavalli Harika
2009	Tania Sachdev
2010	Parimarjan Negi
2013	Abhijeet Gupta
2022	Bhakti Pradeep Kulkarni
2022	Praggnanandha.

Arjuna Award Winners List for Cricket

The Arjuna Award Winner List for Cricket has been provided below in the table from the year 1961 to 2022.

Year	Sportsperson Name
1961	Salim Durani
1964	Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
1965	Vijay manjrekar
1966	Chandu Borde
1967	Ajit Wadekar
1968	E.A.S. Prasanna
1969	Bishan Singh Bedi
1970	Dilip Sardesai
1971	Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan
1972	Eknath Solkar
1972	B. S. chandrashekhar
1974	Anjan Bhattacharjee
1975	Sunil Gavaskar
1976	Shantha Rangaswamy
1977	Gundappa Vishwanath
1979	Kapil Dev Nikhanj
1980	Chetan Chauhan
1980	Syed Kirmani
1981	Dilip Vengsarkar
1982	Mohinder Amarnath
1983	Diana Edulji
1984	Ravi Shastri
1985	Shubhangi Kulkarni
1986	Mohammad Azharuddin
1986	Sandhya agarwal
1989	madan lal
1993	Manoj Prabhakar
1993	Kiran More
1994	Sachin Tendulkar
1995	Anil Kumble
1996	Javagal Srinath
1997	Ajay Jadeja
1997	Sourav Ganguly
1998	Rahul Dravid
1998	Nayan Mongia
2000	Venkatesh Prasad
2001	K VVS Laxman
2002	Virender Sehwag
2003	Harbhajan Singh
2003	Mithali Raj
2005	Anju Jain
2006	Anjum Chopra
2009	Gautam Gambhir
2010	Jhulan Goswami
2011	Zaheer khan
2012	Yuvraj Singh
2013	Virat Kohli
2014	Ravichandran Ashwin
2015	Rohit Sharma
2016	Ajinkya Rahane
2017	Cheteshwar Pujara
2017	Harmanpreet Kaur
2018	Reminiscence
2019	Poonam Yadav
2019	Ravindra Jadeja
2019	Ishant Sharma
2019	Deepti Sharma
2021	Shikhar Dhawan

Arjuna Award Winners List for Football

The Arjuna Award Winner List for Football has been provided below in the table from the year 1961 to 2022.

Year	Sportsperson Name
1961	P.K. Banerjee
1962	Tulsidas Balram
1963	Chunni Goswami
1964	Jarnail Singh
1965	Arun Lal Ghosh
1966	Yusuf Khan
1967	Peter Thangaraj
1969	Inder Singh
1970	Syed Naeemuddin
1971	C. P. Singh
1973	Magan Singh
1978	Gurdev Singh Gill
1979	Prasun Banerjee
1980	Mohammad Habib
1981	Sudhir Karmakar
1983	Shanti Mullick
1989	Subrata Bhattacharya
1997	Brahmanand Sankhwalkar
1998	Baichung Bhutia
2002	Bruno coutinho
2003	I. M. Vijayan
2010	Deepak Kumar Mondal
2011	Sunil Chhetri
2016	Subrata Paul
2017	Oinam Bembem Devi
2019	Gurpreet Singh Sandhu
2020	Message Jhingan

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