Arjuna Award

The Arjuna Awards are given by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India to recognize outstanding achievement in sports. Started in 1961, the award carries a cash prize of ₹5,00,000, a bronze statue of Arjuna and a scroll.[1][2]

Arjuna Award
Civilian award for outstanding individual achievements in National Sports
Sponsored by	Govt. of India
Reward(s)	₹5,00,000
First awarded	1961
Last awarded	2019
Highlights
Total awarded	700
Website	Official website

Over the years, the scope of the award has been expanded and many athletes who belonged to the pre-Arjuna Award era were also included in the list. Further, the number of disciplines for which the award is given was increased to include indigenous games and the physically handicapped category.

The government revises the criteria for the Arjuna Award over the years. As per the revised guidelines, to be eligible for the award, a sportsperson should not only have had good performance consistently for the previous four years at the international level with excellence for the year for which the award is recommended, but should also have shown qualities of leadership, sportsmanship and a sense of discipline.[3]

History

Since the year 2001, the award is given only in disciplines falling under the following categories:

• Olympic Games / Asian Games / Commonwealth Games / World Cup / World Championship Disciplines and Cricket
• Indigenous Games
• Sports for the Physically Challenged

In mid-August 2011, 20 athletes were announced as Arjuna recipients; the high number was due to the inclusion of both the 2010 Commonwealth Games and 2010 Asian Games in the Arjuna qualifying year.[4][5]

In 2015, 25 sports-persons were conferred with the Arjuna awards.

In the year 2017, 17 sports-persons, including para-athletes were honoured with Arjuna Award by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.[6]

Archery

Mangal Singh Champia

S.No.	Year	Name
1	1981	Krishna Das
2	1989	Harish Nangunuri
3	1991	baba sravan kishore
4	1992	Sanjeev Kumar Singh
5	2005	Tarundeep Rai
6	2005	Dola Banerjee
7	2006	Jayanta Talukdar
8	2009	Mangal Singh Champia
9	2011	Rahul Banerjee
10	2012	Deepika Kumari
11	2012	Laishram Bombayla Devi
12	2013	Chekrovolu Swuro
13	2014	Abhishek Verma
14	2015	Sandeep Kumar
15	2016	Rajat Chauhan
16	2017	V J Surekha

Athletics

Mercy Kuttan

Reeth and Beedu

‡ - Para Athlete

§ - Lifetime Contribution

S.No.	Year	Name
1	1961	Gurbachan Singh Randhawa
2	1962	Tarlok Singh
3	1963	Stephie D'Souza
4	1964	Makhan Singh
5	1965	Kenneth Powell
6	1966	Ajmer Singh
7	1966	Bhogeswar Baruah
8	1967	Praveen Kumar
9	1967	Bhim Singh
10	1968	Joginder Singh
11	1968	Manjit Walia
12	1969	Harnek Singh
13	1970	Mohinder Singh Gill
14	1971	Edward Sequeira
15	1972	Vijay Singh Chauhan
16	1973	Sriram Singh
17	1974	T. C. Yohannan
18	1974	Shivnath Singh
19	1975	Hari Chand
20	1975	V. Anusuya Bai
21	1976	Bahadur Singh
22	1976	Geeta Zutshi
23	1977–78	Satish Kumar (Athlete)
24	1978–79	Suresh Babu
25	1978–79	Angel Mary Joseph
26	1979–80	R. Gyanasekaran
27	1980–81	Gopal Saini
28	1981	Sabir Ali
29	1982	Charles Borromeo
30	1982	Chand Ram
31	1982	M. D. Valsamma
32	1983	Suresh Yadav
33	1983	P. T. Usha
34	1984	Raj Kumar
35	1984	Shiny Abraham
36	1985	Raghubir Singh Bal
38	1985	Asha Agarwal
39	1985	Adille Sumariwala
39	1986	Suman Rawat
40	1987	Balwinder Singh
41	1987	Vandana Rao
42	1987	Bagicha Singh
43	1987	Vandana Shanbagh
44	1988	Ashwini Nachappa
45	1989	Mercy Kuttan
46	1990	Deena Ram
47	1992	Bahadur Prasad
48	1993	K. Saramma
49	1994	Rosa Kutty
50	1995	Shakti Singh
51	1995	Jyotirmoyee Sikdar
52	1995	Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla ‡
53	1996	Kallegowda ‡
54	1996	Ajit Bhaduria
55	1996	Padmini Thomas
56	1997	M. Mahadeva ‡
57	1997	Reeth Abraham
58	1998	Sirichand Ram
59	1998	Neelam Jaswant Singh
60	1998	S. D. Eshan
61	1998	Rachita Mistry
62	1998	Paramjit Singh
63	1999	Gulab Chand
64	1999	G. Venkataravanappa ‡
65	1999	Gurmit Kaur
66	1999	Parduman Singh
67	1999	Sunita Rani
68	2000	K. M. Beenamol
69	2000	Yadvendra Vashishta ‡
70	2000	Joginder Singh Bedi ‡ §
71	2001	K.R. Shankar Iyer ‡
72	2002	Anju Bobby George
73	2002	Saraswati Saha
74	2003	Soma Biswas
75	2003	Madhuri Saxena
76	2004	Anil Kumar
77	2004	J. J. Shobha
78	2004	Devendra Jhajharia ‡
79	2005	Manjit Kaur
80	2006	K. M. Binu
81	2007	Chitra K. Soman
82	2009	Sinimol Paulose
83	2010	Joseph Abraham (Athletics)
84	2010	Krishna Punia
85	2010	Jagseer Singh ‡
86	2011	Preeja Sreedharan
87	2012	Sudha Singh
88	2012	Kavita Ramdas Raut
89	2012	Deepa Malik ‡
90	2012	Ramkaran Singh ‡
91	2013	Amit Kumar Saroha
92	2014	Tintu Luka
93	2015	M. R. Poovamma
94	2016	Lalita Babar
95	2016	Sandeep Singh Maan ‡
96	2017	Khushbir Kaur
97	2017	Arokia Rajiv
98	2017	Mariyappan Thangavelu ‡
99	2017	Varun Bhati ‡
100	2018	Jinson Johnson
101	2018	Hima Das
102	2018	Neeraj Chopra
103	2018	Ankur Dhama ‡
104	2019	Mohammed Anas Yahiya
105	2019	Tajinder Pal Singh
106	2019	Swapna Barman
107	2019	Sundar Singh Gurjar ‡

Badminton

Prakash Padukone

Chetan Anand

Jwala Gutta

Parupalli Kashyap

Manoj Sarkar

‡ - Para Athlete

S.No.	Year	Name
1	1961	Nandu Natekar
2	1962	Meena Shah
3	1965	Dinesh Khanna
4	1967	Suresh Goel
5	1969	Dipu Ghosh
6	1970	Damayanti Tambay
7	1971	Shobha Moorthy
8	1972	Prakash Padukone
9	1974	Raman Ghosh
10	1975	Davinder Ahuja
11	1976	Ami Ghia
12	1977–78	Kanwal Thakur Singh
13	1980–81	Syed Modi
14	1982	Partho Ganguli
15	1982	Madhumita Bisht
16	1991	Rajeev Bagga
17	2000	Pullela Gopichand
18	1999	George Thomas
19	2002	Ramesh Tikaram ‡
20	2003	Madasu Srinivas Rao ‡
21	2004	Abhinn Shyam Gupta
22	2005	Aparna Popat
23	2006	Chetan Anand
24	2006	Rohit Bhakar ‡
25	2008	Anup Sridhar
26	2009	Saina Nehwal
27	2009	Parul Parmar ‡
28	2011	Jwala Gutta
29	2012	Ashwini Ponnappa
30	2012	Parupalli Kashyap[1]
31	2013	P.V. Sindhu
32	2014	Valiyaveetil Diju
33	2015	Srikanth Kidambi
34	2016	Raj Kumar (para-badminton) ‡
35	2018	Sikki Reddy
36	2018	Manoj Sarkar ‡
37	2019	B. Sai Praneeth
38	2019	Pramod Bhagat ‡

Ball Badminton

S.No.	Year	Name
1	1970	J. Pitchyya
2	1972	Ms. J. Srinivasan
3	1973	A. Kareem
4	1975	L.A. Iqbal
5	1976	Sam Christudas
6	1984	D. Rajaraman

Basketball

Prashanti Singh receiving the Arjuna Award in 2017 from the President of India.

S.No.	Year	Name
1	1961	Sarbjit Singh
2	1967	Khushi Ram
3	1968	Gurdial Singh
4	1969	Hav. Hari Dutt
5	1970	Gulam Abbas Moontasir
6	1971	Man Mohan Singh
7	1973	S. K. Kottailaya
8	1974	A.K. Punj
9	1975	Hanuman Singh
10	1977–78	T. Selvaragavan
11	1979–80	Om Prakash
12	1982	Ajmer Singh
13	1983	Suman Sharma
14	1982	Radhey Shyam
15	1991	Ms. S Sharma
16	1999	Sajjan Singh Cheema
17	2001	Parminder Singh
18	2003	Satya (Sports)
19	2014	Geethu Anna Jose
20	2017	Prashanti Singh
21	2018	Jagrit Ahuja

Billiards & Snooker

Pankaj Advani 2012

S.No.	Year	Name
1	1963	Wilson Jones
2	1973	Michael Ferreira
3	1983	Subhash Agarwal
4	1986	Geet Sethi
5	1997	Ashok Shandilya
6	2002	Alok Kumar
7	2003	Pankaj Advani
8	2005	Anuja Prakash Thakur
9	2009	R Umadevi Nagaraj
10	2012	Aditya S. Mehta
11	2013	Rupesh Shah
12	2016	Sourav Kothari

Boxing

Vijender Singh

Mary Kom

S.No.	Year	Name
1	1961	L. Buddy D' Souza
2	1962	Hav. P. Badadur Mal
3	1966	Hawa Singh
4	1968	Hav. Dennis Swamy
5	1971	Hav. Muniswamy Venu
6	1972	Hav. Chandranarayanan
7	1973	Hav. Mehatab Singh
8	1977–78	B.S. Thapa
9	1978–79	C. C. Machaiah
10	1979–80	B. Singh
11	1980–81	Issac Amaldas
12	1981	Hav. G. Manoharan
13	1982	Hav. Kaur Singh
14	1983	Jas Lal Pradhan
15	1986	Jai Pal Singh
16	1987	Seeva Jayaram
17	1989	Gopal Dewang
18	1991	Dharmendra Singh Yadav
19	1992	Rajendra Prasad
20	1993	Manoj Pingale
21	1993	Mukund Killekar
22	1995	V. Devarajan
23	1996	Raj Kumar Sangwan
24	1998	Dingko Singh
25	1999	Gurcharan Singh
26	1999	Jitender Kumar
27	2002	Mohammed Ali Qamar
28	2003	Mary Kom
29	2005	Akhil Kumar
30	2006	Vijender Singh
31	2008	Verghese Johnson
32	2009	Laishram Sarita Devi
33	2010	Dinesh Kumar
34	2011	Suranjoy Singh
35	2012	Vikas Krishan
36	2013	Kavita Chahal
37	2014	Manoj Kumar
38	2015	Mandeep Jangra
39	2016	Shiva Thapa
40	2017	Devendro Laishram
41	2019	Sonia Lather

Carrom

S.No.	Year	Name
1	1996	A. Maria Irudayam

Chess

Viswanathan Anand

Harika Dronavalli

S.No.	Year	Name
1	1961	Manuel Aaron
2	1980–81	Rohini Khadilkar
3	1983	Dibyendu Barua
4	1984	Pravin Thipsay
5	1985	Viswanathan Anand
6	1987	D. V. Prasad
7	1987	Bhagyashree Thipsay
8	1990	Anupama Gokhale
9	2000	Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi
10	2002	Krishnan Sasikiran
11	2003	Koneru Humpy
12	2005	Surya Shekhar Ganguly
13	2006	Pentyala Harikrishna
14	2008	Dronavalli Harika
15	2009	Tania Sachdev
16	2010	Parimarjan Negi
17	2013	Abhijeet Gupta

Cricket

Virat Kohli

Rohit Sharma

Sachin Tendulkar

Sourav Ganguly

Rahul Dravid

Virender Sehwag

Harbhajan Singh

S.No.	Year	Name
1	1961	Saleem Durani
2	1964	Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi
3	1965	Vijay Manjrekar
4	1966	Chandu Borde
5	1967	Ajit Wadekar
6	1968	E.A.S. Prasanna
7	1969	Bishan Singh Bedi
8	1970	Dilip Sardesai
9	1971	Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan
10	1972	Eknath Solkar
11	1972	B.S. Chandrashekhar
12	1974	Anjan Bhattacharjee[7]
13	1975	Sunil Gavaskar
14	1976	Shanta Rangaswamy
15	1977–78	Gundappa Vishwanath
16	1979–80	Kapil Dev Nikhanj
17	1980–81	Chetan Chauhan
18	1980–81	Syed Kirmani
19	1981	Dilip Vengsarkar
20	1982	Mohinder Amarnath
21	1983	Diana Edulji
22	1984	Ravi Shastri
23	1985	Shubhangi Kulkarni
24	1986	Mohammad Azharuddin
25	1986	Sandhya Agarwal
26	1989	Madan Lal
27	1993	Manoj Prabhakar
28	1993	Kiran More
29	1994	Sachin Tendulkar
30	1995	Anil Kumble
31	1996	Javagal Srinath
32	1997	Ajay Jadeja
33	1997	Sourav Ganguly
34	1998	Rahul Dravid
35	1998	Nayan Mongia
36	2000	Venkatesh Prasad
37	2001	VVS Laxman[8]
38	2002	Virender Sehwag
39	2003	Harbhajan Singh
40	2003	Mithali Raj
41	2005	Anju Jain
42	2006	Anjum Chopra
43	2009	Gautam Gambhir
44	2010	Jhulan Goswami
45	2011	Zaheer Khan
46	2012	Yuvraj Singh
47	2013	Virat Kohli
48	2014	Ravichandran Ashwin
49	2015	Rohit Sharma
50	2016	Ajinkya Rahane
51	2017	Cheteshwar Pujara
52	2017	Harmanpreet Kaur
53	2018	Smriti Mandhana
54	2019	Poonam Yadav
55	2019	Ravindra Jadeja

Cycling

S.No.1	Year;2018	Name [Bharat Bhambhu]
1	1975	Amar Singh
2	1978–79	Ms. M. Mahapatra
5	1983	A.R. Arthna

Equestrian

S.No.	Year	Name
1	1973	Dafadar Khan M
2	1976	Lt Col H.S. Sodhi
3	1982	Maj. R. Singh Brar
4	1982	Raghubir Singh
5	1984	Capt. G. Mohd. Khan
6	1987	Maj. J.S. Ahluwalia
7	1991	Capt. Adhiraj Singh
8	2003	Capt. Rajesh Pattu
9	2004	Maj. Deep Kumar Ahlawat
10	2019	Fouaad Mirza

Football

S.No.	Year	Name
1	1961	P. K. Banerjee
2	1962	Tulsidas Balaram
3	1963	Chuni Goswami
4	1964	Jarnail Singh
5	1965	Arun Lal Ghosh
6	1966	Yousuf Khan
7	1967	Peter Thangaraj
8	1969	Inder Singh
9	1970	Syed Naeemuddin
10	1971	C. P. Singh
11	1973	Magan Singh
12	1978–79[9]	Gurdev Singh Gill
13	1979–80[9]	Prasun Banerjee
14	1980–81[9]	Mohammed Habib
15	1981	Sudhir Karmakar
16	1983	Shanti Mullick
17	1989[9]	Subrata Bhattacharya
18	1997	Brahmanand Sankhwalkar
19	1998	Baichung Bhutia
20	2002	Bruno Coutinho
21	2003	I. M. Vijayan
22	2010	Deepak Kumar Mondal
23	2011	Sunil Chhetri
24	2016	Subrata Paul
25	2017	Oinam Bembem Devi
26	2019	Gurpreet Singh Sandhu

Golf

Jeev Milkha Singh

S.No.	Year	Name
1	1961	P. G. Sethi
2	1963	Ashok Malik
3	1967	Raj Kumar Pitambar
4	1972	Anjali N Desai
5	1973	Vikramjit Singh
6	1977	Sita Rawlley
7	1982	Lakshman Singh
8	1987	Nonita Lall
9	1991	Ali Sher
10	1999	Jeev Milkha Singh
11	2002	Shiv Kapur
12	2004	Jyoti Randhawa
13	2007	Arjun Atwal
14	2013	Gagan Jeet Bhullar
15	2014	Anirban Lahiri
16	2017	Shiv Chawrasia
17	2018	Shubhankar Sharma

Gymnastics

S.No.	Year	Name
1	1961	Sham Lal
2	1975	Mantu Debnath
3	1985	Sunita Sharma
4	1989	Krupali Patel
5	2000	Kalpana Debnath
6	2011	Ashish Kumar
7	2015	Dipa Karmakar

Hockey

Jagbir Singh receiving the Arjuna Award 1990 from President Venkataraman.

S.No.	Year	Name
1	1961	Prithipal Singh
2	1961	Ann Lumsden
3	1963	Charanjit Singh
4	1964	S. Laxman
5	1965	Udham Singh
6	1965	E. Britto
7	1966	John Peter
8	1966	Sunita Puri
9	1966	Gurbaksh Singh
10	1967	Harbinder Singh
11	1967	Mohinder Lal
12	1968	Balbir Singh Kular
13	1970	Ajit Pal Singh
14	1971	P. Krishnamurthy
15	1972	Michael Kindo
16	1973	M. P. Ganesh
17	1973	O. Mascarenhas
18	1974	Ashok Kumar
19	1974	A. Kaur
20	1975	B. P. Govinda
21	1975	Rupa Saini
22	1977–78	Capt. Harcharan Singh
23	1977–78	Leslie Fernandez
24	1979–80	Vasudevan Baskaran
25	1979–80	R. B. Mundphan
26	1980–81	Mohammed Shahid
27	1980–81	Eliza Nelson
28	1981	Versha Soni
29	1983	Zafar Iqbal
30	1984	Rajbir Kaur
31	1984	S. Maney
32	1985	Prem Maya Sonir
33	1985	Maneyapanda Muthanna Somaya
34	1986	J.M. Carvalho
35	1988	M. P. Singh
36	1989	Pargat Singh
37	1990	Jagbir Singh
38	1992	Mervyn Fernandes
39	1994	Jude Felix Sabastain
40	1995	Dhanraj Pillai
41	1995	Mukesh Kumar
42	1996	A. B. Subbaiah
43	1996	Ashish Ballal
44	1997	Harmik Singh
45	1997	Surinder Singh Sodhi
46	1997	Rajinder Singh
47	1998	Surjit Singh Randhawa
48	1998	Pritam Rani Siwach
49	1998	Baljit Singh Dhillon
50	1998	S. Omana Kumari
51	1998	Mohammed Riaz
52	1998	Baldev Singh
53	1998	Maharaj Krishna Kaushik
54	1999	Balbir Singh Kullar
55	1998	Haripal Kaushik
56	1998	Ramandeep Singh
57	1998	Victor Philips
58	2000	Baljeet Singh Saini
59	2000	Tingonleima Chanu
60	2000	Raghbir Singh Bhola
61	2000	Balkishan Singh
62	2000	Jalaluddin Rizvi
63	2000	Madhu Yadav
64	2002	Dilip Tirkey
65	2002	Gagan Ajit Singh
66	2002	Mamta Kharab
67	2003	Devesh Chauhan
68	2003	Suraj Lata Devi
69	2004	Deepak Thakur
70	2004	Innocent Helen Mary
71	2005	Viren Rasquinha
72	2006	Jyoti Sunita Kullu
73	2008	Prabhjot Singh
74	2009	Surinder Kaur
75	2009	Ignace Tirkey
76	2010	Jasjeet Kaur Handa
77	2010	Sandeep Singh
78	2011	Rajpal Singh
79	2012	Sardar Singh
80	2013	Saba Anjum Karim
81	2015	P. R. Sreejesh
82	2016	V. R. Raghunath
83	2016	Ritu Rani
84	2017	S. V. Sunil
85	2018	Savita Punia
86	2018	Manpreet Singh
87	2019	Chinglensana Kangujam

Judo

S.No.	Year	Name
1	1992	Sandeep Byala
2	1993	Cawas Billimoria
3	1996	Ms. Poonam Chopra
4	1999	Narender Singh
5	2003	Akram Shah
6	2004	Ms. Angom Anita Chanu
7	2007	Ms. Tombi Devi
8	2012	Yashpal Solanki

Kabaddi

S.No.	Year	Name
1	1994	Subbiah Rajaratnam
2	1995	P.Ganesan
3	1996	Raju Bhavsar
4	1998	Ashan Kumar
5	1998	Biswajit Palit
6	1998	Tirath Raj
7	1999	Balwinder Singh
8	2000	C. Honappa
9	2002	Ram Mehar Singh
10	2003	Sanjeev Kumar
11	2004	Sunder Singh
12	2005	Ramesh Kumar
13	2006	Naveen Gautam
14	2008	Pankaj Navnath Shrisat
15	2010	Dinesh Kumar
16	2011	Tejaswini Bai
17	2011	Rakesh Kumar
18	2012	Anup Kumar[1]
19	2014	Mamatha Poojary
20	2015	Manjeet Chillar
21	2015	Abhilasha Mhatre
22	2017	Jasvir Singh
23	2018	G.Pranav sai reddy
24	2019	Ajay Thakur

Lawn Tennis

Sania Mirza

Leander Paes

S.No.	Year	Name
1	1961	Ramanathan Krishnan
2	1962	Naresh Kumar
3	1966	Jaidip Mukerjea
4	1967	Premjit Lall
5	1974	Vijay Amritraj
6	1978–79	Nirupama Mankad
7	1980–81	Ramesh Krishnan
8	1985	Anand Amritraj
9	1990	Leander Paes
10	1995	Mahesh Bhupathi
11	1996	Gaurav Natekar
12	1997	Asif Ismail
13	2000	Akhtar Ali
14	2001	Sandeep Kirtane
15	2004	Sania Mirza
16	2011	Somdev Devvarman
17	2017	Saketh Myneni
18	2018	Rohan Bopanna

Mountaineering

S.No.	Year	Name
1	1965	Lt. Cdr. M.S. Kohli Shri Gurdial Singh Major Mulkh Raj Shri H.C. Rawat Capt. H. S. Ahulwalia Shri Nawang Gombu Capt. H. S. Cheema Shri Ang Kami Capt. A. K. Chakravarty Shri G. S. Bhangu Lt. B. N. Rana Major N. Kumar Shri C. P. Vohra Shri Sonam Gyatso Shri Soman Wangyal (Late) Capt. B. P. Singh Capt. J. C. Joshi Dr. C. V. Telang Capt. H.V. Bahuguna Hav. C. Balakrishnan
2	1981	Col. B.S. Sandhu Ms. C.P. Atwal Ms. H. Bisht Ms. R. Sharma
3	1984	Col. D. K. Khullar Ms. Bachendri Pal
4	1985	Shri Phu Dorjee

Source: Sports Authority of India. "Arjuna Awards". sportsauthorityofindia.nic.in.

Roller Skating

S.No.	Year	Name
1	2015	Anup Kumar Yama

SajiThomas

Rowing

S.No.	Year	Name
1	1981	Maj. Parveen Oberoy
2	1984	Capt. M.A. Naik
3	1991	Naib Subedar Dalvir Singh
4	1994	Major R.S. Bhanwala
5	1996	Surender Singh Waldia
6	1999	Jagjit Singh
7	2000	Surender Singh Kanwasi
8	2001	Kasam Khan
9	2002	Inderpal Singh
10	2004	Jenil Krishnan
11	2008	Bajrang lal Thakkar
12	2009	Satish Joshi
13	2014	Saji Thomas
14	2015	Sawarn Singh Virk

Polo

S.No.	Year	Name
1	1961	Shri. Prem Singh
2	1963	Lt Col. Kishen Singh
3	1964	Shri. Hanut Singh
4	1975	Major V. P. Singh
5	1983	Lt. Col. R. S. Sodhi
6	1987	Lt. Col. K.S. Garcha
7	2012	Samir Suhag
8	2018	Ravi Rathore
9	2019	Simran Singh Shergill

Shooting

‡ - Para Athlete

S.No.	Year	Name
1	1961	Karni Singh
2	1968	Rajyashree Kumari
3	1969	Bhuvaneshwari Kumari
4	1971	Bhim Singh
5	1972	Udyan Chinubhai
6	1978–79	Randhir Singh
7	1981	S. P. Chauhan
8	1983	Mohinder Lal
9	1983	Soma Dutta
10	1985	A. J. Pandit
11	1986	Bhagirath Samai
12	1993	Mansher Singh
13	1994	Jaspal Rana
14	1996	Moraad A. Khan
15	1997	Satendra Kumar
16	1997	Shilpi Singh
17	1997	Naresh Kumar Sharma ‡
18	1998	Manavjit Singh
19	1998	Roopa Unnikrishnan
20	1999	Vivek Singh
21	2000	Anjali Vedpathak Bhagwat
22	2000	Abhinav Bindra
23	2000	Gurbir Singh
24	2002	Anwer Sultan
25	2002	Suma Shirur
26	2002	Samaresh Jung
27	2003	Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
28	2004	Deepali A. Deshpande
29	2005	Gagan Narang
30	2006	Vijay Kumar
31	2008	Avneet Kaur Sidhu
32	2009	Ronjan Sodhi
33	2010	Sanjeev Rajput
34	2011	Tejaswini Sawant
35	2012	Annu Raj Singh
36	2012	Omkar Singh
37	2012	Joydeep Karmakar
38	2013	Rajkumari Rathore
39	2014	Heena Sidhu
40	2015	Jitu Rai
41	2016	Apurvi Chandela
42	2016	Gurpreet Singh
43	2017	PN Prakash
44	2018	Rahi sarnobat
45	2018	Ankur mittal
46	2018	Shreyasi singh
47	2019	Anjum Moudgil

Squash

1	1969	Anil Nayar
2	2006	Saurav Ghosal
3	2012	Dipika Pallikal
4	2013	Joshna Chinappa
5	2014	Anaka Alankamony

Swimming

‡ - Para Athlete

S.No.	Year	Name
1	1961	Jam. Bajarangi Prasad
2	1966	Rima Datta
3	1967	Arun Shaw
4	1969	Baidyanath Nath
5	1971	Bhanwar Singh
6	1973	D. (Tingoo) Khatau
7	1974	A.B. Sarang
8	1974	Manjari Bhargava (diving)
9	1975	M.S. Rana
10	1975	Smita Desai
11	1982	Persis Madan
12	1983	Anita Sood
13	1984	Khajan Singh
14	1988	Wilson Cherian
15	1990	Bula Choudhury
16	1996	Kutraleeswaran
17	1998	Bhanu Sachdeva
18	1999	Nisha Millet
19	2000	Sebastian Xavier
20	2000	J. Abhijith
21	2005	Shikha Tandon
22	2010	Rehan Poncha
23	2011	Virdhawal Khade
24	2011	Prasanta Karmakar ‡
25	2012	Sandeep Sejwal
26	2015	Sharath Gayakwad ‡

Table Tennis

S.No.	Year	Name
1	1961	J.C. Vohra
2	1965	G. R. Deewan
3	1966	U. Sundararaj
4	1967	F. R. Khodaiji
5	1969	Mir Kasim Ali
6	1970	G. Jagannath
7	1971	K. F. Khodaiji
8	1973	N. R. Bajaj
9	1976	Shailaja Salokhe
10	1979–80	Indu Puri
11	1980–81	Manjit Dua
12	1982	V. Chandrasekhar
13	1985	Kamlesh Mehta
14	1987	Monalisa Barua
15	1989	Niyati Shah
16	1990	M. S. Walia
17	1997	Chetan Baboor
18	1998	Subramaniam Raman
19	2002	Mantu Ghosh
20	2004	Achanta Sharath Kamal
21	2005	Soumyadeep Roy
22	2006	Subhajit Saha
23	2009	Poulomi Ghatak
24	2013	Mouma Das
25	2016	Soumyajit Ghosh
26	2017	Anthony Amalraj
27	2018	Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
28	2018	Manika Batra
29	2019	Harmeet Desai

Volleyball

S.No.	Year	Name
1	1961	A. Palanisamy
2	1962	Nripjit Singh
3	1972	Balwant Singh a.k.a. Ballu
4	1973	G.M. Reddy
5	1974	M.S. Rao
6	1975	Sub. Insp. R. Singh
7	1975	K.C. Elamma
8	1976	Jimmy George
9	1977–78	A. Ramana Rao
10	1978–79	Kutty Krishnan
11	1979	Riaz Ahmed
12	1979–80	S.K. Mishra
13	1982	G.E. Sridharan
14	1983	R.K. Purohit
15	1984	Saley Joseph
16	1986	Cyril C. Valloor
17	1989	Abdul Basith
18	1990	Dalel Singh Ror
19	1991	K. Udaya Kumar
20	1999	Sukhpal Singh
21	2000	P. V. Ramana
22	2001	Amir Singh
23	2002	Ravikant Reddy
24	2010	K. J. Kapil Dev
25	2011	Sanjay Kumar
26	2014	Tom Joseph

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Weightlifting

S.No.	Year	Name
1	1961	A.N. Ghosh
2	1962	L.K. Dass
3	1963	K.E. Rao
4	1965	B.S. Bhatia
5	1966	Mohan Lal Ghosh
6	1967	S. John Gabriel
7	1970	Arun Kumar Dass
8	1971	S.L. Salwan
9	1972	Anil Kumar Mandal
10	1974	S. Vellaiswamy
11	1975	Dalbir Singh
12	1976	K. Balamuruganandam
13	1977–78	M.Tamilselvan
14	1978–79	Ekambaram Karunakaran
15	1981	B.K. Satpathy
16	1982	Tara Singh
17	1983	Vispy K. Daroga
18	1985	Mehar Chand Bhaskar
19	1986	Jag Mohan Sapra
20	1987	G. Devan
21	1989	Jyotsna Dutta
22	1990	R. Chandra
23	1990	Kunjarani Devi
24	1991	Chhaya Adak
25	1993	Bharati Singh
26	1994	Karnam Malleswari
27	1997	Paramjit Sharma
28	1997	N. Laxmi
29	1998	Satheesha Rai
30	1999	Dalbir Deol
31	2000	Sanamacha Chanu Thingbaijam
32	2002	Thandava Murthy Muthu
33	2006	Geeta Rani
34	2011	Katulu Ravi Kumar[10]
35	2012	Ngangbam Soniya Chanu
36	2014	Renubala Chanu
37	2015	Sathish Sivalingam

Wrestling

S.No.	Year	Name
1	1961	Subedar Udey Chand
2	1962	Malwa
3	1963	G. Andalkar
4	1964	Bishamber Singh
5	1966	Bhim Singh Bhati
6	1967	Mukhtiar Singh
7	1969	Master Chandgi Ram (Indian style wrestling)
8	1970	Sudesh Kumar
9	1972	Prem Nath
10	1973	Jagroop Singh
11	1974	Satpal
12	1978–79	Rajinder Singh
13	1980–81	Jagminder Singh
14	1982	Kartar Singh
15	1985	Mahabir Singh
16	1987	Subhash Verma
17	1988	Rajesh Kumar
18	1989	Satywan
19	1990	Ombir Singh
20	1992	Pappu Yadav
21	1993	Ashok Kumar Garg
22	1997	Jagdish Bhola
23	1997	Sanjay Kumar
24	1998	Kaka Pawar
25	1998	Rohtas Singh Dahiya
26	1999	Ashok Kumar
27	2000	Randhir Singh
28	2000	Kripa Shakar Patel
29	2000	K.D. Jadhav (posthumously)
30	2000	Naresh Kumar
31	2002	Palwinder Singh Cheema
32	2002	Sujeet Mann
33	2003	Shokhinder Tomar
34	2004	Anuj Kumar
35	2005	Sushil Kumar
36	2006	Geetika Jakhar
37	2008	Alka Tomar
38	2009	Yogeshwar Dutt
39	2010	Rajiv Tomar
40	2011	Ravinder Singh
41	2012	Narsingh Yadav
42	2012	Rajinder Kumar
43	2012	Geeta Phogat
44	2013	Neha Rathi
45	2013	Dharmendra Dalal
46	2014	Sunil Kumar Rana
47	2015	Bajrang Punia
48	2015	Babita Kumari
49	2016	Vinesh Phogat
50	2016	Amit Kumar Saroha
51	2016	Amit Kumar Dahiya, Vinesh Phogat, Virender Singh[11]
52	2017	Satyawart Kadian
53	2018	Sumit Malik
54	2019	Pooja Dhanda

Wushu

S. No.	Year	Name
1	2011	W. Sandhyarani Devi
2	2012	M. Bimoljit Singh
3	2015	Yumnam Sanathoi Devi
4	2018	Pooja Kadian

Yachting

S.No,	Year	Name
1	1970	Lt. Cdr. S. J Contractor
2	1973	Afsar Hussain
3	1978–79	Cdr. S. K. Mongia
4	1981	Zarir Karanjia
5	1982	Farokh Tarapore
6	1982	Fali Unwalla
7	1982	Jeejee Unwalla
8	1986	Lt. Dhruv Bhandari
9	1987	C. S. Pradipak
10	1990	Pushpendra Kumar Garg
11	1993	Cdr. Homi Motiwala
12	1996	Lt. Cdr. Kelly Subbanand Rao (posthumously)
13	1999	Aashim Mongia
14	2001	Mahesh Ramachandran
15	2002	Nitin Mongia
15	2009	Girdhari Lal Yadav

Body Building

S. No.	Year	Name
1	2019	S Bhaskaran

Motorsports

S. No.	Year	Name
1	2019	Gaurav Gill

References

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External links

• The Arjuna Awardee in Polo
• List of Award winners up to 2004
• Winners for year 2006-2007
• Winners of 2012 Arjuna Award
• Winners of Arjuna Award 2013
• 2016 Winners