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Arjuna Award

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Arjuna Award

Award Information

Type
Civilian

Category
Sports (Individual)

Instituted
1961

First Awarded
1961

Last Awarded
2006

Awarded by
Govt. of India

Award Rank

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna ← Arjuna Award → none

The Arjuna Awards were instituted in 1961 by the government of India to recognize outstanding achievement in National sports. The award carries a cash prize of Rs 300,000, a bronze statuette of Arjuna and a scroll. Arjuna awardees for 2007

Over the years the scope of the award has been expanded and a large number of sportspersons 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 has recently revised the scheme for the Arjuna Award. As per the revised guidelines, to be eligible for the Award, a sportsperson should not only have had good performance consistently for the previous three 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.

From 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

Contents

1 Arjuna Awardees in Archery
2 Arjuna Awardees in Athletics
3 Arjuna Awardees in Badminton
4 Arjuna Awardees in Basketball
5 Arjuna Awardees in Ball Badminton
6 Arjuna Awardees in Boxing
7 Arjuna Awardees in Carrom
8 Arjuna Awardees in Cricket
9 Arjuna Awardees in Cycling
10 Arjuna Awardees in Equestrian
11 Arjuna Awardees in Football
12 Arjuna Awardees in Gymnastics
13 Arjuna Awardees in Hockey
14 Arjuna Awardees in Judo
15 Arjuna Awardees in Lawn Tennis
16 Arjuna Awardees in Rowing
17 Arjuna Awardees in Shooting
18 Arjuna Awardees in Table Tennis
19 Arjuna Awardees in Swimming
20 Arjuna Awardees in Volleyball
21 Arjuna Awardees in Weightlifting
22 Arjuna Awardees in Wrestling
23 Arjuna Awardees in Yachting
24 Arjuna Awardees in Billiards & Snooker
25 Arjuna Awardees in Chess
26 Arjuna Awardees in Kabaddi
27 Arjuna Awardees in Golf
28 See also
29 External links

Arjuna Awardees in Archery

No
Year
Recipient Name

1
1981
Krishna Das

2
1989
Shyam Lal

3
1991
Limba Ram

4
1992
Sanjeev Kumar Singh

Arjuna Awardees in Athletics

No
Year
Recipient 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
B. S. Barua

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 Chouhan

22
1976
Geeta Zutshi

23
1978-79
Suresh Babu

24
1978-79
Angel Mary Joseph

25
1979-80
R. Gyanasekaran

26
1980-81
Gopal Saini

27
1981
Sabir Ali

28
1982
Charles Borromeo

29
1982
Chand Ram

30
1982
M. D. Valsamma

31
1983
Suresh Yadav

32
1983
P.T.Usha

33
1984
Raj Kumar

34
1984
Shiny Abraham

35
1985
Raghubir Singh Bal

36
1985
Asha Agarwal

37
1985
Adille Sumariwala

38
1986
Suman Rawat

39
1987
Balwinder Singh

40
1987
Vandana Rao

41
1987
Bagicha Singh

42
1987
Vandana Shanbagh

43
1988
Ashwini Nachappa

44
1989
Mercy Kuttan

45
1990
Deena Ram

46
1992
Bahadur Prasad

47
1993
K. Saramma

48
1994
Rosa Kutty

49
1995
Shakti Singh

50
1995
Jyotirmoyee Sikdar

51
1996
Ajit Bhaduria

52
1996
Padmini Thomas

53
1997
Reeth Abraham

54
1998
Sirichand Ram

55
1998
Neelam Jaswant Singh

56
1998
S. D. Eshan

57
1998
Rachita Mistry

58
1998
Paramjit Singh

59
1999
Gulab Chand

60
1999
Gurmit Kaur

61
1999
Parduman Singh

62
1999
Sunita Rani

63
2000
K. M. Beenamol

64
2000
Yadvendra Vashishta (PH)

65
2000
Vijay Bhalchandra Munishwar – Powerlifting (PH)

66
2000
Joginder Singh Bedi (PH) (For Life time Contribution)

67
2002
Anju Bobby George

68
2002
Saraswati Saha

69
2003
Soma Biswas

70
2003
Madhuri Saxena

71
2004
Anil Kumar

72
2004
J. J. Shobha

73
2004
Devendra Jhajharia (Physically Challenged)

Arjuna Awardees in Badminton

No
Year
Recipient Name

1
1961
Nandu Natekar

2
1962
Meena Shah

3
1965
Dinesh Khanna

4
1967
Suresh Goel

5
1969
Dipu Ghosh

6
1970
D. V. Tambay

7
1971
S. Moorthy

8
1972
Prakash Padukone

9
1974
Raman Ghosh

10
1975
Davinder Ahuja

11
1976
Ami Ghia

12
1977-78
Ms. K.T. Singh

13
1980-81
Syed Modi

14
1982
P. Ganguli

15
1982
Ms. M. Goswamy (nee Bisht)

16
1991
Rajeev Bagga

17
2000
Pullela Gopichand

18
1999
George Thomas

19
2003
Madasu Srinivas Rao (Physically Challenged)

20
2004
Abhinn Shyam Gupta

21
2006
Aparna Popat

22
2007
Chetan Anand

Arjuna Awardees in Basketball

No
Year
Recipient Name

1
1961
Sarbjit Singh

2
1967
Khushi Ram

3
1968
Naib Sub. Gurdial Singh

4
1969
Hav. Hari Dutt

5
1970
Gulam Abbas Moontasir

6
1971
Pilot Officer Man Mohan Singh

7
1973
S.K. Kataria

8
1974
A.K. Punj

9
1975
Hanuman Singh

10
1977-78
T. Vijayaraghawan

11
1979-80
Om Prakash

12
1982
Ajmer Singh

13
1991
Radhey Shyam

14
1991
Ms. S Sharma

15
1999
Sajjan Singh Cheema

Arjuna Awardees in Ball Badminton

No
Year
Recipient Name

1
1970
J. Pitchyya

2
1972
Ms. J. Srinivasan

3
1973
A. Kareem

4
1975
L.A. Iqbal

5
1976
A. Sam Christ Das

6
1984
D. Rajaraman

Arjuna Awardees in Boxing

No
Year
Recipient 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
D.S. Yadav

19
1992
Rajender Prasad

20
1993
Manoj Pingale

21
1993
Mukund Killekar

22
1995
V. Devarajan

23
1996
Raj Kumar Sangwan

24
1998
N.G. Dingko Singh

25
1999
Gurcharan Singh

26
1999
Jitender Kumar

27
2002
Md. Ali Qamar

28
2003
Ms. Mangte Chungneijang Marykom

Arjuna Awardees in Carrom

No
Year
Recipient Name

1.
1996
A. Maria Irudayam

Arjuna Awardees in Cricket

Sachin Tendulkar

No
Year
Recipient 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
1975
Sunil Gavaskar

13
1976
Shanta Rangaswamy

14
1977-78
Gundappa Vishwanath

15
1979-80
Kapil Dev Nikhanj

16
1980-81
Chetan Chauhan

17
1980-81
Syed Kirmani

18
1981
Dilip Vengsarkar

19
1982
Mohinder Amarnath

20
1983
Diana Edulji

21
1984
Ravi Shastri

22
1985
Shubhangi Kulkarni

23
1986
Mohammad Azharuddin

24
1986
Sandhya Agarwal

25
1989
Madan Lal

26
1993
Manoj Prabhakar

27
1993
Kiran More

28
1994
Sachin Tendulkar

29
1995
Anil Kumble

30
1996
Javagal Srinath

31
1997
Ajay Jadeja

32
1997
Sourav Ganguly

33
1998
Rahul Dravid

34
1998
Nayan Mongia

35
2000
B.K. Venkatesh Prasad

36
2002
Virender Sehwag

37
2003
Harbhajan Singh

38
2003
Ms. Mithali Raj

Arjuna Awardees in Cycling

No
Year
Recipient Name

1
1975
Amar Singh

2
1978-79
Ms. M. Mahapatra

3
1983
A.R. Arthna

Arjuna Awardees in Equestrian

No
Year
Recipient Name

1
1973
Dafadar Khan M. Khan

2
1976
Lt. Col. H.S. Sodhi

3
1982
Maj. R. Singh Brar

4
1982
Raghubir Singh (Equestrian)

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

Arjuna Awardees in Football

No
Year
Recipient Name

1
1961
P.K. Banerjee

2
1962
T. Balaram

3
1963
Chuni Goswami

4
1964
Jarnail Singh

5
1965
Arun Lal Ghosh

6
1966
Yusuf Khan

7
1967
Peter Thangaraj

8
1969
Inder Singh

9
1970
Syed Naeemuddin

10
1971
C.P. Singh

11
1973
Magan Singh Rajvi

12
1978-79
Gurdev Singh Gill

13
1979-80
Prasun Banerjee

14
1980-81
Mohammed Habib

15
1981
Sudhir Karmakar

16
1983
Shanti Mullick

17
1989
S. Bhattacharjee

18
1997
B. S. K. Shankhwalker

19
1998
Baichung Bhutia

20
2002
I. M. Vijayan

Arjuna Awardees in Gymnastics

No
Year
Recipient Name

1
1961
Shyam Lal

2
1975
Montu Debnath

3
1985
Ms. S. Sharma

4
1989
Ms. Krupali Patel

5
2000
Dr. (Ms.) Kalpna Debnath

Arjuna Awardees in Hockey

No
Year
Recipient Name

1
1961
Prithipal Singh

2
1961
Ms. N. Lumsden

3
1963
Charanjit Singh

4
1964
S. Laxman

5
1965
Udham Singh

6
1965
E. Britto

7
1966
V.J. 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
R. Saini

22
1977-78
Capt. Harcharan Singh

23
1977-78
L.L. Fernandes

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
Ms. Rajbir Kaur

31
1984
S. Maney

32
1985
Ms. P. Maya Sonir

33
1985
Panda Muthanna

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 Kumar Ballal

44
1997
Harmik Singh

45
1997
Surinder Singh Sodhi

46
1997
Rajinder Singh

47
1998
S. Surjit Singh

48
1998
Pritam Rani Siwach

49
1998
B.S. Dhillon

50
1998
Smt. S. Omana Kumari

51
1998
Mohammed Riaz

52
1998
Baldev Singh

53
1998
Maharaj Krishna Kaushik

54
1999
Balbir Singh Kullar

55
1998
Lt. Col. Haripal Kaushik

56
1998
Ramandeep Singh

57
1998
V.J. Phillips

58
2000
Baljeet Singh Saini

59
2000
Ms. Tingonleima Chanu

60
2000
Gp. Capt. R.S. Bhola

61
2000
Balkishan Singh

62
2000
Jalaluddin Rizvi

63
2000
Ms. Madhu Yadav

64
2002
Dilip Tirkey

65
2002
Gagan Ajit Singh

66
2002
Ms. Mamta Kharab

67
2003
Devesh Chauhan

68
2003
Ms. Suraj Lata Devi

69
2004
Deepak Thakur

70
2004
Ms. Innocent Helen Mary

Arjuna Awardees in Judo

No
Year
Recipient Name

1
1992
Sandeep Byala

2
1993
Cawas Billimoria

3
1996
Ms. Poonam Chopra

4
1998
Narender Singh

5
2003
Akram Shah

6
2004
Ms. Angom Anita Chanu

Arjuna Awardees in Lawn Tennis

No
Year
Recipient 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
2004
Sania Mirza

Arjuna Awardees in Rowing

No
Year
Recipient 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
2004
Jenil Krishnan

Arjuna Awardees in Shooting

No
Year
Recipient 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
1998
Manavjit Singh

18
1998
Roopa Unnikrishnan

19
1999
Vivek Singh

20
2000
Anjali Vedpathak Bhagwat

21
2000
Abhinav Bindra

22
2000
Gurbir Singh

23
2002
Anwer Sultan

24
2002
Suma Shirur

25
2003
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

26
2004
Deepali A. Deshpande

26
2006
Vijay Kumar

Arjuna Awardees in Table Tennis

No
Year
Recipient 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
S. Shailja

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
Sharath Kamal

Arjuna Awardees in Swimming

No
Year
Recipient 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
V. Kutraleeshwaran

17
1998
Bhanu Sachdeva

18
1999
Nisha Millet

19
2000
Sebastian Xavier

20
2000
J. Abhijith

Arjuna Awardees in Volleyball

No
Year
Recipient Name

1
1961
A. Palanisamy

2
1962
Nripjit Singh

3
1972
Balwant Singh “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. Raman Rao

10
1978-79
Kutty Krishan

11
1979-80
S.K. Mishra

12
1982
G.E. Sridharan

13
1983
R.K. Purohit

14
1984
Saley Joseph

15
1986
Cyril C. Vallor

16
1989
Abdul Basith

17
1990
Dalel Singh Ror

18
1991
K. Udaya Kumar

19
1999
Sukhpal Singh

20
2000
P.V. Ramana

21
2002
Ravikant Reddy

Arjuna Awardees in Weightlifting

No
Year
Recipient 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.T. Selvan

14
1978-79
E. Karaunakaran

15
1981
B.K. Satpathy

16
1982
Tara Singh

17
1983
Vispy K. Daroga

18
1985
M.C. Bhasker

19
1986
Jag Mohan Sapra

20
1987
G. Devan

21
1989
Jyotsna Dutta

22
1990
R. Chandra

23
1990
N. Kunjarani

24
1991
Chhaya Adak

25
1993
Bharati Singh

26
1994
K. Malleswari

27
1997
Paramjit Sharma

28
1997
N. Laxmi

29
1998
Satheesha Rai

30
1999
Dalbir Singh

31
2000
Sanamacha Chanu Thingbaijan

32
2002
Thandava Murthy Muthu

Arjuna Awardees in Wrestling

No
Year
Recipient Name

1
1961
Hav. Udey Chanf

2
1962
Malwa

3
1963
G. Andalkar

4
1964
Bishamber Singh

5
1966
Bhim Singh

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

17
1988
Rajesh Kumar

18
1989
Satywan

19
1990
Ombir Singh

20
1992
Pappu Yadav

21
1993
Ashok Kumar

22
1997
Jagdish Singh

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 (Posthomously)

30
2000
Naresh Kumar

31
2002
Palwinder Singh Cheema

32
2002
Sujeet Mann

33
2003
Shokhinder Tomar

34
2004
Anuj Kumar

Arjuna Awardees in Yachting

No
Year
Recipient 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
Jeeja Unwalla

8
1986
Lt. Dhruv Bhandari

9
1987
C.S. Pradipak

10
1990
P.K. Garg

11
1993
Cdr. Homi Motiwala

12
1996
Lt. Cdr. Kelly Subbanand Rao (Posthumously)

13
1999
Aashim Mongia

14
2002
Nitin Mongia

Arjuna Awardees in Billiards & Snooker

No
Year
Recipient Name

1
2002
Alok Kumar

2
2003
Pankaj Advani

Arjuna Awardees in Chess

No
Year
Recipient Name

1
1961
Manuel Aaron

2
1980-81
Rohini Khadilkar

3
1983
Dibyendu Barua

4
1984
Pravin Thipsay

5
1985
Vishwanathan 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

Arjuna Awardees in Kabaddi

No
Year
Recipient Name

1
1998
Ashan Kumar

2
1998
Biswajit Palit

3
1999
Balwinder Singh

4
1999
Tirath Raj

5
2000
C. Homonappa

6
2002
Ram Mehar Singh

7
2003
Sanjeev Kumar

8
2004
Sunder Singh

Arjuna Awardees in Golf

No
Year
Recipient Name

1
1999
Chiranjeev Milkha Singh

2
2002
Shiv Kapur

3
2004
Jyotinder Singh Randhawa

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