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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Arjuna Awardees in Carrom

No Year Recipient Name
1. 1996 A. Maria Irudayam

[edit] Arjuna Awardees in Cricket

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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

[edit] Arjuna Awardees in Cycling

No Year Recipient Name
1 1975 Amar Singh
2 1978-79 Ms. M. Mahapatra
3 1983 A.R. Arthna

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Arjuna Awardees in Billiards & Snooker

No Year Recipient Name
1 2002 Alok Kumar
2 2003 Pankaj Advani

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Arjuna Awardees in Golf

No Year Recipient Name
1 1999 Chiranjeev Milkha Singh
2 2002 Shiv Kapur
3 2004 Jyotinder Singh Randhawa

[edit] See also

Category:Arjuna Award recipients

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