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Arjuna Award Winners List - 2020-2013 Arjuna Award Winners List - 2020-2013 Arjuna Award Winners 2020 List Year Category Arjuna Awardees 2020 Archery Shri Atanu Das Athletics Ms Dutee Chand Badminton Shri Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy Badminton Shri Chirag Chandrasekhar Shetty Basketball Shri Vishesh Bhriguvanshi Boxing Subedar Manish Kaushik Boxing Ms Lovlina Borgohain Cricket Shri Ishant Sharma Cricket Ms Deepti Sharma Equestrian Shri Sawant Ajay Anant Football Shri Sandesh Jhingan Golf Ms Aditi Ashok Hockey Shri Akashdeep Singh Hockey Ms Deepika Hockey Shivendra Pratap Santosh Singh Kabaddi Shri Deepak Kho Kho Shri Kale Sarika Sudhakar Rowing Shri Dattu Baban Bhokanal Shooting Ms. Manu Bhaker Shooting Shri Saurabh Chaudhary Table Tennis Ms. Madhurika Suhas Patkar Tennis Shri Divij Sharan Winter Sports Shri Shiva Keshavan Wrestling Ms. Divya Kakran Wrestling Shri Rahul Aware Para Swimming Shri Suyash Narayan Jadhav Para Athletics Shri Sandeep Para Shooting Shri Manish Narwal Arjuna Award Winners 2019 List Year Category Names 2019 Athletics Sundar Singh Gurjar (Para Athlete) 2019 Athletics Swapna Barman 2019 Athletics Tajinder Pal Singh 2019 Athletics Mohammed Anas Yahiya 2019 Badminton Pramod Bhagat (Para Athlete) 2019 Badminton Bhamidipati Sai Praneeth 2019 Boxing Sonia Lather 2019 Cricket Ravindra Jadeja 2019 Cricket Poonam Yadav 2019 Equestrian Fouaad Mirza 2019 Football Gurpreet Singh Sandhu 2019 Hockey Chinglensana Kangujam 2019 Kabaddi Ajay Thakur 2019 Polo Simran Singh Shergill 2019 Shooting Anjum Moudgil 2019 Table Tennis Harmeet Desai 2019 Wrestling Pooja Dhanda Arjuna Award Winners List 2018 2018 Athletics Ankur Dhama (Para Athlete) 2018 Athletics Neeraj Chopra 2018 Athletics Hima Das 2018 Athletics Jinson Johnson 2018 Badminton Sikki Reddy 2018 Cricket Virat Kohli 2018 Golf Shubhankar Sharma 2018 Hockey Manpreet Singh 2018 Hockey Savita Punia 2018 Kabaddi G.Pranav sai reddy 2018 Lawn Tennis Rohan Bopanna 2018 Polo Ravi Rathore 2018 Shooting Shreyasi singh 2018 Shooting Ankur mittal 2018 Shooting Rahi sarnobat 2018 Table Tennis Manika Batra 2018 Table Tennis Sathiyan Gnanasekaran 2018 Wrestling Sumit Malik 2018 Wushu Pooja Kadian Arjuna Award Winners 2017 2017 Archery Vennam Jyothi Surekha 2017 Athletics Khushbir Kaur 2017 Athletics Arokia Rajiv 2017 Athletics Mariyappan Thangavelu (Para Athlete) 2017 Athletics Varun Bhati (Para Athlete) 2017 Basketball Prashanti Singh 2017 Boxing Laishram Debendro Singh 2017 Cricket Cheteshwar Pujara 2017 Cricket Harmanpreet Kaur 2017 Football Oinam Bembem Devi 2017 golf Shiv Shankar Prasad Chawrasia 2017 Hockey Somwarpet Vittalacharya Sunil 2017 Kabaddi Jasvir Singh 2017 Lawn Tennis Saketh Myneni 2017 Shooting Prakash Nanjappa 2017 Table Tennis Anthony Amalraj 2017 Wrestling Satyawart Kadian Arjuna Awardees 2016 List 2016 Archery Rajath Chauhan 2016 Athletics Lalita Shivaji Babar 2016 Billiards & Snooker Sourav Kothari 2016 Boxing Shiva Thapa 2016 Cricket Ajinkya Rahane Arjuna Awardees 2015 List 2015 Cricket Rohit Sharma 2015 Hockey Parattu Raveendran Sreejesh 2015 Kabaddi Manjeet Chhillar 2015 Shooting Jitu Rai 2015 Archery Naib Subedar Sandeep Kumar 2015 Athletics Machettira Raju Poovamma 2015 Badminton Kidambi Srikanth Nammalwar 2015 Boxing Mandeep Jangra 2015 Gymnastics Dipa Karmakar 2015 Kabaddi Abhilasha Shashikant Mhatre 2015 Rowing Sawarn Singh 2015 Weightlifting Sathish Kumar Sivalingam 2015 Wrestling Bajrang Kumar 2015 Wrestling Babita Kumari 2015 Wushu Yumnam Sanathoi Devi 2015 Swimming Sharath M. Gayakwad (Paralympic Swimming) 2015 RollerSkating Anup Kumar Yama Arjuna Award Winners LIst 2014 2014 Archery Abhishek Verma 2014 Basketball Geetu Anna Jose 2014 Badminton Valiyaveetil Diju 2014 Athletics Tintu Luka 2014 Cricket Ravichandran Ashwin 2014 Kabaddi Mamta Pujari 2014 Rowing Saji Thomas 2014 Shooting Heena Sidhu 2014 Weightlifting Renubala Chanu 2014 Wrestling Sunil Kumar Rana 2014 Volleyball Tom Joseph 2014 Squash Anaka Alankamony Arjuna Award Winners List 2013 2013 Archery Chekrovolu Swuro 2013 Athletics Ranjith Maheshwari (Athlete) 2013 Badminton Pusarla Venkata Sindhu 2013 Billiards & Snooker Rupesh Shah 2013 Boxing Kavita Chahal 2013 Chess Abhijeet Gupta 2013 Cricket Virat Kohli 2013 Golf Gaganjeet Bhullar 2013 Hockey Saba Anjum 2013 Shooting Rajkumari Rathore 2013 Squash Joshna Chinappa 2013 Wrestling Neha Rathi 2013 Wrestling Dharmender Dalal 2013 Athletics Amit Kumar Saroha .
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