Arjuna Award The Arjuna Awards are given by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Arjuna Award Government of India to recognize outstanding achievement in sports. Started in 1961, the award carries a cash prize of ₹ 500,000, a bronze statue of Arjuna and a Civilian award for outstanding scroll.[1][2] individual achievements in National Sports Over the years the scope of the award has been expanded and a large number of sports persons 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] Sponsored by Govt. of India Contents Reward(s) ₹ 500,000 History First awarded 1961 Archery Last awarded 2017 Athletics Highlights Badminton Total awarded 700 Ball Badminton Website Official website Basketball Billiards & Snooker Boxing Carrom Chess Cricket Cycling Equestrian Football Golf Gymnastics Hockey Judo Kabaddi Lawn Tennis Mountaineering[10] Roller Skating Rowing Polo Shooting Squash Swimming Table Tennis Volleyball Weightlifting Wrestling Wushu Yachting References External links History 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 In mid-August 2011, 20 athletes were announced as Arjuna recipients; the high number due to the inclusion of both the 2010 Commonwealth Games and 2010 Asian Games in the Arjuna qualifying year.[4][5] In 2012, 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 Shyam Lal 3 1991 Limba Ram 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 2018 hemant Athletics ‡ - Para Athlete § - Lifetime Contribution Mercy Kuttan Reeth and Beedu 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 + Badminton ‡ - Para Athlete Prakash Padukone 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 Chetan Anand 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 ‡ Jwala Gutta 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 2011 Jwala Gutta 28 2012 Ashwini Ponnappa 29 2012 Parupalli Kashyap[1] 30 2013 P.V. Sindhu 31 2014 Valiyaveetil Diju 32 2015 Srikanth Kidambi 33 2018 Sikki reddy Parupalli Kashyap 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 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 Prashanti Singh receiving the Arjuna Award in 2017 from the President of 7 1973 S. K. Kottailaya India. 8 1974 A.K. kunj 9 1975 Hanuman Singh 10 1977-78 T. Selvaragavan 11 1979-80 Om Prakash 12 1982 Ajmer Singh 13 1983 Suman Sharma 14 1991 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 Billiards & Snooker 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 Pankaj Advani 2012 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 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 Mary Kom 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 2018 Satish Kumar Carrom S.No. Year Name 1 1996 A. Maria Irudayam Chess 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 Viswanathan Anand 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 Harika Dronavalli 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 Sachin Tendulkar 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 Sourav Ganguly 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 Rahul Dravid 31 1996 Javagal Srinath 32 1997 Ajay Jadeja 33 1997 Sourav Ganguly 34 1998 Rahul Dravid 35 1998 Nayan Mongia 36 2000 Venkatesh Prasad [8] 37 2001 VVS Laxman Virender Sehwag 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 Harbhajan Singh 50 2016 Ajinkya Rahane 51 2017 Cheteshwar Pujara 52 2017 Harmanpreet Kaur 53 2018 Smriti Mandhana Cycling S.No.1 Year;2018 Name [Bharat Bhambhu] 1 1975 Amar Singh 2 1978-79 Ms.