Arjuna Award

The Arjuna Award is a prize given to athletes in India for outstanding athletic performance. The award, a bronze statue of the Mahabharata hero Arjuna with a certificate and prize money of 300,000 rupees , has been awarded by the Indian government since 1961.

Over the years, the awarding of the prizes has also been expanded to include athletes from the era before the Arjuna Award. The number of award-winning sports has also increased; Meanwhile, prizes for disabled athletes are also awarded. In order to earn this award, an athlete must not only have performed well in his sport at an international level for three years, he must also excel through fairness and discipline .

Since 2001 the prize has only been awarded in sports that are performed on the following occasions or that meet the following criteria:

• Olympic Games / Asian Games / Commonwealth Games / World Championship Disciplines and Cricket
• native games
• Disabled sports

Award winners

badminton No. year Surname 1 1961 Nandu M. Natekar 2 1962 Meena Shah 3 1965 Dinesh Khanna 4th 1967 Suresh Goel 5 1969 Dipu Ghosh 6th 1970 Damayanti Tambay 7th 1971 Shobha Moorthy 8th 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 modes 14th 1982 Partho Ganguli 15th 1982 Madhumita Bisht 16 1991 Rajeev Bagga 17th 2000 Pullela Gopichand 18th 1999 George Thomas 19th 2002 Ramesh Tikaram 20th 2003 Madasu Srinivas Rao 21st 2004 Abhinn Shyam Gupta 22nd 2005 Aparna Popat 23 2006 Chetan Anand 24 2006 Rohit Bhakar 25th 2008 Anup Sridhar 26th 2009 Saina Nehwal 27 2009 Parul Parmar 28 2011 Jwala Gutta 29 2012 Ashwini Ponnappa 30th 2012 Kashyap Parupalli 31 2013 PV Sindhu 32 2014 Valiyaveetil Diju 33 2015 K. Srikanth 34 2018 Siki Reddy 35 2019 Pramod Bhagat 36 2019 Sai Praneeth Bhamidipati Ball badminton No. year Surname 1 1970 J. Pitchyya 2 1972 J. Srinivasan 3 1973 A. Kareem 4th 1975 LA Iqbal 5 1976 A. Sam Christ Das 6th 1984 D. Rajaraman basketball No. year Surname 1 1961 Sarbjit Singh 2 1967 Khushi Ram 3 1968 Gurdial Singh 4th 1969 Hari Dutt 5 1970 Gulam Abbas Moontasir 6th 1971 Man Mohan Singh 7th 1973 Surendra Kumar Kataria 8th 1974 AK Punj 9 1975 Hanuman Singh 10 1977-78 T. Vijayaragavan 11 1979-80 Om Prakash 12 1982 Ajmer Singh 13 1991 Radhey Shyam 14th 1991 S. Sharma 15th 1999 Sajjan Singh Cheema 16 2001 Parminder Singh 17th 2003 Satya Billiards and snooker No. year Surname 1 1971 Michael Ferreira 2 1983 Subhash Agarwal 3 1986 Geet Sethi 4th 2002 Alok Kumar 5 2003 Pankaj Advani 6th 2005 Anuja Prakash Thakur 7th 2012 Aditya S. Mehta 8th 2013 Rupesh Shah Archery No. year Surname 1 1981 Krishna Das 2 1989 Shyam Lal 3 1991 Limba Ram 4th 1992 Sanjeeva Kumar Singh 5 2005 Tarundeep Rai 6th 2005 Dola Banerjee 7th 2006 Jayanta Talukdar 8th 2009 Mangal Singh Champia 9 2011 Rahul Banerjee 10 2012 Deepika Kumari 11 2012 Laishram Bombayla Devi 12 2013 Chekrovolu Swuro Boxing No. year Surname 1 1961 L. Buddy D'Souza 2 1962 P. Badadur Mal 3 1966 Hawa Singh 4th 1968 Dennis Swamy 5 1971 Muniswamy Venu 6th 1972 Chandranarayanan 7th 1973 Mehtab Singh 8th 1977-78 BS Thapa 9 1978-79 CC Machaiah 10 1979-80 B. Singh 11 1980-81 Issac Amaldas 12 1981 G. Manoharan 13 1982 Kaur Singh 14th 1983 Jas Lal Pradhan 15th 1986 Jai Pal Singh 16 1987 Seeva Jayaram 17th 1989 Gopal Dewang 18th 1991 DS Yadav 19th 1992 Rajender Prasad 20th 1993 Manoj Pingals 21st 1993 Mukund Killekar 22nd 1995 V. Devarajan 23 1996 Raj Kumar Sangwan 24 1998 NG Dingko Singh 25th 1999 Gurcharan Singh 26th 1999 Jitender Kumar 27 2002 Mohammed Ali Qamar 28 2003 Mangte Chungneijang Marykom 29 2005 Akhil Kumar 30th 2006 Vijender Kumar 31 2008 Verghese Johnson 32 2009 L. Sarita Devi 33 2010 Dinesh Kumar 34 2011 Suranjoy Singh 35 2012 Vikas Krishan Yadav 36 2013 Kavita Chahal Carrom No. year Surname 1. 1996 A. Maria Irudayam Cricket No. year Surname 1 1961 Salim Durani 2 1964 Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi 3 1965 Vijay Manjrekar 4th 1966 Chandu Borde 5 1967 Ajit Wadekar 6th 1968 EAS Prasanna 7th 1969 Bishan Singh Bedi 8th 1970 Dilip Sardesai 9 1971 Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan 10 1972 Eknath Solkar 11 1972 BS Chandrashekhar 12 1975 Sunil Gavaskar 13 1976 Shanta Rangaswamy 14th 1977-78 Gundappa Vishwanath 15th 1979-80 Kapil Dev Nikhanj 16 1980-81 Chetan Chauhan 17th 1980-81 Syed Kirmani 18th 1981 Dilip Vengsarkar 19th 1982 Mohinder Amarnath 20th 1983 Diana Edulji 21st 1984 Ravi Shastri 22nd 1985 Shubhangi Kulkarni 23 1986 Mohammad Azharuddin 24 1986 Sandhya Agarwal 25th 1989 Madan Lal 26th 1993 Manoj Prabhakar 27 1993 Kiran More 28 1994 Sachin Tendulkar 29 1995 Anil Kumble 30th 1996 Javagal Srinath 31 1997 Ajay Jadeja 32 1997 Sourav Ganguly 33 1998 Rahul Dravid 34 1998 Nayan Mongia 35 2000 Venkatesh Prasad 36 2001 VVS Laxman 37 2002 Virender Sehwag 38 2003 Harbhajan Singh 39 2003 Mithali Raj 40 2005 Anju Jain 41 2006 Anjum Chopra 42 2009 Gautam Gambhir 43 2010 Jhulan Goswami 44 2011 Zaheer Khan 45 2012 Yuvraj Singh 46 2013 Virat Kohli Soccer No. year Surname 1 1961 Pradip Kumar Banerjee 2 1962 Tulsidas Balaram 3 1963 Chuni Goswami 4th 1964 Jarnail Singh 5 1965 Arun Lal Ghosh 6th 1966 Yusuf Khan 7th 1967 Peter Thangaraj 8th 1969 Indian Singh 9 1970 Syed Naeemuddin 10 1971 CP Singh 11 1973 Magan Singh Rajvi 12 1978-79 Gurdev Singh Gill 13 1979-80 Prasun Banerjee 14th 1980-81 Mohammed Habib 15th 1981 Sudhir Karmakar 16 1983 Shanti Mullick 17th 1989 S. Bhattacharjee 18th 1997 Brahmanand Sankhwalkar 19th 1998 Baichung Bhutia 20th 2002 Bruno Coutinho 21st 2003 IM Vijayan 22nd 2010 Deepak Kumar Mondal 23 2011 Sunil Chhetri Weightlifting No. year Surname 1 1961 TO Ghosh 2 1962 LK That 3 1963 KE Rao 4th 1965 BS Bhatia 5 1966 Mohan Lal Ghosh 6th 1967 S. John Gabriel 7th 1970 Arun Kumar Dass 8th 1971 SL Salwan 9 1972 Anil Kumar Mandal 10 1974 S. Vellaiswamy 11 1975 Dalbir Singh 12 1976 K. Balamuruganandam 13 1977-78 MT Selvan 14th 1978-79 E. Karaunakaran 15th 1981 BK Satpathy 16 1982 Tara Singh 17th 1983 Vispy K. Daroga 18th 1985 Mehar Chand Bhaskar 19th 1986 Jag Mohan Sapra 20th 1987 G. Devan 21st 1989 Jyotsna Dutta 22nd 1990 R. Chandra 23 1990 N. Kunjarani 24 1991 Chhaya Adak 25th 1993 Bharati Singh 26th 1994 K. Malleswari 27 1997 Paramjit Sharma 28 1997 N. Laxmi 29 1998 Satheesha Rai 30th 1999 Dalbir Singh 31 2000 Sanamacha Chanu Thingbaijan 32 2002 Thandava Murthy Muthu 33 2006 Geeta Rani 34 2011 Katulu Ravi Kumar 35 2012 Ngangbam Soniya Chanu golf No. year Surname 1 1961 PG Sethi 2 1991 Ali Sher 3 1999 Chiranjeev Milkha Singh 4th 2002 Shiv Kapur 5 2004 Jyotinder Singh Randhawa 6th 2007 Arjun Atwal 7th 2013 Gagan Jeet Bhullar hockey No. year Surname 1 1961 Prithipal Singh 2 1961 Ann Lumsden 3 1963 Charanjit Singh 4th 1964 Shankar Laxman 5 1965 Udham Singh 6th 1965 E. Britto 7th 1966 VJ Peter 8th 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 14th 1971 P. Krishnamurthy 15th 1972 Michael Kindo 16 1973 MP Ganesh 17th 1973 O. Mascarenhas 18th 1974 Ashok Kumar 19th 1974 A. Kaur 20th 1975 BP Govinda 21st 1975 R. Saini 22nd 1977-78 Harcharan Singh 23 1977-78 LL Fernandes 24 1979-80 Vasudevan Baskaran 25th 1979-80 RB Mundphan 26th 1980-81 Mohammed Shahid 27 1980-81 Eliza Nelson 28 1981 Versha Soni 29 1983 Zafar Iqbal 30th 1984 Rajbir Kaur 31 1984 S. Maney 32 1985 Prem Maya Sonir 33 1985 MM Somaya 34 1986 JM Carvalho 35 1988 MP Singh 36 1989 Pargat Singh 37 1990 Jagbir Singh 38 1992 Mervyn Fernandes 39 1994 Jew Felix Sabastain 40 1995 Dhanraj Pillay 41 1995 Mukesh Kumar 42 1996 AB 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 BS 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 VJ Phillips 58 2000 Baljeet Singh Saini 59 2000 Tingonleima Chanu 60 2000 RS 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 Helen Mary 71 2005 Virus rasquinha 72 2006 Jyoti Sunita Kullu 73 2008 Prabhjot Singh 74 2009 Surinder Kaur 75 2009 Ignace Tirkey 76 2010 Jasjeet Kaur Handa 77 2011 Rajpal Singh 78 2012 Sardara Singh 79 2013 Saba Anjum Karim Judo No. year Surname 1 1992 Sandeep Byala 2 1993 Cawas Billimoria 3 1996 Poonam Chopra 4th 1998 Narender Singh 5 2003 Akram Shah 6th 2004 Angom Anita Chanu 7th 2007 Tombi Devi 8th 2012 Yashpal Solanki Kabaddi No. year Surname 1 1998 Ashan Kumar 2 1998 Biswajit Palit 3 1999 Balwinder Singh 4th 1999 Tirath Raj 5 2000 C. Homonappa 6th 2002 Ram Mehar Singh 7th 2003 Sanjeev Kumar 8th 2004 Sunder Singh 9 2005 Ramesh Kumar 10 2006 Naveen Gautam 11 2008 Pankaj Navnath Shrisat 12 2010 Dinesh 13 2011 Tejaswini Bai 14th 2011 Rakesh Kumar 15th 2012 Anup Kumar

athletics No. year Surname 1 1961 Gurbachan Singh Randhawa 2 1962 Tarlok Singh 3 1963 Stephie D'Souza 4th 1964 Makhan Singh 5 1965 Kenneth Powell 6th 1966 Ajmer Singh 7th 1966 BS Barua 8th 1967 Praveen Kumar 9 1967 Bhim Singh 10 1968 Joginder Singh 11 1968 Manjit Walia 12 1969 Harnek Singh 13 1970 Mohinder Singh Gill 14th 1971 Edward Sequeira 15th 1972 Vijay Singh Chauhan 16 1973 Sriram Singh 17th 1974 TC Yohannan 18th 1974 Shivnath Singh 19th 1975 Hari Chand 20th 1975 V. Anusuya Bai 21st 1976 Bahadur Singh Chouhan 22nd 1976 Geeta Zutshi 23 1977-78 Satish Kumar 24 1978-79 Suresh Babu 25th 1978-79 Angel Mary Joseph 26th 1979-80 R. Gyanasekaran 27 1980-81 Gopal Saini 28 1981 Sabir Ali 29 1982 Charles Borromeo 30th 1982 Chand Ram 31 1982 MD Valsamma 32 1983 Suresh Yadav 33 1983 PT Usha 34 1984 Raj Kumar 35 1984 Shiny Abraham 36 1985 Raghubir Singh Bal 37 1985 Asha Agarwal 38 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 SD 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 KM Beenamol 69 2000 Yadvendra Vashishta 70 2000 Joginder Singh Bedi 71 2001 KR 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 JJ Shobha 78 2004 Devendra Jhajharia 79 2005 Manjeet Kaur 80 2006 KM Binu 81 2007 Chitra K. Soman 82 2009 Sinimol Paulose 83 2010 Joseph Abraham 84 2010 Krishna Poonia 85 2010 Jagseer Singh 86 2011 Preeja Sreedharan 87 2012 Sudha Singh 88 2012 Kavita Ramdas Raut 89 2012 Deepa Mallick 90 2012 Ramkaran Singh 91 2013 Ranjith Maheshwari polo No. year Surname 1 2012 Samir Suhag Cycling No. year Surname 1 1975 Amar Singh 2 1978-1979 M. Mahapatra 3 1983 AR Arthna horse riding No. year Surname 1 1973 Dafadar Khan M. Khan 2 1976 HS Sodhi 3 1982 R. Singh Brar 4th 1982 Raghubir Singh 5 1984 G. Mohd. khan 6th 1987 JS Ahluwalia 7th 1991 Adhiraj Singh 8th 2003 Rajesh Pattu 9 2004 Deep Kumar Ahlawat Wrestling No. year Surname 1 1961 Udey Chand 2 1962 Malwa 3 1963 G. Andalkar 4th 1964 Bishamber Singh 5 1966 Bhim Singh 6th 1967 Mukhtiar Singh 7th 1969 Chandgi Ram (Indian Wrestling) 8th 1970 Sudesh Kumar 9 1972 Prem Nath 10 1973 Jagroop Singh 11 1974 Satpal 12 1978-79 Rajinder Singh 13 1980-81 Jagminder Singh 14th 1982 Kartar Singh 15th 1985 Mahabir Singh 16 1987 Subhash 17th 1988 Rajesh Kumar 18th 1989 Satywan 19th 1990 Ombir Singh 20th 1992 Pappu Yadav 21st 1993 Ashok Kumar 22nd 1997 Jagdish Singh 23 1997 Sanjay Kumar 24 1998 Kaka Pawar 25th 1998 Rohtas Singh Dahiya 26th 1999 Ashok Kumar Jr. 27 2000 Randhir Singh 28 2000 Kripa Shakar Patel 29 2000 KD Jadhav (posthumous) 30th 2000 Naresh Kumar 31 2002 Palwinder Singh Cheema 32 2002 Sujeet man 33 2003 Shokhinder Tomar 34 2004 Anuj Kumar 35 2005 Sushil Kumar 36 2006 Geetika Jakhar 37 2008 Alka Tomar 38 2009 Yogeshwar bun 39 2010 Rajiv Tomar 40 2011 Ravinder Singh 41 2012 Narsingh Yadav 42 2012 Rajinder Kumar 43 2012 Geeta Kumari Phogat rowing No. year Surname 1 1981 Parveen Oberoy 2 1984 MA Naik 3 1991 Dalvir Singh 4th 1994 RS Bhanwala 5 1996 Surender Singh Waldia 6th 1999 Jagjit Singh 7th 2000 Surender Singh Kanwasi 8th 2004 Jenil Krishnan 9 2008 Bajrang lal Thakkar 10 2009 Satish Joshi chess No. year Surname 1 1961 Manuel Aaron 2 1980-81 Rohini Khadilkar 3 1983 Dibyendu Barua 4th 1984 Praveen Thipsay 5 1985 Viswanathan Anand 6th 1987 DV Prasad 7th 1987 Bhagyashree Thipsay 8th 1990 Anupama Gokhale 9 2000 S. Vijayalakshmi 10 2002 K. Sasikiran 11 2003 K. Humpy 12 2005 Surya Shekhar Ganguly 13 2006 P. Harikrishna 14th 2008 D. Harika 15th 2009 Tania Sachdev 16 2010 Parimarjan Negi 17th 2013 Abhijeet Gupta shoot No. year Surname 1 1961 Karni Singh 2 1968 Rajyashree Kumari 3 1969 Bhuvaneshwari Kumari 4th 1971 Bhim Singh II 5 1972 Udyan Chinubhai 6th 1978-79 Randhir Singh 7th 1981 SP Chauhan 8th 1983 Mohinder Lal 9 1983 Soma Dutta 10 1985 AJ Pandit 11 1986 Bhagirath Samai 12 1993 Mansher Singh 13 1994 Jaspal Rana 14th 1996 Moraad A. Khan 15th 1997 Satendra Kumar 16 1997 Shilpi Singh 17th 1997 Naresh Kumar Sharma (PH) 18th 1998 Manavjit Singh 19th 1998 Roopa Unnikrishnan 20th 1999 Vivek Singh 21st 2000 Anjali Vedpathak Bhagwat 22nd 2000 Abhinav Bindra 23 2000 Gurbir Singh 24 2002 Anwer Sultan 25th 2002 Suma Shirur 26th 2003 Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore 27 2004 Deepali A. Deshpande 28 2005 Gagan Narang 29 2006 Vijay Kumar 30th 2008 Avneet Kaur Sidhu 31 2009 Ronjan Sodhi 32 2010 Sanjeev Rajput 33 2011 Tejaswini Sawant 34 2012 Annu Raj Singh 35 2012 Omkar Singh 36 2012 Joydeep Karmakar 37 2013 Rajkumari Rathore swim No. year Surname 1 1961 Jam. Bajarangi Prasad 2 1966 Rima Datta 3 1967 Arun Shaw 4th 1969 Baidyanath Nath 5 1971 Bhanwar Singh 6th 1973 D. Khatau 7th 1974 AB Sarang 8th 1974 Manjari Bhargava (diving) 9 1975 MS Rana 10 1975 Smita Desai 11 1982 Persis Madan 12 1983 Anita Sood 13 1984 Khajan Singh 14th 1988 Wilson Cherian 15th 1990 Bula Choudhury 16 1996 V. Kutraleeshwaran 17th 1998 Bhanu Sachdeva 18th 1999 Nisha Millet 19th 2000 Sebastian Xavier 20th 2000 J. Abhijith 21st 2005 Shikha Tandon 22nd 2010 Rehan Poncha 23 2011 Virdhawal Khade 24 2012 Sandeep Sejwal sailing No. year Surname 1 1970 SJ Contractor 2 1973 Afsar Hussain 3 1978-79 SK Mongia 4th 1981 Tsarir Karanjia 5 1982 Farokh Tarapore 6th 1982 Fali Unwalla 7th 1982 Jeeja Unwalla 8th 1986 Dhruv Bhandarii 9 1987 CS Pradipak 10 1990 PK Garg 11 1993 Homi Motiwala 12 1996 Kelly Subbanand Rao 13 1999 Aashim Mongia 14th 2002 Nitin Mongia 15th 2009 Girdhari Lal Yadav squash No. year Surname 1 2006 Saurav Ghosal 2 2012 Dipika Pallikal 3 2013 Joshana Chinappa tennis No. year Surname 1 1961 Ramanathan Krishnan 2 1962 Naresh Kumar 3 1966 Jaidip Mukerjea 4th 1967 Premjit Lall 5 1974 Vijay Amritraj 6th 1978-79 Nirupama Mankad 7th 1980-81 Ramesh Krishnan 8th 1985 Anand Amritraj 9 1990 Leander Paes 10 1995 Mahesh Bhupathi 11 1996 Gaurav Natekar 12 1997 Asif Ismail 13 2000 Akhtar Ali 14th 2004 Sania Mirza 15th 2011 Somdev Devvarman Table tennis No. year Surname 1 1961 JC Vohra 2 1965 GR Deewan 3 1966 U. Sundararaj 4th 1967 FR Khodaiji 5 1969 Me Kasim Ali 6th 1970 G. Jagannath 7th 1971 KF Khodaiji 8th 1973 NR Bajaj 9 1976 S. Shailja 10 1979-80 Indu Puri 11 1980-81 Manjit Dua 12 1982 V. Chandrasekhar 13 1985 Kamlesh Mehta 14th 1987 Monalisa Baruah Mehta 15th 1989 Niyati Shah 16 1990 MS Walia 17th 1997 Chetan Baboor 18th 1998 Subramaniam Raman 19th 2002 Mantu Ghosh 20th 2004 Achanta Sharath Kamal 21st 2005 Soumyadeep Roy 22nd 2006 Subhajit Saha 23 2009 Poulomi Ghatak do gymnastics No. year Surname 1 1961 Shyam Lal 2 1975 Montu Debnath 3 1985 S. Sharma 4th 1989 Krupali Patel 5 2000 Kalpna Debnath 6th 2011 Ashish Kumar volleyball No. year Surname 1 1961 A. Palanisamy 2 1962 Nripjit Singh 3 1972 Balwant Singh 4th 1973 GM Reddy 5 1974 MS Rao 6th 1975 Sub. Insp. R. Singh 7th 1975 KC Elamma 8th 1976 Jimmy George 9 1977-78 A. Ramana Rao 10 1978-79 Kutty Krishnan 11 1979-80 SK Mishra 12 1982 GE Sridharan 13 1983 RK Purohit 14th 1984 Saley Joseph 15th 1986 Cyril C. Valloor 16 1989 Abdul Basith 17th 1990 Dalel Singh Ror 18th 1991 K. Udaya Kumar 19th 1999 Sukhpal Singh 20th 2000 PV Ramana 21st 2001 Amir Singh 22nd 2002 Ravikant Reddy 23 2010 KJ Kapil Dev 24 2011 Sanjay Kumar Wushu No. year Surname 1 2012 M. Bimoljit Singh

See also

• Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
• Dronacharya Award

Web links

• List of Arjuna Award Winners ( Memento from December 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive )