Arjuna Award Recipients (1961 to 2024)

Information about Arjuna Award:

The Arjuna Award, instituted in 1961, is given by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India in recognition of outstanding achievement in sports. The first Rs 500,000 in this award. The prize money includes prize money of 15,000,000 from the year 2020, a bronze statue of Arjuna and a scroll. Over the years, the scope of the award has expanded and several athletes who belonged to the pre-Arjuna Award era were also included in the list.

In addition, the disciplines for which the award is Agiven have been increased to include indigenous sports and the physically challenged. The government revises the criteria for the Arjuna Award over the years. As per the revised guidelines, a player must not only have consistently excelled at the international level for the last four years, but also be recommended for excellence for that year.

List of all recipients of Arjuna Award from 1961 to 2023:

Year	Player Name
Athletics
1961	Gurbachan Singh Randhawa
1962	Tarlok Singh
1963	Steffi D'Souza
1964	Makhan Singh
1965	Kenneth Powell
1966	Ajmer Singh
1966	Bhogeshwar Barua
1967	Praveen Kumar
1967	Bhim Singh
1968	Joginder Singh
1968	Manjeet Walia
1969	Harnek Singh
1970	Mohinder Singh Gill
1971	Edward Sequeira
1972	Vijay Singh Chouhan
1973	Shriram Singh
1974	T. C. Yohannan
1974	Shivnath Singh
1975	Hari Chand
1975	V. Anasuya Bai
1976	Bahadur Singh
1976	Gita Zutshi
1977	Satish Kumar (athlete)
1978	Suresh Babu
1978	Angel Marie Joseph
1979	R. Gnanasekaran
1980	Gopal Saini
1981	Sabir Ali
1982	Charles Borromeo
1982	Chand Ram
1982	M. D. Valsamma
1983	Suresh Yadav
1983	P. T. Usha
1984	Raj Kumar
1984	Shiny Abraham
1985	Raghubir Singh Bal
1985	Asha Agarwal
1985	Adile Sumariwalla
1986	Suman Rawat
1987	Balwinder Singh
1987	Vandana Rao
1987	Garden Singh
1987	Vandana Shanbaug
1988	Ashwini Nachappa
1989	Daya Kuttan
1990	Dina Ram
1992	Bahadur Prasad
1993	K Saramma
1994	Rosa Kutty
1995	Shakti Singh
1995	Jyotirmay Sikdar
1995	Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla (Para athlete)
1995	K Kalegowda (para athlete)
1996	Ajit Bhaduria
1996	Padmini Thomas
1997	M. Mahadeva (Para athlete)
1997	Reeth Abraham
1998	Sirchand Ram
1998	Neelam Jaswant Singh
1998	S. D. Ishaan
1998	Rachita Mistry
1998	Paramjeet Singh
1999	Gulab Chand
1999	G. Venkataravanappa (para athlete)
1999	Gurmeet Kaur
1999	Pradyuman Singh
1999	Sunita Rani
2000	K. M. Beenmol
2000	Yadvendra Vashisht (Para athlete)
2000	Joginder Singh Bedi (lifetime contribution and para athlete)
2001	K.R. Shankar Iyer (para athlete)
2002	Anju Bobby George
2002	Saraswati Saha
2003	Soma Biswas
2003	Madhuri Saxena
2004	Anil Kumar
2004	J. J. Shobha
2004	Devendra Jhajharia (para athlete)
2005	Manjeet Kaur
2006	K M. Binu
2007	Chitra K. Soman
2009	Cinimol Polos
2010	Joseph Abraham (Athletics)
2010	Krishna Punia
2010	Jagseer Singh (Para athlete)
2011	Peeraja Sreedharan
2012	Sudha Singh
2012	Kavita Ramdas Raut
2012	Deepa Malik (para athlete)
2012	Ramkaran Singh (Para Athlete)
2013	Amit Kumar Saroha
2014	Chintu Luka
2015	M. R Poovamma
2016	Lalita Babar
2016	Sandeep Singh Mann
2017	Khushbir Kaur
2017	Arokia Rajeev
2017	Mariyappan Thangavelu (para athlete)
2017	Varun Bhati (para athlete)
2018	Jinson Johnson
2018	Hema Das
2018	Neeraj Chopra
2018	Ankur Dhama (Para athlete)
2019	Mohammad Anas Yahiya
2019	Tajinder Pal Singh
2019	Swapna Burman
2019	Sundar Singh Gurjar
2020	Dutee Chand
2020	Sandeep (Para Athletics)
2021	Arpinder Singh
2021	Yogesh Kathunia (Para Athletics)
2021	Nishad Kumar (Para Athletics)
2021	Praveen Kumar (Para Athletics)
2021	Sharad Kumar (Para Athletics)
2022	Seema Punia (Athletics)
2022	Eldhoj Paul (Athletics)
2022	Avinash Mukund Sable (Athletics)
2023	M Sreeshankar (Athletics)
2023	Parul Chaudhary (Athletics)
Archery
1981	Krishna Das
1989	Harish Nangunuri
1991	Baba Shravan Kishore
1992	Sanjeev Kumar Singh
2005	Tarundeep Rai
2005	Dola Banerjee
2006	Jayant Talukdar
2009	Mangal Singh Champia
2011	Rahul Banerjee
2012	Deepika Kumari
2012	Laishram Bombayla Devi
2013	Chekrovolu Swuro
2014	Abhishek Verma
2015	Sandeep Kumar
2016	Rajat Chauhan
2017	V. J. Surekha
2020	Atanu Das
2021	Harvinder Singh (Para Archery)
2022	Harvinder Singh (Archery)
2023	Ojas Praveen Devtale
2023	Aditi Swami
2023	Sheetal Devi (Para Archery)
Badminton
1961	Nandu Natekar
1962	Meena Shah
1965	Dinesh Khanna
1967	Suresh Goel
1969	Dipu Ghosh
1970	Damayanti Tambe
1971	Shobha Murthy
1972	Prakash Padukone
1974	Raman Ghosh
1975	Davinder Ahuja
1976	Ami Ghia
1977	Kanwal Thakur Singh
1980	Syed Modi
1982	Partho Ganguly
1982	Madhumita Bisht
1991	Rajiv Bagga
2000	Pullela Gopichand
1999	George Thomas
2002	Ramesh Tikaram (para athlete)
2003	Madasu Srinivasa Rao (para athlete)
2004	Abhin Shyam Gupta
2005	Aparna Popat
2006	Chetan Anand
2006	Rohit Bhaker (para athlete)
2008	Anoop Sridhar
2009	Saina Nehwal
2009	Parul Parmar (para athlete)
2011	Jwala Gutta
2012	Ashwini Ponnappa
2012	Parupalli Kashyap
2013	P.V. Indus
2014	Valiyaveettil Diju
2015	Srikanth Kidambi
2018	Sikki Reddy
2019	B. Sai Praneeth
2019	Pramod Bhagat (para athlete)
2020	Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy
2020	Chirag Chandrasekhar Shetty
2021	Suhash Yathiraj (Para Badminton)
2022	Lakshya Sen (Badminton)
2022	HS Prannoy (Badminton)
2022	Mansi Girishchandra Joshi (Para Badminton)
2022	Tarun Dhillon (Para Badminton)
2022	Swapnil Sanjay Patil (Para Badminton)
2022	Jarlin Anika (Deaf Badminton)
Ball badminton
1970	J. Pichya
1972	J. Srinivasan
1973	A. Kareem
1975	L.A. Iqbal
1976	Sam Christudas
1984	D. Rajaraman
Basketball
1961	Sarabjeet Singh
1967	Khushi Ram
1968	Gurdayal Singh
1969	Havaldar Hari Dutt
1970	Ghulam Abbas Montsir
1971	Man Mohan Singh
1973	S. K. Kottalay
1974	A.K. beam
1975	Hanuman Singh
1977	T. Selvaragavan
1979	Om Prakash
1982	Ajmer Singh
1983	Suman Sharma
1982	Radheshyam
1991	S. Sharma
1999	Sajjan Singh Cheema
2001	Parminder Singh
2003	Satya (game)
2014	Gethu Anna Jose
2017	Prashanti Singh
2020	Special Bhriguvanshi
Billiards and Snooker
1963	Wilson Jones
1973	Michael Ferreira
1983	Subhash Agrawal
1986	Geet Sethi
1997	Ashoka Shandilya
2002	Alok Kumar
2003	Pankaj Advani
2005	Anuja Prakash Thakur
2009	R Umadevi Nagraj
2012	Aditya S. Mehta
2013	Rupesh Shah
2016	Saurav Kothari
Boxing
1961	L. Buddy D'Souza
1962	Sgt. P. Baddur Mal
1966	Hawa Singh
1968	Sgt. Dennis Swamy
1971	Havaldar Muniswamy Venu
1972	Havildar Chandra Narayan
1973	Havildar Mehtab Singh
1977	B. s. Thapa
1978	C. C. Machaya
1979	B. Leo
1980	Issac Amaldas
1981	Sgt. K. Manoharan
1982	Sgt. Kaur Singh
1983	Jas Lal Pradhan
1986	Jai Pal Singh
1987	Seva Jayaram
1989	Gopal Devang
1991	Dharmendra Singh Yadav
1992	Rajendra Prasad
1993	Manoj Pingle
1993	Mukund Killekar
1995	V. Devarajan
1996	Raj Kumar Sangwan
1998	Dingko Singh
1999	Gurcharan Singh
1999	Jitendra Kumar
2002	Mohammed Ali Qamar
2003	Mary Kom
2005	Akhil Kumar
2006	Vijendra Singh
2008	Gergis Johnson
2009	Laishram Sarita Devi
2010	Dinesh Kumar
2011	Suranjay Singh
2012	Vikas Krishnan
2013	Kavita Chahal
2014	Manoj Kumar
2015	Mandeep Jangra
2016	Shiv Thapa
2017	Devendro Laishram
2019	Sonia Lather
2020	Subedar Manish Kaushik
2020	Lovlina Borgohain
2021	Simranjit Kaur
2022	Amit
2022	Nikhat Zareen
2023	Mohammad Hussamuddin
Carrom
1996	A. Maria Irudam
Chess
1961	Manuel Aaron
1980	Rohini Khadilkar
1983	Dibyendu Baruah
1984	Pravin Thipsay
1985	Viswanathan Anand
1987	D. V. Prasad
1987	Bhagyashree Thipsay
1990	Anupama Gokhale
2000	Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi
2002	Krishnan Sasikiran
2003	Koneru Humpi
2005	Surya Shekhar Ganguly
2006	Pentala Harikrishna
2008	Dronavalli Harika
2009	Tania Sachdev
2010	Marjan Negi
2013	Abhijeet Gupta
2022	Bhakti Pradeep Kulkarni
2022	Pragnanandha
2023	R Vaishali
Cricket
1961	Salim Durani
1964	Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
1965	Vijay Manjrekar
1966	Chandu Borde
1967	Ajit Wadekar
1968	EAS Prasanna
1969	Bishan Singh Bedi
1970	Dilip Sardesai
1971	Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan
1972	Eknath Solkar
1972	B. s. Chandrasekhar
1974	Anjan Bhattacharjee
1975	Sunil Gavaskar
1976	Shanta Rangaswamy
1977	Gundappa Vishwanath
1979	Kapil Dev Nikhanj
1980	Chetan Chauhan
1980	Syed Kirmani
1981	Dilip Vengsarkar
1982	Mohinder Amarnath
1983	Diana Edulji
1984	Ravi Shastri
1985	Shubhangi Kulkarni
1986	Mohammed Azharuddin
1986	Sandhya Aggarwal
1989	Madan Lal
1993	Manoj Prabhakar
1993	Kiran More
1994	Sachin Tendulkar
1995	Anil Kumble
1996	Javagal Srinath
1997	Ajay Jadeja
1997	Sourav Ganguly
1998	Rahul Dravid
1998	Nayan Mongia
2000	Venkatesh Prasad
2001	K V V S Laxman
2002	Virender Sehwag
2003	Harbhajan Singh
2003	Mithali Raj
2005	Anju Jain
2006	Anjum Chopra
2009	Gautam Gambhir
2010	Jhulan Goswami
2011	Zaheer Khan
2012	Yuvraj Singh
2013	Virat Kohli
2014	Ravichandran Ashwin
2015	Rohit Sharma
2016	Ajinkya Rahane
2017	Cheteshwar Pujara
2017	Harmanpreet Kaur
2018	Smriti Mandhana
2019	Poonam Yadav
2019	Ravindra Jadeja
2019	Ishant Sharma
2019	Deepti Sharma
2021	Shikhar Dhawan
2023	Mohammad Shami
2023	Iluri Ajay Kumar Reddy (Blind Cricket)
Cycling
1975	Amar Singh
1978	M. Mohapatra
1983	A.R. Meaning
Horsemen
1973	Dafadar Khan M
1976	Lt Col H.S. Sodhi
1982	Major. R. Singh Brar
1982	Raghubir Singh
1984	Captain G. Mo. mine
1987	Major J.S. Ahluwalia
1991	Captain Adhiraj Singh
2003	Captain Rajesh Pattu
2004	Major Deep Kumar Ahlawat
2019	Fouad Mirza
2020	Sawant Ajay Anant
2023	Anush Agarwal
2023	Divyakriti Singh (equestrian dressage)
Football
1961	P. K. Banerjee
1962	Tulsidas Balram
1963	Chunni Goswami
1964	Jarnail Singh
1965	Arun Lal Ghosh
1966	Yusuf Khan
1967	Peter Thangaraj
1969	Inder Singh
1970	Syed Naeemuddin
1971	C. P. Singh
1973	Magan Singh
1978	Gurdev Singh Gill
1979	Prasoon Banerjee
1980	Mohammed Habib
1981	Sudhir Karmakar
1983	Shanti Mullick
1989	Subrata Bhattacharya
1997	Brahmanand Sankhwalkar
1998	Baichung Bhutia
2002	Bruno Coutinho
2003	I. M. Vijayan
2010	Deepak Kumar Mondal
2011	Sunil Chhetri
2016	Subrata Paul
2017	Oinam Bembem Devi
2019	Gurpreet Singh Sandhu
2020	message jhingan
Golf
1961	P. G. Sethi
1963	Ashok Malik
1967	Raj Kumar Pitambar
1972	Anjali Ann Desai
1973	Vikramjeet Singh
1977	Sita Rawli
1982	Laxman Singh
1987	Nonita lol
1991	Ali Sher
1999	Jeev Milkha Singh
2002	Shiv Kapoor
2004	Jyoti Randhawa
2007	Arjun Atwal
2013	Gagan Jeet Bhullar
2014	Anirban Lahiri
2017	Shiv Chaurasia
2018	Shubhankar Sharma
2020	Aditi Ashok
2023	Diksha Dagar
Gymnastics
1961	Shyam Lal
1975	Montu Debnath
1985	S. Sharma
1989	Kripali Patel
2000	Kalpana Debnath
2011	Ashish Kumar
2015	Deepa Karmakar
Hockey
1961	Prithvipal Singh
1961	Ann Lumsden
1963	Charanjit Singh
1964	S. Laxman
1965	Udham Singh
1965	E. Britto
1966	John Peter
1966	Sunita Puri
1966	Gurbakhsh Singh
1967	Harbinder Singh
1967	Mohinder Lal
1968	Balbir Singh Kular
1970	Ajit Pal Singh
1971	P. Krishnamurthy
1972	Michael Kindo
1973	M. P. Ganesh
1973	O. Mascarenhas
1974	Ashok Kumar
1974	A. Kaur
1975	B. P. Govinda
1975	Rupa Saini
1977	Captain Harcharan Singh
1977	Leslie Fernandez
1979	Vasudevan Baskaran
1979	R. B. shaved
1980	Mohammed Shahid
1980	Eliza Nelson
1981	Varsha Soni
1983	Zafar Iqbal
1984	Rajbir Kaur
1984	S Mane
1985	Prem Maya Sonir
1985	Manyapanda Muthana Somaya
1986	J.M. Carvalho
1988	M. P. Singh
1989	Pargat Singh
1990	Jagbir Singh
1992	Mervin Fernandes
1994	Jude Felix Substan
1995	Dhanraj Pillai
1995	Mukesh Kumar
1996	A. B. Subbaiah
1996	Ashish Ballal
1997	Hardik Singh
1997	Surinder Singh Sodhi
1997	Rajinder Singh
1998	Surjit Singh Randhawa
1998	Pritam Rani Siwach
1998	Baljeet Singh Dhillon
1998	S. Omana Kumari
1998	Mohammad Riaz
1998	Baldev Singh
1998	Maharaj Krishna Kaushik
1999	Balbir Singh Kullar
1998	Haripal Kaushik
1998	Ramandeep Singh
1998	Victor Phillips
2000	Baljit Singh Saini
2000	Tingonlima Chanu
2000	Raghbir Singh Bhola
2000	Balkishan Singh
2000	Jalaluddin Rizvi
2000	Madhu Yadav
2002	Dilip Tirkey
2002	Gagan Ajit Singh
2002	Mamta Kharab
2003	Devesh Chauhan
2003	Suraj Lata Devi
2004	Deepak Thakur
2004	Innocent Helen Marie
2005	Viren Rasquinha
2006	Jyoti Sunita Kullu
2008	Prabhjot Singh
2009	Surinder Kaur
2009	Ignace Tirkey
2010	Jasjit Kaur Handa
2010	Sandeep Singh
2011	Rajpal Singh
2012	Sardar Singh
2013	Saba Anjum Kareem
2015	P. R. Sreejesh
2016	V. R. Raghunath
2016	Ritu Rani
2017	S. V. Sunil
2018	Savita Punia
2018	Manpreet Singh
2019	Chinglensana Singh
2020	Deepika
2020	Akashdeep Singh
2021	Monica
2021	Vandana Kataria
2021	Dilpreet Singh
2021	Harmanpreet Singh
2021	Rupinder Pal Singh
2021	Surendra Kumar
2021	Amit Rohidas
2021	Birendra Lakra
2021	Sumit
2021	Neelkant Sharma
2021	Hardik Singh
2021	Vivek Sagar Prasad
2021	Gurjant Singh
2021	Mandeep Singh
2021	Shamsher Singh
2021	Lalit Kumar Upadhyay
2021	Varun Kumar
2021	Simranjeet Singh
2022	Deep Grace Ekka
2023	Krishna Bahadur Pathak
2023	Pukhrambam Sushila Chanu
Kabaddi
1994	Subbaiah Rajaratnam
1995	P. Ganesan
1996	Raju Bhavsar
1998	Ashan Kumar
1998	Biswajeet Palit
1998	Teerath Raj
1999	Balwinder Singh
2000	C. Hanappa
2002	Ram Mehar Singh
2003	Sanjeev Kumar
2004	Sundar Singh
2005	Ramesh Kumar
2006	Naveen Gautam
2008	Pankaj Navnath Shrimat
2010	Dinesh Kumar
2011	Tejaswini Bai
2011	Rakesh Kumar
2012	Anoop Kumar
2014	Mamta Pujari
2015	Manjeet Chhillar
2015	Abhilasha Mhatre
2017	Jasveer Singh
2018	Pranava Sai Reddy
2019	Ajay Thakur
2020	Deepak Hooda
2021	Sandeep Narwal
2022	Sakshi Kumari
2023	Pawan Kumar
2023	Ritu Negi
lawn tennis
1961	Ramanathan Krishnan
1962	Naresh Kumar
1966	Jaideep Mukherjee
1967	Premjit Lal
1974	Vijay Amritraj
1978	Nirupama Mankad
1980	Ramesh Krishnan
1985	Anand Amritraj
1990	Leander Paes
1995	Mahesh Bhupathi
1996	Gaurav Natekar
1997	Asif Ismail
2000	Akhtar Ali
2001	Sandeep Kirtan
2004	Sania Mirza
2011	Somdev Devvarman
2017	Saket Myneni
2018	Rohan Bopanna
2020	Divij Sharan
2021	Ankita Raina
2021	Bhavna Patel (Para Table Tennis)
2022	Nayan Moni Saikia (Lawn Bowl)
Roller skating
2015	Anoop Kumar Yama
Rowing
1981	Major Parveen Oberoi
1984	Captain M.A. Nike
1991	Naib Subedar Dalveer Singh
1994	Major R.S. built
1996	Surender Singh Waldia
1999	Jagjit Singh
2000	Surender Singh Kanwasi
2001	Kasam Khan
2002	Inderpal Singh
2004	Jenil Krishnan
2008	Bajrang Lal Thakkar
2009	Satish Joshi
2014	Saji Thomas
2015	Savarn Singh Virk
2020	Dattu Baban Bhokanal
Shooting
1961	Karni Singh
1968	Rajyashree Kumari
1969	Bhuvaneshwari Kumari
1971	Bhim Singh
1972	Udayan Chinubhai
1978	Randhir Singh
1981	S. P. Chauhan
1983	Mohinder Lal
1983	Soma Dutta
1985	A. J. Pandit
1986	Bhagirath Samai
1993	Mansher Singh
1994	Jaspal Rana
1996	Morad A. mine
1997	Satendra Kumar
1997	Shilpi Singh
1997	Naresh Kumar Sharma (Para athlete)
1998	Manavjeet Singh
1998	Roopa Unnikrishnan
1999	Vivek Singh
2000	Anjali Vedpathak Bhagwat
2000	Abhinav Bindra
2000	Gurbir Singh
2002	Anwar Sultan
2002	Suma Shirur
2002	Samaresh Jung
2003	Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
2004	Deepali A. Deshpande
2005	Gagan Narang
2006	Vijay Kumar
2008	Avneet Kaur Sidhu
2009	Ronjan Sodhi
2010	Sanjeev Rajput
2011	Tejaswini Sawant
2012	Annu Raj Singh
2012	Onkar Singh
2012	Joydeep Karmakar
2013	Princess Rathore
2014	Heena Sidhu
2015	Jitu Rai
2016	Apurvi Chandela
2016	Gurpreet Singh
2017	pn lighting
2018	Rahi Sarnobat
2018	Ankur Mittal
2018	Shreyasi Singh
2019	Anju Moudgil
2020	Manu Bhaker
2020	Saurabh Choudhary
2020	Manish Narwal (Para Shooting)
2021	Abhishek Verma
2021	Sinhraj Adhana (Para Shooting)
2022	Elavenil Valerivan (Shooting)
2022	Omprakash Mitharwal (Shooting)
2023	Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar
2023	Isha Singh
Squash
1969	Anil Nair
2006	Saurav Ghoshal
2012	Deepika Pallikal
2013	Joshna Chinappa
2014	Anaka Alankamony
2023	Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu
Swimming
1961	Bajrangi Prasad
1966	Reema Dutta
1967	Arun Shaw
1969	Baidyanath Nath
1971	Bhanwar Singh
1973	D. (Tingu) Khatu
1974	A.B. multicolored
1974	Manjari Bhargava (Diving)
1975	Ms. Rana
1975	Smita Desai
1982	Persis Madan
1983	Anita Sood
1984	Khajan Singh
1988	Wilson Cherian
1990	Tula Chowdhury
1996	Kutraleeswaran
1998	Bhanu Sachdeva
1999	Nisha Millet
2000	Sebastian Javier
2000	J. Abhijeet
2005	Shikha Tandon
2010	Rehan Poncha
2011	Veerdhawal Khade
2011	Prashant Karmakar (Para Athlete)
2012	Sandeep Sejwal
2015	Sharath Gaikwad (para athlete)
2020	Suyash Narayan Jadhav (para athlete)
Table tennis
1961	JC Vohra
1965	G. R. Diwan
1966	U. Sundarraj
1967	F. R. Khodaiji
1969	Mir Qasim Ali
1970	G. Jagannath
1971	K. F. Khodaiji
1973	N. R. Bajaj
1976	Shailaja Salokhe
1979	Indu Puri
1980	Manjeet Dua
1982	V. Chandrasekhar
1985	Kamlesh Mehta
1987	Monalisa Baruah
1989	Niyati Shah
1990	M. S. Walia
1997	Chetan Babar
1998	Subramaniam Raman
2002	Mantu Ghosh
2004	Achanta Sharath Kamal
2005	Soumyadeep Roy
2006	Subhajit Saha
2009	Polyomi ghatak
2013	Mouma Das
2016	Soumyajit Ghosh
2017	Anthony Amalraj
2018	Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
2018	Manika Batra
2019	Harmeet Desai
2020	Madhurika Suhas Patkar
2022	Sreeja Akula (Table Tennis)
2023	Ahika Mukherjee
Volleyball
1961	A. Palanisamy
1962	Nripjit Singh
1972	Balwant Singh A. K. Ballu
1973	G. M. Reddy
1974	M.S. Rao
1975	R. Leo
1975	K.C. elamma
1976	Jimmy George
1977	A. Ramana Rao
1978	Kutty Krishnan
1979	Riyaz Ahmed
1979	S.K. Mishra
1982	G.E. Sreedharan
1983	R.K. priest
1984	Saale Joseph
1986	Cyril C. Valor
1989	Abdul Basith
1990	Dalal Singh Roar
1991	K. Uday Kumar
1999	Sukhpal Singh
2000	P. V. Ramana
2001	Amir Singh
2002	Ravikant Reddy
2010	K. J. Kapil Dev
2011	Sanjay Kumar
2014	Kamlesh Khatle
Weightlifting
1961	A.N. Ghosh
1962	Lal Krishna Das
1963	K.E. Rao
1965	B. S. Bhatia
1966	Mohan Lal Ghosh
1967	S. John Gabriel
1970	Arun Kumar Das
1971	S.L. Salwan
1972	Anil Kumar Mandal
1974	S. Velaiswami
1975	Dalbir Singh
1976	K. Balamuruganandanam
1977	M. tamilselivan
1978	Ekambaram Karunakaran
1981	B.K. Satpathy
1982	Tara Singh
1983	Visp K. constable
1985	Mehar Chand Bhaskar
1986	Jag Mohan Sapra
1987	G. Devan
1989	Jyotsna Dutta
1990	R. Chandra
1990	Kunjarani Devi
1991	Chhaya Adak
1993	Bharti Singh
1994	Karnam Malleswari
1997	Paramjeet Sharma
1997	N. Lakshmi
1998	Satish Rai
1999	Dalbir Deol
2000	Sanamcha Chanu Thingbaigam
2002	Thandav Murthy Muthu
2006	Geeta Rani
2011	Katulu Ravi Kumar
2012	Nangabam Sonia Chanu
2014	Renubala Chanu
2015	Sathish Sivalingam
2022	Vikas Thaku
Wrestling
1961	Subedar Uday Chand
1962	Malwa
1963	G. Andalkar
1964	Bishamber Singh
1966	Bhim Singh Bhati
1967	Mukhtiar Singh
1969	Master Chandgi Ram (Indian style wrestling)
1970	Sudesh Kumar
1972	Prem Nath
1973	Jagroop Singh
1974	Satpal
1978	Rajinder Singh
1980	Jagminder Singh
1982	Kartar Singh
1985	Mahabir Singh
1987	Subhash Verma
1988	Rajesh Kumar
1989	True
1990	Ombir Singh
1992	Pappu Yadav
1993	Ashok Kumar
1997	Jagdish Bhola
1997	Sanjay Kumar
1998	Kaka Pawar
1998	Rohtas Singh Dahiya
1999	Ashok Kumar
2000	Randhir Singh
2000	Kripa Shekar Patel
2000	K.D. Jadhav (posthumously)
2000	Naresh Kumar
2002	Palwinder Singh Cheema
2002	Sujit Mann
2003	Shokhinder Tomar
2004	Anuj Kumar
2005	Sushil Kumar
2006	Geetika Jakhar
2008	Alka Tomar
2009	Yogeshwar Dutt
2010	Rajeev Tomar
2011	Ravindra Singh
2012	Narsingh Yadav
2012	Rajinder Kumar
2012	Geeta Phogat
2013	Neha Rathi
2013	Dharmendra Dalal
2014	Sunil Kumar Rana
2015	Bajrang Punia
2015	Babita Kumari
2016	Vinesh Phogat
2016	Amit Kumar Saroha
2016	Amit Kumar Dahiya, Vinesh Phogat, Virender Singh
2017	Satyavrat Kadian
2018	Sumit Malik
2019	Pooja Dhanda
2020	Divya Kakran
2020	Rahul Aware
2021	Deepak Poonia
2022	Anshu
2022	Sarita
2023	Sunil Kumar
2023	Antim panghal
Yachting
1970	Lt Cdr S.K. J. contractor
1973	Afsar Hussain
1978	Commander. S K Mongia
1981	Zarir Karanjia
1982	Farukh Tarapore
1982	Fali Unawala
1982	GG Anwala
1986	Lieutenant Dhruv Bhandari
1987	C. s. illuminator
1990	Pushpendra Kumar Garg
1993	Commander Homi Motiwala
1996	Lieutenant Commander Kelly Subbananda Rao (posthumously)
1999	Aashim Mongia
2001	Mahesh Ramachandran
2002	Nitin Mongia
2009	Girdhari Lal Yadav
Polo
1961	Prem Singh
1963	Lt. Col. Kishan Singh
1964	Hanut Singh
1975	Major V.P. Singh
1983	Lt. Col. RS Sodhi
1987	Lt Col K.S. Garcha
2012	Sameer Suhag
2018	Ravi Rathore
2019	Simran Singh Shergill
Body builder
2019	S. Bhaskaran
Motorsports
2019	Gaurav Singh Gill
Wushu (martial arts)
2011	W. Sandhirani Devi
2012	M. Bimoljit Singh
2015	Yunnam Santhoi Devi
2022	Parveen
2023	Naorem Roshibina Devi
Kho kho
2020	Kale Sarika Sudhakar
2023	Nasreen
Luge
2020	Shiva Keshavan
Fencing
2021	Chadalvada Anand Sundararaman Bhavani Devi
Mallakhamba
2021	Chadalvada Anand Sundararaman Bhavani Devi
2022	Sagar Kailash Ovalkar