The Sports Ministry announced the recipients of the Annual Sports Awards. Two Badminton players have been chosen for the highest honour, the Khel Ratna award, while 26 athletes will receive the Arjuna Award. Moreover, the ministry also approved five coaches for the regular Dronachaya award and three coaches for the life-time Dronachaya award.
The nominees for the awards were announced by a government committee on December 13th. The awards will be presented to the sportspersons and coaches on January 9th at Rashtrapati Bhavan by Droupadi Murmu, President of India.
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Here is the full list of awardees in all categories:
Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award for 2023
- Chirag Shetty (Badminton)
Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy (Badminton)
Arjuna Awards for 2023
Ojas Pravin Deotale (archery)
Aditi Gopichand Swami (archery)
Murali Sreeshankar (athletics)
Parul Chaudhary (athletics)
Mohameed Hussamuddin (boxing)
R Vaishali (chess)
Mohammed Shami (cricket)
Anush Agarwalla (equestrian)
Divyakriti Singh (equestrian dressage)
Diksha Dagar (golf)
Krishan Bahadur Pathak (hockey)
Sushila Chanu (hockey)
Pawan Kumar (kabaddi)
Ritu Negi (kabaddi)
Nasreen (kho-kho)
Pinki (lawn bowls)
Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar (shooting)
Esha Singh (shooting)
Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu (squash)
Ayhika Mukherjee (table tennis)
Sunil Kumar (wrestling)
Antim (wrestling)
Naorem Roshibina Devi (wushu)
Sheetal Devi (para archery)
Illuri Ajay Kumar Reddy (blind cricket)
Prachi Yadav (para canoeing)
Dronacharya Award (Regular Category)
Lalit Kumar (wrestling)
RB Ramesh (chess)
Mahaveer Prasad Saini (para athletics)
Shivendra Singh (hockey)
Ganesh Prabhakar Devrukhkar (mallakhamb)
Dronacharya Award (Lifetime Category)
Jaskirat Singh Grewal (golf)
Bhaskaran E (kabaddi)
Jayanta Kumar Pushilal (table tennis)
Dhyan Chand Award for Lifetime Achievement
Manjusha Kanwar (badminton)
Vineet Kumar Sharma (hockey)
Kavitha Selvaraj (kabaddi)
Editors pick
