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National Sports Awards 2021 announced

  • Major Dhyan Chand KhelRatna Award 2021 will be given to 12 Sports persons
  • 35 Sports persons will receive Arjuna Awards for outstanding performance in Sports and Games 2021

Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports announced the National Sports Awards 2021 today. The awardees will receive their awards from the President of India at a specially organized function at the Darbar Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan on 13th November, 2021(Saturday) at 1630 hrs.National Sports Awards are given every year to recognize and reward excellence in sports.

‘Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award’ is given for the spectacular and most outstanding performance in the field of sports by a sportsperson over a period of previous four years.

‘Arjuna Award for outstanding performance in Sports and Games’ is given for good performance over a period of previous four years and showing qualities of leadership, sportsmanship and a sense of discipline.

‘Dronacharya Award for outstanding coaches in Sports and Games’ is given to coaches for doing outstanding and meritorious work on a consistent basis and enabling sportspersons to excel in International events.

‘Dhyan Chand Award for Lifetime achievement in Sports and Games’ is given to honour sportspersons who have contributed to sports by their performance and continue to contribute to promotion of sports event after their retirement.

‘Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar’ is given to corporate entities (both in private and public sector), sports control boards, NGOs including sports bodies at theState and National level who have played a visible role in the area of sports promotion and development.

Overall top performing university in inter-university tournaments is given Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy.

A large number of nominations were received for these awards this year, which were considered by the Selection Committee headed by Justice (Retd.) Mukundakam Sharma (former Judge of Supreme Court), consisting members from eminent sportspersons and persons having experience in sports journalism & sports administrator etc.

Based on the recommendations of the Committee and after due scrutiny, the Government has decided to confer awards upon the following sportspersons, coaches and entities:

  1. Major Dhyan Chand KhelRatna Award 2021

S. No.Name of the SportspersonDiscipline
1.Neeraj ChopraAthletics
2.Ravi KumarWrestling
3.LovlinaBorgohainBoxing
4.Sreejesh P.RHockey
5.AvaniLekharaPara Shooting
6.SumitAntilPara Athletics
7.PramodBhagatPara Badminton
8.Krishna NagarPara Badminton
9.Manish NarwalPara Shooting
10.Mithali RajCricket
11.Sunil ChhetriFootball
12.Manpreet SinghHockey

(ii)        Arjuna Awards for outstanding performance in Sports and Games 2021

S. No.Name of the SportspersonDiscipline
Arpinder SinghAthletics
SimranjitKaurBoxing
ShikharDhawanCricket
Bhavani Devi Chadalavada Anandha SundhararamanFencing
MonikaHockey
VandanaKatariyaHockey
SandeepNarwalKabaddi
HimaniUttamParabMallakhamb
AbhishekVermaShooting
AnkitaRainaTennis
Deepak PuniaWrestling
Dilpreet SinghHockey
Harman Preet SinghHockey
Rupinder Pal SinghHockey
Surender KumarHockey
AmitRohidasHockey
BirendraLakraHockey
SumitHockey
Nilakanta SharmaHockey
Hardik SinghHockey
VivekSagar PrasadHockey
Gurjant SinghHockey
Mandeep SinghHockey
Shamsher SinghHockey
Lalit Kumar UpadhyayHockey
Varun KumarHockey
Simranjeet SinghHockey
YogeshKathuniyaPara Athletics
Nishad KumarPara Athletics
Praveen KumarPara Athletics
SuhashYathirajPara Badminton
SinghrajAdhanaPara Shooting
Bhavina PatelPara Table Tennis
Harvinder SinghPara Archery
Sharad KumarPara Athletics

(iii)       Dronacharya Award for outstanding coaches in Sports and Games 2021

  1. Life-Time Category:
S. No.Name of the CoachDiscipline
T. P. OusephAthletics
SarkarTalwarCricket
Sarpal SinghHockey
Ashan KumarKabaddi
Tapan Kumar PanigrahiSwimming

  1. Regular Category:
S. No.Name of the CoachDiscipline
Radhakrishnan Nair PAthletics
SandhyaGurungBoxing
PritamSiwachHockey
Jai PrakashNautiyalPara Shooting
Subramanian RamanTable Tennis

 (iv)      Dhyan Chand Award for Lifetime achievement in Sports and Games 2021

S.No.NameDiscipline
Lekha K.C.Boxing
AbhijeetKunteChess
Davinder Singh GarchaHockey
Vikas KumarKabaddi
Sajjan SinghWrestling

(vi) Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar 2021

S. No.CategoryEntity recommended for RashtriyaKhelProtsahanPuraskar, 2021
1.Identification and Nurturing of Budding and Young TalentManavRachna Educational Institution
2.Encouragement to sports through Corporate Social ResponsibilityIndian Oil Corporation Limited

(vii)      Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy 2021: 

Panjab University – Chandigarh