GUWAHATI, Jan 17: President Droupadi Murmu today conferred the National Sports Awards 2024 at a function held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
While four champion sportspersons, including double Olympic-medallist shooter Manu Bhaker and teenage chess world champion D Gukesh, were conferred with the prestigious Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award, 32 sportspersons were awarded with the Arjuna Award.
India’s men’s hockey captain Harmanpreet Singh and Paralympic gold-winning high jumper Praveen Kumar were also conferred with the Khel Ratna award by President Murmu.
Seventeen among the 32 sportspersons who received the Arjuna Award are para-athletes.
Here’s the full list of the National Sports Award winners:
Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award
Manu Bhakar (Shooting)
D Gukesh (Chess)
Harmanpreet Singh (Hockey)
Praveen Kumar (Para athletics)
Arjuna Awards
Jyothi Yarraji (Athletics)
Annu Rani (Athletics)
Nitu (Boxing)
Saweety (Boxing)
Vantika Agrawal (Chess)
Salima Tete (Hockey)
Abhishek (Hockey)
Sanjay (Hockey)
Jarmanpreet Singh (Hockey)
Sukhjeet Singh (Hockey)
Rakesh Kumar (Para archery)
Preeti Pal (Para athletics)
Jeevanji Deepthi (Para athletics)
Ajeet Singh (Para athletics)
Sachin Sarjerao Khilari (Para athletics)
Dharambir (Para athletics)
Pranav Soorma (Para athletics)
H Hokato Sema (Para athletics)
Simran (Para athletics)
Navdeep (Para athletics)
Nitesh Kumar (Para badminton)
Thulasimathi Murugesan (Para athletics)
Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan (Para badminton)
Manisha Ramadass (Para badminton)
Kapil Parmar (Para judo)
Mona Agarwal (Para shooting)
Rubina Francis (Para shooting)
Swapnil Suresh Kusale (Shooting)
Sarabjot Singh (Shooting)
Abhay Singh (Squash)
Sajan Prakash (Swimming)
Aman Sehrawat (Wrestling)
Arjuna Awards (Lifetime)
Sucha Singh (Athletics)
Murlikant Rajaram Petkar (Para swimming)
Dronacharya Award (Regular)
Subhash Rana (Para shooting)
Deepali Deshpande (Shooting)
Sandeep Sangwan (Hockey)
Dronacharya Award (Lifetime)
S Muralidharan (Badminton)
Armando Agnelo Colaco (Football)
