Sports

Dronacharya Award

Dronacharya Award was instituted in 1985 to honour eminent coaches who have done outstanding and meritorious 'work on consistent basis, to motivate them to dedicate themselves with a singularity of purpose for raising the standards of sportspersons to highest performance in international events and bring glory to the country. The award is given to those who have produced outstanding achievements consistently during three years preceding the Award. Those who have contributed their life time to sports and sports promotion are also considered for this award. During the year 1995-96, this Award was given to Md. Ilyas Babar for his contribution to the discipline of Athletics. Every awardee is given a cash prize of Rs. 75,000/ alongwith a bronze statue of Dronacharya, a scroll, a suit, a blazer and a tie.


List of Dronacharya Award recipients
S.No. Year Name of the Sportsperson(s) Sport Discipline
01 1985 O.M. Nambiar
Athletics

02 1985 Om Prakash Bhardwaj
Boxing

03 1985 Bhalchandra Bhaskar Bhagwat
Wrestling

04 1986 Raghunandan Vasant Gokhle
Chess

05 1986 Desh Prem Azad
Cricket

06 1987 Gurcharan Singh
Cricket

07 1987 Guru Hanuman
Wrestling

08 1990 Ramakant Achrekar
Cricket

09 1990 Syed Naeemuddin
Football

10 1990 A Ramana Rao
Volleyball

11 1994 Ilyas Babar
Athletics

12 1995 Karan Singh
Athletics

13 1995 M. Shyam Sunder Rao
Volleyball

14 1996 Wilson Jones
Billiards & Snooker

15 1996 Pal Singh Sandhu
Weightlifting

16 1997 Joginder Singh Saini
Athletics

17 1998 Bahadur Singh
Athletics

18 1998 Hargobind Singh Sandhu
Athletics

19 1998 G.S.Sandhu
Boxing

20 1999 Kenneth Owen Bosen
Athletics

21 1999 Capt. Hawa Singh
Boxing

22 1999 Ajay Kumar Sirohi
Weightlifting

23 2000 S.M. Arif
Badminton

24 2000 Gudial Singh Bhangu
Hockey

25 2000 Phadke Gopal Pushottam
Kho-Kho

26 2000 Bhupender Dhawan
Powerlifting

27 2000 Hansa Sharma
Weightlifting

28 2001 Prof. Sunny Thomas
Shooting

29 2001 Michael Joseph Ferreira
Billiards & Snooker

30 2002 Renu Kohli
Athletics

31 2002 Jaswant Singh
Athletics

32 2002 M.K. Kaushik
Hockey

33 2002 E. Prasad Rao
Kabaddi

34 2002 Cdr. H.D. Motivala
Yachting

35 2003 Robert Bobby George
Athletics

36 2003 Anup Kumar
Boxing

37 2003 Rajinder Singh
Hockey

38 2003 Sukhchain Singh Cheema
Wrestling

39 2004 Arvind Savur
Billiards & Snooker

40 2004 Sunita Sharma
Cricket

41 2004 Cyrus Poncha
Squash

42 2004 Gurcharan Singh
Boxing

43 2005 Hony. Captain M Venu
Boxing

44 2005 Balwan Singh
Kabaddi

45 2005 Maha Singh Rao
Wrestling

46 2005 Ismail Baig
Rowing

47 2006 R D Singh
Athletics

48 2006 Damodaran Chandralal
Boxing

49 2006 Koneru Ashok
Chess

50 2007 Sanjeev Kumar Singh
Archery

51 2007 Jagdish Singh
Boxing

52 2007 G.E. Sridharan
Volley Ball

53 2007 Jagminder Singh
Wrestling

54 2008 Sanjeeva Kumar Singh
Archery

55 2008 Jagdish Singh
Boxing

56 2008 G E Sridharan
Volleyball

57 2008 Jagminder Singh
Wrestling

58 2009 Pullela Gopichand
Badminton

59 2009 Satpal
Wrestling

60 2009 J. Uday Kumar
Kabaddi

61 2009 Baldev Singh
Hockey

62 2009 Jaidev Bisht
Boxing



The Arjuna awards were instituted in 1961 to recognize outstanding achievement in Indian sports. The award carries a cash prize of Rs 300,000, a bronze statuette of Arjuna and a scroll.
Arjun Awardees in Archery
No Year Recipient Name
1 1981 Krishna Das

2 1989 Shyam Lal

3 1991 Limba Ram

4 1992 Sanjeev Kumar Singh

5 2005 Tarundeep Rai

6 2005 Dola Banerjee

7 2006 Jayanta Talukdar

8 2009 Mangal Singh Champia

[edit] Arjun Awardees in Athletics
No Year Recipient Name
1 1961 Gurbachan Singh Randhawa

2 1962 Tarlok Singh

3 1963 Stephie D'Souza

4 1964 Makhan Singh

5 1965 Kenneth Powell

6 1966 Ajmer Singh

7 1966 B. S. Barua

8 1967 Praveen Kumar

9 1967 Bhim Singh

10 1968 Joginder Singh

11 1968 Manjit Walia

12 1969 Harnek Singh

13 1970 Mohinder Singh Gill

14 1971 Edward Sequeira

15 1972 Vijay Singh Chauhan

16 1973 Sriram Singh

17 1974 T. C. Yohannan

18 1974 Shivnath Singh

19 1975 Hari Chand

20 1975 V. Anusuya Bai

21 1976 Bahadur Singh Chouhan

22 1976 Geeta Zutshi

23 1978-79 Suresh Babu

24 1978-79 Angel Mary Joseph

25 1979-80 R. Gyanasekaran

26 1980-81 Gopal Saini

27 1981 Sabir Ali

28 1982 Charles Borromeo

29 1982 Chand Ram

30 1982 M. D. Valsamma

31 1983 Suresh Yadav

32 1983 P. T. Usha

33 1984 Raj Kumar

34 1984 Shiny Abraham

35 1985 Raghubir Singh Bal

36 1985 Asha Agarwal

37 1985 Adille Sumariwala

38 1986 Suman Rawat

39 1987 Balwinder Singh

40 1987 Vandana Rao

41 1987 Bagicha Singh

42 1987 Vandana Shanbagh

43 1988 Ashwini Nachappa

44 1989 Mercy Kuttan

45 1990 Deena Ram

46 1992 Bahadur Prasad

47 1993 K. Saramma

48 1994 Rosa Kutty

49 1995 Shakti Singh

50 1995 Jyotirmoyee Sikdar

51 1996 Ajit Bhaduria

52 1996 Padmini Thomas

53 1997 Reeth Abraham

54 1998 Sirichand Ram

55 1998 Neelam Jaswant Singh

56 1998 S. D. Eshan

57 1998 Rachita Mistry

58 1998 Paramjit Singh

59 1999 Gulab Chand

60 1999 Gurmit Kaur

61 1999 Parduman Singh

62 1999 Sunita Rani

63 2000 K. M. Beenamol

64 2000 Yadvendra Vashishta (PH)

65 2000 Vijay Bhalchandra Munishwar - Powerlifting (PH)

66 2000 Joginder Singh Bedi (PH) (For Life time Contribution)

67 2002 Anju Bobby George

68 2002 Saraswati Saha

69 2003 Soma Biswas

70 2003 Madhuri Saxena

71 2004 Anil Kumar

72 2004 J. J. Shobha

73 2004 Devendra Jhajharia (Physically Challenged)

74 2005 Manjit Kaur

75 2005 Rajinder Singh Rahelu (Physically Challenged)

76 2006 K. M. Binu

77 2007 Chitra K. Soman

78 2009 Sinimol Paulose

[edit] Arjun Awardees in Badminton
No Year Recipient Name
1 1961 Nandu Natekar

2 1962 Meena Shah

3 1965 Dinesh Khanna

4 1967 Suresh Goel

5 1969 Dipu Ghosh

6 1970 D. V. Tambay

7 1971 S. Moorthy

8 1972 Prakash Padukone

9 1974 Raman Ghosh

10 1975 Davinder Ahuja

11 1976 Ami Ghia

12 1977-78 Ms. K.T. Singh

13 1980-81 Syed Modi

14 1982 P. Ganguli

15 1982 Madhumita Bisht

16 1991 Rajeev Bagga

17 2000 Pullela Gopichand

18 1999 George Thomas

19 2003 Madasu Srinivas Rao (Physically Challenged)

20 2004 Abhinn Shyam Gupta

21 2005 Aparna Popat

22 2006 Chetan Anand

23 2006 Rohit Bhakar (Physically Challenged)

24 2008 Anup Sridhar

25 2009 Saina Nehwal

[edit] Arjun Awardees in Ball Badminton
No Year Recipient Name
1 1970 J. Pitchyya

2 1972 Ms. J. Srinivasan

3 1973 A. Kareem

4 1975 L.A. Iqbal

5 1976 A. Sam Christ Das

6 1984 D. Rajaraman

[edit] Arjun Awardees in Basketball
No Year Recipient Name
1 1961 Sarbjit Singh

2 1967 Khushi Ram

3 1968 Gurdial Singh

4 1969 Hav. Hari Dutt

5 1970 Gulam Abbas Moontasir

6 1971 Man Mohan Singh

7 1973 S. K. Kataria

8 1974 A.K. Punj

9 1975 Hanuman Singh

10 1977-78 T. Vijayaraghawan

11 1979-80 Om Prakash

12 1982 Ajmer Singh

13 1991 Radhey Shyam

14 1991 Ms. S Sharma

15 1999 Sajjan Singh Cheema

[edit] Arjun Awardees in Billiards & Snooker
No Year Recipient Name
1 2002 Alok Kumar

2 2003 Pankaj Advani

3 2005 Anuja Prakash Thakur

4 1983 Subhash Agarwal

[edit] Arjun Awardees in Boxing
No Year Recipient Name
1 1961 L. Buddy D' Souza

2 1962 Hav. P. Badadur Mal

3 1966 Hawa Singh

4 1968 Hav. Dennis Swamy

5 1971 Hav. Muniswamy Venu

6 1972 Hav. Chandranarayanan

7 1973 Hav. Mehatab Singh

8 1977-78 B.S. Thapa

9 1978-79 C.C. Machaiah

10 1979-80 B. Singh

11 1980-81 Issac Amaldas

12 1981 Hav. G. Manoharan

13 1982 Hav. Kaur Singh

14 1983 Jas Lal Pradhan

15 1986 Jai Pal Singh

16 1987 Seeva Jayaram

17 1989 Gopal Dewang

18 1991 D.S. Yadav

19 1992 Rajender Prasad

20 1993 Manoj Pingale

21 1993 Mukund Killekar

22 1995 V. Devarajan

23 1996 Raj Kumar Sangwan

24 1998 N.G. Dingko Singh

25 1999 Gurcharan Singh

26 1999 Jitender Kumar

27 2002 Md. Ali Qamar

28 2003 Ms. Mangte Chungneijang Marykom

29 2005 Akhil Kumar

30 2006 Vijender Kumar

31 2008 Verghese Johnson

32 2009 L. Sarita Devi

[edit] Arjun Awardees in Carrom
No Year Recipient Name
1. 1996 A. Maria Irudayam

[edit] Arjun Awardees in Chess
No Year Recipient Name
1 1961 Manuel Aaron

2 1980-81 Rohini Khadilkar

3 1983 Dibyendu Barua

4 1984 Pravin Thipsay

5 1985 Vishwanathan Anand

6 1987 D. V. Prasad

7 1987 Bhagyashree Thipsay

8 1990 Anupama Gokhale

9 2000 Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi

10 2002 Krishnan Sasikiran

11 2003 Koneru Humpy

12 2005 Surya Shekhar Ganguly

13 2006 Pentyala Harikrishna

14 2008 Dronavalli Harika

15 2009 Tania Sachdev

[edit] Arjun Awardees in Cricket


Sachin Tendulkar
No Year Recipient Name
1 1961 Saleem Durani

2 1964 Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi

3 1965 Vijay Manjrekar

4 1966 Chandu Borde

5 1967 Ajit Wadekar

6 1968 E.A.S. Prasanna

7 1969 Bishan Singh Bedi

8 1970 Dilip Sardesai

9 1971 Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan

10 1972 Eknath Solkar

11 1972 B.S. Chandrashekhar

12 1975 Sunil Gavaskar

13 1976 Shanta Rangaswamy

14 1977-78 Gundappa Vishwanath

15 1979-80 Kapil Dev Nikhanj

16 1980-81 Chetan Chauhan

17 1980-81 Syed Kirmani

18 1981 Dilip Vengsarkar

19 1982 Mohinder Amarnath

20 1983 Diana Edulji

21 1984 Ravi Shastri

22 1985 Shubhangi Kulkarni

23 1986 Mohammad Azharuddin

24 1986 Sandhya Agarwal

25 1989 Madan Lal

26 1993 Manoj Prabhakar

27 1993 Kiran More

28 1994 Sachin Tendulkar

29 1995 Anil Kumble

30 1996 Javagal Srinath

31 1997 Ajay Jadeja

32 1997 Sourav Ganguly

33 1998 Rahul Dravid

34 1998 Nayan Mongia

35 2000 B.K. Venkatesh Prasad

36 2002 Virender Sehwag

37 2003 Harbhajan Singh

38 2003 Mithali Raj

39 2005 Anju Jain

40 2006 Anjum Chopra

41 2009 Gautam Gambhir

[edit] Arjun Awardees in Cycling
No Year Recipient Name
1 1975 Amar Singh

2 1978-79 Ms. M. Mahapatra

3 1983 A.R. Arthna

[edit] Arjun Awardees in Equestrian
No Year Recipient Name
1 1973 Dafadar Khan M. Khan

2 1976 Lt. Col. H.S. Sodhi

3 1982 Maj. R. Singh Brar

4 1982 Raghubir Singh (Equestrian)

5 1984 Capt. G. Mohd. Khan

6 1987 Maj. J.S. Ahluwalia

7 1991 Capt. Adhiraj Singh

8 2003 Capt. Rajesh Pattu

9 2004 Maj. Deep Kumar Ahlawat

[edit] Arjun Awardees in Football
No Year Recipient Name
1 1961 P. K. Banerjee

2 1962 Tulsidas Balaram

3 1963 Chuni Goswami

4 1964 Jarnail Singh

5 1965 Arun Lal Ghosh

6 1966 Yusuf Khan

7 1967 Peter Thangaraj

8 1969 Inder Singh

9 1970 Syed Naeemuddin

10 1971 C. P. Singh

11 1973 Magan Singh

12 1978-79 Gurdev Singh Gill

13 1979-80 Prasun Banerjee

14 1980-81 Mohammed Habib
15 1981 Sudhir Karmakar

16 1983 Shanti Mullick

17 1989 S. Bhattacharjee

18 1997 Brahmanand Sankhwalkar

19 1998 Baichung Bhutia

20 2002 I. M. Vijayan

[edit] Arjun Awardees in Golf
No Year Recipient Name
1 1999 Chiranjeev Milkha Singh (Jeev Milkha Singh)

2 2002 Shiv Kapur

3 2004 Jyotinder Singh Randhawa (Jyoti Randhawa)

4 2007 Arjun Atwal

[edit] Arjun Awardees in Gymnastics
No Year Recipient Name
1 1961 Shyam Lal

2 1975 Montu Debnath

3 1985 Ms. S. Sharma

4 1989 Ms. Krupali Patel

5 2000 Dr. (Ms.) Kalpna Debnath

[edit] Arjun Awardees in Hockey
No Year Recipient Name
1 1961 Prithipal Singh

2 1961 N. Lumsden

3 1963 Charanjit Singh

4 1964 S. Laxman

5 1965 Udham Singh

6 1965 E. Britto

7 1966 V. J. Peter

8 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

14 1971 P. Krishnamurthy

15 1972 Michael Kindo

16 1973 M. P. Ganesh

17 1973 O. Mascarenhas

18 1974 Ashok Kumar

19 1974 A. Kaur

20 1975 B. P. Govinda

21 1975 R. Saini

22 1977-78 Capt. Harcharan Singh

23 1977-78 L. L. Fernandes

24 1979-80 Vasudevan Baskaran

25 1979-80 R. B. Mundphan

26 1980-81 Mohammed Shahid

27 1980-81 Eliza Nelson

28 1981 Versha Soni

29 1983 Zafar Iqbal

30 1984 Rajbir Kaur

31 1984 S. Maney

32 1985 Prem Maya Sonir

33 1985 M. M. Somaya

34 1986 J.M. Carvalho

35 1988 M. P. Singh

36 1989 Pargat Singh

37 1990 Jagbir Singh

38 1992 Mervyn Fernandes

39 1994 Jude Felix Sabastain

40 1995 Dhanraj Pillai

41 1995 Mukesh Kumar

42 1996 A. B. 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 B. S. 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 Lt. Col. Haripal Kaushik

56 1998 Ramandeep Singh

57 1998 V. J. Phillips

58 2000 Baljeet Singh Saini

59 2000 Tingonleima Chanu

60 2000 Gp. Capt. R. S. 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 Innocent Helen Mary

71 2005 Viren Rasquinha

72 2006 Jyoti Sunita Kullu

73 2008 Prabhjot Singh

74 2009 Surinder Kaur

75 2009 Ignace Tirkey

[edit] Arjun Awardees in Judo
No Year Recipient Name
1 1992 Sandeep Byala

2 1993 Cawas Billimoria

3 1996 Ms. Poonam Chopra

4 1998 Narender Singh

5 2003 Akram Shah

6 2004 Ms. Angom Anita Chanu

7 2007 Ms. Tombi Devi

[edit] Arjun Awardees in Kabaddi
No Year Recipient Name
1 1998 Ashan Kumar

2 1998 Biswajit Palit

3 1999 Balwinder Singh

4 1999 Tirath Raj

5 2000 C. Homonappa

6 2002 Ram Mehar Singh

7 2003 Sanjeev Kumar

8 2004 Sunder Singh

9 2005 Ramesh Kumar

10 2006 Naveen Gautam

11 2008 Pankaj Navnath Shrisat

[edit] Arjun Awardees in Lawn Tennis
No Year Recipient Name
1 1961 Ramanathan Krishnan

2 1962 Naresh Kumar

3 1966 Jaidip Mukerjea

4 1967 Premjit Lall

5 1974 Vijay Amritraj

6 1978-79 Nirupama Mankad

7 1980-81 Ramesh Krishnan

8 1985 Anand Amritraj

9 1990 Leander Paes

10 1995 Mahesh Bhupathi

11 1996 Gaurav Natekar

12 1997 Asif Ismail

13 2000 Akhtar Ali

14 2004 Sania Mirza

[edit] Arjun Awardees in Rowing
No Year Recipient Name
1 1981 Maj. Parveen Oberoy

2 1984 Capt. M.A. Naik

3 1991 Naib Subedar Dalvir Singh

4 1994 Major R.S. Bhanwala

5 1996 Surender Singh Waldia

6 1999 Jagjit Singh

7 2000 Surender Singh Kanwasi

8 2004 Jenil Krishnan

9 2008 Bajrang lal Thakkar

10 2009 Satish Joshi

[edit] Arjun Awardees in Shooting
No Year Recipient Name
1 1961 Karni Singh

2 1968 Rajyashree Kumari

3 1969 Bhuvaneshwari Kumari

4 1971 Bhim Singh

5 1972 Udyan Chinubhai

6 1978-79 Randhir Singh

7 1981 S. P. Chauhan

8 1983 Mohinder Lal

9 1983 Soma Dutta

10 1985 A. J. Pandit

11 1986 Bhagirath Samai

12 1993 Mansher Singh

13 1994 Jaspal Rana

14 1996 Moraad A. Khan

15 1997 Satendra Kumar

16 1997 Shilpi Singh

17 1998 Manavjit Singh

18 1998 Roopa Unnikrishnan

19 1999 Vivek Singh

20 2000 Anjali Vedpathak Bhagwat

21 2000 Abhinav Bindra

22 2000 Gurbir Singh

23 2002 Anwer Sultan

24 2002 Suma Shirur

25 2003 Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

26 2004 Deepali A. Deshpande

27 2005 Gagan Narang

28 2006 Vijay Kumar

29 2008 Avneet Kaur Sidhu

30 2009 Ronjan Sodhi

[edit] Arjun Awardees in Squash
No Year Recipient Name
1 2006 Sourav Ghosal

[edit] Arjun Awardees in Swimming
No Year Recipient Name
1 1961 Jam. Bajarangi Prasad

2 1966 Rima Datta

3 1967 Arun Shaw

4 1969 Baidyanath Nath

5 1971 Bhanwar Singh

6 1973 D. (Tingoo) Khatau

7 1974 A.B. Sarang

8 1974 Manjari Bhargava (diving)

9 1975 M.S. Rana

10 1975 Smita Desai

11 1982 Persis Madan

12 1983 Anita Sood

13 1984 Khajan Singh

14 1988 Wilson Cherian

15 1990 Bula Choudhury

16 1996 V. Kutraleeshwaran

17 1998 Bhanu Sachdeva

18 1999 Nisha Millet

19 2000 Sebastian Xavier

20 2000 J. Abhijith

21 2005 Shikha Tandon

[edit] Arjun Awardees in Table Tennis
No Year Recipient Name
1 1961 J.C. Vohra

2 1965 G. R. Deewan

3 1966 U. Sundararaj

4 1967 F. R. Khodaiji

5 1969 Mir Kasim Ali

6 1970 G. Jagannath

7 1971 K. F. Khodaiji

8 1973 N. R. Bajaj

9 1976 S. Shailja

10 1979-80 Indu Puri

11 1980-81 Manjit Dua

12 1982 V. Chandrasekhar

13 1985 Kamlesh Mehta

14 1987 Monalisa Barua

15 1989 Niyati Shah

16 1990 M. S. Walia

17 1997 Chetan Baboor

18 1998 Subramaniam Raman

19 2002 Mantu Ghosh

20 2004 Achanta Sharath Kamal

21 2005 Soumyadeep Roy

22 2006 Subhajit Saha

23 2009 Poulomi Ghatak

[edit] Arjun Awardees in Volleyball
No Year Recipient Name
1 1961 A. Palanisamy

2 1962 Nripjit Singh

3 1972 Balwant Singh "Ballu"

4 1973 G.M. Reddy

5 1974 M.S. Rao

6 1975 Sub. Insp. R. Singh

7 1975 K.C. Elamma

8 1976 Jimmy George

9 1977-78 A. Raman Rao

10 1978-79 Kutty Krishnan

11 1979-80 S.K. Mishra

12 1982 G.E. Sridharan

13 1983 R.K. Purohit

14 1984 Saley Joseph

15 1986 Cyril C. Vallor

16 1989 Abdul Basith

17 1990 Dalel Singh Ror

18 1991 K. Udaya Kumar

19 1999 Sukhpal Singh

20 2000 P.V. Ramana

21 2002 Ravikant Reddy

[edit] Arjun Awardees in Weightlifting
No Year Recipient Name
1 1961 A.N. Ghosh

2 1962 L.K. Dass

3 1963 K.E. Rao

4 1965 B.S. Bhatia

5 1966 Mohan Lal Ghosh

6 1967 S. John Gabriel

7 1970 Arun Kumar Dass

8 1971 S.L. Salwan

9 1972 Anil Kumar Mandal

10 1974 S. Vellaiswamy

11 1975 Dalbir Singh

12 1976 K. Balamuruganandam

13 1977-78 M.T. Selvan

14 1978-79 E. Karaunakaran

15 1981 B.K. Satpathy

16 1982 Tara Singh

17 1983 Vispy K. Daroga

18 1985 Mehar Chand Bhaskar

19 1986 Jag Mohan Sapra

20 1987 G. Devan

21 1989 Jyotsna Dutta

22 1990 R. Chandra

23 1990 N. Kunjarani

24 1991 Chhaya Adak

25 1993 Bharati Singh

26 1994 K. Malleswari

27 1997 Paramjit Sharma

28 1997 N. Laxmi

29 1998 Satheesha Rai

30 1999 Dalbir Singh

31 2000 Sanamacha Chanu Thingbaijan

32 2002 Thandava Murthy Muthu

33 2006 Geeta Rani

[edit] Arjun Awardees in Wrestling
No Year Recipient Name
1 1961 Hav. Udey Chanf

2 1962 Malwa

3 1963 G. Andalkar

4 1964 Bishamber Singh

5 1966 Bhim Singh

6 1967 Mukhtiar Singh

7 1969 Master Chandgi Ram (Indian style wrestling)

8 1970 Sudesh Kumar

9 1972 Prem Nath

10 1973 Jagroop Singh

11 1974 Satpal

12 1978-79 Rajinder Singh

13 1980-81 Jagminder Singh

14 1982 Kartar Singh

15 1985 Mahabir Singh

16 1987 Subhash

17 1988 Rajesh Kumar

18 1989 Satywan

19 1990 Ombir Singh

20 1992 Pappu Yadav

21 1993 Ashok Kumar

22 1997 Jagdish Singh

23 1997 Sanjay Kumar

24 1998 Kaka Pawar

25 1998 Rohtas Singh Dahiya

26 1999 Ashok Kumar

27 2000 Randhir Singh

28 2000 Kripa Shakar Patel

29 2000 K.D. Jadhav (Posthumously)

30 2000 Naresh Kumar

31 2002 Palwinder Singh Cheema

32 2002 Sujeet Mann

33 2003 Shokhinder Tomar

34 2004 Anuj Kumar

35 2005 Sushil Kumar

36 2006 Geetika Jakhar

37 2008 Alka Tomar

38 2009 Yogeshwar Dutt

[edit] Arjun Awardees in Yachting
No Year Recipient Name
1 1970 Lt. Cdr. S. J. Contractor

2 1973 Afsar Hussain

3 1978-79 Cdr. S. K. Mongia

4 1981 Zarir Karanjia

5 1982 Farokh Tarapore

6 1982 Fali Unwalla

7 1982 Jeeja Unwalla

8 1986 Lt. Dhruv Bhandari

9 1987 C. S. Pradipak

10 1990 P. K. Garg

11 1993 Cdr. Homi Motiwala

12 1996 Lt. Cdr. Kelly Subbanand Rao (Posthumously)
13 1999 Aashim Mongia

14 2002 Nitin Mongia

15 2009 Girdhari Lal Yadav