List of Arjuna Award recipients 2010 2019

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The Arjuna Award, officially known as the Arjuna Awards for Outstanding Performance in Sports and Games,[1] is the sports honour of the Republic of India. It is awarded annually by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. Before the introduction of the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna in 1991–1992, the Arjuna award was the highest sporting honour of India.[2][3] Template:As of, the award comprises "a bronze statuette of Arjuna, certificate, ceremonial dress, and a cash prize of Template:INRConvert."Template:Efn

Name

The award is named after Arjuna, a character from the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata of ancient India. He is one of the Pandavas, depicted as a skilled archer winning the hand of Draupadi in marriage. In the Kurukshetra War, Lord Krishna becomes his charioteer teaching him the sacred knowledge of Gita.[4] In Hindu mythology, he has been seen as a symbol of hard work, dedication and concentration.[5]

History

Instituted in 1961 to honour the outstanding sportspersons of the country,[6] the award over the years has undergone a number of expansions, reviews, and rationalizations. The award was expanded to include all the recognised disciplines in 1977, has introduced indigenous games and physically handicapped categories in 1995 and introduced a lifetime contribution category in 1995 leading to creation of a separate Dhyan Chand Award in 2002.[7][8] The latest revision in 2018 stipulates that the award is given only to the disciplines included in the events like Olympic Games, Paralympic Games, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games, World Championship and World Cup along with Cricket, Indigenous Games, and Parasports. It also recommends giving only fifteen awards in a year, relaxing in case of excellent performance in major multi-sport events, team sports, across gender and giving at least one award to the physically challenged category.[1]

The nominations for the award are received from all government-recognised National Sports Federations, the Indian Olympic Association, the Sports Authority of India (SAI), the Sports Promotion and Control Boards, the state and the union territory governments and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna, Dhyan Chand and Dronacharya awardees of the previous years. The recipients are selected by a committee constituted by the Ministry and are honoured for their "good performance in the field of sports over a period of four years" at international level and for having shown "qualities of leadership, sportsmanship and a sense of discipline".[1]

Recipients

A total of 178 awards were presented in the 2010s: fifteen in 2010, followed by nineteen in 2011, twenty-five in 2012, fourteen in 2013, sixteen in 2014, seventeen in 2015, sixteen in 2016, seventeen in 2017, twenty in 2018 and nineteen in 2019. Individuals from thirty different sports were awarded, including twenty-seven from athletics, sixteen from wrestling, fifteen from shooting, twelve each from cricket and hockey, eleven each from badminton and boxing, nine from kabaddi, eight from archery, six from table tennis, five each from football and swimming, four each from golf, weightlifting and wushu, three each from billiards & snooker, lawn tennis, polo, squash and volleyball, two each from basketball, chess, gymnastics and rowing, and one each from bodybuilding, equestrian, judo, motor sports, roller skating and yachting.[9]

In the initial list of 2013, triple jumper Renjith Maheshwary was mentioned in the discipline of athletics.[9] However, after reports surfaced of him failing a doping test in 2008, he was denied the award, making him the first person to be recommended by the Sports Ministry and then denied the award on the day of the function.[10] Boxer Manoj Kumar, a gold medalist at the 2010 Commonwealth Games held at Delhi, was initially not on the 2014 awardees list.[9] He filed a case in Delhi High Court and the Sports Ministry was directed by the court to present him with the award. The ministry blamed the issue on mistakenly believing him to be involved in a doping case and presented him with the award in November 2014, instead of at the official ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan in August 2014.[11][12] Another sportsperson, para-badminton player Raj Kumar, a gold medalist in the 2015 Para-Badminton World Championships in England, approached the Delhi High Court after not being awarded the Arjuna Award in 2016. He finally won the legal battle over having higher points than the other para-athlete awarded, and two years later, in September 2018 was given the award for the year 2016.[13][14]

List of Recipients

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Key
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List of Arjuna award recipients, showing the year, sport, and gender[9]
Year Recipient Sport Gender
2010 Template:Sortname Athletics Male
2010 Template:Sortname Yachting Male
2010 Template:Sortname Volleyball Male
2010 Template:Sortname Cricket Female
2010 Template:Sortname Hockey Female
2010 Template:Sortname Boxing Male
2010 Template:Sortname Kabaddi Male
2010 Template:Sortname Football Male
2010 Template:Sortname Chess Male
2010 Template:Sortname Swimming Male
2010 Template:Sortname Athletics Female
2010 Template:Sortname Shooting Male
2010 Template:Sortname AthleticsTemplate:Small Male
2010 Template:Sortname Hockey Male
2010 Template:Sortname Wrestling Male
2011 Template:Sortname Archery Male
2011 Template:Sortname Football Male
2011 Template:Sortname Wushu Female
2011 Template:Sortname Lawn Tennis Male
2011 Template:Sortname Athletics Male
2011 Template:Sortname Badminton Female
2011 Template:Sortname SwimmingTemplate:Small Male
2011 Template:Sortname Swimming Male
2011 Template:Sortname Cricket Male
2011 Template:Sortname Gymnastics Male
2011 Template:Sortname Weightlifting Male
2011 Template:Sortname Kabaddi Male
2011 Template:Sortname Volleyball Male
2011 Template:Sortname Shooting Female
2011 Template:Sortname Hockey Male
2011 Template:Sortname Wrestling Male
2011 Template:Sortname Boxing Male
2011 Template:Sortname Athletics Female
2011 Template:Sortname Kabaddi Female
2012 Template:Sortname Weightlifting Female
2012 Template:Sortname Shooting Male
2012 Template:Sortname Badminton Male
2012 Template:Sortname Kabaddi Male
2012 Template:Sortname Wrestling Male
2012 Template:Sortname Archery Female
2012 Template:Sortname Archery Female
2012 Template:Sortname AthleticsTemplate:Small Female
2012 Template:Sortname Billiards & Snooker Male
2012 Template:Sortname Squash Female
2012 Template:Sortname Wrestling Female
2012 Template:Sortname Badminton Female
2012 Template:Sortname Athletics Female
2012 Template:Sortname Swimming Male
2012 Template:Sortname Shooting Female
2012 Template:Sortname Wushu Male
2012 Template:Sortname Shooting Male
2012 Template:Sortname AthleticsTemplate:Small Male
2012 Template:Sortname Hockey Male
2012 Template:Sortname Athletics Female
2012 Template:Sortname Cricket Male
2012 Template:Sortname Judo Male
2012 Template:Sortname Polo Male
2012 Template:Sortname Wrestling Male
2012 Template:Sortname Boxing Male
2013 Template:Sortname Golf Male
2013 Template:Sortname Boxing Female
2013 Template:Sortname Squash Female
2013 Template:Sortname Wrestling Male
2013 Template:Sortname Table Tennis Female
2013 Template:Sortname Chess Male
2013 Template:Sortname Hockey Female
2013 Template:Sortname Cricket Male
2013 Template:Sortname Wrestling Female
2013 Template:Sortname Shooting Female
2013 Template:Sortname AthleticsTemplate:Small Male
2013 Template:Sortname Billiards & Snooker Male
2013 Template:Sortname Badminton Female
2013 Template:Sortname Archery Female
2014 Template:Sortname Squash Female
2014 Template:Sortname Cricket Male
2014 Template:Sortname Boxing Male
2014 Template:Sortname Weightlifting Female
2014 Template:Sortname Badminton Male
2014 Template:Sortname AthleticsTemplate:Small Male
2014 Template:Sortname Basketball Female
2014 Template:Sortname Volleyball Male
2014 Template:Sortname Boxing Male
2014 Template:Sortname Golf Male
2014 Template:Sortname Athletics Female
2014 Template:Sortname Kabaddi Female
2014 Template:Sortname Wrestling Male
2014 Template:Sortname Shooting Female
2014 Template:Sortname Rowing Male
2014 Template:Sortname Archery Male
2015 Template:Sortname Kabaddi Male
2015 Template:Sortname Wushu Female
2015 Template:Sortname SwimmingTemplate:Small Male
2015 Template:Sortname Boxing Male
2015 Template:Sortname Gymnastics Female
2015 Template:Sortname Badminton Male
2015 Template:Sortname Archery Male
2015 Template:Sortname Wrestling Female
2015 Template:Sortname Kabaddi Female
2015 Template:Sortname Athletics Female
2015 Template:Sortname Wrestling Male
2015 Template:Sortname Shooting Male
2015 Template:Sortname Cricket Male
2015 Template:Sortname Rowing Male
2015 Template:Sortname Weightlifting Male
2015 Template:Sortname Hockey Male
2015 Template:Sortname Roller Skating Male
2016 Template:Sortname Athletics Female
2016 Template:Sortname Shooting Female
2016 Template:Sortname Archery Male
2016 Template:Sortname Wrestling Male
2016 Template:Sortname Table Tennis Male
2016 Template:Sortname Billiards & Snooker Male
2016 Template:Sortname BadmintonTemplate:Small Male
2016 Template:Sortname AthleticsTemplate:Small Male
2016 Template:Sortname Football Male
2016 Template:Sortname Wrestling Female
2016 Template:Sortname Hockey Male
2016 Template:Sortname Cricket Male
2016 Template:Sortname Hockey Female
2016 Template:Sortname Shooting Male
2016 Template:Sortname WrestlingTemplate:Small Male
2016 Template:Sortname Boxing Male
2017 Template:Sortname Table Tennis Male
2017 Template:Sortname AthleticsTemplate:Small Male
2017 Template:Sortname Golf Male
2017 Template:Sortname Football Female
2017 Template:Sortname Wrestling Male
2017 Template:Sortname Cricket Female
2017 Template:Sortname Athletics Female
2017 Template:Sortname Lawn Tennis Male
2017 Template:Sortname Shooting Male
2017 Template:Sortname Cricket Male
2017 Template:Sortname Athletics Male
2017 Template:Sortname Boxing Male
2017 Template:Sortname Kabaddi Male
2017 Template:Sortname Basketball Female
2017 Template:Sortname Hockey Male
2017 Template:Sortname Archery Female
2017 Template:Sortname AthleticsTemplate:Small Male
2018 Template:Sortname Table Tennis Female
2018 Template:Sortname Lawn Tennis Male
2018 Template:Sortname Athletics Male
2018 Template:Sortname Athletics Female
2018 Template:Sortname AthleticsTemplate:Small Male
2018 Template:Sortname Table Tennis Male
2018 Template:Sortname Athletics Male
2018 Template:Sortname Wushu Female
2018 Template:Sortname Boxing Male
2018 Template:Sortname Wrestling Male
2018 Template:Sortname Cricket Female
2018 Template:Sortname Shooting Male
2018 Template:Sortname Hockey Female
2018 Template:Sortname Polo Male
2018 Template:Sortname Badminton Female
2018 Template:Sortname BadmintonTemplate:Small Male
2018 Template:Sortname Shooting Female
2018 Template:Sortname Golf Male
2018 Template:Sortname Hockey Male
2018 Template:Sortname Shooting Female
2019 Template:Sortname Athletics Male
2019 Template:Sortname Athletics Female
2019 Template:Sortname BadmintonTemplate:Small Male
2019 Template:Sortname Bodybuilding Male
2019 Template:Sortname Table Tennis Male
2019 Template:Sortname Boxing Female
2019 Template:Sortname Motor Sports Male
2019 Template:Sortname AthleticsTemplate:Small Male
2019 Template:Sortname Cricket Male
2019 Template:Sortname Hockey Male
2019 Template:Sortname Boxing Female
2019 Template:Sortname Equestrian Male
2019 Template:Sortname Shooting Female
2019 Template:Sortname Badminton Male
2019 Template:Sortname Football Male
2019 Template:Sortname Polo Male
2019 Template:Sortname Kabaddi Male
2019 Template:Sortname Athletics Male
2019 Template:Sortname Cricket Female

Explanatory notes

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Reference

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  4. ↑ The Bhagavad Gita{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}(26 October 2014). ISBN 978-0-691-13996-8
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  6. ↑ India in Sports: Some Fabulous Achievements. Press Information Bureau, India.
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  10. ↑ Dope-tainted Maheshwary not to get Arjuna Award. Hindustan Times(20 September 2013).
  11. ↑ Boxer Manoj Kumar to get Arjuna Award tomorrow. The Economic Times(25 November 2014).
  12. ↑ Boxer Manoj Kumar Gets Arjuna Award After Winning High Court Case. NDTV(26 November 2014).
  13. ↑ Arjuna at last for para shuttler Raj Kumar. The Times of India(19 September 2018).
  14. ↑ Para shuttler Raj Kumar conferred with Arjuna Award after long court battle. DNA India(19 September 2018).
  • Sports awards. yas.nic.in. Government of India, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Department of Sports(2020). (official website)

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