Cricketer Rohit Sharma, wrestler Vinesh Phogat, women’s hockey captain Rani Rampal, Table Tennis player Manika Batra and Paralympian T Mariyappan will be getting the highest sporting honour of the country at a specially organized function through virtual mode from Rashtrapati Bhawan on 29th August. Arjuna awards have also been handed out to Sarika Kale for kho kho, Vishesh Bhriguvanshi for basketball.
In order to promote the indigenous games, kho kho was included in the list. Shiva Keshavan too won an Arjuna award after having retired from the sport.
List of the players who received the awards
RAJIV GANDHI KHEL RATNA AWARD-
- Rohit Sharma Cricket
- Mariyappan T. Para Athletics
- Manika Batra Table Tennis
- Vinesh Wrestling
- Rani Hockey
- DRONACHARYA AWARD (Life- Time Category)
- Dharmendra Tiwary – Archery
- Purushotham Rai – Athletics
- Shiv Singh – Boxing
- Romesh Pathania – Hockey
- Krishan Kumar Hooda – Kabaddi
- Vijay Bhalchandra Munishwar – Para Powerlifting
- Naresh Kumar – Tennis
- Om Parkash Dahiya – Wrestling
DRONACHARYA AWARD (Regular Category)
- Jude Felix Sebastian – Hockey
- Yogesh Malviya – Mallakhamb
- Jaspal Rana – Shooting
- Kuldeep Kumar Handoo – Wushu
- Gaurav Khanna – Para Badminton
ARJUNA AWARD
- Atanu Das – Archery
- Dutee Chand – Athletics
- Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy – Badminton
- Chirag Chandrasekhar Shetty – Badminton
- Vishesh Bhriguvanshi -Basketball
- Subedar Manish Kaushik – Boxing
- Lovlina Borgohain – Boxing
- Ishant Sharma – Cricket
- Deepti Sharma – Cricket
- Sawant Ajay Anant – Equestrian
- Sandesh Jhingan – Football
- Aditi Ashok – Golf
- Akashdeep Singh – Hockey
- Deepika – Hockey
- Deepak – Kabaddi
- Kale Sarika Sudhakar – Kho Kho
- Dattu Baban Bhokanal – Rowing
- Manu Bhaker – Shooting
- Saurabh Chaudhary – Shooting
- Madhurika Suhas Patkar – Table Tennis
- Divij Sharan – Tennis
- Shiva Keshavan – Winter Sports
- Divya Kakran – Wrestling
- Rahul Aware – Wrestling
- Suyash Narayan Jadhav – Para Swimming
- Sandeep – Para Athletics
- Manish Narwal – Para Shooting
DHYAN CHAND AWARD
- Kuldip Singh Bhullar – Athletics
- Jincy Philips – Athletics
- Pradeep Shrikrishna Gandhe – Badminton
- Trupti Murgunde – Badminton
- N. Usha – Boxing
- Lakha Singh – Boxing
- Sukhvinder Singh Sandhu – Football
- Ajit Singh – Hockey
- Manpreet Singh – Kabaddi
- J. Ranjith Kumar – Para Athletics
- Satyaprakash Tiwari – Para Badminton
- Manjeet Singh – Rowing
- Sachin Nag – Swimming
- Nandan P Bal – Tennis
- Netarpal Hooda – Wrestling
TENZING NORGAY NATIONAL ADVENTURE AWARDS 2019
- Anita Devi – Land Adventure
- Col. Sarfraz Singh – Land Adventure
- Taka Tamut – Land Adventure
- Narender Singh – Land Adventure
- Keval Hiren Kakka – Land Adventure
- Satendra Singh – Water Adventure
- Gajanand Yadava – Air Adventure
- Shri Magan Bissa – Life Time Achievement