National Sports Awards 2025: Tejaswin, Vidit, Divya Among Arjuna Winners; Check Full List
The ministry named 17 athletes for the Arjuna Awards, including a lifetime honoree, and left the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna category empty.
- On Tuesday, the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports announced 17 Arjuna Award recipients for 2025, while notably leaving the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award category vacant this year.
- A selection committee chaired by former Supreme Court Justice Arun Kumar Mishra finalized the list, evaluating candidates based on four years of performance, leadership, sportsmanship, and discipline.
- Notable honorees include chess Grandmaster Divya Deshmukh, decathlete Tejaswin Shankar, and badminton player Gayatri Gopichand, representing disciplines spanning track and field, board games, and racquet sports.
- Former footballer I Arumainayagam received the Arjuna Award for Lifetime Achievement, while the Army Paralympic Node, Pune, earned the Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar for sports development.
- The absence of a Khel Ratna recipient marks a shift from last year, when four athletes including chess champion Gukesh Dommaraju and hockey captain Harmanpreet Singh received the country's highest sporting honor.
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National Sports Awards 2025 announced, 17 sportspersons to receive Arjuna Award
The Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports on Tuesday announced the National Sports Awards 2025. The National Sports Awards are given every year to recognise and reward excellence in sports. Based on the recommendations of the Selection Committee chaired by a former Judge of the Supreme Court of India, Justice (Retd.) Arun Kumar Mishra, the Government, as per a PIB statement, has decided to confer awards on the following sportspersons, coaches and e…
Gayatri, Dhanush this year's Arjuna awardees from Telangana
Hyderabad: Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Tuesday, August 18, extended his congratulations to the two Telangana athletes, shuttler Gayatri Gopichand and shooter Dhanush Srikanth, selected for the prestigious Arjuna Awards announced by the Sports Ministry earlier in the day. They are among 17 sportspersons selected for the award. In a post on X, the Chief Minister’s Office noted that Gayatri and Dhanush, “who have demonstrated exceptional tal…
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