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The Arjuna Award, officially known as Arjuna Awards given for Outstanding Performance in Sports and Games, [3] is the second-highest sporting honour of India, the highest being the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award. The award is named after Arjuna, one of the characters of the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata of ancient India. [4]
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.
Arjuna Award: Male 2010 Jhulan Goswami: Arjuna Award: Female 2011 Zaheer Khan: Arjuna Award: Male 2012 Yuvraj Singh: Arjuna Award: Male 2013 Virat Kohli: Arjuna Award: Male 2014 Ravichandran Ashwin: Arjuna Award: Male 2015 Rohit Sharma: Arjuna Award: Male 2016 Ajinkya Rahane: Arjuna Award: Male 2017 Harmanpreet Kaur: Arjuna Award: Female 2017 ...
First presented in the year 1961, a total of two hundred and twenty-nine individuals (including one group award to twenty individuals) have been honoured with the Arjuna Award in non-Olympic sports for their "good performance at the international level" over the period of last four years, with two individuals being awarded for their lifetime ...
The four awards presented in athletics are the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award, Dhyan Chand Award, and Dronacharya Award. [ 1 ] First presented in the year 1961, the Arjuna Award in athletics has been given to a total of 94 individuals for their "good performance at the international level" over the period of the previous four years ...
In 2017, she was honoured with the Arjuna Award by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. [3] She was nicknamed the Durga of Indian Football and is currently involved in spreading awareness about Women's football in India. [4] Oinam Bembem Devi is the recipient of India's highly prestigious award Padma Shri 2020. [5] [6]
The four awards presented in parasports are Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award, Dhyan Chand Award and Dronacharya Award. [ 1 ] First presented in the year 1974, a total of forty-three individuals have been honoured with the Arjuna Award in parasports for their "good performance at the international level" over the period of last four ...
The Arjuna Award, officially known as the Arjuna Awards for Outstanding Performance in Sports and Games, [1] is the sports honour of Republic of India. It is awarded annually by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. Before the introduction of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in 1991–1992, the Arjuna award was the highest sporting honour of India.