The Arjuna Award instituted in 1961 by Government of India recognises outstanding achievements of sportspersons in the field of sports at international level. The award carries a cash prize of 500000 rupees a bronze statuette of Arjuna and a scroll.
About Arjuna Award Selection Process
- A sportsperson should have not only good performance over the previous four years at the International level but also should have shown qualities of leadership, sportsmanship and a sense of discipline are eligible for the Award.
- Sportspersons who have been penalized or against whom enquiry is pending/ongoing for use of drugs/substances banned by the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) will not be
eligible for the Award. - The Government will only consider conferring Arjuna Award in the disciplines falling under following categories:-Olympic Games/ Asian Games/ Commonwealth Games/ WorldCup/ World Championship disciplines and Cricket or any equivalent recognized international Tournament, Indigenous Games and Sports for physically challenged.
Year |
Name |
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1961
|
Saleem Durani
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1964
|
Mansur Ali Khan
Pataudi |
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1965
|
Vijay Manjrekar
|
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1966
|
Chandu Borde
|
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1967
|
Ajit Wadekar
|
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1968
|
E.A.S. Prasanna
|
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1969
|
Bishan Singh Bedi
|
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1970
|
Dilip Sardesai
|
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1971
|
Srinivasaraghavan
Venkataraghavan |
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1972
|
Eknath Solkar
|
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1972
|
B.S. Chandrashekhar
|
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1975
|
Sunil Gavaskar
|
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1976
|
Shanta Rangaswamy
|
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1977-78
|
Gundappa Vishwanath
|
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1979-80
|
Kapil Dev Nikhanj
|
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1980-81
|
Chetan Chauhan
|
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1980-81
|
Syed Kirmani
|
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1981
|
Dilip Vengsarkar
|
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1982
|
Mohinder Amarnath
|
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1983
|
Diana Edulji
|
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1984
|
Ravi Shastri
|
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1985
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Shubhangi Kulkarni
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1986
|
Mohammad Azharuddin
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1986
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Sandhya Agarwal
|
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1989
|
Madan Lal
|
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1993
|
Manoj Prabhakar
|
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1993
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Kiran More
|
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1994
|
Sachin Tendulkar
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1995
|
Anil Kumble
|
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1996
|
Javagal Srinath
|
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1997
|
Ajay Jadeja
|
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1997
|
Sourav Ganguly
|
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1998
|
Rahul Dravid
|
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1998
|
Nayan Mongia
|
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2000
|
B.K. Venkatesh Prasad
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2001
|
VVS Laxman
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2002
|
Virender Sehwag
|
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2003
|
Harbhajan Singh
|
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2003
|
Mithali Raj
|
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2005
|
Anju Jain
|
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2006
|
Anjum Chopra
|
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2009
|
Gautam Gambhir
|
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2010
|
Jhulan Goswami
|
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2011
|
Zaheer Khan
|
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2012
|
Yuvraj Singh
|
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2013
|
Virat Kohli
|
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2014
|
Ravichandran Ashwin
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