Ministry announces list of sports awards
August 5th, 2010 - 10:55 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) The sports ministry Thursday announced the final list of the annual sports awards, with Saina Nehwal getting the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna.
Footballer Deepak Kumar Mondal, currently in Portugal with the national team, has got the Arjuna Award. This is the first time footballers will the Arjuna Award after a gap of eight years.
The list:
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award: Saina Nehwal (Badminton)
Arjuna Awards: Joseph Abraham, Krishna Poonia (both athletics), Dinesh Kumar (boxing), Parimrajan Negi (chess), Julan Goswami (women’s cricket), Deepak Kumar Mandal (football), Sandeep Singh (men’s hockey), Jasjeet Kaur Handa (women’s hockey), Dinesh Kumar (kabaddi), Sanjeev Rajput (shooting), Rehan Jehangir Poncha (swimming), Kapil Dev(volleyball), Rajeev Tomar (wrestling), Rajesh Chaudhary (yachting) and Jagseer Singh (paralympics athletics)
Dhyan Chand Awards: Satish Pillai (athletics), Kuldeep Singh (wrestling), Anita Chanu (weightlifting)
Dronacharya Awards: A.K. Kutty (athletics), Subhash B. Aggarwal (billiards and snooker), Ibomcha Singh (boxing), Ajay Kumar Bansal (hockey), Chandrup (for lifetime achievement in wrestling)
Rashtriya Khel Protsahana Puruskar: Services Sports Control Board (SSCB), Tata Steel Limited and Khel Evam Yuva Vibhag (government of Madhya Pradesh)
- Saina Nehwal conferred Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award - Aug 29, 2010
- President confers National Sports Awards (Lead) - Aug 29, 2010
- Saina to get Khel Ratna, Arjuna for Chettri and Sandeep (Roundup) - Jul 30, 2010
- Khel Ratna for Saina, Chettri gets Arjuna Award (Lead) - Jul 30, 2010
- 19 Arjuna Awards to be conferred this year - Aug 18, 2011
- President confers Narang with Khel Ratna, Arjuna for 19 athletes - Aug 29, 2011
- Marykom, Sushil and Vijender to get Khel Ratna - Jul 29, 2009
- President presents Khel Ratna, Arjuna awards - Aug 29, 2009
- Saina to get Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna - Jul 30, 2010
- More than two sportspersons likely to get Khel Ratna (correcting intro, lead) - Jul 20, 2009
- More than one sportsperson to get Khel Ratna - Jul 20, 2009
- P T Usha to head selection committee for National sports awards - Jul 23, 2010
- President Patil presents National Sports awards to 25 sportspersons - Aug 29, 2009
- Vijender, Mary Kom, and Sushil get Khel Ratna - Jul 29, 2009
- Govt. announces selection committees for national sports awards - Jul 22, 2010
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