Arjuna Award
The Arjuna Awards were instituted in 1961 by the government of India to recognize outstanding achievement in National sports. The award carries a cash prize of Rs 300,000, a bronze statuette of Arjuna and a scroll. Arjuna awardees for 2007
Over the years the scope of the award has been expanded and a large number of sportspersons who belonged to the pre-Arjuna Award era were also included in the list. Further, the number of disciplines for which the award is given was increased to include indigenous games and the physically handicapped category.
The Government has recently revised the scheme for the Arjuna Award. As per the revised guidelines, to be eligible for the Award, a sportsperson should not only have had good performance consistently for the previous three years at the international level with excellence for the year for which the Award is recommended, but should also have shown qualities of leadership, sportsmanship and a sense of discipline.
From the year 2001, the award is given only in disciplines falling under the following categories:
Olympic Games / Asian Games / Commonwealth Games / World Cup / World Championship Disciplines and Cricket
Indigenous Games
Sports for the Physically Challenged
Arjuna Awardees in Archery
No
Year
Recipient Name
1
1981
Krishna Das
2
1989
Shyam Lal
3
1991
Limba Ram
4
1992
Sanjeev Kumar Singh
Arjuna Awardees in Athletics
1961
Gurbachan Singh Randhawa
2
1962
Tarlok Singh
3
1963
Stephie D'Souza
4
1964
Makhan Singh
5
1965
Kenneth Powell
6
1966
Ajmer Singh
7
1966
B. S. Barua
8
1967
Praveen Kumar
9
1967
Bhim Singh
10
1968
Joginder Singh
11
1968
Manjit Walia
12
1969
Harnek Singh
13
1970
Mohinder Singh Gill
14
1971
Edward Sequeira
15
1972
Vijay Singh Chauhan
16
1973
Sriram Singh
17
1974
T. C. Yohannan
18
1974
Shivnath Singh
19
1975
Hari Chand
20
1975
V. Anusuya Bai
21
1976
Bahadur Singh
22
1976
Geeta Zutshi
23
1978-79
Suresh Babu
24
1978-79
Angel Mary Joseph
25
1979-80
R. Gyanasekaran
26
1980-81
Gopal Saini
27
1981
Sabir Ali
28
1982
Charles Borromeo
29
1982
Chand Ram
30
1982
M. D. Valsamma
31
1983
Suresh Yadav
32
1983
P.T.Usha
33
1984
Raj Kumar
34
1984
Shiny Abraham
35
1985
Raghubir Singh Bal
36
1985
Asha Agarwal
37
1985
Adille Sumariwala
38
1986
Suman Rawat
39
1987
Balwinder Singh
40
1987
Vandana Rao
41
1987
Bagicha Singh
42
1987
Vandana Shanbagh
43
1988
Ashwini Nachappa
44
1989
Mercy Kuttan
45
1990
Deena Ram
46
1992
Bahadur Prasad
47
1993
K. Saramma
48
1994
Rosa Kutty
49
1995
Shakti Singh
50
1995
Jyotirmoyee Sikdar
51
1996
Ajit Bhaduria
52
1996
Padmini Thomas
53
1997
Reeth Abraham
54
1998
Sirichand Ram
55
1998
Neelam Jaswant Singh
56
1998
S. D. Eshan
57
1998
Rachita Mistry
58
1998
Paramjit Singh
59
1999
Gulab Chand
60
1999
Gurmit Kaur
61
1999
Parduman Singh
62
1999
Sunita Rani
63
2000
K. M. Beenamol
64
2000
Yadvendra Vashishta (PH)
65
2000
Vijay Bhalchandra Munishwar - Powerlifting (PH)
66
2000
Joginder Singh Bedi (PH) (For Life time Contribution)
67
2002
Anju Bobby George
68
2002
Saraswati Saha
69
2003
Soma Biswas
70
2003
Madhuri Saxena
71
2004
Anil Kumar
72
2004
J. J. Shobha
73
2004
Devendra Jhajharia (Physically Challenged)
Arjuna Awardees in Boxing
1
1961
L. Buddy D' Souza
2
1962
Hav. P. Badadur Mal
3
1966
Hawa Singh
4
1968
Hav. Dennis Swamy
5
1971
Hav. Muniswamy Venu
6
1972
Hav. Chandranarayanan
7
1973
Hav. Mehatab Singh
8
1977-78
B.S. Thapa
9
1978-79
C.C. Machaiah
10
1979-80
B. Singh
11
1980-81
Issac Amaldas
12
1981
Hav. G. Manoharan
13
1982
Hav. Kaur Singh
14
1983
Jas Lal Pradhan
15
1986
Jai Pal Singh
16
1987
Seeva Jayaram
17
1989
Gopal Dewang
18
1991
D.S. Yadav
19
1992
Rajender Prasad
20
1993
Manoj Pingale
21
1993
Mukund Killekar
22
1995
V. Devarajan
23
1996
Raj Kumar Sangwan
24
1998
N.G. Dingko Singh
25
1999
Gurcharan Singh
26
1999
Jitender Kumar
27
2002
Md. Ali Qamar
28
2003
Ms. Mangte Chungneijang Marykom
