Unlike every year, this year’s National Sports Day awards were held today (25th September) at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. Every year the awards are presented on 29th August which is the National Sports Day. This year’s event was solely postponed due to the Asian Games.
President Ram Nath Kovind graced the occasion as he handed over all the awards to the Sportspersons and the coaches. Here’s the list of the awards and the players.
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna 2018
Name of the Sportsperson Discipline
1. Mirabai Chanu Weightlifting
2. Virat Kohli Cricket
Dronacharya Awards 2018
Name of the Coach Discipline
1. Subedar Chenanda Achaiah Kuttappa Boxing
2. Vijay Sharma Weightlifting
3. A. Srinivasa Rao Table Tennis
4. Sukhdev Singh Pannu Athletics
5. Clarence Lobo Hockey (Life Time)
6. Tarak Sinha Cricket (Life Time)
7. Jiwan Kumar Sharma Judo (Life Time)
8. V.R. Beedu Athletics (Life Time)
Arjuna Awards 2018
Name of the Sportsperson Discipline
1. Neeraj Chopra Athletics
2. Subedar Jinson Johnson Athletics
3. Hima Das Athletics
4. Nelakurthi Sikki Reddy Badminton
5. Subedar Satish Kumar Boxing
6. Smriti Mandhana Cricket
7. Shubhankar Sharma Golf
8. Manpreet Singh Hockey
9. Savita Hockey
10. Col. Ravi Rathore Polo
11. Rahi Sarnobat Shooting
12. Ankur Mittal Shooting
13. Shreyasi Singh Shooting
14. Manika Batra Table Tennis
15. G. Sathiyan Table Tennis
16. Rohan Bopanna Tennis
17. Sumit Wrestling
18. Pooja Kadian Wushu
19. Ankur Dhama Para-Athletics
20. Manoj Sarkar Para-Badminton
Dhyan Chand Award 2018
Name of the Sportsperson Discipline
1. Satyadev Prasad Archery
2. Bharat Kumar Chetri Hockey
3. Bobby Aloysius Athletics
4. Chougale Dadu Dattatray Wrestling
Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar 2018
Category Name of the entity
1. Identification and Nurturing of Budding & Young Talent Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd.
2. Encouragement to Sports through Corporates JSW Sports
3. Sports for Development Isha Outreach
With the up rise of corporate investments and the number of awardees increasing potentially, we can be assured that the Indian Sports Industry is only to boom in the near future and create prolific World Champions!
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