National Sports Awards 2021

• Olympic gold medalist Neeraj Chopra, Paralympic gold medalist Sumit Antil and female cricketer Mithali Raj were honored with the Major Dhyanchand Khel Ratna award, the country’s highest sporting honour, at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
• In this event, 35 athletes were awarded the Arjuna Award.

These awards are presented annually to recognise and reward excellence in sports.

The National Sports Awards 2021 includes:

1. Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award
2. Arjuna Award
3. Dronacharya Award
4. Dhyan Chand Award for Lifetime Achievement in Sports and Games
5. Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar
6. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy.

The list of award winning players is as follows…

Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award

Neeraj Chopra (Athletics), Ravi Kumar (Wrestling), Lovlina Borgohain (Boxing), PR Sreejesh (Hockey), Avani Lekhara (Para Shooting), Sumit Antil (Para Athletics), Pramod Bhagat (Para Badminton) , Krishna Nagar (Para Badminton), Manish Narwal (Para Shooting), Mithali Raj (Cricket), Sunil Chhetri (Football), Manpreet Singh (Hockey).

Arjuna Awards

Arpinder Singh (Athletics), Simranjit Kaur (Boxing), Shikhar Dhawan (Cricket), CA Bhavani Devi (Fencing), Monika (Hockey), Vandana Kataria (Hockey), Sandeep Narwal (Kabaddi), Himani Uttam Parab (Mallakhamb) ), Abhishek Verma (shooting), Ankita Raina (tennis), Deepak Poonia (wrestling), Dilpreet Singh (hockey), Harmanpreet Singh (hockey), Rupinder Pal Singh (hockey), Surendra Kumar (hockey), Amit Rohidas (hockey) ), Birender Lakra (hockey), Sumit (hockey), Neelkant Sharma (hockey), Hardik Singh (hockey), Vivek Sagar Prasad (hockey), Gurjant Singh (hockey), Mandeep Singh (hockey), Shamsher Singh (hockey), Lalit Kumar Upadhyay (Hockey), Varun Kumar (Hockey), Simranjit Singh (Hockey), Yogesh Kathunia (Para Athletics), Nishad Kumar (Para Athletics), Praveen Kumar (Para Athletics), Suhash Yatiraj (Para Badminton), Singhraj Adhana ( Para Shooting), Bhavna Patel (Para Table Tennis), Harvinder Singh (Para Archery) and Sharad Kumar (Para Athletics).

Dronacharya Award in Life-time Category

T.P.Ouseph, Sarkar Talwar, Sarpal Singh, Ashan Kumar and Tapan Kumar Panigrahi

Dronacharya Award in Regular Category

Radhakrishnan Nair P, Sandhya Gurung, Pritam Siwach, Jai Prakash Nautiyal and Subramaniam Raman

Lifetime Achievement (Dhyanchand Award)

Lekh KC, Abhijit Kunte, Davinder Singh Garcha, Vikas Kumar and Sajjan Singh

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy

Panjab University (Chandigarh)