The Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna award will be awarded on November 13. Meanwhile, Neeraj Chopra, Manpreet Singh, Lovlina Borgohain and many more would be receiving the prestigious award.
The Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna award is all set to be awarded to the deserving athletes on November 13 at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Ahead of the same, the athletes who would be receiving the honourable award have been revealed, including Olympians like Neeraj Chopra, Manpreet Singh and Lovlina Borgohain.
Manpreet was initially scheduled to receive the Arjuna Award before being promoted to the most reputable award. He would be doing so along with his hockey teammate and goalkeeper PR Sreejesh. While Chopra happens to be a gold-medalist in Tokyo Olympics 2020, in the javelin throw category, Lovlina won the bronze in boxing in Tokyo.
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A total of 12 athletes would be receiving the Khel Ratna award. In comparison, 35 athletes have been selected for the Arjuna Award, including a couple of top cricketers: Shikhar Dhawan and Mithali Raj.
Below is the list of all awardees:
Lifetime achievement: TP Ouseph (Athletics), Sarkar Talwar (Cricket), Sarpal Singh (Hockey), Ashan Kumar (Kabaddi) and Tapan Kumar Panigrahi (Swimming)
Dronacharya: Radhakrishnan Nair P (Athletics), Sandhya Gurung (Boxing), Pritam Siwach (Hockey), Jai Prakash Nautiyal (Para Shooting) and Subramanian Raman (Table Tennis)
Khel Ratna: 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: Arpinder Singh (Athletics), Simranjit Kaur (Boxing), Shikhar Dhawan (Cricket), CA Bhavani Devi (Fencing), Monika (Hockey), Vandana Katariya (Hockey), Sandeep Narwal (Kabaddi), Himani Uttam Parab (Mallakhamb), Abhishek Verma (Shooting), Ankita Raina (Tennis), Deepak Punia (Wrestling), Dilpreet Singh (Hockey), Harman Preet Singh (Hockey), Rupinder Pal Singh (Hockey), Surender Kumar (Hockey), Amit Rohidas (Hockey), Birendra Lakra (Hockey), Sumit (Hockey), Nilakanta 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), Simranjeet Singh (Hockey), Yogesh Kathuniya (Para-Athletics) Nishad Kumar (Para-Athletics), Praveen Kumar(Para-Athletics), Suhash Yathiraj (Para-Badminton) Singhraj Adhana (Para-Shooting), Bhavina Patel (Para-Table Tennis), Harvinder Singh (Para-Archery) and Sharad Kumar (Para-Athletics)
Rashtriya Khel Protsahan: Manav Rachna Educational Institution and Indian Oil Corporation Limited
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy: Panjab University