Dhyan Chand Award
List of recipients

Dhyan Chand Award

Section Title: List of recipients
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Year	Recipient(s)	Discipline(s)	Refs.

2002	Shahuraj Birajdar	Boxing

2002	Ashok Diwan	Hockey

2002	Aparna Ghosh	Basketball

2003	Charles Cornelius	Hockey

2003	Ram Kumar	Basketball

2003	Dharam Singh	Hockey

2003	Om Prakash	Volleyball

2003	Smita Shirole Yadav	Rowing

2004	Digamber Mehendale	Athletics (Physically challenged)

2004	Hardayal Singh	Hockey

2004	Labh Singh	Athletics

2005	Maruti Mane	Wrestling

2005	Manoj Kumar Kothari	Billiards & Snooker

2005	Rajinder Singh	Hockey

2006	Harishchandra Birajdar	Wrestling

2006	Uday K. Prabhu	Athletics

2006	Nandy Singh	Hockey

2007	Rajinder Singh	Wrestling

2007	Shamsher Singh	Kabaddi

2007	Varinder Singh	Hockey

2008	Gian Singh	Wrestling

2008	Hakam Singh	Athletics

2008	Mukhbain Singh	Hockey

2009	Satbir Singh Dahiya	Wrestling

2009	Ishar Singh Deol	Athletics

2010	Anita Chanu	Weightlifting

2010	Satish Pillai	Athletics

2010	Kuldeep Singh	Wrestling

2011	Shabbir Ali	Football

2011	Sushil Kohli	Swimming

2011	Rajkumar	Wrestling

2012	Gundeep Kumar	Hockey

2012	Vinod Kumar	Wrestling

2012	Jagraj Singh Mann	Athletics

2012	Sukhbir Singh Tokas	Para-Sports

2013	Syed Ali	Hockey

2013	Anil Mann	Wrestling

2013	Mary D'Souza Sequeira	Athletics

2013	Girraj Singh	Athletics (Parasports)

2014	Zeeshan Ali	Tennis

2014	Gurmail Singh	Hockey

2014	K. P. Thakkar	Swimming

2015	Romeo James	Hockey

2015	Shiv Prakash Mishra	Tennis

2015	T. P. Padmanabhan Nair	Volleyball

2016	Sylvanus Dung Dung	Hockey

2016	Sathi Geetha	Athletics

2016	Rajendra Pralhad Shelke	Rowing

2017	Bhupender Singh	Athletics

2017	Syed Shahid Hakim	Football

2017	Sumrai Tete	Hockey

2018	SATYADEV PRASAD	ARCHERY

2018	BHARAT KUMAR CHETRI	HOCKEY

2018	MISS BOBBY ALOYCIUS	ATHLETICS

2018	CHOUGALE DODU DATTATRAY	WRESTLING

Sentence(s)

The first recipients of the Dhyan Chand Award were Shahuraj Birajdar (Boxing), Ashok Diwan (Hockey), and Aparna Ghosh (Basketball) in 2002.

final_sentence: The first recipients of the Dhyan Chand Award were Shahuraj Birajdar (Boxing), Ashok Diwan (Hockey), and Aparna Ghosh (Basketball) in 2002.