Arjuna Award - wikipedia Arjuna Award Arjuna Award Civilian award for outstanding individual achievements in National Sports Sponsored by Govt. of India Reward ( s ) ₹ 500,000 First awarded 1961 Last awarded 2017 Highlights Total awarded 700 Website Official website ← Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna The Arjuna Awards are given by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India to recognize outstanding achievement in sports. Started in 1961, the award carries a cash prize of ₹ 500,000, a bronze statue of Arjuna and a scroll. Over the years the scope of the award has been expanded and a large number of sports persons 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 revises the criteria for the Arjuna Award over the years. As per the revised guidelines, to be eligible for the Award, a sportsperson should not only have had good performance consistently for the previous four 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. Contents 1 History 2 Archery 3 Athletics 4 Badminton 5 Ball Badminton 6 Basketball 7 Billiards & Snooker 8 Boxing 9 Carrom 10 Chess 11 Cricket 12 Cycling 13 Equestrian 14 Football 15 Golf 16 Gymnastics 17 Hockey 18 Judo 19 Kabaddi 20 Lawn Tennis 21 Roller Skating 22 Rowing 23 Polo 24 Shooting 25 Squash 26 Swimming 27 Table Tennis 28 Volleyball 29 Weightlifting 30 Wrestling 31 Wushu 32 Yachting 33 References 34 External links History 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 In mid-August 2011, 19 athletes were announced as Arjuna recipients ; the high number due to the inclusion of both the 2010 Commonwealth Games and 2010 Asian Games in the Arjuna qualifying year. In 2012, 25 sports - persons were conferred with the Arjuna awards. In the year 2017, 17 sports - persons, including para - athletes were honoured with Arjuna Award by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. Archery Mangal Singh Champia S.No. Year Name 1981 Krishna Das 1989 Shyam Lal 1991 Limba Ram 1992 Sanjeev Kumar Singh 5 2005 Tarundeep Rai 6 2005 Dola Banerjee 7 2006 Jayanta Talukdar 8 2009 Mangal Singh Champia 9 2011 Rahul Banerjee 10 2012 Deepika Kumari 11 2012 Laishram Bombayla Devi 12 2013 Chekrovolu Swuro 13 2014 Abhishek Verma 14 2015 Sandeep Kumar 15 2016 Rajat Chauhan 16 2017 VJ Surekha Athletics Mercy Kuttan Reeth and Beedu ‡ - Para Athlete § - Lifetime Contribution S.No. Year Name 1961 Gurbachan Singh Randhawa 1962 Tarlok Singh 1963 Stephie D'Souza 1964 Makhan Singh 5 1965 Kenneth Powell 6 1966 Ajmer Singh 7 1966 Bhogeswar Baruah 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 T.C. Yohannan 18 Shivnath Singh 19 Hari Chand 20 V. Anusuya Bai 21 1976 Bahadur Singh 22 1976 Geeta Zutshi 23 1977 - 78 Satish Kumar ( Athlete ) 24 1978 - 79 Suresh Babu 25 1978 - 79 Angel Mary Joseph 26 1979 - 80 R. Gyanasekaran 27 1980 - 81 Gopal Saini 28 1981 Sabir Ali 29 1982 Charles Borromeo 30 1982 Chand Ram 31 1982 M.D. Valsamma 32 Suresh Yadav 33 P.T. Usha 34 1984 Raj Kumar 35 1984 Shiny Abraham 36 1985 Raghubir Singh Bal 38 1985 Asha Agarwal 39 1985 Adille Sumariwala 39 1986 Suman Rawat 40 Balwinder Singh 41 Vandana Rao 42 Bagicha Singh 43 Vandana Shanbagh 44 1988 Ashwini Nachappa 45 1989 Mercy Kuttan 46 1990 Deena Ram 47 1992 Bahadur Prasad 48 1993 K. Saramma 49 1994 Rosa Kutty 50 1995 Shakti Singh 51 1995 Jyotirmoyee Sikdar 52 1995 Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla ‡ 53 Kallegowda ‡ 54 Ajit Bhaduria 55 Padmini Thomas 56 1997 M. Mahadeva ‡ 57 1997 Reeth Abraham 58 1998 Sirichand Ram 59 1998 Neelam Jaswant Singh 60 1998 S.D. Eshan 61 1998 Rachita Mistry 62 1998 Paramjit Singh 63 1999 Gulab Chand 64 1999 G. Venkataravanappa ‡ 65 1999 Gurmit Kaur 66 1999 Parduman Singh 67 1999 Sunita Rani 68 2000 K.M. Beenamol 69 2000 Yadvendra Vashishta ‡ 70 2000 Joginder Singh Bedi ‡ § 71 2001 K.R. Shankar Iyer ‡ 72 2002 Anju Bobby George 73 2002 Saraswati Saha 74 2003 Soma Biswas 75 2003 Madhuri Saxena 76 Anil Kumar 77 J.J. Shobha 78 Devendra Jhajharia ‡ 79 2005 Manjit Kaur 80 2006 K.M. Binu 81 2007 Chitra K. Soman 82 2009 Sinimol Paulose 83 Joseph Abraham ( Athletics ) 84 Krishna Punia 85 Jagseer Singh ‡ 86 2011 Preeja Sreedharan 87 2012 Sudha Singh 88 2012 Kavita Ramdas Raut 89 2012 Deepa Malik ‡ 90 2012 Ramkaran Singh ‡ 91 2013 Amit Kumar Saroha 92 2014 Tintu Luka 93 2015 M.R. Poovamma 94 2016 Lalita Babar 95 2016 Sandeep Singh Maan ‡ 96 2017 Khushbir Kaur 97 2017 Arokia Rajiv 98 2017 Mariyappan Thangavelu ‡ 98 2017 Varun Bhati ‡ Badminton Prakash Padukone Chetan Anand Jwala Gutta Parupalli Kashyap ‡ - Para Athlete S.No. Year Name 1961 Nandu Natekar 1962 Meena Shah 1965 Dinesh Khanna 1967 Suresh Goel 5 1969 Dipu Ghosh 6 1970 Damayanti Tambay 7 1971 Shobha Moorthy 8 1972 Prakash Padukone 9 Raman Ghosh 10 Davinder Ahuja 11 1976 Ami Ghia 12 1977 - 78 Kanwal Thakur Singh 13 1980 - 81 Syed Modi 14 1982 Partho Ganguli 15 1982 Madhumita Bisht 16 1991 Rajeev Bagga 17 2000 Pullela Gopichand 18 1999 George Thomas 19 2002 Ramesh Tikaram ‡ 20 2003 Madasu Srinivas Rao ‡ 21 Abhinn Shyam Gupta 22 2005 Aparna Popat 23 2006 Chetan Anand 24 2006 Rohit Bhakar ‡ 25 2008 Anup Sridhar 26 2009 Saina Nehwal 27 2011 Jwala Gutta 28 2012 Ashwini Ponnappa 29 2012 Parupalli Kashyap 30 2013 P.V. Sindhu 31 2014 Valiyaveetil Diju 32 2015 Srikanth Kidambi Ball Badminton S.No. Year Name 1970 J. Pitchyya 1972 Ms. J. Srinivasan 1973 A. Kareem L.A. Iqbal 5 1976 Sam Christudas 6 1984 D. Rajaraman Basketball Prashanti Singh receiving the Arjuna Award in 2017 from the President of India. S.No. Year Name 1961 Sarbjit Singh 1967 Khushi Ram 1968 Gurdial Singh 1969 Hav. Hari Dutt 5 1970 Gulam Abbas Moontasir 6 1971 Man Mohan Singh 7 1973 S.K. Kataria 8 A.K. Punj 9 Hanuman Singh 10 1977 - 78 T. Vijayaragavan 11 1979 - 80 Om Prakash 12 1982 Ajmer Singh 13 Suman Sharma 14 1991 Radhey Shyam 15 1991 Ms. S Sharma 16 1999 Sajjan Singh Cheema 17 2001 Parminder Singh 18 2003 Satya ( Sports ) 19 2014 Geethu Anna Jose 20 2017 Prashanti Singh Billiards & Snooker Pankaj Advani 2012 S.No. Year Name 1963 Wilson Jones 1973 Michael Ferreira Subhash Agarwal 1986 Geet Sethi 5 1997 Ashok Shandilya 6 2002 Alok Kumar 7 2003 Pankaj Advani 8 2005 Anuja Prakash Thakur 9 2009 R Umadevi Nagaraj 10 2012 Aditya S. Mehta 11 2013 Rupesh Shah 12 2016 Sourav Kothari Boxing Vijender Singh Mary Kom S.No. Year Name 1961 L. Buddy D ' Souza 1962 Hav. P. Badadur Mal 1966 Hawa Singh 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 Jas Lal Pradhan 15 1986 Jai Pal Singh 16 Seeva Jayaram 17 1989 Gopal Dewang 18 1991 Dharmendra Singh Yadav 19 1992 Rajendra Prasad 20 1993 Manoj Pingale 21 1993 Mukund Killekar 22 1995 V. Devarajan 23 Raj Kumar Sangwan 24 1998 Dingko Singh 25 1999 Gurcharan Singh 26 1999 Jitender Kumar 27 2002 Mohammed Ali Qamar 28 2003 Mary Kom 29 2005 Akhil Kumar 30 2006 Vijender Singh 31 2008 Verghese Johnson 32 2009 Laishram Sarita Devi 33 Dinesh Kumar 34 2011 Suranjoy Singh 35 2012 Vikas Krishan 36 2013 Kavita Chahal 37 2014 Manoj Kumar 38 2015 Mandeep Jangra 39 2016 Shiva Thapa 40 2017 Devendro Laishram Carrom S.No. Year Name A. Maria Irudayam Chess Viswanathan Anand Harika Dronavalli S.No. Year Name 1961 Manuel Aaron 1980 - 81 Rohini Khadilkar Dibyendu Barua 1984 Pravin Thipsay 5 1985 Viswanathan Anand 6 D.V. Prasad 7 Bhagyashree Thipsay 8 1990 Anupama Gokhale 9 2000 Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi 10 2002 Krishnan Sasikiran 11 2003 Koneru Humpy 12 2005 Surya Shekhar Ganguly 13 2006 Pentyala Harikrishna 14 2008 Dronavalli Harika 15 2009 Tania Sachdev 16 Parimarjan Negi 17 2013 Abhijeet Gupta Cricket Sachin Tendulkar Sourav Ganguly Rahul Dravid Virender Sehwag Harbhajan Singh S.No. Year Name 1961 Saleem Durani 1964 Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi 1965 Vijay Manjrekar 1966 Chandu Borde 5 1967 Ajit Wadekar 6 1968 E.A.S. Prasanna 7 1969 Bishan Singh Bedi 8 1970 Dilip Sardesai 9 1971 Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan 10 1972 Eknath Solkar 11 1972 B.S. Chandrashekhar 12 Sunil Gavaskar 13 1976 Shanta Rangaswamy 14 1977 - 78 Gundappa Vishwanath 15 1979 - 80 Kapil Dev Nikhanj 16 1980 - 81 Chetan Chauhan 17 1980 - 81 Syed Kirmani 18 1981 Dilip Vengsarkar 19 1982 Mohinder Amarnath 20 Diana Edulji 21 1984 Ravi Shastri 22 1985 Shubhangi Kulkarni 23 1986 Mohammad Azharuddin 24 1986 Sandhya Agarwal 25 1989 Madan Lal 26 1993 Manoj Prabhakar 27 1993 Kiran More 28 1994 Sachin Tendulkar 29 1995 Anil Kumble 30 Javagal Srinath 31 1997 Ajay Jadeja 32 1997 Sourav Ganguly 33 1998 Rahul Dravid 34 1998 Nayan Mongia 35 2000 Venkatesh Prasad 36 2001 VVS Laxman 37 2002 Virender Sehwag 38 2003 Harbhajan Singh 39 2003 Mithali Raj 40 2005 Anju Jain 41 2006 Anjum Chopra 42 2009 Gautam Gambhir 43 Jhulan Goswami 44 2011 Zaheer Khan 45 2012 Yuvraj Singh 46 2013 Virat Kohli 47 2014 Ravichandran Ashwin 48 2015 Rohit Sharma 49 2016 Ajinkya Rahane 50 2017 Cheteshwar Pujara 51 2017 Harmanpreet Kaur Cycling S.No. Year Name Amar Singh 1978 - 79 Ms. M. Mahapatra A.R. Arthna Equestrian S.No. Year Name 1973 Dafadar Khan M. Khan 1976 Lt Col H.S. Sodhi 1982 Maj. R. Singh Brar 1982 Raghubir Singh 5 1984 Capt. G. Mohd. Khan 6 Maj. J.S. Ahluwalia 7 1991 Capt. Adhiraj Singh 8 2003 Capt. Rajesh Pattu 9 Maj. Deep Kumar Ahlawat Football S.No. Year Name 1961 P.K. Banerjee 1962 Tulsidas Balaram 1963 Chuni Goswami 1964 Jarnail Singh 5 1965 Arun Lal Ghosh 6 1966 Yousuf Khan 7 1967 Peter Thangaraj 8 1969 Inder Singh 9 1970 Syed Naeemuddin 10 1971 C.P. Singh 11 1973 Magan Singh 12 1978 -- 79 Gurdev Singh Gill 13 1979 -- 80 Prasun Banerjee 14 1980 -- 81 Mohammed Habib 15 1981 Sudhir Karmakar 16 Shanti Mullick 17 1989 Subrata Bhattacharya 18 1997 Brahmanand Sankhwalkar 19 1998 Baichung Bhutia 20 2002 Bruno Coutinho 21 2003 I.M. Vijayan 22 Deepak Kumar Mondal 23 2011 Sunil Chhetri 24 2016 Subrata Paul 25 2017 Oinam Bembem Devi Golf Jeev Milkha Singh S.No. Year Name 1961 P.G. Sethi 1963 A.S. Malik 1967 R.K. Pitamber 1972 Anjali N Desai 5 1973 Vikramjit Singh 6 1977 Sita Rawlley 7 1982 Lakshman Singh 8 Nonita Lall 9 1991 Ali Sher 10 1999 Jeev Milkha Singh 11 2002 Shiv Kapur 12 Jyoti Randhawa 13 2007 Arjun Atwal 14 2013 Gagan Jeet Bhullar 15 2014 Anirban Lahiri 16 2017 SSP Chawrasia Gymnastics S.No. Year Name 1961 Shyam Lal Montu Debnath 1985 Ms. S. Sharma 1989 Ms. Krupali Patel 5 2000 Dr. ( Ms. ) Kalpna Debnath 6 2011 Ashish Kumar 7 2015 Dipa Karmakar Hockey Jagbir Singh receiving the Arjuna Award 1990 from President Venkataraman. S.No. Year Name 1961 Prithipal Singh 1961 Ann Lumsden 1963 Charanjit Singh 1964 S. Laxman 5 1965 Udham Singh 6 1965 E. Britto 7 1966 V.J. Peter 8 1966 Sunita Puri 9 1966 Gurbaksh Singh 10 1967 Harbinder Singh 11 1967 Mohinder Lal 12 1968 Balbir Singh Kular 13 1970 Ajit Pal Singh 14 1971 P. Krishnamurthy 15 1972 Michael Kindo 16 1973 M.P. Ganesh 17 1973 O. Mascarenhas 18 Ashok Kumar 19 A. Kaur 20 B.P. Govinda 21 Rupa Saini 22 1977 - 78 Capt. Harcharan Singh 23 1977 - 78 L.L. Fernandes 24 1979 - 80 Vasudevan Baskaran 25 1979 - 80 R.B. Mundphan 26 1980 - 81 Mohammed Shahid 27 1980 - 81 Eliza Nelson 28 1981 Versha Soni 29 Zafar Iqbal 30 1984 Rajbir Kaur 31 1984 S. Maney 32 1985 Prem Maya Sonir 33 1985 Maneyapanda Muthanna Somaya 34 1986 J.M. Carvalho 35 1988 M.P. Singh 36 1989 Pargat Singh 37 1990 Jagbir Singh 38 1992 Mervyn Fernandes 39 1994 Jude Felix Sabastain 40 1995 Dhanraj Pillai 41 1995 Mukesh Kumar 42 A.B. Subbaiah 43 Ashish Kumar Ballal 44 1997 Harmik Singh 45 1997 Surinder Singh Sodhi 46 1997 Rajinder Singh 47 1998 Surjit Singh Randhawa 48 1998 Pritam Rani Siwach 49 1998 B.S. Dhillon 50 1998 S. Omana Kumari 51 1998 Mohammed Riaz 52 1998 Baldev Singh 53 1998 Maharaj Krishna Kaushik 54 1999 Balbir Singh Kullar 55 1998 Lt. Col. Haripal Kaushik 56 1998 Ramandeep Singh 57 1998 V.J. Phillips 58 2000 Baljeet Singh Saini 59 2000 Tingonleima Chanu 60 2000 Gp. Capt. R.S. Bhola 61 2000 Balkishan Singh 62 2000 Jalaluddin Rizvi 63 2000 Madhu Yadav 64 2002 Dilip Tirkey 65 2002 Gagan Ajit Singh 66 2002 Mamta Kharab 67 2003 Devesh Chauhan 68 2003 Suraj Lata Devi 69 Deepak Thakur 70 Innocent Helen Mary 71 2005 Viren Rasquinha 72 2006 Jyoti Sunita Kullu 73 2008 Prabhjot Singh 74 2009 Surinder Kaur 75 2009 Ignace Tirkey 76 Jasjeet Kaur Handa 77 2011 Rajpal Singh 78 2012 Sardar Singh 79 2013 Saba Anjum Karim 80 2015 Sreejesh Ravindran 81 2016 V.R. Raghunath 82 2016 Ritu Rani 83 2017 S.V. Sunil Judo S.No. Year Name 1992 Sandeep Byala 1993 Cawas Billimoria Ms. Poonam Chopra 1999 Narender Singh 5 2003 Akram Shah 6 Ms. Angom Anita Chanu 7 2007 Ms. Tombi Devi 8 2012 Yashpal Solanki Kabaddi S.No. Year Name 1994 Subbiah Rajarathinam 1995 Perumal Ganesan Raju Bhavsar 1998 Ashan Kumar 5 1998 Biswajit Palit 6 1999 Balwinder Singh 7 1999 Tirath Raj 8 2000 C. Honappa 9 2002 Ram Mehar Singh 10 2003 Sanjeev Kumar 11 Sunder Singh 12 2005 Ramesh Kumar 13 2006 Naveen Gautam 14 2008 Pankaj Navnath Shrisat 15 Dinesh Kumar 16 2011 Tejaswini Bai 17 2011 Rakesh Kumar 18 2012 Anup Kumar 19 2014 Mamatha Poojary 20 2015 Manjeet Chillar 21 2015 Abhilasha Mhatre 22 2017 Jasvir Singh 23 2018 G. Pranav sai reddy Lawn Tennis Sania Mirza Leander Paes S.No. Year Name 1961 Ramanathan Krishnan 1962 Naresh Kumar 1966 Jaidip Mukerjea 1967 Premjit Lall 5 Vijay Amritraj 6 1978 - 79 Nirupama Mankad 7 1980 - 81 Ramesh Krishnan 8 1985 Anand Amritraj 9 1990 Leander Paes 10 1995 Mahesh Bhupathi 11 Gaurav Natekar 12 1997 Asif Ismail 13 2000 Akhtar Ali 14 Sania Mirza 15 2011 Somdev Devvarman 16 2017 Saketh Myneni Roller Skating S.No. Year Name 2015 Anup Kumar Yama Rowing S.No. Year Name 1981 Maj. Parveen Oberoy 1984 Capt. M.A. Naik 1991 Naib Subedar Dalvir Singh 1994 Major R.S. Bhanwala 5 Surender Singh Waldia 6 1999 Jagjit Singh 7 2000 Surender Singh Kanwasi 8 2001 Kasam Khan 9 2002 Inderpal Singh 10 Jenil Krishnan 11 2008 Bajrang lal Thakkar 12 2009 Satish Joshi 13 2014 Saji Thomas 14 2015 Swarna Singh Virk Polo S.No. Year Name 2012 Samir Suhag Shooting ‡ - Para Athlete S.No. Year Name 1961 Karni Singh 1968 Rajyashree Kumari 1969 Bhuvaneshwari Kumari 1971 Bhim Singh 5 1972 Udyan Chinubhai 6 1978 - 79 Randhir Singh 7 1981 S.P. Chauhan 8 Mohinder Lal 9 Soma Dutta 10 1985 A.J. Pandit 11 1986 Bhagirath Samai 12 1993 Mansher Singh 13 1994 Jaspal Rana 14 Moraad A. Khan 15 1997 Satendra Kumar 16 1997 Shilpi Singh 17 1997 Naresh Kumar Sharma ‡ 18 1998 Manavjit Singh 19 1998 Roopa Unnikrishnan 20 1999 Vivek Singh 21 2000 Anjali Vedpathak Bhagwat 22 2000 Abhinav Bindra 23 2000 Gurbir Singh 24 2002 Anwer Sultan 25 2002 Suma Shirur 26 2002 Samaresh Jung 27 2003 Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore 28 Deepali A. Deshpande 29 2005 Gagan Narang 30 2006 Vijay Kumar 31 2008 Avneet Kaur Sidhu 32 2009 Ronjan Sodhi 33 Sanjeev Rajput 34 2011 Tejaswini Sawant 35 2012 Annu Raj Singh 36 2012 Omkar Singh 37 2012 Joydeep Karmakar 38 2013 Rajkumari Rathore 39 2014 Heena Sidhu 40 2015 Jitu Rai 41 2016 Apurvi Chandela 42 2016 Gurpreet Singh 42 2017 PN Prakash Squash S.No. Year Name 2006 Saurav Ghosal 2012 Dipika Pallikal 2013 Joshna Chinappa 2014 Anaka Alankamony Swimming ‡ - Para Athlete S.No. Year Name 1961 Jam. Bajarangi Prasad 1966 Rima Datta 1967 Arun Shaw 1969 Baidyanath Nath 5 1971 Bhanwar Singh 6 1973 D. ( Tingoo ) Khatau 7 A.B. Sarang 8 Manjari Bhargava ( diving ) 9 M.S. Rana 10 Smita Desai 11 1982 Persis Madan 12 Anita Sood 13 1984 Khajan Singh 14 1988 Wilson Cherian 15 1990 Bula Choudhury 16 Kutraleeswaran 17 1998 Bhanu Sachdeva 18 1999 Nisha Millet 19 2000 Sebastian Xavier 20 2000 J. Abhijith 21 2005 Shikha Tandon 22 Rehan Poncha 23 2011 Virdhawal Khade 24 2011 Prasanta Karmakar ‡ 25 2012 Sandeep Sejwal 26 2015 Sharath Gayakwad ‡ Table Tennis S.No. Year Name 1961 J.C. Vohra 1965 G.R. Deewan 1966 U. Sundararaj 1967 F.R. Khodaiji 5 1969 Mir Kasim Ali 6 1970 G. Jagannath 7 1971 K.F. Khodaiji 8 1973 N.R. Bajaj 9 1976 Shailaja Salokhe 10 1979 - 80 Indu Puri 11 1980 - 81 Manjit Dua 12 1982 V. Chandrasekhar 13 1985 Kamlesh Mehta 14 Monalisa Barua 15 1989 Niyati Shah 16 1990 M.S. Walia 17 1997 Chetan Baboor 18 1998 Subramaniam Raman 19 2002 Mantu Ghosh 20 Achanta Sharath Kamal 21 2005 Soumyadeep Roy 22 2006 Subhajit Saha 23 2009 Poulomi Ghatak 24 2013 Mouma Das 25 2013 Mouma Das 26 2016 Soumyajit Ghosh 27 2017 Anthony Amalraj Volleyball S.No. Year Name 1961 A. Palanisamy 1962 Nripjit Singh 1972 Balwant Singh a.k.a. Ballu 1973 G.M. Reddy 5 M.S. Rao 6 Sub. Insp. R. Singh 7 K.C. Elamma 8 1976 Jimmy George 9 1977 - 78 A. Ramana Rao 10 1978 - 79 Kutty Krishnan 11 1979 Riaz Ahmed 12 1979 - 1980 S.K. Mishra 13 1982 G.E. Sridharan 14 R.K. Purohit 15 1984 Saley Joseph 16 1986 Cyril C. Valloor 17 1989 Abdul Basith 18 1990 Dalel Singh Ror 19 1991 K. Udaya Kumar 20 1999 Sukhpal Singh 21 2000 P.V. Ramana 22 2001 Amir Singh 23 2002 Ravikant Reddy 24 K.J. Kapil Dev 25 2011 Sanjay Kumar 26 2014 Tom Joseph Weightlifting S.No. Year Name 1961 A.N. Ghosh 1962 L.K. Dass 1963 K.E. Rao 1965 B.S. Bhatia 5 1966 Mohan Lal Ghosh 6 1967 S. John Gabriel 7 1970 Arun Kumar Dass 8 1971 S.L. Salwan 9 1972 Anil Kumar Mandal 10 S. Vellaiswamy 11 Dalbir Singh 12 1976 K. Balamuruganandam 13 1977 - 78 M. Tamilselvan 14 1978 - 79 Ekambaram Karunakaran 15 1981 B.K. Satpathy 16 1982 Tara Singh 17 Vispy K. Daroga 18 1985 Mehar Chand Bhaskar 19 1986 Jag Mohan Sapra 20 G. Devan 21 1989 Jyotsna Dutta 22 1990 R. Chandra 23 1990 Kunjarani Devi 24 1991 Chhaya Adak 25 1993 Bharati Singh 26 1994 Karnam Malleswari 27 1997 Paramjit Sharma 28 1997 N. Laxmi 29 1998 Satheesha Rai 30 1999 Dalbir Deol 31 2000 Sanamacha Chanu Thingbaijam 32 2002 Thandava Murthy Muthu 33 2006 Geeta Rani 34 2011 Katulu Ravi Kumar 35 2012 Ngangbam Soniya Chanu 36 2014 Renubala Chanu 37 2015 Sathish Sivalingam Wrestling S.No. Year Name 1961 Subedar Udey Chand 1962 Malwa 1963 G. Andalkar 1964 Bishamber Singh 5 1966 Bhim Singh Bhati 6 1967 Mukhtiar Singh 7 1969 Master Chandgi Ram ( Indian style wrestling ) 8 1970 Sudesh Kumar 9 1972 Prem Nath 10 1973 Jagroop Singh 11 Satpal 12 1978 - 79 Rajinder Singh 13 1980 - 81 Jagminder Singh 14 1982 Kartar Singh 15 1985 Mahabir Singh 16 Subhash Verma 17 1988 Rajesh Kumar 18 1989 Satywan 19 1990 Ombir Singh 20 1992 Pappu Yadav 21 1993 Ashok Kumar 22 1997 Jagdish Bhola 23 1997 Sanjay Kumar 24 1998 Kaka Pawar 25 1998 Rohtas Singh Dahiya 26 1999 Ashok Kumar 27 2000 Randhir Singh 28 2000 Kripa Shakar Patel 29 2000 K.D. Jadhav ( posthumously ) 30 2000 Naresh Kumar 31 2002 Palwinder Singh Cheema 32 2002 Sujeet Mann 33 2003 Shokhinder Tomar 34 Anuj Kumar 35 2005 Sushil Kumar 36 2006 Geetika Jakhar 37 2008 Alka Tomar 38 2009 Yogeshwar Dutt 39 Rajiv Tomar 40 2011 Ravinder Singh 41 2012 Narsingh Yadav 42 2012 Rajinder Kumar 43 2012 Geeta Phogat 44 2013 Neha Rathi 45 2013 Dharmendra Dalal 46 2014 Sunil Kumar Rana 47 2015 Bajrang Punia 48 2015 Babita Kumari 49 2016 Vinesh Phogat 50 2016 Amit Kumar Saroha 51 2016 Ankit vats ‡ 52 2017 Satyawart Kadian Wushu S. No. Year Name 2011 W. Sandhyarani Devi 2012 M. Bimoljit Singh 2015 Yumnam Sanathoi Devi Yachting S.No, Year Name 1970 Lt. Cdr. S.J. Contractor 1973 Afsar Hussain 1978 - 79 Cdr. S.K. Mongia 1981 Zarir Karanjia 5 1982 Farokh Tarapore 6 1982 Fali Unwalla 7 1982 Jeeja Unwalla 8 1986 Lt. Dhruv Bhandari 9 C.S. Pradipak 10 1990 Pushpendra Kumar Garg 11 1993 Cdr. Homi Motiwala 12 Lt. Cdr. 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Question: who got the first arjun award in athletics
Answer: Gurbachan Singh Randhawa; Gurbachan Singh Randhawa