# List of National Sports Award recipients in non-Olympic sports

The National Sports Awards is the collective name given to the six sports awards of Republic of India. It is awarded annually by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. They are presented by the President of India in the same ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan usually on 29 August each year along with the national adventure award. As of 2020, a total of two hundred and sixty-six individuals have been awarded the various National Sports Awards in non-Olympic sports. The four awards presented in non-Olympic sports are Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award, Dhyan Chand Award and Dronacharya Award.
First presented in the year 1961, a total of two hundred and twenty-nine individuals (including one group award to twenty individuals) have been honoured with the Arjuna Award in non-Olympic sports for their "good performance at the international level" over the period of last four years, with two individuals being awarded for their lifetime contribution. First presented in the year 1986, a total of twenty-five coaches have been honoured with the Dronacharya Award in non-Olympic sports for their "outstanding work on a consistent basis and enabling sportspersons to excel in international events" over the period of last four years, with four coaches being awarded in the lifetime contribution category. First presented in the year 1991–1992, a total of nine sportspersons have been honoured with the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, the highest sporting honour of India, in non-Olympic sports for their "most outstanding performance at the international level" over the period of last four years. First presented in the year 2005, a total of three retired sportspersons have been honoured with the Dhyan Chand Award, the lifetime achievement sporting honour of India, in non-Olympic sports for their "good performance at the international level and their continued contributions to the promotion of sports even after their career as a sportsperson is over." One awardee Kelly Subbanand Rao was honoured Arjuna Award posthumously in the year 1996 in the discipline of yachting.

## Recipients
### Adventure Sports

List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender :
| Year | Recipient | Award | Gender |
| 1985 | Gulshan Rai | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1986 | Arti Pradhan | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1986 | K. S. Rao | Arjuna Award | Male |

### Ball Badminton

List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender :
| Year | Recipient | Award | Gender |
| 1970 | J. Pitchayya | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1972 | Jayamma Srinivasan | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 1973 | A. Kareem | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1975 | L. A. Iqbal | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1976 | A. Sam Christ Das | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1984 | D. Rajaraman | Arjuna Award | Male |

### Billiards & Snooker

List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender :
| Year | Recipient | Award | Gender |
| 1992–1993 | Geet Sethi | Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna | Male |
| 2005 | Pankaj Advani | Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna | Male |
| 1962 | Wilson Jones | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1970 | Michael Ferreira | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1972 | Satish Kumar Mohan | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1973 | Shyam Shroff | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1978–1979 | Arvind Savur | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1983 | Subhash Agarwal | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1984 | Omprakesh Agrawal | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1985 | Geet Sethi | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1989 | Yasin Merchant | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1997 | Ashok Harishankar Shandilya | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2001 | Devender Sreekant Joshi | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2002 | Alok Kumar | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2003 | Pankaj Advani | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2005 | Anuja Thakur | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2012 | Aditya Mehta | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2013 | Rupesh Shah | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2016 | Sourav Kothari | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2005 | Manoj Kumar Kothari | Dhyan Chand Award | Male |
| 1996 | Wilson Jones | Dronacharya Award | Male |
| 2001 | Michael Ferreira | Dronacharya Award | Male |
| 2004 | Arvind Savur | Dronacharya Award | Male |
| 2010 | Subhash Agarwal | Dronacharya Award | Male |

### Bodybuilding

List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender :
| Year | Recipient | Award | Gender |
| 1978–1979 | Monotosh Roy | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1979–1980 | Sunil Kumar Patra | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1986 | Premchand Degra | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1998 | T. V. Pauly | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2019 | S. Bhaskaran | Arjuna Award | Male |

### Carrom

List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender :
| Year | Recipient | Award | Gender |
| 1996 | A. Maria Irudayam | Arjuna Award | Male |

### Chess

List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender :
| Year | Recipient | Award | Gender |
| 1991–1992 | Viswanathan Anand | Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna | Male |
| 2024 | Gukesh Dommaraju | Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna | Male |
| 1961 | Manuel Aaron | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1980–1981 | Rohini Khadilkar | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 1983 | Dibyendu Barua | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1984 | Pravin Thipsay | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1985 | Viswanathan Anand | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1987 | Devaki Prasad | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1987 | Bhagyashree Thipsay | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 1990 | Anupama Gokhale | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2000 | Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2002 | Krishnan Sasikiran | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2003 | Koneru Humpy | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2005 | Surya Shekhar Ganguly | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2006 | Pentala Harikrishna | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2007 | Harika Dronavalli | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2009 | Tania Sachdev | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2010 | Parimarjan Negi | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2013 | Abhijeet Gupta | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2022 | Bhakti Kulkarni | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2022 | R Praggnanandhaa | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2023 | R Vaishali | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2024 | Vantika Agrawal | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2021 | Abhijit Kunte | Dhyan Chand Award | Male |
| 2006 | Koneru Ashok | Dronacharya Award | Male |
| 2023 | RB Ramesh | Dronacharya Award | Male |

### Kabaddi

Key :
* + Indicates a Lifetime contribution honour
List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender :
| Year | Recipient | Award | Gender |
| 1972 | S. M. Shetty | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1973 | Bhola Nath Guin | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1978–1979 | S. P. Khatavkar | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 1980–1981 | Shantaram Jadhav | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1981 | Monika Nath | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 1983 | Maya Kashinath | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 1986 | Rama Sarkar | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 1990 | Hardeep Singh | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1994 | Subbiah Rajaratnam | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1994 | Ashok D. Shinde | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1995 | P. Ganesan | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1996 | Shriram Bhavsar | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1996 | Neta Moreshwar Dadwe | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 1997 | Randhir Singh | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1998 | Ashan Kumar | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1998 | Biswajit Palit | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1999 | Tirath Raj $^+$ | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1999 | Balwinder Singh $^+$ | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2000 | C. Honappa | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2001 | B. C. Ramesh | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2002 | Ram Mehar Singh | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2003 | Sanjeev Kumar | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2004 | Sunder Singh | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2005 | Ramesh Kumar | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2006 | Navneet Gautam | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2009 | Pankaj Navnath Shirsat | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2010 | Dinesh Kumar | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2011 | Rakesh Kumar | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2011 | Tejaswini Bai V. | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2012 | Anup Kumar | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2014 | Mamatha Poojary | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2015 | Manjeet Chhillar | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2015 | Abhilasha Mhatre | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2017 | Jasvir Singh | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2019 | Ajay Thakur | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2020 | Deepak Niwas Hooda | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2021 | Sandeep Narwal | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2022 | Sakshi Kumari | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2023 | Pawan Sehrawat | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2023 | Ritu Negi | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2007 | Shamsher Singh | Dhyan Chand Award | Male |
| 2020 | Manpreet Singh | Dhyan Chand Award | Male |
| 2021 | Vikas Kumar | Dhyan Chand Award | Male |
| 2022 | B.C. Suresh | Dhyan Chand Award | Male |
| 2023 | Kavitha Selvaraj | Dhyan Chand Award | Female |
| 2019 | Rambir Singh Khokar $^+$ | Dronacharya Award | Male |
| 2020 | Krishan Kumar Hooda $^+$ | Dronacharya Award | Male |
| 2021 | Ashan Kumar $^+$ | Dronacharya Award | Male |
| 2023 | Bhaskaran E $^+$ | Dronacharya Award | Male |
| 2002 | E. Prasad Rao | Dronacharya Award | Male |
| 2005 | Balwan Singh | Dronacharya Award | Male |
| 2012 | Sunil Dabas | Dronacharya Award | Female |
| 2017 | Heera Nand Kataria | Dronacharya Award | Male |

### Kho Kho

List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender :
| Year | Recipient | Award | Gender |
| 1970 | Sudhir B. Parab | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1971 | Achala Suberao Devra | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1973 | Bhavna H. Parikh | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 1974 | N. C. Sarolkar | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 1975 | Shreerang J. Inamdar | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1975 | Usha Vasant Nagarkar | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 1976 | S. R. Dharwadkar | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1981 | Sushma Sarolkar | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 1981 | H. M. Takalkar | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1983 | Veena Narayan Parab | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 1984 | S. Prakash | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1985 | S. B. Kulkarni | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 1998 | Shobha Narayan | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2020 | Kale Sarika Sudhakar | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2023 | Nasreen Shaikh | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2000 | Gopal Purushottam Phadke | Dronacharya Award | Male |

### Lawn Bowls

List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender :
| Year | Recipient | Award | Gender |
| 2022 | Nayanmoni Saikia | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2023 | Pinki Singh | Arjuna Award | Female |

### Mallakhamb

List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender :
| Year | Recipient | Award | Gender |
| 2021 | Himani Parab | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2022 | Sagar Kailas Ovhalkar | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2020 | Yogesh Malviya | Dronacharya Award | Male |
| 2023 | Ganesh Prabhakar Devrukhkar | Dronacharya Award | Male |

### Motor Sports

List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender :
| Year | Recipient | Award | Gender |
| 2019 | Gaurav Gill | Arjuna Award | Male |

### Mountaineering

List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender :
| Year | Recipient | Award | Gender |
| 1965 | H. P. S. Ahluwalia | Arjuna Award (Group) | Male |
| 1965 | Harsh Vardhan Bahuguna | Arjuna Award (Group) | Male |
| 1965 | C. Balakrishanan | Arjuna Award (Group) | Male |
| 1965 | G. S. Bhangu | Arjuna Award (Group) | Male |
| 1965 | A. K. Chakravarty | Arjuna Award (Group) | Male |
| 1965 | Avtar Singh Cheema | Arjuna Award (Group) | Male |
| 1965 | Nawang Gombu | Arjuna Award (Group) | Male |
| 1965 | Sonam Gyatso | Arjuna Award (Group) | Male |
| 1965 | J. C. Joshi | Arjuna Award (Group) | Male |
| 1965 | Ang Kami | Arjuna Award (Group) | Male |
| 1965 | Mohan Singh Kohli | Arjuna Award (Group) | Male |
| 1965 | Narendra Kumar | Arjuna Award (Group) | Male |
| 1965 | Mulkh Raj | Arjuna Award (Group) | Male |
| 1965 | B. N. Rana | Arjuna Award (Group) | Male |
| 1965 | Harish Chandra Singh Rawat | Arjuna Award (Group) | Male |
| 1965 | B. P. Singh | Arjuna Award (Group) | Male |
| 1965 | Gurdial Singh | Arjuna Award (Group) | Male |
| 1965 | D. V. Telang | Arjuna Award (Group) | Male |
| 1965 | Chandra Prakash Vohra | Arjuna Award (Group) | Male |
| 1965 | Sonam Wangyal | Arjuna Award (Group) | Male |
| 1981 | Chandraprabha Aitwal | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 1981 | Harshwanti Bisht | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 1981 | B. S. Sandhu | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1981 | Rekha Sharma | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 1984 | D. K. Khullar | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1984 | Bachendri Pal | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 1985 | Phu Dorjee | Arjuna Award | Male |

### Polo

List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender :
| Year | Recipient | Award | Gender |
| 1961 | Prem Singh | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1963 | Kishen Singh | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1964 | Hanut Singh | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1975 | V. P. Singh | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1983 | R. S. Sodhi | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1987 | Kuldeep Singh Garcha | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2012 | Samir Suhag | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2018 | Ravi Rathore | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2019 | Simran Singh Shergill | Arjuna Award | Male |

### Powerlifting

List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender :
| Year | Recipient | Award | Gender |
| 1978–1979 | Shubrata Dutta | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1984 | P. J. Joseph | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1988 | P. K. Yeshodhra | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1992 | E. S. Bhaskaran | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2000 | Bhupender Dhawan | Dronacharya Award | Male |

### Roller Skating

List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender :
| Year | Recipient | Award | Gender |
| 1987 | Naman Virendra Parekh | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2015 | Anup Kumar Yama | Arjuna Award | Male |

### Squash

List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender :
| Year | Recipient | Award | Gender |
| 1961 | K. S. Jain | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1969 | Anil Nayar | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1979–1980 | Rajkumar Manchanda | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1982 | Bhuvneshwari Kumari | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 1990 | M. R. Dharuvala | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1997 | Misha Grewal | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2006 | Saurav Ghosal | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2012 | Dipika Pallikal | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2013 | Joshna Chinappa | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2014 | Anaka Alankamony | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2023 | Harinder Pal Sandhu | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2024 | Abhay Singh | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2004 | Cyrus Poncha | Dronacharya Award | Male |

### Wushu

List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender :
| Year | Recipient | Award | Gender |
| 2011 | W. Sandhyarani Devi | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2012 | M. Bimoljit Singh | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2015 | Y. Sanathoi Devi | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2018 | Pooja Kadian | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2022 | Praveen Kumar | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2023 | Naorem Roshibina Devi | Arjuna Award | Female |
| 2020 | Kuldeep Handoo | Dronacharya Award | Male |

### Yachting

Key :
* # Indicates a posthumous honour
List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender :
| Year | Recipient | Award | Gender |
| 1993–1994 | Pushpendra Kumar Garg | Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna | Male |
| 1993–1994 | Homi Motivala | Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna | Male |
| 1970 | S. J. Contractor | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1973 | Afsar Hussain | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1978–1979 | S. K. Mongia | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1981 | Zarir Karanjia | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1982 | Farokh Tarapore | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1982 | Fali Unwalla | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1982 | Jeeje Unwalla | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1986 | Dhruv Bhandari | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1987 | C. S. Pradipak | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1990 | Pushpendra Kumar Garg | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1993 | Homi Motivala | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1996 | Kelly Subbanand Rao$^#$ | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 1999 | Aashim Mongia | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2001 | Mahesh Ramchandran | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2002 | Nitin Mongia | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2009 | Girdhari Lal Yadav | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2010 | Rajesh Chaudhary | Arjuna Award | Male |
| 2002 | Homi Motivala | Dronacharya Award | Male |