# List of Arjuna Award recipients (2020–2029)

The Arjuna Award, officially known as the Arjuna Awards for Outstanding Performance in Sports and Games, is the sports honour of Republic of India. It is awarded annually by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. Before the introduction of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in 1991–1992, the Arjuna award was the highest sporting honour of India. As of 2020, the award comprises "a bronze statuette of Arjuna, certificate, ceremonial dress, and a cash prize of ₹15 lakh (US$17,000)."

## Name

The award is named after Arjuna, a character from the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata of ancient India. He is one of the Pandavas, depicted as a skilled archer winning the hand of Draupadi in marriage and in the Kurukshetra War, Krishna becomes his charioteer teaching him the sacred knowledge of Gita. In Hindu mythology, he has been seen as a symbol of hard work, dedication and concentration.

## History

Instituted in 1961 to honour the outstanding sportspersons of the country, the award over the years has undergone a number of expansions, reviews, and rationalizations. The award was expanded to include all the recognised disciplines in 1977, has introduced indigenous games and physically handicapped categories in 1995 and introduced a lifetime contribution category in 1995 leading to creation of a separate Dhyan Chand Award in 2002. The latest revision in 2018 stipulates that the award is given only to the disciplines included in the events like Olympic Games, Paralympic Games, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games, World Championship and World Cup along with Cricket, Indigenous Games, and Parasports. It also recommends giving only fifteen awards in a year, relaxing in case of excellent performance in major multi-sport events, team sports, across gender and giving away of at least one award to physically challenged category.
The nominations for the award are received from all government recognised National Sports Federations, the Indian Olympic Association, the Sports Authority of India (SAI), the Sports Promotion and Control Boards, the state and the union territory governments and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna, Dhyan Chand and Dronacharya awardees of the previous years. The recipients are selected by a committee constituted by the Ministry and are honoured for their "good performance in the field of sports over a period of four years" at international level and for having shown "qualities of leadership, sportsmanship and a sense of discipline".

## Recipients

In 2020, a total of twenty-seven individuals were conferred with the award. Individuals from nineteen different sports were awarded, which includes three from shooting, two each from athletics, badminton, boxing, cricket, hockey and wrestling, and one each from archery, basketball, equestrian, football, golf, kabaddi, kho kho, lawn tennis, rowing, swimming, table tennis and winter sports. Three individuals were also awarded from parasports.
In 2022, a total of twenty-five individuals have been conferred with the award. Individuals from fourteen different sports were awarded, which includes three from athletics, two each from badminton, boxing, chess, shooting and wrestling, and one each from hockey, judo, kabaddi, lawn bowls, mallakhamb, table tennis, weightlifting and wushu. Four individuals were also awarded from parasports.

## List of recipients

Key :
| § | Indicates Para sports |
List of Arjuna award recipients, showing the year, sport, and gender :
| Year | Recipient | Sport | Gender |
| 2020 | Atanu Das | Archery | Male |
| 2020 | Dutee Chand | Athletics | Female |
| 2020 | Satwiksairaj Rankireddy | Badminton | Male |
| 2020 | Chirag Shetty | Badminton | Male |
| 2020 | Vishesh Bhriguvanshi | Basketball | Male |
| 2020 | Manish Kaushik | Boxing | Male |
| 2020 | Lovlina Borgohain | Boxing | Female |
| 2020 | Ishant Sharma | Cricket | Male |
| 2020 | Deepti Sharma | Cricket | Female |
| 2020 | Sawant Ajay Anant | Equestrian | Male |
| 2020 | Sandesh Jhingan | Football | Male |
| 2020 | Aditi Ashok | Golf | Female |
| 2020 | Akashdeep Singh | Hockey | Male |
| 2020 | Deepika Thakur | Hockey | Female |
| 2020 | Deepak Niwas Hooda | Kabaddi | Male |
| 2020 | Sarika Kale | Kho Kho | Female |
| 2020 | Dattu Baban Bhokanal | Rowing | Male |
| 2020 | Manu Bhaker | Shooting | Female |
| 2020 | Saurabh Chaudhary | Shooting | Male |
| 2020 | Madhurika Patkar | Table Tennis | Female |
| 2020 | Divij Sharan | Tennis | Male |
| 2020 | Shiva Keshavan | Winter Sports | Male |
| 2020 | Divya Kakran | Wrestling | Female |
| 2020 | Rahul Aware | Wrestling | Male |
| 2020 | Suyash Jadhav | Swimming§ | Male |
| 2020 | Sandeep Chaudhary | Athletics§ | Male |
| 2020 | Manish Narwal | Shooting§ | Male |
| 2021 | Arpinder Singh | Athletics | Male |
| 2021 | Simranjit Kaur | Boxing | Female |
| 2021 | Shikhar Dhawan | Cricket | Male |
| 2021 | C. A. Bhavani Devi | Fencing | Female |
| 2021 | Monika Malik | Hockey | Female |
| 2021 | Vandana Katariya | Hockey | Female |
| 2021 | Sandeep Narwal | Kabaddi | Male |
| 2021 | Himani Uttam Parab | Mallakhamba | Female |
| 2021 | Abhishek Verma | Shooting | Male |
| 2021 | Ankita Raina | Tennis | Female |
| 2021 | Deepak Punia | Wrestling | Male |
| 2021 | Dilpreet Singh | Hockey | Male |
| 2021 | Harmanpreet Singh | Hockey | Male |
| 2021 | Rupinder Pal Singh | Hockey | Male |
| 2021 | Surender Kumar | Hockey | Male |
| 2021 | Amit Rohidas | Hockey | Male |
| 2021 | Birendra Lakra | Hockey | Male |
| 2021 | Sumit Walmiki | Hockey | Male |
| 2021 | Nilakanta Sharma | Hockey | Male |
| 2021 | Hardik Singh | Hockey | Male |
| 2021 | Vivek Sagar Prasad | Hockey | Male |
| 2021 | Gurjant Singh | Hockey | Male |
| 2021 | Mandeep Singh | Hockey | Male |
| 2021 | Shamsher Singh | Hockey | Male |
| 2021 | Lalit Kumar Upadhyay | Hockey | Male |
| 2021 | Varun Kumar | Hockey | Male |
| 2021 | Simranjeet Singh | Hockey | Male |
| 2021 | Yogesh Kathuniya | Athletics§ | Male |
| 2021 | Nishad Kumar | Athletics§ | Male |
| 2021 | Praveen Kumar | Athletics§ | Male |
| 2021 | Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj | Badminton§ | Male |
| 2021 | Singhraj Adhana | Shooting§ | Male |
| 2021 | Bhavina Patel | Table Tennis§ | Female |
| 2021 | Harvinder Singh | Archery§ | Male |
| 2021 | Sharad Kumar | Athletics§ | Male |
| 2022 | Seema Punia | Athletics | Female |
| 2022 | Eldhose Paul | Athletics | Male |
| 2022 | Avinash Sable | Athletics | Male |
| 2022 | Lakshya Sen | Badminton | Male |
| 2022 | Prannoy H. S. | Badminton | Male |
| 2022 | Amit Panghal | Boxing | Male |
| 2022 | Nikhat Zareen | Boxing | Female |
| 2022 | Bhakti Kulkarni | Chess | Female |
| 2022 | R Praggnanandhaa | Chess | Male |
| 2022 | Deep Grace Ekka | Hockey | Female |
| 2022 | Shushila Devi Likmabam | Judo | Female |
| 2022 | Sakshi Kumari | Kabaddi | Female |
| 2022 | Nayanmoni Saikia | Lawn Bowls | Female |
| 2022 | Sagar Kailas Ovhalkar | Mallakhamba | Male |
| 2022 | Elavenil Valarivan | Shooting | Female |
| 2022 | Om Prakash Mitharwal | Shooting | Male |
| 2022 | Sreeja Akula | Table Tennis | Female |
| 2022 | Vikas Thakur | Weightlifting | Male |
| 2022 | Anshu Malik | Wrestling | Female |
| 2022 | Sarita Mor | Wrestling | Female |
| 2022 | Praveen Kumar | Wushu | Male |
| 2022 | Manasi Girishchandra Joshi | Badminton§ | Female |
| 2022 | Tarun Dhillon | Badminton§ | Male |
| 2022 | Swapnil Sanjay Patil | Swimming§ | Male |
| 2022 | Jerlin Anika | Badminton§ | Female |
| 2023 | Ojas Pravin Deotale | Archery | Male |
| 2023 | Aditi Swami | Archery | Female |
| 2023 | Murali Sreeshankar | Athletics | Male |
| 2023 | Parul Chaudhary | Athletics | Female |
| 2023 | Mohammad Hussamuddin | Boxing | Male |
| 2023 | R Vaishali | Chess | Female |
| 2023 | Mohammed Shami | Cricket | Male |
| 2023 | Anush Agarwalla | Equestrian | Male |
| 2023 | Divyakriti Singh | Equestrian | Female |
| 2023 | Diksha Dagar | Golf | Female |
| 2023 | Krishan Pathak | Hockey | Male |
| 2023 | Sushila Chanu | Hockey | Female |
| 2023 | Pawan Sehrawat | Kabaddi | Male |
| 2023 | Ritu Negi | Kabaddi | Female |
| 2023 | Nasreen Shaikh | Kho Kho | Female |
| 2023 | Pinki Singh | Lawn Bowls | Female |
| 2023 | Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar | Shooting | Male |
| 2023 | Esha Singh | Shooting | Female |
| 2023 | Harinder Pal Sandhu | Squash | Male |
| 2023 | Ayhika Mukherjee | Table Tennis | Female |
| 2023 | Sunil Kumar | Wrestling | Male |
| 2023 | Antim Panghal | Wrestling | Female |
| 2023 | Naorem Roshibina Devi | Wushu | Female |
| 2023 | Sheetal Devi | Archery§ | Female |
| 2023 | Ajay Kumar Reddy | Cricket§ | Male |
| 2023 | Prachi Yadav | Canoeing§ | Female |
| 2024 | Jyothi Yarraji | Athletics | Female |
| 2024 | Annu Rani | Athletics | Female |
| 2024 | Nitu Ghanghas | Boxing | Female |
| 2024 | Saweety Boora | Boxing | Female |
| 2024 | Vantika Agrawal | Chess | Female |
| 2024 | Salima Tete | Hockey | Female |
| 2024 | Abhishek Nain | Hockey | Male |
| 2024 | Sanjay Rana | Hockey | Male |
| 2024 | Jarmanpreet Singh | Hockey | Male |
| 2024 | Sukhjeet Singh | Hockey | Male |
| 2024 | Rakesh Kumar | Archery§ | Male |
| 2024 | Preethi Pal | Athletics§ | Female |
| 2024 | Deepthi Jeevanji | Athletics§ | Female |
| 2024 | Ajeet Singh Yadav | Athletics§ | Male |
| 2024 | Sachin Sarjerao Khilari | Athletics§ | Male |
| 2024 | Dharambir Nain | Athletics§ | Male |
| 2024 | Pranav Soorma | Athletics§ | Male |
| 2024 | Hokato Hotozhe Sema | Athletics§ | Male |
| 2024 | Simran Sharma | Athletics§ | Female |
| 2024 | Navdeep Singh | Athletics§ | Male |
| 2024 | Kumar Nitesh | Badminton§ | Male |
| 2024 | Thulasimathi Murugesan | Badminton§ | Female |
| 2024 | Nithya Sre Sivan | Badminton§ | Female |
| 2024 | Manisha Ramadass | Badminton§ | Female |
| 2024 | Kapil Parmar | Judo§ | Male |
| 2024 | Mona Agarwal | Shooting§ | Female |
| 2024 | Rubina Francis | Shooting§ | Female |
| 2024 | Swapnil Kusale | Shooting | Male |
| 2024 | Sarabjot Singh | Shooting | Male |
| 2024 | Abhay Singh | Squash | Male |
| 2024 | Sajan Prakash | Swimming | Male |
| 2024 | Aman Sehrawat | Wrestling | Male |

## Explanatory notes

* ↑ The cash prize was introduced in the year 1977–1978 as a scholarship of ₹200 (US$2.30) a month for 2 years. It was revised to one time cash prize of ₹5,000 (US$58) in 1986, to ₹20,000 (US$230) in 1987, to ₹50,000 (US$580) in 1993, to ₹1.5 lakh (US$1,700) in 1998, to ₹3 lakh (US$3,500) in 2001, to ₹5 lakh (US$5,800) in 2009, and to ₹15 lakh (US$17,000) in 2020.