Khel Ratna: Four Athletes Including Manu Bhaker, Gukesh To Receive Award

The Sports Ministry on Thursday announced the names of athletes who are to win the National Sports Award of 2024. Khel Ratna is to be given to four.

Shooter Manu Bhaker, who won two bronze awards at the Paris Olympics, world champion of FIDE world chess D Gukesh, Indian hockey captain Harmanpreet Singh and para-athlete Praveen Kumar will receive this year’s Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award.

The awardees will receive their honour from the President of India at a specially organized function at Rashtrapati Bhavan on January 17.

Along with 4 top sports awardees 43 other athletes will receive various sports awards of 2024.

Major Dhyan Chand Awardees

S. No.	Name of the Sportsperson	Discipline
1.	Shri Gukesh D	Chess
2.	Shri Harmanpreet Singh	Hockey
3.	Shri Praveen Kumar	Para-Athletics
4.	Ms. Manu Bhaker	Shooting

Arjuna Awards For Outstanding Performance In Sports And Games 2024

S. No.	Name of the Sportsperson	Discipline
1	Ms. Jyothi Yarraji	Athletics
2	Ms. Annu Rani	Athletics
3	Ms. Nitu	Boxing
4	Ms. Saweety	Boxing
5	Ms. Vantika Agrawal	Chess
6	Ms. Salima Tete	Hockey
7	Shri Abhishek	Hockey
8	Shri Sanjay	Hockey
9	Shri Jarmanpreet Singh	Hockey
10	Shri Sukhjeet Singh	Hockey
11	Shri Rakesh Kumar	Para-Archery
12	Ms. Preeti Pal	Para-Athletics
13	Ms. Jeevanji Deepthi	Para-Athletics
14	Shri Ajeet Singh	Para-Athletics
15	Shri Sachin Sarjerao Khilari	Para-Athletics
16	Shri Dharambir	Para-Athletics
17	Shri Pranav Soorma	Para-Athletics
18	Shri H Hokato Sema	Para-Athletics
19	Ms. Simran	Para-Athletics
20	Shri Navdeep	Para-Athletics
21	Shri Nitesh Kumar	Para-Badminton
22	Ms. Thulasimathi Murugesan	Para-Badminton
23	Ms. Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan	Para-Badminton
24	Ms. Manisha Ramadass	Para-Badminton
25	Shri Kapil Parmar	Para-Judo
26	Ms. Mona Agarwal	Para-Shooting
27	Ms. Rubina Francis	Para-Shooting
28	Shri Swapnil Suresh Kusale	Shooting
29	Shri Sarabjot Singh	Shooting
30	Shri Abhay Singh	Squash
31	Shri Sajan Prakash	Swimming
32	Shri Aman	Wrestling

Arjuna Awards (Lifetime) For Outstanding Performance In Sports And Games 2024

S. No.	Name of the Sportsperson	Discipline
1	Shri Sucha Singh	Athletics
2	Shri Murlikant Rajaram Petkar	Para-Swimming

Dronacharya Award For Outstanding Coaches In Sports And Games 2024

Regular Category:

S. No.	Name of the Coach	Discipline
1	Shri Subhash Rana	Para-Shooting
2	Ms. Deepali Deshpande	Shooting
3	Shri Sandeep Sangwan	Hockey

 

Lifetime Category: 

S. No.	Name of the Coach	Discipline
	Shri S Muralidharan	Badminton
	Shri Armando Agnelo Colaco	Football

 

Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar

S. No.	Name of the Entity
	Physical Education Foundation of India

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy 2024

S. No.	Name of University
1	Chandigarh University	Overall winner University
2	Lovely Professional University, (PB)	1st runner up University
3	Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar	2nd runner up University