Current Affairs|List of Arjuna Award Winners -2019

                               List of Arjuna Award Winners- 2019

Virat Receiving Arjuna Award in 2013

                                  

Arjuna Award is a Civilian Award for outstanding individual achievements in National Sports.  Started in 1961 given by Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports ,this award is one of the prestigious award a sportsperson can receive during his/her career.

Key Points :

• Award  carries a scroll , bronze statue and cash prize of Rs.500,000.
• Recently, Govt. has revised the guidelines of Arjuna Award according to which ,to be eligible for this said award ,a sportsperson should not only have good performance consistently for the last 3 years at the international level with excellence for the year in which award is recommended but should also have qualities like Sense of Discipline,Leadership and Sportsmanship .

List of Arjuna Award Winners -2019

S.no           Name of Sportsperson                   Sport

1.      Chinglensana Singh Kangujam        Hockey

2.      Ajay Thakur                                     Kabaddi

3.      Mohammed Anas Yahiya                Athletics(Sprinter)

4.     Tajinder Pal Singh Toor                   Athletics(Shot put)

5.     Swapna Barman                               Athletics(heptathlete)

6.    Sunder Singh Gurjar                          Para Sports-Athletics

7.   Ravindra Jadeja                                  Cricket(Men)

8.   Poonam Yadav                                    Cricket (Women)

9.   Sonia Lather                                        Boxing

10. Bhamidipati Sai Praneeth                    Badminton

11. Pramod Bhagat                                    Para-Sports-Badminton

12. S Bhaskaran                                        Body-Building

13. Gurpreet Singh Sandhu                       Football

14. Simran Singh Shergill                         Polo

15. Anjum Moudgil                                   Shooting(Rifle)

16. Fouaad Mirza                                       Equestrian

17. Gaurav Singh Gill                                MotorSports

18. Pooja Dhanda                                      Wrestling(Women)

19. Harmeet Rajul Desai                           Table Tennis


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