Arjuna Award
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 ₹5,00,000, a bronze statue of Arjuna and a scroll.
Over the years, the scope of the award has been expanded and many athletes 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.
History
Since 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 2015, 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
| S.No. | Year | Name |
| 1 | 1981 | Krishna Das |
| 2 | 1989 | Harish Nangunuri |
| 3 | 1991 | baba sravan kishore |
| 4 | 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 | V J Surekha |
Athletics
‡ - Para Athlete§ - Lifetime Contribution
| S.No. | Year | Name |
| 1 | 1961 | Gurbachan Singh Randhawa |
| 2 | 1962 | Tarlok Singh |
| 3 | 1963 | Stephie D'Souza |
| 4 | 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 | 1974 | T. C. Yohannan |
| 18 | 1974 | Shivnath Singh |
| 19 | 1975 | Hari Chand |
| 20 | 1975 | V. Anusuya Bai |
| 21 | 1976 | Bahadur Singh |
| 22 | 1976 | Geeta Zutshi |
| 23 | 1977–78 | Satish Kumar |
| 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 | 1983 | Suresh Yadav |
| 33 | 1983 | 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 | 1987 | Balwinder Singh |
| 41 | 1987 | Vandana Rao |
| 42 | 1987 | Bagicha Singh |
| 43 | 1987 | 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 | 1996 | Kallegowda ‡ |
| 54 | 1996 | Ajit Bhaduria |
| 55 | 1996 | 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 | 2004 | Anil Kumar |
| 77 | 2004 | J. J. Shobha |
| 78 | 2004 | Devendra Jhajharia ‡ |
| 79 | 2005 | Manjit Kaur |
| 80 | 2006 | K. M. Binu |
| 81 | 2007 | Chitra K. Soman |
| 82 | 2009 | Sinimol Paulose |
| 83 | 2010 | Joseph Abraham |
| 84 | 2010 | Krishna Punia |
| 85 | 2010 | 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 ‡ |
| 99 | 2017 | Varun Bhati ‡ |
| 100 | 2018 | Jinson Johnson |
| 101 | 2018 | Hima Das |
| 102 | 2018 | Neeraj Chopra |
| 103 | 2018 | Ankur Dhama ‡ |
| 104 | 2019 | Mohammed Anas Yahiya |
| 105 | 2019 | Tajinder Pal Singh |
| 106 | 2019 | Swapna Barman |
| 107 | 2019 | Sundar Singh Gurjar ‡ |
Badminton
‡ - Para Athlete| S.No. | Year | Name |
| 1 | 1961 | Nandu Natekar |
| 2 | 1962 | Meena Shah |
| 3 | 1965 | Dinesh Khanna |
| 4 | 1967 | Suresh Goel |
| 5 | 1969 | Dipu Ghosh |
| 6 | 1970 | Damayanti Tambay |
| 7 | 1971 | Shobha Moorthy |
| 8 | 1972 | Prakash Padukone |
| 9 | 1974 | Raman Ghosh |
| 10 | 1975 | 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 | 2004 | Abhinn Shyam Gupta |
| 22 | 2005 | Aparna Popat |
| 23 | 2006 | Chetan Anand |
| 24 | 2006 | Rohit Bhakar ‡ |
| 25 | 2008 | Anup Sridhar |
| 26 | 2009 | Saina Nehwal |
| 27 | 2009 | Parul Parmar ‡ |
| 28 | 2011 | Jwala Gutta |
| 29 | 2012 | Ashwini Ponnappa |
| 30 | 2012 | Parupalli Kashyap |
| 31 | 2013 | P.V. Sindhu |
| 32 | 2014 | Valiyaveetil Diju |
| 33 | 2015 | Srikanth Kidambi |
| 34 | 2016 | Raj Kumar ‡ |
| 35 | 2018 | Sikki Reddy |
| 36 | 2018 | Manoj Sarkar ‡ |
| 37 | 2019 | B. Sai Praneeth |
| 38 | 2019 | Pramod Bhagat ‡ |
Ball Badminton
Basketball
| S.No. | Year | Name |
| 1 | 1961 | Sarbjit Singh |
| 2 | 1967 | Khushi Ram |
| 3 | 1968 | Gurdial Singh |
| 4 | 1969 | Hav. Hari Dutt |
| 5 | 1970 | Gulam Abbas Moontasir |
| 6 | 1971 | Man Mohan Singh |
| 7 | 1973 | S. K. Kottailaya |
| 8 | 1974 | A.K. Punj |
| 9 | 1975 | Hanuman Singh |
| 10 | 1977–78 | T. Selvaragavan |
| 11 | 1979–80 | Om Prakash |
| 12 | 1982 | Ajmer Singh |
| 13 | 1983 | Suman Sharma |
| 14 | 1982 | Radhey Shyam |
| 15 | 1991 | Ms. S Sharma |
| 16 | 1999 | Sajjan Singh Cheema |
| 17 | 2001 | Parminder Singh |
| 18 | 2003 | Satya |
| 19 | 2014 | Geethu Anna Jose |
| 20 | 2017 | Prashanti Singh |
| 21 | 2018 | Jagrit Ahuja |
Billiards & Snooker
Boxing
| S.No. | Year | Name |
| 1 | 1961 | L. Buddy D' Souza |
| 2 | 1962 | Hav. P. Badadur Mal |
| 3 | 1966 | Hawa Singh |
| 4 | 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 | 1983 | Jas Lal Pradhan |
| 15 | 1986 | Jai Pal Singh |
| 16 | 1987 | 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 | 1996 | 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 | 2010 | 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 |
| 41 | 2019 | Sonia Lather |
Carrom
Chess
| S.No. | Year | Name |
| 1 | 1961 | Manuel Aaron |
| 2 | 1980–81 | Rohini Khadilkar |
| 3 | 1983 | Dibyendu Barua |
| 4 | 1984 | Pravin Thipsay |
| 5 | 1985 | Viswanathan Anand |
| 6 | 1987 | D. V. Prasad |
| 7 | 1987 | 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 | 2010 | Parimarjan Negi |
| 17 | 2013 | Abhijeet Gupta |
Cricket
| S.No. | Year | Name |
| 1 | 1961 | Saleem Durani |
| 2 | 1964 | Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi |
| 3 | 1965 | Vijay Manjrekar |
| 4 | 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 | 1974 | Anjan Bhattacharjee |
| 13 | 1975 | Sunil Gavaskar |
| 14 | 1976 | Shanta Rangaswamy |
| 15 | 1977–78 | Gundappa Vishwanath |
| 16 | 1979–80 | Kapil Dev Nikhanj |
| 17 | 1980–81 | Chetan Chauhan |
| 18 | 1980–81 | Syed Kirmani |
| 19 | 1981 | Dilip Vengsarkar |
| 20 | 1982 | Mohinder Amarnath |
| 21 | 1983 | Diana Edulji |
| 22 | 1984 | Ravi Shastri |
| 23 | 1985 | Shubhangi Kulkarni |
| 24 | 1986 | Mohammad Azharuddin |
| 25 | 1986 | Sandhya Agarwal |
| 26 | 1989 | Madan Lal |
| 27 | 1993 | Manoj Prabhakar |
| 28 | 1993 | Kiran More |
| 29 | 1994 | Sachin Tendulkar |
| 30 | 1995 | Anil Kumble |
| 31 | 1996 | Javagal Srinath |
| 32 | 1997 | Ajay Jadeja |
| 33 | 1997 | Sourav Ganguly |
| 34 | 1998 | Rahul Dravid |
| 35 | 1998 | Nayan Mongia |
| 36 | 2000 | Venkatesh Prasad |
| 37 | 2001 | VVS Laxman |
| 38 | 2002 | Virender Sehwag |
| 39 | 2003 | Harbhajan Singh |
| 40 | 2003 | Mithali Raj |
| 41 | 2005 | Anju Jain |
| 42 | 2006 | Anjum Chopra |
| 43 | 2009 | Gautam Gambhir |
| 44 | 2010 | Jhulan Goswami |
| 45 | 2011 | Zaheer Khan |
| 46 | 2012 | Yuvraj Singh |
| 47 | 2013 | Virat Kohli |
| 48 | 2014 | Ravichandran Ashwin |
| 49 | 2015 | Rohit Sharma |
| 50 | 2016 | Ajinkya Rahane |
| 51 | 2017 | Cheteshwar Pujara |
| 52 | 2017 | Harmanpreet Kaur |
| 53 | 2018 | Smriti Mandhana |
| 54 | 2019 | Poonam Yadav |
| 55 | 2019 | Ravindra Jadeja |
Cycling
Equestrian
Football
| S.No. | Year | Name |
| 1 | 1961 | P. K. Banerjee |
| 2 | 1962 | Tulsidas Balaram |
| 3 | 1963 | Chuni Goswami |
| 4 | 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 | 1983 | Shanti Mullick |
| 17 | 1989 | Subrata Bhattacharya |
| 18 | 1997 | Brahmanand Sankhwalkar |
| 19 | 1998 | Baichung Bhutia |
| 20 | 2002 | Bruno Coutinho |
| 21 | 2003 | I. M. Vijayan |
| 22 | 2010 | Deepak Kumar Mondal |
| 23 | 2011 | Sunil Chhetri |
| 24 | 2016 | Subrata Paul |
| 25 | 2017 | Oinam Bembem Devi |
| 26 | 2019 | Gurpreet Singh Sandhu |
Golf
| S.No. | Year | Name |
| 1 | 1961 | P. G. Sethi |
| 2 | 1963 | Ashok Malik |
| 3 | 1967 | Raj Kumar Pitambar |
| 4 | 1972 | Anjali N Desai |
| 5 | 1973 | Vikramjit Singh |
| 6 | 1977 | Sita Rawlley |
| 7 | 1982 | Lakshman Singh |
| 8 | 1987 | Nonita Lall |
| 9 | 1991 | Ali Sher |
| 10 | 1999 | Jeev Milkha Singh |
| 11 | 2002 | Shiv Kapur |
| 12 | 2004 | Jyoti Randhawa |
| 13 | 2007 | Arjun Atwal |
| 14 | 2013 | Gagan Jeet Bhullar |
| 15 | 2014 | Anirban Lahiri |
| 16 | 2017 | Shiv Chawrasia |
| 17 | 2018 | Shubhankar Sharma |
Gymnastics
Hockey
| S.No. | Year | Name |
| 1 | 1961 | Prithipal Singh |
| 2 | 1961 | Ann Lumsden |
| 3 | 1963 | Charanjit Singh |
| 4 | 1964 | S. Laxman |
| 5 | 1965 | Udham Singh |
| 6 | 1965 | E. Britto |
| 7 | 1966 | John 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 | 1974 | Ashok Kumar |
| 19 | 1974 | A. Kaur |
| 20 | 1975 | B. P. Govinda |
| 21 | 1975 | Rupa Saini |
| 22 | 1977–78 | Capt. Harcharan Singh |
| 23 | 1977–78 | Leslie Fernandez |
| 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 | 1983 | 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 | 1996 | A. B. Subbaiah |
| 43 | 1996 | Ashish 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 | Baljit Singh 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 | Haripal Kaushik |
| 56 | 1998 | Ramandeep Singh |
| 57 | 1998 | Victor Philips |
| 58 | 2000 | Baljeet Singh Saini |
| 59 | 2000 | Tingonleima Chanu |
| 60 | 2000 | Raghbir Singh 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 | 2004 | Deepak Thakur |
| 70 | 2004 | 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 | 2010 | Jasjeet Kaur Handa |
| 77 | 2010 | Sandeep Singh |
| 78 | 2011 | Rajpal Singh |
| 79 | 2012 | Sardar Singh |
| 80 | 2013 | Saba Anjum Karim |
| 81 | 2015 | P. R. Sreejesh |
| 82 | 2016 | V. R. Raghunath |
| 83 | 2016 | Ritu Rani |
| 84 | 2017 | S. V. Sunil |
| 85 | 2018 | Savita Punia |
| 86 | 2018 | Manpreet Singh |
| 87 | 2019 | Chinglensana Kangujam |
Judo
Kabaddi
Lawn Tennis
| S.No. | Year | Name |
| 1 | 1961 | Ramanathan Krishnan |
| 2 | 1962 | Naresh Kumar |
| 3 | 1966 | Jaidip Mukerjea |
| 4 | 1967 | Premjit Lall |
| 5 | 1974 | 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 | 1996 | Gaurav Natekar |
| 12 | 1997 | Asif Ismail |
| 13 | 2000 | Akhtar Ali |
| 14 | 2001 | Sandeep Kirtane |
| 15 | 2004 | Sania Mirza |
| 16 | 2011 | Somdev Devvarman |
| 17 | 2017 | Saketh Myneni |
| 18 | 2018 | Rohan Bopanna |
Mountaineering
Source:Roller Skating
Rowing
Polo
Shooting
‡ - Para Athlete| S.No. | Year | Name |
| 1 | 1961 | Karni Singh |
| 2 | 1968 | Rajyashree Kumari |
| 3 | 1969 | Bhuvaneshwari Kumari |
| 4 | 1971 | Bhim Singh |
| 5 | 1972 | Udyan Chinubhai |
| 6 | 1978–79 | Randhir Singh |
| 7 | 1981 | S. P. Chauhan |
| 8 | 1983 | Mohinder Lal |
| 9 | 1983 | Soma Dutta |
| 10 | 1985 | A. J. Pandit |
| 11 | 1986 | Bhagirath Samai |
| 12 | 1993 | Mansher Singh |
| 13 | 1994 | Jaspal Rana |
| 14 | 1996 | 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 | 2004 | Deepali A. Deshpande |
| 29 | 2005 | Gagan Narang |
| 30 | 2006 | Vijay Kumar |
| 31 | 2008 | Avneet Kaur Sidhu |
| 32 | 2009 | Ronjan Sodhi |
| 33 | 2010 | 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 |
| 43 | 2017 | PN Prakash |
| 44 | 2018 | Rahi sarnobat |
| 45 | 2018 | Ankur mittal |
| 46 | 2018 | Shreyasi singh |
| 47 | 2019 | Anjum Moudgil |
Squash
Swimming
‡ - Para Athlete| S.No. | Year | Name |
| 1 | 1961 | Jam. Bajarangi Prasad |
| 2 | 1966 | Rima Datta |
| 3 | 1967 | Arun Shaw |
| 4 | 1969 | Baidyanath Nath |
| 5 | 1971 | Bhanwar Singh |
| 6 | 1973 | D. Khatau |
| 7 | 1974 | A.B. Sarang |
| 8 | 1974 | Manjari Bhargava |
| 9 | 1975 | M.S. Rana |
| 10 | 1975 | Smita Desai |
| 11 | 1982 | Persis Madan |
| 12 | 1983 | Anita Sood |
| 13 | 1984 | Khajan Singh |
| 14 | 1988 | Wilson Cherian |
| 15 | 1990 | Bula Choudhury |
| 16 | 1996 | Kutraleeswaran |
| 17 | 1998 | Bhanu Sachdeva |
| 18 | 1999 | Nisha Millet |
| 19 | 2000 | Sebastian Xavier |
| 20 | 2000 | J. Abhijith |
| 21 | 2005 | Shikha Tandon |
| 22 | 2010 | Rehan Poncha |
| 23 | 2011 | Virdhawal Khade |
| 24 | 2011 | Prasanta Karmakar ‡ |
| 25 | 2012 | Sandeep Sejwal |
| 26 | 2015 | Sharath Gayakwad ‡ |