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List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award and gender[1]
Year Recipient Award Gender
1997–
Sachin Tendulkar Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Male
1998
2007 Mahendra Singh Dhoni Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Male
2018 Virat Kohli Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Male
2020 Rohit Sharma Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Male
Major Dhyan Chand Khel
2021 Mithali Raj Female
Ratna
1961 Salim Durani Arjuna Award Male
Mansoor Ali Khan
1964 Arjuna Award Male
Pataudi
1965 Vijay Manjrekar Arjuna Award Male
1966 Chandu Borde Arjuna Award Male
1967 Ajit Wadekar Arjuna Award Male
1968 E. A. S. Prasanna Arjuna Award Male
1969 Bishan Singh Bedi Arjuna Award Male
1970 Dilip Sardesai Arjuna Award Male
Srinivasaraghavan
1971 Arjuna Award Male
Venkataraghavan
1972 B. S. Chandrashekhar Arjuna Award Male
1972 Eknath Solkar Arjuna Award Male
1975 Sunil Gavaskar Arjuna Award Male
1976 Shantha Rangaswamy Arjuna Award Female
1977–
Gundappa Viswanath Arjuna Award Male
1978
1979–
Kapil Dev Arjuna Award Male
1980
1980–
Chetan Chauhan Arjuna Award Male
1981
1980–
Syed Kirmani Arjuna Award Male
1981
1981 Dilip Vengsarkar Arjuna Award Male
1982 Mohinder Amarnath Arjuna Award Male
1983 Diana Edulji Arjuna Award Female
1984 Ravi Shastri Arjuna Award Male
1985 Shubhangi Kulkarni Arjuna Award Female
1986 Sandhya Agarwal Arjuna Award Female
1986 Mohammad Azharuddin Arjuna Award Male
1989 Madan Lal Arjuna Award Male
1993 Kiran More Arjuna Award Male
1993 Manoj Prabhakar Arjuna Award Male
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Year Recipient Award Gender
1994 Sachin Tendulkar Arjuna Award Male
1995 Anil Kumble Arjuna Award Male
1996 Javagal Srinath Arjuna Award Male
1997 Sourav Ganguly Arjuna Award Male
1997 Ajay Jadeja Arjuna Award Male
1998 Rahul Dravid Arjuna Award Male
1998 Nayan Mongia Arjuna Award Male
2000 Venkatesh Prasad Arjuna Award Male
2001 VVS Laxman Arjuna Award Male
2002 Virender Sehwag Arjuna Award Male
2003 Mithali Raj Arjuna Award Female
2003 Harbhajan Singh Arjuna Award Male
2005 Anju Jain Arjuna Award Female
2006 Anjum Chopra Arjuna Award Female
2009 Gautam Gambhir Arjuna Award Male
2010 Jhulan Goswami Arjuna Award Female
2011 Zaheer Khan Arjuna Award Male
2012 Yuvraj Singh Arjuna Award Male
2013 Virat Kohli Arjuna Award Male
2014 Ravichandran Ashwin Arjuna Award Male
2015 Rohit Sharma Arjuna Award Male
2016 Ajinkya Rahane Arjuna Award Male
2017 Harmanpreet Kaur Arjuna Award Female
2017 Cheteshwar Pujara Arjuna Award Male
2018 Smriti Mandhana Arjuna Award Female
2019 Ravindra Jadeja Arjuna Award Male
2019 Poonam Yadav Arjuna Award Female
2020 Deepti Sharma Arjuna Award Female
2020 Ishant Sharma Arjuna Award Male
2021 Shikhar Dhawan Arjuna Award Male
2023 Mohammed Shami Arjuna Award Male
2018 Tarak Sinha + Dronacharya Award Male
2019 Sanjay Bhardwaj + Dronacharya Award Male
2021 Sarkar Talwar + Dronacharya Award Male
2022 Dinesh Jawahar Lad + Dronacharya Award Male
1986 Desh Prem Azad Dronacharya Award Male
1987 Gurcharan Singh Dronacharya Award Male
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Year Recipient Award Gender
1990 Ramakant Achrekar Dronacharya Award Male
2004 Sunita Sharma Dronacharya Award Female
2016 Rajkumar Sharma Dronacharya Award Male
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