Presenting awards is honouring someone for their valuable contribution which benefits others or our society. National sports awards are something awarded to the personalities excelled in various fields of sports which includes games as well as athletics. There are various categories of awards for coaches and athletes for their performances in various events.
This year’s National Sports Awards 2019 was presented by our Honourable President Shri.Ram Nath Kovind on the 114th birth anniversary of Major Dhyan Chand to sportspersons from the country at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.
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We the Entri team provides you the list of National Sports Awards 2019, as this information is pretty much important topic for all aspirants who all are aiming a good job in any of the sectors like Bank, SSC, Railways etc. in this year. A lot of competitive exams are upcoming for this year as well, so we do not want you to miss any single information from Current affairs portion will affect your score.
List of National sports awards 2019
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The full list of national Awards winners for the year 2019 is as follows:
| AWARDS | AWARDEE |
| Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in Sports and Games |
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| Arjuna Award |
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| Dronacharya Award for Outstanding Coaches in Sports and Games |
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| Dronacharya Award
(lifetime category) |
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| Dhyan Chand Award |
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Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in Sports and Games, is considered to be the highest award category for sports and Dronacharya Awards is the awards to honour sports coaches for their consistent effort to mould meritorious sports personalities in Republic of India. First recipient of these prestigious awards is Shri Viswanathan Anand, Chess Grand Master in the year 1991-1992 and Bhalachandra Bhaskar Bhagwat(Wrestling), Om Prakash Bhardwaj(Boxing), and O. M. Nambiar(Athletics),were honoured in 1985 respectively. Khel Ratna is given to the personality in the field of sports who have done most outstanding performance over a period of 04 years at various international level events like Olympics, Asian games, Common wealth Games, Paralympic games, Parasports, World Cups or Championships etc.
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