List of National sports awards 2019

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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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	Deepa Malik (Para-Athletics) Bajrang Punia (Wrestling)
Arjuna Award	Ravindra Jadeja (Cricket) Mohammed Anas (Athletics) Gurpreet Singh Sandhu (Football) Sonia Lather (Boxing) Chinglensana Singh Kangujam (Hockey) S Bhaskaran (Bodybuilding) Ajay Thakur (Kabaddi) Anjum Moudgil (Shooting) Bhamidipati Sai Praneeth (Badminton) Tajinder Pal Singh Toor (Athletics) Pramod Bhagat (Para sports-badminton) Harmeet Rajul Desai (Table tennis) Pooja Dhanda (Wrestling) Fouaad Mirza (Equestrian) Simran Singh Shergill (Polo) Poonam Yadav (Cricket), Swapna Burman (Athletics) Sundar Singh Gurjar (Para sports-athletics) Gaurav Singh Gill (Motorsports)
Dronacharya Award for Outstanding Coaches in Sports and Games	Mohinder Singh Dhillon (athletics) Sandeep Gupta (table tennis) Vimal Kumar (badminton)
Dronacharya Award (lifetime category)	Sanjay Bhardwaj (cricket) Rambir Singh Khokar (kabaddi) Mezban Patel (hockey)
Dhyan Chand Award	Manoj Kumar (wrestling) C Lalremsanga (archery) Arup Basak (table tennis) Nitten Kirrtane (tennis) Manuel Fredricks (hockey)

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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