National Sports Award 2024 announced get the full List

The Union Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports announced the names of the winners of the 2024 National Sports Award winner on 2 January 2025. The award winners will be felicitated by President Droupadi Murmu at a function at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on 17th January 2025.

About the National Sports Award 

The National Sports Award consists of the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award, Arjuna Award, Dronacharya Award, Arjuna Awards Lifetime Award (earlier Major  Dhyan Chand Award), Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy and the Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar.

Except Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar all other prizes are given to individual sports persons or coaches only. The  Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar is given to an individual or an institution for their exemplary contribution to promoting sports.

The government of India also instituted the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award in 1993-94 and since 2004 is given to the winner along with the other National Sports Award winner. The award winner's name will be announced later on.

Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna is the highest sports award in the country. It was earlier known as the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award and was renamed in 2021 as the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award.

Following is the list of the winners of the 2024 National Sports Award.

Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award winners

• Gukesh D - Chess
• Harmanpreet Singh - Hockey
• Praveen Kumar - Para-Athletics
• Manu Bhaker - Shooting

Arjuna Award winners

• Jyothi Yarraji - Athletics
• Annu Rani - Athletics
• Nitu Ghanghas - Boxing
• Saweety Boora - Boxing
• Vantika Agrawal - Chess
• Salima Tete - Hockey
• Abhishek - Hockey
• Sanjay - Hockey
• Jarmanpreet Singh - Hockey
• Sukhjeet Singh - Hockey
• Rakesh Kumar - Para-Archery
• Preeti Pal - Para-Athletics
• Jeevanji Deepthi - Para-Athletics
• Ajeet Singh - Para-Athletics
• Sachin Sarjerao Khilari - Para-Athletics
• Dharambir - Para-Athletics
• Pranav Soorma - Para-Athletics
• Hokato Hotozhe Sema - Para-Athletics
• Simran Sharma - Para-Athletics
• Navdeep Singh - Para-Athletics
• Nitesh Kumar - Para-Badminton
• Thulasimathi Murugesan - Para-Badminton
• Nithya Sre Sivan - Para-Badminton
• Manisha Ramadass - Para-Badminton
• Kapil Parmar - Para-Judo
• Mona Agarwal - Para-Shooting
• Rubina Francis - Para-Shooting
• Swapnil Kusale - Shooting
• Sarabjot Singh - Shooting
• Abhay Singh - Squash
• Sajan Prakash - Swimming
• Aman Sehrawat - Wrestling

Arjuna Awards (Lifetime) winners

• Sucha Singh - Athletics
• Murlikant Petkar - Para-Swimming

Dronacharya Award winners

Regular Category

• Subhash Rana - Para-Shooting
• Deepali Deshpande - Shooting
• Sandeep Sangwan - Hockey

Lifetime Category

• S Muralidharan - Badminton
• Armando Colaco - Football

Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar winner

• Physical Education Foundation of India

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy winners

• Overall winner University- Chandigarh University - Overall winner University
• 1st runner up University-Lovely Professional University,
• 2nd runner-up University- Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar