National Sports Awards 2024: From D Gukesh To Manu Bhaker - President Honours India's바카라 웹사이트Best

Double Olympic-medallist shooter Manu Bhaker and teenage chess world champion D Gukesh received the prestigious Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna from President Droupadi Murmu at the National Sports Awards ceremony held at the prestigious Rashtrapati Bhavan on Friday, January 17. (More Sports News)

The other two recipients of the country's highest sporting honour were men's hockey captain Harmanpreet Singh and Paralympic gold-winning high jumper Praveen Kumar.

The annual honours are decided by a points system in which the maximum emphasis is on performances delivered at the Olympics and the World Championships.

National Sports Awards 2024 Winners List

Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2024 winners

• Gukesh D - Chess

• Harmanpreet Singh - Hockey

• Praveen Kumar - Para-Athletics

• Manu Bhaker - Shooting

Arjuna Award 2024 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) 2024 winners

• Sucha Singh - Athletics

• Murlikant Petkar - Para-Swimming

Dronacharya Award 2024 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 2024 winner

• Physical Education Foundation of India

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy 2024 winners

• Chandigarh University - Overall winner University

• Lovely Professional University, (PB) - 1st runner up University

• Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar - 2nd runner up University

Thirty-two athletes are being honoured with the Arjuna Award out of which an unprecedented 17 are para-athletes.

(With PTI inputs)