Arjuna Award

Cricket is one of the most popular games in the country. There are several winners of Arjuna Award in this sport. Some of the winners are Saleem Durani (1961), Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (1964), Vijay Manjrekar (1965), Chandu Borde (1966), Ajit Wadekar (1967)

This game has only one representative in the Arjuna Awards winners list. The sole Carrom player who won the award is A. Maria Irudayam, in the year of 1996.

Though the game of Billiards and Snooker has a proud history and has produced some internationally successful players, it has four representatives in the winners list of the Arjuna Award.

This sport is quite popular in India at present and has produced some world-class golfers in recent times. Amongst them, three golfers became successful to win the Arjuna Award. They are Chiranjeev Milkha Singh in 1999; Shiv Kapur in 2002 and Jyotinder Singh Randhawa in 2004.

This is such a sport that is very much popular in other parts of the world but not that much in India and hence this sport also has only three players who won the Arjuna Award. In 1975, Amar Singh was the first Cycling player to win the award. After him....

Archery is quite popular at present in India and has several representatives in the winners list of the prestigious Arjuna Award. The winners are Krishna Das who won it in 1981; Shyam Lal, the winner of the award in 1989; Limba Ram in 1991 and Sanjeev Kumar Singh.....

This old game in India has only five award winners so far and the gymnasts started winning the award from the year of 1961 when Shyam Lal won it. In 1975, Montu Debnath won the award and it was won by Ms. S. Sharma in the year of 1985.

Mangal Singh Champia This is another sport that is being played in India for a long period of time and this sport also have some Arjuna Award winners. From the year of 1992 when Sandeep Byala won the award, it has another five winners of the award so far.

The game of Rowing is another off bit sport of India. This very game also has quite a few representatives in the winners list of the Arjuna Award that counts to eight. The Rowing players started their campaign to the winners list of the award in the year of 1981 when....