Arjuna Awards News

Arjuna Awardee Sheetal Devi is a para-archer from Jammu and Kashmir who overcame her phocomelia condition to become the world's first armless female archer.

Praveen Kumar Sobti dies at 74 He had won 4 Asian Games medals and participated twice in the Olympics He is a recipient of Arjuna Award.

Organised by the Sports Ministry, Fit India Freedom Run is the largest country-wide run, which began on August 14 and will go on till October 2. Chirag Shetty's comments came during a recent online interaction organised by he Sports Authority of India (SAI) regional center in Mumbai. The 23-year-old was among 27 sportspersons who were honoured with the prestigious Arjuna Awards in 2020 at the virtual National Sports Awards ceremony last month.

Jadeja who has been in excellent form for the Indian team during the ongoing Test series against West Indies joins the list of cricketers to receive the award which includes Virat Kohli, Rahul Dravid, and Sachin Tendulkar.

Pujara was not there to receive the prestigious award due to his commitment to the Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club in England.

Jhajharia received the award from President Ram Nath Kovind at the Rashtrapathi Bhawan along with Sardar Singh, who became only the second hockey player to get the prestigious Khel Ratna on the National Sports Day.

As many as 17 sports personalities were honoured with the 2017 Arjuna awards including cricketers Cheteshwar Pujara and Harmanpreet Kaur; golfer SSP Chawrasia, tennis player Saketh Myneni.