Manu Bhaker Khel Ratna Award: Four star players including India’s star shooter Manu Bhaker and chess champion D Gukesh will receive the Khel Ratna Award. Hockey player Harmanpreet Singh and para athlete Praveen Kumar are also included in this list. Along with these, a total of 32 players will receive the Arjuna Award. All these players will be honored during the program to be held at Rashtrapati Bhavan on January 17.
These players will get Khel Ratna Award –
D Gukesh – Chess
Harmanpreet Singh – Hockey
Praveen Kumar- Para Athletics
Manu Bhaker – Shooting
These players will get Arjun Award –
- Jyoti Yaraji – Athletics
- Annu Rani – Athletics
- Neetu – Boxing
- Sweety – Boxing
- Vantika Agarwal – Chess
- Salima Tete – Hockey
- Abhishek – Hockey
- Sanjay – Hockey
- Jarmanpreet Singh – Hockey
- Sukhjeet Singh – Hockey
- Rakesh Kumar – Para-Archery
- Preeti Pal – Para Athletics
- Jeevanji Deepti – Para Athletics
- Ajit Singh – Para Athletics
- Sachin Sarjerao Khilari – Para Athletics
- Dharambir – Para Athletics
- Pranav Surma – Para Athletics
- H Hokato Sema – Para Athletics
- Simran G – Para Athletics
- Navdeep – Para Athletics
- Nitesh Kumar – Para-Badminton
- Thulasimathi Murugesan – Para-Badminton
- Nitya Sri Sumati Sivan – Para-Badminton
- Manisha Ramdas – Para-Badminton
- Kapil Parmar – Para-Judo
- Mona Agarwal – Para-Shooting
- Rubina Francis – Para-Shooting
- Swapnil Suresh Kusale – Shooting
- Sarabjot Singh – Shooting
- Abhay Singh – Squash
- Sajan Prakash – Swimming
- Aman – Swimming
update in progress…
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