Khel Ratna Award Winners: The Ministry of Youth and Sports has announced the list of athletes who will be awarded the Khel Ratna this time. Apart from Manu Bhaker, D Gukesh, Praveen Kumar will be honored with the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award. Harmanpreet Singh, who won the hockey team a bronze medal in the Paris Olympics 2024, will also receive the Khel Ratna. The felicitation ceremony of these athletes will start at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 17 January 2025 at 11 am.
Based on the recommendations of the committees, the government has decided to give Khel Ratna to Manu Bhaker, D Gukesh, Harmanpreet Singh and para-athlete Praveen Kumar. It is noteworthy that a few days ago, Manu Bhakar’s name was not included in the recommended list of players to receive the Khel Ratna Award. But later Manu admitted that he might have made a mistake.
Manu Bhaker created history by winning two medals in shooting at the Paris Olympics. She became the first Indian athlete to win two different medals in the same event at the Olympics. Apart from this, Harmanpreet Singh led the Indian hockey team to its second consecutive Olympic medal. Whereas only a few weeks ago D Gukesh had become the youngest world champion in the history of chess. He achieved the title of world champion at the age of just 18. Praveen Kumar won the gold medal in the high jump event of T64 category of Paralympics. Let us tell you that the Sports Ministry has announced the list of 32 players who will be honored with the Arjuna Award. In which 17 para athletes have been kept.
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
Jiwaji Deepti – Para Athletics
Ajit Singh – Para
Athletics Sachin Sarjerao Khilari –
Para Athletics Dharambir – Para Athletics
Pranav Surma – Para Athletics
H Hokato Seema – Para Athletics
Simran ji – 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 – swim
