Sports Award of India: Arjuna Award Winners of years 1961 and 2017-18

Sports Award of India: Arjuna Award Winners in 1961 and 2017-18

Winners of Arjuna Award in years 1961:

Manuel Aaron for Chess, Saleem Durrani for cricket, L. Buddy D’ Souza for Boxing and Nandu Natekar for Badminton.

Sarabjeet Singh for Basket Ball, Gurucharan Singh Randhawa for Athletics, P. K. Banerjee for Football, P. G. Sethi for Golf, Shyam Lal for Gymnastics, Prithipal Singh & Ann Lumsden for Hokey.

Ramanathan Krishnan for Lawn Tennis, Karni Singh for Shooting, Jam. Bajarangi Prasad for Swimming, J. C. Vohra for Table Tennis, A. Palanisamy for Volleyball, A. N. Ghosh for Weightlifting, Subedar Udey Chand for Wrestling.

Winners of Arjuna Award in the year 2017:

V. J. Surekha for Archery and Khushbir Kaur, Arokia Rajiv, Mariyappan Thangavelu & Varun Bhati for Athletics, Prashanti Singh for Basketball.

Devendro Laishram for Boxing, Cheteshwar Pujara & Harmanpreet Kaur for Cricket, Oinam Bembem Devi for Football, SSP Chawrasia for Golf, S. V. Sunil for Hockey and Saketh Myneni for Lawn Tennis.

PN Prakash for Shooting, Anthony Amalraj for Table Tennis, Satyawart Kadian for Wrestling.

Winner of Arjuna Award in 2018: G. Pranav Sai Reddy for Kabddi in the year 2018.

Arjuna Award First Winners Detail

Meena Shah who known for her Badminton game was the first woman to get Arjuna award in 1962. Diana Eduji was the first woman to get Arjuna Award in Cricket (1983).

Krishna Das was the first Arjun Award winner in the field of Archery (1981). J. Pitchyya was the first Arjuna award winner in Ball Badminton (1970).

Wilson Jones was the first Arjuna awardee for Billiards & Snooker category in the year 1963. Amar Singh was the first Arjuna awardee in cycling in the year 1975.