President Ram Nath Kovind presented the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awards to Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli and World Champion weightlifter Mirabai Chanu at Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi on Tuesday.
Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra and table tennis star Manika Batra were among the top athletes awarded the Arjuna Award. President Kovind also presented the Dhyan Chand and Dronacharya Awards.
Virat Kohli – World’s No.1 batsman in both ODI and Test cricket, as per the ICC rankings, has been putting scintillating performances consistently since the last couple of years. The 29-year-old had missed out on the top sports award following consecutive nominations in 2016 and 2017. The swashbuckling batsman smashed 6147 runs in 71 Tests with 23 centuries and 9779 runs in 211 ODIs, including 35 tons.
Second awardee Mirabai Chanu was selected for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna after she clinched the Gold medal in the 48kg category at the World Championship in 2017 and 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. However, she missed the Asian Games following an injury.
RAJIV GANDHI KHEL RATNA WINNERS FULL LIST:
Virat Kohli and Mirabai Chanu
ARJUNA AWARD WINNERS FULL LIST:
Athletics: Neeraj Chopra, Jinson Johnson and Hima Das
Badminton: N Sikki Reddy
Boxing: Satish Kumar
Cricket: Smriti Mandhana
Golf: Shubhankar Sharma
Hockey: Manpreet Singh, Savita
Polo: Ravi Rathore
Shooting: Rahi Sarnobat, Ankur Mittal, Shreyasi Singh
Table Tennis: Manika Batra, G Sathiyan
Tennis: Rohan Bopanna
Wrestling: Sumit
Wushu: Pooja Kadian
Para-Athletics: Ankur Dhama
Para-Badminton: Manoj Sarkar
DRONACHARYA AWARD WINNERS FULL LIST:
Boxing: C A Kuttappa
Weightlifting: Vijay Sharma
Table Tennis: A Srinivasa Rao
Athletics: Sukhdev Singh Pannu
Hockey, Lifetime Award: Clarence Lobo
Cricket, Lifetime Award: Tarak Sinha
Judo, Lifetime Award: Jiwan Kumar Sharma
Athletics, Lifetime Award: V R Beedu
DHYAN CHAND AWARD WINNERS FULL LIST
Archery: Satyadev Prasad
Hockey: Bharat Kumar Chetry
Athletics: Bobby Aloysius
Wrestling: Chougale Dadu Dattatray
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