Indian badminton gamers and Girls’s doubles companions Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand; World Cup successful chess participant Divya Deshmukh. File
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The Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports activities on Tuesday (August 18, 2026) announced the National Sports Awards 2025 with 17 sportspersons being recognised for the celebrated Arjuna Awards.
World Cup successful chess participant Divya Deshmukh, badminton participant Gayatri Gopichand, and Glasgow Commonwealth Video games silver-medallist boxer Narender are among the many 17 sportspersons recognised for his or her excellence of their respective sports activities. Additionally on the Arjuna Award nomination listing are Grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi, Gayatri Gopichand’s ladies’s doubles companion Treesa Jolly, decathlete and excessive jumper Tejaswin Shankar, and younger deaf rifle shooter Dhanush Srikanth.
“Primarily based on the suggestions of the Choice Committee chaired by a former Choose of the Supreme Court docket of India, Justice (Retd.) Arun Kumar Mishra, the Authorities has determined to confer awards on the next sportspersons, coaches and entities underneath varied classes,” the Ministry stated in a launch.
The Sports activities Ministry, nonetheless, didn’t title any athlete for the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award this year.
1962 Asian Video games gold medallist footballer I Arumainayagam was conferred the Arjuna Award for ‘Lifetime Achievement’.
Coaches Parveer Singh (Athletics) , Chhote Lal Yadav (Boxing), Neha Nandkumar Chavan (Capturing) have been recognised with the ‘Dronacharya Award’ for excellent coaches in Sports activities and Video games.
The ‘Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar’ 2025 was conferred to the Military Paralympic Node, Pune. It’s is given to company entity (Public/Personal), non-governmental organisations (NGOs), “who’ve performed a visual function within the space of sports activities promotion and growth”.
With PTI inputs
Revealed – August 18, 2026 01:50 pm IST
