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The Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports announced the National Sports Awards 2023 as the badminton duo of Chirag Chandrashekhar Shetty and Rankireddy Satwik Sai Raj won the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna awards while the Indian star pacer, Mohammed Shami among 26 sports persons bagged the Arjuna Award.
The winning athletes will be felicitated with the awards on January 9, 2024, by Indian President Droupadi Murmu. Five coaches will be awarded the Dronacharya Award.
Check the full list of National Sports Awards 2023 winners:
Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2023
- Chirag Chandrashekhar Shetty - Badminton
- Rankireddy Satwik Sai Raj - Badminton
Arjuna Award 2023
- Ojas Pravin Deotale - Archery
- Aditi Gopichand Swami - Archery
- Sreeshankar M - Athletics
- Parul Chaudhary - Athletics
- Mohameed Hussamuddin - Boxing
- R Vaishali - Chess
- Mohammed Shami - Cricket
- Anush Agarwalla - Equestrian
- Divyakriti Singh - Equestrian Dressage
- Diksha Dagar - Golf
- Krishan Bahadur Pathak - Hockey
- Pukhrambam Sushila Chanu - Hockey
- Pawan Kumar - Kabaddi
- Ritu Negi - Kabaddi
- Nasreen - Kho-Kho
- Pinki - Lawn Bowls
- Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar - Shooting
- Esha Singh - Shooting
- Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu - Squash
- Ayhika Mukherjee - Table Tennis
- Sunil Kumar - Wrestling
- Antim - Wrestling
- Naorem Roshibina Devi - Wushu
- Sheetal Devi - Para Archery
- Ajay Kumar Reddy - Blind Cricket
- Prachi Yadav - Para Canoeing
Dronacharya Award 2023
- Lalit Kumar - Wrestling
- R. B. Ramesh - Chess
- Mahaveer Prasad Saini - Para Athletics
- Shivendra Singh - Hockey
- Ganesh Prabhakar Devrukhkar - Mallakhamb
Lifetime Category:
- Jaskirat Singh Grewal - Golf
- Bhaskaran E - Kabaddi
- Jayanta Kumar Pushilal - Table Tennis
Dhyan Chand Award 2023:
- Manjusha Kanwar - Badminton
- Vineet Kumar Sharma - Hockey
- Kavitha Selvaraj - Kabaddi
(Inputs Taken From Press Release)
