National Sports Awards 2018: full list of winners of Khel Ratna, Arjuna Awards, Dronacharya Awards

Virat Kohli, Mirabai Chanu, Hima Das among others who received high honours

Virat Kohli and Mirabai Chanu.

Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli, and weightlifter Saikhom Mirabai Chanu, the first Indian to win gold at the World Championships in more than two decades, received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award on Tuesday, the highest sporting honour in the country.

Here is the full list of the awards given in various categories by President Ram Nath Kovind at the National Sports Awards.

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna 2018

Name of the Sportsperson	Discipline
Mirabai Chanu	Weightlifting
Virat Kohli	Cricket

 

Dronacharya Awards 2018

Name of the Coach	Discipline
Subedar  Chenanda Achaiah  Kuttappa	Boxing
Vijay Sharma	Weightlifting
A. Srinivasa Rao	Table Tennis
Sukhdev  Singh  Pannu	Athletics
Clarence Lobo	Hockey (Life Time)
Tarak Sinha	Cricket (Life Time)
Jiwan Kumar Sharma	Judo (Life Time)
V.R. Beedu	Athletics (Life Time)

 

Arjuna Awards 2018

Name of the Sportsperson	Discipline
Neeraj Chopra	Athletics
Subedar Jinson Johnson	Athletics
Hima Das	Athletics
Nelakurthi Sikki Reddy	Badminton
Subedar Satish Kumar	Boxing
Smriti Mandhana	Cricket
Shubhankar Sharma	Golf
Manpreet Singh	Hockey
Savita	Hockey
Col. Ravi Rathore	Polo
Rahi Sarnobat	Shooting
Ankur Mittal	Shooting
Shreyasi Singh	Shooting
Manika Batra	Table Tennis
G. Sathiyan	Table Tennis
Rohan Bopanna	Tennis
Sumit	Wrestling
Pooja Kadian	Wushu
Ankur Dhama	Para-Athletics
Manoj Sarkar	Para-Badminton

 

Dhyan Chand Award 2018

Name of the Sportsperson	Discipline
Satyadev Prasad	Archery
Bharat Kumar Chetri	Hockey
Bobby Aloysius	Athletics
Chougale Dadu Dattatray	Wrestling

Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar 2018

Category	Name of the entity
Identification and Nurturing of Budding & Young Talent	Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited
Encouragement to Sports through Corporate Social Responsibility	JSW Sports
Sports for Development	Isha Outreach