The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports activities confirmed on Thursday, January 2 that India’s double Olympic medallist Manu Bhaker and the youngest world chess champion D Gukesh have been added to the Main Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award listing for 2024-25. Indian hockey captain Harmanpreet Singh and para-athlete Praveen Kumar have been the one ones nominated for the nation’s highest Sporting Honour earlier earlier than the official listing was launched by the Sports activities Ministry.
Bhaker and her father Ram Kishan have been gutted after the double Bronze medal winner was omitted of the Khel Ratna Awards listing. Kishan in a no-holds-barred dialog with the information company PTI had reckoned that he should not have let Bhaker play Olympic sport and obtained her into cricket or made her an IAS/IPS and get into administration in order that she may resolve who will get the award. The Sports activities Ministry in an announcement then had stated that it wasn’t the ultimate listing and ultimately, her title was added.
Gukesh, alternatively, not too long ago beat Ding Liren, to script historical past for India as he obtained a hero’s welcome in his dwelling city Chennai not too long ago. Other than the 4 Khel Ratna Awardees, there have been 32 names shortlisted for the Arjuna Award. The lengthy listing included the likes of bronze medallist Aman Sehrawat, and para-gold medallists resembling Navdeep Singh, Nitesh Kumar and hockey gamers like Sukhjeet Singh and Jarmanpreet Singh amongst many others.
India’s legendary para-swimming gold medal winner Murlikant Petkar, who had a movie made on him ‘Chandu Champion’ this yr, is ready to obtain the Lifetime Arjuna Award alongside the sprinting nice Sucha Singh. Amongst coaches, Subhash Rana (Para-Capturing), Deepali Deshpande (Capturing) and Sandeep Sangwan (Hockey) are set to be honoured with the Dronacharya award whereas S Muralidharan (Badminton) and Armando Agnelo Colaco (Soccer) might be awarded within the lifetime class.
All these conferred with respective awards might be honoured at a particular operate on the Rashtrapati Bhawan on Friday, January 17.
Arjun Award recipient listing: Jyothi Yarraji (Athletics), Annu Rani (Athletics), Nitu (Boxing), Saweety (Boxing), Vantika Agrawal (Chess), Salima Tete (Hockey), Abhishek (Hockey), Sanjay (Hockey), Jarmanpreet Singh (Hockey), Sukhjeet Singh (Hockey), Rakesh Kumar (Para-Archery), Preeti Pal (Para-Athletics), Jeevanji Deepthi (Para-Athletics), Ajeet Singh (Para-Athletics), Sachin Sarjerao Khilari (Para-Athletics), Shri Dharambir (Para-Athletics), Pranav Soorma (Para-Athletics), H Hokato Sema (Para-Athletics), Simran (Para-Athletics), Navdeep (Para-Athletics), Nitesh Kumar (Para-Badminton), Thulasimathi Murugesan (Para-Badminton), Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan (Para-Badminton), Manish Ramadass (Para-Badminton), Kapil Parmar (Para-Judo), Mona Agarwal (Para-Capturing), Rubina Francis (Para-Capturing), Swapnil Suresh Kusale (Para-Capturing), Sarabjot Singh (Para-Capturing), Abhay Singh (Squash), Sajan Prakash (Swimming), Aman Sehrawat (Wrestling)