List of 2023 Arjuna Award Recipients: Several of India’s athletes receive the Arjuna Award at the hands of President Droupadi Murmu. The names include the likes of pace-bowler Mohammed Shami, kabaddi player Pawan Kumar, and silver medallist at the 2023 Asian Games in Wushu – Naorem Roshibina Devi.
The second-highest sports award in India, the Arjuna Award is presented to sportspersons who have represented India at the international level and have been successful in their field.
The ceremony, held at the Rashtrapati Bhawan, is usually held on August 29 to commemorate the birth anniversary of India’s first sports megastar and hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand. But it was postponed last year due to the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou being held from September 23 to October 8, and most of these athletes were in training.
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List of 2023 Arjuna Award Recipients
Here is the list of all 26 athletes who received the honour this year and from now on are Arjun Awardees –
1) Ojas Pravin Deotale (archery)
2) Aditi Gopichand Swami (archery)
3) Murali Sreeshankar (athletics)
4) Parul Chaudhary (athletics)
5) Mohammad Hussamuddin (boxing)
6) R Vaishali (chess)
7) Mohammed Shami (cricket)
8) Anush Agarwalla (equestrian)
9) Divyakriti Singh (equestrian dressage)
10) Diksha Dagar (golf)
11) Krishan Bahadur Pathak (hockey)
12) Sushila Chanu (hockey)
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13) Pawan Kumar (kabaddi)
14) Ritu Negi (kabaddi)
15) Nasreen (kho-kho)
16) Pinki (lawn bowls)
17) Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar (shooting)
18) Esha Singh (shooting)
19) Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu (squash)
20) Ayhika Mukherjee (table tennis)
21) Sunil Kumar (wrestling)
22) Antim Panghal (wrestling)
23) Naorem Roshibina Devi (wushu)
24) Sheetal Devi (para archery)
25) Illuri Ajay Kumar Reddy (blind cricket)
26) Prachi Yadav (para canoeing)
Several of these athletes had a fantastic 2023. While many won medals or defied expectations at the 2023 Asian Games and para-Asian Games, Mohammed Shami had an unbelievable 2023 Cricket World Cup, taking 24 wickets in just 7 matches. While Pinki was part of the Women’s Lawn Bowl team that won a historic gold medal in the 2022 Asian Games.
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