Recipients of the Arjuna Award

Indian chess grandmaster

Indian cricketer

Indian tennis player

Virat Kohli is an Indian international cricketer and the former all-format captain of the Indian national cricket team. He is a right-handed batter and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler. Considered one of the greatest all-format batsmen in the history of cricket, he has been acclaimed for his batting skills, records and ability to lead his team to victory. Kohli has the most centuries in ODIs and the second-most centuries in international cricket with 85 tons across all formats. He is also the leading run-scorer in the Indian Premier League. Kohli is the most successful Test captain of India with most wins and 3 consecutive Test mace retainments. He is the only batter to earn 900+ rating points across all 3 formats.

Indian badminton player

Indian football player

Indian male javelin thrower

Indian badminton player

Indian chess player

Indian amateur boxer

Indian chess player

Indian tennis player

Indian tennis player

Indian archer

Indian sport shooter

Rohit Gurunath Sharma is an Indian international cricketer and the former captain of the India national cricket team in all formats of the game. He is a right-handed top-order batter. He represents Mumbai in domestic cricket and Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League. Sharma was a member of the teams that won the 2007 T20 World Cup, the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy and was the winning captain of the 2024 T20 World Cup and the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy.

Indian footballer

Indian Chess.com player

Indian sport shooter

Indian wrestler

Indian cricketer

Indian chess player

Indian cricketer

Indian boxer

Indian chess player

Indian cricket player

Indian track and field athlete

Indian tennis player

Indian weightlifter

Indian wrestler

Smriti Mandhana is an Indian international cricketer and the vice-captain of the Indian women's national team. She was part of the Indian team that won the 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup, the Women's Asia Cup in 2016 and 2022. She also won a gold medal in the 2022 Asian Games, and a silver medal in the 2022 Commonwealth Games representing India.

Indian long jumper

Indian chess player

Mithali Raj is an Indian former cricketer who captained the national team from 2004 to 2022. She is the highest run-scorer in women's international cricket, and ESPN ranked her as one of the greatest female cricketers of all time. Raj has received several national and international awards, including the Wisden Leading Woman Cricketer in the World in 2017, Arjuna Award in 2003, the Padma Shri in 2015, and Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna in 2021.

Indian sprinter

Indian male freestyle wrestler (born 1994)

Indian boxer

Indian freestyle wrestler (born 1988)

Indian cricketer and politician

Indian badminton player

former Indian cricketer

Indian tennis player

Indian badminton player

Indian tennis player

Indian tennis player

Indian award

Indian archer

former Indian cricketer and former chairman of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)

Indian field hockey player

Indian cricketer

Indian chess grandmaster

former Indian cricketer

Indian sprinter

Indian badminton player

Harmanpreet Kaur Bhullar is an Indian cricketer who plays as an all-rounder and captains the India women's national team. She is a top order batter and a right-arm off-spin bowler. She captained the Indian team that won the 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup, the Women's Asia Cup in 2012, 2016 and 2022, and the gold medal in the 2022 Asian Games. Under her captaincy, the Indian women's team achieved its first bilateral Women's One Day International (WODI) away series win against England since 1999 in 2022, the first-ever Test victory over Australia in 2023, and the first Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) series win against England in 2025. She was also a member of the Indian team that won the silver medal in the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Indian archer

Indian cricketer

Indian sport shooter

Indian sport shooter

Indian table tennis player