Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award winner list

The Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award is India’s highest honour given for achievement in sports. The award is named after the late Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India. It carries a medal, a scroll of honour and a substantial cash component. The award was instituted in the year 1991-92 to supply the lack of a supreme national accolade in the field of sports. Predating the RGKR are the Arjuna awards that have always been given to outstanding sportspersons in each of many sporting disciplines every year. The Khel Ratna was devised to be an overarching honour, conferred for outstanding sporting performance, whether by an individual or a team, across all sporting disciplines in a given year.

List of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awardees

  S.No.   Year               Name of the Sportsperson(s)        Sport Discipline

  01        1991-92         Viswanathan Anand                        Chess
  02        1992-93         Geet Sethi                                       Billiards
  03        1993-94                            Not Conferred* -
  04        1994-95         Cdr. Homi D. Motivala (Joint)         Yachting (Team Event)
  04        1994-95         Lt. Cdr. P. K. Garg (Joint)              Yachting (Team Event)
  05        1995-96         Karnam Malleswari                         Weightlifting
  06        1996-97         Nameirakpam Kunjarani (Joint)       Weightlifting
  06        1996-97         Leander Paes (Joint)                        Tennis
  07        1997-98         Sachin Tendulkar                             Cricket
  08        1998-99         Jyotirmoyee Sikdar                          Athletics
  09        1999-2000     Dhanraj Pillay                                  Hockey
  10         2000-01        Pullela Gopichand                           Badminton
  11         2001-02        Abhinav Bindra                               Shooting
  12         2002-03        Anjali Ved Pathak Bhagwat(Joint)   Shooting
  12         2002-03        K. M. Beenamol (Joint)                  Athletics
  13         2003-04        Anju Bobby George                       Athletics
  14         2004-05    Lt. Col Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore   Shooting
  15         2005-06         Pankaj Advani                              Billiards and Snooker
  16         2006-07         Manavjit Singh Sandhu                 Shooting
  17         2007-08         Mahendra Singh Dhoni                 Cricket
  18         2008-09         Mary Kom (Joint)                         Boxing
  18         2008-09         Vijender Singh (Joint)                    Boxing
  18         2008-09         Sushil Kumar (Joint)                      Wrestling
  19         2009-10         Saina Nehwal                               Badminton

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