Ministry of Youth affarirs and Sports announced that Rio Olympics hero’s, PV Sindhu, Sakshi malik, Dipa Karmakar adn Jitu Rai will be conferred with Prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratan award on 29 August 2016.
While PV Sindhu bacame first every female to win Silver medal in for India at Olympics, Sakshi won bronze medal in wrestling. Dipa karmakar finished at 4th place in Vault finals of Gymnastic which in itself is a big achievement for “alien sports” in India. Jitu Rai reached final of shooting event and failed to finish at podium but he is consistent in last few years and which in turn gave him this award.
Along with Dipa, her coach Bishweshwar Nandi is also being conferred with Dronacharya Award.
Along with Khel Ratna, Dronacharya Awards, Arjuna Awards and Dhyan Chand Awards. See the list of winners in each below:
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ranta 2016
PV Sindhu – Badminton
Dipa Karmakar – Gymnastics
Jitu Rai – Shooting
Sakshi Malik -Wrestling
Dronacharya Awards 2016
Nagapuri Ramesh – Athletics
Sagar Mal Dhayal – Boxing
Raj Kumar Sharma -Cricket
Bishweshwar Nandi – Gymnastics
S. Pradeep Kumar – Swimming (Lifetime)
Mahabir Singh – Wrestling (Lifetime)
Arjuna Awards 2016
Shri Rajat Chauhan – Archery
Lalita Babar – Athletics
Shri Sourav Kothari -Billiards & Snooker
Shiva Thapa – Boxing
Ajinkya Rahane – Cricket
Subrata Paul – Football
Rani – Hockey
Raghunath V.R. – Hockey
Gurpreet Singh – Shooting
Apurvi Chandela – Shooting
Soumyajit Ghosh – Table Tennis
Vinesh Phogat – Wrestling
Amit Kumar – Wrestling
Sandeep Singh Mann – Para-Athletics
Virender Singh – Wrestling (Deaf)
Dhyan Chand Award 2015
Ms. Satti Geetha – Athletics
Shri Sylvanus Dung Dung – Hockey
Shri Rajendra Pralhad Shelke – Rowing
