President Draupadi Murmu gave Khel Ratna Award to 4 players including D Gukesh Manu Bhakar, Jharkhand's Salima Tete received Arjun Award.

Delhi: On Friday, President Draupadi Murmu honored the players who have excelled in the field of sports at Rashtrapati Bhavan. New chess king D Gukesh, Olympic medalist Manu Bhaker, hockey player Harmanpreet Singh and para-athletics Praveen Kumar were given the Major Dhyan Chandra Khel Ratna Award.

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32 players including Salima Tete, resident of Simdega, Jharkhand and captain of the women's hockey team, were honored with the Arjuna Award.

Names of players who received Arjuna Award

1. Jyoti Yaraji (Athletics)
2. Annu Rani (Athletics)
3. Neetu (Boxing)
4. Sweety (boxing)
5. Vantika Agarwal (Chess)
6. Salima Tete (hockey)
7. Abhishek (hockey)
8. Sanjay (hockey)
9. Jarmanpreet Singh (hockey)
10. Sukhjit Singh (hockey)
11. Rakesh Kumar (Para Archery)
12. Preeti Pal (Para Athletics)
13. Jeevanji Deepti (Para Athletics)
14. Ajit Singh (Para Athletics)
15. Sachin Sarjerao Khilari (Para Athletics)
16. Dharambir (Para Athletics)
17. Pranab Surma (Para Athletics)
18. H Hokato Sema (Para Athletics)
19. Simran ji (Para Athletics)
20. Navdeep (Para Athletics)
21. Nitesh Kumar (Para Badminton)

22. Tulsimathi Murugesan (Para Badminton)
23. Nitya Sri Sumati Sivan (Para Badminton)
24. Manisha Ramdas (Para Badminton)
25. Kapil Parmar (Para Judo)
26. Mona Agarwal (Para Shooting)
27. Rubina Francis (Para Shooting)
28. Swapnil Suresh Kusale (Shooting)
29. Sarabjot Singh (Shooting)
30. Abhay Singh (Squash)
31. Sajan Prakash (Swimming)
32. Aman (wrestling)

Arjuna Award for outstanding performance in sports (lifetime)

1. Sucha Singh (Athletics)
2. Muralikant Rajaram Petkar (Para-swimming)

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Dronacharya Award (Regular Category)

1. Subhash Rana (Para-Shooting)
2. Deepali Deshpande (Shooting)
3. Sandeep Sangwan (hockey)

Dronacharya Award (Lifetime Category)

1. S. Muralitharan (badminton)
2. Armando Agnello Colaco (football)

National Sports Promotion Award

1. Physical Education Foundation of India

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