Indian President Murmu Presents National Sports Awards: 17 Arjuna Awards and 4 Adventure Awards
Indian President Droupadi Murmu presented the Sports and Adventure Awards at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on November 13, 2026, comprising the National Sports Awards 2025 and the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Awards 2024.
In the National Sports Awards, the Arjuna Award went to 17 athletes, including decathlete Tejaswin Shankar and chess players Divya Deshmukh and Vidit Gujrathi; the Arjuna Award for Lifetime Contribution went to former footballer Isaiah Arumainayagam; and the Dronacharya coaching award went to five coaches, including athletics coach Parveer Singh, boxing coach Chhote Lal Yadav and shooting coach Neha Nandkumar Chavan. The Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Awards went to Skalzang Rigzin and Baljeet Kaur for land adventure, Rimo Saha for water adventure, and Shiv Prasad Chamoli for lifetime achievement.
The awards list was announced by India's Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports on August 18, 2026, on the recommendation of a selection committee chaired by retired Justice Arun Kumar Mishra; no athlete received the top Khel Ratna honour this year. (Source: President's Secretariat, India)
Source: President's Secretariat, India
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Photo: 图：印度最高法院（新德里，资料图），颁奖仪式在新德里总统府举行。照片：Pinakpani，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Supreme Court of India in New Delhi (file photo); the awards ceremony was held at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi. Photo by Pinakpani, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
