In a grand ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi, President Droupadi Murmu bestowed the prestigious national sports awards upon India’s top-performing athletes. Cricketer Mohammed Shami was honored with the Arjuna Award during the National Sports and Adventure Awards 2023. This remarkable event took place on Tuesday, January 9, 2024, and was captured by PTI.
President Droupadi Murmu bestowed the national sports awards upon India’s top-performing athletes in a grand ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. Cricketer Mohammed Shami received a thunderous applause as he entered the venue. Due to the Hangzhou Asian Games held from September 23 to October 8 last year, the awards ceremony, traditionally held on August 29 to honor hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand’s birth anniversary, was postponed. This year, the prestigious Arjuna award was presented to esteemed sports personalities such as wrestler Antim Panghal, a former junior world champion and bronze medalist at the senior event last year, boxer Mohammad Hussamuddin, who won a bronze medal at the previous year’s world championship, and para archer Sheetal Devi.
List of Arjuna Award winners 2023
1) Ojas Pravin Deotale (archery)
2) Aditi Gopichand Swami (archery)
3) Murali Sreeshankar (athletics)
4) Parul Chaudhary (athletics)
5) Mohammad Hussamuddin (boxing)
6) R Vaishali (chess)
7) Mohammed Shami (cricket)
8) Anush Agarwalla (equestrian)
9) Divyakriti Singh (equestrian dressage)
10) Diksha Dagar (golf)
11) Krishan Bahadur Pathak (hockey)
12) Sushila Chanu (hockey)
13) Pawan Kumar (kabaddi)
14) Ritu Negi (kabaddi)
15) Nasreen (kho-kho)
16) Pinki (lawn bowls)
17) Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar (shooting)
18) Esha Singh (shooting)
19) Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu (squash)
20) Ayhika Mukherjee (table tennis)
21) Sunil Kumar (wrestling)
22) Antim Panghal (wrestling)
23) Naorem Roshibina Devi (wushu)
24) Sheetal Devi (para archery)
25) Illuri Ajay Kumar Reddy (blind cricket)
26) Prachi Yadav (para canoeing)