Sunday, August 19, 2012

National Sports Awards 2012


Shooter Vijay Kumar and wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt (London Olympics 2012 medallists) have been recommended for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, the nation’s highest honour for sportsmen for a specific achievement in a year.
This year the number of Arjuna Award recommendations is at record high at 25. The following are in the list.
Swimming:                              Sandeep Sejwal
Weightlifting:                           Soniya Chanu
Archery:                                 Bombayla Devi, Deepika Kumari
Badminton:                             Ashwini Ponnappa, P. Kashyap
Boxing:                                   Vikas Krishan
Shooting:                                Omkar Singh, Annuraj Singh, Joydeep Karmakar
Wrestling:                               Geeta, Narsingh Yadav, Ravinder Singh
Cricket:                                  Yuvraj Singh
Athletics:                                Sudha Singh, Kavita Raut
Hockey:                                 Sardar Singh
Paralympics:                           Deepa Malik, Ramkaran Singh
Squash:                                  Dipika Pallikal
Wushu:                                   Bimoljit Singh
Billiards:                                 Aditya Mehta
Judo:                                      Yashpal Solanki
Polo:                                      Samir Suhag
Kabaddi:                                Anup Kumar


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