President Droupadi Murmu Presents National Sports Awards: Tejaswin Shankar, Divya Deshmukh Win Arjuna Award
President Droupadi Murmu distributed the National Sports Awards 2025 on 13th November 2026. A total of seventeen athletes were awarded the Arjuna Awards, which include decathlete Tejaswin Shankar, and chess players Divya Deshmukh and Vidit Gujrathi. Coaches were also awarded the Dronacharya Awards and former footballer I. Arumainayagam was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award. However, none of the athletes were awarded the prestigious Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna for 2025. The recipients were announced by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports on 18th August 2026.
The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports had announced the winners on 18th August 2026. After the recommendations from selection committee headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice (Retd.) Arun Kumar Mishra. These recommendations were submitted in December 2025. This resulted in selecting seventeen athletes to receive the Arjuna Award, down from an initial recommendation of twenty-four.
| Sr. No | Name of Sportsperon | Discipline |
| 1 | Tejaswin Shankar | Athletics |
| 2 | Muhammed Ajmal V | Athletics |
| 3 | Priyanka Goswami | Athletics |
| 4 | Treesa Jolly | Badminton |
| 5 | Pullela Gayatri Gopichand | Badminton |
| 6 | Narender | Boxing |
| 7 | Vidit Santosh Gujarathi | Chess |
| 8 | Divya Jitendra Deshmukh | Chess |
| 9 | Dhanush Srikanth | Deaf Shooting |
| 10 | Lalremsiami | Hockey |
| 11 | Rajkumar Pal | Hockey |
| 12 | Surjeet | Kabaddi |
| 13 | Pooja | Kabaddi |
| 14 | Rudransh Khandelwal | Para-Shooting |
| 15 | Ekta Bhyan | Para-Athletics |
| 16 | Arvind Singh | Rowing |
| 17 | Akhil Sheoran | Shooting |
| Sr. No | Name of Sportsperon | Discipline |
| 1 | I. Arumainayagam | Football |
| Sr. No | Name of Sportsperon | Discipline |
| 1 | Parveer Singh | Athletics |
| 2 | Chhote Lal Yadav | Boxing |
| 3 | Neha Nandkumar Chavan | Shooting |
| Sr. No | Name of Sportsperon | Discipline |
| 1 | Dharmendra Singh Yadav | Boxing |
| 2 | Virender Kumar | Wrestling |
| Sr. No | Name of Entity | Place |
| 1 | Army Paralympic Nod | Pune |
None of the athletes were chosen to receive the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award. This is the first time since 2014 that the nation’s most prestigious sporting award has gone unawarded. Only the third time it has happened since the award was created in 1991-92.
The last time the Khel Ratna awards were given out was in 2024 to the following four athletes:
What are the National Sports Awards are managed by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India. They recognise the excellent achievements of athletes, coaches and organisations related to sports.
The main awards are,
| Award | Purpose | Established |
| Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna | Highest sporting award for excellent performance | 1991-92 |
| Arjuna Award | Recognises excellent performance of athletes | 1961 |
| Dronacharya Award | Recognises excellence in coach | 1985 |
| Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar | Recognises contribution to promoting sports | 2009 |
Award and It’s Cash Prize
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