Virat Kohli, Mirabai Chanu receive Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award | Complete list of Arjuna, Dronacharya Awardees 2018

President Ram Nath Kovind presented the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awards to Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli and World Champion weightlifter Mirabai Chanu at Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi on Tuesday.

Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra and table tennis star Manika Batra were among the top athletes awarded the Arjuna Award. President Kovind also presented the Dhyan Chand and Dronacharya Awards.

Virat Kohli – World’s No.1 batsman in both ODI and Test cricket, as per the ICC rankings, has been putting scintillating performances consistently since the last couple of years. The 29-year-old had missed out on the top sports award following consecutive nominations in 2016 and 2017. The swashbuckling batsman smashed 6147 runs in 71 Tests with 23 centuries and 9779 runs in 211 ODIs, including 35 tons.

Second awardee Mirabai Chanu was selected for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna after she clinched the Gold medal in the 48kg category at the World Championship in 2017 and 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. However, she missed the Asian Games following an injury.

RAJIV GANDHI KHEL RATNA WINNERS FULL LIST:

Virat Kohli and Mirabai Chanu

ARJUNA AWARD WINNERS FULL LIST:

Athletics: Neeraj Chopra, Jinson Johnson and Hima Das

Badminton: N Sikki Reddy

Boxing: Satish Kumar

Cricket: Smriti Mandhana

Golf: Shubhankar Sharma

Hockey: Manpreet Singh, Savita

Polo: Ravi Rathore

Shooting: Rahi Sarnobat, Ankur Mittal, Shreyasi Singh

Table Tennis: Manika Batra, G Sathiyan

Tennis: Rohan Bopanna

Wrestling: Sumit

Wushu: Pooja Kadian

Para-Athletics: Ankur Dhama

Para-Badminton: Manoj Sarkar

DRONACHARYA AWARD WINNERS FULL LIST: 

Boxing: C A Kuttappa

Weightlifting: Vijay Sharma

Table Tennis: A Srinivasa Rao

Athletics: Sukhdev Singh Pannu

Hockey, Lifetime Award: Clarence Lobo

Cricket, Lifetime Award: Tarak Sinha

Judo, Lifetime Award: Jiwan Kumar Sharma

Athletics, Lifetime Award: V R Beedu

DHYAN CHAND AWARD WINNERS FULL LIST

Archery: Satyadev Prasad

Hockey: Bharat Kumar Chetry

Athletics: Bobby Aloysius

Wrestling: Chougale Dadu Dattatray

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