Today, we list down the Sportspersons who were awarded the Padma Shri in sports by year when they won this award. Balbir Singh Dosanjh or Balbir Singh Senior was the first ever recipient from sports of this honor in 1957. The field hockey legend won this award base his golden hat-trick at the Olympics, the field hockey gold in 1948, 1952 & 1956 Summer Olympics. This is the fourth highest civilian honor bestowed upon the individuals with excellent services to the nation in their field of work.
Padma Shri in Sports By Year
SN | Year | Sportsperson | Sport |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 1957 | Balbir Singh Dosanjh | Field Hockey |
2 | 1958 | Kunwar Digvijai Singh | Field Hockey |
3 | 1959 | Milkha Singh | Athletics |
4 | 1959 | Mihir Sen | Swimming |
5 | 1960 | Vijay Hazare | Cricket |
6 | 1960 | Arati Saha | Swimming |
7 | 1960 | Jasu Patel | Cricket |
8 | 1961 | Gyan Singh | Mountaineering |
9 | 1962 | Nari Contractor | Cricket |
10 | 1962 | Polly Umrigar | Cricket |
11 | 1962 | Gostha Pal | Football |
12 | 1962 | Sonam Gyatso | Mountaineering |
13 | 1962 | Ramanathan Krishnan | Tennis |
14 | 1963 | Mushtaq Ali | Cricket |
15 | 1964 | Charanjit Singh | Field Hockey |
16 | 1964 | M J Gopalan | Cricket, Field Hockey |
17 | 1964 | Nawang Gombu | Mountaineering |
18 | 1965 | D B Deodhar | Cricket |
19 | 1965 | Ang Kami | Mountaineering |
20 | 1965 | Avtar Singh Cheema | Mountaineering |
21 | 1965 | Chandra Prakash Vohra | Mountaineering |
22 | 1965 | HPS Ahluwalia | Mountaineering |
23 | 1965 | Harish Chandra Singh Rawat | Mountaineering |
24 | 1965 | Phu Dorjee | Mountaineering |
25 | 1965 | Sonam Wangyal | Mountaineering |
26 | 1965 | Wilson Jones | Billiards & Snooker |
27 | 1966 | Kishan Lal | Field Hockey |
28 | 1967 | Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi | Cricket |
29 | 1967 | Prithipal Singh | Field Hockey |
30 | 1967 | Gurdial Singh | Mountaineering |
31 | 1967 | Shankar Lakshman | Field Hockey |
32 | 1969 | Chandu Borde | Cricket |
33 | 1970 | Bishan Singh Bedi | Cricket |
34 | 1970 | Erapalli Prasanna | Cricket |
35 | 1970 | Syed Mohd Moinul Haq | Sports |
36 | 1971 | Gundappa Viswanath | Cricket |
37 | 1971 | Leslie Claudius | Field Hockey |
38 | 1971 | Ghaus Mohammad | Tennis |
39 | 1971 | Kamaljit Sandhu | Athletics |
40 | 1971 | Sailen Manna | Football |
41 | 1971 | Chandgi Ram | Wrestling |
42 | 1972 | Ajit Wadekar | Cricket |
43 | 1972 | BS Chandrasekhar | Cricket |
44 | 1972 | Harsh Vardhan Bahuguna | Mountaineering |
45 | 1973 | Farokh Engineer | Cricket |
46 | 1974 | Joginder Singh | Mountaineering |
47 | 1975 | Pankaj Roy | Cricket |
48 | 1976 | Hari Kant Dang | Sports |
49 | 1976 | Roshan Lal Anand | Sports |
50 | 1977 | Meena Shah | Badminton |
51 | 1981 | Vasudevan Baskaran | Field Hockey |
52 | 1982 | Prakash Padukone | Badminton |
53 | 1982 | Kapil Dev | Cricket |
54 | 1982 | Syed Kirmani | Cricket |
55 | 1983 | Bahadur Singh Chouhan | Athletics |
56 | 1983 | Chand Ram | Athletics |
57 | 1983 | Eliza Nelson | Field Hockey |
58 | 1983 | Geeta Zutshi | Athletics |
59 | 1983 | Guru Hanuman | Wrestling |
60 | 1983 | Kaur Singh | Boxing |
61 | 1983 | Liarenmayum Damu Singh | Thang-ta |
62 | 1983 | MD Valsamma | Athletics |
63 | 1983 | Raghubir Singh | Equestrian |
64 | 1983 | Vijay Amritraj | Tennis |
65 | 1983 | Satpal Singh | Wrestling |
66 | 1984 | Chuni Goswami | Football |
67 | 1984 | Bachendri Pal | Mountaineering |
68 | 1984 | Charles Borromeo | Athletics |
69 | 1984 | DK Khullar | Mountaineering |
70 | 1985 | PT Usha | Athletics |
71 | 1985 | Om Agarwal | Sports |
72 | 1986 | Geet Sethi | Billiards & Snooker |
73 | 1986 | Mohammad Shahid | Field Hockey |
74 | 1986 | Anupama Gokhale | Chess |
75 | 1986 | Swaroop Kishen Reu | Cricket |
76 | 1987 | Dilip Vengsarkar | Cricket |
77 | 1987 | Bhagyashree Thipsay | Chess |
78 | 1988 | Viswanathan Anand | Chess |
79 | 1988 | Mohammad Azharuddin | Cricket |
80 | 1990 | Pradip Kumar Banerjee | Football |
81 | 1990 | Chandraprabha Aitwal | Mountaineering |
82 | 1990 | Gulshan Rai | Yacht Racing |
83 | 1990 | Jaman Lal Sharma | Field Hockey |
84 | 1990 | Premchand Degra | Bodybuilding |
85 | 1990 | Taranath Narayan Shenoy | Swimming |
86 | 1991 | Selma D’Silva | Field Hockey |
87 | 1991 | Sonam Paljor | Sports |
88 | 1991 | Ujwala Patil | Sailing |
89 | 1992 | Ajit Pal Singh | Field Hockey |
90 | 1992 | Aspy Adajania | Boxing |
91 | 1992 | Hakam Singh | Athletics |
92 | 1992 | Sriram Singh | Athletics |
93 | 1998 | Pargat Singh | Field Hockey |
94 | 1998 | Lila Ram | Wrestling |
95 | 1998 | Shiny Abraham | Athletics |
96 | 1998 | Ramesh Krishnan | Tennis |
97 | 1999 | Sachin Tendulkar | Cricket |
98 | 1999 | Karnam Malleswari | Weightlifting |
99 | 2000 | Santosh Yadav | Mountaineering |
100 | 2001 | Dhanraj Pillay | Field Hockey |
101 | 2001 | Bhuvneshwari Kumari | Squash |
102 | 2001 | Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla | Para-Athletics |
103 | 2001 | Sunita Rani | Athletics |
104 | 2001 | Leander Paes | Tennis |
105 | 2001 | Mahesh Bhupathi | Tennis |
106 | 2002 | Diana Edulji | Cricket |
107 | 2002 | Jaspal Rana | Shooting |
108 | 2003 | Jyotirmoyee Sikdar | Athletics |
109 | 2003 | Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan | Cricket |
110 | 2003 | Gopal Purushottam Phadke | Kho Kho |
111 | 2003 | Kanhaya Lal Pokhriyal | Mountaineering |
112 | 2003 | Mukesh Kumar | Field Hockey |
113 | 2004 | Anju Bobby George | Athletics |
114 | 2004 | Rahul Dravid | Cricket |
115 | 2004 | Sourav Ganguly | Cricket |
116 | 2004 | Dilip Tirkey | Field Hockey |
117 | 2004 | Gurmayum Anita Devi | Mountaineering |
118 | 2004 | KM Beenamol | Athletics |
119 | 2004 | SP Nimbalkar | Yoga |
120 | 2005 | Pullela Gopichand | Badminton |
121 | 2005 | Anil Kumble | Cricket |
122 | 2005 | Gurbachan Singh Randhawa | Field Hockey |
123 | 2005 | Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore | Shooting |
124 | 2005 | Rachel Thomas | Sky Diving |
125 | 2006 | Mary Kom | Boxing |
126 | 2006 | Bahadur Singh Sagoo | Athletics- Shot Put |
127 | 2006 | Madhumita Bisht | Badminton |
128 | 2006 | Mohan Singh Gunjyal | Mountaineering |
129 | 2006 | Sania Mirza | Tennis |
130 | 2007 | Humpy Koneru | Chess |
131 | 2007 | Jeev Milkha Singh | Golf |
132 | 2008 | Baichung Bhutia | Football |
133 | 2008 | Bula Choudhury | Swimming |
134 | 2009 | Pankaj Advani | Billiards & Snooker |
135 | 2009 | Harbhajan Singh | Mountaineering |
136 | 2009 | Mahendra Singh Dhoni | Cricket |
137 | 2009 | Balbir Singh Kullar | Field Hockey |
138 | 2010 | Saina Nehwal | Badminton |
139 | 2010 | Vijender Singh | Boxing |
140 | 2010 | Ramakant Achrekar | Cricket |
141 | 2010 | Virender Sehwag | Cricket |
142 | 2010 | Ignace Tirkey | Field Hockey |
143 | 2010 | Narain Karthikeyan | Racing |
144 | 2011 | Krishna Poonia | Athletics |
145 | 2011 | VVS Laxman | Cricket |
146 | 2011 | Gagan Narang | Shooting |
147 | 2011 | Harbhajan Singh | Cricket |
148 | 2011 | Kunjarani Devi | Weightlifting |
149 | 2011 | Shital Mahajan | Sky Diving |
150 | 2011 | Sushil Kumar | Wrestling |
151 | 2012 | Limba Ram | Archery |
152 | 2012 | Jhulan Goswami | Cricket |
153 | 2012 | Zafar Iqbal | Field Hockey |
154 | 2012 | Devendra Jhajharia | Para-Athletics |
155 | 2012 | Ajeet Bajaj | Skiing |
156 | 2012 | Prabhakar Vaidya | Physical Education |
157 | 2012 | Ravi Chaturvedi | Cricket Commentary |
158 | 2012 | Syed Mohammed Arif | Badminton |
159 | 2013 | Dingko Singh | Boxing |
160 | 2013 | Girisha Nagarajegowda | Para-Swimming |
161 | 2013 | Vijay Kumar | Shooting |
162 | 2013 | Bajrang Lal Takhar | Rowing |
163 | 2013 | Premlata Agarwal | Mountaineering |
164 | 2013 | Yogeshwar Dutt | Wrestling |
165 | 2014 | Anjum Chopra | Cricket |
166 | 2014 | Yuvraj Singh | Cricket |
167 | 2014 | H Boniface Prabhu | Wheelchair Tennis |
168 | 2014 | Love Raj Singh | Mountaineering |
169 | 2014 | Mamta Sodha | Mountaineering |
170 | 2014 | Sunil Dabas | Kabbadi |
171 | 2014 | Dipika Pallikal | Squash |
172 | 2015 | PV Sindhu | Badminton |
173 | 2015 | Mithali Raj | Cricket |
174 | 2015 | Sardar Singh | Field Hockey |
175 | 2015 | Arunima Sinha | Volleyball, Mountaineering |
176 | 2015 | Saba Anjum Karim | Field Hockey |
177 | 2016 | Deepika Kumari | Archery |
178 | 2016 | Sushil Doshi | Cricket Commentary |
179 | 2017 | Vikas Gowda | Athletics |
180 | 2017 | Virat Kohli | Cricket |
181 | 2017 | PR Sreejesh | Field Hockey |
182 | 2017 | Dipa Karmakar | Gymnastics |
183 | 2017 | Deepa Malik | Para-Athletics |
184 | 2017 | Mariyappan Thangavelu | Para-Athletics |
185 | 2017 | Shekhar Naik | Blind Cricket |
186 | 2017 | Sakshi Malik | Wrestling |
187 | 2018 | Srikanth Kidambi | Badminton |
188 | 2018 | Murlikant Petkar | Para-Swimming |
189 | 2018 | Saikhom Mirabai Chanu | Weightlifting |
190 | 2018 | Somdev Devvarman | Tennis |
191 | 2019 | Bombayla Devi Laishram | Archery |
192 | 2019 | Prashanti Singh | Basketball |
193 | 2019 | Harika Dronavalli | Chess |
194 | 2019 | Gautam Gambhir | Cricket |
195 | 2019 | Sunil Chhetri | Football |
196 | 2019 | Ajay Thakur | Kabaddi |
197 | 2019 | Bajrang Punia | Wrestling |
198 | 2019 | Sharath Kamal | Table Tennis |
This was the list of Padma Shri in Sports By Year of receiving the award. The list will keep updating for this annual award given on the Independence day.
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