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Athletics in India
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In India, the Athletics was introduced during the period of the British Raj. The sport is governed by the Athletics Federation of India, which was formed in 1946.[1]

Despite the country's population, only a few Indian athletes used to win medals at global championships. This began to slowly change in the 21st century, when the citizens started taking a little more interest in athletics. The improvement in sport facilities was also another reason for its growth. India has been among the most successful Asian nations, only behind China and Japan.

At the national level, there are three major athletics competitions: the annual Indian National Open Athletics Championships and Indian Inter State Senior Athletics Championships (both first held in 1961), and the quadrennial National Games of India (first held in 1924).[2] An Indian National Championships event predated the Open and Inter State ones, being held from 1924 until 1961.[3] An Indian Marathon Championships was first contested in 1938,[4] while the Indian Cross Country Championships celebrated its 50th edition in 2015.[5] An Indian Racewalking Championships was established in 2014.[6] In addition to the main senior championships there are championships for under-20 and under-18 athletes at national and sub-national levels, as well as senior, non-championship competitions in the form of the Athletics Federation Cup and Indian Athletics Grand Prix tour.[7]

History

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20th century

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Norman Pritchard – India's first Olympic athletics medallist
Nilima Ghose was among the first Indian female Olympians
Milkha Singh – known as "The Flying Sikh"

At the Olympic Games, the first Indian competitor was Norman Pritchard, an Anglo-Indian, who won silver medals in the 200 metres and 200 metres hurdles at the 1900 Summer Olympics.[8] These remain the only athletics medals for 120 years until Neeraj Chopra won gold medal in Jevelin throw at 2020 Tokyo Olympics.[9] Neeraj created the history by throwing his Jevelin to 87.58 meters in the final at Tokyo. He became first track and field athlete of India, who won gold medal at Olympics.[10][11]

The first indigenous Indians to compete at the games were sprinter Purma Bannerjee, and distance runners Phadeppa Chaugule and Sadashir Datar at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics.[12] The nation continued to send athletes to the Olympic athletics competition every four years, with Nilima Ghose and Mary D'Souza Sequeira becoming independent India's first female Olympians at the 1952 Helsinki Games.[13]

At a regional level, India took part in the 1930 Far Eastern Championship Games, but failed to win any medals.[14] The nation hosted the Western Asiatic Games and won all but three of the athletics events.[15] India was the host of the debut Asian Games in 1951 and finished second to Japan in the athletics medal table, which included a men's sprint double by Lavy Pinto and two silvers in women's sprints by Roshan Mistry.[16] The country was less successful at the 1954 Asian Games, though Parduman Singh Brar managed a shot put/javelin double and Christine Brown, Stephie D'Souza, Violet Peters, Mary D'Souza Sequeira gave India its first women athletics gold medal, taking the 4 × 100 metres relay title.[17]

Milkha Singh was India's first athlete to gain success at a global level, earning the nickname "The Flying Sikh".[18] He won a 200 metres/400 metres double at the 1958 Asian Games before going on to take the 440 yards title at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games – India's first winner at that competition.[19] He finished fourth in the 400 m at the 1960 Summer Olympics.[20] Decathlete Gurbachan Singh Randhawa won gold at the 1962 Asian Games and placed fifth in the 110 metres hurdles final at the 1964 Olympic Games.[21] Throws athlete Praveen Kumar was the sole Indian athletics medallist at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games and won back-to-back Asian Games discus titles from 1966 to 1970 (achievements that he converted into a film career).[22]

In the 1970s, Indian athletes had increased regional success. Kamaljeet Sandhu became the first Indian female athlete to win an individual Asian Games gold medal, taking the 1970 title in the 400 metres.[23] Decathlete Vijay Singh Chauhan winning the Asian Athletics Championships and Asian Games titles in 1973 and 1974. Men's triple jumper Mohinder Singh Gill won at the 1970 Asian Games, took the first two decathlon titles of the Asian Athletics Championships (1973 and 1975), as well as taking two minor medals at the Commonwealth Games.[24] Sriram Singh established India in middle-distance running, winning two Asian Games golds and a silver that decade, three gold medals at the 1975 Asian Athletics Championships, and a seventh-place finish 1976 Olympic 800 m final.[25][26] Shivnath Singh won four distance medals at the Asian Championships, placed 11th at the 1976 Olympic Marathon and set a long-standing national marathon record in 1978.[27] In the second half of the decade, Hari Chand (long-distance), Bahadur Singh Chouhan (shot put), Hakam Singh (racewalking) and Suresh Babu (multi-events) each won multiple Asian medals and titles.[26][17]

The Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium was constructed as the national stadium in preparation for hosting the 1982 Asian Games, representing an improvement in India's elite level sports infrastructure. India was third in the athletics rankings at the competition, behind the regional leaders China and Japan. Charles Borromeo (long jump), Chand Ram (racewalking), Bahadur Singh Chouhan, and M. D. Valsamma (hurdles) all won gold with games record performances. The competition marked an era of increased success for India's women athletes: Geeta Zutshi took two silver medals in middle-distance running and 18-year-old P. T. Usha won her first major medals with two silvers in the sprints.[17] Usha reached the final of Women's 400 metres hurdles at 1984 Summer Olympics, setting an Asian record time in fourth place, and also helped the Indian women's 4 × 400 metres relay to the final.[28] Usha went on to win four gold medals at the 1986 Asian Games and an unprecedented four individual titles at the 1985 Asian Athletics Championships. She was the nation's leading athlete at the 1989 Asian Athletics Championships, held in New Delhi, winning four gold medals and one silver.[26] Usha continued to win medals at continental level into the late 1990s.

Usha won three of India's six athletics medals at the 1990 Asian Games, but the emergence of Qatar and South Korea saw India fall down the country rankings. Women's runner Shiny Wilson led the nation with two golds and a silver at the 1991 Asian Athletics Championships. Men's distance runner Bahadur Prasad set national records and took a gold and a silver medal at the 1993 Asian Athletics Championships. The 1994 Asian Games highlighted India's fall at regional level again: with zero golds, women's runners Usha, Wilson and Kutty Saramma were involved in the nation's minor medals. Jyotirmoyee Sikdar marked her breakthrough in middle-distance with India's sole gold medals at the 1995 Asian Athletics Championships and the 1998 Asian Games. Usha won the final gold medal of her career with the women's 4 × 100 metres relay team at the 1998 Asian Athletics Championships, which was India's only gold that year.[17][26]

21st century

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Anju Bobby George is one of India's few global athletics medallists

The start of the 21st century coincided with an improvement in the standard of performances in the sport in India. The country placed second at the 2000 Asian Athletics Championships, taking 21 of the medals available. It fell down the rankings at the 2002 edition, but still won ten medals and retained the women's 4 × 400 m relay title.[26] After a long medal drought at the competition, discus thrower Neelam Jaswant Singh and long jumper Anju Bobby George reached the podium at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, becoming the first Indian women to do so.[29] The 2002 Asian Games saw India return as a force at regional level, winning seven gold and 17 medals overall in athletics. On the women's side, Singh and George both won gold, K. M. Beenamol won 800 m and 4 × 400 m relay gold, Saraswati Saha won the 200 m, and Sunita Rani set the current Asian Games record in the 1500 metres. Bahadur Singh Sagoo was the sole men's gold medallist in the shot put.[17]

Anju Bobby George made history when she won the bronze medal in Women's long jump at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics in Paris. With this achievement, she became the first Indian athlete ever to win a global athletics medal. Over the rest of the decade, she took fifth at the 2004 Summer Olympics, made two more finals at the World Championships in Athletics, won an Asian Championships title, and four more silver medals at Asian level.[30] The Indian women's 4 × 400 metres relay team established itself as one of the best in the region in this decade, taking silver at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, gold at the 2006 Asian Games, seventh at the 2004 Olympics, and two Asian Championships titles in 2005 and 2007.[26] Among the Indian relay runners were several athletes with individual success: Manjeet Kaur (2004 Asian Games runner-up), Chitra Soman (2007 Asian Championships winner) and Sathi Geetha (2005 Asian Championships runner-up). Other athletes who were successful during this period included 2007 Asian Championships men's triple jump champion Renjith Maheshwary, indoor and outdoor Asian men's shot put champion Navpreet Singh, Asian heptathlon medallists J. J. Shobha and Soma Biswas, and multiple Asian women's middle-distance runner Sinimole Paulose. Men's shot putter Om Prakash Karhana was India's sole winner at the 2009 Asian Athletics Championships, setting a championship record in the process.[31]

The 2000s saw India begin to host major athletics events more frequently, with the 2004 Asian Cross Country Championships, 2003 Afro-Asian Games, 2004 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, 2007 Military World Games, 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games and 2010 Commonwealth Games all representing the first time that India had hosted those competitions.

Krishna Poonia created history by winning the 2010 Commonwealth women's discus throw, becoming the first Commonwealth athletics gold medallist for India in 52 years and the first Indian woman to win an athletics gold at the Commonwealth Games.[32] This was part of an Indian sweep of the women's discus, with Harwant Kaur and Seema Punia taking the minor medals. India won two athletics golds at a Commonwealth Games for the first time, as Manjeet Kaur, Sini Jose, Ashwini Akkunji and Mandeep Kaur secured the 4 × 400 m relay. That team returned at the 2010 Asian Games and achieved a Games record time in that victory. India won the second highest number of athletics gold medals there, with Akkunji and Joseph Abraham winning the 400 m hurdles titles, and women's distance runners Preeja Sreedharan and Sudha Singh also topping the podium.[33] Mayookha Johny was India's best at the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships, winning the women's long jump and setting a triple jump national record.[34] India performed well in the discus throw at the 2012 London Olympics, with Krishna Poonia and Vikas Gowda both making the finals. Irfan Kolothum Thodi also placed tenth in the men's 20 km walk with a national record time.[35]

The 2013 Asian Athletics Championships held in Pune saw India accrue 17 medals. Gowda and the women's 4 × 400 metres relay team brought the country its two gold medals of the competition. Gowda was again victorious at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, winning a men's discus gold medal, and won silver at the 2014 Asian Games. The women's 4 × 400 metres relay team set an Asian Games record at that competition, with Priyanka Pawar, Tintu Lukka, Mandeep Kaur, and M. R. Poovamma clocking 3:28:68. Seema Punia brought India another gold in the women's discus event. The nation's gold medals at the 2015 Asian Athletics Championships were divided between men's throws (Inderjeet Singh and Vikas Gowda) and women's distance track events (Lalita Babar and Tintu Luka).[36] Lalita Babar was the best performing Indian athlete at the 2016 Summer Olympics, placing tenth in the women's steeplechase.[37][38]

India held the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships – its third time as host – and topped the medal table for the first time, beating China by twelve golds to eight. Govindan Lakshmanan won both the men's long-distance track events and Mohammad Anas and Arokia Rajiv took a men's 1–2 in the 400 m before winning the relay title. Neeraj Chopra won the men's javelin in a championship record of 85.23 m. Nirmala Sheoran was an individual and relay champion in women's 400 m. The remaining women's winners were P. U. Chitra (1500 m), Sudha Singh (steeplechase) and Swapna Barman (heptathlon).[39] India extended its regional athletics success with second place at the 2018 Asian Games: Manjit Singh and Jinson Johnson won the men's middle distance titles, Arpinder Singh, Tejinder Pal Singh Toor and Neeraj Chopra won men's field titles, while the women' 4 × 400 m relay team and heptathlete Swapna Barman won the women's title. Throwing events proved to be India's forte at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, with Chopra adding a Commonwealth javelin title to his honours and Seema Punia making her fourth consecutive appearance on the Commonwealth women's discus podium.

Hima Das became India's first athlete to win a medal in a track event at an IAAF competition with her 400 m gold medal at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships.[40][41] She is second gold medalist in athletics at IAAF World U20 Championships after Neeraj Chopra, who won men's javelin throw gold at the 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships with a world junior record mark.

Neeraj Chopra, javelin thrower and India's first Olympic Gold medallist in athletics.

Neeraj Chopra won India's first-ever Olympic gold medal in athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics (held in 2021) by throwing his best of 87.58 meters in the javelin throw final. Chopra is the first javelin thrower from India who won a gold medal, and only the second Indian sportsperson after Abhinav Bindra to win an Olympic gold medal.[11][42]

In 2022, Awinash Sable and Priyanka Goswami created history by winning silver medals in 3000 m and 10,000 m steeplechase and racewalking at the Commonwealth Games, events in which India has historically been an underdog.[43]

Para athletics

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Deepa Malik – India's first women's Paralympic medallist
See also: India at the Paralympics

India first sent athletes at the 1968 Paralympic Games and won its first medals in 1984, when Joginder Singh Bedi won medals in three throwing events and Bhimrao Kesarkar took the javelin silver medal. Devendra Jhajharia became the nation's first Paralympic athletics champion in 2004, and only the second Indian to win in any Paralympic sport, after the swimmer Murlikant Petkar. The 2016 Summer Paralympics marked a new high for India as it win four medals, all in athletics: Mariyappan Thangavelu (high jump) and Devendra Jhajharia (javelin) won their events, Varun Singh Bhati took high jump bronze and Deepa Malik became India's first female Paralympic medallist with her shotput silver.[44]

Controversies

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Dutee Chand won a landmark case on hyperandrogenism against the IAAF that had international impacts.

Indian athletes have been involved in several requests for sex verification in athletics in the 21st century.

In 2001, Indian athlete and swimmer Pratima Gaonkar committed suicide after disclosure and public commentary on her failed sex verification test.[45][46][47] Santhi Soundarajan, who won the silver medal in the 800 m at the 2006 Asian Games, failed the sex verification test and was subsequently stripped of her medal.[48] Another gold medallist at that competition, Pinki Pramanik, underwent medical tests in November 2012 that indicated she was a "male pseudo-hermaphrodite".[49][50]

Dutee Chand was dropped from the 2014 Commonwealth Games at the last minute after the Athletic Federation of India stated that hyperandrogenism made her ineligible to compete as a female athlete. International policies on hyperandrogenism were suspended following the case of Dutee Chand v. Athletics Federation of India (AFI) & The International Association of Athletics Federations, in the Court of Arbitration for Sport, decided in July 2015.[51][52] The ruling found that there was insufficient evidence that testosterone increased female athletic performance. In doing so the court immediately suspended the practice of hyperandrogenism regulation used by the IAAF and declared it void unless the organization could present better evidence by July 2017.[53] The International Olympic Committee stated that it would not impose a maximum testosterone level for the 2016 Summer Olympics and, accordingly, Chand continued to compete internationally in the women's division.[54]

Hosting rights

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India has hosted several major international athletics events. The first was the Western Asiatic Games in 1934. India's first global level athletics event came in the form of the 2004 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.

Venues

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The Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium was the centerpiece for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

Numerous low-level athletics facilities exist in India, along with several large stadia for major athletics events. It is common for multi-purpose stadiums in India to include a running track for athletics.

National events

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Start of the public race at the 2016 World 10K Bangalore
National championships
Road races
Marathons

International medalists

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Competition Athlete Medal Event Year
Olympics Norman Pritchard 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 200m 1900
Norman Pritchard 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 200m hurdles 1900
Neeraj Chopra 1st place, gold medalist(s) Javelin throw 2020
Neeraj Chopra 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Javelin throw 2024
World Championships Anju Bobby George 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Long jump 2003
Neeraj Chopra 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Javelin throw 2022
Neeraj Chopra 1st place, gold medalist(s) Javelin throw 2023
Commonwealth Games Milkha Singh 1st place, gold medalist(s) 440 yards 1958
Praveen Kumar 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Hammer throw 1966
Mohinder Singh Gill 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Triple jump 1970
Mohinder Singh Gill 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Triple jump 1974
Suresh Babu 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Long jump 1978
Neelam Jaswant Singh 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Discus throw 2002
Anju Bobby George 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Long jump 2002
Seema Punia 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Discus throw 2006
Rajwinder Kaur
Chitra Soman
Manjeet Kaur
Pinki Pramanik		 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4 × 400 m relay 2006
Ranjith Kumar Jayaseelan 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Discus throw (EAD) 2006
Krishna Poonia 1st place, gold medalist(s) Discus throw 2010
Manjeet Kaur
Sini Jose
Ashwini Akkunji
Mandeep Kaur
Jauna Murmu
Chitra Soman		 1st place, gold medalist(s) 4 × 400 m relay 2010
Vikas Gowda 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Discus throw 2010
M. A. Prajusha 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Long jump 2010
Harwant Kaur 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Discus throw 2010
Kavita Tungar 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 10,000 m 2010
Harminder Singh 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 20 km walk 2010
Seema Punia 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Discus throw 2010
Geetha Saati
Srabani Nanda
P. K. Priya
H. M. Jyothi		 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 4 × 100 m relay 2010
Rahamatulla Molla
Suresh Sathya
Shameer Mon
Abdul Najeeb Qureshi		 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 4 × 100 m relay 2010
Renjith Maheshwary 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Triple jump 2010
Kashinath Naik 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Javelin throw 2010
Vikas Gowda 1st place, gold medalist(s) Discus throw 2014
Seema Punia 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Discus throw 2014
Arpinder Singh 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Triple jump 2014
Neeraj Chopra 1st place, gold medalist(s) Javelin throw 2018
Seema Punia 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Discus throw 2018
Navjeet Dhillon 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Discus throw 2018
Eldhose Paul 1st place, gold medalist(s) Triple jump 2022
Murali Sreeshankar 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Long jump 2022
Priyanka Goswami 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 10,000 m walk 2022
Avinash Sable 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Steeplechase 2022
Abdulla Aboobacker 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Triple jump 2022
Tejaswin Shankar 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) High jump 2022
Sandeep Kumar 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 10,000 m walk 2022
Annu Rani 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Javelin throw 2022

Notable Olympics performances

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Year Event Player Result
1960 Men's 400 metres Milkha Singh 4th
1964 Men's 110 metres hurdles Gurbachan Singh Randhawa 5th
1976 Men's 800 metres Sriram Singh 7th
1984 Women's 400 metres hurdles P. T. Usha 4th
Women's 4 × 400 metres relay P. T. Usha
Shiny Abraham
Vandana Rao
M. D. Valsamma 		7th
2004 Women's long jump Anju Bobby George 5th
Women's 4 × 400 metres relay K. M. Beenamol
Sathi Geetha
Chitra Soman
Rajwinder Kaur 		7th
2012 Women's discus throw Krishna Poonia 6th
Men's discus throw Vikas Gowda 8th
2016 Women's 3000 metres steeplechase Lalita Babar 10th
2020 Men's javelin throw Neeraj Chopra Gold
Women's discus throw Kamalpreet Kaur 6th
Men's 4 × 400 metres relay Muhammed Anas
Noah Nirmal Tom
Amoj Jacob
Arokia Rajiv 		9th AR
2024 Men's javelin throw Neeraj Chopra Silver
Men's 3000 metres steeplechase Avinash Sable 11th

Medal table

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Competition Gold Silver Bronze Total
Olympic Games 1 3 0 3
Paralympic Games 8 16 13 35
World Championships 1 1 1 3
Asian Games 85 102 96 283
Asian Para Games ? ? ? ?
Commonwealth Games 6 14 16 36
Asian Championships 94 120 140 354
Asian Indoor Championships 16 31 21 68
Asian Marathon Championships 3 1 3 7
Asian Cross Country Championships 7 15 13 35
Asian Race Walking Championships 2 2 5 9
Total 215 288 295 798
  • Updated till 11th August, 2024

Arjuna awardees

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Lalita Babar, an Indian long-distance runner, was honoured with Arjuna Award in 2016.
Long jumper Mercy Kuttan received the award in 1989
Multi-eventer Reeth Abraham (with coach Beedu) was a 1997 awardee.

The Arjuna Awards are given by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India each year to recognize outstanding achievement in sports. A significant number of athletics competitors have been given the award. This has included both able-bodied athletes and disabled sportspeople.[56]

‡ - Para Athlete § - Lifetime Contribution

S.No. Year Name
1 1961 Gurbachan Singh Randhawa
2 1962 Tarlok Singh
3 1963 Stephie D'Souza
4 1964 Makhan Singh
5 1965 Kenneth Powell
6 1966 Ajmer Singh
7 1966 Bhogeswar Baruah
8 1967 Praveen Kumar
9 1967 Bhim Singh
10 1968 Joginder Singh
11 1968 Manjit Walia
12 1969 Harnek Singh
13 1970 Mohinder Singh Gill
14 1971 Edward Sequeira
15 1972 Vijay Singh Chauhan
16 1973 Sriram Singh
17 1974 T. C. Yohannan
18 1974 Shivnath Singh
19 1975 Hari Chand
20 1975 V. Anusuya Bai
21 1976 Bahadur Singh
22 1976 Geeta Zutshi
23 1977–78 Satish Kumar
24 1978–79 Suresh Babu
25 1978–79 Angel Mary Joseph
26 1979–80 Ramaswamy Gnanasekaran
27 1980–81 Gopal Saini
28 1981 Sabir Ali
29 1982 Charles Borromeo
30 1982 Chand Ram
31 1982 M. D. Valsamma
32 1983 Suresh Yadav
33 1983 P. T. Usha
34 1984 Raj Kumar
35 1984 Shiny Abraham
36 1985 Raghubir Singh Bal
38 1985 Asha Agarwal
39 1985 Adille Sumariwala
39 1986 Suman Rawat
40 1987 Balwinder Singh
41 1987 Vandana Rao
42 1987 Bagicha Singh
43 1987 Vandana Shanbagh
44 1988 Ashwini Nachappa
45 1989 Mercy Kuttan
46 1990 Deena Ram
47 1992 Bahadur Prasad
48 1993 K. Saramma
49 1994 Rosa Kutty
50 1995 Shakti Singh
51 1995 Jyotirmoyee Sikdar
52 1995 Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla ‡
53 1996 Kallegowda ‡
54 1996 Ajit Bhaduria
55 1996 Padmini Thomas
56 1997 M. Mahadeva ‡
57 1997 Reeth Abraham
58 1998 Sirichand Ram
59 1998 Neelam Jaswant Singh
60 1998 S. D. Eshan
61 1998 Rachita Mistry
62 1998 Paramjit Singh
63 1999 Gulab Chand
64 1999 G. Venkataravanappa ‡
65 1999 Gurmit Kaur
66 1999 Parduman Singh
67 1999 Sunita Rani
68 2000 K. M. Beenamol
69 2000 Yadvendra Vashishta ‡
70 2000 Joginder Singh Bedi ‡ §
71 2001 K.R. Shankar Iyer ‡
72 2002 Anju Bobby George
73 2002 Saraswati Saha
74 2003 Soma Biswas
75 2003 Madhuri Saxena
76 2004 Anil Kumar
77 2004 J. J. Shobha
78 2004 Devendra Jhajharia ‡
79 2005 Manjeet Kaur
80 2006 K. M. Binu
81 2007 Chitra Soman
82 2009 Sinimole Paulose
83 2010 Joseph Abraham
84 2010 Krishna Poonia
85 2010 Jagseer Singh ‡
86 2011 Preeja Sreedharan
87 2012 Sudha Singh
88 2012 Kavita Tungar
89 2012 Deepa Malik ‡
90 2012 Ramkaran Singh ‡
91 2013 Amit Kumar Saroha
92 2014 Tintu Lukka
93 2015 M. R. Poovamma
94 2016 Lalita Babar
95 2016 Sandeep Singh Maan ‡
96 2017 Khushbir Kaur
97 2017 Arokia Rajiv
98 2017 Mariyappan Thangavelu ‡
99 2017 Varun Singh Bhati ‡
100 2018 Jinson Johnson
101 2018 Hima Das
102 2018 Neeraj Chopra
103 2018 Ankur Dhama ‡
104 2019 Muhammed Anas
105 2019 Swapna Barman
106 2019 Tejinder Pal Singh Toor
107 2019 Sundar Singh Gurjar ‡
108 2020 Dutee Chand
109 2020 Sandeep Chaudhary ‡
110 2021 Arpinder Singh
111 2021 Yogesh Kathuniya ‡
112 2021 Nishad Kumar ‡
113 2021 Praveen Kumar ‡
114 2021 Sharad Kumar ‡
115 2022 Seema Punia
116 2022 Eldhose Paul
117 2022 Avinash Sable
118 2023 Parul Chaudhary
119 2023 M Sreeshankar

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