Over the course of a regal event that took place on Tuesday at the Rashtrapati Bhawan, President Droupadi Murmu presented the national sports awards to the athletes who had performed the best in their respective sports. Cricketer Mohammed Shami was one of the recipients of these accolades.
With the Hangzhou Asian Games taking place from September 23 to October 8 of the previous year, the awards ceremony, which was normally held on August 29 to mark the birth anniversary of hockey great Major Dhyan Chand, was postponed.
Sporting bigwigs who were picked for the Arjuna award this year were wrestler Antim Panghal, a former junior world champion and bronze-winner in the senior event last year, boxer Mohammad Hussamuddin (bronze-winner at last year’s world championship), and para archer Sheetal Devi.
List of Arjuna Award winners 2023
1) Ojas Pravin Deotale (archery)
2) Aditi Gopichand Swami (archery)
3) Murali Sreeshankar (athletics)
4) Parul Chaudhary (athletics)
5) Mohammad Hussamuddin (boxing)
6) R Vaishali (chess)
7) Mohammed Shami (cricket)
8) Anush Agarwalla (equestrian)
9) Divyakriti Singh (equestrian dressage)
10) Diksha Dagar (golf)
11) Krishan Bahadur Pathak (hockey)
12) Sushila Chanu (hockey)
13) Pawan Kumar (kabaddi)
14) Ritu Negi (kabaddi)
15) Nasreen (kho-kho)
16) Pinki (lawn bowls)
17) Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar (shooting)
18) Esha Singh (shooting)
19) Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu (squash)
20) Ayhika Mukherjee (table tennis)
21) Sunil Kumar (wrestling)
22) Antim Panghal (wrestling)
23) Naorem Roshibina Devi (wushu)
24) Sheetal Devi (para archery)
25) Illuri Ajay Kumar Reddy (blind cricket)
26) Prachi Yadav (para canoeing)
