Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award Winners List till 2021

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Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award Winners List Of (1992-2019) Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award Winners Name is very important for all aspirants to know. General knowledge is very significant for all competitive exams. In all competitive exams awards and winners, related questions come in all types of exam. So we should all know about this gk topic. If you are preparing for a railway or ssc this topic is very significant. List of Bharat Ratna Award Winners in 2019 Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award Winners list is very long so we have tried to make is short to remember easily. Government of India and Department of sport gives this award to them who have done good performance in their sport. In the sports section, this is the highest award and every sports player dreams to get Rajiv Gandhi ​Khel Ratna​ Award in their career.


Thus players get the price of 7.5 Lac rupees as a reward and one certificate of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award. Deepa Malik, Bajrang Punia

wrestling​, A ​ thletics

2019

1. Viswanathan Anand

Chess

1992

2.​ Geet Sethi

Billiards

1993

3.​ Homi de Motivala and PK Garg

Yachting

1995

4.​ Karnam Malleswari

Weightlifting

1996

5.​ Kunjurani Devi and Leander Paes

Weightlifting, Lawn Tennis

1997

6.​ Sachin Tendulkar

Cricket

1998

7.​ Jyotirmoyee Sikandar

Athletics

1999

8.​ Dhanraj Pillai

Hockey

2000

9.​ Pullela Gopichand

Badminton

2001

10.​ Abhinav Bindra

Shooting

2002

11.​ K. M. Binamol, Anjali Bhagwat

Athletics, Shooting,

2003

12.​ Anju Bobby George

Athletics

2004

13.​ Rajya Vardhan, Singh Rathore

Shooting

2005

14.​ Pankaj Advani

Billiards and Snooker

2006


15.​ Manavjit Singh Sandhu

Shooting

2007

16​. Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Cricket

2008

17.​ M.C. Marikom, Vijender Singh,

Boxing, Boxing,

2009

17.​ Sushil Kumar

Wrestling

2009

18.​ Saina Nehwal

Badminton

2010

19.​ Gagan Narang

Shooting

2011

20.​ Vijay Kumar, Yogeshwar Dutt

Shooting, Wrestling

2012

21.​ Ranjan Sodhi

Shooting

2013

22.​ ​Sania Mirza

Lawn Tennis

2015

23​. P. V. Sindhu, Deepa Kamikar,

Badminton, Gymnastics,

2016

23. Sakshi Bhai and Jitu Rai

Wrestling, Shooting

2016

24.​ Devendra Jhajaria, Sardar Singh

Javelin throw, Hockey

2017

25.​ Virat Kohli, Mirabai Chanu

Cricket, Weightlifting

2018

What is ​Rajeev Gandhi Khel Ratna Award?


We must know about the importance of ​Rajeev Gandhi Khel Ratna Award​ for​ us. Because this award is very significant in the field of Games. If we talk for the gk questions for the competitive exams. Games and their awards are very important for all SSC BANK Railway exams or ther government jobs. Rajeev Gandhi Khel Ratna Award​ is such award which gives the motivation in players to meet the target. First Rajiv gandhi ward winner is Vishvnathan Anand as he is a chess world champion player. He did not only won the Rajiv Gandhi Award but also he received many more. “​Main Point of Rajiv Gandi Award as we have given below ​“

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This is the highest award in the field of the game in our country. Every year the Govt of India gives this award to the players. Govt has started to give this award in the year of 1992. The first award winner was Vishwanathan Anand. There are many players as we have given above list.

Therefore we have given the list of Rajiv Gandhi Award winners. Although we have tried to reveal in detail. If you want to download the PDF of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award Click now. Above all the information we have taken from many important books and tried to collect in one place. Sport award which encourages to sportsman as Bharat Ratna Award. So we must have remembered about the winner of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna.

2019 ​Rajiv Gandhi​ Khel Ratna Award Winners List 1. Bajrang Punia 2. Deepa Malik


In 2019 the Sports Ministry has given Rajeev Gandhi Sport Award to people. So we want to share a few statements about those winners of Rajeev Gandhi Award.

Bajrang Punia – He is the winner of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award 2019. Above all article, we have explained the value of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award. So in 2019 Govt has given two persons of Rajeev Gandhi Award. Bajarang Punia is a freestyle wrestler from India. He competes in 65 kg weight category. Hence we would talk about the career of Punia. He was born in Haryana at the district of Jhajjar. He learns many tips from his own father in the field of wrestling. Bajarang Punia started wrestling at the age of 7. He is a government employee of Railway as a TTE (​Travelling Ticket Examiner​). He received many gold and silver from wrestling. Bajarang is getting success from 2013 to till now. After seeing his contribution to the field of wrestling govt decided to provide Rajeev Gandhi Sport award to him. This is the highest award in the field sport. So we recommend to all student to remember this for the coming exam. The president of India offered this award to him​.

Deepa Malik Deepa Malik is an Indian athlete. She is the first Indian woman to win a medal in Paralympic Games and won a Silver medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in the shot put. She has also won gold in F-53/54 Javelin event at the para athletic Grand Prix held in Dubai in 2018.


Malik is the first women to win the medal in Paralympics. She was born in 1970. Deepa also won the Arjuna Award in 2012. She did not only get Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna but also many more awards. Overall Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna awards winners are very active sportsmen and women. In conclusion – We have tried our best to give this information to assist you in your coming exams. If you have loved this article please this to ​Facebook​, ​Telegram​, Whatsapp, ​Twitter ​etc social media.


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