Arjuna awards

Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar: Decathlon athlete Tejaswin Shankar leads a list of 17 athletes who will be conferred with the prestigious Arjuna Awards as the sports ministry on Tuesday announced the National Sports Awards 2025.

The Arjuna Award list also includes India's premier women’s badminton doubles pair, Treesa Jolly and Pullela Gayatri Gopichand, FIDE World Cup winner Divya Deshmukh, track and field athlete Muhammed Ajmal Variyathodi, race walker Priyanak Goswami, Boxer Narender, Chess player Vidit Santosh Gujarathi, para shooter Dhanush Srikanth, Lalremsiami Hmarzote (Hockey), Rajkumar Pal (Hockey), Surjeet and Pooja (Kabaddi), Para shooter Rudransh Khandelwal, Para athlete Ekta Bhyan, rower Arvind Singh and shooter Akhil Sheoran.

Tejaswin Shankar created history at the Commonwealth Games by securing bronze in the decathlon, becoming the first Indian athlete to win a medal in the event at the Games.