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Subedar
Neeraj Chopra
PVSM VSM
	Chopra in December 2021
Personal information
Born	24 December 1997 (age 28); Khandra, Haryana, India
Education	DAV College, Chandigarh
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	86 kg (190 lb)
Military career
Allegiance	India
Service/branch	Indian Army
Years of service	2016–present
Rank	Subedar
Service number	JC-471869A
Unit	4 Rajputana Rifles
Awards	Param Vishisht Seva Medal; Vishisht Seva Medal;
Sport
Sport	Track and field
Event(s)	Javelin throw
Coached by	Klaus Bartonietz (2021–); Uwe Hohn (2018–2021);
Achievements and titles
World finals	Template:World1 (2023) Template:World2 (2022)
Regional finals	Template:Asia1 (2017)
Olympic finals	(2020)
Highest world ranking	1 (achieved on 11 May 2023)
Personal best(s)	89.94 m NR (2022)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing India
Olympic Games
World Championships
Diamond League
Asian Games
Commonwealth Games
Asian Championships
South Asian Games
World Junior Championships
Asian Junior Championships

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Neeraj Chopra (born 24 December 1997) is an Indian track and field athlete, who is the reigning Olympic champion and World champion in Men's javelin throw. He is the first Asian athlete to win an Olympic gold medal in javelin and the first Asian to win gold in his event at the World Championship. A Junior Commissioned Officer Subedar (JCO) in the Indian Army, Chopra is the first track and field athlete to win a gold medal for India at the Olympics.^[5] He is also the first track and field athlete from India to win at the World Under-20 Championships, where in 2016 he achieved a world U20 record throw of 86.48 m, becoming the first Indian athlete to set a world record.

Chopra participated in the 2018 Commonwealth Games and the 2018 Asian Games, serving as the flag-bearer in the latter and winning gold medals in both. As of 2021^[update], he is one of only two Indians to have won an individual Olympic gold medal (the other being Abhinav Bindra), the youngest-ever Indian Olympic gold medalist in an individual event and the only individual to have won gold on his Olympic debut.^[6] His silver medal at the 2022 World Championships made him the second Indian to win a medal at a World Athletics Championships.^[7] He subsequently won the first gold for India at the 2023 World Athletics Championships and second gold at 2022 Asian Games.^[8]^[9]

Chopra is the Indian record holder for the javelin throw.

Early life and education[edit | edit source]

Chopra was born in a Haryanvi Ror family in Khandra, Panipat, Haryana.^[10] He has two sisters and his family is largely involved in agriculture.^[11] He did his schooling from BVN Public School.^[12] He graduated from Dayanand Anglo-Vedic College in Chandigarh,^[13] and as of 2021^[update], was pursuing a Bachelor of Arts from Lovely Professional University in Jalandhar, Punjab.^[14]

Impressed with Chopra's performance at the South Asian Games and his future potential, the Indian Army offered him a direct appointment as a Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) in the Rajputana Rifles with the rank of Naib Subedar.^[15]^{[lower-alpha 1]} He accepted the offer and joined the army under sports quota.^[16]

Athletics career[edit | edit source]

Early training[edit | edit source]

After local children teased him about his childhood obesity, Chopra's father enrolled him in a gymnasium at Madlauda; he was later enrolled in a gym in Panipat. While playing at Shivaji stadium in Panipat, he saw some javelin throwers and began participating himself.^[17]

Chopra visited the Panipat Sports Authority of India (SAI) centre, where javelin thrower Akshay Choudhary from Ghaziabad and Neeraj practised early talent in the winter of 2010.^[18] Observing Chopra's ability to achieve a 40-metre throw without training and impressed by his drive, Choudhary became his first coach.^[19] Chopra learned the basics of the sport from Choudhary and a few more experienced athletes who had trained under a javelin coach in Jalandhar.^[20] He soon won his first medal, a bronze in the district championships, and then persuaded his family to allow him to live in Panipat while developing his abilities.^[20]

Chopra receiving the Arjuna Award from Ram Nath Kovind, President of India, on 25 September 2018.^[21]

After training under Choudhary for a year, the 13-year-old Chopra was admitted to the Tau Devi Lal Sports Complex in Panchkula. The sports complex was then one of only two facilities in the state of Haryana with a synthetic runway. There, he trained under coach Naseem Ahmad, a running coach who made him train in long-distance running along with the javelin throw. As Panchkula lacked a specialized javelin coach, he and fellow javelin thrower Parminder Singh downloaded videos of the Czech champion Jan Zelezny and attempted to copy his style.^[20] While initially at Tau Devi, Chopra typically achieved throws of around 55 metres, but soon increased his range, and in the National Junior Athletics Championships in Lucknow on 27 October 2012, won gold with a new national record throw of 68.40 metres.^[22]^[23]

International beginnings[edit | edit source]

In 2013, Neeraj Chopra entered his first international competition, the World Youth Championships in Ukraine.^[20] He won his first international medal in 2014, a silver at the Youth Olympics Qualification in Bangkok.^[24] He achieved his first throw of over 70 metres at the 2014 senior nationals.^[25]

In 2015, Chopra broke the previous world record in the junior category, throwing 81.04 metres in the 2015 All India Inter-University Athletics meet; this was his first throw of over 80 metres.^[23]

Chopra finished fifth at the 2015 National Games in Kerala,^[26] and received a callback for the national-level training camp as a result,^[19] leaving Panchkula in 2016 to train at Netaji Subhas National Institute of Sports, Patiala.^[20]^[27] According to Chopra, his inclusion in the national camp marked a turning point in his career, as he received better facilities, a better quality diet and an improved standard of training from that available at Panchkula. According to him, training with national level javelin throwers boosted his morale.^[26] Chopra was also assigned his first dedicated javelin coach, 2010 Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Kashinath Naik, but found Naik's training regimen too difficult and resumed training on his own after a month and a half.

2016–2018[edit | edit source]

At the 2016 South Asian Games, Chopra achieved a new personal best during the athletics finals in Guwahati on 9 February, winning gold with a throw of 82.23 meters, though falling short of the 83-meter Olympic qualifying mark. He also began training under Australian coach Gary Calvert that month.^[20] Chopra won a gold medal in the 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland and set a world junior record of 86.48 m, becoming the first Indian athlete to achieve a world record, at the same time setting a new national record.^[28] Although his U20 record surpassed that of defending Olympic champion Keshorn Walcott, Chopra failed to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics as the cut-off date had been 11 July, the week before the U20 championships. His preparations for Rio had also been hampered by a back injury sustained in April 2016 during the Federation Cup in New Delhi, which had noticeably affected his performance in competition.^[28]

Chopra at the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar

In September 2016, he left the Netaji Subhas National Institute of Sports to train at the Sports Authority of India centre in Bangalore. He was formally inducted as a JCO in December 2016, and subsequently received extended leave to continue his training.^[27]

Chopra won a gold medal in the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships in Bhubaneshwar, Odisha.

Chopra won gold in the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships with a throw of 85.23 metres.^[29] He then went to London in August for the World Championships, but was eliminated before reaching the finals.^[30] On 24 August, Chopra suffered a significant groin injury in the finals of the Zurich Diamond League, sustaining the injury during his third attempted throw, in which he attained a distance of 83.39 meters; owing to the injury, he fouled his fourth attempt and skipped his last two allowed attempts.^[30] His first and best throw of 83.80 meters gave him a seventh-place finish.^[30] As a result of his injury, he withdrew from competition for the remainder of 2017.^[31] After recovering from his injury, which he partly attributed to a heavy competition schedule and the lack of a proper diet and rest, Chopra spent a month at the Joint Services Wing sports institute in Vijayanagar.^[31] He then left for Offenburg, Germany in November to train for three months with Werner Daniels, whom he had briefly worked with before the 2017 World Championships. His former coach Calvert had left India in May due to disputes over his contract. During his stay in Offenburg, Chopra focused on strength training and honed his technique with Daniels' guidance, adjusting his stance and improving his range by keeping his hand raised higher during throws.^[31]

General Bipin Rawat, Chief of Army Staff, congratulating Neeraj Chopra (second from right), gold medallist in javelin throw, and Gaurav Solanki, gold medallist in boxing, for their performance in the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

In the men's javelin throw at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, he registered a season-best effort of 86.47 metres, becoming the first Indian to win the javelin throw at the Commonwealth Games.^[32] In May 2018, he again broke the national record at the Doha Diamond League with a throw of 87.43 metres.^[33]

In August 2018, Chopra made his debut at the Asian Games representing India, and was also the flag-bearer for the Indian contingent during the 2018 Asian Games Parade of Nations.^[34] On 27 August, he threw a distance of 88.06 m to win gold in the Men's javelin throw at the 2018 Asian Games and bettered his own Indian national record.^[35] It was also India's first gold medal in the javelin throw at the Asian Games. Chopra was the only track and field athlete that year to be recommended by the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) for the country's highest sports award, the Major Dhyanchand Khel Ratna, but was awarded the Arjuna Award in September 2018.^[36] He was further rewarded by the army with an out-of-turn promotion to subedar in November.^[37]

In preparation for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, subsequently postponed to 2021, Chopra trained with guidance from his German coach Uwe Hohn, biomechanics expert Klaus Bartonietz and physiotherapist Ishaan Marwaha.^[38] During 2018 – 2019, Hohn improved Chopra's throwing technique, which earlier was "wild" according to Hohn.^[39]

Injury and recovery[edit | edit source]

Chopra missed the 2019 World Championships in Doha due to bone spurs in his right elbow, undergoing surgery in Mumbai on 3 May 2019,^[40] the day after the qualifying competitions for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics had begun. After a period of recuperation, involving meditation and rehabilitative training in Patiala and the Inspire Institute of Sport at Vijayanagar, Chopra travelled to South Africa in November 2019 for training under German biomechanics expert Klaus Bartoneitz.^[41]^[42] Previously, he had been coached by Gary Calvert^[43] and Werner Daniels.^[44] After a 16-month hiatus, Chopra returned to international competition in January 2020 with a winning throw of 87.86 metres in the Athletics Central North West League Meeting in Potchefstroom, South Africa, which as a distance of over 85 meters qualified him for the Tokyo Olympiad.^[41]

After South Africa, Chopra travelled to Turkey for training, but was forced to return to India in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[45] Owing to the pandemic and lockdown in India,^[45] Chopra spent the next year training at the NIS Patiala.^[46] In late 2020, the Athletics Federation of India and the Odisha state government aided the national javelin team by arranging a training camp at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, which Chopra attended from December 2020 through February 2021.^[47] On 5 March 2021, Chopra again broke his own national record with a throw of 88.07 m, which ranked him third-best internationally.^[48]

Owing to the pandemic, Chopra's visa application to travel to Sweden for training was rejected. After weeks of attempting to secure a visa, which Chopra described as frustrating, he was cleared to travel to Europe with his coach following the intervention of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and the Ministry of External Affairs.^[46]^[49] He flew to Paris on 5 June 2021 for a mandatory quarantine period before travelling to Portugal for the Meeting Cidade de Lisboa.^[45] He opened his international season of 2021 there with a throw of 83.18 metres, which earned him a gold medal.^[50] Chopra remained in Lisbon until 19 June before travelling to Uppsala, Sweden with his coach for further training, which was sanctioned by the Sports Authority of India at a cost of ₹34.85 lakh (US$49,000).^[51]

He went on to compete in the Karlstad Meet in Sweden in June 2022, where he achieved a gold with a sub-par throw of 80.96 m. before winning a bronze in the Kuortane Games in Finland with a throw of 86.79 m.^[52]^[53] The 24-year-old won the gold medal with a throw of 86.69m his first and only legal throw. He attributed his reduced performance in Finland to a tendency to throw higher than he wanted, along with having to use a different javelin as his own was unavailable.^[54] Following the Kuortane Games, Chopra travelled to Lucerne to compete in the Spitzen Leichtathletik Luzern but decided to withdraw due to fatigue.^[53] He attempted to secure a visa for the United Kingdom to enter the Diamond League at Gateshead on 13 July, but faced difficulties due to the pandemic and instead continued training and honing his technique in Uppsala.^[54]

2020 Tokyo Olympics[edit | edit source]

On 4 August 2021, Chopra made his debut at the Olympics, representing India in the Japan National Stadium^[55] He topped his qualifying group for entry to the final with a throw of 86.65 metres.^[56] Chopra won the gold medal in the final on 7 August with a throw of 87.58 m in his second attempt, becoming the first Indian Olympian to win a gold medal in athletics, and the first post-independence Indian Olympic medalist in athletics.^[57]

Chopra's medal gave India a final total of seven medals at the game, surpassing the country's previous best performance of six medals earned at the 2012 London Olympics.^[58] As a result of his performance in Tokyo, Chopra became the second-ranked athlete internationally in the men's javelin throw.^[59] Chopra also became the second Indian to win an individual Olympic gold medal after Abhinav Bindra, who won the gold medal in men's 10 m air rifle in the 2008 Summer Olympics.^[60] He dedicated his win to sprinters Milkha Singh and P. T. Usha, both former Olympians from India.^[61] According to some historians, Chopra is the first Olympic medalist in track and field for India, but this status is disputed. Both the International Olympic Committee and Indian Olympic Association officially recognise Norman Pritchard to have been the first Indian track and field Olympic medalist, having competed at the 1900 Paris Olympics, even though India was under British rule at that time.^[62]^[63]^[64]^[65]^{[n 1]}^{[verification needed]}

Post Tokyo Olympics[edit | edit source]

Chopra at the 2022 BAUHAUS-galan in Stockholm

In June 2022 at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku, Finland, Chopra placed second with a new personal best of 89.30m and registered the new national record.^[66]^[67]^[68] He broke his own national record with a throw of 89.94m for a second place at the Stockholm Diamond League.^[69]

In July 2022, Chopra with his throw of 88.13m on fourth attempt in the men's javelin throw final at the Oregon World Championships ensured himself a historic silver medal. This was India's second medal at the World Athletics Championships after long-jumper Anju Bobby George's bronze in 2003.^[70] On August 26, he won first place^[71] at the Lausanne Diamond League with a throw of 89.09m and qualified for the Zürich Final.^[72] On September 8, he won the Final with a throw of 88.44m, becoming the first Indian to do so and qualifying for the 2023 World Championships.^[73]

In May 2023, Chopra clinched top spot in the Doha Diamond League with a throw of 88.67m.^[74] In the same month, he, for the first time, achieved first position in the men's javelin throw rankings issued by World Athletics.^[75]

In August 2023, he won the gold medal in 2023 World Athletics Championships with a throw of 88.17m.^[8] In October 2023, he won the second gold medal in 2022 Asian Games with a season-best throw of 88.88m.^[76]

Achievements[edit | edit source]

International competitions[edit | edit source]

q − qualification round
WU20R − world under-20 record
NR − national record

Representing India
Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Result
2013	World U18 Championships	Donetsk, Ukraine	19th (q)	Javelin throw (700 g)	66.75 m^[77]
2015	Asian Championships	Wuhan, China	9th	Javelin throw	70.50 m^[78]
2016	South Asian Games	Guwahati, India		Javelin throw	82.23 m^[79]^[80]
	Asian U20 Championships	Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam		Javelin throw	77.60 m^[81]
	World U20 Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland		Javelin throw	86.48 m WU20R^[82]
2017	Asian Championships	Bhubaneswar, India		Javelin throw	85.23 m^[83]
2017	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	15th (q)	Javelin throw	82.26 m^[84]
2018	Commonwealth Games	Gold Coast, Australia		Javelin throw	86.47 m^[85]^[86]
2018	Asian Games	Jakarta, Indonesia		Javelin throw	88.06 m NR^[87]
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan		Javelin throw	87.58 m^[88]
2022	World Championships	Eugene, OR, United States		Javelin throw	88.13 m^[89]
2022	Asian Games	Hangzhou, China		Javelin throw	88.88 m^[90]
2023	World Championships	Budapest, Hungary		Javelin throw	88.17 m^[91]

Circuit wins and titles[edit | edit source]

Diamond League javelin throw champion: 2022
- 2022: Lausanne Athletissima,^[92] Zürich Weltklasse^[93]
- 2023: Doha Diamond League (WL)^[94] Lausanne Athletissima
- 2023: Diamond League Final: Neeraj Chopra finishes Second ^[95]

Other wins[edit | edit source]

2018
- Sotteville Athletics Meet,^[96] Savo Games^[97]
2021
- Meeting Cidade de Lisboa,^[98] Folksam Grand Prix^[98]
2022
- Kuortane Games^[99]^[100]

Seasonal bests by year[edit | edit source]

Year	Date	Performance	Place
2013	26 July	69.66 metres	Patiala, India
2014	17 August	70.19 meters
2015	31 December	81.04 meters
2016	23 July	86.48 metres WJR WU20R	Bydgoszcz, Poland
2017	2 June	85.63 metres	Patiala, India
2018	27 August	88.06 metres	Jakarta, Indonesia
2020	28 January	87.86 meters	South Africa
2021	5 March	88.07 metres	Patiala, India
2022	30 June	89.94 metres	Stockholm, Sweden
2023	4 October	88.88 metres	Hangzhou, China

Awards and recognition[edit | edit source]

Ram Nath Kovind, President of India, presenting the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award, 2021 to Neeraj Chopra

Ribbon bar[edit | edit source]

Param Vishisht Seva Medal		Padma Shri		Vishisht Seva Medal		75th Independence Anniversary Medal

National awards[edit | edit source]

Arjuna Award – 2018^[101]
Vishisht Seva Medal (VSM) – 2020 Republic Day honours^[2]^[102]
Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award – 2021 (highest sporting honour of India)^[103]
Param Vishisht Seva Medal (PVSM) - 2022 Republic Day honours^[104]
Padma Shri (fourth highest civilian honour) - 2022 Republic Day honours^[105]

Other[edit | edit source]

The Times of India TOISA Sportsperson of the Year: 2021^[106]
Army Sports Institute (ASI) stadium of Pune cantonment renamed "Neeraj Chopra Stadium" by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on 27 August 2021.^[107]
Switzerland Tourism appointed Neeraj Chopra as its Friendship Ambassador.^[108]

Notes[edit | edit source]

↑ Normally, the Indian Army does not appoint fresh recruits to this position, but because of his performance, they did.

↑ Pritchard won the first Olympic track and field medal in the 1900 Paris Olympics, competing in the 200 meter sprint and the 200 meter hurdles events. Thus, Chopra became the second Olympic track and field medalist for India. Pritchard technically competed for Britain as British India did not officially gain representation within the Olympic Movement until 1920; however, the International Olympic Committee and the Athletics Federation of India officially regard Pritchard as having competed for India and credit his medals accordingly. Olympics historian and journalist Gulu Ezekiel further observes that though Pritchard was an Englishman of English parentage, he was born in Calcutta and developed his abilities as a champion sprinter and hurdler while representing the Bengal Presidency in events within India.^[62]

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v t e Recipients of Padma Shri in Sports
1950s	Balbir Singh Sr. (1957) K. D. Singh (1958) Mihir Sen (1959) Milkha Singh (1959)
1960s	Vijay Hazare (1960) Jasu Patel (1960) Arati Saha (1960) Nari Contractor (1962) Sonam Gyatso (1962) Ramanathan Krishnan (1962) Gostha Pal (1962) Polly Umrigar (1962) Syed Mushtaq Ali (1963) M. J. Gopalan (1964) Nawang Gombu (1964) Charanjit Singh (1964) H. P. S. Ahluwalia (1965) Avtar Singh Cheema (1965) D. B. Deodhar (1965) Phu Dorjee (1965) Wilson Jones (1965) Verghese Kurien (1965) Harish Chandra Singh Rawat (1965) Chandra Prakash Vohra (1965) Sonam Wangyal (1965) Kishan Lal (1966) Narendra Kumar (1965) Shankar Lakshman (1967) Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (1967) Gurdial Singh (1967) Prithipal Singh (1967) Chandu Borde (1969)
1970s	Bishan Singh Bedi (1970) Moin-ul-Haq (1970) E. A. S. Prasanna (1970) Leslie Claudius (1971) Sailen Manna (1971) Ghaus Mohammad (1971) Chandgi Ram (1971) Kamaljeet Sandhu (1971) Gundappa Viswanath (1971) Harsh Vardhan Bahuguna (1972) B. S. Chandrasekhar (1972) Ajit Wadekar (1972) Farokh Engineer (1973) Pankaj Roy (1975) Roshan Lal Anand (1976) Meena Shah (1977)
1980s	Vasudevan Baskaran (1981) Syed Kirmani (1982) Kapil Dev (1982) Prakash Padukone (1982) Vijay Amritraj (1983) Bahadur Singh Chouhan (1983) Guru Hanuman (1983) Eliza Nelson (1983) Chand Ram (1983) Kaur Singh (1983) Raghubir Singh (1983) Satpal Singh (1983) M. D. Valsamma (1983) Geeta Zutshi (1983) Charles Borromeo (1984) Phu Dorjee (1984) Chuni Goswami (1984) D. K. Khullar (1984) Bachendri Pal (1984) Omprakesh Agrawal (1985) P. T. Usha (1985) Anupama Gokhale (1986) Swaroop Kishen (1986) Geet Sethi (1986) Mohammad Shahid (1986) Bhagyashree Thipsay (1987) Dilip Vengsarkar (1987) Viswanathan Anand (1988) Mohammad Azharuddin (1988)
1990s	Chandraprabha Aitwal (1990) P. K. Banerjee (1990) Premchand Degra (1990) Gulshan Rai (1990) Jaman Lal Sharma (1990) Taranath Narayan Shenoy (1990) Selma D'Silva (1991) Aspy Adajania (1992) Ajit Pal Singh (1992) Sriram Singh (1992) Hakam Singh (1992) Shiny Abraham (1998) Ramesh Krishnan (1998) Lila Ram (1998) Pargat Singh (1998) Karnam Malleswari (1999) Sachin Tendulkar (1999)
2000s	Santosh Yadav (2000) Mahesh Bhupathi (2001) Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla (2001) Bhuvneshwari Kumari (2001) Leander Paes (2001) Dhanraj Pillay (2001) Sunita Rani (2001) Diana Edulji (2002) Jaspal Rana (2002) Mukesh Kumar (2003) Gopal Purushottam Phadke (2003) Kanhaya Lal Pokhriyal (2003) Jyotirmoyee Sikdar (2003) Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan (2003) K. M. Beenamol (2004) Gurmayum Anita Devi (2004) Rahul Dravid (2004) Sourav Ganguly (2004) Anju Bobby George (2004) S. P. Nimbalkar (2004) Dilip Tirkey (2004) Pullela Gopichand (2005) Anil Kumble (2005) Gurbachan Singh Randhawa (2005) Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (2005) Rachel Thomas (2005) Madhumita Bisht (2006) Mohan Singh Gunjyal (2006) Mary Kom (2006) Sania Mirza (2006) Bahadur Singh Sagoo (2006) Koneru Humpy (2007) Jeev Milkha Singh (2007) Bhaichung Bhutia (2008) Bula Choudhury (2008) Pankaj Advani (2009) MS Dhoni (2009) Balbir Singh Kullar (2009) Harbhajan Singh (2009)
2010s	Ramakant Achrekar (2010) Narain Karthikeyan (2010) Saina Nehwal (2010) Virender Sehwag (2010) Vijender Singh (2010) Ignace Tirkey (2010) Kunjarani Devi (2011) Sushil Kumar (2011) VVS Laxman (2011) Shital Mahajan (2011) Gagan Narang (2011) Krishna Poonia (2011) Harbhajan Singh (mountaineer) (2011) S. M. Arif (2012) Ravi Chaturvedi (2012) Jhulan Goswami (2012) Zafar Iqbal (field hockey) (2012) Devendra Jhajharia (2012) Limba Ram (2012) Prabhakar Vaidya (2012) Premlata Agrawal (2013) Yogeshwar Dutt (2013) Vijay Kumar (2013) Girisha Nagarajegowda (2013) Dingko Singh (2013) Bajrang Lal Takhar (2013) Anjum Chopra (2014) Sunil Dabas (2014) Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu (2014) Dipika Pallikal Karthik (2014) H. Boniface Prabhu (2014) Yuvraj Singh (2014) Mamta Sodha (2014) Saba Anjum Karim (2015) Mithali Raj (2015) P. V. Sindhu (2015) Sardara Singh (2015) Arunima Sinha (2015) Sushil Doshi (2016) Deepika Kumari (2016) Vikas Gowda (2017) Dipa Karmakar (2017) Virat Kohli (2017) Deepa Malik (2017) Sakshi Malik (2017) Shekhar Naik (2017) P. R. Sreejesh (2017) Mariyappan Thangavelu (2017) Saikhom Mirabai Chanu (2018) Somdev Devvarman (2018) Murlikant Petkar (2018) Srikanth Kidambi (2018) Sunil Chhetri (2019) Harika Dronavalli (2019) Gautam Gambhir (2019) Sharath Kamal (2019) Bombayla Devi Laishram (2019) Bajrang Punia (2019) Prashanti Singh (2019) Ajay Thakur (2019)
2020s	Oinam Bembem Devi (2020) M. P. Ganesh (2020) Zaheer Khan (2020) Jitu Rai (2020) Tarundeep Rai (2020) Rani Rampal (2020) Anitha Pauldurai (2021) Anshu Jamsenpa (2021) Mouma Das (2021) Sudha Singh (2021) Virender Singh (2021) K. Y. Venkatesh (2021)

v t e Recipients of Khel Ratna
1991–2000	Viswanathan Anand (1991–1992) Geet Sethi (1992–1993) Homi Motivala and Pushpendra Kumar Garg (1993–1994) Karnam Malleswari (1994–1995) Kunjarani Devi (1995–1996) Leander Paes (1996–1997) Sachin Tendulkar (1997–1998) Jyotirmoyee Sikdar (1998–1999) Dhanraj Pillay (1999–2000) Pullela Gopichand (2000–2001)
2001–2010	Abhinav Bindra (2001) K. M. Beenamol and Anjali Bhagwat (2002) Anju Bobby George (2003) Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (2004) Pankaj Advani (2005) Manavjit Singh Sandhu (2006) MS Dhoni (2007) No award (2008) Mary Kom, Vijender Singh, and Sushil Kumar (2009) Saina Nehwal (2010)
2011–2020	Gagan Narang (2011) Vijay Kumar and Yogeshwar Dutt (2012) Ronjan Sodhi (2013) No award (2014) Sania Mirza (2015) P. V. Sindhu, Dipa Karmakar, Jitu Rai, and Sakshi Malik (2016) Devendra Jhajharia and Sardara Singh (2017) Saikhom Mirabai Chanu and Virat Kohli (2018) Deepa Malik and Bajrang Punia (2019) Rohit Sharma, Mariyappan Thangavelu, Manika Batra, Vinesh Phogat, and Rani Rampal (2020)
2021–2030	Avani Lekhara (2021) Neeraj Chopra (2021) Ravi Kumar Dahiya (2021) Lovlina Borgohain (2021) P. R. Sreejesh (2021) Sumit Antil (2021) Pramod Bhagat (2021) Krishna Nagar (2021) Manish Narwal (2021) Mithali Raj (2021) Sunil Chhetri (2021) Manpreet Singh (2021) Sharath Kamal (2022)