{"id":10565,"date":"2025-01-17T16:28:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T10:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bynewsindia.com\/?p=10565"},"modified":"2025-01-17T16:28:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T10:58:27","slug":"khel-ratna-2024-manu-bhaker-gukesh-honored-34-get-arjuna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/khabar18.jantabuletin.in\/?p=10565","title":{"rendered":"Khel Ratna 2024: Manu Bhaker, D Gukesh Among 4 Honored, 34 Get Arjuna Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Khel Ratna 2024: <\/strong>The National Sports Awards 2024 were distributed by the Sports Ministry at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Friday. President <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Droupadi_Murmu\">Draupadi Murmu<\/a> felicitated the winners. Murmu first honoured Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh with the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apart from him, Olympic double medal winner shooter Manu Bhaker, hockey team captain Harmanpreet Singh and para athlete Praveen Kumar were honoured with the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-rank-math-toc-block\" id=\"rank-math-toc\"><nav><ul><li class=\"\"><a href=\"#manu-won-double-medals-in-paris-olympics\">Manu won double medals in Paris Olympics <\/a><\/li><li class=\"\"><a href=\"#18-year-old-gukesh-is-the-new-chess-world-champion-won-the-title-at-the-youngest-age\">18 year old Gukesh is the new chess world champion, won the title at the youngest age<\/a><\/li><li class=\"\"><a href=\"#under-the-captaincy-of-harmanpreet-india-won-bronze-in-paris-olympics\">Under the captaincy of Harmanpreet, India won bronze in Paris Olympics<\/a><\/li><li class=\"\"><a href=\"#praveen-won-paralympic-gold-with-a-record-in-high-jump\">Praveen won Paralympic gold with a record in high jump <\/a><\/li><li class=\"\"><a href=\"#heres-the-complete-list-of-winners\">Here\u2019s the complete list of winners<\/a><ul><li class=\"\"><a href=\"#major-dhyan-chand-khel-ratna-award-2024\">Khel Ratna 2024: Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2024<\/a><\/li><li class=\"\"><a href=\"#arjuna-award\">Arjuna Award<\/a><\/li><li class=\"\"><a href=\"#arjuna-award-lifetime\">Arjuna Award (lifetime)<\/a><\/li><li class=\"\"><a href=\"#dronacharya-award-regular-category\">Dronacharya Award (Regular Category)<\/a><\/li><li class=\"\"><a href=\"#dronacharya-award-lifetime-category\">Dronacharya Award (Lifetime Category)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Arjuna Award was given to 34 players including Navdeep who won the gold in javelin in Paris Paralympics. Among them, 17 are para-athletes, while 2 are for lifetime achievement. Apart from these, 5 coaches got Dronacharya Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"manu-won-double-medals-in-paris-olympics\"><strong>Manu won double medals in Paris Olympics<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"454\" src=\"https:\/\/bynewsindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Manu-Bhakar.jpeg\" alt=\"Khel Ratna: Manu, Gukesh, Harmanpreet Among 56 Honored!\" class=\"wp-image-10365\" style=\"width:599px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/khabar18.jantabuletin.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Manu-Bhakar.jpeg 680w, https:\/\/khabar18.jantabuletin.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Manu-Bhakar-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/khabar18.jantabuletin.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Manu-Bhakar-150x100.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/khabar18.jantabuletin.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Manu-Bhakar-450x300.jpeg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Manu Bhaker won double Olympic medals in the Paris Olympic Games in August-September. She finished third in the 10 meter air pistol individual and mixed doubles. On the basis of her two medals, India won a total of 6 medals in the Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Droupadi Murmu confers Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award, 2024 on Ms. Manu Bhaker in recognition of her outstanding achievements in Shooting. Her achievements are:<br><br>\u2022     Bronze medal in Olympic Games (Women&#39;s 10m air pistol) held in Paris, France in 2024.<br><br>\u2022\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y4tCLWw5pI\">pic.twitter.com\/Y4tCLWw5pI<\/a><\/p>&mdash; President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rashtrapatibhvn\/status\/1880148254882689337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"18-year-old-gukesh-is-the-new-chess-world-champion-won-the-title-at-the-youngest-age\"><strong>18 year old Gukesh is the new chess world champion, won the title at the youngest age<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"421\" src=\"https:\/\/bynewsindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/D-Gukesh.jpeg\" alt=\"Khel ratna\" class=\"wp-image-10364\" style=\"width:593px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/khabar18.jantabuletin.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/D-Gukesh.jpeg 680w, https:\/\/khabar18.jantabuletin.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/D-Gukesh-300x186.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/khabar18.jantabuletin.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/D-Gukesh-150x93.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/khabar18.jantabuletin.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/D-Gukesh-450x279.jpeg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>18 year old Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh won the World Chess Championship title on 11 December in Singapore. He defeated China&#8217;s defending champion Ding Liren 7.5-6.5 in the final. Gukesh became the first player in the world to win the title at such a young age. Earlier in 1985, Russia&#8217;s Garry Kasparov won this title at the age of 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Droupadi Murmu confers Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award, 2024 on  Shri Gukesh D in recognition of his outstanding achievements in Chess. His achievements are:<br><br>\u2022    Gold medal in FIDE World Chess (Classical) Championship held in Singapore in 2024.<br><br>\u2022    Gold medal\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aRhnpypmel\">pic.twitter.com\/aRhnpypmel<\/a><\/p>&mdash; President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rashtrapatibhvn\/status\/1880147786714477026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"under-the-captaincy-of-harmanpreet-india-won-bronze-in-paris-olympics\"><strong>Under the captaincy of Harmanpreet, India won bronze in Paris Olympics<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/bynewsindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-5.png\" alt=\"Khel ratna\" class=\"wp-image-10366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/khabar18.jantabuletin.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-5.png 590w, https:\/\/khabar18.jantabuletin.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-5-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/khabar18.jantabuletin.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-5-150x92.png 150w, https:\/\/khabar18.jantabuletin.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-5-450x275.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the captaincy of Harmanpreet Singh, the Indian hockey team won bronze in Paris Olympics 2024 and gold medal in Asian Games 2022. At the same time, Harmanpreet has won the title of Player of the Year in FIH Awards thrice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"praveen-won-paralympic-gold-with-a-record-in-high-jump\"><strong>Praveen won Paralympic gold with a record in high jump<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"593\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/bynewsindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-6.png\" alt=\"Khel ratna\" class=\"wp-image-10367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/khabar18.jantabuletin.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-6.png 593w, https:\/\/khabar18.jantabuletin.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-6-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/khabar18.jantabuletin.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-6-150x91.png 150w, https:\/\/khabar18.jantabuletin.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-6-450x273.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Praveen Kumar surprised everyone by winning the gold medal with an Asian record in men&#8217;s high jump at the Paris Paralympics 2024. Praveen, who won a silver medal at the Tokyo Paralympics, gave the best performance of his career in the T64 event and made his name in history by crossing the height of 2.08 meters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"heres-the-complete-list-of-winners\"><strong><mark>Here\u2019s the complete list of winners<\/mark><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"major-dhyan-chand-khel-ratna-award-2024\">Khel Ratna 2024: <strong>Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2024<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Sportsperson<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Discipline<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Gukesh D<\/td><td>Chess<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Harmanpreet Singh<\/td><td>Hockey<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Praveen Kumar<\/td><td>Para-Athletics<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Manu Bhaker<\/td><td>Shooting<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"arjuna-award\"><strong>Arjuna Award<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Sportsperson<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Discipline<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jyothi Yarraji<\/td><td>Athletics<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Annu Rani<\/td><td>Athletics<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Nitu<\/td><td>Boxing<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Saweety<\/td><td>Boxing<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Vantika Agrawal<\/td><td>Boxing<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Salima Tete<\/td><td>Hockey<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Abhishek<\/td><td>Hockey<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sanjay<\/td><td>Hockey<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jarmanpreet Singh<\/td><td>Hockey<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sukhjeet Singh<\/td><td>Hockey<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Rakesh Kumar<\/td><td>Para-Archery<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Preeti Pal<\/td><td>Para-Athletics<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jeevanji Deepthi<\/td><td>Para-Athletics<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Ajeet Singh<\/td><td>Para-Athletics<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sachin Khilari<\/td><td>Para-Athletics<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Dharambir<\/td><td>Para-Athletics<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Pranav Soorma<\/td><td>Para-Athletics<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>H Hokato Sema<\/td><td>Para-Athletics<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Simran<\/td><td>Para-Athletics<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Navdeep<\/td><td>Para-Athletics<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Nitesh Kumar<\/td><td>Para-Badminton<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Thulasimathi Murugesan<\/td><td>Para-Badminton<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan<\/td><td>Para-Badminton<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Manisha Ramadass<\/td><td>Para-Badminton<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Kapil Parmar<\/td><td>Para-Judo<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mona Agarwal<\/td><td>Para-Shooting<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Rubina Francis<\/td><td>Para-Shooting<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Swapnil Kusale<\/td><td>Shooting<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sarabjot Singh<\/td><td>Shooting<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Abhay Singh<\/td><td>Squash<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sajan Prakash<\/td><td>Swimming<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Aman Sehrawat<\/td><td>Wrestling<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"arjuna-award-lifetime\"><strong>Arjuna Award (lifetime)<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Sportsperson<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Discipline<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sucha Singh<\/td><td>Athletics<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Murlikant Petkar<\/td><td>Para-Swimming<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"dronacharya-award-regular-category\"><strong>Dronacharya Award (Regular Category)<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Coach<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Discipline<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Subhash Rana<\/td><td>Para-Shooting<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Deepali Deshpande<\/td><td>Shooting<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sandeep Sangwan<\/td><td>Hockey<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"dronacharya-award-lifetime-category\"><strong>Dronacharya Award (Lifetime Category)<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Coach<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Discipline<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>S Muralidharan<\/td><td>Badminton<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Armando Agnelo Colaco<\/td><td>Football<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Also Read:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bynewsindia.com\/sports\/ind-vs-eng-t20-squad-announcement-shami-returns-as-india-announces-team-for-england-series\/\">Mohammed Shami Returns to Team India After a Year: Bumrah and Siraj Rested for England T20 Series; Axar Patel Named Vice-Captain, Pant Out<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" data-post_type=\"post\" data-cat=\"sports\" data-modified=\"120\" data-title=\"Khel Ratna 2024: Manu Bhaker, D Gukesh Among 4 Honored, 34 Get Arjuna Awards\" data-home=\"https:\/\/khabar18.jantabuletin.in\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khel Ratna 2024: The National Sports Awards 2024 were distributed by the Sports Ministry at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Friday. President Draupadi Murmu felicitated the winners. Murmu first honoured Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh with the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award. Apart from him, Olympic double medal winner shooter Manu Bhaker, hockey team captain Harmanpreet Singh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[93,95,562,563,196,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-10565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-bynews","9":"tag-bynewsindia","10":"tag-khel-ratna-2024","11":"tag-khel-ratna-awards","12":"tag-sports-news","13":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/khabar18.jantabuletin.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/khabar18.jantabuletin.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/khabar18.jantabuletin.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khabar18.jantabuletin.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khabar18.jantabuletin.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/khabar18.jantabuletin.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khabar18.jantabuletin.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/khabar18.jantabuletin.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khabar18.jantabuletin.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khabar18.jantabuletin.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}