List of National Sports Award recipients in boxing

The National Sports Awards is the collective name given to the six sports awards of Republic of India. It is awarded annually by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. They are presented by the President of India in the same ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan usually on 29 August each year along with the national adventure award. As of 2024^[update], a total of seveny-eight individuals have been awarded the various National Sports Awards in boxing. The four awards presented in boxing are Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award, Dhyan Chand Award and Dronacharya Award.^[1]

National Sports Awards in Boxing
Various civilian awards for contributions to Sports (Individual/Team)
Awarded for	Various sports honour of India
Sponsored by	Government of India
Location	Rashtrapati Bhavan
Country	Republic of India
Presented by	President of India
First award	1961
Final award	2024
Highlights
Total awarded	78
Awards	Arjuna Award Dronacharya Award Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Dhyan Chand Award

First presented in the year 1961, a total of fifty-one individuals have been honoured with the Arjuna Award in boxing for their "good performance at the international level" over the period of last four years.^[2] First presented in the year 1985, a total of seventeen coaches have been honoured with the Dronacharya Award in boxing for their "outstanding work on a consistent basis and enabling sportspersons to excel in international events" over the period of last four years, with four coaches being awarded in the lifetime contribution category.^[3] First presented in the year 2009, a total of three sportspersons have been honoured with the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, the highest sporting honour of India, in boxing for their "most outstanding performance at the international level" over the period of last four years.^[4] First presented in the year 2002, a total of four retired sportspersons have been honoured with the Dhyan Chand Award, the lifetime achievement sporting honour of India, in boxing for their "good performance at the international level and their continued contributions to the promotion of sports even after their career as a sportsperson is over."^[5] One awardee Hawa Singh was honoured Dronacharya Award posthumously in the year 1999.^[1]

Recipients

Key

+ Indicates a Lifetime contribution honour

# Indicates a posthumous honour

List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award and gender^[1]

Year	Recipient	Award	Gender
2009	Mary Kom	Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna	Female
2009	Vijender Singh	Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna	Male
2021	Lovlina Borgohain	Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna	Female
1961	Buddy D'Souza	Arjuna Award	Male
1962	Padam Badadur Mal	Arjuna Award	Male
1966	Hawa Singh	Arjuna Award	Male
1968	Dennis Swamy	Arjuna Award	Male
1971	Muniswamy Venu	Arjuna Award	Male
1972	Chandraya Narayanan	Arjuna Award	Male
1973	Mehtab Singh	Arjuna Award	Male
1977–1978	Birender Singh Thapa	Arjuna Award	Male
1978–1979	C. C. Machaiah	Arjuna Award	Male
1979–1980	Bakshish Singh	Arjuna Award	Male
1980–1981	Issac Amaldas	Arjuna Award	Male
1981	G. Manoharan	Arjuna Award	Male
1982	Kaur Singh	Arjuna Award	Male
1983	Jaslal Pradhan	Arjuna Award	Male
1986	Jaipal Singh	Arjuna Award	Male
1987	Seeva Jayaram	Arjuna Award	Male
1989	Gopal Dewang	Arjuna Award	Male
1991	Dharmendra Singh Yadav	Arjuna Award	Male
1992	Rajendra Prasad	Boxing	Male
1993	Mukund Killekar	Arjuna Award	Male
1993	Manoj Pingale	Arjuna Award	Male
1995	Venkatesan Devarajan	Arjuna Award	Male
1996	Rajkumar Sangwan	Arjuna Award	Male
1998	Dingko Singh	Arjuna Award	Male
1999	Jitender Kumar	Arjuna Award	Male
1999	Gurcharan Singh	Arjuna Award	Male
2002	Mohammed Ali Qamar	Arjuna Award	Male
2003	Mary Kom	Arjuna Award	Female
2005	Akhil Kumar	Arjuna Award	Male
2006	Vijender Singh	Arjuna Award	Male
2007	Varghese Johnson	Arjuna Award	Male
2009	Laishram Sarita Devi	Arjuna Award	Female
2010	Dinesh Kumar	Arjuna Award	Male
2011	Suranjoy Singh	Arjuna Award	Male
2012	Vikas Krishan Yadav	Arjuna Award	Male
2013	Kavita Chahal	Arjuna Award	Female
2014	Jai Bhagwan	Arjuna Award	Male
2014	Manoj Kumar	Arjuna Award	Male
2015	Mandeep Jangra	Arjuna Award	Male
2016	Shiva Thapa	Arjuna Award	Male
2017	Devendro Singh	Arjuna Award	Male
2018	Satish Kumar	Arjuna Award	Male
2019	Sonia Lather	Arjuna Award	Female
2020	Lovlina Borgohain	Arjuna Award	Female
2020	Manish Kaushik	Arjuna Award	Male
2021	Simranjit Kaur	Arjuna Award	Female
2022	Amit Panghal	Arjuna Award	Male
2022	Nikhat Zareen	Arjuna Award	Female
2023	Mohammad Hussamuddin	Arjuna Award	Male
2024	Nitu Ghanghas	Arjuna Award	Female
2024	Saweety Boora	Arjuna Award	Female
2002	Shahuraj Birajdar	Dhyan Chand Award	Male
2020	Lakha Singh	Dhyan Chand Award	Male
2020	N. Usha	Dhyan Chand Award	Female
2021	Lekha K. C.	Dhyan Chand Award	Female
2014	Ganapathy Manoharan +	Dronacharya Award	Male
2015	Swatantar Raj Singh +	Dronacharya Award	Male
2017	Brij Bhushan Mohanty +	Dronacharya Award	Male
2020	Shiv Singh +	Dronacharya Award	Male
1985	Om Prakash Bhardwaj	Dronacharya Award	Male
1998	G. S. Sandhu	Dronacharya Award	Male
1999	Hawa Singh +	Dronacharya Award	Male
2003	Anoop Kumar	Dronacharya Award	Male
2005	M. Venu	Dronacharya Award	Male
2006	Damodaran Chandralal	Dronacharya Award	Male
2007	Jagdish Singh	Dronacharya Award	Male
2009	Jaydev Bisht	Dronacharya Award	Male
2010	L Ibomcha Singh	Dronacharya Award	Male
2011	Inukurthi Venkateshwara Roy	Dronacharya Award	Male
2012	B. I. Fernandez	Dronacharya Award	Male
2013	Mahavir Singh	Dronacharya Award	Male
2016	Sagar Mal Dhayal	Dronacharya Award	Male
2018	Subedar Chenanda Achaiah Kuttappa	Dronacharya Award	Male
2021	Sandhya Gurung	Dronacharya Award	Female
2022	Mohammed Ali Qamar	Dronacharya Award	Male
2022	Javed Khan King	Dronacharya Award	Male