List of the Arjuna Awardees 2011 is announced by the national awards selection committee today and Bengal players have done well.
The selection panel for the awards was headed by veteran sprint queen of India P T Usha and the other members were tennis ace Leander Paes, Olympian hockey player Ashok Kumar, ace woman boxer M C Mary Kom, shooter Anjali Bhagwat and national squash coach Cyrus Poncha. The panel has announced the list of Arjuna Awardees 2011 and the list has to be approved by the Ministry of Sports.
From Bengal Rahul Bannerjee in Archery and Sunil Chetri in Football has been nominated for Arjuna Award. Somdev Devvarman is Bengali but he is from Tripura and Somdev Devvarman is nominated in Tennis.
Complete list for Arjuna Awardees 2011
Archery – Rahul Bannerjee
Athletics – Preeja Sreedharan, Vijas Gowda
Badminton – Jwala Gutta
Boxing – Suronjoy
Cricket – Zaheer Khan
Disabled – Prashant Karmakar
Football – Sunil Chhetri
Gymnastics – Ashish Kumar
Hockey – Rajpal Singh
Kabaddi – Rakesh Kumar, Tejaswini Bai
Shooting – Tejaswini Sawant
Swimming – Virdhaval Khade
Tennis – Somdev Devvarman
Volleyball – Sanjay Kumar
Weightlifting – Ravi Kumar
Wrestling – Ravindra Singh
Wushu – Sandhya Rani Devi
In football maximum Arjuna Awardees are from Bengal. This year also Arjuna Award goes to a Bengal player.
Previous Arjuna Awardees in Football
1 1961 P. K. Banerjee
2 1962 Tulsidas Balaram
3 1963 Chuni Goswami
4 1964 Jarnail Singh
5 1965 Arun Lal Ghosh
6 1966 Yusuf Khan
7 1967 Peter Thangaraj
8 1969 Inder Singh
9 1970 Syed Nayeemuddin
10 1971 C. P. Singh
11 1973 Magan Singh
12 1978 Gurdev Singh Gill
13 1979 Prasun Banerjee
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