List of Arjuna Awardees 2011 and sport personalities from West Bengal

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