• President Murmu presents four categories of sports and adventure awards.
• Coaches honoured for contributions to athletics, boxing, shooting and wrestling.
• Arjuna Awards recognise achievements across multiple sporting disciplines.
• Army Paralympic Node, Pune, receives the Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar.

GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 13th Nov: President Droupadi Murmu presented the Sports and Adventure Awards 2025 at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Friday, honouring achievements in sports coaching, competitive athletics, adventure sports and the promotion of para-sports.

The awards presented included the Dronacharya Awards 2025, Arjuna Awards 2025, Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Awards 2024 and Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar 2025.

Among the Dronacharya Award recipients were athletics coach Parveer Singh, boxing coach Chhote Lal Yadav and shooting coach Neha Nandkumar Chavan. The lifetime category recognised wrestling coach Virender Kumar and boxing coach Dharmendra Singh Yadav for their contributions to developing athletes.

The Arjuna Awards recognised sportspersons across several disciplines, including athletics, badminton, boxing, chess, deaf shooting, hockey, kabaddi, para-shooting, para-athletics, rowing, shooting and football. The recipients include Tejaswin Shankar, Muhammed Ajmal V., Priyanka Goswami, Treesa Jolly, Pullela Gayatri Gopichand, Vidit Santosh Gujarathi, Divya Jitendra Deshmukh, Lalremsiami, Rajkumar Pal and Rudransh Khandelwal, among others.

The Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Awards 2024 were conferred on Skalzang Rigzin, Baljeet Kaur and Rimo Saha for their achievements in mountaineering and water adventure. Shiv Prasad Chamoli received the lifetime achievement honour for his contributions to mountaineering, skiing and white-water rafting.

The Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar 2025 was presented to the Army Paralympic Node, Pune, for its contribution to para-sports. Established in 2017, the centre has trained more than 150 para-athletes across nine disciplines and secured over 300 medals at national and international competitions.

The ceremony recognised the contribution of athletes, coaches and institutions in strengthening India’s sporting ecosystem and expanding opportunities across disciplines.