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Khel Ratna Award, the Glossary

The Khel Ratna Award, officially known as the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award (Major Dhyan Chand Sport Jewel Award) or formerly known as the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, is the highest sporting honour of India.^[1]

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Abhinav Bindra

Abhinav Apjit Bindra (born 28 September 1982) is an Indian Olympic gold medallist, retired sport shooter, and businessman.

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Anjali Bhagwat

Anjali Bhagwat (born 5 December 1969) is a professional Indian sport shooter.

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Arjuna Award

The Arjuna Award, officially known as Arjuna Awards given for Outstanding Performance in Sports and Games, is the second-highest sporting honour of India, the highest being the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award. Khel Ratna Award and Arjuna Award are Indian sports trophies and awards and Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.

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Asian Games

The Asian Games, also known as Asiad, is a continental multi-sport event held every fourth year among athletes from all over Asia.

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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.

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Athletics at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Men's high jump

The Men's High Jump athletics events for the 2012 Summer Paralympics took place at the London Olympic Stadium on 3 September and 8 September.

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Badminton

Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net.

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Bhanwar Jitendra Singh

Bhanwar Jitendra Singh (born 12 June 1971) is a former Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent charge) and a former Minister of State for Defence, Government of India.

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Board of Control for Cricket in India

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is the principal national governing body of cricket in India.

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Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport and martial art.

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Bruno Soares

Bruno Fraga Soares (born 27 February 1982) is a Brazilian former professional tennis player who specialised in doubles.

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Chess

Chess is a board game for two players.

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Chirag Shetty

Chirag Chandrashekhar Shetty (born 4 July 1997) is an Indian badminton player.

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Commonwealth Games

The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, which consists mostly, but not exclusively, of territories of the former British Empire.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps.

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Cue sports

Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as.

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Dhyan Chand

Major Dhyan Chand (29 August 1905 – 3 December 1979) was an Indian field hockey player.

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Discus throw

The discus throw, also known as disc throw, is a track and field sport in which the participant athlete throws an oblate spheroid weight — called a discus — in an attempt to mark a farther distance than other competitors.

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English billiards

English billiards, called simply billiards in the United Kingdom and in many former British colonies, is a cue sport that combines the aspects of carom billiards and pool.

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Field hockey

Field hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalkeeper.

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Freestyle wrestling

Freestyle wrestling is a style of wrestling.

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Girisha Nagarajegowda

Girisha Hosanagara Nagarajegowda (born 26 January 1988), also known as Girish N. Gowda is paralympic high jumper from India.

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Government of India

The Government of India (IAST: Bhārat Sarkār, legally the Union Government or Union of India and colloquially known as the Central Government) is the central executive authority of the Republic of India, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories.

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Grand Slam (tennis)

The Grand Slam in tennis is the achievement of winning all four major championships in one discipline in a calendar year.

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Grandmaster (chess)

Grandmaster (GM) is a title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE.

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Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, artistry and endurance.

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High jump

The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian Olympic Association

The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) or Indian Olympic Committee (IOC) (ISO: Bhāratīya Olaṃpika Saṃgha) is responsible for selecting athletes to represent India at the Olympic Games, Asian Games and other international sports competitions, and managing Indian teams at these events.

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Javelin throw

The javelin throw is a track and field event where the javelin, a spear about in length, is thrown as far as possible.

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K. M. Beenamol

Kalayathumkuzhi Mathews Beenamol, popularly known as K. M. Beenamol (born 15 August 1975), from Kombidinjal, Idukki district, Kerala is an international athlete from India.

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Kapil Dev

Kapil Dev Nikhanj (Pronunciation: kəpil deːʋ born 6 January 1959) is an Indian former cricketer.

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Karnataka High Court

The High Court of Karnataka (IAST: Karnāṭaka Ućća Nyāyālaya, commonly called the Karnataka High Court and formerly Mysore High Court) is the High Court of the Indian state of Karnataka and thus its highest judicial authority.

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Krishna Poonia

Krishna Poonia (born 5 May 1977) is an international gold-medalist Indian discus thrower, track-and-field athlete, 2 times Olympics participant, Padma Shri and Arjuna Award recipient, politician from the Congress party and the former MLA from Sadulpur constituency in Rajasthan.

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Mahesh Bhupathi

Mahesh Shrinivas Bhupathi (born 7 June 1974) is an Indian former doubles world No. 1 tennis player.

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Major (rank)

Major is a senior military officer rank used in many countries.

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Martina Hingis

Martina Hingis (Martina Hingisová; born 30 September 1980) is a Swiss former professional tennis player.

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Medal

A medal or medallion is a small portable artistic object, a thin disc, normally of metal, carrying a design, usually on both sides.

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Michael Ferreira

Michael Ferreira (born 1 October 1938 in Bombay [now Mumbai&#93), nicknamed "the Bombay Tiger", is notable amateur player of English billiards from India, and a three-time Amateur World Champion.

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Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports

The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports is a branch of the Government of India which administers the Department of Youth Affairs and the Department of Sports in India.

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National Anti-Doping Agency (India)

The National Anti-Doping Agency of India is India's national organisation responsible for promoting, coordinating, and monitoring the doping control program in sports in all its forms.

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National Rifle Association of India

The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) was founded on 17 April, 1951 with a view to promote and popularize the shooting sports in India as well as for self-defense teaching purposes.

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New Delhi

New Delhi (ISO: Naī Dillī), is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT).

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Olympic Games

The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.

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Olympic weightlifting

Weightlifting (often known as Olympic weightlifting) is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with the aim of successfully lifting the heaviest weights.

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P. K. Banerjee

Pradip Kumar Banerjee (23 June 1936 – 20 March 2020) was an Indian professional footballer who played as a striker for the India national football team.

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Para-athletics

Para-athletics is the sport of athletics practiced by people with a disability as a parasport.

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Para-badminton

Para-badminton is a variant of badminton for athletes with a range of physical disabilities.

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Paralympic Games

The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the Games of the Paralympiad, is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities.

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Paralympic shooting

Paralympic shooting, also known as shooting Para sport (Para Shooting), is an adaptation of shooting sports for competitors with disabilities.

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Parasports

Parasports are sports played by people with a disability, including physical and intellectual disabilities.

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President of India

The president of India (IAST) is the head of state of the Republic of India.

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Prime Minister of India

The prime minister of India (ISO) is the head of government of the Republic of India.

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Professional boxing

Professional boxing, or prizefighting, is regulated, sanctioned boxing.

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Public interest law

Public interest law refers to legal practices undertaken to help poor, marginalized, or under-represented people, or to effect change in social policies in the public interest, on 'not for profit' terms (''pro bono publico''), often in the fields of civil rights, civil liberties, religious liberty, human rights, women's rights, consumer rights, environmental protection, and so on.

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Rajiv Gandhi

Rajiv Gandhi (20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991) was an Indian politician who served as the Prime Minister of India from 1984 to 1989.

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Rashtrapati Bhavan

The Rashtrapati Bhavan (ISO: Rāṣṭrapati Bhavana;; formerly Viceroy's House (1931–1947) and Government House (1947–1950)) is the official residence of the President of India at the western end of Rajpath, Raisina Hill in New Delhi.

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Ronjan Sodhi

Ronjan Sodhi (born 23 October 1979 in Ferozepur, Punjab, India) is an Indian Double trap shooter.

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Sania Mirza

Sania Mirza (born 15 November 1986) is an Indian former professional tennis player.

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Satwiksairaj Rankireddy

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (born 13 August 2000) is an Indian badminton player.

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Shooting sports

Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such as handguns, rifles and shotguns) and bows/crossbows.

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Shot put

The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" (throwing) a heavy spherical ball—the shot—as far as possible.

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Snooker

Snooker (pronounced) is a cue sport played on a rectangular billiards table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six pockets, one at each corner and one in the middle of each long side.

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Sport of athletics

Athletics is a group of sporting events that involves competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking.

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The Sports Authority of India (SAI) is the Apex National Sports Body of India, established in 1984 by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports of the Government of India for the development of sport in India. SAI has 2 Sports Academic Institutions, 11 "SAI Regional Centres" (SRC), 14 "Centres of Excellence" (COE/COX), 56 "Sports Training Centres" (STC) and 20 Special Area Games (SAG).. Khel Ratna Award and sports Authority of India are Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.

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Table tennis

Table tennis (also known as ping-pong or whiff-whaff) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the court on which players stand.

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Tennis

Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).

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The Hindu

The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

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Track and field

Athletics (or track and field in the United States) is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills.

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Viswanathan Anand

Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster, a former five-time World Chess Champion and a record two-time Chess World Cup Champion.

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World Anti-Doping Agency

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA; Agence mondiale antidopage, AMA) is a foundation initiated by the International Olympic Committee based in Canada to promote, coordinate, and monitor the fight against drugs in sports.

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World championship

A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, or ability.

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World cup

A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities –usually international teams or individuals representing their countries– compete for the title of world champion.

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Wrestling

Wrestling is a martial art and combat sport that involves grappling with an opponent and striving to obtain a position of advantage through different throws or techniques, within a given ruleset.

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Yacht racing

Yacht racing is a sailing sport involving sailing yachts and larger sailboats, as distinguished from dinghy racing, which involves open boats.

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Yachting

Yachting is recreational boating activities using medium/large-sized boats or small ships collectively called yachts.

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2012 French Open – Mixed doubles

Casey Dellacqua and Scott Lipsky were the defending champions.

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2012 Summer Paralympics

The 2012 Summer Paralympics, branded as the London 2012 Paralympic Games, were an international multi-sport parasports event held from 29 August to 9 September 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom.

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2014 US Open – Mixed doubles

Andrea Hlaváčková and Max Mirnyi were the defending champions, but chose not to participate together.

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2015 US Open – Women's doubles

Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina were the defending champions, but Makarova decided not to participate.

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2015 Wimbledon Championships – Women's doubles

Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci were the defending champions, but Errani chose not to participate this year.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khel_Ratna_Award

Also known as Khel Ratna, List of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna recipients, Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna, Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award, Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award in Sports and Games, Major Dhyanchand Khel Ratna, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in Sports and Games, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award.

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Khel Ratna Award, the Glossary

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See also

1991 establishments in India

Indian sports trophies and awards

Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports

References