Arjuna award nominations in 2011 and all time Bengali Arjuna awardees


In 2011 Arjuna Award nomination Rahul Bannerjee in Archery and Sunil Chetri in Football has been nominated for Arjuna Award from West Bengal. Here you can find a list of 2011 Arjuna award nominations from West Bengal as well as

Arjuna Award winners in 2011


The Arjuna Awards were instituted in 1961 by the Government of India to recognize outstanding achievement in National sports. The Arjuna awards cash prizes are Rs.500,000 with a bronze statuette of Arjuna and a scroll. From the year 2001, the award is given only in disciplines falling under the following categories:

  • Olympic Games / Asian Games / Commonwealth Games / World Cup / World Championship Disciplines and Cricket
  • Indigenous Games
  • Sports for the Physically Challenged


Among the Arjuna Award nominations 2011, Rahul Bannerjee in Archery and Sunil Chetri in Football has been nominated for Arjuna Award 2011 nominations from West Bengal. Below you can find a list of Arjuna Awardees in 2011.

List of Arjuna Awardees in 2011


1. Archery: Rahul Bannerjee
2. Athletics: Preeja Sreedharan, Vijas Gowda
3. Badminton: Jwala Gutta
4. Boxing: Suronjoy
5. Cricket: Zaheer Khan
6. Disabled: Prashant Karmakar
7. Football: Sunil Chhetri
8. Gymnastics: Ashish Kumar
9. Hockey: Rajpal Singh
10. Kabaddi: Rakesh Kumar, Tejaswini Bai
11. Shooting: Tejaswini Sawant
12. Swimming: Virdhaval Khade
13. Tennis: Somdev Devvarman
14. Volleyball: Sanjay Kumar
15. Weightlifting: Ravi Kumar
16. Wrestling: Ravindra Singh
17. Wushu: Sandhya Rani Devi

List of all time Bengali Arjuna awardees since 1961


Since 1961 lots of Bangalis get Arjuna Award in various fields. Here you can find a complete list of all Bengali Arjuna awardees.

All time Bengali Arjuna awardees in archery


  • 1981: Krishna Das
  • 2005: Dola Banerjee
  • 2006: Jayanta Talukdar

All time Bengali Arjuna awardees in athletics


  • 1996: B.S.Barua
  • 2002: Saraswati Saha
  • 2003: Soma Biswas

All time Bengali Arjuna awardees in badminton


  • 1969: Dipu Ghosh
  • 1974: Ramen Ghosh
  • 1982: Partha Ganguly

All time Bengali Arjuna awardees in chess


  • 1983: Dibyendu Barua
  • 2005: Surya Sekhar Ganguly

All time Bengali Arjuna awardees in cricket


  • 1997: Saurav Ganguly

All time Bengali Arjuna awardees in cycling


  • 1978-79: Ms.M.Mahapatra

All time Bengali Arjuna awardees in football


  • 1961: P.K.Banerjee
  • 1962: Tulsidas Balaram
  • 1963: Chuni Goswami
  • 1965: Arun Lal Ghosh
  • 1979-80: Prasun Banerjee
  • 1981: Sudhir Karmakar
  • 1983: Shanti Mollick
  • 1989: S.Bhattacharjee
  • 2010: Deepak Kumar Mondal

All time Bengali Arjuna awardees in gymnastics


  • 1975: Montu Debnath
  • 2000: Dr.(Ms.) Kalpana Debnath

All time Bengali Arjuna awardees in kabbadi


  • 1998: Biswajit Palit

All time Bengali Arjuna awardees in squash


  • 2006: Sourav Ghoshal

All time Bengali Arjuna awardees in swimming


  • 1969: Baidyanath Nath
  • 1990: Bula Chowdhury

All time Bengali Arjuna awardees in table tennis


  • 1987: Monalisa Barua
  • 2002: Mantu Ghosh
  • 2005: Soumyadeep Roy
  • 2006: Subhajit Saha
  • 2009: Poulami Ghatak

All time Bengali Arjuna awardees in weightlifting


  • 1966: Mohan Lal Ghosh
  • 1970: Arun Kumar Das
  • 1989: Jyotsna Dutta
  • 1991: Chhaya Adak


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