who got the first arjun award in athletics
Gurbachan Singh Randhawa
title: Arjuna Award text: Arjuna Award The Arjuna Awards are given by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India to recognize outstanding achievement in sports. Started in 1961, the award carries a cash prize of 500,000, a bronze statue of Arjuna and a scroll. Over the years the scope of the award has been expanded and a large number of sports persons who belonged to the pre-Arjuna Award era were also included in the list. Further, the number of disciplines for which the award is given was increased to include indigenous games and the physically handicapped category. The Government revises the title: Arjuna Award text: Commonwealth Games and 2010 Asian Games in the Arjuna qualifying year. In 2012, 25 sports-persons were conferred with the Arjuna awards. In the year 2017, 17 sports-persons, including para- athletes were honoured with Arjuna Award by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. 2018 hemant ‡ - Para Athlete § - Lifetime Contribution ‡ - Para Athlete ‡ - Para Athlete ‡ - Para Athlete Arjuna Award The Arjuna Awards are given by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India to recognize outstanding achievement in sports. Started in 1961, the award carries a cash prize of 500,000, title: Arjuna Award text: criteria for the Arjuna Award over the years. As per the revised guidelines, to be eligible for the Award, a sportsperson should not only have had good performance consistently for the previous four years at the international level with excellence for the year for which the Award is recommended, but should also have shown qualities of leadership, sportsmanship and a sense of discipline. From the year 2001, the award is given only in disciplines falling under the following categories: In mid-August 2011, 20 athletes were announced as Arjuna recipients; the high number due to the inclusion of both the 2010 title: Arjun Muralidharan text: athlete, Ranji Trophy cricketer and Commander, Indian Navy. At a very young age of 9 he had already broken the age group national record in 50 meters butterfly. Arjun, the younger brother of Amar Muralidharan, is a former police officer working at the Border Security Force since 2002 up until 2014 under the sports recruitment program. He was also awarded the Director Generals citation in 2006 for his sporting achievements. He has trained in United Kingdom and Canada from 2006 to 2010 under reputed coaches. He has swum for Rouge et Or swimming team in Quebec in 2006, Stockport Metro title: Prithipal Singh text: life. Another author commented that if Arjuna was the "Maharathi" of the Mahabharata war, Prithipal was the "Maharathi" of the International Hockey game. The first-ever Arjuna Award to a hockey player was conferred upon him in 1961, which was later followed by the Padma Shri in 1967. Singh won Olympic medals in Rome (1960 silver), Tokyo (1964 gold) and Mexico (1968 bronze). Singh was born on 28 January 1932 in the city of Nankana Sahib (now in Pakistan). His father Sardar Wadhawa Singh Chandi was a school teacher as well as an agriculturist. Prithipal spent his childhood in the land