List of Tamil recipients of the Arjuna Award
The Arjuna Award was instituted in 1961 by the Government of India to recognize outstanding achievement in National sports.
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Athletics
- R. Gyanasekaran (1979–1980)
Ball Badminton
- D. Rajaraman (1984)
Basketball
- T. Vijayaraghawan (1977–1978)
Boxing
- G. Manoharan, boxer (1981)
- V. Devarajan, boxer (1995)
Carrom
- A. Maria Irudayam (1996)
Chess
- Viswanathan Anand (1985)
- S. Vijayalakshmi (2000)
- Krishnan Sasikiran (2002)
Cricket
- S. Venkataraghavan (1971)
- Ravichandran Ashwin (2014)
Hockey
- Krishnamurthy P (1971)
- Vasudevan Baskaran (1979–1980)
- Dhanraj Pillay (1995)
- Mohammed Riaz (1998)
Kabaddi
- Subbiah Rajarathinam (1994)
- Perumal Ganesan (1995)
Powerlifting
- E.S. Bhaskaran (1994)
Swimming
- Kutraleeswaran (1996)
Table Tennis
- U. Sundararaj (1966)
- G. Jagannath (1970)
- V. Chandrasekhar (1982)
- S. Raman (1998)
- Anthony Amalraj (2017)
Tennis
- Ramanathan Krishnan (1961)
- Vijay Amritraj (1974)
- Ramesh Krishnan (1980–1981)
- Anand Amritraj (1985)
Volleyball
- A. Palaniswamy (1961)
- G. E. Sridharan (1982)
Weightlifting
- Mr. John Gabriel Savarimuthu (1967)
- S. Vellaiswamy (1974)
- K. Balamuruganandam (1976)
- M. T. Selvan (1977–1978)
- E. Karaunakaran (1978–1979)
- Thandava Murthy Muthu (2002)
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