Indian Sports Honours

Indian Sports Honours
Awarded for	Excellence in Sports
Sponsored by	Virat Kohli Foundation
Country	India
Presented by	RPSG Group
History
First award	2017
Editions	5
Most wins	Neeraj Chopra
Most recent	2023
Next award announcement	2024
Website	Website

Indian Sports Honours are annual sports awards given by the RPSG Group and the Virat Kohli Foundation to sports personalities from India that have achieved excellence.^[1] The awards were founded in 2017.^[2]

Background

The inaugural award ceremony was held on 11 November 2017 in Mumbai.^[3] The jury was chaired by former All-England champion and badminton coach Pullela Gopichand, tennis player and multiple Grand Slam winner Mahesh Bhupathi, former sprinter and President of the Indian Olympic Association P. T. Usha, former world number one shooter Anjali Bhagwat and India men's field hockey team's former captain Arjun Halappa.^[4]

Editions

Year	Edition	Hosts	Ref(s)
2017	1st Indian Sports Honours	Riteish Deshmukh Malaika Arora	^[5]
2019	2nd Indian Sports Honours	Sania Mirza Arjun Kapoor	^[6]
2021	3rd Indian Sports Honours	Aparshakti Khurana Saiyami Kher	^[7]
2023	4th Indian Sports Honours	Aparshakti Khurana Mallika Dua
2024	5th Indian Sports Honours

2017

Sportsman of the Year	Sportswoman of the Year
Srikanth Kidambi Pankaj Advani Neeraj Chopra Shiv Chawrasia	P. V. Sindhu Dipa Karmakar Lalita Babar Sakshi Malik Sania Mirza
Team Sportsman of the Year	Team Sportswoman of the Year
R Ashwin Cheteshwar Pujara Hardik Pandya Pardeep Narwal Rupinder Pal Singh Sunil Chhetri	Mithali Raj Deepti Sharma Rani Rampal Harmanpreet Kaur Deepika Thakur
Emerging Sportsman of the Year	Emerging Sportswoman of the Year
Neeraj Chopra Harmanpreet Singh R Ramkumar Sameer Verma Vidit Gujrathi	Aditi Ashok Ritu Phogat Smriti Mandhana
Breakthrough of the Year	Comeback of the Year
Hardik Pandya Harmanpreet Kaur Dipa Karmakar Sandesh Jhingan	Saina Nehwal Amit Rohidas Kedar Jadhav Ajay Thakur
Differently Abled Sportsman of the Year	Differently Abled Sportswoman of the Year
Devendra Jhajharia Mariyappan Thangavelu	Deepa Malik
Game Changer of the Year	Coach of the Year
Sunil Chhetri P. V. Sindhu Jasprit Bumrah Ajay Thakur	Bishweshwar Nandi Anil Kumble Harendra Singh Vijay Divecha Balwan Singh
Team of the Year	Club of the Year
Women's Cricket Men's Kabaddi Men's Cricket Men's U21 Hockey Women's Hockey	Mumbai Indians Bengaluru FC Patna Pirates Aizawl FC
Others
Inspire Honour Sania Mirza Spirit of Sport Honour Yogeshwar Dutt Lifetime Achievement Honour Balbir Singh

2019

Sportsman of the Year	Sportswoman of the Year
Bajrang Punia Pankaj Advani Neeraj Chopra Saurabh Chaudhary Srikanth Kidambi	Vinesh Phogat Mary Kom P. V. Sindhu Hima Das Swapna Barman
Team Sportsman of the Year	Team Sportswoman of the Year
Sunil Chhetri Rohit Sharma Cheteshwar Pujara Jasprit Bumrah	Smriti Mandhana Harmanpreet Kaur Savita Punia Mithali Raj
Emerging Sportsman of the Year	Emerging Sportswoman of the Year
Saurabh Chaudhary Prithvi Shaw Lakshya Sen M Sreeshankar	Manu Bhaker Hima Das Mehuli Ghosh Sakshi Chaudhary
Men's Breakthrough of the Year	Women's Breakthrough of the Year
Jasprit Bumrah Rishabh Pant Pawan Sehrawat Jeremy Lalrinnunga	Jemimah Rodrigues Manu Bhaker Manika Batra Swapna Barman
Differently Abled Sportsman of the Year	Differently Abled Sportswoman of the Year
Sandeep Chaudhary Suyash Jadhav Sharad Kumar	Rakshitha Raju Parul Parmar Ekta Bhyan
Comeback of the Year	Spirit of Sport Honour
Dipa Karmakar Dutee Chand Vinesh Phogat Maninder Singh	Sunil Chhetri Ajinkya Rahane Neeraj Chopra Shailaja Jain
Team of the Year	Coach of the Year
Men's Cricket Men's Hockey Women's TT Mixed Badminton	Pullela Gopichand Yogeshwar Dutt Vijay Sharma Sandeep Gupta
Club of the Year	Lifetime Achievement Honour
Chennai Super Kings Patna Pirates Real Kashmir FC Bengaluru FC	Milkha Singh

2021

Sportsman of the Year	Sportswoman of the Year
Amit Panghal Saurabh Chaudhary Bajrang Punia Abhishek Verma	P. V. Sindhu Vinesh Phogat Apurvi Chandela Koneru Humpy
Team Sportsman of the Year	Team Sportswoman of the Year
Rohit Sharma Harmanpreet Singh Mohammed Shami Mandeep Singh	Rani Rampal Smriti Mandhana Gurjit Kaur Deepti Sharma
Emerging Sportsman of the Year	Emerging Sportswoman of the Year
Deepak Punia Manav Thakkar Srihari Nataraj Sameer Verma R Praggnanandhaa	Elavenil Valarivan Shafali Verma Jamuna Boro Archana Kamath
Men's Breakthrough of the Year	Women's Breakthrough of the Year
Brandon Fernandes Mayank Agarwal Naveen Kumar Sumit Nagal	Shafali Verma Ashalata Devi Bhavani Devi Sweety Kumari
Differently Abled Sportsman of the Year	Differently Abled Sportswoman of the Year
Pramod Bhagat Sandeep Chaudhary Sundar Singh Gurjar	Manasi Joshi Ekta Bhyan Avani Lekhara
Comeback of the Year	Spirit of Sport Honour
Mohammad Shami Wriddhiman Saha S. V. Sunil Mirabai Chanu	KL Rahul Man Kaur Saina Nehwal Hockey India
Team of the Year	Coach of the Year
Men's Cricket Men's TT Junior Men's Cycling Men's Archery	Ravi Shastri Jaspal Rana Pullela Gopichand R. B. Ramesh
Club of the Year	Lifetime Achievement Honour
Mumbai Indians FC Goa Bengal Warriorz Bengaluru FC	I. M. Vijayan

2023

Sportsman of the Year	Sportswoman of the Year
Neeraj Chopra Sharath Kamal Bajrang Punia Ravi Dahiya	Mirabai Chanu Nikhat Zareen P. V. Sindhu Vinesh Phogat
Team Sportsman of the Year	Team Sportswoman of the Year
P. R. Sreejesh Chirag Shetty Satwiksairaj Rankireddy R Ashwin Mohammed Siraj	Renuka Singh Thakur Lovely Choubey Rupa Rani Tirkey Richa Ghosh Savita Punia
Emerging Sportsman of the Year	Emerging Sportswoman of the Year
Lakshya Sen Govind Sahani Ronaldo Laitonjam Umran Malik	Antim Panghal Ridhi Phor Shweta Sehrawat Asha Kiran Barla
Differently Abled Sportsman of the Year	Differently Abled Sportswoman of the Year
Pramod Bhagat Sumit Antil Sudhir Yogesh Kathuniya	Avani Lekhara Bhavina Patel Manisha Ramadass Jayanti Behera
Comeback of the Year	Electrifying Performance of the Year
Neeraj Chopra Hardik Pandya Sharath Kamal	Shubman Gill Nikhat Zareen Lakshya Sen
Incredible T20 Performer	Incredible Young T20 Performer
Yuzvendra Chahal Rahul Tewatia Rajat Patidar	Shubman Gill Umran Malik Tilak Varma
Team of the Year	Coach of the Year
Women's U-19 Cricket Men's U-19 Cricket Women's Lawn Bowls Men's Badminton	Vijay Sharma Nooshin Al Khadeer Hrishikesh Kanitkar Virender Kumar
Club of the Year	Lifetime Achievement Honour
Jaipur Pink Panthers Gujarat Titans Mumbai City FC	Prakash Padukone

2024

TBA

References

^ "Indian Sports Honours (ISH) 2017 Celebrates Sports Heroes and Rising Stars". Mumbai Live. Retrieved 2024-10-19.
^ "PV Sindhu, R Ashwin, Kidambi Srikanth, Mithali Raj bag awards at Indian Sports Honours 2017". The Indian Express. 2017-11-27. Retrieved 2024-10-19.
^ "Edition ISH 2017 – ISH". Retrieved 2024-10-19.
^ "Anil Kumble nominated for Indian Sports Honours organised by Virat Kohli foundation". Deccan Chronicle. 2017-11-03. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
^ "Bollywood celebrities at Indian Sports Honours: Anushka Sharma, Aamir Khan, Farah Khan, Malaika Arora and more". The Indian Express. 2017-11-12. Retrieved 2024-10-19.
^ Team, DNA Web. "Indian Sports Honours: Second edition of Virat Kohli-backed ISH to felicitate performers in 17 sporting disciplines". DNA India. Retrieved 2024-10-19.
^ Today, Telangana (2021-07-21). "Top athletes to be felicitated by RPSG Indian Sports Honours". Telangana Today. Retrieved 2024-10-19.

[1] "Indian Sports Honours (ISH) 2017 Celebrates Sports Heroes and Rising Stars". Mumbai Live. Retrieved 2024-10-19.

[2] "PV Sindhu, R Ashwin, Kidambi Srikanth, Mithali Raj bag awards at Indian Sports Honours 2017". The Indian Express. 2017-11-27. Retrieved 2024-10-19.

[3] "Edition ISH 2017 – ISH". Retrieved 2024-10-19.

[4] "Anil Kumble nominated for Indian Sports Honours organised by Virat Kohli foundation". Deccan Chronicle. 2017-11-03. Retrieved 2017-11-17.

[5] "Bollywood celebrities at Indian Sports Honours: Anushka Sharma, Aamir Khan, Farah Khan, Malaika Arora and more". The Indian Express. 2017-11-12. Retrieved 2024-10-19.

[6] Team, DNA Web. "Indian Sports Honours: Second edition of Virat Kohli-backed ISH to felicitate performers in 17 sporting disciplines". DNA India. Retrieved 2024-10-19.

[7] Today, Telangana (2021-07-21). "Top athletes to be felicitated by RPSG Indian Sports Honours". Telangana Today. Retrieved 2024-10-19.

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