Eklavya Award Winner
Eklavya Award is given by the Government of Karnataka to sports personalities of the nation to promote, encourage, and recognition for Odisa Sports personalities in the State. It is an honorary sports award initiated in 1993, conferred by the “The Indian Metals Public Charitable Trust (IMPaCT)” of IMFA Group.
The first Eklavya Award was honored to Amit Roy Choudhary for volleyball in 1993. Latest eklavya award honored to Ranjan S Shetty for kho-kho in 2019. It carries 50 thousand cash for every Eklavya Award Winner. Those who are curious to know Eklavya Award Winner 2020 are informed to go through the content mentioned below.
This award is given to only those who are less than 19 years old and participated at least 02 times in 5 years in national or international sports. This award comes from a character from the epic The Mahābhārata, and due to the circumstances of how he learned archery; Eklavya has come to signify an autodidact.
Eklavya Award is one of the most prestigious awards for sports personalities. Here, we have designed a complete list of Eklavya Award Winners. The main motive of giving this award to young sports personalities of Odissa is to encourage towards them sports.
List of Eklavya Award Recipients By Year
Recipient | Year Awarded |
Amit Roy Choudhary | 1993 volleyball |
Najib Aga | 1994 |
Raymond D’Souza | 1995 Body Building |
SumitRichar Shailesha.R | 1995 Basketball 1997 Gymnastics |
Janet SowmyaraniJathanna | 1999 Roller Skating |
AjitWijetilekk | Badminton 2002 |
Pooja R Alva | 2005 Swimming ( RVCE ) |
Adarsha C P | Kho-Kho 2008 |
Girish A Koushik | 2008 Chess ( RVCE ) |
MadhaviGiri | 2009 Swimming ( RVCE ) |
Jyothi H M | Athletics 2010 |
Viani Antonio D’Chuna | 2010 Chess ( RVCE ) |
Robin Uthappa | 2010 |
Amoolya Kamal | 2010 |
Jeeva Kumar S | 2010 |
Santosh C R | 2010 |
PoojashriVenkatesh | 2010 |
Nethravathi V | 2010 |
Shubha Chittaranjan | 2010 |
Ravi Kumar T D | 2010 |
Sudhir Kumar | 2010 |
Roshan Ferraro | 2010 |
Naveen S | 2010 |
Pragna H.A | 2010 |
Rajesh Shinde | 2010 ( VTU ) |
Shodhan Rai | 2014 (Natural Body Builder and Represented India in various International Bodybuilding Competitions) |
Vishal Kumar | 2014 (Football) |
YashasDevappa | 2014 – Chess ( RVCE ) |
Meghana M Sajjanar | 2015- Rifle shooting |
M. Aravind | 2016 (swimming)( RVCE ) |
Akash Aradhya | 2016 (roller skating) |
KhyatiVakharia | 2016 (athletics) |
S.K. Uthappa | 2016 (hockey) |
MalaprabhaJadhav | 2016 (judo) |
Twisha | 2016 (canoeing & kayaking) |
K. Purushothama | 2016 (shooting) |
Vineeth Manuel | 2016 (badminton) |
O. SushmithaPawar | 2016 (kabaddi) |
SharrmadaaBaluu | 2016 (tennis) |
Archana Kamath | 2016 (table tennis) |
Nishya Joseph | 2016 (Volleyball) |
N. Lokesh | 2016 (gymnastics) |
Lakshmana C. Kurani | 2016 (cycling) |
M. Niranjan | 2016 (para swimming) |
Ranjan S Shetty | 2019 (Kho-kho) |