Star India bowler Mohammed Shami, archers Ojas Pravin Deotale, Sheetal Devi, and Aditi Gopichand Swami, and wrestler Antim Panghal are among the many stars who acquired the Arjuna Award on Tuesday at Rashtrapati Bhawan by the President of India, Droupadi Murmu. The Arjuna Award, India’s second-highest athletic honour, is given for good efficiency over a interval of the earlier 4 years and for exhibiting qualities of management, sportsmanship, and a way of self-discipline.

The athletes have acquired the Arjuna Awards for his or her performances in 2023, together with tar speedster Shami, who ended because the main wicket-taker in final yr’s ICC Cricket World Cup in India with 24 scalps and broke a number of data.

A proud day for cricket…!!!

Shami is now a Arjuna Awardee. pic.twitter.com/A8NDBqcjt1

— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) January 9, 2024

The veteran pacer, a day previous to the ceremony, expressed happiness for the coveted accolade and stated even after a few years of exhausting work, persons are not in a position to win this award.

“This award is a dream; life passes and people are not able to win this award. I am happy that I have been nominated for this award. It is like a dream for me to get this award because my whole life I have seen many people receiving this award,” Mohammed Shami had instructed ANI.

Para-archer Sheetal Devi Aditi Swami, steeplechaser Parul Chaudhary, shooter Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar and U20 World Champion wrestler Antim Panghal have acquired the award as nicely.

Sheetal received three medals in final yr’s Para Asian Games, which included a ladies’s workforce silver, a combined workforce gold, and gold within the ladies’s singles compound open occasion.

In the ladies’s singles occasion, Sheetal showcased a stupendous efficiency and defeated Singapore’s Alim Nur Syahidah.

It was a carefully fought contest as Alim Nur, together with her precision, took a degree lead within the first three units. She loved a three-point lead after the conclusion of the primary three units, with the ultimate two units remaining.

Sheetal produced back-to-back good scores to clinch the sport, with Alim Nur lacking the mark on a few pictures. In the tip, she emerged victorious with an general rating of 144-142.

Indian archers bagged 9 medals together with 5 gold medals. World No. 9, Ojas Pravin received two gold medals whereas Jyothi Surekha received three medals general.

Ojas confronted Abhishek Verma within the closing of the lads’s compound archery and defeated Abhishek to bag the gold medal by a margin of 149-147.Ojas received second gold with Jyothi Surekha within the combined workforce compound archery occasion after defeating South Korea’s Chaewon So and Jaehoon Joo.

List of Arjun Awardees: Mohammed Shami (cricket), Ajay Reddy (blind cricket) Ojas Pravin Deotale (archery), Aditi Gopichand Swami (archery), Sheetal Devi (para archery), Parul Chaudhary and Murali Sreeshankar (athletics), Mohd Hussamuddin (boxing), R Vaishali (chess), Divyakriti Singh and Anush Agarwalla (equestrian), Diksha Dagar (golf), Krishan Bahadur Pathak (hockey), Sushila Chanu (hockey), Pinky (garden ball), Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar (taking pictures), Antim Panghal (wrestling), Ayhika Mukherjee (desk tennis).