Sports and Youth Welfare Minister Yashodhara Raje Scindia has announced names of winners of State’s highest sport awards including Vikram, Eklavya, Vishwamitra, lifetime Achievement and late Prabhash Joshi Sports Award-2015. This year, Eklavya Awards will be conferred to 14 junior sportspersons, Vikram Awards to 9 senior players and Vishwamitra Awards to 3 sports coaches.
Besides, lifetime Achievement Award will be conferred to a sportsperson for development and promotion of sports and one player will be given late Shri Prabhash Joshi Award for promotion and development of Malkhamb game.
Eklavya Awards-2015
Kirti Kewat (Kayaking-canoeing), Arundhati Sharma (Soft Tennis), Manish Baraskar (Wushu), Priyanshu Pandey (Shooting), Shubham Upadhyay (Swimming), Shri Pranay Khare (Equistrian) Vishal Thakur (Sailing), Sushma Saryam (Wrestling), Anil Rajak (Taekwondo), Sarita Tomar (Boxing), Mohammad Awesh Khan (Cricket), Pooja Parkhe Softball), Neha Singh and Karishma Yadav (Hockey-jointly) and Kritika Chouhan (Rollball) have been selected for Eklavya Awards. Of the 15 players, 8 are girls and 7 boys. Of these, 7 players are from Bhopal, Indore 4, Gwalior 2 and Khargone and Morena one each.
Vikram Awards-2015
Anjali Vashishth (Canoeing-kayaking), Varsha Verman (Shooting), Riha David (Soft Tennis), Ajay Yadav (Karate), Ankita Raikwar (Wushu), Rohit Imoliya (Swimming), Savita Parkhe (Softball), Ami Kamani (Snooker) and Gaurav Muchhal (Badminton – disabled persons) have been selected for Vikram Awards. This year, the awards will be given to 9 players including 6 females and 3 males. Of these, 4 players are from Indore, 2 Bhopal and one each from Gwalior, Tikamgarh and Jabalpur.
Vishwamitra Awards-2015
Sunil Kewat (Kayaking-Canoeing), Bhopal, Mohan Shakya (Rowing), Bhopal and Shri Sachin Kasture (Softball), Indore have been selected for Vishwamitra Awards.
lifetime Achievement Award-2015
Chintaman Kashyap, Jabalpur will be conferred lifetime Achievement Award-2015. Harsh Yadav, Ujjain has been selected for late Prabhash Josh Sports Award.