New Delhi: Ace Indian shooter Gagan Narang will receive the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, the Sports Ministry declared on Thursday.
He will receive India's highest sporting honour from President Pratibha Patil on August 29.
The selection committee for the Khel Ratna and Arjuna awards had in July recommended the name of the Indian marksman, who has started a shooting academy recently.
Narang won four gold medals in the 2010 Commonwealth Games and a silver in the men's 10m air rifle singles event at the Asian Games in 2010. He also won a team silver at the Asian Games when he combined with Abhinav Bindra and Sanjeev Rajput in the 10m air rifle event.
The 28-year-old rifle shooter, who was the first Indian marksman to qualify for next year's London Olympics with a bronze in the World Championships last year, had been disgruntled at being "ignored" for the award last year.
The Committee also made official the names of the sportspersons to be conferred Arjuna, Dhyan Chand and Dronacharya Awards for the year 2011 .
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna:
Gagan Narang (Shooting)
Arjuna Awards:
Zaheer Khan (cricket), Rahul Banerjee (archery), Preeja Sreedharan (athletics), Jwala Gutta (badminton), Suranjoy Singh (boxing), Sunil Chhetri (football), Rajpal Singh (hockey), Rakesh Kumar (kabaddi), Tejaswini Sawant (shooting), Virdhawal Khade (swimming), Ashish Kumar (gymnastics), Somdev Devvarman (tennis), Ravinder Singh (wrestling), Ravi Kumar (weightlifting), Vikas Gowda (athletics), Sandhya Rani (wushu), Prasanta Karmakar (swimming), Sanjay Kumar (volleyball), Tejaswini (kabaddi).
Dronacharya Awards:
Inukurthi Venkateshwara Rao (boxing), Devender Kumar Rathore (gymnastics), Ramphal (wrestling), Kuntal Roy (athletics), Rajinder Singh (hockey).
Dhyan Chand Awards:
Shabbir Ali (football), Sushil Kohli (swimming), Rajkumar (wrestling).
(With agency inputs)
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