President Ram Nath Kovind on September 25, 2018 conferred the National Sports Awards 2018 at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi.
Cricket captain Virat Kohli and world champion weightlifter Mirabai Chanu were conferred with Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award 2018, India’s highest sporting honour.
The Ministry received a large number of nominations for these awards this year. The nominations were considered by the Selection Committees consisting of a former Olympian, Arjuna Awardees, Dronacharya Awardees, Dhyan Chand Awardees, Sport Journalists, Experts and sports administrators.
This year's award ceremony was postponed to September 25 from the usual August 29, which is observed as the National Sports Day, due to clash of dates with the Asian Games 2018 which was held in Jakarta, Indonesia.
| S. No. | Name of the Sportsperson | Discipline |
| 1. | S. Mirabai Chanu | Weightlifting |
| 2. | Virat Kohli | Cricket |
| S. No. | Name of the Coach | Discipline |
| 1 | Subedar Chenanda Achaiah Kuttappa | Boxing |
| 2 | Vijay Sharma | Weightlifting |
| 3 | A. Srinivasa Rao | Table Tennis |
| 4 | Sukhdev Singh Pannu | Athletics |
| 5 | Clarence Lobo | Hockey (Life Time) |
| 6 | Tarak Sinha | Cricket (Life Time) |
| 7 | Jiwan Kumar Sharma | Judo (Life Time) |
| 8 | V.R. Beedu | Athletics (Life Time) |
| S. No. | Name of the Sportsperson | Discipline |
| 1 | Neeraj Chopra | Athletics |
| 2 | Jinson Johnson | Athletics |
| 3 | Hima Das | Athletics |
| 4 | Nelakurthi Sikki Reddy | Badminton |
| 5 | Satish Kumar | Boxing |
| 6 | Smriti Mandhana | Cricket |
| 7 | Shubhankar Sharma | Golf |
| 8 | Manpreet Singh | Hockey |
| 9 | Savita | Hockey |
| 10 | Col. Ravi Rathore | Polo |
| 11 | Rahi Sarnobat | Shooting |
| 12 | Ankur Mittal | Shooting |
| 13 | Shreyasi Singh | Shooting |
| 14 | Manika Batra | Table Tennis |
| 15 | G. Sathiyan | Table Tennis |
| 16 | Rohan Bopanna | Tennis |
| 17 | Sumit | Wrestling |
| 18 | Pooja Kadian | Wushu |
| 19 | Ankur Dhama | Para-Athletics |
| 20 | Manoj Sarkar | Para-Badminton |
| S. No. | Name of the Sportsperson | Discipline |
| 1 | Satyadev Prasad | Archery |
| 2 | Bharat Kumar Chetri | Hockey |
| 3 | Bobby Aloysius | Athletics |
| 4 | Chougale Dadu Dattatray | Wrestling |
| S. No. | Category | Name of the entity |
| 1. | Identification and Nurturing of Budding & Young Talent | Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited |
| 2. | Encouragement to Sports through Corporate Social Responsibility | JSW Sports |
| 3. | Sports for Development | Isha Outreach |
| The Guru Nanak Dev University of Amritsar was chosen as the recipient of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy 2017-18. |
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