Pushpendra Kumar Garg

Captain Pushpendra Kumar Garg (born 22 November 1963) is an Indian sportsperson in yachting. He was born in Sasni in Aligarh district (Now it situated at Hathras district) of Uttar Pradesh. He studied at Sainik School, Lucknow, and the National Defence Academy, Khadakvasla before joining the Indian Navy.

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Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna awardees

1991–2000	Viswanathan Anand (1991–92) Geet Sethi (1992–93) Homi Motivala and Pushpendra Kumar Garg (1993–94) Karnam Malleswari (1994–95) Kunjarani Devi (1995–96) Leander Paes (1996–97) Sachin Tendulkar (1997–98) Jyotirmoyee Sikdar (1998–99) Dhanraj Pillay (1999–2000) Pullela Gopichand (2000–01)

2001–present	Abhinav Bindra (2001) K. M. Beenamol and Anjali Bhagwat (2002) Anju Bobby George (2003) Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (2004) Pankaj Advani (2005) Manavjit Singh Sandhu (2006) Mahendra Singh Dhoni (2007) No award (2008) Mary Kom, Vijender Singh, and Sushil Kumar (2009) Saina Nehwal (2010) Gagan Narang (2011) Vijay Kumar and Yogeshwar Dutt (2012) Ronjan Sodhi (2013) No award (2014) Sania Mirza (2015) P. V. Sindhu, Dipa Karmakar, Jitu Rai, and Sakshi Malik (2016)

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