TOISA 2025: Where a Year of Indian Sports Comes Together

Different seasons, different stages — now one evening in Lucknow, as TOISA 2025 gathers its nominees on March 21.

The eighth edition of the Times of India Sports Awards arrives at The Centrum Hotel, Lucknow on March 21, 2026 with a field that feels less like a nominee list and more like a snapshot of a year that refused to stay in one lane. There are the women who powered India to an ODI World Cup title, and a Champions Trophy-winning core that reasserted white-ball dominance with the T20 World Cup triumph. And then there are the athletes who quietly stacked medals across continents — from double gold at the Asian Athletics Championships to podium finishes at the World Para Athletics Championships.

TOISA, now in its eighth year, has settled into its place on the sporting calendar, not as a spectacle, but as a space where different strands of Indian sport are brought into the same frame. This year, that frame opens up, with the ceremony welcoming the public for the first time.

Passes are available at: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toisa2025.

Category	Shortlist 1	Shortlist 2	Shortlist 3	Shortlist 4	Shortlist 5	Shortlist 6	Column 1	Column 2
Badminton male	Lakshya Sen	Ayush Shetty	Kiran George	Chirag Shetty	Satwiksairaj Rankireddy
Badminton female	Tanvi Sharma	Unnati Hooda	Tressa Jolly	Gayatri Gopichand
Cricket male	Shubman Gill	Abhishek Sharma	Ravindra Jadeja	Varun Chakaravarthy	KL Rahul	Kuldeep Yadav
Cricket female	Smriti Mandhana	Pratika Rawal	Jemimah Rodrigues	Deepti Sharma	Shafali Verma
Athletics (Track and field) male	Neeraj Chopra	Animesh Kujur	Gulveer Singh	Sachin Yadav
Athletics (Track and field) female	Parul Chaudhary	Rupal Chaudhary	Jyothi Yarraji	Pooja Singh
Sportsperson of the year (combined of all sports)	Divya Deshmukh	Suruchi Inder Singh	Smriti Mandhana	Samrat Rana
Equestrian	Ashish Limaye	Shruti Vora	Divyakriti Singh
Hockey male	Abhishek Nain	Harmanpreet Singh	Jugraj Singh	Amit Rohidas
Hockey female	Udita Duhan	Navneet Kaur	Mumtaz Khan	Rutuja Pisal
Shooting male	Samrat Rana	Ravinder Singh	Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar	Anish	Varun Tomar	Rudrankksh Patil
Shooting female	Suruchi Inder Singh	Simranpreet Kaur	Esha Singh	Elavenil Valarivan	Sift Kaur Samra	Manu Bhaker
Emerging sportsperson (combined)	Tanvi Sharma (badminton)	Divya Deshmukh (chess)	Shree Charani (cricket)	Vaibhav Suryavanshi (cricket)
Coach of the year (male, female combined)	Amol Majumdar (Cricket)	Suresh Singh (Shooting)	Ashok Kumar Rana (Shooting)
Chess male	Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa	Aravindh Chithambaram	Panneerselvam Iniyan	Nihal Sarin	Arjun Erigaisi
Chess female	Divya Deshmukh	Koneru Humpy	Vaishali Rameshbabu	Nandhidhaa PV
Archery male	Dhiraj Bommadevara	Abhishek Verma	Atanu Das	Prathamesh Fuge	Rishabh Yadav
Archery female	Ankita Bhakat	Jyothi Surekha	Deepika Kumari	Prithika Pradeep
Billiards/Snooker	Pankaj Advani	Aditya Mehta	Brijesh Damani
Weightlifting male	Rishikanta Singh	Muthupandi Raja	Dilbag Singh	Lovepreet Singh
Weightlifting female	Mirabai Chanu	Mehak Sharma	Bindyarani Devi
Wrestling male	Sunil Kumar	Nitesh	Aman Sehrawat	Sujeet Kalkal
Wrestling female	Antim Panghal	Manisha	Nisha Dahiya
Squash male	Abhay Singh	Saurav Ghosal	Velavan Senthilkumar	Mahesh Mangaonkar
Squash female	Anahat Singh	Joshna Chinappa	Dipika Pallikal Karthik	Tanvi Khanna
Table Tennis male	Manav Thakkar	Sathiyan Gnanasekaran	Harmeet Desai	Payas Jain
Table Tennis female	Manika Batra	Sreeja Akula	Diya Chitale	Ayhika Mukherjee
Team of the Year (combined from all sports)	India Women's Cricket Team	India Men's Cricket Team	India Men's Hockey Team	India Men's & Women's Kabaddi Teams	India National Shooting Team	India Women's Cricket Team for the Blind	India Squash Team	India Women's Ice Hockey Team
Tennis Male	Rohan Bopanna	Yuki Bhambri	Sumit Nagal
Tennis Female	Ankita Raina	Vaishnavi Adkar	Sahaja Yamalapalli
Football male	Subhasish Bose	Sunil Chhetri	Vishal Kaith	Brison Fernandes	Gurpreet Singh Sandhu
Football female	Soumya Guguloth	Grace Dangmei	Elangbam Panthoi Chanu	Manisha Kalyan	Pyari Xaxa
Kabaddi	Sanju Devi	Pawan Sehrawat	Ritu Negi	Arjun Deshwal
Boxing male	Sachin Siwach	Hitesh Gulia	Pawan Bartwal	Ankush Panghal
Boxing female	Minakshi Hooda	Jaismine Lamboria	Nikhat Zareen	Pooja Rani
Sailing	Vishnu Saravanan	Zahaan Hemrajani	Abhimanyu Panwar	Ghashiayah A
Para Archery male	Harvinder Singh	Vivek Chikara	Rakesh Kumar	Shyam Sunder Swami
Para Archery female	Sheetal Devi	Payal Nag	Jyoti Baliyan
Para Athlete (Track & Field) male	Sumit Antil	Shailesh Kumar	Sandeep Kumar	Nishad Kumar
Para Athlete (Track & Field) female	Simran Sharma	Preethi Pal	Ekta Bhyan	Deepthi Jeevanji
Para Badminton male	Pramod Bhagat	Sukant Kadam	Krishna Nagar
Para badminton female	Mandeep Kaur	Manasi Joshi	Nithya Sre
Para chess	Vaibhav Gautam	Samarth J Rao	Venkata Krishna Karthik K
Para judo	Kapil Parmar	Avidha Sharma	Rahul Rajora	Kokila
Para shooting male	Bhat Amir Ahmad	Nihal Singh	Sandeep Kumar	Rudransh Khandelwal
Para shooting female	Mona Agarwal	Avani Lekhara	Rubi Kumari
Para Sportsperson of the year	Sheetal Devi (Para Archery)	Praveen Kumar (Para Athletics – High Jump)	Preethi Pal (Para Athletics – Sprint)	Sumit Antil (Para Athletics – Javelin)
Para Coach of the Year	Dr. Satyapal Singh (Para Athletics)	Subhash Rana (Para Shooting)	Gaurav Khanna (Para Badminton)	Sandhya Bharti (Para Taekwondo)