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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.

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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)