Here are the nominees shortlisted for various categories by the illustrious TOISA jury, which includes icons like Abhinav Bindra, Mithali Raj and Leander Paes…

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, KL Rahul, Varun Chakravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav

CRICKET (FEMALE)
Smriti Mandhana, Pratika Rawal, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Shafali Verma

ATHLETICS (MALE)
Neeraj Chopra, Animesh Kujur, Gulveer Singh, Sachin Yadav

ATHLETICS (FEMALE)
Parul Chaudhary, Rupal Chaudhary, Jyothi Yarraji, Pooja Singh

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

CHESS (MALE)
R Praggnanandhaa, Aravindh Chithambaram, P Iniyan, Nihal Sarin, Arjun Erigaisi

CHESS (FEMALE)
Divya Deshmukh, Koneru Humpy, R Vaishali, 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

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

COACH OF THE YEAR
Amol Majumdar (Cricket), Suresh Singh (Shooting), Ashok Kumar Rana (Shooting)

PARA ARCHERY (MALE)
Harvinder Singh, Vivek Chikara, Rakesh Kumar, Shyam Sunder Swami

PARA ARCHERY (FEMALE)
Sheetal Devi, Payal Nag, Jyoti Baliyan

PARA ATHLETICS (MALE)
Sumit Antil, Shailesh Kumar, Sandeep Kumar, Nishad Kumar

PARA ATHLETICS (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

EMERGING SPORTSPERSON
Tanvi Sharma (Badminton), Divya Deshmukh (Chess), Shree Charani (Cricket), Vaibhav Suryavanshi (Cricket)

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)

TEAM OF THE YEAR
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