Times of India Sports Awards (TOISA) is an annually organized award ceremony that was first introduced in 2015. Since then, they’ve been recognizing and celebrating the achievements of brilliant Indian athletes across various disciplines. The evaluation period of TOISA was from January 1 to December 31 2024.
2024 was also a year of great heights for the Indian sports community as the country won six medals at the Paris Olympics and 29 medals at the Paralympics. The country also clinched its first ICC Trophy in the T20 World Cup in 11 years. Gukesh D became the youngest-ever world champion at the age of 18.
TOISA is set to be held on 23 February 2025, at the Centrum, Lucknow. The award ceremony will feature a number of sports ranging from hockey and kabaddi to chess and badminton. They announced the nominees recently, so let’s take a look at the top contenders category-wise.
TOISA 2024 Category-Wise Nominees
Badminton
| Men | Women |
| Chirag Shetty | Gayatri Gopichand |
| Satwiksairaj Rankireddy | Treesa Jolly |
| Chirag Shetty | PV Sindhu |
| Lakshya Sen | Anmol Kharb |
Shooting
| Men | Women |
| Swapnil Kusale | Manu Bhaker |
| Sarabjot Singh | Sift Kaur Samra |
| Akhil Sheoran | Sonam Maskar |
| Vivaan Kapur | Rhythm Sangwan |
Kabaddi
| Men’s Kabaddi Nominees |
| Nitesh Kumar |
| Devank |
| Ayan Lohchab |
| Ashu Malik |
| Ankit Jaglan |
| Aslam Inamdar |
Sailing
| Men | Women |
| Vishnu Saravanan | Nethra Kumanan |
Football
| Men | Women |
| Lallianzuala Chhangte | Grace Dangmei |
| Sunil Chhetri | Karishma Shirvoikar |
| Lalengmawia Ralte (Apuia) | Pyari Xaxa |
| Jeakson Singh | Indumathi Kathiresan |
Chess
| Men | Women |
| Gukesh Dommaraju | Koneru Humpy |
| Arjun Erigaisi | Vaishali Rameshbabu |
| Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa | Vantika Agrawal |
| Viswanathan Anand | Tania Sachdev |
| Pentala Harikrishna | Divya Deshmukh |
Cricket
| Men | Women |
| Jasprit Bumrah | Smriti Mandhana |
| Yashasvi Jaiswal | Harmanpreet Kaur |
| Ravindra Jadeja | Deepti Sharma |
| Rohit Sharma | Renuka Thakur |
Boxing
| Men | Women |
| Nishant Dev | Lovlina Borgohain |
| Amit Panghal | Preeti Pawar |
| Nikhat Zareen |
Hockey
| Men | Women |
| Harmanpreet Singh | Salima Tete |
| PR Sreejesh | Savita |
| Hardik Singh | Mumtaz Khan |
| Vivek Sagar Prasad | Lalremsiami |
Track & Field
| Men | Women |
| Neeraj Chopra | Harmilan Bains |
| Tajinderpal Singh Toor | Jyothi Yarraji |
| Avinash Sable | Ankita Dhyani |
Archers
| Men | Women |
| Dhiraj Bommadevara | Deepika Kumari |
| Tarundeep Rai | Bhajan Kaur |
| Pravin Jadhav | Ankita Bhakat |
| Abhishek Verma | Jyothi Surekha Vennam |
| Divyansh Chaudhary | Aditi Swami |
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