Srikanth, Sindhu and Gopichand accoladed at TOISA 2018

World no 3 Kidambi Srikanth and World no. 4 P.V. Sindhu are among the winners at the 2018 Mahindra Scorpio Times of India Sports Awards (TOISA) to join Jasprit Bumrah, Pankaj Advani, Harmanpreet Singh, Savita Punia, Heena Sidhu and Ankur Mittal in Mumbai, which honoured the nest performance in Indian sport in 2017.

Srikanth’s remarkable year of winning four Super Series titles in one calendar-year pocketed him with the top prize of Sportsperson of the year besides Jury’s Choice for Badminton Player of the Year (Male). While, Sindhu is accoladed with Badminton Player of the Year (Female) after winning two Super Series titles, a silver medal at the Badminton World Championships and another at the BWF World Super Series Finals.

Dronacharya Award winner Pullela Gopichand received the Mentor of the Year award, Indian tennis icon Vijay Amritraj, who during his professional career beat the world's best was the recipient of the TOISA Lifetime Achievement Award, while Anil Kumble was honored with Coach of the Year Award.

Other best sportspersons who received the honour at the third version of TOISA are Winning Cricketer of the Year were Bumrah, who last year soared to No 1 in the ICC rankings for T20Is and third place in ODIs, star allrounder Harmanpreet Kaur for her starring role for the Indian team that reached the final of the ICC Women's World Cup. Tennis champion Stefan Edberg was present as the mentor at the event.

In another male-female winner list, hockey champions Harmanpreet Singh and Savita Punia, and shooters Sidhu and Mittal received the honor.

Varun Bhati was proclaimed as Para-athlete of the Year, making it two TOISA wins in a row.

The list of complete recipients:

SPORTSPERSON OF THE YEAR : Kidambi Srikanth

TEAM OF THE YEAR : Indian men's hockey team

COACH OF THE YEAR : Anil Kumble

MENTOR OF THE YEAR : Pullela Gopichand

INSPIRATION OF THE YEAR : Indian women's cricket team

EMERGING PLAYER OF THE YEAR : Anish Bhanwala

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT : Vijay Amritraj

CHANGE AGENT : Madhya Pradesh

PARA-ATHLETE OF THE YEAR : Varun Bhati

ARCHER OF THE YEAR : Abhishek Verma

ATHLETE OF THE YEAR : G Lakshmanan

BADMINTON PLAYER OF THE YEAR (MALE & FEMALE): Kidambi Srikanth & PV Sindhu

BASKETBALL PLAYER OF THE YEAR : Amjyot Singh Gill

BILLIARDS/SNOOKER PLAYER OF THE YEAR : Pankaj Advani

BOXER OF THE YEAR : Gaurav Bidhuri

CHESS PLAYER OF THE YEAR : Harika Dronavalli

CRICKETER OF THE YEAR (MALE & FEMALE) : Jasprit Bumrah & Harmanpreet Kaur

FOOTBALL PLAYER OF THE YEAR : Gurpreet Singh Sandhu

GOLFER OF THE YEAR : Ajeetesh Sandhu

HOCKEY PLAYER OF THE YEAR (MALE & FEMALE): Harmanpreet Singh & Savita Punia

KABADDI PLAYER OF THE YEAR : Pardeep Narwal

SHOOTER OF THE YEAR (MALE & FEMALE) : Ankur Mittal & Heena Sidhu

SQUASH PLAYER OF THE YEAR : Saurav Ghosal

TABLE TENNIS PLAYER OF THE YEAR : Sathiyan Gnansekaran

TENNIS PLAYER OF THE YEAR : Rohan Bopanna

WEIGHTLIFTER OF THE YEAR : Saikhom Mirabai Chanu

WRESTLER OF THE YEAR : Bajrang Punia