The Times of India Sports Awards (TOISA) 2021 to honour champions today

The evaluation period for the awards was the calendar year 2021. It included the last editions of the Olympics, Paralympics and Asian Championships, World Cups and World Championships. Nominees were shortlisted in multiple categories across different sporting disciplines for men and women including para-sports after meticulous research for the TOISA 2021awards. The most coveted prize will of course once again be the prestigious Sportsperson of the Year award. There will also be a Lifetime Achievement award recipient. Nominees for award categories of TOISA 2021 included the likes of Indian sporting stars like Neeraj Chopra, PV Sindhu, Mirabai Chanu, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Sumit Antil, Avani Lekhara, Jasprit Bumrah, Smriti Mandhana, Jhulan Goswami, Gurjit Kaur, Sharath Kamal, Manika Batra, Lovlina Borgohain, Devendra Jhajharia, Ravi Kumar Dahiya, the Indian men's cricket and hockey teams, the women's hockey team, among others.

Distinguished sports personalities, including the likesof cricket allrounder and member of the 1983 World Cup-winning team Madan Lal, Olympic medal-winning shooter Gagan Narang, former hockey captain and Haryana sports minister Sandeep Singh, veteran Indian athlete Anju Bobby George, who was the first Indian athlete to win an athletics World Championships medal, Paralympic Games silver medallist Deepa Malik and Olympic medal winner and now professional boxer Vijender Singh were part of the jury this time which evaluated and picked the winners of TOISA 2021. At the jury meet held in the capital recently, the jury members deliberated on the 2021 achievements of some of India's elite athletes, across sports. While the winners in some categories were decided easily, the jury members took time