Dronacharya Award

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Dronacharya award

Award Information

Type

Civilian

Category

Sports Coaching (Individual)

Instituted

1985

First Awarded

1985

Last Awarded

2011

Awarded by

Govt. of India

Cash Award

. 500,000

Dronacharya Award is an award presented by the government of India for excellence in sports coaching. The award comprises a bronze statuette of Dronacharya, a scroll of honour and a cash component of Rs.500,000. The award was instituted in 1985. As the best sportsperson award is named Arjuna Award, it is appropriate that the coaching award is named after Dronacharya, as he was the Guru of Arjuna.

[edit] List of Dronacharya Award recipients

Year Sportsperson 01 1985 O.M. Nambiar 02 1985 Om Prakash Bhardwaj 03 1985 Bhalchandra Bhaskar Bhagwat 04 1986 Raghunandan Vasant Gokhle 05 1986 Desh Prem Azad 06 1987 Gurcharan Singh 07 1987 Guru Hanuman 08 1990 Ramakant Achrekar 09 1990 Syed Naeemuddin 10 1990 A. Ramana Rao 11 1994 Ilyas Babar 12 1995 Karan Singh 13 1995 M. Shyam Sunder Rao 14 1996 Wilson Jones 15 1996 Pal Singh Sandhu 16 1997 Joginder Singh Saini 17 1998 Bahadur Singh 18 1998 Hargobind Singh Sandhu 19 1998 G.S.Sandhu 20 1999 Kenneth Owen Bosen 21 1999 Capt. Hawa Singh 22 1999 Ajay Kumar Sirohi 23 2000 S.M. Arif 24 2000 Gudial Singh Bhangu 25 2000 Phadke Gopal Pushottam 26 2000 Bhupender Dhawan 27 2000 Hansa Sharma 28 2001 Prof. Sunny Thomas Sport Athletics Boxing Wrestling Chess Cricket Cricket Wrestling Cricket Football Volleyball Athletics Athletics Volleyball Billiards & Snooker Weightlifting Athletics Athletics Athletics Boxing Athletics Boxing Weightlifting Badminton Hockey Kho-Kho Powerlifting Weightlifting Shooting

Year Sportsperson Sport 29 2001 Michael Joseph Ferreira Billiards & Snooker 30 2002 Renu Kohli Athletics 31 2002 Jaswant Singh Athletics 32 2002 M.K. Kaushik Hockey 33 2002 E. Prasad Rao Kabaddi 34 2002 Cdr. H.D. Motivala Yachting 35 2003 Robert Bobby George Athletics 36 2003 Anup Kumar Boxing 37 2003 Rajinder Singh Hockey 38 2003 Sukhchain Singh Cheema Wrestling 39 2004 Arvind Savur Billiards & Snooker 40 2004 Sunita Sharma Cricket 41 2004 Cyrus Poncha Squash 42 2004 Gurcharan Singh Boxing 43 2005 Hony. Captain M Venu Boxing 44 2005 Balwan Singh Kabaddi 45 2005 Maha Singh Rao Wrestling 46 2005 Ismail Baig Rowing 47 2006 R.D. Singh Athletics 48 2006 Damodaran Chandralal Boxing 49 2006 Koneru Ashok Chess 50 2007 Sanjeev Kumar Singh Archery 51 2007 Jagdish Singh Boxing 52 2007 G.E. Sridharan Volley Ball 53 2007 Jagminder Singh Wrestling 58 2009 Pullela Gopichand Badminton 59 2009 Satpal Wrestling 60 2009 J. Uday Kumar Kabaddi 61 2009 Baldev Singh Hockey 62 2009 Jaidev Bisht Boxing 63 2010 AK Kutty Athletics(For Lifetime Contribution) 64 2010 Captain Chandrup Wrestling(For Lifetime Contribution) 65 2010 Ajay Kumar Bansal Hockey 66 2010 Subhash B Aggarwal Billiards & Snooker 67 2010 L Ibomcha Singh Boxing [1] 68 2011 Inukurthi Venkateshwara Rao Boxing 69 2011 Devender Kumar Rathore[1] Gymnastics

Year Sportsperson 70 2011 Ramphal[1] 71 2011 Kuntal Roy[1] 72 2011 Rajinder Singh[1]

Sport Athletics Athletics Hockey

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