Dronacharya Award

Dronacharya Award is an award presented by the government of India

India

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 for excellence in sports coaching. The award comprises a bronze

Bronze

Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive. It is hard and brittle, and it was particularly significant in antiquity, so much so that the Bronze Age was named after the metal...

 statuette of Drona

Drona

In the epic Mahābhārata, Drona or Dronacharya was the royal guru to Kauravas and Pandavas. He was a master of advanced military arts, including the Devastras. Arjuna was his favorite student. Dronas love for Arjuna was second only to his love for his son Ashwatthama...

charya, 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

Arjuna award

The Arjuna Awards were instituted in 1961 by the government of India to recognize outstanding achievement in National sports. The award carries a cash prize of 500,000, a bronze statuette of Arjuna and a scroll....

, it is appropriate that the coaching award is named after Dronacharya, as he was the Guru

Guru

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 of Arjuna

Arjuna

Arjuna in Indian mythology is the greatest warrior on earth and is one of the Pandavas, the heroes of the Hindu epic Mahābhārata. Arjuna, whose name means 'bright', 'shining', 'white' or 'silver' Arjuna (Devanagari: अर्जुन, Thai: อรชุน, Orachun, Tamil: Arjunan, Indonesian and Javanese: Harjuna,...

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List of Dronacharya Award recipients

	Year	Sportsperson	Sport
01	1985	O.M. Nambiar	Athletics
02	1985	Om Prakash Bhardwaj Om Prakash Bhardwaj O.P. Bhardwaj is a Boxing coach from India. In 1985, he was awarded the Dronacharya Award, the highest award of the land in the field of coaching of sports and athletics, by the government of India.He is india's first Dronacharya awardee coach for Boxing.-Career as a Coach:Bhardwaj remained as...	Boxing Boxing Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
03	1985	Bhalchandra Bhaskar Bhagwat	Wrestling Wrestling Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...
04	1986	Raghunandan Vasant Gokhle	Chess Chess Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
05	1986	Desh Prem Azad	Cricket Cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
06	1987	Gurcharan Singh	Cricket
07	1987	Guru Hanuman Guru Hanuman Guru Hanuman was a legendary wrestling coach of India who coached many medal-winning wrestlers. He was awarded the prestigious Dronacharya Award in 1987, the highest recognition for a sports coach in India, and the Padma Shri in 1983.-Early life:Guru was born as Vijay Pal on 15 March 1930, in...	Wrestling
08	1990	Ramakant Achrekar Ramakant Achrekar Ramakant Achrekar is an Indian cricket coach from Mumbai . He is most famous for coaching young cricketers at Shivaji Park in Dadar, Mumbai...	Cricket
09	1990	Syed Naeemuddin Syed Naeemuddin Syed Naeemuddin is an Indian football coach and a former football player. He coached the Indian football team for several years and also worked as the coach of the Bangladesh national football team....	Football Football (soccer) Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
10	1990	A. Ramana Rao A. Ramana Rao Arikapudi Ramana Rao is a former Indian volleyball player. He was born in Chamallamudi village, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh. He is a recipient of both the Arjuna Award for the year 1977-1978 and Dronacharya Award for the year 1990-1991....	Volleyball Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
11	1994	Ilyas Babar Ilyas Babar Mohammad Ilyas Babar was an Indian athletic coach.Babar was born in Gulbarga in Karnataka. He became an outstanding university athlete in Hyderabad and was the state champion in 110m hurdles between 1950 and 1957, and in long jump...	Athletics
12	1995	Karan Singh	Athletics
13	1995	M. Shyam Sunder Rao	Volleyball
14	1996	Wilson Jones Wilson Jones (billiards) Wilson Lionel Garton-Jones was a professional player of English billiards from India. Jones, a dominant national amateur champion for more than a decade, won the amateur world championship twice, in 1958 and 1964...	Billiards Billiards Cue sports , also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by rubber .Historically, the umbrella term was billiards...  & Snooker Snooker Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a green baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. A regular table is . It is played using a cue and snooker balls: one white , 15 worth one point each, and six balls of different :...
15	1996	Pal Singh Sandhu	Weightlifting Powerlifting Powerlifting is a strength sport. It resembles the sport of Olympic weightlifting, as both disciplines involve lifting weights in three attempts. Powerlifting evolved from a sport known as 'odd lifts' which followed the same three attempt format but used a wide variety of events akin to Strongman...
16	1997	Joginder Singh Saini	Athletics
17	1998	Bahadur Singh Bahadur Singh Chouhan Bahadur Singh is a former Indian athlete who won gold medal in shot put in 1978 and 1982 Asian Games. He was honoured with Arjuna award and Padma Shri. He is a recipient of Dronacharya Award , by the government of India.Presently He is working as a chief coach of Indian athletics team....	Athletics
18	1998	Hargobind Singh Sandhu	Athletics
19	1998	G.S.Sandhu	Boxing Boxing Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
20	1999	Kenneth Owen Bosen	Athletics
21	1999	Capt. Hawa Singh Hawa Singh Captain Hawa Singh was an Indian Heavyweight boxer, who dominated Indian and Asian amateur boxing for a decade in his weight class...	Boxing
22	1999	Ajay Kumar Sirohi	Weightlifting Powerlifting Powerlifting is a strength sport. It resembles the sport of Olympic weightlifting, as both disciplines involve lifting weights in three attempts. Powerlifting evolved from a sport known as 'odd lifts' which followed the same three attempt format but used a wide variety of events akin to Strongman...
23	2000	S.M. Arif	Badminton Badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...
24	2000	Gudial Singh Bhangu	Hockey Field hockey Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
25	2000	Phadke Gopal Pushottam	Kho-Kho
26	2000	Bhupender Dhawan	Powerlifting Powerlifting Powerlifting is a strength sport. It resembles the sport of Olympic weightlifting, as both disciplines involve lifting weights in three attempts. Powerlifting evolved from a sport known as 'odd lifts' which followed the same three attempt format but used a wide variety of events akin to Strongman...
27	2000	Hansa Sharma	Weightlifting Powerlifting Powerlifting is a strength sport. It resembles the sport of Olympic weightlifting, as both disciplines involve lifting weights in three attempts. Powerlifting evolved from a sport known as 'odd lifts' which followed the same three attempt format but used a wide variety of events akin to Strongman...
28	2001	Prof. Sunny Thomas	Shooting Shooting Shooting is the act or process of firing rifles, shotguns or other projectile weapons such as bows or crossbows. Even the firing of artillery, rockets and missiles can be called shooting. A person who specializes in shooting is a marksman...
29	2001	Michael Joseph Ferreira	Billiards Billiards Cue sports , also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by rubber .Historically, the umbrella term was billiards...  & Snooker Snooker Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a green baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. A regular table is . It is played using a cue and snooker balls: one white , 15 worth one point each, and six balls of different :...
30	2002	Renu Kohli	Athletics
31	2002	Jaswant Singh	Athletics
32	2002	M.K. Kaushik	Hockey Field hockey Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
33	2002	E. Prasad Rao	Kabaddi Kabaddi Kabaddi is a South Asian team sport...
34	2002	Cdr. H.D. Motivala	Yachting Yachting Yachting refers to recreational sailing or boating, the specific act of sailing or using other water vessels for sporting purposes.-Competitive sailing:...
35	2003	Robert Bobby George	Athletics
36	2003	Anup Kumar	Boxing
37	2003	Rajinder Singh	Hockey Field hockey Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
38	2003	Sukhchain Singh Cheema	Wrestling
39	2004	Arvind Savur	Billiards Billiards Cue sports , also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by rubber .Historically, the umbrella term was billiards...  & Snooker Snooker Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a green baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. A regular table is . It is played using a cue and snooker balls: one white , 15 worth one point each, and six balls of different :...
40	2004	Sunita Sharma	Cricket
41	2004	Cyrus Poncha Cyrus Poncha Cyrus Poncha is currently the Indian squash coach. Born in 1976 in Bombay, he is based in Chennai, and coaches at the ICL-TNSRA Academy. Today, India is among the emerging countries in squash especially on the world junior circuit...	Squash Squash (sport) Squash is a high-speed racquet sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball...
42	2004	Gurcharan Singh	Boxing
43	2005	Hony. Captain M Venu	Boxing
44	2005	Balwan Singh	Kabaddi Kabaddi Kabaddi is a South Asian team sport...
45	2005	Maha Singh Rao Maha Singh Rao Maha Singh Rao is a wrestler and wrestling coach from Chirawa, Rajasthan in India. In 2006, he was awarded the Dronacharya Award, the highest award of the land in the field of coaching of sports and athletics, by the government of India....	Wrestling
46	2005	Ismail Baig	Rowing Rowing (sport) Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...
47	2006	R.D. Singh R.D. Singh R.D. Singh is an Indian athletics coach from Hanumangarh, Rajasthan. He is a recipient of Dronacharya Award, by the government of India...	Athletics
48	2006	Damodaran Chandralal	Boxing
49	2006	Koneru Ashok	Chess
50	2007	Sanjeev Kumar Singh Sanjeeva Kumar Singh Sanjeeva Kumar Singh is an Indian Archery coach from Jharkhand. He is Chief at Tata Football Academy and Sports, Tata Steel. He is the recipient of Arjuna Award and Dronacharya Award by the Government of India.-Education & Career:...	Archery Archery Archery is the art, practice, or skill of propelling arrows with the use of a bow, from Latin arcus. Archery has historically been used for hunting and combat; in modern times, however, its main use is that of a recreational activity...
51	2007	Jagdish Singh Jagdish Singh Jagdish Singh is an Indian boxer and a boxing coach from Bhiwani district of the Indian state of Haryana. He founded the Bhiwani Boxing Club in 2001, which produced four members of the five member boxing team in Beijing Olympics 2008, including the bronze medal winner, Vijender Kumar.The credit...	Boxing
52	2007	G.E. Sridharan	Volley Ball
53	2007	Jagminder Singh	Wrestling
58	2009	Pullela Gopichand Pullela Gopichand Pullela Gopichand is an Indian Badminton player.He won the All England Open Badminton Championships in 2001 defeating Chen Hong of China in the finals by 15-12,15-6. He became the second Indian to achieve this feat after Prakash Padukone, who won it in 1980...	Badminton Badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...
59	2009	Satpal	Wrestling
60	2009	J. Uday Kumar	Kabaddi Kabaddi Kabaddi is a South Asian team sport...
61	2009	Baldev Singh	Hockey Hockey Hockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.-Etymology:...
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 Hockey Hockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.-Etymology:...
66	2010	Subhash B Aggarwal	Billiards Billiards Cue sports , also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by rubber .Historically, the umbrella term was billiards...  & Snooker Snooker Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a green baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. A regular table is . It is played using a cue and snooker balls: one white , 15 worth one point each, and six balls of different :...
67	2010	L Ibomcha Singh L Ibomcha Singh L Ibomcha Singh is a boxing coach from Manipur in India. In 2010, he was awarded the Dronacharya Award for his services to boxing by the Indian government.-Career as an athlete:...	Boxing
68	2011	Inukurthi Venkateshwara Rao	Boxing
69	2011	Devender Kumar Rathore	Gymnastics Gymnastics Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...
70	2011	Ramphal	Athletics
71	2011	Kuntal Roy	Athletics
72	2011	Rajinder Singh	Hockey

External links

• List of winners up to 2004
• http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-08-30/others/28321981_1_arjuna-awards-dronacharya-awards-cash-award
• List of winners for year 2006-2007 3