Dronacharya Award

The Dronacharya Award is an Indian national award for coaches in the field of sport. The prize consists of a statue of Dronacharya, a certificate and a prize of 500,000 rupees. The name refers to Drona , the invincible teacher of the princely heroes of the Indian epic Mahabharata ; as a teacher he was respectfully called Dron acharya .

Award winners

No. year Surname sport 01 1985 OM Nambiar athletics 02 1985 Om Prakash Bhardwaj Boxing 03 1985 Bhalchandra Bhaskar Bhagwat Wrestling 04 1986 Raghunandan Vasant Gokhle chess 05 1986 Desh Prem Azad Cricket 06 1987 Gurcharan Singh Cricket 07 1987 Guru Hanuman Wrestling 08 1990 Ramakant Achrekar Cricket 09 1990 Syed Naeemuddin Soccer 10 1990 A. Ramana Rao volleyball 11 1994 Ilyas Babar athletics 12 1995 Karan Singh athletics 13 1995 M. Shyam Sunder Rao volleyball 14th 1996 Wilson Jones Billiards & snooker 15th 1996 Pal Singh Sandhu Weightlifting 16 1997 Joginder Singh Saini athletics 17th 1998 Bahadur Singh athletics 18th 1998 Hargobind Singh Sandhu athletics 19th 1998 GS Sandhu Boxing 20th 1999 Kenneth Owen Bosen athletics 21st 1999 Capt. Hawa Singh Boxing 22nd 1999 Ajay Kumar Sirohi Weightlifting 23 2000 Syed Mohammed Arif badminton 24 2000 Gudial Singh Bhangu hockey 25th 2000 Phadke Gopal Pushottam Kho-Kho 26th 2000 Bhupender Dhawan Weightlifting 27 2000 Hansa Sharma Weightlifting 28 2001 Sunny Thomas Sport shooting 29 2001 Michael Joseph Ferreira Billiards & snooker 30th 2002 Renu Kohli athletics 31 2002 Jaswant Singh athletics 32 2002 MK Kaushik hockey 33 2002 E. Prasad Rao Kabaddi 34 2002 Cdr. HD Motivala sailing 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

No. year Surname sport 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 RD 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 GE Sridharan volleyball 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 64 2010 Captain Chandrup Wrestling 65 2010 Ajay Kumar Bansal hockey 66 2010 Subhash B. Aggarwal Billiards & snooker 67 2010 L. Ibomcha Singh Boxing 68 2011 Inukurthi Venkateshwara Rao Boxing 69 2011 Devender Kumar Rathore do gymnastics 70 2011 Ramphal Wrestling 71 2011 Kuntal Roy athletics 72 2011 Rajinder Singh hockey 73 2012 Virendra Poonia athletics 74 2012 Sunil Dabas Kabaddi 75 2012 Yashvir Singh Wrestling 76 2012 Harendra Singh hockey 77 2012 Satyapal Singh athletics 78 2012 JS Bhatia athletics 79 2012 Bhavani Mukharjee Table tennis 80 2012 BI Fernadez Boxing

See also

• Arjuna Award
• Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Gagan Narang confirmed for Khel Ratna award . In: NDTV , August 18, 2011. Retrieved September 26, 2011.