List of Dronacharya Awardees since 1985 till...
Dronacharya Award - Officially known as the Dronacharya Award for Outstanding Coaches in Sports and Games, the Dronacharya Award is a sports coaching honor of the Republic of India, given to outstanding coaches in sports and games for their mentorship. The award is named after Drona, often referred to as "Dronacharya" or "Guru Drona", a character from the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata of ancient India. He was skilled in advanced military warfare and was appointed as a guru to the Kaurava and Pandava princes for training them in military arts and weapons.
The Dronacharya Award is presented annually by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. The recipients are selected by a committee constituted by the ministry and over a period of four years to "do outstanding and commendable work on a consistent basis and encourage sportspersons to excel in international events". capable of doing". Two awards are nominated for lifetime contribution to sports coaching, where achievements in producing an "outstanding sportsperson" over a period of 20 years or more are considered. As of 2020, the award consists of a bronze statuette of Dronacharya, a certificate, ceremonial dress and a cash prize.
Established in 1985, the award is given only to disciplines involved in the Olympic Games, Paralympic Games, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games, World Championships and World Cups as well as events such as cricket, indigenous sports and parasports. Nominations for a given year are accepted until 30 April or the last working day of April. A ten-member committee evaluates the nominations and subsequently submits its recommendations to the Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports for further approval.
The first awardees were Bhalchandra Bhaskar Bhagwat (wrestling), Om Prakash Bhardwaj (Boxing) and O.M. Nambiar (Athletics), who was awarded in 1985. Usually no more than five coaches are awarded in a year, with a few exceptions (2012 and 2016–2020) when more recipients are honored in a year.
| List Of Dronacharya Award Recipients | ||
|---|---|---|
| Recipient | Year | Sports |
| Bhalachandra Bhaskar Bhagwat | 1985 | Wrestling |
| Om Prakash Bharadwaj | Boxing | |
| O M Nambiar | Athletics | |
| Desh Prem Azad | 1986 | Cricket |
| Raghunandan Vasant Gokhale | Chess | |
| Guru Hanuman | 1987 | Wrestling |
| Gurucharan Singh | Cricket | |
| Ramakant Achrekar | 1990 | Cricket |
| Syed Naeemuddin | Football | |
| A Ramana Rao | Volleyball | |
| Ilyas Babar | 1994 | Athletics |
| Shyam Sunder Rao | 1995 | Volleyball |
| Karan Singh | Athletics | |
| Wilson Jones | 1996 | Billiards & Snooker |
| Pal Singh Sandhu | Weightlifting | |
| Joginder Singh Saini | 1997 | Athletics |
| G S Sandhu | 1998 | Boxing |
| Hargobind Singh Sandhu | Athletics | |
| Bahadur Singh Chouhan | Athletics | |
| Kenneth Owen Bosen | 1999 | Athletics |
| Hawa Singh | Boxing | |
| Ajay Kumar Sirohi | Weightlifting | |
| S M Arif | 2000 | Badminton |
| Gudial Singh Bhangu | Hockey | |
| Bhupender Dhawan | Powerlifting | |
| Gopal Purushottam Phadke | Kho Kho | |
| Hansa Sharma | Weightlifting | |
| Michael Ferreira | 2001 | Billiards & Snooker |
| Sunny Thomas | Shooting | |
| Maharaj Krishan Kaushik | 2002 | Hockey |
| Renu Kohli | Athletics | |
| Homi Motivala | Yachting | |
| E Prasad Rao | Kabaddi | |
| Jaswant Singh | Athletics | |
| Sukhchain Singh Cheema | 2003 | Wrestling |
| Robert Bobby George | Athletics | |
| Anoop Kumar | Boxing | |
| Rajinder Singh Jr. | Hockey | |
| Cyrus Poncha | 2004 | Squash |
| Arvind Savur | Billiards & Snooker | |
| Sunita Sharma | Cricket | |
| Ismail Baig | 2005 | Rowing |
| Maha Singh Rao | Wrestling | |
| Balwan Singh | Kabaddi | |
| M Venu | Boxing | |
| Koneru Ashok | 2006 | Chess |
| Damodaran Chandralal | Boxing | |
| R D Singh | Athletics | |
| Jagdish Singh | 2007 | Boxing |
| Jagminder Singh | Wrestling | |
| Sanjeev Kumar Singh | Archery | |
| G E Sridharan | Volleyball | |
| Jaydev Bisht | 2009 | Boxing |
| Pullela Gopichand | Badminton | |
| S Baldev Singh | Hockey | |
| Satpal Singh | Wrestling | |
| Subhash Agarwal | 2010 | Billiards & Snooker |
| Ajay Kumar Bansal | Hockey | |
| Captain Chandrup | Wrestling | |
| A K Kutty | Athletics | |
| L Ibomcha Singh | Boxing | |
| Devendra Kumar Rathore | 2011 | Gymnastics |
| Ramphal | Wrestling | |
| Inukurthi Venkateshwara Roy | Boxing | |
| Sunil Dabas | 2012 | Kabaddi |
| B I Fernandez | Boxing | |
| Virender Poonia | Athletics | |
| Satyapal Singh | Athletics | |
| Harendra Singh | Hockey | |
| Yashvir Singh | Wrestling | |
| Purnima Mahato | 2013 | Archery |
| Narendra Singh Saini | Hockey | |
| Mahavir Singh | Boxing | |
| Mahabir Prasad | 2014 | Wrestling |
| Anoop Singh | 2015 | Wrestling |
| Naval Singh | Athletics | |
| Sagar Mal Dhayal | 2016 | Boxing |
| Bishweshwar Nandi | Gymnastics | |
| Nagapuri Ramesh | Athletics | |
| Rajkumar Sharma | Cricket | |
| R. Gandhi | 2017 | Athletics |
| Heera Nand Kataria | Kabaddi | |
| Subedar Chenanda Achaiah Kuttappa | 2018 | Boxing |
| Vijay Sharma | Weightlifting | |
| A. Srinivasa Rao | Table Tennis | |
| Sukhdev Singh Pannu | Athletics | |
| Mohinder Singh Dhillon | 2019 | Athletics |
| U. Vimal Kumar | Badminton | |
| Sandip Gupta | Table Tennis | |
| Jude Sebastian | 2020 | Hockey |
| Yogesh Malviya | Mallakhamb | |
| Jaspal Rana | Shooting | |
| Kuldeep Kumar Handoo | Wushu | |
| Gaurav Khanna | Badminton | |
| Pritam Rani Siwach | 2021 | Hockey |
| Radhakrishnan Nair P | Athletics | |
| Sandhya Gurung | Boxing | |
| Prakash Nautiyal | Shooting | |
| Subramanian Raman | Table Tennis | |
| Raj Singh | 2022 | Wrestling |
| Jeevanjot Singh Teja | Archery | |
| Muhammad Ali Qamar | Boxing | |
| Suma Siddharth Shirur | Para shooting | |
| Sujit Mann | Wrestling | |
| Dinesh Jawahar Lad | Cricket | |
| Bimal Prafulla Ghosh | Football | |
| List of Dronacharya Award Lifetime Recipients | ||
|---|---|---|
| Lifetime Recipients | Year | Sports |
| Kuntal Kumar Roy | 2011 | Athletics |
| Rajinder Singh Jr. | Hockey | |
| Jasvinder Singh Bhatia | 2012 | Athletics |
| Bhawani Mukherjee | Table Tennis | |
| Raj Singh | 2013 | Wrestling |
| K P Thomas | Athletics | |
| Gurcharan Gogi | 2014 | Judo |
| Jose Jacob | Rowing | |
| N Lingappa | Athletics | |
| Ganapathy Manoharan | Boxing | |
| Nihar Ameen | 2015 | Swimming |
| Harbans Singh | Athletics | |
| Swatantra Raj Singh | Boxing | |
| S Pradeep Kumar | 2016 | Swimming |
| Mahavir Singh Phogat | Wrestling | |
| Sanjoy Chakraverty | 2017 | Shooting |
| Roshan Lal | Wrestling | |
| Brij Bhushan Mohanty | Boxing | |
| G. S. S. V. Prasad | Badminton | |
| P. A. Raphel | Hockey | |
| Clarence Lobo | 2018 | Hockey |
| Tarak Sinha | Cricket | |
| Jiwan Kumar Sharma | Judo | |
| V.R. Beedu | Athletics | |
| Rambir Singh Khokar | 2019 | Kabaddi |
| Sanjay Bhardwaj | Cricket | |
| Merzban Patel | Hockey | |
| Om Parkash Dahiya | 2020 | Wrestling |
| Krishan Kumar Hooda | Kabaddi | |
| Naresh Kumar | Tennis | |
| Vijay Bhalchandra Munishwar | Powerlifting§ | |
| Romesh Pathania | Hockey | |
| Purushotham Rai | Athletics | |
| Shiv Singh | Boxing | |
| Dharmendra Tiwary | Archery | |
| T. P. Ouseph | 2021 | Athletics |
| Sarkar Talwar | Cricket | |
| Sarpal Singh | Hockey | |
| Ashan Kumar | Kabaddi | |
| Tapan Kumar Panigrahi | Swimming | |
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