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The Dronacharya Award, officially known as Dronacharya Award for Outstanding Coaches in Sports and Games, [1] is sports coaching honour of the Republic of India. The award is named after Drona , often referred as "Dronacharya" or "Guru Drona", a character from the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata of ancient India . [ 2 ]
The four awards presented in athletics are the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award, Dhyan Chand Award, and Dronacharya Award. [ 1 ] First presented in the year 1961, the Arjuna Award in athletics has been given to a total of 94 individuals for their "good performance at the international level" over the period of the previous four years ...
Dronacharya Award: Male 2020 Krishan Kumar Hooda + Dronacharya Award: Male 2021 Ashan Kumar + Dronacharya Award: Male 2002 E. Prasad Rao: Dronacharya Award: Male 2005 Balwan Singh: Dronacharya Award: Male 2012 Sunil Dabas: Dronacharya Award: Female 2017 Heera Nand Kataria: Dronacharya Award: Male
List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender [1]; Year Recipient Award Gender 1981 Krishna Das: Arjuna Award: Female 1989
In 2013, he received Dronacharya Award, India's highest award for sports coaching. [11] He is the first-ever physical education teacher-cum-coach to win the Dronacharya. [4] [7] Thomas's autobiography, Empowerment of Nation Through Sports, was launched in an event titled Guruvandanam, celebrating his 75th birthday, in May 2018. [12]
In 1997, he was awarded "the best coach & player" of the year 1996–97 by the then Chief Minister of Delhi Sahib Singh [3] and in 2000, he was awarded the Dronacharya Award for Outstanding Coaches in Sports and Games, India's highest award in the field of coaching of sports and athletics, by the then president of India K. R. Narayanan.
"For one who used to dream of wearing the India blazer as a sportsman in his Air Force days, O. M. Nambiar ended up becoming one of India's top coaches, a `Dronacharya' who was recognised for giving P. T. Usha to Indian athletics." [5] "Usha was a natural athlete. Coach O. M. Nambiar moulded her into one of the all-time greats of Asian ...
The President, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil presenting the Dronacharya Award-2010 to Shri L. Ibomcha Singh for Boxing, in a glittering ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhawan, in New Delhi on 29 August 2010. 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 ...