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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 ...
List of National Sports award recipients, showing the year, award, and gender [1] Year Recipient Award Gender 2021 Himani Parab: Arjuna Award: Female 2022 Sagar Kailas Ovhalkar: Arjuna Award: Male 2020 Yogesh Malviya: Dronacharya Award: Male 2023 Ganesh Prabhakar Devrukhkar: Dronacharya Award: Male
Om Prakash Bhardwaj (18 March 1942 [1] – 21 May 2021 [2]) was an Indian boxing coach. In 1985, he was awarded the Dronacharya Award, India's highest award in the field of coaching of sports and athletics. [3] He is India's first Dronacharya awardee coach for boxing. Bhardwaj was national coach from 1968 to 1989.
Sunil Dabas is a coach of national female Kabbadi team of India. [1] Over the years, she has coached her team to win seven international gold medals, including the 2010 Asian Games and the World Cup-2012. [2] She was awarded the Dronacharya Award in 2012, and Padma Shri in 2014 by Government of India. [3]
Maha Singh Rao (born 1 July 1958) 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, He born in Yadav family [1] of Ghadana Khurd Village in District Jhunjhunu of Rajsthan. [2] by the government of India.
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.
This page categorises winners of the Dronacharya Award, an award given by the Government of India. It is awarded to recognize outstanding achievement by Indian coaches in sports, nationally and internationally.