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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 ...
Shyam Sunder Rao – former Indian volleyball player and coach.He is a recipient of Arjuna award and, in 1995, the Dronacharya award Yejju Subba Rao – He was the President of Volleyball Federation of India honored Y Subba Rao with Five Gold coins for his extraordinary contribution towards Indian volleyball
Friendship between Drona and Drupada. On a river side, Sage Bharadwaja saw an apsara named Ghritachi.He was filled with desire and his seed fell into a pot or basket. Inside it, a child developed who was named Drona because he was born in a pot and was brought to the ashram.
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.
In 1990, he was honoured with Dronacharya Award for his services to cricket coaching. [9] In 2010, he was conferred with Padma Shri, one of the country's highest civilian awards in sports category at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on 7 April 2010 by the then Indian President Pratibha Patil. [10]
Geeta Phogat was born in Balali village of Charkhi Dadri district, Haryana. [6] [1] Her father Mahavir Singh Phogat, a former wrestler himself and a Dronacharya Award recipient, is also her coach.
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