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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 ]
First presented in the year 1985, a total of hundred coaches have been honoured with the Dronacharya Award in Olympic sports for their "outstanding work on a consistent basis and enabling sportspersons to excel in international events" over the period of last four years, with thirty coaches being awarded in the lifetime contribution category. [3]
The nominations for the award are received from all government-recognised National Sports Federations, the Indian Olympic Association, the Sports Authority of India (SAI), the Sports Promotion and Control Boards, the state and the union territory governments and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna, Dhyan Chand and Dronacharya awardees of the ...
The National Sports Awards is the collective name given to the six sports awards of the Republic of India. It is awarded annually by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports . They are presented by the President of India in the same ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan , usually on 29 August. [ 1 ]
Dronacharya Award Gopal Purushottam Phadke was an Indian sports coach from Pune , in the Indian state of Maharashtra . [ 1 ] He was a specialist coach of kho kho , a sports of Indian origin as well as of other sports disciplines such as swimming, Mallakhamb and Kabbaddi . [ 2 ]
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.
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
[2] [3] He received the Dronacharya Award in 2001. [4] On his 80th birthday, Abhinav Bindra expressed gratitude with the following words shared through a video message “I want to thank you for the guidance and support you provided me throughout my sporting career. As a patient and understanding mentor, you kept us going, through the tough times.