Dronacharya

Dronacharya Award

Dronacharya Award is an award presented by the government of India for excellence in sports coaching. The award comprises abronze statuette of Dronacharya, a scroll of honour and a cash component of Rs.500,000. The award was instituted in 1985.

As the best sportsperson award is named Arjuna Award, it is appropriate that the coaching award is named after Dronacharya, as he was the Guru of Arjuna.

[edit]List of Dronacharya Award recipients

	Year	Sportsperson	Sport
01	1985	O.M. Nambiar	Athletics
02	1985	Om Prakash Bhardwaj	Boxing
03	1985	Bhalchandra Bhaskar Bhagwat	Wrestling
04	1986	Raghunandan Vasant Gokhle	Chess
05	1986	Desh Prem Azad	Cricket
06	1987	Gurcharan Singh	Cricket
07	1987	Guru Hanuman	Wrestling
08	1990	Ramakant Achrekar	Cricket
09	1990	Syed Naeemuddin	Football
10	1990	A. Ramana Rao	Volleyball
11	1994	Ilyas Babar	Athletics
12	1995	Karan Singh	Athletics
13	1995	M. Shyam Sunder Rao	Volleyball
14	1996	Wilson Jones	Billiards & Snooker
15	1996	Pal Singh Sandhu	Weightlifting
16	1997	Joginder Singh Saini	Athletics
17	1998	Bahadur Singh	Athletics
18	1998	Hargobind Singh Sandhu	Athletics
19	1998	G.S.Sandhu	Boxing
20	1999	Kenneth Owen Bosen	Athletics
21	1999	Capt. Hawa Singh	Boxing
22	1999	Ajay Kumar Sirohi	Weightlifting
23	2000	S.M. Arif	Badminton
24	2000	Gudial Singh Bhangu	Hockey
25	2000	Phadke Gopal Pushottam	Kho-Kho
26	2000	Bhupender Dhawan	Powerlifting
27	2000	Hansa Sharma	Weightlifting
28	2001	Prof. Sunny Thomas	Shooting
29	2001	Michael Joseph Ferreira	Billiards & Snooker
30	2002	Renu Kohli	Athletics
31	2002	Jaswant Singh	Athletics
32	2002	M.K. Kaushik	Hockey
33	2002	E. Prasad Rao	Kabaddi
34	2002	Cdr. H.D. Motivala	Yachting
35	2003	Robert Bobby George	Athletics
36	2003	Anup Kumar	Boxing
37	2003	Rajinder Singh	Hockey
38	2003	Sukhchain Singh Cheema	Wrestling
39	2004	Arvind Savur	Billiards & Snooker
40	2004	Sunita Sharma	Cricket
41	2004	Cyrus Poncha	Squash
42	2004	Gurcharan Singh	Boxing
43	2005	Hony. Captain M Venu	Boxing
44	2005	Balwan Singh	Kabaddi
45	2005	Maha Singh Rao	Wrestling
46	2005	Ismail Baig	Rowing
47	2006	R.D. Singh	Athletics
48	2006	Damodaran Chandralal	Boxing
49	2006	Koneru Ashok	Chess
50	2007	Sanjeev Kumar Singh	Archery
51	2007	Jagdish Singh	Boxing
52	2007	G.E. Sridharan	Volley Ball
53	2007	Jagminder Singh	Wrestling
58	2009	Pullela Gopichand	Badminton
59	2009	Satpal	Wrestling
60	2009	J. Uday Kumar	Kabaddi
61	2009	Baldev Singh	Hockey
62	2009	Jaidev Bisht	Boxing
63	2010	AK Kutty	Athletics(For Lifetime Contribution)
64	2010	Captain Chandrup	Wrestling(For Lifetime Contribution)
65	2010	Ajay Kumar Bansal	Hockey
66	2010	Subhash B Aggarwal	Billiards & Snooker
67	2010	L Ibomcha Singh	Boxing
68	2011	Inukurthi Venkateshwara Rao[1]	Boxing
69	2011	Devender Kumar Rathore[1]	Gymnastics
70	2011	Ramphal[1]	Athletics
71	2011	Kuntal Roy[1]	Athletics
72	2011	Rajinder Singh[1]	Hockey

Dronacharya
award for a non-Olympic discipline (Kabaddi)----
2012: Yashvir Singh (wrestling), Sunil Dabas (kabaddi), Harendra Singh (Hockey), Satyapal Singh (Athletics), B.I. Fernandez(boxing), Virendar Poonia (athletics),Bhawani Mukherjee (table tennis) and J.S.
Bhatia (athletics). Of them Bhawani Mukherjee and J.S. Bhatia are chosen for their lifetime achievement.