Sports Coaches
Dronacharya Award is an award presented by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, government of India for excellence in sports coaching.
Dronacharya Awardee
1985 O.M. Nambiar -- Athletics
1985 Om Prakash Bhardwaj -- Boxing
1985 Bhalchandra Bhaskar Bhagwat -- Wrestling
1986 Raghunandan Vasant Gokhle -- Chess
1986 Desh Prem Azad -- Cricket
1987 Gurcharan Singh -- Cricket
1987 Guru Hanuman -- Wrestling
1990 Ramakant Achrekar -- Cricket
1990 Syed Naeemuddin -- Football
1990 A. Ramana Rao -- Volleyball
1994 Ilyas Babar -- Athletics
1995 Karan Singh -- Athletics
1995 M. Shyam Sunder Rao -- Volleyball
1996 Wilson Jones -- Billiards & Snooker
1996 Pal Singh Sandhu -- Weightlifting
1997 Joginder Singh Saini -- Athletics
1998 Bahadur Singh -- Athletics
1998 Hargobind Singh Sandhu -- Athletics
1998 G.S.Sandhu -- Boxing
1999 Kenneth Owen Bosen -- Athletics
1999 Capt. Hawa Singh -- Boxing
1999 Ajay Kumar Sirohi -- Weightlifting
2000 S.M. Arif -- Badminton
2000 Gudial Singh Bhangu -- Hockey
2000 Phadke Gopal Pushottam -- Kho-Kho
2000 Bhupender Dhawan -- Powerlifting
2000 Hansa Sharma -- Weightlifting
2001 Prof. Sunny Thomas -- Shooting
2001 Michael Joseph Ferreira -- Billiards & Snooker
2002 Renu Kohli -- Athletics
2002 Jaswant Singh -- Athletics
2002 M.K. Kaushik -- Hockey
2002 E. Prasad Rao -- Kabaddi
2002 Cdr. H.D. Motivala -- Yachting
2003 Robert Bobby George -- Athletics
2003 Anoopkumar Saharan -- Women's boxing
2003 Rajinder Singh -- Hockey
2003 Sukhchain Singh Cheema -- Wrestling
2004 Arvind Savur -- Billiards & Snooker
2004 Sunita Sharma -- Cricket
2004 Cyrus Poncha -- Squash
2004 Gurcharan Singh -- Boxing
2005 Hony. Captain M Venu -- Boxing
2005 Balwan Singh -- Kabaddi
2005 Maha Singh Rao -- Wrestling
2005 Ismail Baig -- Rowing
2006 R.D. Singh -- Athletics
2006 Damodaran Chandralal -- Boxing
2006 Koneru Ashok -- Chess
2007 Sanjeev Kumar Singh -- Archery
2007 Jagdish Singh -- Boxing
2007 G.E. Sridharan -- Volleyball
2007 Jagminder Singh -- Wrestling
2009 Pullela Gopichand -- Badminton
2009 Satpal -- Wrestling
2009 J. Uday Kumar -- Kabaddi
2009 Baldev Singh -- Hockey
2009 Jaidev Bisht -- Boxing
2010 AK Kutty -- Athletics(For Lifetime Contribution)
2010 Captain Chandrup -- Wrestling (For Lifetime Contribution)
2010 Ajay Kumar Bansal -- Hockey
2010 Subhash Agarwal -- Billiards & Snooker
2010 L Ibomcha Singh -- Boxing
2011 Inukurthi Venkateshwara Rao -- Boxing
2011 Devender Kumar Rathore -- Gymnastics
2011 Ramphal -- Athletics
2011 Kuntal Roy -- Athletics
2011 Rajinder Singh -- Hockey
2012 Virendra Poonia -- Athletics
2012 Sunil Dabas -- Kabaddi (Women)
2012 Yashvir Singh -- Wrestling
2012 Harendra Singh -- Hockey
2012 Satyapal Singh -- Para Sports(Athletics)
2012 J.S. Bhatia -- Athletics
2012 Bhavani Mukharjee -- Table Tennis
2012 B.I. Fernadez -- Cuban Boxing Coach-Boxing (For lifetime achievement)
2013 Poornima Mahato -- Archery
2013 Mahavir Singh -- Boxing
2013 Narinder Singh Saini -- Hockey
2013 K P Thomas -- Athletics
2013 Raj Singh -- Wrestling
2014 Jose Jacob -- Rowing
2014 N.Lingappa -- Athletics
