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    Dronacharya Award Winners List

    The Dronacharya Award is officially known as the Dronacharya Award for Outstanding Coaches in Sports and Games. This award is given to coaches and mentors who produce exceptional results in sports and games. It is presented annually by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India. Coaches from around 25 sports and games have been honored with the Dronacharya Award. In the recent year 2023, a total of eight coaches were bestowed with the Dronacharya Award.

    History of the Dronacharya Award:

    In 1985, the Dronacharya Award was instituted as part of the National Sports Awards. The name of this award pays homage to Guru Drona, where “Guru” means teacher, from ancient India. Guru Dronacharya was a master of advanced military warfare who trained the princes of Kaurava and Pandava in military arts and weaponry.

    In honor of coaches who helped individuals and teams excel in the field of sports and games, Bhalchandra Bhaskar Bhagwat (Wrestling), Om Prakash Bharadwaj (Boxing), and O. M. Nambiar (Athletics) were awarded in the same year, 1985.

    The Amount awarded with the Dronacharya Award:

    The winners of the Dronacharya Award receive a bronze statuette of Dronacharya, a certificate, and ceremonial attire. In terms of the cash prize, the award amount is ₹15 lakh. Initially set at ₹5 lakh, the prize has been gradually increased by the Government of India in recent years.

    Dronacharya Award 2023 Winners:

    The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports announced the date of the National Sports Awards 2023. The winners of the Dronacharya Award were also announced alongside the date of the National Sports Awards 2023.

    On January 9th, 2024, President Draupadi Murmu honored a total of eight coaches whose contributions helped individuals or teams to perform exceptionally well in various sports and games.

    The winners list of the Dronacharya Award in 2023-24 is as follows:- 

    *Lifetime Award:

    This award is given to the coaches who have played and helped individuals achieve brilliance in their respective fields over 20 years or more.*
    Name of Sports PersonalitySports/Games Awarded In
    Ganesh PrabhakaranMallakhamba
    Mahavir SainiPara Athletics
    Lalit KumarWrestling
    RB RameshChess
    Shivendra SinghHockey
    Jaskirat Singh GrewalGolf (Lifetime)*
    Bhaskaran EKabaddi (Lifetime)*
    Jayant Kumar PushilalTable Tennis (Lifetime)*

    List of Dronacharya Award Winners from 1985 to 2023:

    List of Dronacharya Awardees in Wrestling from 1985 to 2023:

    Name of Sports PersonalityYear Awarded In
    Bhalachandra Bhaskar Bhagwat1985
    Guru Hanuman1987
    Sukhchain Cheema2003
    Maha Singh Rao2005
    Jagminder Singh2007
    Satpal Singh2009
    Captain Chandroop2010
    Ramphal2011
    Yashveer Singh2012
    Raj Singh2013
    Mahabir Prasad2014
    Anoop Singh2015
    Mahavir Singh Phogat2016
    Roshan Lal2017
    Om Prakash Dahiya (Lifetime)*2020
    Raj Singh2022
    Sujit Mann2022
    Lalit Kumar2023

    List of Dronacharya Awardees in Athletics from 1985 to 2023:

    Name of Sports PersonalityYear Awarded In
    O. M. Nambiar1985
    Ilyas Babar1994
    Karan Singh1995
    Joginder Singh Saini1997
    Hargobind Singh Sandhu1998
    Bahadur Singh Chauhan1998
    Kenneth Owen Bosen1999
    Renu Kohli2002
    Jaswant Singh2002
    Robert Bobby George2003
    R. D. Singh2006
    AK Kutty2010
    Kuntal Kumar Roy2011
    Jaswinder Singh Bhatia2012
    Virender Poonia2012
    Satyapal Singh2012
    KP Thomas2013
    N. Lingappa2014
    Harbans Singh2015
    Naval Singh2015
    Nagpuri Ramesh2016
    R. Gandhi2017
    Sukhdev Singh Pannu2018
    VR Bidu (Lifetime)*2018
    Mohinder Singh Dhillon2019
    Purushottam Rai (Lifetime)*2020
    TP Ouseph2021
    Mahavir Saini2023

    List of Dronacharya Awardees in Archery from 2007 to 2023:

    Name of Sports PersonalityYear Awarded In
    Sanjeev Kumar Singh2007
    Poornima Mahto2013
    Dharmendra Tiwari (Lifetime)*2020
    Jeevanjot Singh Teja  2022

    List of Dronacharya Awardees in Badminton from 2000 to 2023:

    Name of Sports PersonalityYear Awarded In
    SM Arif2000
    Pullela Gopichand2009
    G.S.S.V. Prasad2017
    Vimal Kumar2019
    Gaurav Khanna2020

    List of Dronacharya Awardees in Billiard and Snooker from 1996 to 2010:

    Name of Sports PersonalityYear Awarded In
    Wilson Jones1996
    Michael Ferreira2001
    Arvind Savur2004
    Subhash Agarwal2010

    List of Dronacharya Awardees in Boxing from 1985 to 2023:

    Name of Sports PersonalityYear Awarded In
    Om Prakash Bharadwaj1985
    Hawa Singh1999
    Anool Kumar2003
    M. Venu2005
    Damodaran Chandralal2006
    Jagdish Singh2007
    Jaydev Bisht2009
    l. Ibomcha Singh2010
    Inukrathu Venkateswara Roy2011
    BI Fernandez2012
    Mahavir Singh2013
    Ganpati Manoharan2014
    Swatantra Raj Singh2015
    Sagar Mal Dyal2016
    Brij Bhushan2017
    Subedar Chenanda Achaiya Kuttappa2018
    Shiv Singh (Lifetime)*2020
    Muhammad Ali Qamar2022

    List of Dronacharya Awardees in Chess from 1986 to 2023:

    Name of Sports PersonalityYear Awarded In
    Raghunandan Vasant Gokhale1986
    Koneru Ashok2006
    RB Ramesh2023

    List of Dronacharya Awardees in Cricket from 1986 to 2023:

    Name of Sports PersonalityYear Awarded In
    Desh Prem Azad1986
    Gurcharan Singh1987
    Ramakant Achrekar1990
    Sunita Sharma2004
    Rajkumar Sharma2016
    Tarak Sinha (Lifetime)*2018
    Sanjay Bhardwaj (Lifetime)*2019
    Sarkar Talwar2021
    Dinesh Jawahar Lad2022

    List of Dronacharya Awardees in Football from 1990 to 2023:

    Name of Sports PersonalityYear Awarded In
    Syed Naimuddin1990
    Bimal Prafulla Ghosh2022

    List of Dronacharya Awardees in Golf from 2023 to 2023:

    Name of Sports PersonalityYear Awarded In
    Jaskirat Singh Grewal (Lifetime)*2023

    List of Dronacharya Awardees in Gymnastics from 2011 to 2013:

    Name of Sports PersonalityYear Awarded In
    Devender Kumar Rathod2011
    Bishweshwar Nandi2016

    List of Dronacharya Awardees in Hockey from 2000 to 2023:

    Name of Sports PersonalityYear Awarded In
    Gudal Singh Bhangu2000
    Maharaj Krishna Kaushik2002
    Rajinder Singh Junior2003
    S. Baldev Singh2009
    Ajay Kumar Bansal2010
    Rajinder Singh (Junior Hockey)2011
    Harendra Singh2012
    Narendra Singh Saini2013
    P.A. Raphael2017
    Clarence Lobo (Lifetime)*2018
    Marjban Patel (Lifetime)*2019
    Romesh Pathania (Lifetime)*2020
    Jude Felix Sebastian2020
    Sarpal Singh2021
    Shivendra Singh2023

    List of Dronacharya Awardees in Judo from 2014 to 2013:

    Name of Sports PersonalityYear Awarded In
    Gurcharan Gogi2014
    Jeevan Kumar Sharma (Lifetime)*2018

    List of Dronacharya Awardees in Kabaddi from 2002 to 2023:

    Name of Sports PersonalityYear Awarded In
    AD Prasad Rao2002
    Balwan Singh2005
    Sunil Dabas2012
    Heera Nand Kataria2017
    Ramveer Singh Khokhar (Lifetime)*2019
    Krishna Kumar Hooda (Lifetime)*2020
    Ashan Kumar2021
    Bhaskaran E (Lifetime)*2023

    List of Dronacharya Awardees in Kho-Kho from 2000 to 2023:

    Name of Sports PersonalityYear Awarded In
    Gopal Purushottam Phadke2000

    List of Dronacharya Awardees in Mallakhamba from 2020 to 2023:

    Name of Sports PersonalityYear Awarded In
    Yogesh Malviya2020
    Ganesh Prabhakaran2023

    List of Dronacharya Awardees in Powerlifting from 2000 to 2023:

    Name of Sports PersonalityYear Awarded In
    Bhupendra Dhawan2000
    Vijay Bhalchandra Munishwar (Para Powerlifting) (Lifetime)*2020

    List of Dronacharya Awardees in Shooting from 2001 to 2023:

    Name of Sports PersonalityYear Awarded In
    Sunny Thomas2001
    Sanjoy Chakraborty2017
    Jaspal Rana2020
    Suma Siddharth Shirur (Para Shooting)2022

    List of Dronacharya Awardees in Rowing from 2005 to 2023:

    Name of Sports PersonalityYear Awarded In
    Ismail Bag2005
    Jose Jacob2014

    List of Dronacharya Awardees in Squash from 2004 to 2023:

    Name of Sports PersonalityYear Awarded In
    Serous Wipe2004

    List of Dronacharya Awardees in Swimming from 2015 to 2023:

    Name of Sports PersonalityYear Awarded In
    Nihar Amin2015
    S. Pradeep Kumar2016
    Tapan Kumar Panigrahi2021

    List of Dronacharya Awardees in Table Tennis from 2018 to 2023:

    Name of Sports PersonalityYear Awarded In
    A. Srinivasa Rao2018
    Sandeep Gupta2019
    Jayant Kumar Pushilal (Lifetime)*2023

    List of Dronacharya Awardees in Tennis from 2012 to 2023:

    Name of Sports PersonalityYear Awarded In
    Bhavani Mukherjee Table2012
    Naresh Kumar (Lifetime)*2020

    List of Dronacharya Awardees in Weightlifting from 1996 to 2023:

    Name of Sports PersonalityYear Awarded In
    Pal Singh Sandhu1996
    Ajay Kumar Sirohi1999
    Hansa Sharma2000
    Vijay Sharma2018

    List of Dronacharya Awardees in WhuShu from 2020 to 2023:

    Name of Sports PersonalityYear Awarded In
    Kuldeep Kumar Handu2020

    List of Dronacharya Awardees in Yachting from 2002 to 2023:

    Name of Sports PersonalityYear Awarded In
    Homi Motiwala2002

    Frequently Asked Questions About Dronacharya Award:

    Who is the winner of the Dronacharya Award 2023?

    On 9th January 2024, President Draupadi Murmu honored a total of eight coaches whose contributions helped individuals or teams to perform exceptionally well in various sports and games. Ganesh Prabhakaran(Mallakhamba), Mahavir Saini(Para Athletics), Lalit Kumar(Wrestling), RB Ramesh(Chess), Shivendra Singh(Hockey), Jaskirat Singh Grewal(Golf Lifetime*), Bhaskaran E(Kabaddi Lifetime*) and Jayant Kumar Pushilal(Table Tennis Lifetime*).

    Who is the only foreigner to win the Dronacharya Award?

    Blas Iglesias Fernandez from Cuba is the first and only foreign coach to win the Dronacharya Award in 2012. He is an exceptional Boxing coach who was associated with the Indian Boxing team for over 2 decades before getting awarded the award.

    Who got the first Dronacharya Award?

    Bhalchandra Bhaskar Bhagwat (Wrestling), Om Prakash Bharadwaj (Boxing), and O. M. Nambiar (Athletics) were awarded in the year 1985 for helping individuals and teams to excel in the field of sports and games. They were the first recipient to win the Dronacharya Award. This was the same year the Dronacharya Award was added to the National Sports Awards.

    Who will get the Dronacharya Award?

    The Dronacharya Award is awarded to the Coaches, and mentors who produce exceptional results in sports and games every year by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India. Each year the performances of the individuals and teams are recorded to choose eligible winners from the record’s list.

    Who was the first woman to win the Dronacharya Award?

    The first woman coach to win the Dronacharya Award was Hansa Sharma, a weightlifting coach from India. In the year 2000, she became the first woman coach to win the Dronacharya Award because of her excellent mentoring for the women players in weightlifting.

    Who won the Dronacharya Award in Kerala?

    O. M. Nambiar was the first coach from Kerala to win the Dronacharya Award in the year 1985 for his contribution to Athletics. Notably, there are a total of 8 coaches from Kerala were awarded and G Vimal Kumar was the last one from Kerala to receive the Dronacharya Award in Badminton in year 2019.

    Who got the first Dronacharya Award in Cricket?

    The first cricket coach to be awarded the Dronacharya Award was Desh Prem Azad in the year 1986. He coached World Cup-winning captain Kapil Dev. Desh Prem Azad trained Kapil Dev and several other cricket players, including Chetan Sharma, who took his first hat-trick in the Cricket World Cup under his guidance.

    Who got the Dronacharya Award in Kho Kho?

    Gopal Purushottam Phadke was the first Kho Kho coach to win the award in 2000 for his guidance to young Kho Kho players in India. He played Kho Kho since his childhood, and his passion for the sport propelled him to become one of the top Kho Kho coaches in the country.

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