Dronacharya Award Winners List(1985 – 2023)

Dronacharya Award is an award presented by the government of India to recognize outstanding coaches in the field of sports. The award was instituted in 1985 and is named after the legendary coach Dronacharya, who trained the Pandavas in the epic of Mahabharata.

Check the list of Dronacharya Award Winners from below table.

List of Dronacharya Award Winners

Following is the list of Dronacharya Award winners.

Year	Recipient	Sports
1985	Bhalachandra Bhaskar Bhagwat	Wrestling
1985	Om Prakash Bhardwaj	Boxer
1985	O. M. Nambiar	Athletics
1986	Desh Prem Azad	Cricket
1986	Raghunandan Vasant Gokhale	Chess
1987	Guru Hanuman	Wrestling
1987	Gurcharan Singh	Cricket
1988 & 1989	No Award	No Award
1990	Ramakant Achrekar	Cricket
1990	Syed Naimuddin	Football
1990	A. Ramana Rao	Volleyball
1991, 1992 & 1993	No Award	No Award
1994	Ilyas Babar	Athlete
1995	Shyam Sundar Rao	Volleyball
1995	Karan Singh	Athlete
1996	Wilson Jones	Billiard and Snooker
1996	Pal Singh Sandhu	Weight Lifting
1997	Joginder Singh Saini	Athlete
1998	G.S.Sandhu	Boxing
1998	Hargobind Singh Sandhu	Athlete
1998	Bahadur Singh Chauhan	Athlete
1999	Kenneth Owen Bosen	Athlete
1999	Hawa Singh	Boxing
1999	Ajay Kumar Sirohi	Weight Lifting
2000	SM Arif	Badminton
2000	Gudal Singh Bhangu	Hockey
2000	Bhupendra Dhawan	Powerlifting
2000	Gopal Purushottam Phadke	Kho kho
2000	Hansa Sharma	Weight Lifting
2001	Michael Ferreira	Billiard & Snooker
2001	Sunny Thomas	Shooter
2002	Maharaj Krishna Kaushik	Hockey
2002	Renu Kohli	Athlete
2002	Homi Motiwala	Yachting
2002	AD Prasad Rao	Kabaddi
2002	Jaswant Singh	Athlete
2003	Sukhchain Cheema	Wrestling
2003	Robert Bobby George	Athlete
2003	Anool kumar	Boxing
2003	Rajinder Singh Junior	Hockey
2004	Serous Wipe	Scotch
2004	Arvind Savur	Billiard & Snooker
2004	Sunita Sharma	Cricket
2005	Ismail Bag	Rowing
2005	Maha Singh Rao	Wrestling
2005	Balwan Singh	Kabaddi
2005	M. Venu	Boxing
2006	Koneru Ashok	Chess
2006	Damodaran Chandralal	Boxing
2006	R. D. Singh	Athlete
2007	Jagdish Singh	Boxing
2007	Jagminder Singh	Wrestling
2007	Sanjeev Kumar Singh	Archery
2007	G. E. Sreedharan	Volleyball
2008	No Award	No Award
2009	Jaydev Bisht	Boxing
2009	Pullela Gopichand	Badminton
2009	S. Baldev Singh	Hockey
2009	Satpal Singh	Wrestling
2010	Subhash Agarwal	Billiard & Snooker
2010	Ajay Kumar Bansal	Hockey
2010	Captain Chandroop	Wrestling
2010	AK Kutty	Athletics
2010	l. Ibomcha Singh	Boxing
2011	Devender Kumar Rathod	Gymnastics
2011	Kuntal Kumar Roy	Athletics
2011	Ramphal	Wrestling
2011	Inukrathu Venkateswara Roy	Boxing
2011	Rajinder Singh	Junior Hockey
2012	Jaswinder Singh Bhatia	Athletics
2012	BI Fernandez	Boxing
2012	Sunil Dabas	Kabaddi
2012	Bhavani Mukherjee Table	Tennis
2012	Yashveer Singh	Wrestling
2012	Harendra Singh	Hockey
2012	Satyapal Singh	Athletics Block-Icon
2012	Virender Poonia	Athletics
2013	Poornima Mahto	Archery
2013	Narendra Singh Saini	Hockey
2013	Mahavir Singh	Boxing
2013	Raj Singh	Wrestling
2013	KP Thomas	Athletics
2014	Gurcharan Gogi	Judo
2014	Jose Jacob	Rowing
2014	N. Lingappa	Athletics
2014	Ganpati Manoharan	Boxing
2014	Mahabir Prasad	Wrestling
2015	Swatantra Raj Singh	Boxing
2015	Naval Singh	Athletics Block Icon
2015	Harbans Singh	Athletics
2015	Anoop Singh	Wrestling
2015	Nihar Amin	Swimming
2016	Rajkumar Sharma	Cricket
2016	Nagpuri Ramesh	Athletics
2016	Mahavir Singh Phogat	Wrestling
2016	Bishweshwar Nandi	Gymnastics
2016	S. Pradeep Kumar	Swimming
2016	Sagar Mal Dyal	Boxing
2017	R. Gandhi	Athletics
2017	Heera Nand Kataria	Kabaddi
2017	G.S.S.V. Prasad	Badminton
2017	Brij Bhushan	Boxing
2017	P.A. Raphael	Hockey
2017	Sanjoy chakraborty	Shooting
2017	Roshan Lal	Wrestling
2018	Subedar Chenanda Achaiya Kuttappa	Boxing
2018	Vijay Sharma	Weight Lifting
2018	A. Srinivasa Rao	Table Tennis
2018	Sukhdev Singh Pannu	Athletics
2018	Clarence Lobo	Hockey ( Lifetime)
2018	Tarak Sinha	Cricket ( Lifetime)
2018	Jeevan Kumar Sharma	Judo ( Lifetime)
2018	VR Bidu	Athletics (Lifetime)
2019	Marjban Patel	Hockey (Lifetime)
2019	Ramveer Singh Khokhar	Kabaddi (Lifetime)
2019	Sanjay Bhardwaj	Cricket (Lifetime)
2019	Vimal kumar	Badminton
2019	Sandeep Gupta	Table Tennis
2019	Mohinder Singh Dhillon	Athletics
2020	Dharmendra Tiwari	Archery (Lifetime)
2020	Purushottam Rai	Athletics (Lifetime)
2020	Shiv Singh	Boxing (Lifetime)
2020	Romesh Pathania	Hockey (Lifetime)
2020	Krishna Kumar Hooda	Kabaddi (Lifetime)
2020	Vijay Bhalchandra Munishwar	Para Powerlifting (Lifetime)
2020	Naresh Kumar	Tennis (Lifetime)
2020	Om Prakash Dahiya	Wrestling (Lifetime)
2020	Yogesh Malviya	Mallakhamb
2020	Jaspal rana	Shooting
2020	Kuldeep kumar handu	Wushu
2020	Gaurav khanna	Badminton
2021	TP Ouseph	Athlete
2021	Sarkar Talwar	Cricket
2021	Sarpal Singh	Hockey
2021	Ashan Kumar	Kabaddi
2021	Tapan Kumar Panigrahi	Swimming
2022	Raj Singh	Wrestling
2022	Jeevanjot Singh Teja	Archery
2022	Muhammad Ali Qamar	Boxing
2022	Suma Siddharth Shirur	Para Shooting
2022	Sujit Mann	Wrestling
2022	Dinesh Jawahar Lad	Cricket
2022	Bimal Prafulla Ghosh	Football
2023	Ganesh Prabhakaran	Mallakhamb
2023	Mahavir Prasad Saini	Para Athletics
2023	Lalit Kumar	Wrestling
2023	R.B. Ramesh	Chess
2023	Shivendra Singh	Hockey
2023	Jaskirat Singh Grewal	Golf (Lifetime)
2023	Bhaskaran E	Kabaddi (Lifetime)
2023	Jayanta Kumar Pushilal	Table Tennis (Lifetime)

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What is Dronacharya Award

Dronacharya Award is an important award in India for the field of sports. Government of India gives an award to recognize the outstanding coaches in the field of sports. This award is well known as Dronacharya Award. The first recipients of Dronacharya Award are Bhalchandra Bhaskar Bhagwat, Om Prakash Bhardwaj and O. M. Nambiar in 1985. Dronacharya Award is awarded by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.

Dronacharya Award Overview

Subject	Details
Field	Outstanding coaches in Sports and Games
Awarded by	Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
Sponsored by	Government of India
Instituted in	1985
First recipients	Bhalchandra Bhaskar Bhagwat, Om Prakash Bhardwaj and O. M. Nambiar in 1985
Cash Rewards	Rs. 15 lakh for Lifetime catagory Rs. 10 lakh for Regular Catagory.
Winner in 2023	Regular Catagory Lalit kumar – Wrestling R.B. Ramesh – Chess Mahaveer Prasad Saini – Para Athletics Shivendra Singh – Hocky Ganesh Prabhakar Devrukhkar – Mallakhamb Lifetime Catagory Jaskirat Singh Grewal – golf Bhaskaran E – Kabaddi Jayanta Kumar Pushilal – Table tennis
Total Awardees	153 as of 2023

Dronacharya Award Winner List 2023

Dronacharya Award 2023 : Regular Catagory

• Lalit kumar – Wrestling
• R.B. Ramesh – Chess
• Mahaveer Prasad Saini – Para Athletics
• Shivendra Singh – Hocky
• Ganesh Prabhakar Devrukhkar – Mallakhamb

Dronacharya Award 2023 : Lifetime Catagory

• Jaskirat Singh Grewal – golf
• Bhaskaran E – Kabaddi
• Jayanta Kumar Pushilal – Table tennis

Facts about Dronacharya Award

• The award is given out annually and is considered one of the most prestigious awards for coaches in India.

• To be eligible for the award, a coach must have consistently produced outstanding results at the national and international levels over a period of at least four years.

• The award carries a cash prize of Rs. 15 lakh for lifetime catagory and Rs. 10 lakh for Regular catagory, a bronze statuette of Dronacharya, and a certificate.

• The award is given out in several categories, including athletics, boxing, wrestling, hockey, badminton, and weightlifting, among others.

• In addition to the Dronacharya Award, the government of India also presents the Dhyan Chand Award, which recognizes lifetime achievement in sports coaching.

Conclusion

Dronacharya Award is awarded every year by the Government of India in the field of sports to the coaches. This year in 2023, total 8 people from various sports is awarded by the Dronacharya Award. Like Dronacharya Award, there are some more awards that are given in the field of Sports.

Dronacharya Award Winner List – FAQs

In which year the Dronacharya Award is instituted ?

Dronacharya Award is instituted in 1985.

Who is the winner of Dronacharya Award 2023?

The names of Dronacharya Award Winner in 2023 are as follows

Regular Catagory :

Lalit kumar – Wrestling

R.B. Ramesh – Chess

Mahaveer Prasad Saini – Para Athletics

Shivendra Singh – Hocky

Ganesh Prabhakar Devrukhkar – Mallakhamb

Lifetime Catagory :

Jaskirat Singh Grewal – golf

Bhaskaran E – Kabaddi

Jayanta Kumar Pushilal – Table tennis

What is the Cash Rewards of Dronacharya Award?

The cash rewards of Dronacharya Award is varies in two catagories

• Regular Catagory : Rs. 10 lakh
• Lifetime Catagory : Rs. 15 lakh

Who got the first Dronacharya Award?

The first Dronacharya Award winner names are – Bhalchandra Bhaskar Bhagwat (Wrestling), Om Prakash Bhardwaj (Boxing), and O. M. Nambiar (Athletics).