List of Dronacharya Awardees

Dronacharya Awards, started in 1985 had Nambiar as the first awardee. 108 coaches have been conferred this award till 2017. Here is the list of awardees.

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 A K Kutty (Athletics)
64 2010 Ajay Kumar Bansal (Hockey)
65 2010 Captain Chandrup (Wrestling)
66 2010 L Ibomcha Singh (Boxing)
67 2010 Subhash B Aggarwal (Billiards and Snooker)
68 2011 Devender Kumar Rathore (Gymnastics)
69 2011 Kuntal Kumar Roy (Athletics Lifetime contribution)
70 2011 Ramphal (Wrestling)
71 2011 Inukurthi Venkateshwara Roy (Boxing)
72 2011 Rajinder Singh Jr. (Hockey Lifetime contribution)
73 2012 Jasvinder Singh Bhatia (Athletics Lifetime contribution)
74 2012 Sunil Dabas (Kabaddi)
75 2012 B. I. Fernandez (Boxing)
76 2012 Bhawani Mukherjee (Table Tennis Lifetime contribution)
77 2012 Virender Poonia (Athletics)
78 2012 Satyapal Singh (Para-Athletics)
79 2012 Harendra Singh (Hockey)
80 2012 Yashvir Singh (Wrestling)
81 2013 Purnima Mahato (Archery)
82 2013 Narender Singh Saini (Hockey)
83 2013 Mahavir Singh (Boxing)
84 2013 Raj Singh (Wrestling Lifetime contribution)
85 2013 K. P. Thomas (Athletics Lifetime contribution)
86 2014 Gurcharan Gogi (Judo Lifetime contribution)
87 2014 Jose Jacob Rowing Lifetime contribution)
88 2014 N. Lingappa (Athletics Lifetime contribution)
89 2014 Ganapathy Manoharan (Boxing Lifetime contribution)
90 2014 Mahabir Prasad (Wrestling)
91 2015 Nihar Ameen (Swimming Lifetime contribution)
92 2015 Anoop Singh (Wrestling)
93 2015 Harbans Singh (Athletics Lifetime contribution)
94 2015 Naval Singh (Para-Athletics)
95 2015 Swatantar Raj Singh (Boxing Lifetime contribution)
96 2016 Sagar Mal Dhayal (Boxing)
97 2016 S. Pradeep Kumar (Swimming Lifetime contribution)
98 2016 Bishweshwar Nandi (Gymnastics)
99 2016 Mahavir Singh Phogat (Wrestling Lifetime contribution)
100 2016 Nagapuri Ramesh (Athletics)
101 2016 Rajkumar Sharma (Cricket)
102 2017 R. Gandhi (Athletics)
103 2017 Heera Nand Kataria (Kabaddi)
104 2017 G. S. S. V. Prasad (Badminton Lifetime contribution)
105 2017 Brij Bhushan Mohanty (Boxing Lifetime contribution)
106 2017 P. A. Raphel (Hockey Lifetime contribution)
107 2017 Sanjoy Chakraverthy (Shooting Lifetime contribution)
108 2017 Roshan Lal (Wrestling Lifetime contribution)