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Sports coaching award of India: Dronacharya Award Winners, Award Winning coach
Dronacharya Award: Sports Coaching Award, Republic of India, Winner List
B. B. Bhagwat for Wrestling, O. M. Prakash Bhardwaj for Boxing and O. M. Nambiar for Athletics, were the first persons to jointly receive the Dronacharya Award (1985).
Desh Prem Azad for Cricket & Raghunandan Vasant Gokhle for Chess (1986), Guru Hanuman for Wrestling & Gurcharan Singh for Kricket (1987).
Ramakant Achrekar for Cricket, Syed Naeemuddin for Football and A. Ramana Rao for Volleyball (1990) and Ilyas Babar for Athletics (1994).
Shyam Sunder Rao for Volleyball & Karan Singh for Athletics (1995), Wilson Jones for two different games Billiards & Snooker and Pal Singh Sandhu for wrestling (1996).
Joginder Singh Saini for Athletics (1997), G. S. Sandhu for Boxing, Hargobind Singh Sandhu & Bahadur Singh Chouhan for Athletics (1998).
Kenneth Owen Bosen for Athletics, Hawa Singh for Boxing and Ajay Kumar Sirohi for Weightlifting (1999).
S. M. Arif for Badminton, Gudial Singh Bhangu for Honkey, Bhupender Dhawan for Powerlifting, Gopal Purushottam Phadke for Kho Kho and Hansa Sharma for Weghtlifting (2000).
Michael Ferreira for two different games, Billiard & Snooker and Sunny Thomas for shooting (2001).
Maharaj Krishan Kaushik for Hokey, Renu Kohli & Jaswant Singh for Athletics, Homi Motivala for Yachting and E. Prasad Rao for Kabaddi (2002).
Sukhchain Singh Cheema for Wrestling, Robert Bobby George for Athletics, Anoop Kumar for Boxing and Ranjinder Singh Jr. for Honkey (2003).
Cyrus Poncha for Squash, Arvind Savur for two different games, Billiard & Snooker and Sunita Sharma for Cricket (2004).
Ismail Baig for Rowing, Maha Singh Rao for Wrestling, Balwan Singh for Kabaddi and M. Venu for Boxing (2005), Koneru Ashok for Chess, Damodaran Chandralal for Boxing and R D Singh for Athletics (2006).
Jagdish Singh for Boxing, Jagminder Singh for Wrestling, Sanjeeva Kumar Singh for Archery and G. E. Sridharan for Volleyball (2007).
In 2009, Jaydev Bisht for Boxing, Pullela Gopichand for Badminton, S. Baldev Singh for Honkey and Satpal Singh for Wrestling (2009).
In 2010, Subhash Agarwal for two different games Billiard & Snooker, Ajay Kumar Bansal for Honkey, Captain Chandrup for Wrestling, A. K. Kutty for Athletics and L. Ibomcha Singh for Boxing.
In 2011, Devender Kumar Rathore for Gymnastics, Kuntal Kumar Rao for Athletics, Ramphal for Wrestling, Inukurthi Venkateshwara Rao for Boxing and Rajinder Singh Jr. for Honkey.
In 2012, Jasvinder Singh Bhatia, Virender Poonia and Satyapal Singh for Athletics, Sunil Dabas for Kabaddi, B. I. Fernandez for Boxing, Bhawani Mukherjee for Table Tennis, Harendra Singh for Hokey, and Yashvir Singh for Wrestling.
In 2013, Purnima Mahato for Archery, Narender Singh Saini for Hockey, Mahavir Singh for Boxing, Raj Singh for Wrestling and K. P. Thomas for Athletics.
In 2014, Gurcharan Gogi for Judo, Jose Jacob for Rowing, N. Lingappa for Athletics, Ganapathy Manoharan for Boxing and Mahabir Prasad for Wrestling.
In 2015, Nihar Ameen for Swimming, Anoop Singh for Wrestling, Harbans Singh & Naval Singh for Athletics, and Swatantar Raj Singh for Boxing.
In 2016, Sagar Mal Dhayal for Boxing, S. Pradeep Kumar for Swimming, Bishweshwar Nandi for Gymnastics, Mahavir Singh Phogat for Wrestling, Nagapuri Ramesh for Athletics and Rajkumar Sharma for Cricket.
In 2017, R. Gandhi for Athletics, Heera Nand Kataria for Kabaddi, G.S.S.V. Prasad for Badminton, Brij Bhushan Mohanty for Boxing, P. A. Raphel for Hockey, Sanjoy Chakraverty for Shooting and Roshan Lal for Wrestling.
