Mirabai's coach recommended for Dronacharya Award

NEW DELHI: World champion weightlifter Mirabai Chanu's coach Vijay Sharma and well-known cricket coach Tarak Sinha were amongst those beneficial on Sunday via a variety committee for the prestigious Dronacharya and Dhyan Chand Awards.

The committee, which met right here underneath the chairmanship of retd. Justice Mukul Mudgal, beneficial Vijay Sharma, boxing coach CA Kuttappa and Srinivasa Rao (table tennis) for the Dronacharya (common) award.

An Army coach, Kuttappa has been related to Indian boxing for greater than a decade. Vijender Singh has credited him for guiding him all through his 2008 Beijing Olympics bronze medal win.

Sinha, who has coached the likes of Ashish Nehra and Rishabh Pant amongst others, used to be beneficial for Dronacharya (lifetime) Award, along with Clarence Lobo (hockey) and Jiwan (judo).

For the Dhyan Chand Award, Bharat Chhetri (hockey), Satya Dev Prasad (archery) and Dadu Chowgule (wrestling) were beneficial.

The selection committee additionally has different members in former Commonwealth Games gold medal-winning air pistol shooter Samaresh Jung, shuttler Ashwini Ponnappa, former nationwide boxing coach GS Sandhu, hockey coach AK Bansal and archery coach Sanjeeva Singh except for Sports Authority of India's Special Director General Onkar Kedia and Joint Secretary (Sports) Inder Dhamija.

The panel additionally includes two sports newshounds and Target Olympic Podium Scheme CEO, Commander Rajesh Rajagopalan.


Dronacharya Award is gifted to coaches for their outstanding and meritorious paintings on a constant basis over a length of four years.


The Dhyanchand honour is bestowed on sportspersons for their lifetime achievements and contribution to game all through each their energetic career and after retirement.


The National Sports Awards ceremony, hung on August 29 annually to commemorate the delivery anniversary of hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand, will likely be organised on September 25 this year.


The change of schedule used to be carried out because of the clash of dates with the Asian Games, which concluded on September 2 in Jakarta.
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