Dronacharya Award is an award presented by the government of India for excellence in sports coaching. The award comprises a bronze statuette of Dronacharya, a scroll of honour and a cash component of Rs.300,000. The award was instituted in 1985. As the best sportsperson award is named Arjuna Award, it is appropriate that the coaching award is named after Dronacharya, as he was the Guru of Arjuna. (Source: Wikipedia)

Roll of Honor:

1985: O.M. Nambiar (Athletics), Om Prakash Bhardwaj (Boxing), Bhalchandra Bhaskar Bhagwat (Wrestling)
1986: Raghunandan Vasant Gokhle (Chess), Desh Prem Azad (Cricket)
1987: Gurcharan Singh (Cricket), Guru Hanuman (Wrestling)
1990: Ramakant Achrekar (Cricket), Syed Naeemuddin (Football), A Ramana Rao (Volleyball)
1994: Ilyas Babar (Athletics)
1995: Karan Singh (Athletics), M. Shyam Sunder Rao (Volleyball)
1996: Wilson Jones (Billiards and Snooker), Pal Singh Sandhu (Weightlifting)
1997: Joginder Singh Saini (Athletics)
1998: Bahadur Singh (Athletics), Hargobind Singh Sandhu (Athletics), G.S.Sandhu (Boxing)
1999: Kenneth Owen Bosen (Athletics), Capt. Hawa Singh (Boxing), Ajay Kumar Sirohi (Weightlifting)
2000: S.M. Arif (Badminton), Gudial Singh Bhangu (Hockey), Phadke Gopal Pushottam (Kho-Kho), Bhupender Dhawan (Powerlifting), Hansa Sharma (Weightlifting)
2001: Prof. Sunny Thomas (Shooting), Michael Joseph Ferreira (Billiards and Snooker)
2002: Renu Kohli (Athletics), Jaswant Singh (Athletics), M.K. Kaushik (Hockey), E. Prasad Rao (Kabaddi), Cdr. H.D. Motivala (Yachting)
2003: Robert Bobby George (Athletics), Anup Kumar (Boxing), Rajinder Singh (Hockey), Sukhchain Singh Cheema (Wrestling)
2004: Arvind Savur (Billiards and Snooker), Sunita Sharma (Cricket), Cyrus Poncha (Squash), Gurcharan Singh (Boxing)
2005: Hony. Captain M Venu (Boxing), Balwan Singh (Kabaddi), Maha Singh Rao (Wrestling), Ismail Baig (Rowing)
2006: R D Singh (Athletics), Damodaran Chandralal (Boxing), Koneru Ashok (Chess)
2007: Sanjeev Kumar Singh (Archery), Jagdish Singh (Boxing), G.E. Sridharan (Volley Ball), Jagminder Singh (Wrestling)
2008: Sanjeeva Kumar Singh (Archery), Jagdish Singh (Boxing), G E Sridharan (Volleyball), Jagminder Singh (Wrestling)