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National Sports Awards 2019
August 18 , 2019
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- The selection panel for the National Sports Awards 2019 nominated Vimal Kumar (badminton), Sandeep Gupta (table tennis) and Mohinder Singh Dhillon (athletics) for the Dronacharya Award regular category.
- Mezban Patel (hockey), Rambir Singh Khokar (kabaddi), Sanjay Bhardwaj (cricket) were picked for the Dronacharya Award in the lifetime category.
- Dronacharya Awards are given to honour eminent coaches who have successfully trained sportspersons or teams and enabled them to achieve outstanding results in international competitions.
- The committee also picked 19 sportspersons for the Arjuna Award.
- To get the Arjuna award, a sportsperson should not only have had good performance consistently for the previous four years at the international level with excellence for the year. Moreover, the player should also have shown qualities of leadership, sportsmanship and a sense of discipline.
- Five persons were also nominated for the Dhyan Chand Award.
- Dhyan Chand Award is given to honour those sportspersons who have contributed through their performance and continue to promote sports even after their retirement.
- The Awards will be bestowed by the President of India at the Rashtrapati Bhawan on the occasion of National Sports Day, which commemorates the birth anniversary of hockey wizard Major Dhyan Chand.
- Earlier, the Sports ministry announced a 12-member committee to select athletes for the National Sports awards.
- The athletes on the Selection Panel include six-time world champion Mary Kom, former football captain Bhaichung Bhutia, woman cricketer Anjum Chopra, former long-jumper Anju Bobby George and table tennis coach Kamlesh Mehta.
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