Mail News Service
Jamshedpur, Aug 18: Tata Archery Academy coach Dharmendra Tiwary has been named by the selection committee of the National Sports Award as the recipient of the Dronacharya Award, the highest honour for a coach. Citizens and sports enthusiasts are overjoyed by the announcement.
Dharmendra Tiwary, a resident of Siwan district in Bihar came to Jamshedpur and has been residing in the city since 1996 when he joined Tata Archery Academy as a coach. Currently is the chief coach at the Academy. As an archer, Dharmendra Tiwary had won several medals in national meets between 1980-�90. He was a specialist in Recurve. He left a mark in Junior Nationals too between 1987-�88 in which period he won, besides other honours, three gold medals.
The very mention of archery events brings Tata Archery Academy to the fore. Hard practice, long slog hours and refined style mark coaching in this Academy as a result of which many cadets have scored big in national and international archery meets.
Dharmendra Tiwary is the third coach from this Academy to be honoured with the Dronacharya Award. Before him coaches sanjeeva Kumar Singh (2007), Purnima Mahto (2013) had been bestowed this great honour. Dharmendra Tiwary will receive the dream recognition of all coaches, the Dronacharya Award for 2019. Jubilant scenes have marked this announcement.
