Sikkim: Sandhya Gurung features for Prestigious Dronacharya Award 2021

Sikkim: Sandhya Gurung features for Prestigious Dronacharya Award 2021

Sikkim: Sandhya Gurung features for Prestigious Dronacharya Award 2021Sikkim: Sandhya Gurung features for Prestigious Dronacharya Award 2021
India TodayNE
  • Oct 28, 2021,
  • Updated Oct 28, 2021, 12:21 AM IST

GANGTOK: Sikkimese daughter, Sandhya Gurung featured for Prestigious Dronacharya Award for the year 2021. Gurung is the first Sikkimese to receive the Nation's highest sporting honour in the field of Boxing.

Sandhya Gurung is a National Boxing Coach under Boxing Federation of India (BFI) since last five years.

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She is now working as a Head Boxing Coach under Sports and Youth Affairs Department.

Her passionate and hard works towards the coaching and training proved her coaching efficiency at International level as a result; Ms. Lovlina Borogain won the Bronze Medal on recently concluded Tokyo Olympics Games.

For Dronacharya (regular) are:

Pritam Siwach (Hockey)

Sandeep Sangwan (Hockey)

Sujit Mann (Wrestling)

S Raman (Table Tennis)

Sandhya Gurang (Boxing)

P Radhakrishnan Nair (Athletics)

Sikkim Amateur Boxing Association ( SABA) wish to extends our heartiest congratulations for her historical achievements.

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