Archive · 19 Aug 2026
Parveer Singh Honoured With Dronacharya Award For Athletics Coaching
Parveer Singh is an athletics coach from India who has trained many successful athletes.
He has worked with the national athletics team since 2001.
His athletes have won medals at the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games.
These athletes include Seema Punia, Tajinderpal Singh Toor and Annu Rani.
Toor and Annu each won an Asian Games gold medal in throwing events.
Singh also teaches other coaches in several Asian countries.
He has a doctorate in sports coaching.
He says practical coaching and classroom learning help each other.
He has now been chosen for the Dronacharya Award.
Veteran coach Parveer Singh has been named a Dronacharya Award recipient for his contribution to Indian athletics.
Singh has mentored athletes including Seema Punia, Tajinderpal Singh Toor, Annu Rani, Harwant Kaur and Krishna Poonia.
His athletes have won Commonwealth Games and Asian Games medals, including golds in shot put and javelin.
Singh has worked with the Indian athletics team since 2001 and is deputy chief coach at NIS Patiala.
He is also a World Athletics Level 3 lecturer and earned a sports-coaching PhD from Punjabi University in 2021.
- Who
- Veteran Indian athletics coach Parveer Singh and the athletes he has mentored, including Seema Punia, Tajinderpal Singh Toor and Annu Rani.
- What
- Singh has been named for the Dronacharya Award, recognising his long contribution to athletics coaching.
- When
- Singh has been associated with the Indian athletics team since 2001; he earned his PhD in 2021 and was named Athletics Federation of India Best Coach of the Year for 2025.
- Where
- His coaching and administrative work is based at NIS Patiala, while he has also trained coaches in countries including the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and Bhutan.
- Why
- The award recognises his long-term work developing athletes who won medals at major international competitions.
- Award
- Dronacharya Award
- National-team association
- Singh has worked with the Indian athletics team since 2001.
- Current role
- Deputy chief coach of Indian athletics at NIS Patiala; currently overseeing javelin throwers.
- Notable athletes
- Seema Punia, Harwant Kaur, Krishna Poonia, Tajinderpal Singh Toor and Annu Rani.
- Academic qualification
- PhD in sports coaching from Punjabi University, completed in 2021.
- Coach-education role
- World Athletics Level 3 lecturer and coach educator in Asia.
- Additional recognition
- Athletics Federation of India Best Coach of the Year for 2025.