MENTORS

Deepali Deshpande

Deepali Deshpande

JUNIOR NATIONAL SHOOTING COACH
2002 Asian Games silver medalist and 2004 Olympian
  • Junior National Shooting Coach ( Silver Medallist in rifle shooting at 2004 Asian Shooting Championship in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia and represented India in 2004 Olympics, Athens )
Anjali Bhagwat

Anjali Bhagwat

HEAD SHOOTING COACH - ANJALI BHAGWAT SHOOTING ACADEMY
Former World no. 1, Finalist in 2000 Olympics, 3 time Olympian, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna and Arjuna awardee.
  • Shooting Coach (Former world no 1 in 10m Air Rifle, 2002.
  • Won her first World Cup in 2003, Milan.
  • She has also won 4 Gold medals and 1 Silver medal in Commonwealth Games and 9 Gold medals and 3 Silver Medals in Commonwealth Championship.
  • She has represented India in 3 Olympics and was a finalist in 2000 Sydney Olympics, the first Indian women shooter to do so.)
Hemant-Bendre

Hemant Bendre

TENNIS COACH
India's top tennis players have trained under him

Kedar Shah

TENNIS COACH
India's top tennis players have trained under him
Ranjit Chamle

Ranjit Chamle

LEVEL 2 INTERNATIONAL ARCHERY COACH, COACH OF INDIAN ARCHERY TEAM FOR YOUTH WORLD CUP
Represented India in World University Archery Tournament
Aniket Koparkar

Aniket Koparkar

TABLE TENNIS MENTOR
Shiv Chhatrapati awardee, 6 time national champion

Sanjay Sheoran

BOXING COACH
Silver medallist at Junior Asian Boxing Championship and at SAF Games, 1993

Amar Nimbalkar

WRESTLING NATIONAL COACH
Has trained Maharashtra Kesari and India's top national wrestlers
Manoj Pingale

Manoj Pingale

BOXING COACH
Former Olympian - represented India in 1998 Olympics
  • He is an Olympic Level Boxer and an Arjuna Awardee.
  • He has represented India in 1988 Seoul Olympics.
  • He currently coaches young upcoming boxers and is a known face in the boxing circuit.)

Jagdish Prasad

WRESTLING COACH
Has trained women wrestlers who won more than 45 international medals for India
Nikhil Kanitkar

Nikhil Kanitkar

DIRECTOR AND HEAD COACH OF NIKHIL KANETKAR BADMINTON ACADEMY
2004 Olympian and represented India at several international tournaments including All England Open
  • He is an Olympic badminton player.
  • He has had the highest world ranking on 33 and has won 3 gold medals and 3 silver medals for India in International stage.
  • Currently, he runs his own academy, Nikhil Kanetkar Badminton Academy (NKBA) in Pune, Maharashtra.
Kamlesh Mehta

Kamlesh Mehta

NATIONAL TABLE TENNIS COACH AND NATIONAL OBERVER FOR TENNIS, CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
Arjuna awardee, won 7 gold and 4 silver medals at SAF Games, 1991
  • He is a retired Indian table tennis player.
  • He is an Arjuna Awardee and a former table tennis champion. In 2017.
  • The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Games, India appointed him as the national observer for Table Tennis.
Pawan Singh

Pawan Singh

RESULT TIMING SCORE (RTS) JURY - INTERNATIONAL SHOOTING SPORTS FEDERATION (ISSF)
International technical official, former shooter and national coach
  • He was an Indian national level rifle shooter before he transitioned into coaching.
  • Currently he is the assistant coach of the Indian Shooting Team.
  • Pawan has also significant experience and expertise in the field of equipment control.
  • He was a JURY of Equipment Control for Commonwealth Games, 2010.
  • He was previously the coach of Indian Shooting Team and has won many accolades for his work.
Uday Sane

Kamlesh Mehta

CERTIFIED BADMINTON WORLD FEDERATION UMPIRE
Indian badminton chair umpire at the 2016 Olympics
  • One of the greatest badminton player, was Hon, Secretary of Poona District Metropolitan Badminton Association & Hon. President of Badminton for India Technical Officials Association.
  • Currently he is a proprietor at USM Industries.)

Pawan Singh

⇔SHOOTING

Anjali Bhagwat

⇔SHOOTING

Deepali Deshpande

⇔SHOOTING

Udyan Sane

⇔BADMINTON

Nikhil Kanetkar

⇔BADMINTON

Ranjit Chamle

Ranjit Chamble

⇔ARCHERY

Balwant Singh

⇔WRESTLING

Amar Nimbalkar

⇔WRESTLING

Kamlesh Mehta

⇔TABLE TENNIS

Aniket Koparkar

⇔TABLE TENNIS

Abhijit Kunte

⇔CHESS

Hemant Bendre

⇔TENNIS

Kedar Shah

⇔TENNIS

Sanjay Sheoran

⇔BOXING

Manoj Pingle

⇔BOXING

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