Pullela gopichand biography

Pullela Gopichand

For his daughter, see Gayatri Gopichand.

In this Telugu name, the surname is Pullela.

Badminton player

Pullela Gopichand (born 16 November ) is an Indian former badminton player.

Pullela Gopichand is a former Badminton Player who plays badminton for India since He won the All England Uncover Badminton Championship in the year of becomes the Second Indian badminton player to achieve this success in his life after the Prakash Padukone. Pullela trains the Indian badminton star whose name is Saina Nehwal, P. Currently, he is the National Coach for the Indian national badminton team.

Currently, he is the Chief National Coach for the India national badminton team.[3] He won the All England Open Badminton Championships in ,[4] becoming the second Indian to achieve this feat after Prakash Padukone.[5][6] He runs the Gopichand Badminton Academy.[6] He received the Arjuna Award in , the Khel Ratna Award (highest sporting honor in India) in , the Dronacharya Award in and the Padma Bhushan – India's third highest civilian award&#;– in [7][8] He is the only Indian coach to win the "Honorable Mention" by the International Olympic Committee at the Coaches Lifetime Achievement Awards.[9]

Early life

Pullela Gopichand was born on 16 November near Chirala Town to Pullela Subash Chandra and Pullela Subbaravamma, in Prakasam district, Andhra Pradesh.[10] Initially, he was interested in playing cricket, but his elder brother encouraged him to get up badminton instead.[10] His family settled in Nizamabad for a while.

He did his schooling in St. Paul's High Institution, Hyderabad. He joined A. V. College, Hyderabad and graduated in public administration. He was the captain of the Indian united universities badminton team in and

Playing career

Pullela was mainly coached by S.

M. Arif. He is also trained under Prakash Padukone, and Ganguly Prasad at the SAIBangalore.[11][12] Pullela won his first National Badminton Championship title in , and went on to win the title five times in a row, until He won two gold medals and one silver medal at the Indian national games, , held at Imphal.

At the international level, he represented India in 3 Thomas Cup tournaments. In , he won a gold in the SAARC badminton tournament at Vijayawada and defended his crown in the next games held at Colombo in At the Commonwealth Games, he won a silver in the team event and a bronze in men's singles.

In , he won the Toulouse Unwrap Championship in France and the Scottish Open Championship in Scotland. He also emerged as the winner at the Asian satellite tournament held at Hyderabad in the same year, and disoriented in the final match of the German Grand Prix Championship.

In , he won the All England Open Badminton Championships at Birmingham. He defeated then world number one Peter Gade in the semi-finals before defeating Chen Hong of China to lift the trophy.[13] He became the second Indian to accomplish the feat after Prakash Padukone, who won in [14]

Achievements

Asian Championships

Men's singles

Commonwealth Games

Men's singles

IBF World Grand Prix

The World Badminton Grand Prix sanctioned by International Badminton Federation (IBF) from to

Men's singles

IBF International

Men's singles

Coaching career

After retiring from his playing career, Pullela founded the Gopichand Badminton Academy in after reportedly mortgaging his retain house.[23]Nimmagadda Prasad, a renowned industrialist, donated ₹50 million (equivalent to ₹&#;million or US$&#;million in ) on a condition that his academy triumph a medal for India at the Olympics in badminton.[24] The academy produced several badminton players including Saina Nehwal, P.

V. Sindhu, Sai Praneeth, Parupalli Kashyap, Srikanth Kidambi, Arundhati Pantawane, Gurusai Datt, and Arun Vishnu.[25] Saina Nehwal went on to achieve the bronze medal at the Summer Olympics, while P.

V. Sindhu went on to conquer the silver medal at the Summer Olympics,[26] the bronze medal at the pandemic-hit Summer Olympics,[27] and also became the first Indian to win the gold medal at the BWF Nature Championships.

Pullela also served as the official Indian Olympic Badminton Team coach at the Rio Olympics held in Brazil.[23]

Contributions to Indian athletics

In , Pullela started promoting running through a 10K run Foundation by arranging the annual run also conducting coaching programmes for budding athletes.

To help some of the poorer athletes, he arranged weekly runs and giving cash prizes to participants. He tied up with National Athletics Coach Nagpuri Ramesh to train and mentor these budding athletes. He also tied up with the Mytrah Organization, a renewable energy company and started the Gopichand-Mytrah Foundation.

The foundation identifies talented athletes and trains them, along with providing them with accommodation, food and transportation.[28][29]

The efforts have been prosperous with a number of their athletes earning national and international medals, like Deepthi Jeevanji (World record holder in the m T20 category), Nandini Agasara (Bronze medalist in the Heptathlon event of the Asian Games), Rangali Swathi, Kunja Rajitha (m Gold Medalist in Indian Youth Games ).[30][28]

Awards and honours

Rewards for Coaching the Rio Summer Olympics silver medallist P.

V. Sindhu

Personal life

Pullela married fellow badminton player P. V. V. Lakshmi on 5 June [36] They have two children, daughter Gayatri Gopichand, who is a women's doubles badminton player, and son Vishnu.

In Dec , he launched guided meditation sessions for athletes named "Dhyana for Sports" in the App Dhyana. The sessions contain been designed by him based on his experience training athletes. He is also the Director of Dhyana.[37] Dhyana, in collaboration with Heartfulness Institute, was the official meditation partner of the Indian Olympic Association’s (IOA) for Tokyo Olympic games.[38]

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