Homi Motivala

Homi Dady Motivala (born 18 June 1958) is an Indian sportsperson in Yachting.

He received the Arjuna award for best performance in yachting for the year 1993, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award jointly with P. K. Garg for overall best performance in sports for the year 1994–95 and the Dronacharya Award for "Coaching excellence in Yachting" for the year 2002. Together with Garg, he won the bronze medal in the enterprise class at the 1990 and 1994 Asian Games held at Beijing and Hiroshima respectively. They were also the world champions in the same class in 1993.

Motivala holds the rank of Commander with the Indian Navy. He received its gallantry award, the Shaurya Chakra, in 1983.

External links

A write-up on Homi Dady Motivala

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna awardees

1991–2000	Viswanathan Anand (1991–92) Geet Sethi (1992–93) Homi Motivala and Pushpendra Kumar Garg (1993–94) Karnam Malleswari (1994–95) Kunjarani Devi (1995–96) Leander Paes (1996–97) Sachin Tendulkar (1997–98) Jyotirmoyee Sikdar (1998–99) Dhanraj Pillay (1999–2000) Pullela Gopichand (2000–01)

2001–present	Abhinav Bindra (2001) K. M. Beenamol and Anjali Bhagwat (2002) Anju Bobby George (2003) Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (2004) Pankaj Advani (2005) Manavjit Singh Sandhu (2006) Mahendra Singh Dhoni (2007) No award (2008) Mary Kom, Vijender Singh, and Sushil Kumar (2009) Saina Nehwal (2010) Gagan Narang (2011) Vijay Kumar and Yogeshwar Dutt (2012) Ronjan Sodhi (2013) No award (2014) Sania Mirza (2015) P. V. Sindhu, Dipa Karmakar, Jitu Rai, and Sakshi Malik (2016)

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