Six top coaches of the country, including London Olympic Games bronze medallist wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt's mentor Yashvir Singh, were today recommended for the prestigious Dronacharya Award.Besides Yashvir, the other five who have been recommended by the 15-member committee for the award were: India's boxing coach from Cuba B I Fernandez, athletics coach Virender Poonia, Sunil Davas (kabbadi), Dr Satyapal (parathletics) and Harinder Singh (hockey).Fernandez has become the first foreign coach to have been recommended for the coveted award. He has been nominated for the award on special consideration. Fernandez has been involved behind the scenes for the past few years which had seen India winning two boxing medals in the Olympics. Virender is the husband-cum-coach of discus thrower Krishna Poonia who in 2010 became the first Indian womanindividual gold medal winner in athletics in the CommonwealthGames. He was also Poonia's coach in the just-concluded London Olympics where she finished seventh.Harinder was the coach of the Indian hockey team for some months after Spaniard Jose Brasa was sacked following India's poor showing in the 2010 Asian Games till Australian Michael Nobbs took charge in August 2011.The Dronacharya Awards committee was headed by former Indian hockey captain Aslam Sher Khan. The other members include Rajkumar Sangwan (boxing), Dhanraj Pillai (hockey), Shiny Wilson (athletics), Morad Ali Khan (shooting), Karnam Malleswari (weightlifting), Bahadur Singh (athletics), Bhupender Dhawan (powerlifting,G S Sandhu (boxing), Ramphan Mann(wrestling,Prem Chand Degra (body building).The Award carries five lakh rupees and a citation and is conferred to coaches of different sports for their noteworthy contribution. The awards will be presented by President Pranab Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhawan on August 29, the National Sports Day.