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[caption id="attachment_21864" align="alignnone" width="580"] Kuldeep Malik, Pullela Gopichand and Bishweshwar Nandi behind the successful Indian trio at Rio 2016. Pic Xtratime.in[/caption] Internet Desk: On occasion of teacher's day, students of all over the world acknowledge their teachers. Sports persons also have their teachers to show respect. Specially the country has three teachers whom everybody should acknowledge this year. [caption id="attachment_18458" align="aligncenter" width="580"] Pullela Gopichand is the teacher of the Silver winner P V Sindhu File Pic[/caption] Pullela Gopichand : The tale of Pullela Gopichand is known to every Indian specially after P V Sindhu won the Olympic Silver. Now he has been named as the medal winner coach for Indian badminton. His academy at Gachibowli in Hyderabad is being recognised as the champ-making factory. During his badminton playing days he could arrive to the Olympics arena once in 2000. There he could not reach the quarterfinal. May be that made him much determined to build up the academy for the future generation the next year. The hard toil of Gopichand behind the building of the academy is now known to all. Now any young talent of India seeking for a better coaching in this sports does not think of any foreign coach. The destination will be ‘Gopi’ sir. That’s why P V Sindhu also could easily throw off the proposal of the Telangana government to train under a foreign coach. The Dronacharya awardee is the first choice for her, as she declared. [caption id="attachment_21865" align="aligncenter" width="580"] Bishweshwar Nandi made Dipa Karmakar reach on the verge of winning medal. Pic newsdog.today[/caption] Bishweshwar Nandi : This was first Olympic for both Dipa Karmakar and Bishweshwar Nandi. This pair of Tripura brought Indian gymnastic to the world arena. From that point of view Bishweshwar Nandi will be remembered as the pioneer of gymnastic in India. At the age of seven Dipa arrived to Bishweshwar Nandi. That time she had only the basic knowledge of gymnastic. Nandi is the man who brought her up as the lady of gymnastic. He made the ‘flat foot’ Dipa ready to represent herself in Rio 2016 stage. "I saw dedication in this girl but flat feet was the problem. Some gymnastics experts from Kolkata paid a visit to Agartala that time. I asked them for their advice on how to correct it. They said it is not possible. They broke my hopes. But I didn’t stop there," he said. It was Bishweshwar who took the responsibility to built up the gymnast in Dipa. And that is why Dipa gave all the credits to her coach for what she did in Rio. "I did a lot of research. I gave nine to ten exercises to Dipa to overcome this problem, but I didn’t tell her that she was flat-footed. I just told her if she does all these exercises, she can be a better gymnast. She followed that for a year and the problem disappeared," the proud coach said. Now the coach is making her student ready for the Tokyo 2020 as well as making his other students for big medals. "My mission is to discover more Dipas and bring them into spotlight”, confessed Nandi. [caption id="attachment_21866" align="aligncenter" width="580"] Kuldeep Malik is the coach of Sakshi Malik, the first medal winner of the Rio 2016. Pic bengalururyodhas.com[/caption] Kuldeep Malik : Sometimes some teachers remains under the shadow. Kuldeep Malik is such a person. Actually he is the man to give the first Olympic medal to India from Rio. It will be surprising to listen to as the name is not at all familiar to Indian people whom he gave the Olympic Bronze medal through Sakshi Malik. This is the man who took Sakshi over his shoulder after her win in the repechage round. Kuldeep Malik won the Dhyan Chand award in 2010. However, he had no recognition. Later he started as the coach of women freestyle wrestling under Wrestling Federation of India. Last year in May he was handed the charge of men’s freestyle wrestling too. Still he did not came in the lime light. It was the time when Sakshi started preparation for the qualification of Rio 2016, Kuldeep was with her to lead her upto the Bronze in Rio 2016. After the medal of Sakshi, people came to know of the first coach of Sakshi- Ishwar Dahiya. But the name of Kuldeep remained in darkness as he was not remembered while the announcement of Dronacharya award too. Now the wrestling coach of Indian freestyle boxing is focusing on Sakshi for her next medal as he says, “I will take care she is not carried away by the felicitations and popularity she is receiving. I will make her a champion wrestler.”