Arikapudi Ramana Rao (born 1 July 1945) is a former

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player. He was born in Chamallamudi village,

Guntur district Guntur district is one of the twenty six districts in the Coastal Andhra region of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The administrative seat of the district is located at Guntur, the largest city of the district in terms of area and with a po ...

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. He is a recipient of both the

Arjuna Award The Arjuna Award, officially known as Arjuna Awards for Outstanding Performance in Sports and Games, is the second-highest sporting honour of India, the highest being the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award. The award is named after Arjuna, one ...

for the year 1977–1978 and

Dronacharya Award The Dronacharya Award, officially known as Dronacharya Award for Outstanding Coaches in Sports and Games, is sports coaching honour of the Republic of India. The award is named after Drona, often referred as "Dronacharya" or "Guru Drona", a ch ...

for the year 1990–1991. Ramana Rao started playing volleyball after joining college. He graduated from Hindu College, Guntur in 1966. From the year 1966 to 1976 he participated in the National Volleyball Championships and Captained the Tamil Nadu State team consecutively for four years. He played for the Tamil Nadu State team which won the National Volleyball Championship title for the first time at

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in 1976. He was the head coach for the Indian men's volleyball team at the

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in 1991. He was also the first Indian volleyball coach to qualify as FIVB Instructor in the German Democratic Republic in 1986 and went on to conduct the International Coaches Courses in India and abroad. He was nominated as a Member AVC Coaches Committee of the Asian Volleyball Confideration (AVC) from 1993 to 1997. Ramana Rao was nominated as the Director of the FIVB Regional Development Centre, in Chennai, India. Currently he is the President of Andhra Pradesh Volleyball Association. He is the Chairman, Coaching Committee, Volleyball Federation of India.

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1945 births Living people Indian men's volleyball players Recipients of the Dronacharya Award Recipients of the Arjuna Award Volleyball players from Andhra Pradesh Indian volleyball coaches People from Guntur district {{India-volleyball-bio-stub