Dhananjay Pande
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| Full name | Dhananjay Uttam Pande | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Indian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 November 1991 | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||
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Dhananjay Uttam Pande (born 11 November 1991) is an Indian rower from Maharashtra. He is named in the Indian rowing team for the 2022 Asian Games at Hangzhou, China.[1] He was part of the men's eight team that won the silver medal in the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.[2][3][4]
Pande was the coxswain[5] of the Indian team that consisted of Neeraj Maan, Naresh Kalwaniya, Neetish Kumar, Charanjeet Singh, Jaswinder Singh, Bheem Singh, Punit Kumar and Ashish.[6][7] All the Indian team members are from the Indian Army and have trained at the Army Rowing Node facility in Pune for over a year.
He hails from the Raigad district of Maharashtra. He joined the Boys Sports Company of the Army and rowed till 2011. Later, he became coxswain.[8]