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]