Dinesh Khanna

Dinesh Khanna
Personal information
Born (1943-01-04) 4 January 1943
Sport
CountryIndia
SportBadminton
Medal record
Men's badminton
Representing  India
Commonwealth Games
1966 Kingston Men's singles
Asian Games
1974 Tehran Men's Team
Asian Championships
1965 Lucknow Men's singles
1969 Manila Men's singles
1965 Lucknow Men's team

Dinesh Kumar Khanna is an Indian former badminton player. Dinesh Khanna belongs to a prominent family of Punjab based out of Fatehgarh Churian (District Gurdaspur). His great great grandfather Diwan Tek Chand was a Diwan in the Darbar of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. His father, the late Diwan Dilbagh Rai was an Honorary Magistrate during the British regime and a prominent land owner. Dinesh got married in 1968 to Veena Tuli who was also a sportswomen.

Their Son, Rakesh Khanna, represented Delhi state in the National Badminton championship and their daughter, Ritika was selected to represent Delhi University in Badminton.

Education: Dinesh Khanna is an alumnus of Hindu College (Amritsar), and Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh (PEC, now a deemed University) from where he completed his engineering degree Bsc. Civil engineering in 1965. He was honoured by PEC in 2017 with distinguished Alumnus Award.

Profession: Served in Indian Oil Corporation and retired as General Manager in 2003.