Tushar Shelke is an Indian archer and CT/GD in The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Force. He bagged a gold medal at Tashkent 2023 Asia Cup leg 2, Uzbekistan and two bronze medals in Paris 2023 Archery World Cup and Medellin 2023 Hyundai Archery World Cup, Stage 3.
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Wiki/Biography
Tushar Prabhakar Shelke was born on Monday, 30 January 1995 (age 28 years; as of 2023) in Amravati, Maharashtra, India. He currently lives in New Delhi, India. His zodiac sign is Aquarius. He has studied at Shri Shivaji Arts & Commerce College, Amravati. He is CT/GD in The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Force.
Physical Appearance
Height (approx.): 6′ 02″
Weight (approx.): 78 kg
Hair Colour: Black
Eye Colour: Black
Family
Parents & Siblings
There is not much information about Tushar Shelke’s parents and siblings.
Wife & Children
There is not much information about his marital status.
Religion
Tushar Shelke follows Hinduism.
Career
Tushar Shelke (right) Atanu Das and Dheeraj Bommadevara clinched the silver medal in the Archery- Recurve Men’s Team Event
Awards, Honours, Achievements
Awards
- Tushar Shelke was awarded the Shiv-Chhatrapati Award by the Government of Maharashtra.
- Tushar Shelke won the 2nd national ranking archery tournament from 19 to 28 March 2023 in Shillong Meghalaya.
Tushar Shelke won the 2nd national ranking archery tournament (March 2023) in Shillong, Meghalaya.
Medals
Gold
- In the 11th All India Police Archery Championship, Dehradun, Tushar Shelke won 4 gold medals and the Best Archer Award in 2022.
- In the Compound Men’s individual event, all three medals were won by Indians. In the Recurve men’s team event, Tushar Prabhakar Shelke along with Mrinal Chauhan and Jayanta Talukdar defeated China by the score of 5-1 and bagged the gold medal at Asia Cup-World Ranking Tournament, Stage II in Tashkent. [2]News 18
Tushar Shelke (second from the left in middle row) with Honorable Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and all Indian medalists of the 19th Asian Games Hangzhou 2023
Silver
- The Indian Men’s recurve team which includes Tushar Shelke, Atanu Das, and Dhiraj Bommadevara won the silver medal in the Archery- Recurve Men’s Team Event on the 13th day of the Asian Games 2022.
- In the 11th All India Police Archery Championship, Dehradun, Tushar Shelke won 2 silver medals in 2022.
Tushar Shelke in 11th All India Police Archery Championship, Dehradun
Bronze
- In 2023, he won the bronze medal in the 1st NRAT (National Ranking Archery Tournament) organised by the Sikkim Archery Association in Gangtok.
- Tushar Shelke won the bronze medal in the 1st NRAT (2023), Sikkim
- In the Archery World Cup 2023, Tushar Shelke secured a bronze medal for India.
Tushar Shelke (extreme right in the back row) with other winners of the Archery World Cup April 2023
Facts/Trivia
- On October 2023, The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi congratulated the Men’s Archery Recurve team for winning the Silver Medal for India. The tweet read,
A moment of jubilation as our Men's Archery Recurve team brings home the Silver Medal. Congratulations, @ArcherAtanu, Tushar Shelke and @BommadevaraD, Keep it up! Theirs was a focused performance marked with dedication and determination. pic.twitter.com/xugJsRMACM
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) October 6, 2023
- He is CT/GD in The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Force. On winning a bronze medal in the Senior Recurve team event in the Archery World Cup Stage 3 in Colombia, ITBP tweeted to congratulate Tushar Shelke on 16 June 2023.
Proud moment for the country!
CT/GD Tushar Shelke of ITBP, alongwith his teammates bagged a bronze medal for the country in the Senior Recurve team event in the Archery World Cup Stage 3 in Medellin,Colombia.#Himveers pic.twitter.com/TxwNd9BcPa
— ITBP (@ITBP_official) June 16, 2023
References
| ↑1 | World Archery |
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| ↑2 | News 18 |
