Vijayi Bharat Foundation's Tejal Salve secures two Asia Cup medals for India

The 18-year-old from Jalna, Maharashtra, won a bronze medal in the Women’s Individual Compound event, while she secured the silver medal as part of the Indian Women’s Compound Team.

Tejal has been making waves in the Indian Archery circuit for the last few months, first as part of the team that broke the U-21 World Record in compound archery, and then with her recent performance at SAI Sonipat, where she had secured her place in the Indian team for the Asia Cup – Stage 2 in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. 

In her bronze medal match, Tejal defeated AIN’s Mariia Dimidiuk 144 – 138 to secure her medal, while she won silver along with Raj Kaur and Chikitha Taniparthi when the trio lost a close gold medal match to Kazakhstan 227-229.