Published on Oct 21, 2025
Current Affairs
Tanvi Sharma
Tanvi Sharma

♦ India’s Tanvi Sharma won a silver medal in the girls’ singles event at the BWF World Junior Championships 2025 badminton tournament in Guwahati, Assam, on 19 October 2025.

♦ She lost to Thailand’s second seed Anyapat Phichitpreechasak 15-7, 15-12 in the final.

♦ Tanvi is just the third shuttler after Nehwal and Aparna Popat to won a medal in this tournament.

♦ Nehwal (gold in 2008 and silver in 2006) and Popat (silver in 1996) are the only other Indian women to have won medals at the prestigious event.