Tejaswini Sawant (Born on 12 September 1980 in Kolhapur, Maharashtra) is an Indian shooter. Her father Ravindra Sawant was an officer in the Indian Navy. Sawant represented India at the 9th South Asian Sports Federation Games in 2004 in Islamabad where she helped India win gold medal.
Tejaswini was selected to represent India at the 2006 Commonwealth Games ahead of Asian Games gold medallist
Anjali Ved Pathak Bhagwat and world record holder Suma Shirur after winning 5 gold medals, 6 silver medals and 5 bronze medals at the national championships. In 2006, she won gold medals in Women's 10 m Air Rifle singles and Women's 10 m Air Rifle Pairs (with Avneet Kaur Sidhu) events at the Commonwealth Games at Melbourne.
Sawant won a bronze medal in 50 metre rifle three positions at the 2009 ISSF World Cup in Munich. On 8 August 2010 Tejaswini became the World Champion in the 50m Rifle Prone event in Munich, Germany. Tejaswini was the first Indian woman shooter to win a gold medal at the World Championships with a world-record equalling score in the 50 m Rifle Prone event.
In the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi, Sawant won silver in Women's 50 rifle prone singles and bronze in Women's 50 m rifle prone pairs (along with Meena Kumari). She also won silver in Women's 50 m rifle 3 positions event (along with Lajjakumari Goswami) in this competition. Tejaswini received the Arjuna award on 29 August 2011. Tejasvini Savant got married on 11 Feb 2016 with Well known Social Figure and Builder by profession Sameer Darekar of Pune.
In 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, Tejaswini Sawant won Silver at Women's 50m Rifle Prone Finals with a cumulative score of 618.9 on 12th April 2018. Tejaswini won gold at the Women's 50m Rifle 3 Position Finals. She set a Games Record (GR) with total points of 457.9 on 13th April 2018.
