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Salima Tete is an Indian hockey player who plays in the midfielder position.
Wiki/Biography
Salima Tete was born on Thursday, 27 December 2001 (age 22 years; as of 2023) in the village Barkichhapar, District Simdega, Jharkhand. Her zodiac sign is Capricorn. Salima completed her schooling at the S. S. Girls High School, Simdega, Jharkhand.
Physical Appearance
Height (approx.): 5′ 5″
Weight (approx.): 55 kg
Hair Colour: Black
Eye Colour: Dark Brown
Body Measurements (approx.): 32-28-30
Family
Parents & Siblings
Salima Tete’s father, Sulakshan Tete, is a farmer. Her mother, Subhani Tete, is also a farmer.
Salima Tete (right) with her mother, Subhani Tete
Subhani Tete’s father, Sulakshan Tete
Salima Tete has one brother and 4 sisters. Her sister Mahima Tete is also a national hockey player.
Salima Tete (second from left) with his father (extreme left), brother (second from right), and sister Mahima Tete (extreme right)
Husband
Salima Tete is unmarried.
Career
Hockey Player
Salima Tete made her senior debut by playing for the Indian Women’s National team in 2016. In 2017, she became part of the Indian squad in the 7th Sub Junior National Hockey Championship which was held in Ramanathapuram, Tamil Nadu. Salima represented the Jharkhand hockey team and ended up winning the title. In 2018, Salima was appointed as the captain of the Indian hockey team to lead the Summer Youth Olympics which were held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Indian team won the silver medal in the tournament finals. In 2021, she represented India in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. In 2022, Salima Tete became part of the Indian squad that participated in the Women’s FIH Hockey Nations Cup which was held in Valencia, Spain. The Indian team won the title by defeating Spain in the tournament finals by the score of 1-0.
Salima Tete (standing, extreme right) with the complete Indian squad at the Women’s FIH Hockey Nations Cup (2022)
In the same year, she represented India in the XXII Commonwealth Games which was held in Birmingham, England. The Indian team won the bronze medal in the tournament finals.
Salima Tete (extreme left) posing with her bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games in 2022
In 2022, Salima became part of the Women’s Hockey Asia Cup which was held in Muscat, Oman in which the Indian hockey team won the bronze medal.
Salima Tete posing with her medal at the Women’s Hockey Asia Cup 2022
In 2023, she represented India in the 19th Asian Games which were held in Hangzhou, China. The Indian hockey team won the bronze medal in the championship by defeating Japan by the score of 2-1.
Salima Tete posing with a bronze medal at the 19th Asian Games 2023
In the same year, Salima Tete participated in the 7th Women’s Asian Champions Trophy which was held in Ranchi, India in which the Indian hockey team won the title by defeating Japan by the score of 4-0 in the finals.
Salima Tete after winning the 7th Women’s Asian Champions Trophy 2023
In 2023, Salima also represented the Railway Sports Promotion Board’s hockey team in the 3rd Hockey Indian Senior Women Inter-Department National Championship in which the team won the silver medal.
Facts/Trivia
- Salima Tete’s father, Sulakshan Tete, played hockey as a defender for many years and made sure his daughters picked up the sport too. Her father gave her hockey training in the early days with sticks made out of Sharifa trees.
- Salima loves eating Rajma Chawal which her mother cooks, and she asks her mother to cook it whenever Salima comes home from hockey tournaments.
- In 2021, Salima was offered a class third employee job in the Indian Railways and she also became part of the South Eastern Railway’s hockey team as well as the Railway Sports Promotion Board’s hockey team.
- In 2023, Salima received the ‘Emerging Player of the Year’ award at the Asian Hockey Federation Awards.
Salima Tete posing with her award at the Asian Hockey Federation Awards 2023
- In 2023, Salima Tete was appointed as the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) Athletes Ambassador from India for a term of two years in which the selected athletes play a leadership role in the international representation, development, and advocacy of athletes.
Salima Tete (third from right) being appointed as the AHF Athletes Ambassador from India
- In the initial years of her journey, Salima used to actively participate in local tournaments where goats were given as prizes.
- Initially, she joined a training school in Tumdegi through which she started playing in regional tournaments and that is where she was spotted by Manoj Konbegi who was the then president of a hockey academy in Simdega.
- After seeing Salima’s performance in local tournaments, Manoj Konbegi took the responsibility of convincing Salima’s family to get her admitted into the professional hockey academy in Simdega.
- At the age of 12, she joined a hockey academy in Simdega where she started receiving her professional hockey training.