Tejas Shirse Height, Age, Family, Biography

Bio/Wiki
Full Name	Tejas Ashok Shirse
Profession	• Athlete (Hurdle runner) • Travelling Ticket Examiner (TTE) in Indian Railways
Famous for	Reaching finals of 2026 Commonwealth Games
Physical Stats
Height (approx.)	6' (183 cm)
Weight (approx.)	65 Kg (143 lbs)
Body Measurements (approx.)	- Chest: 40 Inches - Waist: 32 Inches - Biceps: 12 Inches
Eye Colour	Black
Hair Colour	Black
Cricket
Events	• 100 metres • 200 metres • 60 metre hurdles • 110 metre hurdles
Coach/Mentor	James Hillier
Personal Bests (As of July 2026)	• 2019: 13.59 (+0.1) in 110 Metres Hurdles (91.4 cm) • 2021: 13.74 (+0.2) in 110 Metres Hurdles (99.0 cm) • 2023: 10.89 (-2.0) in 100 Metres • 2023: 21.96 (-2.9) in 200 Metres • 2025: 7.64 (indoor) in 60 Metres Hurdles (set on 31 January 2025 and equalled on 2 February 2025) • 2026: 13.27 (+1.6) in 110 Metres Hurdles (National Record)
Medals	Gold 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 in 110 metre Hurdles
Personal Life
Date of Birth	4 June 2002 (Tuesday)
Age (as of 2026)	26 Years
Birthplace	Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (previously Aurangabad), Maharashtra, India
Zodiac sign	Gemini
Nationality	Indian
Hometown	Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (previously Aurangabad), Maharashtra
College/University	Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University (BAMU, Aurangabad)
Religion	Hinduism
Food Habit	Non-vegetarian
Tattoo(s)	• 444 and butterfly on right elbow
Piercing	In left ear
Social Media	• Instagram • Facebook • YouTube • Twitter
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Unmarried
Family
Parents	Father- Ashok Shirse Mother- Laxmi Shirse
Siblings	Sister- Vrushali Shirse Lahase
Other Relatives	Brother-in-law- Karan Lahase (Vrushali's husband) Niece- Krisha (Vrushali's daughter)
Favourites
Songs	Heart of a Champion by Nelly, Lincoln University Vocal Ensemble, Sirius & Eye in the Sky by Eric Woolfson, Glass Half Full by Talha Anjum

Some Lesser Known Facts About Tejas Shirse

• Tejas Shirse was born in Aurangabad (now Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar), Maharashtra.

• His family were farmers. They had no experience of sport before.

• Tejas was a very active and playful child as a boy. He was a good student, loved science and hated the long classes.

• He was introduced to hurdles by a former athlete, now a PT teacher.

• Tejas picked it up primarily to miss school. At that time, there was no synthetic track in Marathwada.

• So for about a year and a half, he trained on mud, but the hurdles were wooden that he made himself.

• From that mud track, he went straight to the U17 Nationals and won gold.

• These years were tight in money and Tejas began selling sports shoes on Instagram to support his own training and spent the last almost two years without relying on his family.

• He continued to improve at the state and national level in his junior meets and in 2021, he tasted success in the first round of the Under 20 World Championships in Nairobi.

• He joined the Reliance Foundation under the tutelage of coach James Hillier from December 2022, a relationship that would be instrumental in the coming years.

• He also took home the 110m hurdles crown from the National Federation Senior Athletics Championships around that time, topping a meet record.

• His career turns 180 degrees in 2023-24. Their journey started with a rough outing in the Asian Indoor Championships in Astana, was followed by a fifth place finish in Tehran the following year and then, in May 2024, it all changed.
  

  Tejas Shirse during a race

• He broke the national record in Jyvaskyla, Finland where he ran 13.41 seconds in the 110m hurdles and became the fastest hurdler in the country.

• This momentum continued through 2025. He set the national record for the 60m hurdles at 7.64 seconds early in the year and gold medal at National Games with a Games record.

• His chances to qualify for the World Championships were missed by a whisker several times, when he stood on the runway in Ranchi and Chinese Taipei, but he somehow managed to arrive in Tokyo for the World Championships.

• He left there early, but that was one of his best moments to come back from injury to get on the field.

• The victories continued, with gold medals won in the Federation Cup in Ranchi, and then an unexpected appearance on the Lakme Fashion Week catwalk in March of 2026.

• Then in June, the biggest moment ever arrived. He broke his own national record and undercut the Commonwealth Games qualification record in one clean sweep in the Indian Athletics Series at Ludhiana, with 13.27 seconds.

• He was ranked third in his heat at the Commonwealth Games that followed, and was the first Indian ever to make it to the men’s 110m hurdles final.
  

  Tejas Shirse (in blue) during 2026 Commonwealth Games

• Then, a warm up injury befell him, a navicular stress fracture in his left foot, prior to the final.

• He declined to withdraw, had it strapped and ran it anyway placing last and only able to place a little weight on the foot after the first hurdle.

• It proved to be an old injury that’s come back, and the scans will be used to determine whether he will be in the Asian Games ahead.