Raju Tolani is an Indian bridge player and the managing director of the India arm of a Switzerland-based steel company named Schmolz + Bickenbach.
Wiki/Biography
Raju Tolani graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi. Bridge is a team card game. In an interview, he talked about the bridge game and said,
In the 1970s and 1980s, bridge was a part of the culture in the IITs and IIMs. There was no rat race going on and people would find time to play games of intellectual value. You can bask in the glory of an intelligent gambit.”
Height (approx.): 5′ 7″
Weight (approx.): 80 kg
Hair Colour: Salt and Pepper
Eye Colour: Dark brown
Family
Parents & Siblings
There is not much information about Raju Tolani’s parents and siblings.
Wife & Children
There is not much information about Raju Tolani’s wife and children.
Career
In February 2018, Raju Tolani and Anil Padhye, another Indian bridge team player won the Singhania Invitational Pairs tournament at Kanpur.
Raju Tolani and Anil Padhye won Singhania Invitational Pairs 2018 tournament at Kanpur
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, congratulated the Men’s Bridge Team for winning a silver medal at the Asian Games on Twitter. The tweet read,
Congrats to the Indian Men’s Bridge Team for their exceptional performance and clinching the Silver Medal at the Asian Games.
Raju Tolani, Ajay Prabhakar Khare, Sumit Mukherjee, Rajeshwar Tiwari, Jaggy Shivdasani and Sandeep Thakral have shown remarkable brilliance and… pic.twitter.com/svlpUy3Acx
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) October 6, 2023
Awards, Honours, Achievements
Medals
Bronze
- Raju Tolani secured a bronze medal in the 2018 Asian Games.
- In the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, Republic of China, he won the silver medal in 2023. The Indian Bridge team scored 152 points in the finals against Hong Kong, China.
Raju Tolani (extreme right), along with the Indian bridge team players, won the silver medal in 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, Republic of China