India records best-ever haul of 3 gold & 1 bronze at the World Archery Championships

Sports    07-Aug-2023
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Berlin, Aug 7: India displayed a spectacular performance at the World Archery Championships. It has topped the table by earning three gold medals and one bronze medal. Several historic performances were scripted by Indian archers at the event.
 

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Three golds

 
Aditi Swami on Saturday became the youngest-ever senior world champion at 17 years after she secured India's first-ever individual title at the World Archery Championships with women's compound gold here. She is now the first individual world champion in archery from India, across any discipline and gender.
 

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Later in the day, Ojas Deotale also became the world champion when he bagged the compound men's title with a sheer perfect score of 150 as India recorded their best ever finish in the showpiece with four medals -- three gold and one bronze. Incidentally, both Aditi and Deotale train at the same academy in Satara under coach Pravin Sawant.
 
 
Earlier, Aditi along with Parneet Kaur and Jyothi Surekha Vennam had secured India's first ever World Archery Championships gold by winning the compound women's team final on Friday.
 
 

Bronze for Jyothi

 
After Aditi ousted her 'idol' and the most successful Indian compound archer Jyothi 149-145 in an all-Indian semifinal, Jyothi, however, went on to win a bronze medal when she shot a perfect 150 to defeat Ipek Tomruk of Turkey by four points in the third-place playoff.
 
However, the Olympic discipline recurve archers, on the other hand, came a cropper, returning empty-handed.
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