Aditi Swami recently took the world by storm as she became the youngest senior World Champion in Archery. The 17-year-old brought won a gold medal at the World Archery Championship. At such young age, she broke many records and brought pride to the country as she became the first Indian to win a gold medal in the history of sports. The teenager scored an almost perfect score of 149 points out of the available 150 points. She defeated Andrea Becerra of Mexico by two points in the finals.
Aditi Swami is the NEW world champion! 🏆🇮🇳#WorldArchery pic.twitter.com/QkAavPmkwp
— World Archery (@worldarchery) August 5, 2023
The journey to the finals was not easy as she faced her idol and national teammate Jyothi Surekha Vennam in the semi-finals. Aditi with momentous feat became the first Indian to become an individual World Champion.
Success with the Compound’s team
Aditi, Parneet Kaur and Jyothi Surekha Vennam won the compound women’s team final, giving India its first-ever gold medal at the World Archery Championships. The Mexican combination of Dafne Quintero, Ana Sofa Hernandez Jeon and Andrea Becerra lost to the Indian trio in the championship match 235-229.
India had won 11 medals in the World Archery Championships, including nine silver and two silver, before this Berlin competition.
Following silvers in 2017 and 2021 and a bronze in 2019, this gold was India’s fourth successive medal in the compound women’s team category at the world championships. Jyothi Vennam was a member of each of the four teams that won medals.
Aditi Swami
Aditi, who is from Satara, won the compound women’s gold at the World Archery Championships on Saturday, becoming the sport’s youngest-ever senior champion at the age of 17. After winning the Under-18 championship at the Youth Championships in Limerick, Ireland, on July 8, the class of 2012 student also became a double world champion in less than two months.
Aditi Swami gets the FIRST individual WORLD TITLE for India.
The 17-year-old prodigy is now the world champion. 🏆#WorldArchery pic.twitter.com/oBbtgxyzq3— World Archery (@worldarchery) August 5, 2023
After the historic moment, Aditi Swami said, “I am very proud, I wanted to hear the 52 seconds of the national anthem to be played at the World Championships.” Swami received her training from instructor Pravin Sawant in a Satara institution. Speaking about Aditi, the coach said, ” She was really hardworking, would not take any break after a competition and train here for hours. I knew she is a champion in the making.”
