World Archery Championships 2023: Aditi Swamy and Ojas Deotale crowned compound world champions; winners List: India’s daughter Aditi Gopichand Swamy and Ojas Pravin Deotale won gold medals in the women’s and men’s individual compound events respectively at the World Archery Championships 2023 in Berlin, Germany on Saturday.
India won four medals in the Berlin Archery Competition, three gold, and one bronze. Compound archers took home all of the medals. The medal tally was India’s best achievement at the World Championships. Since the inception of the championship in 1931, India had never won a gold medal.
Sixteen-year-old Aditi Gopichand Swamy, seeded sixth, became the youngest archer to win an individual event at the Senior World Championships after beating Mexico’s Andrea Becerra 149-147 in the final.
In the Under-18 category, reigning world champion and world record holder Aditi Gopichand Swamy defeated second-seed fellow Indian Jyoti Surekha Vennam 149-145 in the semi-finals to seal her place in the gold medal match.
Meanwhile, Jyoti Surekha Vennam won the bronze medal in the women’s individual compound event by defeating Turkey’s Ipek Tomaruk 150-146. Another Indian archer Preneet Kaur bowed out in the quarterfinals after losing to Jyoti Surekha Vennam.
Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Preneet Kaur and Aditi Gopichand Swamy had earlier combined to win the women’s compound team event and the first gold medal for India at the Archery World Championships. Later that day, Ojas Pravin Deotale of India won the men’s individual compound event.
Ojas Pravin Deotale beat Poland’s Lukasz Przybylski 150-149 in a hard-fought match to become the first Indian male archer to win a gold medal at the World Championships.
The 21-year-old Ojas had earlier beaten former world champions, Dutch archer Mike Schlosser and Przemyslaw Konecki of Poland, in the semi-finals and quarters respectively.
India’s campaign at the Berlin meet came to an end on Saturday. None of the Indian recurve archers made it to the medal round, failing to win any Olympic quota place for the proposed Paris 2024 Olympics in Berlin. Only recurve archery events are held in the Olympics.
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World Archery Youth Championships 2023 Under 18: Indian medal winners
| Archer | Event | Medal |
| Aishwarya Sharma, Aditi Gopichand Swami and Ekta Rani | Compound women’s team | Gold |
| Aditi Gopichand Swami | Compound women individual | Gold |
| Manav Ganeshrao Jadhao, Pawan Gat and Ganesh Mani Ratnam | Compound men’s team | Silver |
| Aishwarya Sharma and Manav Ganeshrao Jadhao | Compound mixed team | Bronze |
| Ujjwal Dhama, Goldi Mishra and Agastay Singh | Recurve men’s team | Bronze |
World Archery Youth Championships 2023 Under 21: Indian medal winners
| Archer | Event | Medal |
| Priyansh | Compound men’s individual | Gold |
| Parth Salunkhe | Recurve men’s individual | Gold |
| Avneet Kaur and Priyansh | Compound mixed team | Gold |
| Avneet Kaur, Parneet Kaur and Pragati | Compound women’s team | Gold |
| Parth Salunkhe and Ridhi | Recurve mixed team | Bronze |
| Bhajan Kaur | Recurve women’s individual | Bronze |
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Individual recurve men
Parth Salunkhe – gold medal
Rohit Kumar – out in third round
Aditya Choudhary – out in third round
Individual recurve women
Bhajan Kaur – bronze medal
Ridhi – out in fourth round
Bhargaviben Vargishkumar Bhagora – out in third round
Recurve men’s team
Parth Salunkhe, Rohit Kumar and Aditya Choudhary – out in second round
Recurve women’s team
Ridhi, Bhargaviben Vargishkumar Bhagora and Bhajan Kaur – lost quarter-final match
Recurve mixed team
Parth Salunke and Ridhi – bronze medal
Individual compound men
Priyansh – gold medal
Prathamesh Jawkar – out in third round
Kushal Dalal – out in third round
Individual compound women
Avneet Kaur – lost bronze medal match
Pragati – lost quarter-final match
Parneet Kaur – out in third round
Compound men’s team
Priyansh, Prathamesh Jawkar and Kushal Dalal – lost bronze medal match
Compound women’s team
Avneet Kaur, Parneet Kaur and Pragati – gold medal
Compound mixed team
Avneet Kaur and Priyansh – gold medal
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