17-year-old Aditi Swami turns head in World Archery Championship

Berlin: Aditi Swami, who is 17 years old, made history by becoming the youngest-ever senior world champion after excelling in the World Archery Championships. After winning the compound women's team gold on Friday, the teenager defeated Andrea Becerra, 149-147, in the championship match to win both the individual and team world titles.

On a day where she only lost four points, Swami was untouchable. Posting scores of 149 in both her semifinal and championship matches and hitting four straight ends of 30 in the latter Swami commented, "I wanted to hear the 52 seconds of the national anthem that would be sung in the World Championships."I am very proud." The main factor to this incredible performance was concentrating on her "rhythm," she said.
India won three gold medals and one bronze at the Championship in Berlin. Compound archers won all of the medals. India’s best medal total at the world championships was the number of medals won. India had not won a gold medal since the competition's inception in 1931. Aditi Swami, 17, became the senior global champion on Saturday by defeating Mexican Andrea Becerra, less than two months after she won the junior world title.
In an all-Indian semifinal earlier that day, she had defeated her "idol" and the most accomplished compound archer in India, Jyothi Surekha Vennam, 149-145.However, Jyothi went on to win a bronze medal after she defeated Turkish competitor Ipek Tomruk by four points with a perfect 150 in the third-place playoff. As of now, Jyothi has three bronze, four silver, and one gold medal from three World Archery Championships.