Aditi Swami is an Indian archery athlete who achieved success after becoming the youngest ever world champion in the senior category and the first Indian to win the individual compound gold medal at the 2023 World Archery Championships. widely accepted.
Wiki/Biography
Aditi Gopichand Swami was born in 2006 (age 17 in 2023). She belongs to Satara, Maharashtra.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′2″
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Black
family
Parents and siblings
Her father Gopichand Shankar Swami works as a mathematics teacher in a government school in Satara, Maharashtra, while her mother Sehla works in the Maharashtra Gram Panchayat. Aditi has a younger brother.
Profession
national championship
In 2022, Aditi won the gold medal in the compound women’s individual event at the 36th National Games in Gujarat, India. She defeated Pragati of Delhi 144-143 in the final.
Aditi Swami wins gold medal at 36th National Games (2022)
international championship
At the Asian Archery Cup 2022 in Sharjah, UAE, Aditi won the gold medal in the women’s complex team and silver in the women’s individual compound category.
Aditi Swami (far left) with her team at the 2022 Archery Asia Cup
Aditi Swami competes in the 2023 World Archery Youth Championships in Limerick, Ireland. She defeated American Leann Drake 142-136 to win the under-18 women’s individual compound gold medal and the under-18 women’s compound team gold medal.
Aditi Swami (center), Leann Drake (left) and Liko Arreola (right) win gold medals at the 2023 World Archery Youth Championships in Limerick, Ireland
In the same year, Aditi participated in the women’s compound category of the World Archery Championships in Berlin and won the gold medal, becoming India’s first individual champion at the 2023 modern World Archery Championships. She defeated Mexican player Andrea Becerra 149-147 in the final; Aditi also won the gold medal in the compound women’s team event in this competition.
Aditi Swami after winning gold at World Archery Championship 2023
She won a bronze medal in the 2023 Archery World Cup compound women’s team competition.
Aditi Swami (second from far right) and her team win bronze medal at the 2023 Archery World Cup
the medal
the gold
- The 36th National Games (2022)
- World Archery Youth Championship (2023) (Individual)
- World Archery Youth Championship (2023) (Team)
- World Archery Championships (2023) (individual)
- World Archery Championships (2023) (team)
- Archery Asian Cup (2022) – (team)
silver
- Archery Asian Cup (2022) (individual)
bronze
Facts / Trivia
- Aditi Swami is coached by Pravin Sawant.
Aditi Swami with her trainer Pravin Sawant
- Her father Gopichand was instrumental in her success in archery. He made a big decision to relocate from their village to Satara, about 15 kilometers away, in order to provide Aditi with better sports facilities. He believed Aditi should excel in at least one sport, a move that made it possible for her to pursue archery.
- At 12, Aditi visited Satara’s Shahu Stadium, where her father introduced her to various sports. While many of the kids were involved in soccer and track and field, it was the small group of archers who set the targets that caught Aditi’s attention. Soon after, she began training under coach Pravin Sawant at an archery academy built on a sugarcane field, practicing for three hours on weekdays and more than five hours on weekends. Talking about this in an interview, Gopichand said her interest was further piqued when he showed her videos of famous archery athletes, including 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medalist Deepika Kumari and Asian Games gold medalist Abhishek Verma.
- According to Gopichand, Aditi’s coach noticed how good she was in archery and advised him that she needed her own bow to get to the next level. Realizing that professional bows could be quite expensive and beyond his financial means, Gopichand applied for a loan which later came to Rs. 1 million rupees to ensure that Aditi has the equipment needed to perform well.
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Source: HIS Education