Archery WA World Championships 2023

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The 17 year old World Youth Champion Aditi Gopichand is into fimals beating gold medal favourite Jyothi Surekha Vennam. Mixed feelings.  I wish both got gold here too

[Josh 11,818]

Perfect match and a bronze medal for  Jyothi Vennam! 15 10s! 

Edited August 5, 2023 by Josh

[Josh 11,818]

No U18 WR, but still an excellent 149 by Gopichand Swami to take the women's compound title!

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15 hours ago, phelps said:

c'mon! they were great, but still far from being perfect (we did underperformed badly in 3 out of 6 team events -way more important than the individual's this year), with the whole sabre department at risk of not qualifying (and even in Tokyo -one of the lower points in the recent years- we had a rich full set of teams)

 

we did expect to earn the Olympic Quota place at least in the men's division (we won the European Champs just a few weeks ago, not mentioning our great "tradition" in this event in the last 30 years or so, which doesn't count right now, but helps to build expectation) and better results in the individual events (where we won Olympic medals just 2 years ago with both men and women and a few world cup tournaments with some regularity thanks to Nespoli)

 

and having missed that quota place by just an inch is definitely more disappointing, more frustrating than not being competitive at all through the whole week

 

in such case, most likely nobody would have said a single word about this event, just swallowed the bad medicine

Not sure why you (or anyone else) would/should have expected that ...

You didn't make the top 3 at the last olympics or the last 2 world championships. I guess the problem wasn't that they underperformed, but that they didn't met your unreasonably high expectations. The solution should probably be that you have more realistic expectations in the future (if you don't want to keep getting disappointed). Of course this doesn't mean that Italy shouldn't strive to do better. The problem isn't that they underperformed, but that they just aren't any better right now.

Edited August 5, 2023 by OlympicsFan

[Fly_like_a_don 1,144]

So Aditi wins 2nd gold for 

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Ojas into semis!  Also have a semi finalist.

 

 Vs  for the 4th

 

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Ojas into the finals!! 

[Josh 11,818]

Men's Individual Compound

Gold- Ojas Deotale

Silver- Łukasz Przybylski 

Bronze- Mike Schloesser 

 

Great final. Unfortunately for Przybylski, shooting a 149 wasn't enough. 

 

Women's Individual Compound

Gold- Aditi Gopichand Swami

Silver- Andrea Beccera

Bronze- Jyothi Surekha Vennam

[nitinsanker 207]

Crazy good performance by India .... 92 years not a single gold ....then 3 over 2 days 🔥..... And a 17 year old in her maiden appearance figures in 2 . She  is the youngest ever world champion  .... Aditi Gopichand what an amazing performance a gold in women's compound individual and team.... The men's individual compound  gold medallist is just 21 and this is his first appearance ...... Ojas Deotale 💥...... Incidentally they both are from a tiny academy in a small Indian town satara ....

Edited August 6, 2023 by nitinsanker

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The full story of this academy reads like a Bollywood movie ....

 

 

 

World champion archers Aditi and Deotale products of same academy built on sugarcane farmland in Satara

 

 Pravin Sawant, a police constable in Satara in Maharashtra, now hopes his archery training academy, built on one-acre sugarcane farmland, will finally get due recognition, after producing India's two world champions Aditi Swami and Ojas Deotale.
     Both Aditi and Deotale trained under Sawant at the Drushti Academy in Satara's Wadhe Phata area before becoming world champions.
     Hailing from Satara, Aditi on Saturday became the youngest senior world champion at 17 when she secured India's first-ever individual title at the World Archery Championships with compound women's gold in Berlin.

     Later in the day, Ojas Deotale also became the world champion when he bagged the compound men's title with a perfect score of 150.

     Aditi learnt the sport under Sawant. Nagpur's Deotale honed his skills after joining Sawant's academy exactly a year ago.

     "Aditi was really unimpressive, an emaciated 10-year-old when she came to the Stadium where I used to train. But her stubbornness caught my eyes and the journey began," Sawant recalled, in a conversation with PTI.

     "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."

     Nagpur's Deotale heard about Sawant's newly-launched academy from his friend who trained there and came under the coach's wings in 2022.

 

     "His shooting was unorthodox but impactful. I just had to motivate him and tune him mentally. He did the rest," he said about Deotale.

     The journey to become an archery coach has come with a lot of failures and hardships for Sawant, who is now an NIS certificate holder.

     The 32-year-old had won a silver medal at the school Nationals in Jharkhand but he failed to make it big and worked as a part-time ward boy at a private hospital to make ends meet from 2009-11.

     In the day time, he did his hospital duty and in the evening he would practice archery for long hours at the stadium.

     Seeing his passion for the sport, Manabendra Kadam, a medicine shop owner at the same hospital, became curious about him.

     "I was coaching kids as well as doing my shooting to take part in tournaments. Aditi had joined by then and started winning too," said Sawant.

     "But lack

of a proper facility was a hinderance as I used to teach them at the stadium and then at another makeshift facility."

     Kadam then came to Sawant's rescue and decided to gift him one-acre farmland where he used to grow sugarcane.

     But getting a land was not enough, Sawant needed money to build walls, give the land a shape.

     His wife and mother came to his rescue and agreed to mortgage their jewellery.

     "I got Rs 2 lakh in exchange of the jewelleries, which are still mortgaged to a bank. Parents too chip in with their contributions and Drushti Academy came on it own," he recalled.

     "Last year we have installed floodlights and there is accommodation facilities for about 15 people. I mostly stay here with the kids, and it helps in training," he said.

     But the facilities are still lacking.
     "We still don't have lack proper equipment. I've written to the Zila Parishad, but the files have not moved till now.

     "But I'm sure people will take notice of the archery academy now after their (Aditi and Deotale's) success and hoping it would be given the status of a centre."