World Archery championship | Compound archer Aditi Swami becomes senior world champion at 17

Aditi Swami, 17, wins World Archery Championship gold, defeating Mexico's Andrea Becerra 149-147. She had won the Under-18 title in July. Jyothi Surekha Vennam won bronze. It is India’s second gold ever in world championsho[

Less than two months after she won the junior world title, 17-year-old Aditi Swami on August 5 became the senior world champion when she defeated Andrea Becerra of Mexico in the compound women's final of the World Archery Championships, in Berlin.

The Satara teenager, who had won the Under-18 title in Youth Championships in Limerick in July, shot a near perfect score of 149 out of a possible 150 points to prevail over the Mexican giant-killer by two points.

The 16th seed Andrea had knocked out reigning champion Sara Lopez in the pre-quarterfinals.

But Andrea faced a tough challenge from the sixth seeded Indian, who started off with a bang, drilling in all her first three arrows closer to the centre (X) to take a 30-29 first round lead.

Aditi was on target in all of her 12 arrows in the first four rounds to extend her lead by three points.

It was only in the final end, she shot one 9 out of the three arrows, but by then she had already sealed India's second World Championship gold ever.

Aditi along with Parneet Kaur and Jyothi Surekha Vennam had secured India's first ever World Archery Championships gold by winning the compound women's team final on Friday.