Ojas Deotale of Nagpur won the World Archery Championship gold medal
Indian shooters have won the gold at the World Archery Championship. Ojas Deotale of Nagpur City has now earned a gold medal, following the women's astounding achievement. Ojas is the first male archer from India to take home a gold medal in this competition. By earning 150 points in the championship round, he won the gold medal.
The first Olympic qualifying competition for archers is the World Archery Championships in 2023, which will begin in Berlin. In a tough battle, Nagpur native Ojas Pravin Deotale overcame Polish archer Lukasz Przybylski 150-149 to win the gold medal and become the first Indian male archer to do so in a World Championships.
In the quarterfinals and semifinals, respectively, the 21-year-old Ojas defeated previous world champions Przemyslaw Konecki of Poland and Dutch archer Mike Schlosser. With this, India's World Archery Championships 2023 campaign in Berlin came to a close. They won a total of four medals—three gold and one bronze—during the competition. Compound archers won all of these medals.
No Indian recurve archers advanced to the medal round, and as a result, none of them received an Olympic quota spot for the anticipated Berlin Olympics in Paris in 2024. The Olympics only host recurve archery competitions.