Navnath Fartade shot to fame totaling 596 out of 600 points to win gold at the ISSF World Jr Shooting Championships in Zagreb, Croatia in 2006.

Thereafter, he won bronze at the 2006 Doha Asiad and gold at the SAF Games in Sri Lanka among other international achievements. In 2012, he was appointed as district sports officer in Kolhapur, and has recently been transferred to the DSO Mumbai city, where he plans to get back to shooting.