Mexican archers dominate at 2025 World Cup

Mexico swept the archetypal signifier of the 2025 Archery World Cup Series successful Florida past week, winning six medals.

Their occurrence follows Mexico’s historical bronze medal triumph astatine the 2024 Paris Olympics by its first-ever women’s Olympic archery team, and allowed archers Alejandra Valencia, Maya Becerra and Sebastián García to ascent the planetary rankings.

After winning metallic successful Florida, two-time Olympic medalist Alejandra Valencia, from Sonora, roseate to 3rd spot successful the women’s recurve category, with 263 points, placing her conscionable 6.25 points down Casey Kaufhold of the United States. 

Maya Becerra of Jalisco present ranks 2nd successful women’s compound rankings with 325.5 points, pursuing her World Cup golden medal. Her decision of American archer Olivia Dean successful the singles last made Becerra a satellite champion for the 2nd time. She presently sits  0.75 points down the satellite fig one, Britain’s Ella Gibson.

In the men’s competition, Sebastián García, of Coahuila, won silver, placing him successful the Men’s Compound Top 10 for the archetypal time, successful ninth, with 188 points. 

Rodrigo González, of Aguascalientes, came 5th successful the idiosyncratic Olympic round, narrowly missing a medal. 

García, González and Luis Lezama placed 5th successful the squad contention implicit well-known archery powers, including South Korea, the United States and France. The trio demonstrated synchronicity and method proficiency passim the competition. 

The women’s team, consisting of Becerra, Dafne Quintero and Mariana Bernal, defeated Italy 232-225 successful the final. The archers maintained accordant scores passim the lucifer contempt the sunny and windy upwind conditions. 

The 2nd World Cup of the twelvemonth runs May 6-11 successful Shanghai, China.

A nationalist squad connected the rise. (World Archer)

Mexico: The rising prima of the archery world 

In the 2024 Paris Olympics, Alejandra Valencia, Ana Paula Vázquez and Ángela Ruiz took location bronze, making it the first-ever Mexican women’s archery squad to triumph an Olympic medal. 

It was besides the fourth-ever Olympic medal for Mexican archers. Previously, Valencia and Luis Álvarez won a bronze successful Mixed Team Archery astatine the 2020 Tokyo Games, portion Aída Román won silver, and Mariana Avitia won bronze successful the Women’s Individual Archery lawsuit astatine the 2012 London Games.

With reports from La Jornada Maya and El Sol del Centro