Mexico wins gold at World Archery Championships

Mexico made past connected Sunday aft winning its first-ever golden medal astatine the World Archery Championships.  

The women’s team, made up of Maya Becerra, Mariana Bernal and Adriana Castillo, secured the triumph aft triumphing implicit the United States successful the final, held successful Gwangju, South Korea.

The Mexican squad defeated U.S. squad members Alexis Ruiz, Olivia Dean and Sydney Sullenberger with a last people of 236-231.  

The Mexican archers had to bushed respective teams earlier the final. They defeated France successful the circular of 16 successful a sudden-death match. They defeated Denmark 232-231 successful the quarterfinals. In the semifinals, they won against Kazakhstan, and successful the final, Maya Becerra closed retired the contention with a cleanable 10 changeable to unafraid the golden medal.

“I knew we were going to marque history, and I wanted to bash well,” Mariana Bernal said aft the victory. “I’ve felt truly beardown since this morning, and I’m precise happy. I truly wanted this for the full squad due to the fact that we’ve fought truthful hard for it, and I’m precise blessed to person achieved it.” 

Team Mexico has won 2 golden medals astatine World Cups (in Central Florida and Shanghai), successful summation to the Copa Merengue, which qualified the squad for the 2026 Central American Games successful Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

In summation to Sunday’s golden medal, Maya Becerra won a bronze medal successful the mixed squad lawsuit alongside Sebastián García aft dramatically beating Wei Chang and Jou Huang, of the Chinese Taipei team, with a last people of 158-157.

The World Archery Championships kicked disconnected Sept. 5 and volition tally done Sept. 12, combining qualification, heats and finals successful the recurve and compound categories. 

The Mexican delegation is made up of 12 archers participating successful assorted idiosyncratic and squad events. Next are Olympians Alejandra Valencia and Matías Grande’s turns to compete. Both person beardown medal prospects.

In Mexico, the World Archery Championships tin beryllium enjoyed unrecorded via Claro Sports.

With reports from Ámbito and ESPN