The goalkeeper from Hermosillo Alejandra Valencia continues to position herself among the world elite of her sport and on this occasion, due to the tremendous 2023 she had, where she finished as the second best ranked in her specialty worldwide, which is why she was the winner of the award for the “Best Archer of the American Continent” in the women’s recurve modality.
This year Alejandra won a silver medal at the 2023 Berlin World Championships, she also won the silver at the 2023 Archery World Cup based in Hermosillo, in addition to the Gold medal at the Pan American Games held in Chile , with which she undoubtedly signed her best year as a professional goalkeeper.
That is why the World Archey Americas, which is based in Medellín, Colombia, named Valencia Trujillo as the most outstanding archer of 2023 in her specialty, since with this year’s Pan American medal she became the first archer in win top honors in said competition for the third time.
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In the same way, he added his second consecutive gold medal in the Central American and Caribbean Games, in the edition held in El Salvador, demonstrating his level and the hegemony that he is already exercising in regards to this part of the world, since his The biggest competitors are on the other side of the world, in the east, with the Chinese and Korean competitors.
In addition, this 2024 is an Olympic year and will represent the fourth Olympics in Alejandra’s career, since she debuted at just 17 years old in London 2012, then she went to Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and in 2020 in Tokyo she was finally able to get on the podium obtaining for Mexico the bronze medal, so it will seek to surpass all of the above in this new edition to be held in Paris.
Mexican archery was also decorated
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On this occasion, not only Sonora monopolized the spotlight with Alejandra Valencia, but Mexican archery in general, as Miguel Ángel Flores Castañeda was chosen as the “Coach of the Continent 2023”, in the recurve bow category, due to the great results achieved by the last year at the head of the Mexican women’s team of that modality.
In total, the World Archery Americas rewarded six Mexicans with this nomination, since in addition to Valencia Trujillo and Flores Castañeda, they awarded Dafne Quintero (Senior Women’s Compound), Ángela Ruiz (U18 Women’s Youth Recurve) and Matías Grande (U18 Women’s Recurve) for their performances. Men’s U21), in addition, coach Sandra Loza (Men’s Recurve U21) was recognized for her contribution to the development of archery on the continent.
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2024-01-26 23:03:46
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