Mexico City.- With an outstanding performance in the qualifying rounds, the national compound archery teams of Mexico opened the activities on the second date of the 2024 World Cup Series, held in Yecheon, South Korea.
Dafne Quintero, Maya Becerra, Esmeralda Sánchez, Sebastián García, Juan Del Río and Máximo Méndez competed in individual, team and mixed group events, successfully passing the qualifying rounds to advance to the elimination phase.
Quintero was classified in ninth place with 704 points, Becerra in fourteenth with 702 points and Sánchez in twenty-sixth with 690 points. The first two managed to automatically advance to the first duels, while Sánchez will face Nhu Nguyen, from Vietnam, for his place in the round of 32.
Together, the three Mexicans secured fourth place overall and went directly to the quarterfinals, where they will face the Turkish Hazal Burun, Ayse Suzer and Begum Yuva.
In the men’s division, García, Del Río and Méndez will start from the round of 64 in the individual event, facing the Frenchman Victor Bouleau, the Slovenian Tim Jevsnik and the Italian Elia Fregnan respectively. As a team, they will play the round of 16 against the French Bouleau, Nicolas Girard and Adrien Gontier.
Dafne Quintero and Sebastián García joined forces to obtain fifth place overall in mixed teams, facing the Filipinos Amparo Cojuangco and Johan Olano in their first elimination match.
The Mexican compound bow specialists will take to the shooting range on the second day of actions to face the group qualifiers, while the recurve bow specialists will do the same for the classification in the three events (individual, teams and mixed teams).
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2024-05-22 18:35:49
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