The delegation of GUATEMALA ARCH achieved an outstanding participation in the Merengue Cup 2025played from June 18 to 22 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The national team conquered a total of Four medals y 12 classification places For the Central American and Caribbean Games 2026. What a Chilero!
Arch of Guatemala shone in the Merengue Cup 2025
Despite facing high -level teams such as Mexico and Colombiathe arc of Guatemala competed in Eight modalities different and managed to get on the podium four times.
Silver and National Record Medals
The first medal for the Arch of Guatemala arrived in the category RECURVO FOR Women’s Teamsthanks to the outstanding performance of Cinthya Pellecer, Marcela Enriquez and Sara Stahlwho beat Puerto Rico 5-1 in the quarterfinals, 5-3 to Mexico in the semifinals and fell to Colombia 0-6 in the grand final.
The silver medal was for the team Mixed compound arcmade up of Julio Barillas and Danica Barrerawho also achieved a New national record. The duo defeated Peru (155-145), Colombia (156-154) and El Salvador (158-154), and fell into a final very close to Mexico by 155-158.
Double bronze for Thomas Flossbach
The goalkeeper Thomas Flossbach He was the protagonist when conquering Two bronze medals. The Guatemalan won two bronzes, one in individual and one in mixed teams next to Marcela Enriquezin the recurvo arc modality.
Flossbach beat the Dominican Juan Rosario 6-0 in First Round, then exceeded Daniel Catariz de Trinidad and Tobago 6-4. In the round of 16 he defeated Santiago Arcila de Colombia 7-1; In the rooms he beat Camerin Pickering from Bermudas 6-2. Then he fell against the Colombian Jorge Enriquez and won the bronze duel against Mexianco Carlos Rojas 6-4.
The second bronze obtained it next to Marcela Enriquez in it Recurvo Mixed Teamafter beating the Virgin Islands (6-2), Puerto Rico (6-0), losing in semifinals against Colombia (4-5) and overcoming Cuba (5-4) in the bronze dispute.
Rumbo to Santo Domingo 2026
The Merengue Cup gave a total of 64 places for the next edition of the Games, while another 12 were assigned to the Dominican Republic for hosting. The remaining 40 places will be defined in a second qualifying tournament.
In addition to the medals, Guatemala assured 12 classification places For the Central American and Caribbean Games 2026. Six were obtained in compound arc (3 female and 3 male) and six in recurve (3 female and 3 male), all won in team tests.
Importance of the merengue cup
This tournament is key to Arch of Central America and the Caribbean athletes, since it represents a direct opportunity to classify to classify the next edition of the Central American and Caribbean Games, which will be held next year in Santo Domingo. In addition, this competition marked the official start of the qualifying process towards the 2026 edition of these games.
General medal
Mexico and Colombia were confirmed at the top of the general medallero, being considered as powers of the archery of the region. Between the two nations they reaped 18 of the 30 medals that were at stake.
- Mexico 5 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze in total 10 medals
- Colombia 3 gold., 2 silver, 2 bronze in total 8 medals
- Puerto Ricor 1 gold, 0 silver, 2 bronze in total 3 medals
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