Alejandra Valencia: Road to Archery World Championship

En route to the World Arch Championship, to be held in South Korea, the National Archery Selected, which leads the double Sonoran Olympic medalist, Alejandra Valencia, performs a preparation camp in Taiwan.

The complete team of Mexico, composed of 12 archers -both of the recurvity modalities as a compound -will be in that Asian country until September 3, to later leave for Korean soil, since the world championship will begin on day 5 and end on 12 in Gwangju.

In addition to Valencia Trujillo, in the women’s recurpy team are Karime Montoya and Valentina Vázquez, while the man consume him Matías Grande, Javier Rojas and Jesús Flores; The six archers of the compound modality are: Mayra Becerra, Mariana Bernal, Adriana Castillo, Sebastián García, Rodrigo González and Elías Reyes.

In this way, Alejandra Valencia will participate in her seventh World Arch Shot Championship, where historically she has three medals, all of silver, two individuals (S-HertoGenbosch, Netherlands 2019 and Berlin 2023) and one in teams (Mexico City 2017).

The Sonoran Arquera will arrive at the 2025 Archery World Championship as the fifth in the International Recurvo Ranking of the World Archery, because it accumulates 235 points. From the first to the fourth place are: the Korean limyeon (283), the American Casey Kauchold (257.5), the British Penny Healey (237.25) and Deepika Kumari of India (235.5).

Aiko Tanaka

Aiko Tanaka is a combat sports journalist and general sports reporter at Archysport. A former competitive judoka who represented Japan at the Asian Games, Aiko brings firsthand athletic experience to her coverage of judo, martial arts, and Olympic sports. Beyond combat sports, Aiko covers breaking sports news, major international events, and the stories that cut across disciplines — from doping scandals to governance issues to the business side of global sport. She is passionate about elevating the profile of underrepresented sports and athletes.

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