Mexico will close the year 2025 in the top 5 of the world ranking from at least four disciplines sports: walking, cycling, archery and flag football.
The first three correspond to individual merits, thanks to figures such as Alegna González, Isaac Del Toro and Andrea Becerrawhile flag football is for group performance of the senior women’s and men’s teams.
Alegna González was the most recent to join that select group, after placing second in the 20 kilometer running ranking with 1,322 points, only behind the Spanish María Pérez with 1,359.
The native of Chihuahua stood out this year by being a silver medalist in the World Athletics Championships de TokioJapan, held from September 13 to 21.
Almost a year earlier, he stood out by finishing in the top 5 in their discipline at the Olympic Games of Paris, the same result he obtained in the nascent mixed marathon relay event.
All these merits allowed him to win the National Sports Award (PND) 2025 in the non-professional sports category, which he shared with the archer Andrea Becerra, the diver Osmar Olvera and the shot putter Uziel Muñoz.
Andrea Becerra is precisely another of the athletes who puts Mexico at the top of a sports ranking at the end of 2025.
The one born in Guadalajara 25 years ago is the leader of the world classification in women’s compound bow with 378 points, according to the most recent update of the World Archery website. They are followed by Jyothi Vennam, from India, with 321.75 and Ella Gibson, from Great Britain, with 300.
Becerra had an unprecedented year on an individual level. He won gold medals in the first stage of the World Cup Series in the United States, in the World Championship in South Korea and in the World Games in China.
“I have a lot of nostalgia and very beautiful feelings. It was the best year of my career, so I am very happy and excited. I think 2025 will be unforgettable, because it exceeded all my expectations,” the goalkeeper confessed to the site of the National Commission of Physical Culture and Sports (CONADE).
“I would tell the new generations to never give up. I know that there are very difficult situations that athletes go through, especially in mental health, but we can get out of all of them and the best results are just around the corner.”
Archery is a discipline in which Mexico has established itself as a power in recent years. The clearest evidence is the four medals won in the Olympic Games between the London 2012 and Paris 2024 editions.
In sync with this, at the end of 2025 the positions of Mariana Bernal and Matías Grande in the classifications of World Archery.
With 234 points, Bernal is fifth in the women’s compound bow ranking, which is led by Andrea Becerra, while Grande is third in men’s recurve bow with 284 points, only behind the American Brady Ellison with 377.5 and the Brazilian Marcus D’Almeida with 372.
Another athlete who stands out for Mexico on an individual level is Isaac Del Toro, confirmed as one of the great references of cycling in 2025.
Del Toro, a native of Baja California, occupies third place in the world road ranking of the International Cycling Union (UCI) with 5,664 points, which puts him behind only the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar with 11,680 and the Dane Jonas Vingegaard with 5,944.14.
What stands out is that 2025 was only Isaac’s second year as a professional, belonging to the UAE Team Emirates, like Pogacar.
The difference in experiences is noticeable on the UCI road ranking podium. Pogacar was champion of the Tour de France and Vingegaard of the Vuelta a España in 2025. In addition, both made their debut in the cycling elite since 2019.
Despite this, the Mexican won 18 victories in all of 2025 and finished in the top 3 28 times, in addition to being deputy leader of the general classification in the Giro d’Italia, one of the three majors in cycling. This allowed him to place himself on the ranking podium at the end of the year and win the PND 2025 in the professional sports category.
Group shine
At the group level, flag football was the most prominent in Mexican sports in terms of rankings. The senior women’s team managed to place itself, for the first time in history, at the top of the classification of the International American Football Federation (IFAF).
This was due to the two gold medals he won this year: the one at the World Games in China and the one at the Continental Championship in Panama.
Mexico took the lead with 10,987 points, while the senior men’s team was in third place with 6,871, only behind the United States with 7,915 and Austria with 7,109.
Other special mentions at the group level are for the under-17 women’s soccer team and the senior men’s and women’s baseball teams.
In the case of soccer, El Tri obtained third place in the Under 17 World Cup held in Morocco between October and November. They beat Brazil in a penalty shootout in the so-called consolation final and achieved the second best result in their history, after the runner-up finish in 2018.
Regarding baseball, Mexico occupies sixth place in the world ranking in both the men’s and women’s branches, with 3,605 and 741 points, respectively.
El Tri could improve its men’s position in the first half of next year with the celebration of the World Classic, in which it will seek to improve the third place obtained in 2023 and which, for now, is its highest historical result.
