Andrea Becerra closed its participation in the Gwangju Archery World Cup 2025 at the top of the podium. The Jalisco archer was proclaimed world champion in the women’s compound bow category, defeating the Salvadoran archer in the final Sofia Paiz.
It is the third medal for Becerra in this edition of the World Championship, after the historic gold medal he achieved in the team modality with Mariana Bernal y Adriana Castilloand the bronze he achieved in mixed with Sebastian Garcia.
Andrea Becerra thus conquered the last step that remained to be climbed. If she won the bronze medal at the 2021 World Cup, and two years ago in Berlin she won the silver medal, now she has finally won a gold medal that confirms her as the best compound archer in the world.
This gold is the culmination of a brilliant season in which Becerra also won two individual and two women’s team golds at the World Cup, and also a gold at the Chengdu World Games last month.
On a day marked by intense rain in Gwangju (Republic of Korea), Andrea Becerra dominated from the qualifiers, where she scored the best score with 712 points to be exempt from the first two rounds.
On her way to gold, the goalkeeper from Jalisco beat her teammate in the quarterfinals Mariana Bernal (148-147); defeated the Colombian in the semifinals Alejandra Usquiano (148-146); and in the final to the Salvadoran Sofia Paiz (147-146), the big surprise of the day.
Paiz, number 44 in the ranking, fell short of the title but won a historic silver medal, leaving behind three of the 20 best archers in the world ranking.
On a podium with a marked Latin accent, the bronze would go to Usquiano, who after three world golds in the team events (2013, 2017, 2021) won his first individual medal.
