If the Olympic Games started tomorrow, Andrea Becerra would be the main favorite to win gold medal in compound archery, a modality of this discipline absent in past editions but included in the next sports event in Los Angeles in the mixed category. At 25 years old, the goalkeeper is in the top of the world ranking after having experienced a magical 2025.
Mexican archery has been an international reference for a long time. One of its most famous exponents, Alejandra Valencia, She is the queen of the recurve bow modality. In the case of Becerra, this year he showed that he has no rival within his specialty.
He competed in the World Games held in the Chinese city of Chengdu and won, together with Sebastián García in the mixed category, the silver medal. At the individual level, she won the gold after defeating the Estonian Lisell Jaatma. It was an abysmal leap in quality if you take into account that it was his second participation in said contest; When he first competed in Birmingham, Alabama, he settled for ninth individual position and fourth in the mixed couples competition.
Another important achievement for the one born in Guadalajara, in the company of Mariana Bernal and Adriana Castillo was winning the gold medal in the women’s team final of the Archery World Cup in Gwangju, South Korea, a nation from which the best archers in the world have emerged. It was the first time that a Mexican team of any modality and category celebrated on top of the podium within these international championships.
The one mentioned in the previous paragraph, Mariana Bernalalso ranks in the top 5 best female compound bow archers. In ascending order, the Colombian Alejandra Usquiano, the British Ella Gibson and the Indian Jyothi Surekha Vennam complete the last ranking.
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