Archers begin Mexican exercise on the proper foot

Mexico Metropolis. Alejandra Valencia goes from whole focus to jubilation to tears in a matter of minutes. The transition of feelings is a mirrored image of the hassle made by each her and the remainder of the archery workforce that seeks to provide Mexico one other Olympic medal, now in Paris 2024.

The nationwide delegation started its exercise yesterday within the Parisian competitors with the participation of the archers, which raised the opportunity of a medal after Valencia, Ana Paula Vázquez and Ángela Ruiz superior on to the quarterfinals within the girls’s workforce occasion.

The tricolors have been positioned third general with 1,986 factors and have been solely surpassed by South Korea, which obtained 2,046 items, and China, which registered 1,996 factors. The duel for the go to the semifinals shall be on July 28, though for now they must wait to seek out out if their rival shall be Nice Britain or Germany.

The result’s important for Mexico, however particularly for Valencia, who’s aiming to win her second consecutive Olympic medal after profitable bronze at Tokyo 2020.

We’re right here to combat for a medal, we would like that, we have been capable of get into the highest 4 (as a workforce) and that provides us a bye within the first spherical. If I’m crying it’s due to the emotion of understanding that my teammates have been additionally there.Valencia stated by way of tears.

Crying and tranquility

The crying really meant aid, for the reason that Sonoran had issues in the beginning of the competitors and was capable of rectify her path shortly after with the help of her teammates.

Valencia may also have one other likelihood to win the medal, as along with Matías Grande she certified for the spherical of 16 within the combined workforce with a complete of 1,345 factors collectively. Each have been champions on the Yecheon 2024 World Cup and can face Brazilians Marcus D’Almeida and Ana Luiza Caetano on August 2.

It’s confirmed that as a combined workforce we’re united, robust, we preserve good scores and we’re completely happy. Alejandra and I’ve quite a lot of communication, that may assist us in any situation.stated Grande, runner-up on the 2023 Pan American Video games.

Archery has change into probably the most essential sports activities for Mexico since Aída Román received silver and Mariana Avitia bronze in London 2012. The nation’s third medal got here in Tokyo 2020, with Valencia and Luis Álvarez within the combined workforce occasion.

Now, each the native of Sonora and the remainder of the tricolor workforce superior individually to the spherical of 16 after the primary spherical of qualifying.

Valencia was one of the best positioned, ending in eighth place general with 669 factors, whereas Vázquez and Ruiz achieved their finest marks of the season.

Vázquez completed in twentieth place with 659 factors and Ruiz, a 17-year-old junior, took twenty fourth place with 658.

The subsequent spherical shall be on July 31, when Valencia will face the American Jennifer Muciño-Ferrnández, Vázquez the German Charline Schwarz and Ruiz the British Bryony Pitman.

In the meantime, Grande completed in eleventh place general with 676 factors, Bruno Martínez shot for 653 (forty fourth place) and Carlos Rojas for 643 (fifty fifth place), so the lads’s workforce gathered 1,972 factors.

The tricolors completed in ninth place general and can face Japan within the spherical of 16 on July 29.

First report in Paris

A shock got here within the archery qualifiers when 21-year-old Korean Lim Sihyeon broke the world report by scoring 694 factors. The earlier mark was held by her compatriot Chayeoung Kang, who racked up 692 in 2019.

Sihyeon’s robust efficiency boosted South Korea to such an extent that it allowed it to interrupt the Olympic report for ladies’s workforce archery with 2,046 factors, surpassing the report of two,032 that the Asian nation set in Tokyo 2020.

Though some sports activities similar to archery, soccer and rugby 7 have began with the qualifiers, the official opening ceremony of Paris 2024 shall be this Friday at midday (Mexico time), the place the diver Alejandra Orozco and the pentathlete Emiliano Hernández would be the flag bearers of the tricolor delegation.

As an alternative of the normal path to a stadium, some 6,800 athletes will parade aboard greater than 90 boats alongside a six-kilometer route on a rehabilitated River Seine.