Mexican archers advance to the quarterfinals in Paris 2024

The Mexican archers are aiming excessive of their debut at Paris 2024. Alejandra Valencia, who’s in search of her second Olympic medal, Ana Paula Vázquez and Ángela Ruiz positioned third as groups within the archery qualifying spherical and earned a direct go to the quarterfinals.

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

Within the ladies’s particular person qualifying spherical, Valencia was one of the best positioned whereas Ana Paula Vázquez and Ángela Ruiz obtained their finest outcomes of the season. The outcomes thus allowed them to safe direct passage to the staff quarter-finals.

Valencia, bronze medallist at Tokyo 2020, improved his preliminary efficiency along with his throws and took eighth place total with a complete of 669 factors, whereas Vázquez completed in twentieth place with 659 factors. Ruiz, a 17-year-old junior, took twenty fourth place with 658 factors.

Within the singles elimination matches to be held on July 31, Valencia will face American Jennifer Muciño-Ferrández; Vázquez will face German Charline Schwarz; and Ruiz will face British Bryony Pitman.

Within the staff competitors, Mexico completed third with 1,986 factors, solely surpassed by the Republic of Korea (2,046) and China (1,996). The tricolors will play the quarterfinals on July 28, with their opponents to be decided.

First world document in Paris

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

Lim’s sturdy efficiency boosted South Korea to the purpose the place it broke the Olympic document in ladies’s staff archery with 2,046 factors, surpassing the document of two,032 that the Asian nation set in Tokyo 2020.