The women’s archery team composed of Aida Román, Alejandra Valencia y Angela Ruiz came back from the Netherlands team to take the bronze and the ticket to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
The Mexicans had an outstanding performance in the World Archery Championship held in Berlin, where they achieved up to four places for Mexico in the next Olympic Games, 3 individually and one per team.
The tricolor team fell early against the hosts in the semifinals. The Germans won 6-0, which forced the third mexicana to seek victory against the Dutch to get a place in the Olympic tournament.
Club Monterrey
Felipe Galindo
The team of Netherlands The duel began taking the first two points of the opening set, but the Mexicans would not be intimidated and would tie the score in the second round. Both thirds would divide points to reach equalized 3-3 to the last set where everything would be defined.
It was in the last round where Aida would bring out all her experience and leadership. On her first turn she rolled a 9 to lead the Europeans by a single point; then, after a dubious arrow from the young woman Angela Ruizwhich in the first instance had been marked as 8, Román was forced to roll a 9 to equal and 10 to win.
The olympic medalist She hit the 9 they needed to stay alive, but after Angela’s arrow was checked, the Mexican team ended up taking the victory, the bronze and one more ticket to Paris 2024.
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2023-08-04 07:00:00
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