One would think that she is used to triumph, that nothing surprises her anymore, that the joy of victory is something normal for her: another day is the office.
However, the Colombian goalkeeper Sara Lopez He cried with emotion when he took the first place on the podium at the World Cup. Archery which took place this weekend in the Mexican state of Tlaxcala, located east of Mexico City.
López, 29, won his ninth world title in compound bow (a non-Olympic form). With that, she confirmed herself as the best archer in history by shooting the element that has a scope and a pair of pulleys at the top and is smaller than the recurve bow, which is the one that athletes shoot in the Olympics.
The Colombian anthem played and Sara half-sang it. The excitement of winning their ninth World Cup final organized byr Wolrd Archerythe international sports federation, overwhelmed it.
Perhaps it was because in the first sets of the final duel against the Estonian Meeri-Marita Paas, López was not precise: she ended up down on the scoreboard. However, he turned the result around in the final rounds of the match. In the end, with a perfect shot, they won 147-146.
“I don’t really know what happened to that last arrow. I think I shot it without even thinking. It was only when I heard Jean (coach) yell 10, “I realized that I had hit the center of the target,” commented the Pereira athlete after the victory.
But López’s melancholy could have been due to something else. When asked if he would go for his 10th title next year, he said he didn’t know. The most successful archer in Colombia stated that she is not sure if she will continue competing in outdoor shooting or if she will definitively transition to doing so in closed spaces (Indoor). “My goal is to focus more on that. Maybe next year I’ll look for another title… To be honest, I don’t know if I’ll get it.”
López has competed in the archery world championships since 2012. The first time he participated he was 17 years old. Her debut as world champion came in 2014. That time she won the final that was held in Lausanne, Switzerland.
His legend became bigger when he won the finals of Mexico City 2015, Rome 2017, Samsung 2018, Moscow 2019, Yakton 2021, Tlaxcala 2022 and Hermosillo 2023. In his record he also has 5 gold medals in the world championship, 2 in World Games, 2 in Pan American Games, 3 in Central American Games, 6 in South American Games and 11 in Bolivarian Games.
