Con 20 years of experience in archery and with him goal of getting on a Pan American podium for the third time, Alejandra Valencia is shaping up to be the great figure of Mexico in the Santiago Games 2023.
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Born in Hermosillo, SonoraOctober 17, 1994, Alejandra Valencia fell in love with archery at the age of eightfortuitously, a day in which He was with Margarita (his younger sister) in a velodrome riding a bicycle.
Margarita fell from the bicycle and while she was being attended to, Alejandra set her sights on the archery practice range. Seeing the girl absorbed in that sport, coach Miguel Ángel Flores (her current coach) invited her to practice.
They are first national competition happened in 2003 and three years later won his first medal, bronze in the National Olympiad Children and Youth.
I don’t consider archery as a sport, but as part of me. Furthermore, I never imagined traveling to other countries, that I would be in different parts of the world thanks to this sport,” Valencia said.
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ALEJANDRA VALENCIA WANTS TO EXPAND HER MEDAL COLLECTION
Those its international debut in 2009 and its first awards began to arrive the following year with the silver medal by teams in the Central American and Caribbean Games of Mayagüez 2010.
Four years later in the 2014 Central American Games in Veracruz he won gold and silver and in Barranquilla 2018 won three golds in individual and team events.
In Pan American Games climbed to the top of the podium twice in Guadalajara 2011in Toronto 2015 won silver and Lima 2019 won three medalsone of each metal.
After participating in the London 2012 and Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic GamesValencia finally achieved a medal in Tokyo 2020: bronze in the mixed mode.
In 2023, Valencia has had an outstanding year: was triple champion in the Central American Games in San Salvadorin it world Championship celebrated on Berlin won silver and bronze, in the World Cup Final was runner-up and achieved for Mexico the pass to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
This year the Pan American Games are missing, but what we were looking for was qualification for the Olympic Games,” commented Valencia, who aspires to win three medals in Paris 2024: individual, team and mixed.
Currently, Valencia occupies fourth place in the ranking of the World Archery Federation (recurve), although it climbed to third place in 2017.
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