Alejandra Usquiano, Colombian archera.
Photo: Raul Bravo/Santiago 2023 Via Photosport – Raul Bravo/Santiago 2023 Via Photosport
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The Colombian Arch team finished its participation in the Gwangju World Championship, South Korea, with a highlight in the compound modality thanks to Alejandra Usquiano, who hung the bronze medal in the individual test.
The outstanding archera won in the dispute for third place to India Kaur Parneet for 145-144, after a solid road in which she surpassed Islandia rivals, China Taipéi, Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkey, falling only into semifinals against Mexican Andrea Becerra.
Thus he went to Colombia in the other modalities
In Arc Recurvo, Colombia closed on Wednesday, September 10 with the presentations of Santiago Arcila and Jorge Enriquez. The latter advanced to the second round after overcoming the Slovenian Oskar Zavasnik in a tight Shoot-Off (9-8) after the 5-5 draw, but was eliminated by Chilean Andrés Gallardo in another tiebreaker. Arcila, on the other hand, said goodbye in the first round at 2-6 in front of the American Trenton Cowles.
The modality of Male teams resorted to Andrés Hernández, Jorge Enríquez and Santiago Arcila, who had historically classified Colombia to the Olympic Games of Paris 2024. In Gwangju, the triplet ended 19th in the qualifying round with 1965 points, but fell in the first round in front of Spain by marker 3-5. In the individual rounds, Enriquez was the best located with the 22nd position, followed by Arcila (58) and Hernández (115).
In the masculine compound arch, Daniel Muñoz advanced to Second Round after overcoming the Kazajo Mussa Dilmukhamet by 148-143, but was later eliminated by the American Curtis Broadnax (147-149). In the qualifying round, Muñoz occupied box 55 with 697 points.
Together with Usquiano, he also competed in the mixed team, where the national pair was eliminated in the first round against Brazil for just one point (153-154).
In this way, the National Delegation closed its performance in the Arch World Cup with a bronze medal, showing advances both in recurvo and compound and confirming the competitive level of figures such as Alejandra Usquiano and Daniel Muñoz, together with the generation of Olympic archers led by Enriquez, Arcila and Hernández.
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