Gabriela Schloesser ( Bayardo, born 18 February 1994) is a Mexican-born Dutch recurve

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from

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who represented

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before 2016, and has represented the

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since 2017. In 2021, Schloesser and Steve Wijler won the silver medal in the mixed team event at the

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in Tokyo, Japan.

Career

She competed for Mexico in the

archery competition Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In m ...

at the 2016 Summer Olympics in

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, reaching the second round before being eliminated by

Lisa Unruh Lisa Unruh (born 12 April 1988) is a German athlete who competes in recurve archery. Unruh represented Germany at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro winning the silver medal. Her Silver medal was the first individu ...

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. Following the mandatory break of 12 months in international competition for athletes switching national representation, Schloesser made her debut as a Dutch archer at the third stage of the Archery World Cup in June 2018. In June 2019, partnered with

Sjef van den Berg Sjef van den Berg (born 14 April 1995) is a retired Dutch competitive archer. He has won a total of two medals (a silver in the individual recurve and a bronze for the Dutch team) at the 2015 European Games, and eventually finished fourth in th ...

, Schloesser won silver medal in the mixed recurve event at the Archery World Championships in

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, losing to the South Korean duo of Lee Woo-seok and Kang Chae-young in the final. Later that month at the

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held in

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, Bayardo secured a qualification place for the

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after reaching the semi-finals, becoming the first female Dutch archer to achieve an Olympic spot since 1996. Although she lost to

Tatiana Andreoli Tatiana Andreoli (born 1 January 1999) is an Italian recurve archer. At the 2019 European Games held in Minsk, Belarus, she won the gold medal in the women's individual recurve event. At the 2018 European Archery Championships in Legnica, Pol ...

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in their semi-final match, Schloesser claimed bronze medal after defeating Russia's Anna Balsukova in the third-place match. On 23 May 2021, she paired with Sjef van den Berg to claim gold medal in the recurve mixed team event during the

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defeating the Bangladeshi duo of Diya Siddique and Ruman Shana in the final. Schloesser and

Rick van der Ven Rick van der Ven (born 14 April 1991, in Oss) is a Dutch archer who started to practise archery at the age of 8. In 2009 at the World Junior Championship in Ogden, Utah Rick was the runner-up with a silver medal. In 2011 at the World Junior C ...

won the gold medal in the mixed team recurve event at the

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held in Munich, Germany. She represented the Netherlands at the

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held in Birmingham, United States.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schloesser, Gabriela Mexican female archers Dutch female archers Living people Place of birth missing (living people) 1994 births Archers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic archers for Mexico Olympic archers for the Netherlands Sportspeople from Tijuana Archers at the 2019 European Games Archers at the 2023 European Games European Games medalists in archery European Games bronze medalists for the Netherlands World Archery Championships medalists Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in archery Mexican people of Dutch descent Competitors at the 2022 World Games Competitors at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Mexico Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in archery