Alejandra Valencia Trujillo (born 17 October 1994) is a Mexican

archer 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 mo ...

Career

She won two gold medals the

2011 Pan American Games The 2011 Pan American Games, officially the XVI Pan American Games, was an international multi-sport event that was held from October 14–30, 2011, in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Some events were held in the nearby cities of Ciudad Guzmán, ...

— women's team and women's individual. She won bronze at 2011 World Archery Youth Championships recurve cadet women's individual.

Olympic Games

Valencia competed both in

London 2012 The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

and in

Rio 2016 The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

. In

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, at the age of 17, she lost the 1/16 eliminations in the individual competition, while Mexico was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the women's team competition against Japan. In the 2016 Summer Olympics at

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, Valencia got all the way to the semi-finals, where she lost to German silver medalist

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 ...

. Valencia also lost the bronze medal match against gold medalist from London 2012

Ki Bo-Bae Ki Bo-bae (Hangul: 기보배; or ; born February 20, 1988) is a South Korean recurve archer and three-time Olympic gold medalist. She was the winner of the women's team and women's individual events at the 2012 Summer Olympics and of the wom ...

, which placed her in fourth place. In the team competition, Mexico once again was eliminated in the quarter-finals. She has qualified to represent Mexico at the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

, and has won the bronze medal together with Luis Álvarez in the first ever mixed archery event in the olympics. Two months later, she won the silver medal in the women's team event at the

2021 World Archery Championships The 2021 World Archery Championships was held from 20 to 26 September 2021 in Yankton, United States. Medals summary Recurve Compound Medals table References External links Results Book {{World Archery Championships World Archery Cha ...

held in Yankton, United States.

Personal life

Valencia's parents are Elizabeth Trujillo and Francisco Valencia. She is a fan of Japanese anime.

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