Luis Antonio Álvarez Murillo (born 13 April 1991, in

Mexicali Mexicali (; ) is the capital city of the Mexican state of Baja California. The city, seat of the Mexicali Municipality, has a population of 689,775, according to the 2010 census, while the Calexico–Mexicali metropolitan area is home to 1,000,0 ...

), also known as El Abuelo (The Grandfather), is a Mexican athlete who competes in archery. Álvarez was selected as a member of the Mexican male archery team to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics at

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, after winning the 2012 Archery World Cup in Ogden, United States. This was the first Olympic games for the Mexican archer.2012 World Cup Results
, www.archery.org, ret: 24 July 2012 At the 2012 Olympics, in the men's individual event, he was ranked 30th after the ranking round. He then beat Yavor Khristov in the first elimination round, before being beaten by eventual gold medallist

Oh Jin-Hyek Oh Jin-hyek ( ko, 오진혁; , Hanja: 吳真爀; born 15 August 1981) is a South Korean archer. Oh first competed for the Korean national team in 1999, but did not win a major individual international tournament un ...

in the second round. In the men's team event, Mexico beat Malaysia and France before losing to Italy in the semifinal. Mexico lost out on the bronze medal, losing the bronze medal match to South Korea 215–219. He won the bronze medal with

Alejandra Valencia Alejandra Valencia Trujillo (born 17 October 1994) is a Mexican archer. Career She won two gold medals the 2011 Pan American Games — women's team and women's individual. She won bronze at 2011 World Archery Youth Championships recurve cadet ...

in the inaugural archery mixed team event 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 1 ...

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