Alicia Marín Martínez (born 17 April 1997 in

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) is a Spanish recurve

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. She has competed for Spain at the

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, the

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, and the

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, winning a bronze medal in the latter in

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Career

2014-2016

Marín competed in her first senior tournament in 2014 at the European Outdoor Championships in

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, defeating Russia's Inna Stepanova in the bronze medal match to earn her maiden senior archery medal. In 2015 Marín was selected to compete in three events at the inaugural

held in

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in June. She won a bronze medal in the women's individual competition, reaching the semi-finals after finishing the 72-arrow round in nineteenth place. A loss to Denmark's

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in the semi-finals relegated her to the bronze medal match, where she defeated

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of Greece to claim the final position on the podium. Marín's participation in her two other events however proved less successful. The women's team event saw Marín and her teammates

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and Miriam Alarcón eliminated in the first round to

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, while the progress of her partnership with Miguel Alvarino Garcia in the mixed team competition event stalled at the quarter-finals with a loss to

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. The

held in

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in July also brought little success, with Marín suffering an opening round defeat in the individual competition after failing to resist a comeback from Japan's Yuki Hayashi. Marín began 2016 with successes on the national stage, breaking the Spanish record for a 30-arrow round and the European record for the 18-metre round at the Spanish Archery Championships in Torremolinos in February. She however narrowly missed out on qualifying for the

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held later in the year. One of two Spaniards to reach the quarter-finals of the final Olympic qualification tournament, which allocated the final six positions available for the women's individual event, she was defeated by

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of Moldova in straight sets. The single position open to Spain went to Adriana Martín, who traveled to

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as the sole female Spanish archer.

2017-2019

Marín started the 2017 season strongly, winning her first

medal at the tournament's second stage in Antalya. Alongside Pablo Acha she defeated the United States in the mixed team event's third-place match to win bronze medal, a result that Marín admitted was "not the goal but it happened, so we were definitely more than happy with it". She followed her medal with a fourth-placed finish in the women's individual event at the third stage hosted in Salt Lake City, defeating 2012 Olympic medalist

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before losing to 2016 Olympic medalists Tan Ya-ting in the semi-finals and

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in the bronze medal match. Her performances allowed her to qualify for her maiden Archery World Cup final in Rome, where she was defeated by Russia's

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, the world number two, in the quarter-finals. The

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was a successful tournament for Spain's team of archers, with each member achieving a medal result. Marín earned a silver medal in the women's team event with Mónica Galisteo and Nerea López, the trio losing to France in the final. One year later, Marín suffered another first round defeat at the World Archery Championships' women's individual event in June, losing to Elizabeth Bidaure of the Philippines. She fared little better in the women's team event, the trio of Marín, Elia Canales, and Mónica Galisteo defeating Vietnam in the opening round but faced what '' Marca'' called the "theoretically unbeatable" South Korea in the second round. Later that month at the

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, Marín finished thirteenth in the ranking round and was paired with Denmark's

in her first elimination match. In a repeat of their semi-final at the 2015 European Games, Jager proved stronger and defeated Marín by six set points to four, Marín failing to maintain her performance from the ranking round.

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