Mexico announces home country line-up for 2023 World Cup Final

Mexico has announced Olympic medallist Alejandra Valencia, World Games Champion Miguel Becerra, world number 12 Dafne Quintero and 19-year-old Matias Grande as its home nation representatives at the 2023 Hyundai Archery World Cup Final in Hermosillo.

One of the eight spots in each of the four championship competitions is traditionally reserved for the host country.

No Mexican archer qualified for the World Cup Final outright in 2023 – but the four archers selected finished highest in the circuit rankings. Quintero was closest, coming sixth in the compound women’s list and only one place away from a points invite.

Valencia, who won an historic silver medal for Mexico at the world championships this year, will likely draw the largest crowd at the season-ending event. Hermosillo is the 28-year-old world number eight’s hometown.

Thirty-two athletes qualify to compete at the Hyundai Archery World Cup Final each season: the winners of the four stages, three on ranking and one representing the host country. The winner of the event in 2023 will receive the Hyundai Archery World Cup trophy and a record 30,000 CHF in direct prize money.

Now at the end of its 17th season, the international circuit will visit Mexico for a fourth total – and second consecutive – grand final in Hermosillo. The event took place in Tlaxcala at the end of 2022, Mexico City in 2015 and Merida in the inaugural season, 2006.

Competition at the 2023 Hyundai Archery World Cup Final takes place on 9-10 September in Hermosillo, Mexico.

Mexico at Hermosillo 2023

• Recurve men: Matias Grande, Mexico
• Recurve women: Alejandra Valencia, Mexico
• Compound men: Miguel Becerra, Mexico
• Compound women: Dafne Quintero, Mexico