Olympians Ruiz, Grande to fill host nation spots at World Cup Final

Angela Ruiz, Matias Grande and Sebastian Garcia will fill the host nation spots at the 2024 Hyundai Archery World Cup Final, joining Alejandra Valencia, Andrea Becerra and Dafne Quintero to represent Mexico on home soil at the season finale in Tlaxcala.

The host nation of each World Cup Final receives one invitation place per category, however both Becerra and Quintero qualified on points in the compound women’s event, reaching the maximum two per nation.

With Olympic Champions Kim Woojin and Lim Sihyeon now booking spots as Olympic wildcards rather than stage winners, Mauro Nespoli (Italy) and Sonoda Waka (Japan) join the recurve line-ups as the next eligible points qualifiers from the World Cup Ranking.

No further changes are expected in the line-up.

Nine of the 16 recurve archers competing in Tlaxcala climbed the podium at Paris 2024 – but noticeably absent from the roster is men’s runner-up Brady Ellison, who has failed to qualify for the World Cup Final for the first time since his debut at the event in 2010.

Defending circuit champions Marcus D’Almeida, Mathias Fullerton and Sara Lopez return to defend their titles. The current recurve women’s trophy holder, Kang Chae Young, did not make the Korean team in 2023.

Lopez has won the World Cup Final a record eight times.

Kim Woojin and Mike Schloesser sit joint-third in the all-time leaderboard with four trophies, behind Lopez and Ellison, who has five.

The 2024 Hyundai Archery World Cup Final takes place on 19-20 October in Tlaxcala, Mexico.