Archery at the 2015 Pan American Games – Women's individual

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Women's individual archery at the XVII Pan American Games
Archery pictogram.svg
Venue Varsity Stadium [1]
Dates14 – 18 July 2015
Competitors32 from 13 nations
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico
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The women's individual archery event at the 2015 Pan American Games was held from 14 to 18 July 2015 at the Varsity Stadium in Toronto, Canada. One of five archery events as part of the 2015 Pan American sporting programme, it was the tenth time the women's individual recurve competition had been contested at the Games. Thirty-two archers from thirteen nations qualified for the event.

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The defending champion from the 2011 Pan American Games was Alejandra Valencia of Mexico. As she had achieved four years previously, Valencia was seeded first following the 72-arrow ranking round but was unexpectedly defeated by Colombia's Maira Sepulveda in the 1/8 elimination round. Five-time Olympic athlete Khatuna Lorig of the United States emerged as champion, defeating Colombia's Ana Rendón in the final in four sets to take her first Pan American gold medal. [2] Valencia's Mexican teammates Aída Román and Karla Hinojosa contested the bronze medal match, Hinojosa defeating the 2012 Olympic silver medalist to take third place.

Background

An individual archery event for women has been a part of the Pan American Games programme since the sport's debut in 1979 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The United States was the dominant nation in terms of gold medals won in the event, and at the previous Pan American Games held in 2011 in Guadalajara, Mexico, Alejandra Valencia became the second archer from outside the United States to win the women's individual gold medal, following Yaremis Pérez Ruiz of Cuba in 1999. [3] [4] [note 1] Valencia's victory over the American Miranda Leek four years previously also marked the first Mexican win in a Pan American archery event. Her compatriot Aída Román won the bronze medal ahead of Venezuela's Leidys Brito. [3]

Qualification

There were thirty-two places available for the women's individual event, with the host nation Canada automatically receiving three spots. Qualification for the remaining twenty-nine positions took place over three tournaments: the Pan American Olympic Festival held in July 2014, the Pan American Championships in October 2014, and a final qualification round in March 2015. [5] [6] Eight nations (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, the United States, and Venezuela) also successfully qualified the maximum berth of three archers, with the Dominican Republic qualifying two and Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Guatemala qualifying one archer apiece. [7] [note 2]

Mexico selected the defending bronze medalist from the 2015 Pan American Games, and silver medalist from the 2012 Summer Olympics, Aída Román to spearhead their three-member team, with defending champion Alejandra Valencia and Karla Hinojosa rounding out the squad. [8] The United States entered a team of mixed experience, pairing five-time Olympian Khatuna Lorig alongside Ariel Gibilaro and La Nola Pritchard, who both made their Pan American Games debut. The head of the United States national archery organisation Denise Parker, herself the 1987 and 1991 Pan American Games individual women's champion, said 2015 represented a "season of change" in the United States archery team with the selection of newcomers in both the women's and men's teams. She however pointed to the a bronze medal won at the 2015 Archery World Cup stage held in Shanghai in May as proof of the women's potential for success. [9]

Georcy-Stéphanie Picard and Virginie Chénier were selected as part of the Canadian team after finishing first and second in the Canadian national trials, partnering Kateri Vrakking who finished third. [10] The 41-year old Vrakking, a five-time national champion, had been initially passed over as Canada's third entry with Archery Canada, the national archery organisation, instead selecting as their third representative nineteen year-old Shannon Davidson, who had finished fifth in the national trials. Following accusations of age discrimination, which Archery Canada denied, and threats of legal action, Davidson's selection was reversed and Vrakking was named to the team. [11] [12]

Yesenia Valencia was chosen to represent Guatemala at their maiden appearance at a Pan American Games women's archery event, having won a position in the final qualification round in March 2015. [13]

Format

Schedule

The Varsity Stadium at the University of Toronto hosted all the archery events of the 2015 Pan American Games. Archery2015pan.jpg
The Varsity Stadium at the University of Toronto hosted all the archery events of the 2015 Pan American Games.
DayDateTimeRound
Day 5Tuesday July 14, 201510:00Ranking round
Day 6Wednesday July 15, 201510:001/16 elimination round
11:001/8 elimination round
11:30Quarterfinals
Day 9Saturday July 18, 201510:00Semi-finals
11:29Bronze medal match
11:47Gold medal match
All times are North American Central Standard Time (UTC-06:00).
Source: [14]

Report

Pre-event

Prior to the beginning of the competition, Mexican sports newspaper Esto reported that reigning champion Alejandra Valencia expressed doubts that she would retain her title to become the first back-to-back Pan American female individual archery champion. Valencia stated instead that her target was simply to perform well and beat her own personal records. In preparation for the Games, the Mexican archery squad had pitted the women's team of Valencia, Aída Román and Karla Hinojosa against the men's team of Juan René Serrano, Luis Álvarez and Ernesto Boardman and held practice rounds in the rain. [15] Román, who had been named by Mexican news agency Notimex as the world's best archer of 2014, aimed to improve on her bronze medal achievement in Guadalajara four years earlier. [16]

Ranking round

The event commenced with the ranking round on the morning of 14 July amid spells of light rain and gusts of wind. Alejandra Valencia topped the ranking round for the second Pan American Games in a row, heading the table on 655 points. [17] Fellow Mexican Aída Román finished in second with an identical score of 655 points, but was seeded second after shooting one fewer arrow inside the central 10 ring. Khatuna Lorig and Karla Hinojosa both tied on 651 points to rank third and fourth respectively.

Kateri Vrakking was the highest scoring Canadian archer, finishing with the 14th seed on 612 points. [12] Vrakking's teammates Georcy-Stéphanie Picard and Virginie Chenier were not far behind, ending the round 15th and 18th respectively and setting up an all-Canadian tie in the first elimination round. Vrakking expressed satisfaction with her performance, stating she was feeling confident ahead of the knock-out rounds after finding her rhythm. She added that she was unperturbed by the intermittent drizzle or the home crowd in attendance, which Justin Skinner of the Toronto newspaper The City Centre Mirror described as "sizeable" despite the weather. [18]

Elimination rounds

Canada's Georcy-Stephanie Picard was eliminated in the 1/8 round by Aida Roman of Mexico. Georcy Pan am.jpg
Canada's Georcy-Stéphanie Picard was eliminated in the 1/8 round by Aída Román of Mexico.

Cool and windy conditions continued into the morning of 15 July, which proved challenging for many of the archers. Khatuna Lorig began by defeating Elena Abullerade in the opening round, ending El Salvador's participation in the event. [19] Argentina's trio of Ximena Mendiberry, Fernanda Faisal, and Florencia Lenhold Juárez were all also eliminated in the first round. [20] In the all-Canadian affair between Picard and Chenier, Picard came back from two sets down to force and ultimately win the subsequent one-arrow shoot-off, placing her arrow in the 8-ring to Chenier's attempt in the 7-ring. As the two both belonged to the same archery club and shared the same coach, Chenier described the match as "like training, but with a little more people and more nervousness". Despite her loss, Chenier expressed satisfaction with her shooting, and the pair's coach Sylvain Cadieux praised their performances, saying they each knew what to expect from one another and that he was pleased that the match came down to a shoot-off. [21]

The 1/8 elimination round, the second knock-out round of the competition, began with top seed Valencia losing in five sets to Colombia's Maira Sepulveda, who finished 16th in the ranking round, while Valencia's Mexican teammates Román and Hinojoa defeated Picard and Sarah Nikitin of Brazil respectively to advance to the quarter-finals. Picard said afterwards that she felt she had played better than in her earlier match against Chenier, but was unable to fully master the gusts of winds that pushed her arrows towards the right, bowing out of the tournament to Román in straight sets. [21] Román admitted that it took time for her to adapt to the 14 °C air temperature, but was able to play her best towards the end of the day's session, which concluded with the quarter-finals at 11am. Román defeated Cuba's Maydenia Sarduy to progress to the semi-finals to face Khatuna Lorig, while Hinojosa beat Colombia's Natalia Sanchez to face off against Sanchez's compatriot Ana Rendón in the other last four contest, a result that exceeded her own expectations. [22]

The final rounds of the competition began three days later on the morning of 18 July with the two semi-final matches. In the first match Rendón was too strong for Hinojosa, the Mexican failing to land an arrow in the target's central 10 ring as the Colombian won in straight sets to advance to the final. She was joined in the gold medal match by Lorig, whose match with Román was a tight affair which necessitated a one-arrow shoot-off after the two could not be split after five sets. Lorig's winning shot was determined to be closer to the centre of the target by a matter of centimetres and was thus declared the winner. Notimex described the result as a "bitter déjà vu" for Román, who had experienced a loss in similar circumstances in the final of the women's individual event at the 2012 Summer Olympics against South Korea's Ki Bo-bae, in which Román finished with the silver medal. [23]

Medal matches

Aida Roman (pictured in 2012) finished fourth after losing in the bronze medal match. Aida Roman CdMx.jpg
Aída Román (pictured in 2012) finished fourth after losing in the bronze medal match.

The matches determining the medal winners commenced immediately after the semi-final encounters. As the two losing archers from the semi-finals, Hinojosa and Román met to decide the bronze medal match. Hinojosa's win over Román in five sets was considered a surprise by Notimex, [23] and Esto characterised the encounter as an apprentice winning against a master in their report of the match, highlighting that Hinojosa on her Pan American Games debut overcame her vastly more experienced and Olympic medalist teammate. [24] In an interview following the match Hinojosa dedicated her bronze medal victory to her parents and her friends and set her sights on securing a spot for the 2015 World Archery Championships. She also expressed her admiration for Román, stating that defeating Román gave her motivation to put in more effort, "because Aída will never give up." [24]

In the gold medal final Lorig won comfortably over Rendón, earning the United States their first and only archery title at the 2015 Games. [25] Nick Butler of Inside the Games called her win "the biggest of her illustrious career", [26] which came on a day that saw a flurry of gold medals for the United States and helped them topple Canada from the head of the Pan American Games medal table. [27] Rendon's silver medal was the eighth achieved by Colombia at the 2015 Pan American Games and her second after her gold medal victory in the women's team event. [28]

Results

Ranking round

RankArcherHalfScore10sXs
1st2nd
1Flag of Mexico.svg  Alejandra Valencia  (MEX)323332655266
2Flag of Mexico.svg  Aída Román  (MEX)324331655253
3Flag of the United States.svg  Khatuna Lorig  (USA)330321651246
4Flag of Mexico.svg  Karla Hinojosa  (MEX)316335651217
5Flag of Colombia.svg  Natalia Sánchez  (COL)320326646215
6Flag of the United States.svg  Ariel Gibilaro  (USA)318328646214
7Flag of Venezuela.svg  Leidys Brito  (VEN)324315639194
8Flag of Brazil.svg  Ane Marcelle Dos Santos  (BRA)3143166302110
9Flag of Colombia.svg  Ana Rendón  (COL)317313630179
10Flag of Cuba.svg  Maydenia Sarduy  (CUB)313317630145
11Flag of the United States.svg  La Nola Pritchard  (USA)307316623185
12Flag of Brazil.svg  Larissa Feitosa  (BRA)309310619131
13Flag of Brazil.svg  Sarah Nikitin  (BRA)311307618194
14Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Kateri Vrakking  (CAN)309303612123
15Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Georcy-Stéphanie Picard  (CAN)299310609122
16Flag of Colombia.svg  Maira Sepulveda  (COL)305296601112
17Flag of Argentina.svg  Ximena Mendiberry  (ARG)299301600153
18Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Virginie Chenier  (CAN)293307600123
19Flag of Cuba.svg  Elizabeth Rodríguez  (CUB)306291597141
20Flag of Venezuela.svg  Verona Villegas  (VEN)29929559481
21Flag of Guatemala.svg  Yesenia Valencia  (GUA)30029159175
22Flag of Venezuela.svg  Mayra Méndez  (VEN)29329759075
23Flag of Chile.svg  Tania Maldonado  (CHI)311276587156
24Flag of Chile.svg  Ignacia Márquez  (CHI)30028558561
25Flag of Cuba.svg  Lorisglenis Ojea  (CUB)282299581113
26Flag of Costa Rica.svg  Gloriana Bermúdez Moreno  (CRC)295284579113
27Flag of Argentina.svg  Florencia Leithold Juarez  (ARG)285292577103
28Flag of Argentina.svg  Fernanda Faisal  (ARG)27928656562
29Flag of Chile.svg  Keiko Chang  (CHI)29926556451
30Flag of El Salvador.svg  Elena Abullarade  (ESA)274289563122
31Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg  Yessica Camilo  (DOM)27326253593
32Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg  Crismery García  (DOM)25124049141
Source: [29]

Elimination rounds

Top half

1/16 elimination 1/8 elimination Quarter-finals Semifinals
            
1 Flag of Mexico.svg  A Valencia  (MEX)6
32 Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg  C Garcia  (DOM)0
1 Flag of Mexico.svg  A Valencia  (MEX)4
16 Flag of Colombia.svg  M Sepulveda  (COL)6
17 Flag of Argentina.svg  X Mendiberry  (ARG)3
16 Flag of Colombia.svg  M Sepulveda  (COL)7
16 Flag of Colombia.svg  M Sepulveda  (COL)2
9 Flag of Colombia.svg  A Rendón  (COL)6
9 Flag of Colombia.svg  A Rendón  (COL)6
12 Flag of Chile.svg  I Marquez  (CHI)2
9 Flag of Colombia.svg  A Rendón  (COL)6
8 Flag of Brazil.svg  AM Dos Santos  (BRA)2
25 Flag of Cuba.svg  L Ojea  (CUB)1
8 Flag of Brazil.svg  AM Dos Santos  (BRA)7
9 Flag of Colombia.svg  A Rendón  (COL)6
4 Flag of Mexico.svg  K Hinojosa  (MEX)0
5 Flag of Colombia.svg  N Sánchez  (COL)6
28 Flag of Argentina.svg  F Faisal  (ARG)0
5 Flag of Colombia.svg  N Sánchez  (COL)6
12 Flag of Brazil.svg  L Feitosa  (BRA)0
21 Flag of Guatemala.svg  Y Valencia  (GUA)4
12 Flag of Brazil.svg  L Feitosa  (BRA)6
5 Flag of Colombia.svg  N Sánchez  (COL)5
4 Flag of Mexico.svg  K Hinojosa  (MEX)6*
13 Flag of Brazil.svg  S Nikitin  (BRA)6
20 Flag of Venezuela.svg  V Villegas  (VEN)0
13 Flag of Brazil.svg  S Nikitin  (BRA)2
4 Flag of Mexico.svg  K Hinojosa  (MEX)6
29 Flag of Chile.svg  K Chang  (CHI)2
4 Flag of Mexico.svg  K Hinojosa  (MEX)6

Bottom half

1/16 elimination 1/8 elimination Quarter-finals Semifinals
            
3 Flag of the United States.svg  K Lorig  (USA)6
30 Flag of El Salvador.svg  E Abullarade  (ESA)2
3 Flag of the United States.svg  K Lorig  (USA)6*
14 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  K Vrakking  (CAN)5
19 Flag of Cuba.svg  E Rodriguez  (CUB)5
14 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  K Vrakking  (CAN)6*
3 Flag of the United States.svg  K Lorig  (USA)7
11 Flag of the United States.svg  LN Pritchard  (USA)3
11 Flag of the United States.svg  LN Pritchard  (USA)7
22 Flag of Venezuela.svg  M Méndez  (VEN)1
11 Flag of the United States.svg  LN Pritchard  (USA)7
6 Flag of the United States.svg  A Gibilaro  (USA)1
27 Flag of Argentina.svg  F Leithold Juarez  (ARG)4
6 Flag of the United States.svg  A Gibilaro  (USA)6
3 Flag of the United States.svg  K Lorig  (USA)6*
2 Flag of Mexico.svg  A Román  (MEX)5
7 Flag of Venezuela.svg  L Brito  (VEN)6
26 Flag of Costa Rica.svg  G Bermudez Moreno  (CRC)2
7 Flag of Venezuela.svg  L Brito  (VEN)5
10 Flag of Cuba.svg  M Sarduy  (CUB)6*
23 Flag of Chile.svg  T Maldonado  (CHI)1
10 Flag of Cuba.svg  M Sarduy  (CUB)7
10 Flag of Cuba.svg  M Sarduy  (CUB)3
2 Flag of Mexico.svg  A Román  (MEX)7
15 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  G-S Thiffeault Picard  (CAN)6*
18 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  V Chenier  (CAN)5
15 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  G-S Thiffeault Picard  (CAN)0
2 Flag of Mexico.svg  A Román  (MEX)6
31 Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg  Y Camilo  (DOM)0
2 Flag of Mexico.svg  A Román  (MEX)6

Note: An asterisk (*) denotes a win from a one-arrow shoot-off
Source:
[30]

Finals

SemifinalsFinals
                
9 Flag of Colombia.svg  Ana Rendón  (COL)6302829
4 Flag of Mexico.svg  Karla Hinojosa  (MEX)0 26 27 24
9 Flag of Colombia.svg  Ana Rendón  (COL)Silver medal icon.svg2 26 2628 25
3 Flag of the United States.svg  Khatuna Lorig  (USA)Gold medal icon.svg62727 2426
3 Flag of the United States.svg  Khatuna Lorig  (USA)6*2627 27 25 27
2 Flag of Mexico.svg  Aída Román  (MEX)5 25 262827 27Third place
4 Flag of Mexico.svg  Karla Hinojosa  (MEX)Bronze medal icon.svg6 2627 27 2827
2 Flag of Mexico.svg  Aída Román  (MEX)4 29 24 27 28 26

Note: An asterisk (*) denotes a win from a one-arrow shoot-off
Source:
[30] :1

See also

Notes

  1. Four additional women's individual events were held at the 1987, 1991 and 1995 Games, each event contested over different distances (70, 60, 50, and 30 metres respectively). The United States had also won all but one of these gold medals. [4]
  2. Qualification places were assigned to the National Olympic Committees (NOCs) of the successful qualifying archer rather than the archer themselves. Each NOC was free to determine its entrants to the Pan American Games according to their own criteria.

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