Mexicans Alejandra Valencia, Ana Paula Vázquez and Ángela Ruiz, and Brazilian Larissa Pimenta received medals in archery and judo, respectively. (Credit score: Picture created with photographs from PUNIT PARANJPE and JACK GUEZ/AFP through Getty Photographs)

Medals started to fall by the handfuls on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games and two Latin American international locations have been already current on the medal desk this Sunday: Mexico and Brazil.

The ladies’s archery crew gave Mexico its first medal in Paris after profitable the bronze medal match in opposition to the Netherlands crew.

Mexican archers Alejandra Valencia, Ana Paula Vázquez and Ángela Ruiz received 6-2 to the tune of “Cielito lindo” within the stands of the Esplanade des Invalides. With this, Valencia provides her second Olympic medal, having received one other bronze in blended crew archery at Tokyo 2020.

This match, which came about earlier than 5 p.m. in Paris (11 a.m. ET), not solely meant the primary Mexican medal on the Paris Olympics, but in addition the primary medal for a Latin American nation within the competitors. It’s also the fourth medal for Mexican archery within the historical past of the Olympic Video games, and the primary for girls’s groups.

Shortly after Mexico’s bronze medal, the next Latin American medals got here, this time due to the Brazilian delegation, which is often one of many protagonists in every version of the Olympic Video games.

At 11 a.m. ET, Brazil’s Willian Lima confronted Japan’s Abe Hifumi for the gold medal within the males’s -66 kg judo remaining. Lima was outclassed by Hifumi, however regardless of the loss, he took the silver medal in his first Olympic look.

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