Colombia topped the medal table at the San Salvador 2026 Grand Prix of the Americas with three gold medals: compound men’s team, recurve mixed team, and recurve women’s individual, with Ana Maria Rendon taking the individual title and the mixed team with Felipe Gomez Zuluaga, as well as a silver medal in recurve women’s team. The nation took eight medals in total.
Top seed Rendon, a four-time Olympian for Colombia, is one of the longest-serving recurve archers on the circuit, making her international debut back in 2002 and competing at Paris 2024. She has also competed many times at regional and continental multi sport events and is a previous winner of the South American Games, the Bolivarian Games, and the Central American and Caribbean Games.
(The tournament qualified places for this year’s edition of that last event, although Colombia already had spots).
Colombia were challenged on the medal table by Guatemala and hosts El Salvador. Guatemala took the recurve women’s team title, edging Colombia’s women in a shoot off, as well as the compound men’s individual gold going to Julio Alfredo Barillas Aragon, who was part of the men’s team who took a surprise World Cup gold at Medellin 2023.
Salvador’s Roberto Hernandez took individual compound bronze and was part of the mixed team that took gold, and the men’s team that took silver. The other half of that mixed team, Sofia Paiz, took individual bronze and was part of the winning compound women’s team.
Chile also had a good meet, with Andres Aguilar taking the recurve men’s title and Aurora Olea Prado the compound’s women’s individual.
These were the standout performances in a field looking at the Central American and Caribbean Games as a stepping stone to next year’s Pan-American Games and possible Olympic spots for the LA28 Olympic Games.
