Ángela Ruiz | |
Birth Date: | 2006 7, df=yes[1] |
Birth Place: | Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico |
Country: | Mexico |
Sport: | Archery |
Event: | Recurve |
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Ángela Ruiz Rosales (born 29 July 2006) is a Mexican archer competing in women's recurve events. She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
She started archery at the age of nine years-old in her home city of Saltillo.[2]
She made her under-18 debut at the 2021 World Archery Youth Championships in Poland.[3]
She was part of the Mexican team that won a first recurve women’s team title in a stage of the Hyundai Archery World Cup in Antalya in 2023. Ruiz subsequently finished runner-up individually at the next leg of the world tour in Medellin.[4]
She won a gold medal in the teams event at the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador in 2023.[5] She also won a silver medal in the women’s recurve team at the 2023 Pan American Games.[6]
She was selected for the team and individual events at the 2024 Summer Olympics. At the age of 17 years-old at the start of the games she was the youngest member of the Mexican delegation to the Games.[7]