Mexico’s Andrea Becerra won the compound women’s title at the Chengdu 2025 World Games on Saturday, beating Lisell Jaatma of Estonia, 147-146 on the stage at Qinglong Lake Park.
“It was amazing, I just had a lot of fun,” said Becerra, who took a silver medal in the compound mixed team final the previous day. The Mexican had already dispatched defending champion Ella Gibson and Colombia’s Alejandra Usquiano on her way to the last two.
The final took several turns, with a clearly jumpy Becerra sending down a disastrous high eight in the first end. “I knew I had to lose hopefully no points after that and I almost managed it, but I felt really nice and was just hoping for the best.“
“I knew that I could finish strong and that’s what happened. So it was just managing everything and just trying not to think about it,” she said.
Jaatma maintained the two point lead until the fourth end, when she sent down three nines to flip the script and hand Becerra the reins. Both archers visibly tightened up, but both shot the last end clean to give the title to Becerra.
A frustrated Jaatma said: “I’m really happy. Of course I wanted gold, it was really close but I’m still happy about my silver.”
“I have to look back [at the fourth end] because the first two shots were pretty good. So I was a bit like frustrated like why they went to the nine. But yeah, I don’t know. I have to look back. It was a really tight match.”
