Lima 2027 Pan American Games spots won as team competition wraps in Tlaxcala

The USA dominated the team events at the Tlaxcala 2026 Pan American Championships, winning three of the four titles on offer.

The Americans claimed recurve men’s gold by defeating Colombia in the final, recurve women’s gold against Mexico and compound men’s gold over Colombia.

The recurve women’s victory marked a successful title defence from the  2024 Pan American Championships, with Casey Kaufhold and Jennifer Mucino returning to the winning team alongside Olivia Martin.

Mexico prevented a clean sweep by taking compound women’s gold, defeating Colombia in the final, while the USA claimed bronze.

The team finals also served as the main qualification event for the Lima 2027 Pan American Games.

In recurve, the top five teams in each gender secured three quota places.

The qualified men’s teams were USA, Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Brazil. The qualified women’s teams were USA, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Guatemala.

A secondary qualification tournament on Thursday awarded one individual quota place to nations that had not already qualified. Cuba, Canada and El Salvador secured the men’s places, while Canada, Argentina and Venezuela qualified in the women’s event.

Compound archery at Lima 2027 will feature two-athlete teams. The top four nations in each gender earned two quota places.

USA, Colombia, Mexico and Guatemala qualified in compound men, while Mexico, Colombia, USA and Puerto Rico secured places in compound women.

A further individual quota place in each compound event was decided in the secondary tournament, with  El Salvador claiming both.

The competition continues with individual eliminations on Friday, followed by mixed team and barebow finals on Saturday. You can watch the weekend’s finals with a subscription to archery+. 

Competition continues with individual eliminations on Friday, followed by the mixed team and barebow finals on Saturday.

Watch the weekend’s finals with a subscription to archery+.

Podiums: 2026 Pan Americans Championships

Full results on the event page. 

Recurve men’s team

1. USA (Nicholas D’Amour, Christian Stoddard, Brady Ellison)
2. Colombia (Santiago Arcila, Santiago Cruz Cantor, Jorge Enriquez)
3. Chile (Andres Gallardo, Tomás Ignacio Peña Leiva, Ángel Moises Vega Valdivia)

Recurve women’s team

1. USA (Casey Kaufhold, Jennifer Mucino, Olivia Martin)
2. Mexico (Angela Ruiz, Alejandra Valencia, Ana Paula Vazquez)
3. Brazil (Ane Marcelle Dos Santos, Isabelle Estevez, Ana Luiza Sliachticas Caetano)

Compound men’s team

1. USA (James Lutz, Gaius Carter, Louis Price)
2. Colombia (Sebastian Arenas, Pablo Gomez Zuluaga, Jagdeep Singh Mejia)
3. Mexico (Juan Carlos Del Rio Gutierrez, Sebastian Garcia Flores, Rodrigo Gonzalez De Alba)

Compound women’s team

1. Mexico (Andrea Becerra, Adriana Castillo, Dafne Quintero)
2. Colombia (Sara Lopez, Alejandra Usquiano, Mariana Rodriguez)
3. USA (Liko Arreola, Olivia Dean, Alexis Ruiz)