Gabriela Bayardo
Gabriela Bayardo is a recurve archer from Tijuana, Mexico who has represented the Netherlands since 2017.Career
She competed in the archery competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, reaching the second round before being eliminated by Lisa Unruh of Germany. Following the mandatory break of 12 months in international competition for athletes switching national representation, Bayardo made her debut as a Dutch archer at the third stage of the Archery World Cup in June 2018.
In June 2019, partnered with Sjef van den Berg, Bayardo won silver medal in the mixed recurve event at the Archery World Championships in 's-Hertogenbosch, losing to the South Korean duo of Lee Woo-seok and Kang Chae-young in the final. Later that month at the 2019 European Games held in Minsk, Belarus, Bayardo secured a qualification place for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo after reaching the semi-finals, becoming the first female Dutch archer to achieve an Olympic spot since 1996. Although she lost to Tatiana Andreoli of Italy in their semi-final match, Bayardo claimed bronze medal after defeating Russia's Anna Balsukova in the third-place match.
