The Mexican city of Puebla will host the opening stage of the 2026 Hyundai Archery World Cup, replacing this year’s first leg in Central Florida (USA).
Stages in Shanghai (China), Antalya (Türkiye) and Madrid (Spain) remain on the calendar.
The Puebla event is scheduled for 7-12 April.
Mexico will also host the Hyundai Archery World Cup Final next season, which celebrates the 20th anniversary for the sport’s premier international tour. The country was host for the very first edition of the World Cup Final when it took place at the Mayapan pyramids in Yucatan in 2006.
Placing a major international tournament in the USA was seen as vital to World Archery’s ultimately successful campaign to add compound to the programme of the next Olympics.
Given a lack of applications from US organisations in the last bidding cycle, an external event company with a viable location in the country was selected to organise the opening World Cup stage for 2025-2027.
The inaugural edition of this event did not meet the expectations of teams or athletes, struggled with rising costs, and was unable to secure significant domestic buy-in outside of strong support from Visit Florida, the regional tourist office.
Following stakeholder feedback, and in order to protect the quality and integrity of the Hyundai Archery World Cup, an agreement has been made between the event rights holder and World Archery Mexico to move next year’s tournament to Puebla.
A further announcement on the location of the Hyundai Archery World Cup Final is expected later this year.
World Archery Mexico president Gabriel Ramos said:
“We‘re proud to be bringing not one but two Hyundai Archery World Cup events to Mexico in this historic upcoming 20th season for the international tour. My thanks go to Rommel Pacheco at the Mexican Ministry of Sports and the governor of Puebla for taking on the extra challenge, and we can’t wait to welcome the world’s best archers to our country in 2026.”
