She has always been a cheerful, smiley character off the shooting line but timid and quiet also, which often bled into numerous painful moments particularly last year.
A 2019 Summer Universiade gold medallist yes but also for a period the frustrating tag of being the compound women nearly archer, getting silver at the 2019 Pan American Games, bronze at the Yankton 2021 World Championships and two silvers at World Cups in 2024 [Yecheon, Shanghai] all on top of the Berlin bottle.
Achieving top seed places regularly, the quality has never been in doubt only the mettle when it came to crunch time.
After so many runs at stage finals however it all came together in the World Cup opener at Central Florida earlier this year, finding herself in a final but this time winning it in a situation where there is maximum pressure one archer can face – a shoot-off.
Chucking that monkey off her back has turned Mexican Becerra into a mean, green, winning machine.
In the space of five months, she has knocked Great Britain’s Ella Gibson off her number one perch, become the only woman compounder to triumph at two World Cups in 2025 [Antalya the second], grabbing gold at The World Games – and now the biggest prize one in the discipline can get individually.
“I really wanted it. A bronze in Yankton, a silver in Berlin. It was a lot of mental but hard work,” she added on what’s changed since her last World Championship outing.
No qualms about it, Andrea Becerra is the archer to beat in compound women and should she come out on top once again at the Nanjing 2025 Hyundai Archery World Cup Final next month, that would cap one of the greatest outdoors seasons we have ever seen.
For the next two years at least she can call herself the reigning World champion with compound action now officially over at 5.18 Democracy Square.
The recurve team finals take place in the afternoon tomorrow which you can watch live on archery+.
