Aída Román

Aída Román
Aída Román at the 2012 Summer Olympics
nation	Mexico
birthday	May 21, 1988
place of birth	Mexico city
size	168 cm
Weight	61 kg
job	Student
Career
discipline	Archery
Trainer	Lee Mi-joung
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 × World championships 1 × 1 × 0 ×
last change: April 29, 2017

Aída Román (born May 21, 1988 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican archer .

Career

Aída Román is currently a student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City . She started her career as an archer in 1999. Your trainer is currently the South Korean Lee Mi-joung .

Román first took part in the Olympic Games at the age of 20 as part of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . There she won the first two rounds in the individual competition, but then lost in the second round to the fourth-placed North Korean Kwon Un-sil and was eliminated.

Aída Román, Ki Bo-bae , Mariana Avitia (from left to right)

Four years later, Román started again at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London . This time she made significant progress in the individual competition and reached the semi-finals after four wins, where she also defeated her teammate Mariana Avitia , who later took bronze, 6-2 and thus reached the final. But there she lost 5: 6 against the South Korean Ki Bo-bae and thus won the silver medal. In the team competition Román started for Mexico with Mariana Avitia and Alejandra Valencia , but they were eliminated early due to a defeat in the quarterfinals 209: 219 against the Japanese Kaori Kawanaka , Ren Hayakawa and Miki Kanie and thus finished fifth.

Aída Román won the 2014 World Cup on September 7, 2014 by beating Chinese Chen Ming in the final . She also won the mixed team title together with Luis Eduardo Vélez .

In early 2015, Román was voted Athlete of the Year 2014 by the World Archery Federation , ahead of Jung Dasomi from South Korea and Lisa Unruh from Germany.

Román also took part in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro . Here, however, she was eliminated in the individual competition directly in the first round due to a defeat against Alexandra Mîrca from Moldova . Together with Gabriela Bayardo and Alejandra Valencia she also started again for Mexico in the team competition; after an opening victory over the team from Georgia , however, they narrowly lost 4-5 in the quarterfinals against the later bronze medalists Le Chien-ying , Lin Shih-chia and Tan Ya-ting from Taipei, China, and Mexico once again finished fifth.

Web links

Commons : Aída Román  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Aída Román in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
• Aída Román in the World Archery Federation database
• Aída Román in the olympic.org database
• How to shoot like Aida Roman in 7 seconds , on the World Archery Federation website, September 20, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Athletes of the Year Among Awards Announced at World Archery Gala , on archeryeurope.org, February 7, 2015. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
2. ↑ Results archery, individual women, Olympic Games 2008 , on olympic.org. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
3. ↑ Results archery, individual women, Olympic Games 2012 , on olympic.org. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
4. ↑ Results archery, team women, Olympic Games 2012 , on olympic.org. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
5. ^ Mexican Archer Aida Roman Wins World Archery Cup , on telesurtv.net , September 7, 2014. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
6. ↑ Results archery, individual women, Olympic Games 2016 , on olympic.org. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
7. ↑ Results archery, women team, Olympic Games 2016 , on olympic.org. Retrieved April 29, 2017.