Team USA Tops Pan American Medellin Medal Table | Archery Weekly May 25-31, 2026

Pan American archery 2026 hit a US-flavored peak in Medellin this week, with Team USA dragging 31 medals out of the Unidad Deportiva Andrés Escobar and Mark Williams pulling two pending world records off the recurve 50+ lines. Across the Atlantic, Slovenia hosted the tenth edition of Veronica’s Cup with the world’s hottest compound shooters firing live, and another 50+ world record went into the books before the qualification round was even cold. Yankton, South Dakota officially became the venue every serious US archer will visit at least once before October — the 2026 season has six majors stacked there, starting June 3.

Team USA Tops the Pan American Youth and Masters Medal Table

Team USA closed the 2026 Pan American Youth and Masters Championships in Medellin with 31 medals — 11 gold, 9 silver, 11 bronze — edging out Mexico (30) and host Colombia (22) on the final table. That counts as a clean US sweep of the table, but the bigger story under the headline is depth: golds came from U15, U18, U21, and 50+ brackets, not just the senior pool. Paige Lee took recurve U15 women’s individual, Madelyn Yi added recurve U18 women’s, and Jamie McCarrison won recurve 50+ women’s — three different age brackets, three different gold medals, one team blazer.

This was the biggest Pan American Youth and Masters field on record: 271 athletes from 16 nations, nearly double the 139-from-10 turnout in 2022. Colombia’s 14-year-old Jeronimo Agudelo Bedoya stole the youth headlines with compound U18 men’s gold, and Puerto Rico’s Maria Latorre — who had retired before returning as a team delegate — somehow walked out with two golds in 50+ compound. World Archery’s bracket data is at the tournament report page.

Mark Williams Pulls Two Recurve 50+ World Records From the Medellin Lines

USA’s Mark Williams ended up in the headlines twice over. With teammates Ali Gungoraydinoglu and Mark Hainline, he shot 1897 in the recurve 50+ men’s team event — a 216-arrow score at 60 metres that resets the pending world record. Then, partnering with Janis Grellner in the mixed team format, Williams added 1239 over 144 arrows, also pending ratification, lifting the previous mark of 1228. Both scores still need World Archery’s formal sign-off, but the data is on the scorecards.

Three golds for Williams personally — individual, team, and mixed team — make him the single biggest individual story of the week. The 50+ category is one of the fastest-growing brackets in world archery, and the gear behind these records (premium recurve risers, longer carbon limbs, heavier point arrows) is exactly the kit older shooters are searching for right now. If you’re 50+ and shopping recurve, a setup spec built around Williams’s profile is a defensible benchmark. Our recurve setup guide walks through the same fundamentals at the entry level.

Veronica’s Cup Marks Its Tenth Edition With Jevsnik and Paas on Top

Veronica’s Cup turned 10 this weekend in Kamnik, Slovenia, and the qualification round delivered the storyline the organizers wanted. Slovenia’s Tim Jevsnik — world #10, fresh off bronze at the Puebla World Cup — locked the compound men’s top seed at 709, edging India’s Priyansh on a coin-toss tiebreak after the two finished identical. On the women’s side, defending champion Meeri-Marita Paas of Estonia took compound top spot with 706. Recurve seeds went to Ilfat Abdullin of Kazakhstan (669) and Marie Horackova of Czechia (673), the 2023 world champion still in form.

Around 390 archers from 40 nations registered, a turnout that reflects what Veronica’s Cup has become over a decade: a tier-A European target stop just outside the World Cup circuit. Finals run at Arboretum Volčji Potok on Sunday, and bracket play across compound and recurve seniors, U21, and U18 will produce ranking points that will redraw the European leaderboard before next month’s Pan-Am qualifier in Mexico. The full preview from World Archery is worth a read if you want the field broken out by world ranking.

Bosansky and Kocutova Reset the Compound 50+ Mixed Team World Record — Again

Slovakia’s Jozef Bosansky and Petra Kocutova produced the second of their world records in the space of a week, putting 1372 on the board in compound 50+ mixed team qualification at Kamnik. That bumps the mark they set days earlier at the European Outdoor Championships — 1353 — by 19 points. Same partnership, same discipline, two different events, two world records. That’s the kind of streak that doesn’t happen by accident in a category where the field is shooting inside one or two scoring percentage points of each other.

The compound 50+ bracket has been the quiet beneficiary of better release aids, lighter-stabilized risers, and more available masters-grade competition over the last two seasons. Bosansky and Kocutova are now the benchmark partnership in that category, and the gear they shoot is going to drive a lot of “what bow is he running” search traffic over the next month. The bracket finals at Veronica’s Cup will tell us whether they can convert qualification dominance into a podium top step.

Yankton Locks In as 2026’s Archery Capital With Six Major Events

Yankton, South Dakota — population 14,500 — just put itself on the calendar more times in five months than most cities manage in a decade. Six majors are now locked in at the NFAA Easton Yankton Archery Center and Lewis & Clark Recreation Area: USA Archery National Field & 3D Championships plus US Team Trials (June 3-6), NFAA National Outdoor Field Championships (July 23-26), IFAA World Field Championships (July 26-31), NFAA Outdoor National Target Championships (August 28-30), World Archery World Field Championships (September 22-27), and the World Archery World 3D Championships (September 28-October 3).

Organizers are projecting 2,000+ athletes, 500 support staff, 500 volunteers, all 50 states, more than 50 countries, and a $2.98 million economic injection into the community. Two back-to-back World Championships in late September pushes Yankton past Lancaster as the highest-volume target archery venue in North America this year. If you’ve never visited the Easton facility, this is the year to do it — full details at the KTIV news report and NFAA’s announcement.

Field and 3D Nationals Open This Week as US Team Trials Begin

The Yankton run starts immediately. USA Archery’s National Field & 3D Championships open Wednesday June 3 and double as the US Team Trials for World Field and World 3D — both of which return to Yankton in September. That dual-purpose format means the field on Wednesday includes nearly every senior, U21, and masters shooter with a realistic Team USA shot, and the marked-3D and field rounds will sort the bracket fast.

For shooters watching at home, the trial format means scores are doing two jobs: settling the 2026 national title and writing the names on the September team. That puts a premium on consistency over peak — anyone who has a bad first day is essentially out of the team conversation by Friday. Quick reminder for hunters tuning up for fall: the same field-distance principles your favorites are dialing this week translate to whitetail-distance practice. Our bowhunting beginner guide covers the basics for first-season hunters.

European Games Quota Picture Sharpens After Antalya

The fallout from Antalya — recapped in detail in last week’s roundup — kept rolling this week as World Archery released the European Games quota tally. As of the Antalya close on May 24, 78 of the 128 total Istanbul 2027 places have been distributed across 23 member associations. Of the 96 recurve spots, six nations booked full three-archer men’s teams: Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Türkiye, and Slovenia. Six women’s teams qualified too: Belarus, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and Türkiye. Host Türkiye automatically gets the maximum eight places.

The newly crowned Antalya champions — Willem Bakker (Netherlands) and Nurinisso Makhmudova (AIN) in recurve — locked their personal quotas through their title runs, which matters because both nations are still short of full team allocations. Anyone shut out at Antalya gets one more swing at the European Grand Prix in March 2027, again back in Antalya. For European recurve buyers, that timeline is meaningful — there’s nine months to dial a competition setup before the last quota door closes.

Looking Ahead

The big arrows on the calendar are all close now. Veronica’s Cup wraps Sunday at Kamnik, and US Field & 3D Nationals open in Yankton on Wednesday — both stories will write themselves over the next seven days. Beyond that, the Pan American Archery Championships in Tlaxcala, Mexico (June 22-28) become the next continental-level event, with national squads finalizing rosters now. NFAA Outdoor Field Nationals follow at Yankton July 23-26, and the IFAA World Field Championships hit the same venue immediately after.

The honest read on the season so far: the youth and masters brackets are producing more storyline density than the senior elite circuit, which is the inverse of what most fans expect. Mark Williams running away with three Pan American golds at 50+, Agudelo Bedoya winning U18 compound at 14, Bosansky and Kocutova rewriting the 50+ record book — that’s where this season’s pull is. If you’re building a 2026 archery content diet, weight toward the bracket recaps. The senior heroes will still ship podiums, but the underserved category coverage is where you find the actual news.

Sources

1. World Archery — Team USA tops the medal table at the 2026 Pan American Youth and Masters Championships — Final Medellin standings, USA 31-medal breakdown
2. World Archery — Williams involved in two recurve 50+ world records in Medellin — Pending records, scores, and partner details
3. World Archery — Jevsnik and Paas secure compound top seeds at Veronica’s Cup 2026 — Qualification scores and Bosansky/Kocutova world record
4. World Archery — Preview: Veronica’s Cup 2026 celebrates 10th edition in Kamnik — Field size, format, distinguished entries
5. KTIV — Multiple major archery events coming to Yankton, SD in 2026 — Event calendar, athlete count, economic impact
6. NFAA — 2026 outdoor archery season set to take over Yankton — Field & 3D Nationals and Team Trials format
7. World Archery — European Games places allocated at Antalya 2026 — Quota count, full team breakdowns, Istanbul 2027 path