Gabriela Schloesser (née Bayardo) is a Dutch recurve archer. Born in Mexico, she competed for Mexico before 2016, and has represented the Netherlands since 2017 after marrying the Dutch compound international Mike Schloesser. In 2019 she became the first Dutch recurve woman to win an Olympic spot since 1996 and went on to win an Olympic silver medal in the mixed team event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with Steve Wijler.
At the end of 2022, she went on a tear around the indoor circuit, winning the Kings of Archery event in the Netherlands, the GT Open in Luxembourg and the Taiwan Indoor Open – despite not really having much history with indoor competition.
As she says: “Every year is a new challenge, and last year the challenge was to replicate what I can do in practice in competition. Sometimes we try too
