Mexico shines at Istanbul Parkour World Cup with multiple finalists

Mexico put three athletes into the final-round podium chase at the FIG Parkour World Cup 2026 Istanbul and left Galataport Clock Tower Square with three top-seven finishes. The meet ran June 4-7 in Istanbul, Türkiye, and the senior Speed and Freestyle fields gave Mexico one of its strongest international showings of the season.

COM Informa said Ella Bucio, Marlene Coronel and Emiliano Torres were the only Latin American athletes still in contention for podium places in the finals, a detail that underlined how deep they pushed into the draw. Bucio advanced in Speed with a 39.205-second run and was fourth in qualification, while Coronel moved on in 41.556 seconds and qualified seventh. Those runs set up a finish that kept Mexico visible across both disciplines instead of in just one pocket of the event.

The results held in the finals. Bucio finished fifth in Freestyle, Coronel took sixth in Speed and Torres placed seventh in Freestyle. The Mexican Olympic Committee shared the performance publicly, a sign that the delegation saw Istanbul as more than a routine stop on the calendar. In a field that also produced a double victory for Noa Man, who won both women’s Speed and Freestyle, and a Freestyle silver for local athlete Irem Acimis, Mexico still put itself in the medal conversation.

Bucio’s Istanbul result also fit a sharper trend. She won Freestyle gold at the 2025 World Cup in Montpellier with 24.70 points, and Mexican sports coverage had already identified her as the best Freestyle athlete on that season’s World Cup circuit. In 2024, COM Informa also described her as a world champion in Kitakyushu, Japan. That track record makes her fifth in Istanbul look less like a one-off and more like the latest proof that she is still one of the category’s benchmark athletes.

Istanbul mattered for the sport, too. The city hosted its first top-level parkour World Cup, and the debut brought a mix of established names and rising contenders onto the same course. Mexico answered that stage with finalists, clean qualification runs and finishes that kept its athletes near the front when the pressure peaked.