Laura Burgos crowned champion at Chengdu 2025

Two-time world champion Laura Burgos gave Mexico its second gold medal at the 2025 Chengdu World Games , after winning the Muay Thai final 29-28 against Poland's Martina Kierczynska , in the 54-kilogram category.

Winner of silver at the 2022 Birmingham edition, but twice champion at the world championships in Petras 2024 and Antalya 2025. The podium was completed by Monika Chochlikova , who defeated Anna Szekely 29-28 in the duel for third place.

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In her quest to win the gold medal, the Mexican defeated Axana Depypere in the quarterfinals, while in the semifinals, Monika Chochlikova was the opponent to beat, with both scores ending 30-27.

For their gold medal match, the Mexican and the Polish fighter each won one round, with a more precise style of striking determining the victory for the Mexican fighter. According to reports from the International Muay Thai Federation, she was the favorite to win the gold medal before the tournament.

Three years after finishing second at the previous World Games , Laura repeated as the Mexican exponent who had already given national Muay Thai its only medal at that event in 2022.

With three days of activities since the start of the Chengdu 2025 World Games on August 7, Mexico has already won three medals, including two golds, both in the women's category, with Andrea Becerra as the first world champion in compound archery, who later added silver in the mixed event with Sebastián García.

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With athletes still to travel to Chengdu, China , for their respective competitions in the coming days, Mexico at the close of Sunday placed twentieth in the international medal table, as part of ten countries that have a maximum of two gold medals so far.

At the top of the rankings, Germany is tied with the People's Republic of China with 11 gold medals each, followed by Italy and Ukraine with four golds.

With the medals of Becerra and Burgos, Mexico has won at least one gold medal in five consecutive editions of the World Games.

The last time the country did not win a gold medal at the World Games was in Duisburg 2005, where they only won a silver medal.

At Birmingham 2022, the country finished in sixteenth place overall in the world medal table, with 12 total medals and five golds.