2019 Pan Am Games Qualification

The 2019 Pan American Championships finished late last month in Barranquilla, Colombia, and it was the qualifying event for the 2019 Pan American Games that will take place in Lima, Peru this summer. The results from Barranquilla were used to determine how many players each country can send to Lima.

The qualification results have now been posted on the IRF Website. Most countries have qualified to send two players to Lima, so those two will need to play both singles and doubles. But there are a few exceptions.

Peru, as the host country, qualified to have three men in the Pan Am Games, as they had three men competing in Barranquilla. Mexico and the USA can also send three men to Lima, and Bolivia can send four, as they won gold in both Men’s Singles and Men’s Doubles in Barranquilla.

On the women’s side, Mexico can send four women to Lima, as they won both Women’s Singles and Women’s Doubles at the Pan American Championships. Argentina, Bolivia and Colombia can send three women. Note: the qualification slots are not tied to specific players, so the players who will be in Lima need not be those who were in Barranquilla.

Team results

Only one country at the Pan American Championships was in the top three in both the Men’s and Women’s competitions: Mexico, who won the Women’s event and tied for 2nd in the Men’s event. (note: winning here is simply the combined number of points from a country’s players’ performances in singles and doubles). Bolivia topped the Men’s event with the USA tied for 2nd with Mexico. Argentina was 2nd in the Women’s event with Colombia 3rd.

There were two multiple medalists in Barranquilla. Mexican Paola Longoria won gold in both Women’s Singles and Women’s Doubles, while Costa Rican Andres Acuña was a bronze medalist in both Men’s Singles and Men’s Doubles.

If you want to watch some of the matches that happened in Barranquilla, check out the IRF Facebook page. Often the IRF will put the videos up on their IRF YouTube channel, but that doesn’t seem to have been done as yet.

Number of players qualified for 2019 Pan American Games, Lima, Peru

Men

Peru - 3
Bolivia - 4
Mexico - 3
USA - 3
Canada - 2
Costa Rica - 2
Colombia - 2
Ecuador - 2
Dominican Republic - 2
Cuba - 2
Guatemala - 2
Argentina - 2
Chile - 1

Women

Mexico - 4
Argentina - 3
Bolivia - 3
Colombia - 3
Ecuador - 2
USA - 2
Canada - 2
Dominican Republic - 2
Cuba - 2
Guatemala - 2
Chile - 2
Venezuela - 2
Costa Rica - 1

XXXII Pan American Racquetball Championships
Barranquilla, Colombia - April 12-20, 2019

Team results

Men’s Team

1) Bolivia - 432
2) Mexico - 272
2) USA - 272
4) Costa Rica - 226
5) Canada - 208
6) Ecuador - 120
7) Dominican Republic - 118
8) Colombia - 110
9) Guatemala - 100
10) Cuba - 90
11) Argentina - 84
12) Chile - 56
13) Venezuela - 48
14) Peru - 40
14) Honduras - 40

Women’s Team

1) Mexico - 432
2) Argentina - 272
3) Colombia - 224
4) Bolivia - 212
5) Ecuador - 180
6) USA - 140
7) Canada - 116
8) Dominican Republic - 110
9) Cuba - 100
10) Guatemala - 90
11) Chile - 82
11) Venezuela - 82
13) Costa Rica - 18

Combined Team

1) Mexico - 704
2) Bolivia - 644
3) USA - 412
4) Argentina - 356
5) Colombia - 334
6) Canada - 324
7) Ecuador - 300
8) Costa Rica - 244
9) Dominican Republic - 228
10) Guatemala - 190
10) Cuba - 190
12) Chile - 138
13) Venezuela - 130
14) Peru - 40
14) Honduras - 40

Individual Results Summary

Women's Singles

GOLD - Paola Longoria (Mexico)
SILVER - María José Vargas (Argentina)
BRONZE - Maria Paz Muñoz (Ecuador) and Natalia Mendez (Argentina)

Men's Singles

GOLD - Carlos Keller (Bolivia)
SILVER - Charles Pratt (USA)
BRONZE - Alvaro Beltran (Mexico) and Andres Acuña (Costa Rica)

Women's Doubles

GOLD - Paola Longoria & Samantha Salas (Mexico)
SILVER - Valeria Centellas & Yazmine Sabja (Bolivia)
BRONZE - Cristina Amaya & Adriana Riveros (Colombia) and Danielle Drury & Jennifer Saunders (Canada)

Men's Doubles

GOLD - Roland Keller & Conrrado Moscoso (Bolivia)
SILVER - Coby Iwaasa & Samuel Murray (Canada)
BRONZE - Javier Mar & Rodrigo Montoya (Mexico) and Andres Acuña & Felipe Camacho (Costa Rica)

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