Bolivian Camila Rivero won gold in two divisions - Girl’s U21 & U18 - Saturday at the 34th International Racquetball Federation (IRF) World Junior Championships in Tarija, Bolivia. In the U21 final, Rivero beat Argentina’s Martina Katz, 12-10, 11-4, 11-6, and in the Girls U18 final, Rivero defeated team-mate Kristin Salinas in the final, 11-7, 11-6, 7-11, 11-7.
In Boys U21, Mexican Diego Gastelum won two gold and Bolivia’s Luis Aguilar one, as the two of them faced off in all three of the finals. In the Boys U21 Singles final, Gastelum beat Aguilar, 11-6, 11-7, 12-10, and he got the better of the Bolivian in the U21 Doubles final too, as he and Oscar Elias Nieto Validez defeated Aguilar and Adrian Jaldin Lobo, 12-10, 11-13, 11-1, 13-11.
But in the U21 Mixed Doubles final, Aguilar and Micaela Meneses came out on top, defeating Gastelum and Maria Gutierrez, 11-8, 9-11, 11-7, 11-6.
Mexican Eder Renteria also had a chance at triple gold in U16 Saturday, but like Aguilar, he only won gold in the U16 Mixed Doubles division, as he and Yanna Salazar came back from a game down to defeat Bolivans Gabriela Diaz Fernández and Marco Antonio Vedia Rosales, 11-13, 11-7, 11-4, 11-3.
In the other two U16 boys divisions, Marco Mamani Aguilar of Bolivia dashed Renteria’s dreams, as he defeated the Mexican in the Boys U16 Singles final, 12-10, 4-11, 11-4, 11-9, and then teamed up with Bismarck Pereira to take the Boys U16 Doubles final from Renteria and Nicolas Galindo, 11-5, 9-11, 12-10, 11-8.
But Jhonatan Flores of Bolivia may have had the best boys performance of the tournament, as he won Boys U18 Singles by beating Mexican Luis Renteria, 11-6, 11-2, 11-0, in the final. That capped off a seven match win streak in which Flores didn’t lose a game, and surrendered at most 8 points to an opponent twice; he never gave up 9 or more. Flores’s opponents scored 99 points across 21 games for an average of 4.71 points per game.
Performance by country
Bolivia and Mexico medaled in all 15 divisions in Tarija with Bolivia winning 11 gold medals and Mexico 4. In Boys U16 Singles, all four medals went to Bolivia (gold & bronze) and Mexico (silver & bronze). Here’s the country by country medal breakdown.
Bolivia - 11 gold, 4 silver, 4 bronze
Mexico - 4, 7, 6
USA - 0, 3, 5
Argentina - 0, 1, 1
Ecuador - 0, 0, 6
Chile - 0, 0, 3
Costa Rica - 0, 0, 2
Canada - 0, 0, 1
Guatemala - 0, 0, 1
If you missed any of the action from Tarija, check out the matches that were streamed live from Bolivia via the IRF YouTube channel.
34rd IRF World Junior Championships
November 11-18, 2023 - Tarija, Bolivia
Girls U21 Singles - Final - Saturday
2) Camila Rivero (Bolivia) d. 5) Martina Katz (Argentina), 12-10, 11-4, 11-6
Girls U21 Doubles - Final - Saturday
1) Micaela Meneses & Kristin Salinas (Bolivia) d. 2) Maria Gutierrez & Leonela Osorio (Mexico), 11-1, 9-11, 8-11, 11-7, 11-1
Boys U21 Singles - Final - Saturday
1) Diego Gastelum (Mexico) d. 2) Luis Aguilar (Bolivia), 11-6, 11-7, 12-10
Boys U21 Doubles - Final - Saturday
1) Oscar Elias Nieto Validez & Diego Gastelum (Mexico) . 2) Luis Aguilar & Adrian Jaldin Lobo (Bolivia), 12-10, 11-13, 11-1, 13-11
Mixed Doubles U21 - Final - Saturday
1) Luis Aguilar & Micaela Meneses (Bolivia) d. 2) Maria Gutierrez & Diego Gastelum (Mexico), 11-8, 9-11, 11-7, 11-6
Girls U18 Singles - Final - Saturday
4) Camila Rivero (Bolivia) d. 2) Kristin Salinas (Bolivia), 11-7, 11-6, 7-11, 11-7
Girls U18 Doubles - Final - Saturday
2) Rebecca Amaya & Valeria Miranda Martinez (Bolivia) d. 4) Heather Mahoney & Naomi Ros (USA), 11-9, 11-4, 11-5
Boys U18 Singles - Final - Saturday
3) Jhonatan Flores (Bolivia) d. 8) Luis Renteria (Mexico), 11-6, 11-2, 11-0
Boys U18 Doubles - Final - Saturday
1) Jorge Gutierrez Ortiz & Luis Renteria (Mexico) d. 7) Vedant Chauhan & Cole Sendrey (USA), 11-4, 11-6, 11-1
Mixed Doubles U18 - Final - Saturday
2) Nicolás Iglesias & Valeria Miranda Martinez (Bolivia) d. 1) Ivanna Balderrama & Jorge Gutierrez Ortiz (Mexico), 8-11, 12-10, 9-11, 11-4, 12-10
Girls U16 Singles - Final - Saturday
1) Natalia Mendez Veizaga (Bolivia) d. 2) Yanna Salazar (Mexico), 9-11, 11-6, 10-12, 11-6, 11-6
Girls U16 Doubles
Round 6 - Victoria Rodriguez & Sonya Shetty (USA) d. Andrea Marquez & Yanna Salazar (Mexico), 3-11, 11-9, 11-9, 11-5
Standings: 1) Adriana Noelia Blacutt Conde & Natalia Mendez Veizaga (Bolivia), 3-1
2) Victoria Rodriguez & Sonya Shetty (USA), 2-2
3) Andrea Marquez & Yanna Salazar (Mexico), 1-3
Boys U16 Singles - Final - Saturday
2) Marco Mamani Aguilar (Bolivia) d. 1) Eder Renteria (Mexico), 12-10, 4-11, 11-4, 11-9
Boys U16 Doubles - Final - Saturday
2) Marco Mamani Aguilar & Bismarck Pereira (Bolivia) d. 1) Nicolas Galindo & Eder Renteria (Mexico), 11-5, 9-11, 12-10, 11-8
Mixed Doubles U16 - Final - Saturday
1) Eder Renteria & Yanna Salazar (Mexico) d. 2) Gabriela Diaz Fernández & Marco Antonio Vedia Rosales (Bolivia), 11-13, 11-7, 11-4, 11-3
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