XVII Racquetball World Championships- Canada 2014 - Host Burlington, Ontario Dates June 14–21 Men's singles Gold Rocky Carson Silver Conrrado Moscoso Bronze Jose Rojas Carlos Keller Women's singles Gold Paola Longoria Silver Rhonda Rajsich Bronze María José Vargas Samantha Salas Men's doubles Gold Sebastian Franco & Alejandro Herrera Silver Mike Green & Vincent Gagnon Bronze Conrrado Moscoso & Mario Mercado Ben Croft & Tom Fuhrmann Women's doubles Gold Paola Longoria & Samantha Salas Silver Aimee Ruiz & Janel Tisinger Bronze Angela Grisar & Carla Muñoz Veronica Sotomayor & Maria Paz Muñoz
The International Racquetball Federation's 17th Racquetball World Championships were held in Burlington, Ontario, Canada from June 14 to 21, 2014. This was the second time that Worlds were held in Canada. Previously, they were in Montreal in 1992.
American Rocky Carson and Mexican Paola Longoria were the incumbent champions in men's and women's singles, respectively, and both successfully defended their titles.
Longoria was also the incumbent champion in women's doubles with Samantha Salas, and they successfully defended their title. Fellow Mexicans Álvaro Beltrán and Javier Moreno were the defending champions in men's doubles, but Mexico did not make the podium in Burlington.
Instead, Colombians Sebastian Franco and Alejandro Herrera defeated Canadians Mike Green and Vincent Gagnon in the final, which was the first men's doubles World Championship not won by either the USA or Mexico.
Tournament format The 2014 World Championships was the first competition with an initial round robin stage that was used to seed players for an elimination qualification round. Previously, players were seeded into an elimination round based on how their countries had done at previous World Championships, and then a second team competition was also played. This year there was no team competition. Team standings were based on points earned from the singles and doubles competitions.
Events
Men's singles
Women's singles
Men's doubles
Women's doubles
Medal table
Team results
Final team standingsMen's team Women's team Overall/combined 1 USA Mexico USA 2 Bolivia Mexico 3 Colombia Ecuador Bolivia 4 Argentina 5 Mexico 6 Ecuador Ecuador 7 Bolivia Argentina 8 South Korea South Korea 9 Venezuela Colombia 10 Argentina 11 South Korea Venezuela Venezuela 12 Dominican Republic Guatemala Costa Rica 13 Costa Rica Dominican Republic 14 Ireland Guatemala 15 Ireland Dominican Republic Ireland 16 17 – 18 Guatemala - 19 - 20 Poland - Poland 20 Ukraine - Ukraine
References
External links IRF website