XIX Racquetball World Championships- Costa Rica 2018 - Host San José, Costa Rica Dates August 10–18 Men's singles Women's singles Men's doubles Gold Álvaro Beltrán & Daniel de la Rosa Silver Rocky Carson & Sudsy Monchik Bronze Roland Keller & Conrrado Moscoso Tim Landeryou & Samuel Murray Women's doubles
The International Racquetball Federation's 19th Racquetball World Championships are being held in San José, Costa Rica from August 10–18. This is the first time Worlds have been Costa Rica, and the first time a Central American country has hosted the event.
In 2016, Mexicans Álvaro Beltrán and Javier Moreno won the men's doubles World Championship for the third time as a team, when the defeated Americans Jake Bredenbeck and Jose Diaz in the final, 15–12, 15–9. Previously, the Mexicans had won in 2006 and 2012. Moreno also won the title in 2000 with Luis Bustilos. The Mexicans defeated the 2012 World Champions, Sebastian Franco and Alejandro Herrera of Colombia, in the semi-finals.
Tournament format The 2018 World Championships used a two-stage format with an initial group stage that was a round robin with the results used to seed players for a medal round.
Group stage
Pool A PlayersPldWLGFGAPFPAPoints Álvaro Beltrán & Daniel de la Rosa 3 3 0 6 0 90 28 6 Edwin Galicia & Christian Wer 3 2 1 4 3 83 76 5 Yuki Nakano & Hiroshi Shimizu 3 1 2 4 2 70 74 4 Alok Mehta & Thirumurugan Thiyagarajan 3 0 3 0 6 25 90 3
Pool B PlayersPldWLGFGAPFPAPoints Fernando Kurzbard & Shai Manzuri 3 3 0 6 1 96 45 6 Gabriel García & Alexander Pirie 3 2 1 2 4 58 82 5 Sebastian Franco & Mario Mercado 3 1 2 4 2 86 55 4 Rodrigo Salgado & Francisco Troncoso 3 0 3 1 6 41 99 3 Note – Costa Rica defeated Colombia by injury forfeit after Colombia had won game one.
Pool C PlayersPldWLGFGAPFPAPoints Rocky Carson & Sudsy Monchik 3 3 0 6 0 90 26 6 Juan Francisco Cueva & Jose Daniel Ugalde 3 2 1 4 3 76 61 5 Ricardo Gomez & Luis Felipe Zea 3 1 2 3 4 58 47 4 Ken Cottrell & Eoin Tynan 3 0 3 0 6 23 90 3
Pool D PlayersPldWLGFGAPFPAPoints Roland Keller & Conrrado Moscoso 3 3 0 6 1 93 57 6 Samuel Murray & Tim Landeryou 3 2 1 5 2 89 60 5 Luis Pérez & Ramón de León 3 1 2 2 4 68 79 4 Moon Gyun Kim & Daeyong Kwon 3 0 3 0 6 36 90 3
Medal round
Winners Álvaro Beltrán & Daniel de la Rosa
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