The Pan American Racquetball Championships are held annually in the spring with play ending on the day before Easter. Originally called the Tournament of the Americas, the Pan American Championships are hosted by the Pan American Racquetball Confederation.[1]
The 2024 Pan American Championships were held in Guatemala City, Guatemala, March 23 to March 30, 2024. Mexican Rodrigo Montoya won men's singles, and Argentina's Maria Jose Vargas won women's singles. Costa Ricans Andrés Acuña and Gabriel Garica won men's doubles while Vargas and Natalia Mendez won women's doubles. The 2024 championships also had a team event, which was won by Mexico on the men's side and Argentina on the women's side.
The 2022 Pan American Championships were the first to use rally scoring, which was adopted by the International Racquetball Federation in early 2022.[2] Also, mixed doubles and men's and Women's Team competitions were implemented for the first time. In the team competitions, countries compete head-to-head over three matches: two singles matches and a doubles match. Argentina and Bolivia were the first team champions: Argentina winning the women's team competition and Bolivia the men's team competition. Mexicans Rodrigo Montoya and Samantha Salas were the first mixed doubles Pan American Champions.
The 2022 competition was the first in three years, as the COVID-19 pandemic caused the cancellation of the 2020 and 2021 tournaments.[3] The competition was not held in two years previously. In 1995, the Pan Am Games were held in the spring, so that year's Tournament of the Americas (as the competition was then known) was not held. In 2000, the competition was cancelled due to the civil unrest in Bolivia, which was to host the event.
Year | Site | Men's singles | Women's singles | Men's doubles | Women's doubles | Mixed doubles |
Rodrigo Montoya[4] | Maria Jose Vargas[5] | Andrés Acuña & Gabriel Garcia[6] | Natalia Mendez & Maria Jose Vargas[7] | Sam Bredenbeck & Michelle Key[8] | ||
Conrrado Moscoso[9] | Montserrat Mejia[10] | Rodrigo Montoya & Eduardo Portillo[11] | Alexandra Herrera & Montserrat Mejia[12] | Angélica Barrios & Conrrado Moscoso[13] | ||
Conrrado Moscoso[14] | Angélica Barrios[15] | Coby Iwaasa & Samuel Murray[16] | Natalia Mendez & María José Vargas[17] | Rodrigo Montoya & Samantha Salas[18] | ||
2021 | Not held – COVID-19 | |||||
2020 | Not held – COVID-19 | |||||
Paola Longoria & Samantha Salas | ||||||
2018 | Alexandra Herrera & Paola Longoria | |||||
2017 | San Jose | Paola Longoria & Samantha Salas | ||||
2016 | San Luis Potosí | Paola Longoria & Samantha Salas | ||||
2015 | Santo Domingo | José Díaz | Paola Longoria & Samantha Salas | |||
2014 | Santa Cruz | Jose Rojas[19] | María José Vargas[20] | Daniel de la Rosa & Edson Martinez[21] | Susana Acosta & Samantha Salas[22] | |
2013 | Cali | Polo Gutierrez[23] | Paola Longoria[24] | Javier Moreno & Polo Gutierrez[25] | Sharon Jackson & Rhonda Rajsich[26] | |
2012 | Roland Keller & Ricardo Monroy | |||||
2011 | Managua | Javier Moreno & Polo Gutierrez | ||||
2010 | San Pedro Sula | |||||
2009 | Cali | |||||
2008 | San Jose | |||||
2007 | Santiago | |||||
2006 | Guatemala City | |||||
2005 | Caracas | |||||
2004 | Cuenca | Carlos Bacmeister & Abraham Pena | Susana Acosta & Rosy Torres | |||
2003 | Santo Domingo | |||||
2002 | Cochabamba | |||||
2001 | San Pedro Sula | |||||
2000 | None | None | None | None | ||
1999 | Rosarito | |||||
1998 | ||||||
1997 | Chihuahua | |||||
1996 | Cali | |||||
1995 | None | None | None | None | None | |
1994 | Buenos Aires | Michelle Gould & Robin Levine | ||||
1993 | Cochabamba | Mary Lyons & Susan Morgan-Pfahler | ||||
1992 | Tegucigalpa | Robin Levine & Kim Russell | ||||
1991 | Tim Doyle | |||||
1990 | ||||||
1989 | San Jose | |||||
1988 | Santa Cruz | |||||
1987 | Colorado Springs | – | – | |||
Country | Men's singles | Women's singles | Men's doubles | Women's doubles | Mixed doubles | Total |
13 | 20 | 17 | 16 | 1 | 67 | |
8 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 1 | 39 | |
8 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 15 | |
5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | |
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | |
Year | Men's Team | Women's Team |
2024 | Mexico[27] | Argentina[28] |
2022 | [29] | Argentina[30] |
Champion | Singles Titles | Doubles Titles | Total |
3 | 2 | 5 | |
Bill Sell | 1 | 4 | 5 |
0 | 5 | 5 | |
1 | 3 | 4 | |
Polo Gutierrez | 1 | 3 | 4 |
1 | 3 | 4 | |
3 | 0 | 3 | |
2 | 1 | 3 | |
2 | 1 | 3 | |
1 | 2 | 3 | |
Adam Karp | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Mike Guidry | 0 | 3 | 3 |
2 | 0 | 2 | |
Chris Cole | 2 | 0 | 2 |
0 | 2 | 2 | |
2 | 0 | 2 | |
Doug Ganim | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Ricardo Monroy | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Todd O'Neil | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Champion | Singles Titles | Doubles Titles | Total |
8 | 7 | 15 | |
1 | 9 | 10 | |
0 | 9 | 9 | |
4 | 2 | 6 | |
4 | 2 | 6 | |
4 | 1 | 5 | |
2 | 2 | 4 | |
0 | 4 | 4 | |
2 | 1 | 3 | |
0 | 3 | 3 | |
1 | 2 | 3 | |
0 | 3 | 3 | |
0 | 3 | 3 | |
1 | 1 | 2 | |
0 | 2 | 2 | |
0 | 2 | 2 | |
1 | 1 | 2 | |
1 | 1 | 2 | |
0 | 2 | 2 | |