2023 Pan American Racquetball Championships

The 2023 Pan American Championships were held in Guatemala City, Guatemala, April 1–8. Bolivian Conrrado Moscoso won Men's Singles for the second consecutive year, and Montserrat Mejia won Women's Singles for the first time. Moscoso's win was the fourth consecutive Bolivian gold in Men's Singles, as Carlos Keller won the two events prior to Moscoso. Mejia is the second Mexican woman to win Women's Singles after Paola Longoria.

Mejia also won Women's Doubles with Alexandra Herrera, with fellow Mexicans Rodrigo Montoya and Eduardo Portillo winning Men's Doubles. Meija is the 3rd women to win both Women's Singles and Doubles in the same year after Longoria (4 times) and American Rhonda Rajsich (once). Moscoso won the Mixed Doubles title with Angélica Barrios, so he is the first player to win singles, doubles and mixed doubles at the Pan American Championships.

The 2023 Pan American Championships were the qualifying event for the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, so players played for all of the places from first on down. The top 10 men's and women's teams qualified for the Pan American Games with the top three teams plus Chile, as the host nation, allowed to send 3 athletes to Chile, and the other six nations allowed to send 2 athletes, so a total of 24 men and 24 women will compete in racquetball in Chile.

Because of the time needed to complete the Pan Am Games qualifying, there was no Team competition this year's Pan American Championships.

Some of the matches, including all of the finals, from Guatemala were covered on the PanAm Sports Channel.

Tournament format

The competition had five events: Men's and Women's Singles and Doubles and Mixed Doubles. Each individual event had a group stage followed by a medal round. The results of the group stage were used to seed players for the medal round. The group stage began April 1 and concluded April 3. The medal round began April 4 and concluded April 8.

Participating nations

A total of 63 athletes (34 men & 29 women) from 14 countries participated.

Medal summary

Medal table

Medalists

Men's singles

Preliminary round

;Group 1

;Group 2

;Group 3

;Group 4

;Group 5

;Group 6

;Group 6

Medal round

Note: Samuel Murray was injured in the group stage in Canada's doubles match versus Mexico, so Coby Iwaasa was substituted for him in the singles medal round.

Men's doubles

;Group 1

Note: Murray was injured in the 5th game of Canada's match versus Mexico, and Canada forfeited that match. Due to the injury, Trevor Webb was substituted for Murray in the medal round.

;Group 2

;Group 3

Medal Round

Women's singles

Preliminary round

;Group 1

;Group 2

;Group 3

;Group 4

;Group 5

;Group 6

Medal round

Women's doubles

Preliminary round

;Group 1

;Group 2

;Group 3

Medal round

Mixed doubles

;Group 1

;Group 2

;Group 3

Medal Round

2023 Pan American Games Qualifying Playdowns

Men's Singles

3rd place

Note: Bredenbeck won by forfeit.

5th-8th place

Note: Parrilla won by forfeit against Portillo.

9th-16th place

Note: Ugalde won by forfeit against Cueva.

Note: Salvatierra won by forfeit against Galicia. Galicia won over Kurzbard by injury forfeit.

17th-25th place

21st-24th place

Men's Doubles

5th-8th place

Note: Canada and Guatemala defeated Argentina by injury default.

9th-11th place

Men's qualifying standings

Women's Singles

3rd place

Note: Mendez won by forfeit.

5th-8th place

Note: Martinez won by forfeit against Amaya.

9th-16th place

Note: Maria Paz Muñoz won by forfeit against Maria José Muñoz.

17th-25th place

Note: Parent had a forfeit win over Morissette, and Mansilla had a forfeit win over Riquelme.

21st-22nd place

Women's Doubles

5th-8th place

9th place

Women's qualifying standings

Mixed Doubles

5th-8th place

Note: Ecuador's win over Colombia was by forfeit.

9th-12th place

Note: The Dominican Republic defeated Costa Rica by forfeit.

Mixed Doubles qualifying standings

References

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