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Angélica Barrios
Angélica Barrios (born May 5, 2000) is a Bolivian racquetball player. Barrios is the current Pan American Champion in Mixed Doubles, winning the title at the 2023 Pan American Racquetball Championships in Guatemala City, Guatemala, and a former Pan Am Champion in Women's Singles. She is also the first Bolivian to win a medal at the World Games, as she won bronze at the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Alabama. 2015–2019 – Success at World Juniors and medals for Bolivia In 2015, Barrios was the runner-up at the International Racquetball Federation (IRF) World Junior Championships in the Girls U14 Singles division, losing to Bolivian team mate Romina Rivero, 15–11, 15–11, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Two years later Barrios won Girls U16 Singles at World Juniors in Minneapolis by defeating Mexican Ana Laura Flores, 15–2, 15–13, in the final. In her first year of U18, Barrios lost to Montserrat Mejía of Mexico in semi-finals of Girls U18 Singles at the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Racquetball
Racquetball is a racquet sport and a team sport played with a hollow rubber ball on an indoor or outdoor court. Joseph Sobek invented the modern sport of racquetball in 1950, adding a stringed racquet to paddleball in order to increase velocity and control. Unlike most racquet sports, such as tennis and badminton, there is no net to hit the ball over, and, unlike squash, no tin (out of bounds area at the bottom of front wall) to hit the ball above. Also, the court's walls, floor, and ceiling are legal playing surfaces, with the exception of court-specific designated hinders being out-of-bounds. Racquetball is played between various players on a team who try to bounce the ball with the racquet onto the ground so it hits the wall, so that an opposing team’s player cannot bounce it back to the wall. The sport is very similar to 40×20 American handball, which is played in many countries. It is also very similar to the British sport Squash 57, which was called racketball ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
