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François Viens
François Viens (born March 7, 1975) is a retired Canadian racquetball player from Delson, Quebec. Viens was a doubles specialist during his career usually playing on the right side. He won four Canadian Championships in doubles, three with Vincent Gagnon, with whom he also won the 2007 Pan American Championships and one with Corey Osborne. International career Viens made five appearances on Team Canada. His first appearance was at the 2003 Pan American Games when he earned a bronze medal in doubles with Corey Osborne. Viens's greatest success internationally was winning the 2007 Pan American Championships in Santiago, Chile, where he and Vincent Gagnon defeated Americans Andy Hawthorne and Jason Samora in the final, 15-6, 11-15, 11-9. Viens also played doubles with Tom O'Brien at the 2004 Pan American Championships, and they earned bronze medals, losing in the semi-finals to Americans Mike Dennison and Shane Vanderson, 15-8, 15-14. Viens's last appearance on Team Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delson, Quebec
Delson is an off-island suburbs, off-island suburb (South Shore (Montreal), South shore) of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is situated 8 mi/13 km SSE of Montreal within the regional county municipality of Roussillon Regional County Municipality, Roussillon in the administrative region of Montérégie. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 8,328. On its small territory, Delson is crossed by Quebec Route 132, Route 132 and the Turtle River (Rivière de la Tortue). The city owns a portion of the Champlain industrial park as well as the Delson Commuter rail in North America, commuter train station with service to and from Montreal on the Agence métropolitaine de transport, AMT's Candiac Line (AMT), Candiac Line. History The origin of the name Delson comes from the Delaware and Hudson Railway, Delaware and Hudson Railway, now a subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway, which runs through the town. The Canadian Railway Museum (Exporail) occupies a large tract be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Racquetball World Championships
The World Racquetball Championships is the top international racquetball competition organized by the International Racquetball Federation (IRF). History The first event was held in 1981 as part of the 1981 World Games. The second World Championships were in 1984, and they have been a biannual event since then with the exception of the COVID-19 pandemic period, which delayed the 2020 event by one year. Worlds have been held in 13 countries across four continents: North and South America as well as Asia and Europe. The United States has hosted Worlds most often – 4 times, though not since 1996, followed by Mexico, 3 times, and twice each in Canada, the Dominican Republic, and South Korea. The 2022 World Championships were held in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, which was the first time Worlds was in Mexico since 2000, when it was also held in San Luis Potosí. The 2022 Worlds introduced Mixed Doubles for the first time, and re-introduced the Team Competition (best of three matches: tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Racquetball In Canada
Racquetball is a list of racket sports, 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 Four wall paddleball, paddleball in order to increase velocity and control. Unlike most List of racquet sports, racquet sports, such as tennis and badminton, there is no net to hit the ball over, and, unlike squash (sport), 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pan American Games Bronze Medalists In Racquetball
Pan or PAN may refer to: Food * Pan (cooking), a piece of cooking equipment * Harina P.A.N., a pre-cooked corn meal * Pan or Paan, a North Indian term for betel Prefix * ''Pan-'', a prefix meaning "all", "of everything", or "involving all members" of a group People * Pan (surname), Chinese family name (潘 or 盤) * Pen Ran (), Cambodian singer and songwriter whose name is sometimes Romanized as Pan Ron Arts, entertainment, and media Card games * Pan (game), a shedding card game of Polish origin * Panguingue or Pan, a gambling card game Fictional characters * Pan (''Dragon Ball''), in ''Dragon Ball'' media * Peter Pan, created by James Barrie Films * ''Pan'' (1922 film), Norwegian film * ''Pan'' (1995 film), a Danish/Norwegian/German film * ''Pan'' (2015 film), film Literature and publishing * ''Pan'' (novel), by Knut Hamsun * ''Pan'' (magazine) an arts and literary review * Pan Books, a publisher Music Musical instruments * Pan, short for steelp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pan American Games Bronze Medalists For Canada
Pan or PAN may refer to: Food * Pan (cooking), a piece of cooking equipment * Harina P.A.N., a pre-cooked corn meal * Pan or Paan, a North Indian term for betel Prefix * ''Pan-'', a prefix meaning "all", "of everything", or "involving all members" of a group People * Pan (surname), Chinese family name (潘 or 盤) * Pen Ran (), Cambodian singer and songwriter whose name is sometimes Romanized as Pan Ron Arts, entertainment, and media Card games * Pan (game), a shedding card game of Polish origin * Panguingue or Pan, a gambling card game Fictional characters * Pan (''Dragon Ball''), in ''Dragon Ball'' media * Peter Pan, created by James Barrie Films * ''Pan'' (1922 film), Norwegian film * ''Pan'' (1995 film), a Danish/Norwegian/German film * ''Pan'' (2015 film), film Literature and publishing * ''Pan'' (novel), by Knut Hamsun * ''Pan'' (magazine) an arts and literary review * Pan Books, a publisher Music Musical instruments * Pan, short for s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medalists At The 2003 Pan American Games
A medal or medallion is a small portable artistic object, a thin disc, normally of metal, carrying a design, usually on both sides. They typically have a commemorative purpose of some kind, and many are presented as awards. They may be intended to be worn, suspended from clothing or jewellery in some way, although this has not always been the case. They may be struck like a coin by dies or die-cast in a mould. A medal may be awarded to a person or organisation as a form of recognition for sporting, military, scientific, cultural, academic, or various other achievements. Military awards and decorations are more precise terms for certain types of state decoration. Medals may also be created for sale to commemorate particular individuals or events, or as works of artistic expression in their own right. In the past, medals commissioned for an individual, typically with their portrait, were often used as a form of diplomatic or personal gift, with no sense of being an award fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Racquetball Players
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity and Canadian values. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1975 Births
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 – Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up. * January 2 ** The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress. ** A bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways. * January 5 – Tasman Bridge disaster: The Tasman Bridge in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier , causing a partial collapse resulting in 12 deaths. * January 15 – Alvor Agreement: Portugal announces that it will grant independence to Angola on November 11. * January 20 ** In Hanoi, North Vietnam, the Politburo approves the final military offensive against South Vietnam. ** Work is abandoned on the 1974 Anglo-French Channel Tunnel scheme. * January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Racquetball Players
This is a list of notable racquetball players. Racquetball players are presumed to be notable under the following criteria. :1. The player has finished a season ranked in the top 10 of the men’s or women’s pro tours (i.e., the International Racquetball Tour or Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour). :2. The player has represented their country at an open level international event (e.g., the Racquetball World Championships, Pan American Racquetball Championships, Pan American Games The Pan American Games, known as the Pan Am Games, is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas. It features thousands of athletes participating in competitions to win different summer sports. It is held among athletes from nations of th ..., etc.) :3. The player is a member of thUSA Racquetball Hall of Fame. Male Female References {{Reflist Racquetball players * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Green (racquetball)
Mike Green (born August 22, 1973) is a Canadian retired racquetball player from Burlington, Ontario. Green set the record for Men's Singles Canadian Championships at 11 in 2017, which broke a tie he had with Sherman Greenfeld. He also won 10 Men's Doubles Canadian Championships, and together those 21 Canadian titles are the most for a Canadian man. Professional career Green's career high professional ranking was 8th at the end of the 2003-04 International Racquetball Tour (IRT) season. Green's ranking is the second highest ever by a Canadian player behind Samuel Murray and Kane Waselenchuk. Green has reached the semi-finals of IRT Tier 1 or Grand Slam events seven times, and those all occurred over the four season period from 2000-01 to 2003-04, when he was playing most of the IRT tournaments. Since then he has only played a few tournaments each season and not gotten past the Round of 16. International career Green has made 28 appearances on Team Canada beginning in 1996, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kris Odegard
Kris Odegard (born February 29, 1980) is a Canadian retired racquetball player from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Odegard won four Canadian Championships – two in singles and two in doubles. He also won several medals in international competition as part oTeam Canadahighlighted by gold in Men's Singles at the 2006 Pan American Racquetball Championships, Pan American Championships. Junior years Odegard was a prodigious junior player, winning four Canadian Junior titles in singles and three in doubles. He won back to back Boy's U14 Canadian Junior Championships in 1994 and 1995, then back to back Boy's U16 titles in 1996 and 1997. His three Boys' doubles titles were also consecutive, as he won Boy's U14 Doubles in 1993 with Eric Urteaga, then two more U14 titles with Alan Chong in 1994 and 1995. Odegard won two singles titles at thInternational Racquetball FederationWorld Junior Championships. He won Boy's U12 in 1993, and Boys U16 in 1997, when defeated fellow Canadian Kane Wasele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
