{"id":3261,"date":"2024-09-01T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racquetballontario.ca\/2024\/09\/01\/success-for-canada-at-the-2024-world-racquetball-championships\/"},"modified":"2024-09-04T17:24:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T21:24:51","slug":"success-for-canada-at-the-2024-world-racquetball-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racquetballontario.ca\/2024\/09\/01\/success-for-canada-at-the-2024-world-racquetball-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Success for Canada at the 2024 World Racquetball Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>WINNIPEG<\/strong> (September 1, 2024) &#8211; Team Canada is returning from the 2024 World Racquetball Championships with a gold, silver, and bronze medal, along with a 3rd place finish in the combined team standings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an historic achievement, Coby Iwaasa (Lethbridge) and Samuel Murray (Baie-Comeau) clinched the Men\u2019s Doubles World Championship title by defeating the top-seeded team from Mexico in the final. This marks Canada\u2019s first World Championship gold medal since 2006 and the nation&#8217;s first-ever gold in men\u2019s doubles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iwaasa and Murray, along with Kurtis Cullen (Brandon) and Trevor Webb (Kitchener), also secured a silver medal in the Men\u2019s Team Competition. Seeded 6th, the team made an extraordinary run, upsetting the 3rd-seeded Bolivian team in the quarterfinals and the 2nd-seeded Mexican team in the semifinals. Despite a valiant effort in the final, Canada fell to a strong United States team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In women\u2019s doubles, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Lambert (Montr\u00e9al) and Juliette Parent (Saint-Jacques) earned a bronze medal in their first international tournament together. The team was impressive throughout the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The women\u2019s team, composed of Lambert, Parent, Danielle Ramsay (Saskatoon), and Christine (Keay) of New Westminster, advanced to the quarterfinals in the Women\u2019s Team Event but faced a tough challenge against the top-seeded and eventual champions from Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, Canada secured a 3rd place finish in the combined men\u2019s and women\u2019s standings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2024 World Championships also served as a qualifier for the 2025 Chengdu World Games. Details on the nationals that qualified&nbsp;will be announced in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.r2sports.com\/website\/division-list.asp?TID=42436&amp;sortBy=defaultOrder\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for complete draws and results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event was live-0streamed by the International Racquetball Federation (IRF). Recorded matches are available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/@irftv-internationalracquet6344?si=UMlAROE4iHYBS_US\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IRF YouTube Channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG (September 1, 2024) &#8211; Team Canada is returning from the 2024 World Racquetball Championships with a gold, silver, and bronze medal, along with a 3rd place finish in the combined team standings. In an historic achievement, Coby Iwaasa (Lethbridge) and Samuel Murray (Baie-Comeau) clinched the Men\u2019s Doubles World Championship title by defeating the top-seeded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballontario.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballontario.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballontario.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballontario.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballontario.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballontario.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3262,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballontario.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions\/3262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballontario.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballontario.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballontario.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballontario.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}