{"id":2197,"date":"2024-03-28T19:56:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T23:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/ns\/canada-wins-three-silver-medals-at-pan-american-championships\/"},"modified":"2024-03-28T19:56:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T23:56:28","slug":"canada-wins-three-silver-medals-at-pan-american-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/ns\/canada-wins-three-silver-medals-at-pan-american-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Wins Three Silver Medals at Pan American Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Winnipeg,<\/strong>&nbsp;March 28, 2024 &#8211; Team Canada has won silver in three events at the 2024 Pan American Championships being held in Guatemala City, Guatemala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Podium results for Canada came from Samuel Murray (Baie-Comeau) in men\u2019s singles, Murray and Coby Iwaasa (Lethbridge) in men\u2019s doubles and Iwaasa and Juliette Parent (Saint-Jacques) in mixed doubles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Murray faced Rodrigo Montoya of Mexico in Thursday\u2019s men\u2019s singles final. Murray looked strong, but Montoya managed to win in four games with scores of 11-7, 6-11, 15-13, 11-8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In men\u2019s doubles, Murray and Coby Iwaasa looked like gold could be within reach but were unable to win. It was a roller coaster match against Costa Rica that went back and forth with Canada forcing a tiebreaker. However, Andr\u00e9s Acu\u00f1a and Gabriel Garcia took control in the last game to win with scores of&nbsp;7-11, 11-7, 11-6, 7-11, 11-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Canada&#8217;s last opportunity for a gold medal rested with the mixed doubles team of Iwaasa and Juliette Parent,&nbsp;who played against USA\u2019s Sam Bredenbeck and Michelle Key.&nbsp; Although the teams were closely matched, USA won in three games with scores of 11-9, 12-10, 11-9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Men\u2019s Team Event got underway on Thursday but because of Canada\u2019s strong showing in the singles and doubles events, they received a bye to the quarterfinals. The Women\u2019s Team Event begins Friday. Play concludes Saturday, March 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Team Event will be streamed live on the International Racquetball Federation&#8217;s Facebook Page and YouTube Channel, as well as on the&nbsp;<strong><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.panamsportschannel.org\/main\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Panam Sports Channel<\/a><\/u><\/strong>. You&#8217;ll find times and links on the Racquetball Canada&#8217;s social pages which are linked to the icons at the bottom of this release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Click here<a href=\"https:\/\/www.r2sports.com\/website\/division-list.asp?TID=42151&amp;sortBy=defaultOrder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/u><\/strong>for complete draws and results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg,&nbsp;March 28, 2024 &#8211; Team Canada has won silver in three events at the 2024 Pan American Championships being held in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Podium results for Canada came from Samuel Murray (Baie-Comeau) in men\u2019s singles, Murray and Coby Iwaasa (Lethbridge) in men\u2019s doubles and Iwaasa and Juliette Parent (Saint-Jacques) in mixed doubles. Murray faced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballcanada.ca\/ns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}