Racquetball player Paola Longoria won three gold medals at the Pan American Games in Peru in August – in singles, doubles and in the team competition reports SIA.She won each of the three gold medals for the third consecutive time, following her triumphs in Mexico in 2011 and Canada in 2015. The Mexican is also a two-time champion of The World Games, having won in Kaohsiung and Cali (Racquetball was not on the programme in Wroclaw in 2017). More than deservedly, she is The World Games Athlete of August 2019.
Paola Longoria is a super-star in Racquetball. She began playing Racquetball at a summer camp when she was eight years old. Longoria says she is hyperactive and loves several sports, including tennis, gymnastics, football, and basketball. "But with Racquetball it was love at first sight. The ball was faster than the other sports and was practised in a closed place, so I decided there and then it would be the sport to which I would dedicate my effort and passion. When I was 9 years old I qualified for my first Youth World Championship, and so began my journey.” Since then, she has conquered the world, with four individual and four doubles gold medals at the IRF World Championships, and with great success at The World Games, several Regional Games, and more.
In 2010, Paola Longoria was awarded Mexico’s National Sports award, and in 2013 her name was added by Forbes Magazine to the list of the Top 50 Most Influential Women in Mexico. This month, she was elected to the Panam Sports Athlete Commission alongside four others.
Paola Longoria will receive The World Games Athlete of the Month diploma as well as a branded gift from the Official Sponsor of Athlete of the Month, Protective Life.
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