Mario Mercado

Mario Mercado is a Bolivian-born Colombian racquetball player, born on January 12, 1995, in Cochabamba, Bolivia. He has won several medals for Colombia, highlighted by a silver medal in the men's team event at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, which was Colombia's first racquetball silver medal at those games, and he has also won on the International Racquetball Tour. Mercado was introduced to racquetball at age 10 by his parents and stopped playing soccer at 14 to concentrate on it. He played the world junior championships for Bolivia and won boys under 18 in 2014 in Cali, Colombia, beating fellow Bolivian Conrrado Moscoso in the final, and he played the 2014 world championships for Bolivia before switching to Colombia.