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Paola Longoria

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Paola Longoria is a Mexican racquetball player, born on 20 July 1989 in San Luis Potosí. She is the current women's world champion in singles and in the team event, winning both at the 2024 International Racquetball Federation World Championships in San Antonio, Texas, and she is the most winning player in the history of those championships and the only woman to win both singles and doubles at the worlds. Longoria has been the number one player on the Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour for ten consecutive seasons, the first Mexican woman to reach that ranking, in 2008-09. She won three gold medals for Mexico at each of the Pan American Games in 2011, 2015 and 2019, and as a junior won eight consecutive world junior championships from 2001 to 2008. In the 2024 general election she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the Citizens' Movement.

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1989 1
Gender
Female 1
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5+ 1
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is a Mexican racquetball player
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1. Paola Longoria (Wikipedia)
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    (born 20 July 1989)
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    She is the current Women's World Champion in Singles and the Team event
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    Longoria is the most winning player in IRF World Championship history
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    She is the current Women's World Champion in Singles and the Team event
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    is a Mexican racquetball player
  • Competed In: Pan American Games, Body, international career
    Longoria won three gold medals for Mexico at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto
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