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Basque pelota (Basque: pilota, Spanish: pelota vasca, French: pelote basque) is the name for a variety of court sports played with a ball using one's hand, a racket, a wooden bat or a basket, against a wall (frontis or fronton) or, more traditionally, with two teams face to face separated by a line on the ground or a net. The roots of this ...
fronton at Ossès Church. The front wall of the first frontons in villages was usually the wall of a church. Because the games being played close by, several priests would play pelota along with the villagers and got to be well-known players and often served as referees in provincial or town competitions [1] but were out of the picture when it turned into a commercialized sport.
Women's pelota fronton Peru Martha Gisella Monzón Rodríguez Graciela Fernanda Valenzuela Carmona Venezuela Gazigy Naim Carrllo Diana Carolina Rangel Mora Chile Natalia Andrea Bozzo Muñoz Rosario Andrea Valderrama Labarca Women's pelota de Goma (rubber ball) 30 m Venezuela Rosa Diaz Gazigy Naim Carrllo Chile Rosario Andrea Valderrama Labarca
Paleta frontón is a Peruvian sport that was born in the capital, Lima, in 1945. [1] This sport has its roots in the "pelota vasca" brought by the Spanish settlers, and the domestic "pelota mano", called "handball" at that time due to English influence.
The International Federation of Basque Pelota (Spanish: Federación Internacional de Pelota Vasca (FIPV), Basque: Euskal Pilotaren Nazioarteko Federakuntza) is the worldwide governing body for Basque pelota, recognized by the International Olympic Committee. [1]
Event Gold Silver Bronze Hand-pelota (individual): Pérez: Alvárez: Benesse Hand-pelota (pairs): Santamaría, Serralde: Belascain, Harocarene: Izquierdo, Quesada ...
La pelota vasca — 2003 political documentary about the Basque County, by Julio Medem Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Pelota vasca .
Basque Pelota was a demonstration sport at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. It was the third time that the sport was included in the Olympic program; it was an official Olympic sport at the 1900 Games in Paris, and a demonstration sport in 1924. It would be included as a demonstration sport once again at the 1992 Games in Barcelona. [1]