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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 ...
The International federation of Basque pelota was established on 19 May 1929 in Buenos Aires, Argentina brought into being by the French Federation of Basque Pelota, the Spanish Federation of Basque Pelota and the Argentinian Federation of Basque Pelota.
Pages in category "Basque pelota" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Basque Pelota World Championships is a quadrennial tournament first organized in 1952 by the International Federation of Basque Pelota. The modern championships crown the best amateur players in fifteen different playing categories.
A Basque pelota ball is a ball designed for the sport of Basque pelota, variations of the kind and size of balls are given by the peculiar category. [ 1 ] Hand-pelota ball (right) in comparison with a Valencian variation ball
The Basque Pelota World Cup (not to be confused with the Basque Pelota World Championship) is a set of four quadrennial tournaments organized by the International Federation of Basque Pelota on each of the disciplines of Basque Pelota: Trinquete, Fronton 30m, Fronton 36m and Fronton 54m. The FIPV organizes this tournaments on the years where ...
The Basque sport best known outside the Basque Country is Basque pelota. It is a Basque version of the family of ball games that covers squash , tennis , and real tennis , all of them thought to derive from the Jeu de paume and hence a relative of Valencian pilota .
This is a List of players of Basque pelota ordered by the variant of Basque pelota for which they are renowned, and without taking into account their active time or their nationality. Cesta-Punta [ edit ]