Frontenis, Doubles (frontón 30 metres), Men

Frontenis is a variant of basque pelota developed in Mexico around 1900, when tennis players started playing in frontóns. It is conceptually similar to squash and racquetball. The sport is most popular in Mexico, which has also dominated the sport historically (it has provided all world champions save one through 2010).

The top four nations of the 1990 World Championships qualified for the Olympic demonstrations in Barcelona, which included the Spanish World Champions Pedro José Fité and Ferran Velasco, who had become the first non-Mexican World Champions. But the Mexicans, featuring the brothers Jaime Salazar and Edgar Salazar weren’t easy to beat, and they bested the Spaniards in the round-robin. They teams met again in the final, and once more, the Mexicans were the stronger of the two teams. The Salazars would go on to win the 1994 and 1998 world titles.