Clara Guerrero
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Clara Juliana Guerrero Londoño (born April 22, 1982, in Armenia, Colombia) is a Colombian bowler. She has won Colombian championships and multiple international championships in various competition categories. A bowler since her youth, she has more than a decade of experience bowling with Team Colombia and another half dozen years of Junior Team Colombia appearances to her credit. She has one title (a major) on the PWBA Tour since the rebirth of the Professional Women's Bowling Association in 2015.
Internationally, Guerrero was chosen 2000 Woman of the Year in Quindio, Colombia, Best Athlete of the Year and Future Athlete of the Year. Other awards to her credit include a second-place finish in the 2006 Women's Challenge, winner of the 2006 Panama Invitational, Colombian National Champion in 2002-05, Silver and Bronze medalist in the 1999 and 2003 FIQ World Championship and the Pan-American Games, Silver medalist in the 2000 AMF World Cup, and a two time World Champion in the 2009 Women's World Championships.
In 2003, Guerrero captured bronze medals in singles and doubles at the 2003 Pan American Games. The event, staged at the Sebelen Bowling Center. Guerrero continued her success in international Competition with Team Colombia. She captured the Team Bronze medal at the 2003 World Championship in Malaysia with a world record.
Two years later, Guerrero was crowned the 2005 World Ranking Masters Champion, defeating Wendy Chai of Malaysia, 2-1, in the best-of-three-game finals.
In 2006, Defending World Ranking Masters champion Clara Guerrero took the lead in the American Zone Ranking Final in Panama after the first of three 8-game blocks and never looked back. The Colombian finished atop the women's leaderboard with 4989 24-game total and an average of 207,88 to lock up her spot for the 2006 World Ranking Masters in Kuwait. Only the top three women averaged 200-plus. Guerrero, also won one of the major tournaments in the Caribbean in 2006, the “Panama Invitational”. She came to the final as the second seed and she proved that she is one of the best female amateur bowlers in the world. Guerrero eliminated 17-time PWBA champion and WIBC Hall of Famer Robin Romeo, 214-191, in the semi-final. In the championship match Guerrero topped Wendy Macpherson, 221-201, to cruise to the title. Guerrero received $3,500. Guerrero participated in the USBC Women’s Challenge where she took second.
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