Clara Guerrero

Guerrero became the 49th Colombian Athlete of the Year.

This is the first time in history that a bowler received the prestigious award.

Clara Juliana Guerrero Londoño (born April 22, 1982, in Armenia, Colombia) is a right-handed Colombian ten-pin bowler who has won Colombian championships and multiple international championships.

She has been a member of Team Colombia for twenty years, and another half dozen years on Junior Team Colombia.

Internationally, Guerrero was chosen 2000 Woman of the Year in Quindio, Colombia, Best Athlete of the Year and Future Athlete of the Year.

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.

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 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.

Guerrero is a strong international competitor.

She averaged 203.60 in order to capture the 2007-08 Sport Bowling national high average in the U.S. She also became the Colombian National Games champion in 2008.

In her mid-20s at the time, some fans dubbed the Colombian bowler the "Hottest Woman in Bowling".

She became the Team Colombia Trials Champion in 2009, beating out her nearest competitor, Paola Gomez, by 310 pins.

Guerrero averaged 208.00 over 48 games, the highest average in the 2009 Team Colombia Trials for both men and women.

Guerrero added some of the most important world titles to her resume in 2009.

She won the All-Events and Masters World Champion titles at the 2009 Women's World Championships.

To earn the All-Events medal (combined results of Singles, Doubles, Trios and Team), she fired a 258-game to secure a 5,330 pinfall total and an average of 222.08 over 24 games.

All Events gold medalist, Guerrero denied Korea a clean sweep of the Masters event with victory over Hwang Sun-Ok in the title match of the World Women's Championship 2009.

But the victory did not come easy as the match was stretched into the fifth and deciding game in the best-of-5 championship Masters finals where Guerrero edged Korea's Hwang Sun-Ok, 203-182 in the deciding game.

In the Semifinals match Guerrero posted the highest 3-game series ever in the history of the World Championships behind games of 248, 268 and 289 for an 805 total.

Guerrero made history at the World Women's Championships, she is the first bowler ever to win the All-Events and Masters event in the same year.

Guerrero continued her success in 2009.

She captured the silver medal in All-Events, Trios, and Teams at the 2009 Pan-American Adult Championship in Puerto Rico.

In October, she took first at the Columbia 300 Vienna open in mixed doubles event.

Later in November 2009, Guerrero represented her home country at the Juegos Bolivarianos in Bolivia, she earn four gold medals and two silver medals in this competition.

Guerrero and her teammates made history earning 11 gold medals out of 15 categories.

She has one title (a major) on the PWBA Tour since the rebirth of the Professional Women's Bowling Association in 2015.

Clara had a long sponsorship association with Columbia 300 bowling balls, before signing with Storm Bowling in 2021.

She is also sponsored by Turbo grips.