Diego Elías

Diego Elías Chehab is a Peruvian squash player, born in Lima on 19 November 1996. ^{1 2} He was world champion in 2024 and, in April 2023, became the first South American player in squash history to reach the world No. 1 ranking. ¹

Elías won the World Junior Championship twice, in 2014 and 2015, along with two British Junior Open titles and US Junior Open titles in the under-15, under-17 and under-19 divisions. ¹ At the Pan American Games he won the men's singles gold medal in Lima in 2019 and again in Santiago in 2023, after a silver medal in Toronto in 2015. ¹ In October 2021 he won the Qatar Classic, his first PSA World Tour Platinum title. ¹ In April 2023 he reached the world No. 1 ranking, the first South American player to do so. ¹ In 2024 he won the PSA World Championship in Cairo, beating Mostafa Asal in the final and becoming the first South American world champion in the sport. ¹ In June 2025 he won the British Open for the first time, again defeating Asal in the final, having lost the 2023 British Open final to Ali Farag. ¹

Elías has been coached by Jonathon Power and Wael El Hindi, and by his father, José Manuel Elías. ¹

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