South American Junior Championships in Athletics

The South American Junior Championships in Athletics are the South American championships in the sport of athletics which is open for those in the junior age category (19 years or under). It is organized by the South American Athletics Confederation (CONSUDATLE).

The competition was first held in 1959 in Buenos Aires. It was an annual event form its inaugural year until 1962, at which point it was held every two years. The championships became an annual event again over the period between 1983 and 2003, but reverted to a biennial format from then onwards.^[1][2]

Awards

Medals are awarded for individuals and relay team members for the first three places in each event.

Trophies are awarded to teams in each category (male and female) with the highest total number of cumulative points in the entire competition. In addition, a trophy will be given to the country for the overall title.

A trophy is also presented to both a male and a female athlete for the most outstanding performance.^[3]

Editions

	Year	City	Country	Date	Venue
1	1959	Buenos Aires	Argentina	April 18-19
2	1960	Santiago	Chile	April 30-May 1
3	1961	Santa Fe	Argentina	October 15-16
4	1962	Lima	Peru	September 21-24
5	1964	Santiago	Chile	September 24-27
6	1966	Montevideo	Uruguay	October 9-14
7	1968	São Paulo	Brazil	September 8-14	Estadio Atlético de São Bernardo do Campo
8	1970	Cali	Colombia	October 9-12	Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero
9	1972	Asunción	Paraguay	October 21-25
10	1974	Lima	Peru	October 9-13	Estadio Nacional
11	1976	Maracaibo	Venezuela	October 13-17
12	1978	São Paulo	Brazil	December 15-17
13	1980	Santiago	Chile	October 23-26
14	1981	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	October 15-18
15	1983	Medellín	Colombia	June 9–12
16	1984	Caracas	Venezuela	October 4-7
17	1985	Santa Fe	Argentina	November 21-24
18	1986	Quito	Ecuador	September 13-16	Estadio Los Chasquis
19	1987	Santiago	Chile	September 24-27
20	1988	Cubatão	Brazil	June 30-July 3
21	1989	Montevideo	Uruguay	June 16-19
22	1990	Bogotá	Colombia	July 13-15	Estadio El Campín
23	1991	Asunción	Paraguay	June 21-23
24	1992	Lima	Peru	August 21-23
25	1993	Puerto La Cruz	Venezuela	June 18-20
26	1994	Santa Fe	Argentina	September 1-4
27	1995	Santiago	Chile	September 5-7
28	1996	Bucaramanga	Colombia	June 8-10
29	1997	San Carlos	Uruguay	June 20-21
30	1998	Córdoba	Argentina	May 16-17
31	1999	Concepción	Chile	October 22-23
32	2000	São Leopoldo	Brazil	October 7-8	University of Unisinos Track club
33	2001	Santa Fe	Argentina	October 11-20	Centro de Alto Rendimiento Deportivo Pedro Candioti
34	2002	Belém	Brazil	August 1-3	Estádio Olímpico do Pará
35	2003	Guayaquil	Ecuador	June 7-8	Estadio Modelo
36	2005	Rosario	Argentina	October 1-2	Estadio Municipal Jorge Newbery
37	2007	São Paulo*	Brazil	June 30-July 1 July 6-8	Estádio Ícaro de Castro Melo
38	2009	São Paulo Port of Spain**	Brazil  Trinidad and Tobago	July 25-26 July 31-August 2	Estádio Ícaro de Castro Melo Hasely Crawford Stadium
39	2011	Medellín	Colombia	September 23–25	Estadio Alfonso Galvis Duque
40	2013	Resistencia	Argentina	October 18–20	Polideportivo Jaime Zapata
41	2015	Cuenca	Ecuador	May 29-31	Pista Atlética Jefferson Perez

* = The Champions for men’s 10,000m, both Race Walking and Combined Events were extracted from the classification of the 2007 Pan American Junior Championships.^[4]

** = The Champions for men’s 10,000m, both Race Walking and Combined Events were extracted from the classification of the 2009 Pan American Junior Championships.^[5][6]

Medal table(1959-2015)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil	669	510	412	1591
2	Argentina	241	236	269	746
3	Chile	159	196	253	608
4	Colombia	121	160	138	419
5	Venezuela	106	164	132	402
6	Ecuador	70	58	78	206
7	Peru	49	81	90	217
8	Uruguay	16	25	41	82
9	Paraguay	10	12	16	38
10	Panama	8	5	8	21
12	Bolivia	3	7	8	18
11	Guyana	3	1	4	8
Total		1455	1455	1449	4359

Championship records

Men

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Meet	Place	Ref
100 m	10.28 (0.0 m/s)	Alonso Edward	Panama	30 June 2007	2007 Championships	São Paulo, Brazil	[7][8]
200 m	20.54 (1.1 m/s)	Bruno Pacheco	Brazil	3 August 2002	2002 Championships	Belém, Brazil	[9]
400 m	46.20	Hederson Estefani	Brazil	25 July 2009	2009 Championships	São Paulo, Brazil	[5][6]
800 m	1:48.53	Simoncito Silvera	Venezuela	13 October 2001	2001 Championships	Santa Fe, Argentina	[10]
1500 m	3:48.42	Thiago do Rosario	Brazil	19 October 2013	2013 Championships	Resistencia, Argentina	[11]
5000 m	14:13.29	Fernando Fernandes	Brazil	1 August 2002	2002 Championships	Belém, Brazil	[9]
10000 m	29:39.25	Franck de Almeida	Brazil	3 August 2002	2002 Championships	Belém, Brazil	[9]
110 m hurdles (0.99 m)	13.74 A (+1.5 m/s)	Diego del Mónaco	Chile	30 May 2015	2015 Championships	Cuenca, Ecuador	[12]
400 m hurdles	50.96 A	Hederson Estefani	Brazil	31 May 2015	2015 Championships	Cuenca, Ecuador	[13]
3000 m steeplechase	8:54.51	Mariano Mastromarino	Argentina	13 October 2001	2001 Championships	Santa Fe, Argentina	[14] *
High jump	2.23 m	Alfredo Deza	Peru	17 May 1998	1998 Championships	Córdoba, Argentina	*
Pole vault	5.16 m	Germán Chiaraviglio	Argentina	7 June 2003	2003 Championships	Guayaquil, Ecuador	[15]
Long jump	7.92 m	Thiago Dias	Brazil	2 August 2002	2002 Championships	Belém, Brazil	[9]
Triple jump	16.36 m	Gustavo Pinto	Brazil	6 September 1995	1995 Championships	Santiago, Chile	*
Shot put (6 kg)	20.93 m	Nelson Fernandes	Brazil	18 October 2013	2013 Championships	Resistencia, Argentina	[16]
Discus throw (1.75 kg)	62.78 m	Mauricio Ortega	Colombia	19 October 2013	2013 Championships	Resistencia, Argentina	[17]
Hammer throw (6 kg)	80.59 m A	Joaquin Gomez	Argentina	31 May 2015	2015 Championships	Cuenca, Ecuador	[18]
Javelin throw	74.04 m	Braian Toledo	Argentina	22 September 2011	2011 Championships	Medellín, Colombia	[19][20]
Decathlon	7304	Gonzalo Barroilhet	Chile	1–2 October 2005	2005 Championships	Rosario, Argentina	[21][22]
	(100 m), (long jump), (shot put), (high jump), (400 m) / (110 m hurdles), (discus), (pole vault), (javelin), (1500 m)
10000 km walk (track)	39:56.01	Eider Arévalo	Colombia	22 September 2011	2011 Championships	Medellín, Colombia	[19][20]
4×100 m relay	39.63	Rodrigo Rocha Jackson Da Silva Flávio Barbosa Aldemar da Silva	Brazil	25 September 2011	2011 Championships	Medellín, Colombia	[19][20]
4×400 m relay	3:08.35	Pedro Luiz Burmann de Oliveira Leandro Pitarelli de Araújo Maicon Almeida dos Santos Anderson Freitas Henriques	Brazil	25 September 2011	2011 Championships	Medellín, Colombia	[19][20]

* = assembled from gbrathletics.com^[1] (heats not considered)

Women

Event	Record	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Meet	Place	Ref
100 m	11.09 A (+1.5 m/s)	Ángela Tenorio	Ecuador	30 May 2015	2015 Championships	Cuenca, Ecuador	[23]
200 m	22.84 A (+0.5 m/s)	Ángela Tenorio	Ecuador	31 May 2015	2015 Championships	Cuenca, Ecuador	[24]
400 m	53.44	Bárbara de Oliveira	Brazil	25 July 2009	2009 Championships	São Paulo, Brazil	[5][6]
800 m	2:05.76	Ana Paula da Silva	Brazil	24 September 2011	2011 Championships	Medellín, Colombia	[19][20]
1500 m	4:26.19	Liliana Mariel Góngora	Argentina	7 October 1984	1984 Championships	Caracas, Venezuela	*
3000 m	9:30.73	Érika Olivera	Chile	7 September 1995	1995 Championships	Santiago, Chile	*
5000 m	16:47.87	Lucélia Peres	Brazil	2 October 1999	1999 Championships	Concepción, Chile	*
10000 m	34:14.4 (ht)	Érika Olivera	Chile	22 September 1994	1994 Championships	Santa Fe, Argentina	*
100 m hurdles	13.48 A (-0.4 m/s)	Clara Marin	Chile	30 May 2015	2015 Championships	Cuenca, Ecuador	[25]
400 m hurdles	58.54	Yusmely García	Venezuela	2 August 2002	2002 Championships	Belém, Brazil	[9]
3000 m steeplechase	10:33.66	Zulema Arenas	Peru	20 October 2013	2013 Championships	Resistencia, Argentina	[26]
High jump	1.86 m A	Ana Caetano	Brazil	29 May 2015	2015 Championships	Cuenca, Ecuador	[27]
Pole vault	4.35 m	Robeilys Peinado	Venezuela	30 May 2015	2015 Championships	Cuenca, Ecuador
Long jump	6.41 m (1.6 m/s)	Eliane Martins	Brazil	1 October 2005	2005 Championships	Rosario, Argentina	[21][22]
Triple jump	13.78 m	Keila Costa	Brazil	1 August 2002	2002 Championships	Belém, Brazil	[9]
Shot put (4 kg)	16.67 m	Natalia Ducó	Chile	1 July 2007	2007 Championships	São Paulo, Brazil	[7][28]
Discus throw (1 kg)	55.88 m	Izabela Rodrigues Da Silva	Brazil	20 October 2013	2013 Championships	Resistencia, Argentina	[29]
Hammer throw	57.90 m	Rosa Rodríguez	Venezuela	2 October 2005	2005 Championships	Rosario, Argentina	[21][22]
Javelin throw (600 g)	51.44 m A	Laura Paredes	Paraguay	30 May 2015	2015 Championships	Cuenca, Ecuador	[30]
Heptathlon	5574	Vanessa Spínola	Brazil	1/2 August 2009	2009 Championships	Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago	[5]
	(100 m hurdles), (high jump), (shot put), (200 m) / (long jump), (javelin), (800 m)
10000 m walk (track)	47:22.68	Lorena Arenas	Colombia	23 September 2011	2011 Championships	Medellín, Colombia	[19][20]
4x100 m relay	44.42	Josiane Valentim Bárbara Leôncio Ana Cláudia Lemos Rosângela Santos	Brazil	30 June 2007	2007 Championships	São Paulo, Brazil	[7][31]
4x400 m relay	3:36.74	Melissa Torres Janeth Largacha Evelys Aguilar Angélica Escobar	Colombia	25 September 2011	2011 Championships	Medellín, Colombia	[19][20]

* = assembled from gbrathletics.com^[32] (heats not considered)

References

External links

• Official CONSUDATLE website

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