1996 South American Youth Championships in Athletics

XIII South American Youth Championships in Athletics
Dates	October 18–20
Host city	Asunción, Paraguay
Level	Youth
Events	38
Participation	about 268 athletes from 10 nations
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The 13th South American Youth Championships in Athletics were held in Asunción, Paraguay from October 18–20, 1996.

Medal summary[]

Medal winners are published for boys^[1] and girls.^[2] Complete results can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website.^[3]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -1.1 m/s)	Helly Ollarves (VEN)	11.11	(BRA)	11.16	(COL)	11.29
200 metres (wind: -4.1 m/s)	Helly Ollarves (VEN)	22.74	(ARG)	22.80	(BRA)	22.87
400 metres	(BRA)	49.12	(BRA)	49.13	(COL)	49.64
800 metres	(BRA)	1:58.23	(BRA)	1:58.25	Rodrigo Escobar (CHI)	1:58.90
1500 metres	(BRA)	4:02.54	(ARG)	4:03.26	Rodrigo Escobar (CHI)	4:04.44
5000 metres	(BRA)	15:10.74	(ARG)	15:44.78	(ARG)	15:49.11
1500 metres steeplechase	(BRA)	4:20.51	(ARG)	4:24.80	(ARG)	4:27.54
110 metres hurdles (wind: +2.1 m/s)	(CHI)	14.59 w	(ARG)	14.62 w	(BRA)	14.68 w
300 metres hurdles	Jackson Quiñónez (ECU)	38.1	(ECU)	38.3	(BRA)	39.1
High jump	(BRA)	1.99	(PER)	1.96	(PAR)	1.90
Pole vault	(CHI)	4.30	Gastón González (CHI)	4.30	(BRA)	4.15
Long jump	(ARG)	6.74	(CHI)	6.59	(CHI)	6.55
Triple jump	(BRA)	14.22	(CHI)	13.77	(BRA)	13.43
Shot put	(COL)	16.68	(ARG)	16.10	(BRA)	15.30
Discus throw	(COL)	51.44	(ARG)	44.34	(BRA)	42.72
Hammer throw	(ARG)	62.52	(PER)	56.38	(ARG)	55.28
Javelin throw	(BRA)	53.34	(VEN)	52.60	(ARG)	52.10
Hexathlon	(PAR)	3794	Bruno Reis (BRA)	3670	(CHI)	3560
5000 metres track walk	(BRA)	24:08.74	Cristián Muñoz (CHI)	24:08.82	(BRA)	24:27.30
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil Jarbas Mascarenhas	42.95	Argentina	43.59	Colombia	43.97
4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil	3:18.42	Argentina Pablo Blanco	3:25.53	Uruguay	3:26.01

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.9 m/s)	(PER)	12.11	(ARG)	12.13	(BRA)	12.33
200 metres (wind: -1.6 m/s)	(PER)	25.38	(ECU)	25.45	(BRA)	25.65
400 metres	(VEN)	56.06	(BRA)	56.06	(BRA)	57.17
800 metres	Christiane dos Santos (BRA)	2:13.16	(ARG)	2:13.26	(COL)	2:14.21
1500 metres	(BRA)	4:37.68	(PER)	4:40.84	(CHI)	4:41.54
3000 metres	(PER)	9:54.71	(BRA)	9:55.15	(CHI)	10:10.82
100 metres hurdles (wind: 0.0 m/s)	(BRA)	14.75	(CHI)	14.76	(COL)	14.88
300 metres hurdles	(BRA)	43.18	(COL)	44.35	(ARG)	44.39
High jump	Delfina Blaquier (ARG)	1.75	(ARG)	1.68	(CHI)	1.68
Long jump	Gisele de Oliveira (BRA)	5.71	(ECU)	5.68	(ARG)	5.63
Shot put	(ARG)	11.98	(COL)	11.81	(BRA)	11.63
Discus throw	María Cubillán (VEN)	39.02	(ARG)	38.10	(BRA)	37.48
Javelin throw	(URU)	38.76	(ARG)	38.16	(BRA)	37.78
Pentathlon	(CHI)	3288	(BRA)	3165	Joana Ribeiro (BRA)	3018
3000 metres Track Walk	(ECU)	15:00.1	(BOL)	15:01.8	Yesenia López (COL)	15:31.7
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil	47.81	Argentina	48.55	Chile	48.57
4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil Adriana da Silva	3:49.67	Colombia Melisa Murillo	3:55.55	Chile	3:56.55

Medal table (unofficial)[]

  *   Host nation (Paraguay)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil (BRA)	18	7	15	40
2	Argentina (ARG)	4	15	6	25
3	Venezuela (VEN)	4	1	0	5
4	Chile (CHI)	3	5	9	17
5	Peru (PER)	3	3	0	6
6	Colombia (COL)	2	3	6	11
7	Ecuador (ECU)	2	3	0	5
8	Paraguay (PAR)*	1	0	1	2
	Uruguay (URU)	1	0	1	2
10	Bolivia (BOL)	0	1	0	1
Totals (10 nations)		38	38	38	114

Participation (unofficial)[]

Detailed result lists can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website.^[3] An unofficial count yields the number of about 268 athletes from about 10 countries:

References[]

External links[]

• World Junior Athletics History