1997 South American Cross Country Championships

1997 South American Cross Country Championships
1997 South American Cross Country Championships
Organisers	CONSUDATLE
Edition	12th
Date	February 22–23
Host city	Comodoro Rivadavia, Chubut, Argentina
Venue
Events	6
Distances	12 km – Senior men ; 8 km – Junior men (U20) ; 4 km – Youth men (U17) ; 6 km – Senior women; 4 km – Junior women (U20) ; 3 km – Youth women (U17)
Participation	82 + 1 guest athletes from ; 6 + 1 guest nations
	← 1996 Asunción 1998 Artur Nogueira → ;

The 1997 South American Cross Country Championships took place on February 22–23, 1997. The races were held at the in Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina.^[1]

Complete results,^[1] results for junior and youth competitions,^[2] and medal winners^[3] were published.

Medallists[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual
Senior men (12 km)	Elenilson da Silva Brazil	38:01	Colombia	38:03	Brazil	38:23
Junior (U20) men (8 km)	Brazil	6:52	Brazil	26:53	Brazil	26:53
Youth (U17) men (4 km)	Brazil	13:22	Argentina	13:28	Argentina	13:33
Senior women (6 km)	Colombia	21:18	Érika Olivera Chile	21:31	Brazil	21:56
Junior (U20) women (4 km)	Fabiana Cristine da Silva Brazil	14:26	Brazil	14:36	Bertha Sánchez Colombia	14:57
Youth (U17) women (3 km)	Brazil	11:38	Argentina	11:58	Argentina	12:08
Team
Senior men	Brazil	8	Colombia	13	Argentina	24
Junior (U20) men	Brazil	6	Argentina	23	Chile	23
Youth (U17) men	Argentina	6
Senior women	Brazil	15	Chile	15	Colombia	17
Junior (U20) women	Chile	32
Youth (U17) women	Argentina	6

Race results[]

Senior men's race (12 km)[]

Individual race
Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Elenilson da Silva	Brazil	38:01
		Colombia	38:03
		Brazil	38:23
4		Brazil	38:23
5		Brazil	38:29
6	José Teles de Souza	Brazil	38:31
7	Jacinto Navarrete	Colombia	38:38
8		Brazil	38:55
9		Colombia	39:05
10		Colombia	39:06
11		Argentina	39:17
12		Argentina	39:24
13		Colombia	39:33
14		Argentina	39:48
15		Argentina	40:04
16		Argentina	40:15
17		Argentina	40:17
18		Argentina	43:31
—		Argentina	DNF

Teams

Rank

Team

Points

Brazil

Elenilson da Silva	1
	3
	4
()	(n/s)
(José Teles de Souza)	(n/s)
()	(n/s)

8

Colombia

	2
Jacinto Navarrete	5
	6
()	(n/s)
()	(n/s)

13

Argentina

	7
	8
	9
()	(n/s)
()	(n/s)
()	(n/s)
()	(n/s)
()	(DNF)

24

Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result. (n/s: nonscorer)

Junior (U20) men's race (8 km)[]

Individual race
Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
		Brazil	6:52
		Brazil	26:53
		Brazil	26:53
4		Brazil	26:55
5		Uruguay	26:57
6		Paraguay	27:03
7		Chile	27:11
8	Javier Carriqueo	Argentina	27:15
9		Chile	27:18
10		Argentina	27:19
11	Cristóbal Valenzuela	Argentina	27:23
12		Paraguay	27:46
13		Chile	27:52
14		Argentina	28:05
15		Argentina	28:06
16		Chile	28:29
17		Argentina	28:42
18		Paraguay	29:16
—	Alejandro Rivera	Paraguay	DNF

Teams

Rank

Team

Points

Brazil

	1
	2
	3
()	(n/s)

6

Argentina

Javier Carriqueo	6
	8
Cristóbal Valenzuela	9
()	(n/s)
()	(n/s)
()	(n/s)

23

Chile

	5
	7
	11
()	(n/s)

23

4

Paraguay

	4
	10
	12
(Alejandro Rivera)	(DNF)

27

Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result. (n/s: nonscorer)

Youth (U17) men's race (4 km)[]

Individual race
Rank	Country	Time
	Brazil	13:22
	Argentina	13:28
	Argentina	13:33
4	Argentina	13:45
5	Argentina	14:02

Teams

Rank

Team

Points

Argentina

	1
	2
	3
()	(n/s)

6

Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result. (n/s: nonscorer)

Senior women's race (6 km)[]

Individual race
Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
		Colombia	21:18
	Érika Olivera	Chile	21:31
		Brazil	21:56
4		Chile	22:03
5		Brazil	22:14
6	María Eugenia Rodríguez	Colombia	22:27
7		Brazil	22:31
8		Argentina	22:33
9	Rizoneide Wanderley	Brazil	22:33
10		Chile	22:50
11		Colombia	22:53
12	María de los Ángeles Peralta	Argentina	22:58
—		United States	22:59
13		Argentina	23:03
14		Chile	23:47
15		Argentina	24:05
16		Argentina	24:53
17		Argentina	25:10

Teams

Rank

Team

Points

Brazil

	3
	5
	7
(Rizoneide Wanderley)	(n/s)

15

Chile

Érika Olivera	2
	4
	9
()	(n/s)

15

Colombia

	1
María Eugenia Rodríguez	6
	10

17

4

Argentina

	8
María de los Ángeles Peralta	11
	12
()	(n/s)
()	(n/s)
()	(n/s)

31

Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result. (n/s: nonscorer)

Junior (U20) women's race (4 km)[]

Individual race
Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Fabiana Cristine da Silva	Brazil	14:26
		Brazil	14:36
	Bertha Sánchez	Colombia	14:57
4	Erika Abril	Colombia	15:08
5		Argentina	15:18
6		Colombia	15:22
7		Chile	15:29
8		Brazil	15:34
9		Brazil	15:38
10		Argentina	15:44
11		Argentina	15:50
12	Claudia Salcedo	Chile	16:11
13		Chile	16:15
14		Chile	16:34
15		Argentina	16:44
16		Argentina	16:54
17		Argentina	16:59

Teams

Rank

Team

Points

4

Chile

32

Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result. (n/s: nonscorer)

Youth (U17) women's race (3 km)[]

Individual race
Rank	Country	Time
	Brazil	11:38
	Argentina	11:58
	Argentina	12:08
4	Argentina	12:15
5	Argentina	12:16

Teams

Rank

Team

Points

Argentina

	1
	2
	3
()	(n/s)

6

Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result. (n/s: nonscorer)

Medal table (unofficial)[]

* Host nation (Argentina)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil	9	2	3	14
2	Argentina*	2	3	4	9
3	Colombia	1	3	2	6
4	Chile	0	2	1	3
Totals (4 nations)		12	10	10	32

Note: Totals include both individual and team medals, with medals in the team competition counting as one medal.

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count, 82 athletes (+ 1 guest) from 6 countries (+ 1 guest country) participated.

Argentina (34)
Brazil (20)

Chile (12)
Colombia (11)

Paraguay (4)
Uruguay (1)

Guest country:

United States (1)

References[]

^ ^a ^b CAMPEONATO SUDAMERICANO DE CROSS COUNTRY (in Spanish), Confederación Atlética del Uruguay, archived from the original on January 4, 2014, retrieved January 11, 2014
^ Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas (December 1, 2012), SOUTH AMERICAN CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS - SAXC - 1997 Comodoro Rivadavia ARG Feb 22-23, World Junior Athletics History (WJAH), archived from the original on January 12, 2014, retrieved January 11, 2014
^ SOUTH AMERICAN CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly, retrieved January 11, 2014

External links[]

GBRathletics

[uru_01-1] CAMPEONATO SUDAMERICANO DE CROSS COUNTRY (in Spanish), Confederación Atlética del Uruguay, archived from the original on January 4, 2014, retrieved January 11, 2014

[wjah_01-2] Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas (December 1, 2012), SOUTH AMERICAN CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS - SAXC - 1997 Comodoro Rivadavia ARG Feb 22-23, World Junior Athletics History (WJAH), archived from the original on January 12, 2014, retrieved January 11, 2014

[gbr_01-3] SOUTH AMERICAN CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly, retrieved January 11, 2014

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v t Championships of the South American Athletics Confederation
Outdoor (records) Indoor Cross Country Race Walking Marathon Half Marathon Road Mile Mountain Running Under-23 Under-20 Under-18
Senior*	1918U 1919 1920 1922U 1924 1926 1927 1929 1931 1931U 1933 1935 1937 1939 1941 1943 1945 1946U 1947 1948U 1949 1950U 1952 1953U 1954 1956 1957U 1958 1961 1963 1965 1967 1969 1971 1974 1975 1977 1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2006 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021
Indoor	2020 2022
Under-23	2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2021
Under-20	1959 1960 1961 1962 1964 1966 1968 1970 1972 1974 1976 1978 1980 1981 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021
Under-18	1973 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2021
Race Walking	2001 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014
Cross Country	1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
^* U = Unofficial Outdoor Championships · See also: Athletics at the South American Games

1997 South American Cross Country Championships

Contents

Medallists[]

Race results[]

Senior men's race (12 km)[]

Junior (U20) men's race (8 km)[]

Youth (U17) men's race (4 km)[]

Senior women's race (6 km)[]

Junior (U20) women's race (4 km)[]

Youth (U17) women's race (3 km)[]

Medal table (unofficial)[]

Participation[]

See also[]

References[]

External links[]