1998 South American Youth Championships in Athletics

XIV South American Youth Championships in Athletics
Dates	October 23–25
Host city	Manaus, Brazil
Level	Youth
Events	41
Participation	about 190 athletes from 13 nations
← 1996 Asunción 2000 Bogotá →

The 14th South American Youth Championships in Athletics were held in Manaus, Brazil from October 23–25, 1998.

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: -1.9 m/s)	Basílio de Moraes (BRA)	10.6	Roberto de Jesus (BRA)	10.8	David Olson (VEN)	10.8
200 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	(COL)	21.70	Basílio de Moraes (BRA)	21.72	(BRA)	22.31
400 metres	(BRA)	49.57	(BRA)	49.78	(VEN)	50.34
800 metres	Simoncito Silvera (VEN)	1:58.54	Fabiano Peçanha (BRA)	1:58.69	(CHI)	1:59.58
1500 metres	(URU)	4:05.10	José Manuel González (VEN)	4:05.43	(BRA)	4:05.53
5000 metres	(ARG)	15:11.76	(BRA)	15:14.74	(COL)	15:22.24
1500 metres steeplechase	(ARG)	4:22.77	(CHI)	4:24.75	José Manuel González (VEN)	4:26.60
110 metres hurdles (wind: 0.0 m/s)	(VEN)	14.30	(ARG)	14.60	(BRA)	14.76
300 metres hurdles	(ARG)	38.66	(BRA)	38.81	(BRA)	39.08
High jump	(COL)	2.01	(VEN)	1.98	(ARG)	1.95
Pole vault	(CHI)	4.40	José Francisco Nava (CHI)	4.20	(ARG)	3.90
Long jump	(BRA)	6.85	(BRA)	6.75	(COL)	6.55
Triple jump	(BRA)	13.89	Jefferson Sabino (BRA)	13.71	(PER)	13.66
Shot put	(BRA)	16.90	(BRA)	15.54	(VEN)	15.38
Discus throw	(CHI)	47.60	(VEN)	47.16	(ARG)	46.62
Hammer throw	(ARG)	61.77	(ARG)	60.24	(CHI)	55.69
Javelin throw	(BRA)	57.39	(VEN)	53.96	(COL)	53.71
Hexathlon	(BRA)	3915	(BRA)	3382	(PER)	3347
5000 metres track walk	(COL)	23:07.69	(URU)	23:09.16	(BRA)	25:33.67
4 × 100 metres relay	Colombia	42.70	Chile Diego Valdés	43.09	Brazil	43.22
4 × 400 metres relay	Colombia	3:22.36	Brazil Fabiano Peçanha	3:23.23	Venezuela Simoncito Silvera	3:23.96

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.7 m/s)	Thatiana Ignácio (BRA)	12.04	Wilmary Álvarez (VEN)	12.43	(CHI)	12.54
200 metres (wind: +0.7 m/s)	Norma González (COL)	24.35	Thatiana Ignácio (BRA)	25.00	(CHI)	25.13
400 metres	Norma González (COL)	55.40	(BRA)	57.35	(BRA)	58.21
800 metres	Juliana de Azevedo (BRA)	2:13.60	(ARG)	2:14.88	Yusmelys García (VEN)	2:17.41
1500 metres	(BRA)	4:38.92	(ARG)	4:39.41	(ARG)	4:39.42
3000 metres	(BRA)	10:09.54	(BRA)	10:22.65	(PER)	10:24.08
100 metres hurdles (wind: 0.0 m/s)	(CHI)	14.58	(PER)	14.65	(BRA)	14.94
300 metres hurdles	(BRA)	44.64	(CHI)	45.01	(VEN)	48.23
High jump	(COL)	1.67	(CHI)	1.64	(CHI)	1.64
Pole vault	(BRA)	3.30	(CHI)	2.90	(COL)	2.90
Long jump	(BRA)	5.75	(BRA)	5.64	Jennifer Arveláez (VEN)	5.60
Triple jump	Jennifer Arveláez (VEN)	12.21	(BRA)	12.02	(BRA)	11.31
Shot put	(ARG)	11.77	(ARG)	11.65	(COL)	11.58
Discus throw	(BRA)	36.86	(URU)	36.06	(COL)	35.84
Hammer throw	(ECU)	51.38*	(BRA)	51.24*	Odette Palma (CHI)	49.50*
Javelin throw	Leryn Franco (PAR)	40.26	(BRA)	38.04	(CHI)	37.06
Pentathlon	(CHI)	3573	(BRA)	3294	(BRA)	3110
3000 metres Track Walk	(ECU)	14:04.99	(ECU)	14:18.38	(PER)	15:21.37
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil Thatiana Ignâcio	47.89	Chile	48.48	Colombia Norma González	48.87
4 × 400 metres relay	Chile	3:54.20	Brazil	3:54.25	Colombia Norma González	3:56.12

Medal table (unofficial)[]

  *   Host nation (Brazil)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil*	16	20	10	46
2	Colombia	8	0	8	16
3	Chile	5	7	7	19
4	Argentina	5	5	4	14
5	Venezuela	3	5	8	16
6	Ecuador	2	1	0	3
7	Uruguay	1	2	0	3
8	Paraguay	1	0	0	1
9	Peru	0	1	4	5
Totals (9 nations)		41	41	41	123

Participation (unofficial)[]

Detailed result lists can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website.^[3] An unofficial count yields the number of about 190 athletes from about 13 countries:

References[]

External links[]

• World Junior Athletics History