2013 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships

XVII Pan American Junior Athletics Championships
Dates	23–25 August
Host city	Medellin, Colombia
Venue	Estadio Alfonso Galvis Duque
Level	Junior
Events	44
Participation	36 nations
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The 2013 Pan American Junior Championships was held at the Estadio Alfonso Galvis Duque in Medellin, Colombia, from 23–25 August. The competition was originally scheduled for 2–4 August in Lima, Peru. Lima was ruled out as the host and the dates were also amended in April, due to the clash with the 2013 World Games in Cali and its proximity to the 2013 World Championships in Athletics.^[1]

The host stadium (left) with its blue running track

The United States easily topped the medal table with fifteen gold medals and 38 medals in total, continuing their streak as the best performing nation at the championships (bar one interruption at the 2001 edition). Cuba and Canada, the other traditionally strong nations in the region, were the next best performers: Cuba won eight golds in its haul of eleven medals while Canada had the second largest total with 19 medals (six of them gold). Brazil and Mexico each took four golds and the host nation Colombia claimed twelve medals overall. Twenty-one of the 36 participating nations reached the medal table.^[2]

Two championship record marks were bettered in 2013, both of the women's field events. In the pole vault Canada's Alysha Newman and Venezuela's Robeilys Peinado both cleared 4.40 m (14 ft 5 in). Newman broke the North American junior record and Peinado improved her own Venezuelan record. American was the other to break a championship record with her winning mark of 53.93 m (176 ft 11 in) in the javelin throw. Another record of note was the South American junior record of 13.42 seconds in the 110 metres hurdles, set by Colombia's . Felipe dos Santos of Brazil also broke the regional junior record with his winning score of 7762 points in the decathlon.^[2]

Among the participants, two completed doubles: Arialis Gandulla Martínez was the winner of both the women's 100 metres and 200 metres while Peru's claimed both the 3000 metres flat and steeplechase titles. Brazil had two multiple medallists in Izabela da Silva (women's discus throw winner and shot put runner-up) and Thiago do Rosário (runner-up in both the men's 1500 metres and 5000 metres). Sage Watson of Canada won the 400 metres hurdles title, a silver in the 4×400 m relay, and a bronze in the flat race. Ecuadorian Angela Tenorio was a minor medallist in both the women's sprints.

Several medallists from the 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics were present. repeated his triple jump title and Christoff Bryan won another men's high jump medal. Peinado and Tenorio had also won medals at the youth event.

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Zharnel Hughes (AIA)	10.31	Andre De Grasse (CAN)	10.36	Trayvon Bromell (USA)	10.44
200 metres	Reynier Mena (CUB)	20.63	(BRA)	20.73	Andre De Grasse (CAN)	20.74
400 metres	Brandon McBride (CAN)	45.89	Yoandys Lescay (CUB)	45.90	Alejandro Perlaza (COL)	46.42
800 metres	(MEX)	1:50.35	(COL)	1:51.10	(BAH)	1:51.47
1500 metres	Craig Engels (USA)	3:53.12	Thiago do Rosário (BRA)	3:54.22	(MEX)	3:54.85
5000 metres	(MEX)	14:44.54	Thiago do Rosário (BRA)	14:52.46	(USA)	14:55.53
10,000 metres	(USA)	31:12.39	(MEX)	31:20.77	(GUA)	31:20.98
110 m hurdles	(COL)	13.42 AJR	Tony Brown (USA)	13.47	(VEN)	13.61
400 m hurdles	(USA)	50.75	(USA)	50.96	(COL)	51.37
3000 m steeplechase	(COL)	9:16.37	(CAN)	9:17.09	Nelson Blanco (COL)	9:25.57
4×100 m relay	United States (USA) Cameron Burrell Trayvon Bromell	39.17	Jamaica (JAM) Jevaughn Minzie Jazeel Murphy Odail Todd	39.68	Brazil (BRA) Rodrigo Nascimento Ricardo Souza	39.96
4×400 m relay	United States (USA)	3:06.57	Brazil (BRA) Alexander Russo Rodrigo Nascimento	3:06.94	Canada (CAN) Brandon McBride	3:07.61
10,000 m walk	(MEX)	40:36.85	Brian Pintado (ECU)	41:21.97	Kenny Perez (COL)	41:53.86
High jump	(USA)	2.16 m	Christoff Bryan (JAM)	2.16 m	(USA)	2.13 m
Pole vault	Shawnacy Barber (CAN)	5.35 m	(USA)	5.20 m	(USA)	4.90 m
Long jump	Higor Alves (BRA)	7.95 m	(USA)	7.92 m	(MEX)	7.48 m
Triple jump[a]	Lázaro Martínez (CUB)	16.49 m	(USA)	16.49 m	(USA)	15.75 m
Shot put	(USA)	20.20 m	(USA)	19.69 m	(BRA)	19.35 m
Discus throw	(USA)	62.49 m	Mauricio Ortega Giron (COL)	61.77 m	Reginald Jagers (USA)	59.30 m
Hammer throw	Diego del Real (MEX)	72.99 m	Rudy Winkler (USA)	71.79 m	Humberto Mancilla (CHI)	68.44 m
Javelin throw	(CAY)	72.82 m	(BAR)	69.38 m	(CAN)	67.38 m
Decathlon	Felipe dos Santos (BRA)	7762 pts AJR	(CUB)	7515 pts	Jefferson Santos (BRA)	7478 pts

• ^[a]Martínez and White-Edwards had the same best mark of 16.49 m but Martínez took the gold by merit of his superior second best jump (16.35 m to White-Edwards' 16.29 m).^[2]

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (Wind: +2.8 m/s)	Arialis Gandulla (CUB)	11.32w	Jennifer Madu (USA)	11.37w	Angela Tenorio (ECU)	11.37w
200 metres	Arialis Gandulla (CUB)	23.27	Angela Tenorio (ECU)	23.34	(SKN)	23.48
400 metres	Courtney Okolo (USA)	52.19	Kendall Baisden (USA)	52.59	Sage Watson (CAN)	52.68
800 metres	Jenna Westaway (CAN)	2:06.94	(USA)	2:08.85	(CAN)	2:09.74
1500 metres	(CAN)	4:36.88	(USA)	4:38.84	(MEX)	4:39.85
3000 metres	(PER)	9:42.70	(CAN)	9:56.65	(PER)	10:07.76
5000 metres	(PER)	18:11.57	(COL)	18:13.83	(PER)	18:17.75
100 m hurdles	(USA)	13.56	(CAN)	13.57	Genesis Romero (VEN)	13.65 NR
400 m hurdles	Sage Watson (CAN)	56.81	(USA)	58.12	Jessica Gelibert (HAI)	58.20
3000 m steeplechase	(PER)	10:28.94	(USA)	10:46.88	(MEX)	11:02.05
4×100 m relay	United States (USA) Morolake Akinosun Jennifer Madu	43.97	Canada (CAN) Khamica Bingham	46.13	Colombia (COL)	46.55
4×400 m relay	United States (USA) Kendall Baisden Courtney Okolo	3:36.48	Canada (CAN) Jenna Westaway Sage Watson	3:41.53	Colombia (COL)	3:44.08
10,000 m walk	(BRA)	50:26.44	(COL)	50:44.19	(GUA)	50:50.37
High jump	(CUB)	1.76 m	Yulimar Rojas (VEN)	1.76 m	Thea Lafond (DMA)	1.76 m
Pole vault	Alysha Newman (CAN)	4.40 m CR AJR	Robeilys Peinado (VEN)	4.40 m CR NR	(ARG)	4.00 m
Long jump	(USA)	6.24 m	Genesis Romero (VEN)	6.04 m	Yuliana Angulo (ECU)	6.01 m
Triple jump	(CUB)	13.57 m	(BRA)	13.35 m	Núbia Soares (BRA)	13.33 m
Shot put	Stamatia Scarvelis (USA)	15.46 m	Izabela da Silva (BRA)	14.90 m	Chase Ealey (USA)	14.88 m
Discus throw	Izabela da Silva (BRA)	54.15 m	Magdalyn Ewen (USA)	50.48 m	(ARG)	50.44 m
Hammer throw	(CUB)	60.94 m	(USA)	57.40 m	(CAN)	56.58 m
Javelin throw	(USA)	53.93 m CR	Yulenmis Aguilar (CUB)	50.00 m	(URU)	49.07 m
Heptathlon	(CUB)	5627 pts CR	Kendell Williams (USA)	5572 pts	Georgia Ellenwood (CAN)	5493 pts

Medal table[]

  *   Host nation (Colombia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	15	16	7	38
2	Cuba	8	3	0	11
3	Canada	6	6	7	19
4	Brazil	4	6	4	14
5	Mexico	4	1	4	9
6	Peru	3	0	2	5
7	Colombia*	2	4	6	12
8	Anguilla	1	0	0	1
	Cayman Islands	1	0	0	1
10	Venezuela	0	3	2	5
11	Ecuador	0	2	2	4
12	Jamaica	0	2	0	2
13	Barbados	0	1	0	1
14	Argentina	0	0	2	2
	Guatemala	0	0	2	2
16	Bahamas	0	0	1	1
	Chile	0	0	1	1
	Dominica	0	0	1	1
	Haiti	0	0	1	1
	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	0	1	1
	Uruguay	0	0	1	1
Totals (21 nations)		44	44	44	132

Participation[]

References[]

Results

• Official results Archived 2013-08-29 at the Wayback Machine

External links[]

• Official website (in Spanish)