2016 South American U18 Championships in Athletics

XXIII South American Youth Championships in Athletics
XXIII South American Youth Championships in Athletics
Dates	12–13 November
Host city	Concordia, Argentina
Venue	Centro de Desarrollo Deportivo
Level	Youth
Events	39
Participation	11 nations
	← 2014 Cali 2018 Cuenca → ;

The 23rd South American Youth Championships in Athletics were held in Concordia, Argentina on 12 and 13 November 2016.

Medal summary[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres +1.8 m/s	Brazil	10.36 GR	Guyana	10.68	Chile	10.81
200 metres -3.9 m/s	Brazil	21.41 GR^[1]	Brazil	21.93	Guyana	22.11
400 metres	Brazil	48.12	Guyana	48.57	Brazil	48.94
800 metres	Brazil	1:56.79	Marco Vilca Peru	1:58.37	Argentina	1:58.98
1500 metres	Brazil	4:09.97	Colombia	4:10.44	Pablo Cárdenas Chile	4:11.01
3000 metres	Colombia	8:45.39	Peru	8:46.98	José Zabala Argentina	8:50.54
110 metres hurdles (91.4 cm) +0.4 m/s	Ecuador	13.55 GR	Colombia	14.27	Chile	14.32
400 metres hurdles (84 cm)	Brazil	53.00	Chile	53.45	Uruguay	54.48
2000 m steeplechase	Brazil	6:00.20	Peru	6:02.75	Ecuador	6:11.09
10,000 m track walk	David Hurtado Ecuador	43:16.07	Colombia	43:48.63	Chile	45:08.47
High jump	Chile	2.00	Guyana	2.00	Brazil	2.00
Pole vault	Brazil	4.90	Chile	4.50	Chile	4.40
Long jump	Brazil	7.45	Colombia	7.45	Colombia	7.37
Triple jump	Brazil	15.45	Colombia	15.31	Chile	14.23
Shot put (5 kg)	Brazil	19.67	Claudio Romero Chile	19.14	Argentina	18.98
Discus throw (1.5 kg)	Brazil	60.92 GR	Claudio Romero Chile	60.49	Brazil	57.64
Hammer throw (5 kg)	Paraguay	75.18	Brazil	74.39	Chile	67.15
Javelin throw (700 kg)	Brazil	77.30	Venezuela	69.10	Chile	64.83
Decathlon (youth)	Argentina	6525 GR	Argentina	5965	Chile	5910
WR world record \| AR area record \| CR championship record \| GR games record \| NR national record \| OR Olympic record \| PB personal best \| SB season best \| WL world leading (in a given season)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres +0.5 m/s	Lorraine Martins Brazil	11.78	Romina Cifuentes Ecuador	11.81	Brazil	11.82
200 metres -2.2 m/s	Romina Cifuentes Ecuador	24.44	Brazil	24.90	Lorraine Martins Brazil	24.98
400 metres	Brazil	54.90	Ecuador	55.87	Colombia	56.13
800 metres	Venezuela	2:17.58	Brazil	2:18.20	Chile	2:18.42
1500 metres	Colombia	4:51.88	Colombia	4:54.76	Brazil	4:55.63
3000 metres	Argentina	10:26.80	Peru	10:28.20	Peru	10:28.47
100 metres hurdles (76.2 cm) +2.8 m/s	Brazil	13.54 GR^[2]	Venezuela	13.68	Colombia	13.95
400 metres hurdles	Brazil	60.78	Brazil	61.33	Argentina	62.09
2000 m steeplechase	Argentina	6:56.62	Colombia	7:03.26	Brazil	7:19.25
4600 m track walk^[3]	Ecuador		Peru		Colombia
High jump	María Fernanda Murillo Colombia	1.85 GR	Chile	1.73	María Parra Venezuela	1.70
Pole vault	Ecuador	3.90 =GR, NR	Venezuela	3.90 =GR	Brazil	3.70
Long jump	Colombia	6.13 GR	Chile	5.99w	Guyana	5.94w
Triple jump	Colombia	13.20w GR^[4]	Brazil	13.08w	Argentina	12.32w
Shot put (3 kg)	Chile	17.24 GR	Brazil	16.15	Ecuador	14.69
Discus throw	Chile	44.57	Brazil	42.37	Colombia	36.27
Hammer throw (3 kg)	Chile	64.31 GR	Peru	60.65	Venezuela	59.02
Javelin throw (500 g)	Ecuador	51.20	Brazil	49.40	Ecuador	46.92
Heptathlon (youth)	Brazil	4811	Argentina	4390	Venezuela	4366
WR world record \| AR area record \| CR championship record \| GR games record \| NR national record \| OR Olympic record \| PB personal best \| SB season best \| WL world leading (in a given season)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil	3:30.12	Chile	3:36.48	Colombia	3:37.24


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil (BRA)	19	9	8	36
2	Ecuador (ECU)	6	2	3	11
3	Colombia (COL)	5	7	7	19
4	Chile (CHI)	4	7	10	21
5	Argentina (ARG)	3	2	5	10
6	Venezuela (VEN)	1	3	3	7
7	Paraguay (PAR)	1	0	0	1
8	Peru (PER)	0	6	1	7
9	Guyana (GUY)	0	3	2	5
10	Uruguay (URU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 nations)		39	39	40	118

^ Games record with 21.16 in the heats
^ Games record with wind-legal 13.73 in the heats
^ As the distance was 4600 metres instead of the regular 5000 due to a mistake, no times were recorded although the placing were used to give out medals and award team points
^ Games record with wind-legal 13.06
^ Medal table^{[permanent dead link]}

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
Under-23	2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018
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
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