2016 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics

VII South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics
Dates	23–25 September
Host city	Lima, Peru
Venue	Villa Deportiva Nacional (VIDENA)
Level	Under-23
Events	44
Participation	237 athletes from 10 nations
Records set	3 championship records
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The 2016 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics was the seventh edition of the biennial track and field competition for South American athletes aged under 23 years old, organised by CONSUDATLE. The tournament was held in Lima, Peru at the Villa Deportiva Nacional between 23 and 25 September.

Brazil was the dominant nation, winning 19 gold medals in its haul of 33. Colombia placed second with eight golds among its 22 medals. Ecuador and Peru were the next most successful nations. Brazilian sprinter Rodrigo do Nascimento was the most successful athlete of the tournament, taking four gold medals across the 100 metres, 200 metres, and relay races. Three other athletes won two individual gold medals, all of them women; Pía Fernández took a middle-distance double for Uruguay, while won a horizontal jumps double and a shot/discus double for Brazil.

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind:-1.4 m/s)	Rodrigo do Nascimento (BRA)	10.21 CR	Jhonny Rentería (COL)	10.41	Ricardo de Souza (BRA)	10.47
200 metres (wind:0.0 m/s)	Rodrigo do Nascimento (BRA)	21.20	Fredy Maidana (PAR)	21.36	Gabriel Constantino (BRA)	21.42
400 metres	Alexander Russo (BRA)	47.07	(CHI)	47.74	(ECU)	48.09
800 metres	Leandro Paris (ARG)	1:48.31	Yelssin Robledo (COL)	1:48.85	(PER)	1:51.88
1500 metres	(ECU)	3:56.37	(CHI)	3:56.66	(BRA)	3:56.84
5000 metres	Daniel do Nascimento (BRA)	14:27.78	(PER)	14:28.06	(PER)	14:29.81
10,000 metres	(PER)	30:01.18	(PER)	30:01.58	Vidal Basco (BOL)	30:05.63
110 metres hurdles (wind:+0.4 m/s)	Gabriel Constantino (BRA)	14.10	(COL)	14.10	(PER)	14.45
400 metres hurdles	Márcio Teles (BRA)	52.31	(ECU)	52.98	(CHI)	53.51
3000 metres steeplechase	Daniel do Nascimento (BRA)	9:05.40	(PER)	9:13.84	(ECU)	9:21.95
4 × 100 m relay	Brazil (BRA) Derick Silva Rodrigo do Nascimento Gabriel Constantino Ricardo de Souza	39.86	Colombia (COL) Jhonny Rentería	40.70	Argentina (ARG)	41.74
4 × 400 m relay	Brazil (BRA) Rodrigo do Nascimento Márcio Teles Alexander Russo	3:13.73	Ecuador (ECU)	3:17.23	Argentina (ARG) Leandro Paris	3:17.91
20 km walk	(COL)	1:24:41.22	Kenny Martín Pérez (COL)	1:25:18.00	Paolo Yurivilca (PER)	1:25:18.13
High jump	Fernando Ferreira (BRA)	2.20 m	(COL)	2.17 m	(PAN)	2.00 m
Pole vault	(ECU)	5.10 m	(BRA)	5.00 m	(PER)	4.90 m
Long jump	Higor Alves (BRA)	7.80 m	Raúl Mena (COL)	7.61 m	Eduardo Landaeta (ECU)	7.39 m
Triple jump	(CHI)	15.91 m	Randy Hood (CHI)	15.75 m	Mateus de Sá (BRA)	15.54 m
Shot put	(BRA)	18.99 m	(CHI)	16.40 m	(CHI)	16.39 m
Discus throw	Mauricio Ortega (COL)	57.60 m	Douglas dos Reis (BRA)	52.76 m	José Miguel Ballivian (CHI)	51.83 m[1]
Hammer throw	Humberto Mansilla (CHI)	72.67 m CR, NR	Joaquín Gómez (ARG)	71.56 m	Gabriel Kehr (CHI)	69.80 m
Javelin throw	(CHI)	71.84 m	Giovanni Díaz (PAR)	70.89 m	(BRA)	69.42 m
Decathlon	Andy Preciado (ECU)	7162 pts	Alex Soares (BRA)	7079 pts	(ARG)	6968 pts

Women[]

Evento	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind:0.0 m/s)	Evelyn Rivera (COL)	11.74	(ECU)	12.012	(CHI)	12.018
200 metres (wind:0.0 m/s)	Vitória Cristina Rosa (BRA)	23.95	Evelyn Rivera (COL)	24.01	Romina Cifuentes (ECU)	24.50
400 metres	(COL)	54.45	Eliana Chávez (COL)	54.48	(ECU)	56.08
800 metres	Pía Fernández (URU)	2:08.83	(COL)	2:09.76	(CHI)	2:12.45
1500 metres	Pía Fernández (URU)	4:24.51	Zulema Arenas (PER)	4:25.46	(ECU)	4:26.87
5000 metres	(PER)	16:34.66 CR	(BOL)	16:44.87	(ECU)	16:47.34
10,000 metres	(ECU)	35:10.63 CR	(PER)	35:52.81	(PER)	36:10.55
100 metres hurdles (wind:0.0 m/s)	Diana Bazalar (PER)	13.52 CR	(ECU)	13.85	(COL)	14.01
400 metres hurdles	Melissa González (COL)	59.26	(BRA)	1:01.11	(ECU)	1:01.58
3000 metres steeplechase	Belén Casetta (ARG)	10:05.30 CR	Zulema Arenas (PER)	10:05.43	Rina Cjuro (PER)	10:26.51
4 × 100 m relay	Ecuador (ECU) Romina Cifuentes	45.13	Brazil (BRA) Vitória Cristina Rosa	45.74	Peru (PER) Diana Bazalar	47.72
4 × 400 m relay	Colombia (COL) Melissa González Evelyn Rivera	3:42.19	Brazil (BRA) Tiffani Marinho	3:47.14	Ecuador (ECU)	3:51.55
20 km walk	(COL)	1:39:14.27	Leyde Guerra (PER)	1:40:29.49	(BOL)	1:41:18.28
High jump	(URU)	1.76 m	(BRA)	1.76 m	María Fernanda Murillo (COL)	1.76 m
Pole vault	Juliana Campos (BRA)	3.90 m	(ARG)   (ECU)	3.80 m	Not awarded
Long jump	(BRA)	5.95 m (wind:+0.4 m/s)	(CHI)	5.69 m (wind:+0.4 m/s)	(PER)	5.60 m (wind:+0.4 m/s)
Triple jump	(BRA)	13.12 m (wind:+1.1 m/s)	(ECU)	13.09 m (wind:+1.2 m/s)	(BOL)	12.74 m (wind:+1.0 m/s)
Shot put	Izabela da Silva (BRA)	16.25 m	(COL)	15.13 m	(BOL)	14.87 m
Discus throw	Izabela da Silva (BRA)	53.04 m	(ARG)	51.24 m	(ARG)	46.27 m
Hammer throw	(COL)	61.55 m	(PAR)	59.54 m	(BRA)	56.39 m
Javelin throw	(BRA)	55.94 m	(PAR)	50.91 m	(CHI)	49.23 m
Heptathlon	Fiorella Chiappe (ARG)	5149 pts	(ARG)	5042 pts	(BRA)	5009 pts

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil (BRA)	19	7	7	33
2	Colombia (COL)	8	12	2	22
3	Ecuador (ECU)	5	4	9	18
4	Peru (PER)	3	7	9	19
5	Chile (CHI)	3	5	8	16
6	Argentina (ARG)	3	4	4	11
7	Uruguay (URU)	3	0	0	3
8	Paraguay (PAR)	0	4	0	4
9	Bolivia (BOL)	0	1	4	5
10	Panama (PAN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 nations)		44	44	44	132

Participation[]

Nations could enter up to two athletes per event, and one team per relay, with a squad limit of 85 athletes.^[2] Venezuela declined to participate as a result of the Venezuelan economic cris.^[3]

References[]

Medal table

• Medal Table Archived 2016-09-28 at the Wayback Machine. Peruvian Athletics Federation. Retrieved on 2016-12-30.

External links[]

• Official website Archived 2016-11-08 at the Wayback Machine