Wrestling at the 2018 South American Games

Wrestling
at the 2018 South American Games
Wrestling ; at the 2018 South American Games
Venue	Coliseo Jose Villazon
Dates	5–7 June
Competitors	42 from 11 nations
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There were 18 Wrestling events at the 2018 South American Games in Cochabamba, Bolivia. 12 for men (six freestyle and six Greco-Roman) and six freestyle events for women. The events were held between June 5 and 7 at the Coliseo Jose Villazon.^[1] This event was a qualification event for the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, where the top athlete not already qualified in each event, qualified a quota spot for their country.^[2]

Medal summary[]

Medal table[]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Venezuela (VEN)	6	6	4	16
2	Colombia (COL)	5	4	3	12
3	Brazil (BRA)	3	1	3	7
4	Ecuador (ECU)	2	0	4	6
5	Peru (PER)	1	3	2	6
6	Chile (CHI)	1	0	1	2
7	Argentina (ARG)	0	4	2	6
8	Panama (PAN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 nations)		18	18	20	56

Medallists[]

Athletes in bold qualified their country a quota spot for the 2019 Pan American Games.

Men's freestyle[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
57 kg	Pedro Mejías Venezuela	Óscar Tigreros Colombia	Peru
65 kg	Venezuela	Agustín Destribats Argentina	Peru
74 kg	Colombia	Argentina	Mauricio Sanchez Ecuador Venezuela
86 kg	Pedro Ceballos Venezuela	Pool Ambrocio Peru	Eduardo Gajardo Chile Argentina
97 kg	Jose Diaz Venezuela	Argentina	Colombia
125 kg	Luis Vivenes Venezuela	Argentina	Jorge Medina Ecuador

Men's Greco-Roman[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
60 kg	Ecuador	Colombia	Venezuela
67 kg	Joílson Júnior Brazil	Peru	Ecuador
77 kg	Colombia	Luis Avendaño Venezuela	Brazil
87 kg	Carlos Munoz Colombia	Venezuela	Panama
97 kg	Venezuela	Colombia	Brazil
130 kg	Yasmani Acosta Chile	Erwin Caraballo Venezuela	Argentina

Women's freestyle[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 kg	Carolina Castillo Colombia	Thalia Mallqui Peru	Jacqueline Mollocana Ecuador
53 kg	Luisa Valverde Ecuador	Betzabeth Arguello Venezuela	Colombia
57 kg	Giullia Penalber Brazil	Colombia	Betzabeth Sarco Venezuela
62 kg	Laís Nunes Brazil	Venezuela	Jackeline Rentería Colombia
68 kg	Yanet Sovero Peru	Venezuela	Brazil
76 kg	Andrea Olaya Colombia	Aline Ferreira Brazil	Maria Acosta Venezuela

References[]

^ "Lucha" [Wrestling]. www.cochabamba2018.bo/ (in Spanish). Cochabama 2018 Organizing Committee for the 2018 South American Games. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
^ "Qualification System manual" (PDF). www.panamsports.org/. Pan American Sports Organization. 25 April 2018. Retrieved 5 June 2018.

External links[]

Results book

[1] "Lucha" [Wrestling]. www.cochabamba2018.bo/ (in Spanish). Cochabama 2018 Organizing Committee for the 2018 South American Games. Retrieved 4 June 2018.

[manual-2] "Qualification System manual" (PDF). www.panamsports.org/. Pan American Sports Organization. 25 April 2018. Retrieved 5 June 2018.

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