2009 South American Championships in Athletics

46th South American Championships
Dates	19 June – 21 June
Host city	Lima, Peru
Venue	Villa Deportiva Nacional
Level	Senior
Events	44
Records set	10 Championship records 2 Area records
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Fabiana Murer (above) set a new pole vault record.

The 2009 South American Championships in Athletics (Spanish: 2009 Campeonatos Sudamericanos) was the forty sixth edition of the tournament and was held between 19 and 21 June in Lima, Peru.

Brazil dominated the tournament, easily finishing with the highest total points and medals, and also winning the most gold, silver, and bronze medals. Colombia and Argentina took second and third places, respectively, while hosts Peru finished in fifth. ^[1]

Numerous records were broken at the Championships, including two area records, 10 Championship records and seventeen national records. ^[2] Both area records were achieved in the 20000 metres track walk event, with Luis Fernando López running 1:20:53.6 in the men's race to break Jefferson Pérez's previous mark, and Johana Ordóñez winning the women's race in 1:34:58. Mario Bazán also beat one of Pérez's records, setting a Championship record in the 3000 metres steeplechase. ^[3]

Colombian Norma González was the athlete with the most medals at the end of the tournament, with three golds from the 200 metres, 400 metres, and 4×100 metres relay, and a silver from the 4×400 metres relay. A handful of other athletes also won multiple gold medals. Three women won two gold medals: Rosibel García won the 800 and 1500 metres, Germán Lauro took the shot put and discus titles, and Inés Melchor set a national and a Championship record in the 5000 and 10000 metres, respectively. Three male athletes also achieved double golds: Alonso Edward did the 100 and 200 metres sprint double, Andrés Silva won the 400 metres sprint and hurdles, while Byron Piedra won both the 1500 and 5000 metres races. ^[3]

The competition was marred by drugs bans for medalling athletes: a Brazilian coach, Jayme Netto, admitted that he had administered the banned drug recombinant EPO on five of his athletes without their knowledge, which included: 800 m silver medallist Josiane Tito, 200 m bronze medallist Bruno de Barros, heptathlon champion Lucimara da Silva and 400 m hurdles silver medallist Luciana França. ^[4] In a separate case, Lucimar Teodoro, the 400 m hurdles gold medallist, also received a two-year ban. ^[5]

Records

Name	Event	Country	Record	Type
Inés Melchor	5000 metres	Peru	16:00.41	NR
Fabiana Murer	Pole vault	Brazil	4.60	CR
Odette Palma	Hammer throw	Chile	64.55	NR
Mario Bazán	3000 metres steeplechase	Peru	8:35.17	CR NR
Eduardo Acuña	Hammer throw	Peru	67.26	NR
Arley Ibargüen	Javelin throw	Colombia	81.07	CR NR
Sabine Heitling	3000 metres steeplechase	Brazil	9:52.54	CR
Ángela Figueroa	3000 metres steeplechase	Colombia	9:54.83	NR
Elisângela Adriano	Discus throw	Brazil	61.00	CR
María Angélica Cubillán	Discus throw	Venezuela	54.07	NR
Lucimara da Silva	Heptathlon	Brazil	5996 (DQ)	CR
Macarena Reyes	Heptathlon	Chile	5360	NR
Johana Ordóñez	20000 metres track walk	Ecuador	1:34:58	AR CR
Sandra Zapata	20000 metres track walk	Colombia	1:35:53	NR
Luis Fernando López	20000 metres track walk	Colombia	1:20:53.6	AR CR
Yerko Araya	20000 metres track walk	Chile	1:23:08.2	NR
Inés Melchor	10,000 metres	Peru	33:11.79	CR
Lucimar Teodoro	400 metres hurdles	Brazil	56.32	CR
Key:0000WR — World record  • AR — Area record  • CR — Championship record  • NR — National record

Medal summary

Main article: 2009 South American Championships in Athletics – Results

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Alonso Edward   Panama	10.29	Daniel Grueso   Colombia	10.39	José Carlos Moreira   Brazil	10.49
200 metres [6]	Alonso Edward   Panama	20.45	Hugo de Sousa   Brazil	20.92	Kael Becerra   Chile	21.32
400 metres	Andrés Silva   Uruguay	46.06	Geiner Mosquera   Colombia	46.28	Freddy Mezones   Venezuela	46.28
800 metres	Fabiano Peçanha   Brazil	1:47.82	Kléberson Davide   Brazil	1:49.33	Nico Herrera   Venezuela	1:49.53
1500 metres	Byron Piedra   Ecuador	3:41.81	Hudson de Souza   Brazil	3:42.72	Eduar Villanueva   Venezuela	3:43.23
5000 metres	Byron Piedra   Ecuador	13:56.93	Mario Bazán   Peru	13:57.37	Damião de Souza   Brazil	13:57.94
10,000 metres	Damião de Souza   Brazil	29:23.57	Miguel Ángel Bárzola   Argentina	29:23.62	Jhon Cusi   Peru	29:40.05
110 metres hurdles	Paulo Villar   Colombia	13.89	Éder Antônio Souza   Brazil	13.97	Anselmo Gomes da Silva   Brazil	14.12
400 metres hurdles	Andrés Silva   Uruguay	50.28	Raphael Fernandes   Brazil	50.42	Yeison Rivas   Colombia	50.87
3000 metres steeplechase	Mario Bazán   Peru	8:35.17 CR NR	José Peña   Venezuela	8:36.17 PB	Mariano Mastromarino   Argentina	8:51.48
4 x 100 metres relay [7]	Colombia Yeison Rivas Jhon Valoyes Yeimer Mosquera Daniel Grueso	39.41	Venezuela Lenin Cubillán Jermaine Chirinos Álvaro Cassiani Ronald Amaya	40.26	Argentina Matías Usandivaras Fabian Jiménez Miguel Wilken José Manuel Garaventa	40.76
4 x 400 metres relay	Colombia Yeison Rivas Jhon Valoyes Amílcar Torres Yeimer Mosquera	3:06.22	Brazil Luis Eduardo Ambrósio Eduardo Vasconcelos Rodrigo Bargas Wallace Vieira	3:06.85	Argentina Matías Larregle Miguel Wilken Christian Deymonnaz Mariano Jiménez	3:11.70
20,000 metres track walk	Luis Fernando López   Colombia	1:20:53.6 CR , AR	Yerko Araya   Chile	1:23:08.2 NR	Patricio Ortega   Ecuador	1:23:30.9 PB
High jump	Jessé de Lima   Brazil	2.216	Alberth Bravo   Venezuela	2.13	Diego Ferrín   Ecuador	2.10
Pole vault [8]	Fábio Gomes da Silva   Brazil	5.40	Marcelo Terra   Argentina	4.80	César González   Venezuela	4.80
Long jump	Rogério Bispo   Brazil	7.77	Erivaldo Vieira   Brazil	7.61	Hugo Chila   Ecuador	7.51
Triple jump [9]	Jefferson Sabino   Brazil	16.38w	Hugo Chila   Ecuador	16.12	Maximiliano Díaz   Argentina	15.49
Shot put	Germán Lauro   Argentina	19.20	Ronald Julião   Brazil	18.19	Gustavo de Mendonça   Brazil	17.55
Discus	Germán Lauro   Argentina	60.41	Jorge Balliengo   Argentina	58.04	Ronald Julião   Brazil	54.97
Hammer	Juan Cerra   Argentina	69.42	Patricio Palma   Chile	68.53	Eduardo Acuña   Peru	67.26 NR
Javelin	Arley Ibargüen   Colombia	81.07 CR NR	Noraldo Palacios   Colombia	77.87	Júlio César de Oliveira   Brazil	73.51
Decathlon	Carlos Chinin   Brazil	7474	Oscar Mina   Ecuador	6659	Fernando Korniejczuk   Argentina	6505 [10]
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)

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Lucimar de Moura   Brazil	11.59	Felipa Palacios   Colombia	11.79	Thaíssa Presti   Brazil	11.85
200 metres	Norma González   Colombia	23.73	Thaíssa Presti   Brazil	23.85	Jennifer Padilla   Colombia	24.23
400 metres	Norma González   Colombia	52.62	Emily Pinheiro   Brazil	52.73	Jailma de Lima   Brazil	52.95
800 metres [11]	Rosibel García   Colombia	2:05.21	Christiane dos Santos   Brazil	2:06.72	Muriel Coneo   Colombia	2:07.32
1500 metres	Rosibel García   Colombia	4:20.30	Muriel Coneo   Colombia	4:23.38	Rosa Godoy   Argentina	4:23.63
5000 metres	Inés Melchor   Peru	16:00.41 NR	Sueli Silva   Brazil	16:14.95	Rosa Alba Chacha   Ecuador	16:17.75
10,000 metres	Inés Melchor   Peru	33:11.79 CR	Cruz Nonata da Silva   Brazil	33:36.60	Sueli Silva   Brazil	33:47.15
100 metres hurdles	Brigith Merlano   Colombia	13.22	Soledad Donzino   Argentina	13.48	Fabiana Morães   Brazil	13.56
400 metres hurdles [12]	Madelene Rondón   Venezuela	58.29	Lucy Jaramillo   Ecuador	58.45	Princesa Oliveros   Colombia	58.67
3000 metres steeplechase	Sabine Heitling   Brazil	9:52.54 CR	Ángela Figueroa   Colombia	9:54.83 NR	Rosa Godoy   Argentina	10:12.95
20000 metre track walk	Johana Ordóñez   Ecuador	1:34:58 CR , AR	Sandra Zapata   Colombia	1:35:53 NR	Tânia Spindler   Brazil	1:36:32 PB
4 x 100 metres relay	Colombia Felipa Palácios Alejandra Idrovo Darlenis Obregón Norma González	44.18	Brazil Rosemar Coelho Neto Lucimar de Moura Thaíssa Presti Jailma de Lima	44.52	Ecuador Lorena Mina Karina Caicedo Liliana Núñez Erika Chávez	47.20
4 x 400 metres relay	Brazil Geisa Coutinho Sheila Ferreira Jailma de Lima Emmily Pinheiro	3:32.69	Colombia Kelly López Alejandra Idrovo Yennifer Padilla Norma González	3:35.83	Ecuador Karina Caicedo Erika Chávez Maria Corozo Lucy Jaramillo	3:45.99
High jump	Catherine Ibargüen   Colombia	1.88	Solange Witteveen   Argentina	1.85	Mônica de Freitas   Brazil	1.82
Pole vault	Fabiana Murer   Brazil	4.60 CR	Carolina Torres   Chile	4.10	Alejandra García   Argentina	4.10
Long jump [13]	Keila Costa   Brazil	6.62	Andrea Morales   Argentina	5.78	Verónica Davis   Venezuela	5.60
Triple jump [14]	Catherine Ibargüen   Colombia	13.93	Verónica Davis   Venezuela	13.83	Tânia da Silva   Brazil	13.38
Shot put	Natalia Ducó   Chile	17.73	Elisângela Adriano   Brazil	16.63	Andréa Pereira   Brazil	16.16
Discus	Elisângela Adriano   Brazil	61.00 CR	Karen Gallardo   Chile	55.91	María Angélica Cubillán   Venezuela	54.07 NR
Hammer	Eli Johana Moreno   Colombia	65.79	Odette Palma   Chile	64.55	Jennifer Dahlgren   Argentina	63.81
Javelin	Alessandra Resende   Brazil	56.36	Jucilene de Lima   Brazil	54.37	Diana Rivas   Colombia	52.83
Heptathlon [15]	Vanessa Chefer Spinola   Brazil	5578	Macarena Reyes   Chile	5360 NR	Soledad Donzino   Argentina	5200
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)

Final standings

Lucimar de Moura won gold for Brazil in the women's 100 m.

Points table

Rank	Country	Points
		Total	Men	Women
1	Brazil	446	204	242
2	Colombia	275	98	177
3	Argentina	138.5	88.5	50
4	Ecuador	111	64	47
5	Peru	91	51	40
6	Chile	87	42	45
7	Venezuela	73.5	49.5	24
8	Panama	25	20	5

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Peru)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil	15	16	14	45
2	Colombia	14	8	5	27
3	Argentina	3	6	10	19
4	Ecuador	3	3	6	12
5	Peru*	3	1	2	6
6	Panama	2	0	0	2
	Uruguay	2	0	0	2
8	Chile	1	6	1	8
9	Venezuela	1	4	5	10
Totals (9 entries)		44	44	43	131

See also

• 2009 in athletics (track and field)
• 2009 World Championships in Athletics

References

General

• Biscayart, Eduardo (2009-06-20). Murer vaults 4.60m at South American Championships – Day 1 report. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-06-24.
• Biscayart, Eduardo (2009-06-21). Adriano takes seventh South American Discus title – Day 2 report. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-06-24.
• Biscayart, Eduardo (2009-06-22). Brazil repeats triumph at South American Championships – Day 3 report. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-06-24.
• Official results ^{[ usurped ]} (archived)

Specific

1. "Athletics: Brazil repeats triumph at South American Chmps". en.olympic.cn. 2009-06-23. Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2009-06-24.
2. (in Spanish). CONSUDATLE (2009-06-21). Retrieved on 2009-06-24. Archived ^{[ usurped ]} 2009-08-14.
3. La despedida de Lima ^{[ usurped ]}(in Spanish). CONSUDATLE (2009-06-21). Retrieved on 2009-06-24.
4. Coach takes blame for five Brazilian athletes failing drug tests. The Guardian (2009-08-06). Retrieved on 2009-10-25.
5. Brazilian hurdler banned for two years for doping. Reuters (2009-08-12). Retrieved on 2009-08-12.
6. The original bronze medallist was Bruno de Barros of Brazil in 20.93 seconds (disqualified due to doping).
7. Brazil, originally finishing in the silver medal position, disqualified after Jorge Célio Sena was found guilty of doping.
8. The original silver medallist was João Gabriel Sousa of Brazil with 5.30 metres (disqualified due to doping).
9. The original bronze medallist was Leonardo Elisiário dos Santos of Brazil with 15.58 metres (disqualified due to doping violation).
10. Lauro se fue con doblete. Olé Clarin (2009-06-22). Retrieved on 2009-06-24. Archived 2009-08-14.
11. Original silver medallist was: Josiane Tito of Brazil in 2:06.66 minutes (disqualified for a doping violation)
12. Original gold and silver medalists were Brazilians Lucimar Teodoro (56.32 CR ) and Luciana França (56.53). Both were disqualified for doping violations.
13. The original gold and silver medalists, Johana Triviño of Colombia and Fernanda Gonçalves of Brazil respectively, were disqualified due to doping.
14. The original gold medalist was Johana Triviño of Colombia with 14.02 metres (disqualified due to doping).
15. The original winner, Brazil's Lucimara da Silva in a championship record of 5996 points, was later disqualified as she failed a drugs test prior to the competition.

External links

• Competition overview ^{[ usurped ]}(in Spanish)