2016 South American U18 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
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The 23rd South American Youth Championships in Athletics were held in Concordia, Argentina on 12 and 13 November 2016.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres +1.8 m/s	Vinicius Rocha Moraes   Brazil	10.36 GR	Tryell Peters   Guyana	10.68	Sebastián Hood   Chile	10.81
200 metres -3.9 m/s	Vinicius Rocha Moraes   Brazil	21.41 GR [1]	Cleverson Pereira Junior   Brazil	21.93	Daniel Williams   Guyana	22.11
400 metres	Bruno Benedito da Silva   Brazil	48.12	Daniel Williams   Guyana	48.57	Cleverson Pereira Junior   Brazil	48.94
800 metres	Max Paulo dos Santos   Brazil	1:56.79	Marco Vilca   Peru	1:58.37	Diego Facundo Alegre   Argentina	1:58.98
1500 metres	José Miguel Costa   Brazil	4:09.97	Andrés Mauricio Carrillo   Colombia	4:10.44	Pablo Cárdenas   Chile	4:11.01
3000 metres	Jhonathan Pulido   Colombia	8:45.39	Alexander Huanca   Peru	8:46.98	José Zabala   Argentina	8:50.54
110 metres hurdles (91.4 cm) +0.4 m/s	Marcos Morley   Ecuador	13.55 GR	Diego Alejandro Vivas   Colombia	14.27	Cristobal Victoriano   Chile	14.32
400 metres hurdles (84 cm)	Caio Giovani Martins   Brazil	53.00	Cristobal Muñoz   Chile	53.45	Luciano Techeira   Uruguay	54.48
2000 m steeplechase	Jeferson Alberto dos Santos   Brazil	6:00.20	Edwar Condori   Peru	6:02.75	José Armando Sánchez   Ecuador	6:11.09
10,000 m track walk	David Hurtado   Ecuador	43:16.07	Sebastián Merchán   Colombia	43:48.63	Yhojan Melillan   Chile	45:08.47
High jump	Francisco Moraga   Chile	2.00	Daniel Williams   Guyana	2.00	Luiz Gustavo de Brito   Brazil	2.00
Pole vault	Lucca Torres   Brazil	4.90	Agustin Zulueta   Chile	4.50	Eduardo Martín   Chile	4.40
Long jump	Gabriel Menezes Oliveira   Brazil	7.45	Yeimer Palacios   Colombia	7.45	Juan David Moreno   Colombia	7.37
Triple jump	Gabriel Menezes Oliveira   Brazil	15.45	Yeimer Palacios   Colombia	15.31	Juan Luis Eguiguren   Chile	14.23
Shot put (5 kg)	Saymon Hoffmann   Brazil	19.67	Claudio Romero   Chile	19.14	Nicolas Tieri   Argentina	18.98
Discus throw (1.5 kg)	Saymon Hoffmann   Brazil	60.92 GR	Claudio Romero   Chile	60.49	Vitor Motin   Brazil	57.64
Hammer throw (5 kg)	Alejandro Medina   Paraguay	75.18	Alencar Pereira   Brazil	74.39	Roberto Montiel   Chile	67.15
Javelin throw (700 kg)	Pedro Henrique Rodrigues   Brazil	77.30	Joel Benítez   Venezuela	69.10	Ignacio Toledo   Chile	64.83
Decathlon (youth)	Damian Moretta   Argentina	6525 GR	Nicolás Pérez   Argentina	5965	Diego Arias   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)

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres +0.5 m/s	Lorraine Martins   Brazil	11.78	Romina Cifuentes   Ecuador	11.81	Gabriela Mourão   Brazil	11.82
200 metres -2.2 m/s	Romina Cifuentes   Ecuador	24.44	Gabriela Mourão   Brazil	24.90	Lorraine Martins   Brazil	24.98
400 metres	Tiffani Beatriz Marinho   Brazil	54.90	Tania Caicedo   Ecuador	55.87	Angie Nagles   Colombia	56.13
800 metres	Pamela Milano   Venezuela	2:17.58	Pamela Dias   Brazil	2:18.20	Valeria Cornejo   Chile	2:18.42
1500 metres	María Paula Guerrero   Colombia	4:51.88	Leidy Ortiz   Colombia	4:54.76	Isabelle Cristina de Almeida   Brazil	4:55.63
3000 metres	Agustina Boucherie   Argentina	10:26.80	Virginia Huatorongo   Peru	10:28.20	Sonia Salazar   Peru	10:28.47
100 metres hurdles (76.2 cm) +2.8 m/s	Micaela Rosa de Mello   Brazil	13.54 GR [2]	Yoveini Mota   Venezuela	13.68	Yuly Andrea Quinto   Colombia	13.95
400 metres hurdles	Rita de Cassia Silva   Brazil	60.78	Micaela Rosa de Mello   Brazil	61.33	Oriana Prieto   Argentina	62.09
2000 m steeplechase	Clara Baiocchi   Argentina	6:56.62	Heidi Bola   Colombia	7:03.26	Giovanna Domene   Brazil	7:19.25
4600 m track walk [3]	Glenda Quiñónez   Ecuador		Mary Luz Andía   Peru		Laura Chalarca   Colombia
High jump	María Fernanda Murillo   Colombia	1.85 GR	Victoria Rozas   Chile	1.73	María Parra   Venezuela	1.70
Pole vault	Ana Gabriela Quiñónez   Ecuador	3.90 =GR , NR	Carmen Villanueva   Venezuela	3.90 =GR	Isabel de Quadros   Brazil	3.70
Long jump	Yuly Quinto   Colombia	6.13 GR	Valentina Leiva   Chile	5.99w	Chantoba Bright   Guyana	5.94w
Triple jump	Leidy Cuesta   Colombia	13.20w GR [4]	Mirieli Santos   Brazil	13.08w	Liz Levrino   Argentina	12.32w
Shot put (3 kg)	Dayna Toledo   Chile	17.24 GR	Gleice Stefanie de Castro   Brazil	16.15	Fernanda Holguin   Ecuador	14.69
Discus throw	Catalina Bravo   Chile	44.57	Valquiria Meurer   Brazil	42.37	Yosiris Córdoba   Colombia	36.27
Hammer throw (3 kg)	Mariana García   Chile	64.31 GR	Ximena Zorrilla   Peru	60.65	Antonella Creazzola   Venezuela	59.02
Javelin throw (500 g)	Juleisy Angulo   Ecuador	51.20	Fabielle Ferreira   Brazil	49.40	Yudi Rivera   Ecuador	46.92
Heptathlon (youth)	Naiuri Rigo Krein   Brazil	4811	Mariangeles Manno   Argentina	4390	Neurelis Manzanillo   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)

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil Bruno Benedito da Silva Rita de Cassia Silva Tiffani Beatriz Marinho Cleverson Pereira Junior	3:30.12	Chile Karina Mendoza Andres Orrego Katherine Córdoba Cristóbal Muñoz	3:36.48	Colombia Angie Nagles Manuel Henao María Paula Guerrero Kevin Angarita	3:37.24

Medal table

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 entries)		39	39	40	118

References

1. Games record with 21.16 in the heats
2. Games record with wind-legal 13.73 in the heats
3. 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
4. Games record with wind-legal 13.06

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