1978 South American Youth Championships in Athletics

V South American Youth Championships in Athletics
Host city	Montevideo, Uruguay
Date(s)	November 11–13
Level	Youth
Participation	about 179 athletes from 7 nations
Events	33
← 1977 Rio de Janeiro 1979 Cochabamba →

The 5th South American Youth Championships in Athletics were held in Montevideo, Uruguay from November 11–13, 1978.

Medal summary

Medal winners are published for boys^[1] and girls.^[2] Complete results can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website.^[3]

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +1.0 m/s)	Hugo Alzamora (ARG)	10.89	Enrique Tapia (CHI)	10.93	Roberto Herrera (CHI)	11.27
200 metres (wind: +1.5 m/s)	Hugo Alzamora (ARG)	22.30	Enrique Tapia (CHI)	22.41	Norberto Cedeño (VEN)	22.84
400 metres	Joaquim Cruz (BRA)	50.15	Sergio Cárdenas (CHI)	51.69	Moisés del Castillo (PER)	51.82
800 metres	Joaquim Cruz (BRA)	1:56.1	Reinaldo Filho (BRA)	1:57.2	Sergio Cárdenas (CHI)	1:57.8
1500 metres	Marcelo Bancalari (CHI)	4:04.5	Carlos Alves (BRA)	4:06.2	Reinaldo Filho (BRA)	4:07.8
3000 metres	Mario Varela (CHI)	8:53.6	Ángel Román (VEN)	8:55.3	José dos Santos (BRA)	8:56.3
1500 metres steeplechase	Carlos Alves (BRA)	4:24.9	Reinaldo Filho (BRA)	4:28.8	Johnny Moreno (VEN)	4:37.9
110 metres hurdles (wind: +1.5 m/s)	Sidney dos Santos (BRA)	14.3	Ricardo de Oliveira (BRA)	14.9	Daniel Dubie (ARG)	14.9
300 metres hurdles	Ricardo de Oliveira (BRA)	38.94	Sidney dos Santos (BRA)	39.13	Daniel Dubie (ARG)	40.22
High jump	Federico Cavalcante (BRA)	1.95	Cristián Bastías (CHI)	1.85	Daniel Wolfberg (CHI)	1.85
Pole vault	Adolfo Trucco (ARG)	3.65	Francisco Cumplido (CHI)	3.50	Jaime Silva (CHI)	3.50
Long jump	Márcio Macarini (BRA)	6.74	Marcelo Cárcamo (CHI)	6.67	Rubén Riguetti (URU)	6.49
Triple jump	Valdir Sabino (BRA)	14.01	Newton Klauss (BRA)	13.75	Juan Marcovich (PER)	13.66
Shot put	Mario Hornos (URU)	16.08	José Caldera (VEN)	15.59	Mario Junior (BRA)	15.50
Discus throw	Luis Piasco (ARG)	43.44	Raúl Peralta (PAR)	41.92	Omar Civalero (ARG)	41.56
Hammer throw	Wilson Batista (BRA)	48.76	Jorge Centurión (ARG)	44.70	Raúl Charadía (ARG)	39.62
Javelin throw	Joel dos Santos (BRA)	51.92	Jorge Standen (CHI)	51.04	Ronaldo Alcaraz (BRA)	50.14
Hexathlon	Norberto Aimé (ARG)	4048	Ronaldo Alcaraz (BRA)	4023	Adolfo Marín (PAR)	3834
4 × 100 metres relay	Argentina Alberto Alzamora Ernesto Braun Jorge Araya Hugo Alzamora	43.27	Chile Gerardo San José Guillermo Puebla Roberto Herrera Enrique Tapía	43.61	Brazil Roberto Lima Ricardo de Oliveira Erivaldino Souza Pedro Souza	44.17
4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil Ricardo de Oliveira Sidney dos Santos Pedro Souza Joaquim Cruz	3:25.0	Chile Gerardo San José Marcelo Bancalari Sergio Cárdenas Guillermo Puebla	3:27.4	Venezuela Douglas Murillo Oswaldo Zea Chaparro Ramírez	3:30.1

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.7 m/s)	Adriana Pero (ARG)	12.28	Beatriz Capotosto (ARG)	12.33	Fabiana Arizaga (URU)	12.70
200 metres (wind: +0.7 m/s)	Adriana Pero (ARG)	25.43	María Elena Labarca (CHI)	25.60	Fabiana Arizaga (URU)	26.12
400 metres	Marcela López Espinosa (ARG)	57.38	María Elena Labarca (CHI)	57.87	Alejandra Vives (ARG)	59.28
800 metres	Marcela López Espinosa (ARG)	2:13.7	Cláudia Adolfo (BRA)	2:14.7	Silvia Augsburger (ARG)	2:15.4
80 metres hurdles (wind: +1.5 m/s)	Beatriz Capotosto (ARG)	11.75	Célia Pereira (BRA)	12.65	Maria Lopes (BRA)	12.81
High jump	Elina Urbano (ARG)	1.55	Ivonette Nascimento (BRA)	1.55	Carmen Garib (CHI)	1.50
Long jump	Adriana Duarte (BRA)	5.53	Beatriz Capotosto (ARG)	5.52	Graciela Acosta (URU)	5.38
Shot put	Alejandra Bevacqua (ARG)	12.14	María Calvetti (URU)	10.72	Patricia Pacheco (ARG)	10.40
Discus throw	Solange Reimundo (BRA)	33.96	Alejandra Bevacqua (ARG)	32.76	Vera da Silva (BRA)	31.70
Javelin throw	Carolina Kittsteiner (CHI)	39.68	Eugenia Urra (CHI)	39.28	Regina de Oliveira (BRA)	39.06
Pentathlon	Célia Pereira (BRA)	3223	Elina Urbano (ARG)	3183	Sonia Riffo (CHI)	3163
4 × 100 metres relay	Argentina Adriana Pero Beatriz Capotosto Susana Crespo Patricia Pedrazzi	48.27	Chile Carolina Cox Claudia Hoelzel Isabel Kurth María Labarca	49.57	Brazil Suzete Montalvão Cláudia Neves Maria Lopes Maria Figueirêdo	49.88
4 × 400 metres relay	Argentina Adriana Pero Silvia Augsburger Marcela López Alejandra Vives	3:56.3	Chile Carolina Ojeda Sara Cortés Alexandra Pavletich María Labarca	3:58.1	Brazil Célia Pereira Suzete Montalvão Maria Figueirêdo Cláudia Adolfo	4:10.0

Medal table (unofficial)

The host country is highlighted in lavender blue

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Argentina	15	5	7	27
2	Brazil	14	10	10	34
3	Chile	3	14	6	23
4	Uruguay	1	1	4	6
5	Venezuela	0	2	3	5
6	Paraguay	0	1	1	2
7	Peru	0	0	2	2

Participation (unofficial)

Detailed result lists can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website.^[3] An unofficial count yields the number of about 179 athletes from about 7 countries:

Argentina (39)
Brazil (38)
Chile (38)

Paraguay (14)
Perú (15)

Uruguay (22)
Venezuela (13)

References

↑ "SOUTH AMERICAN YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIPS (BOYS)", Athletics Weekly, retrieved November 11, 2011
↑ "SOUTH AMERICAN YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIPS (GIRLS)", Athletics Weekly, retrieved November 11, 2011
1 2 World Junior Athletics History, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), retrieved November 11, 2011

External links

World Junior Athletics History

Championships of the South American Athletics Confederation

Senior Championships (records) Cross Country Championships Race Walking Championships Marathon Championships Half Marathon Championships Road Mile Championships Mountain Running Championships Under-23 Championships in Athletics (records) Junior Championships in Athletics Youth Championships in Athletics (records)

Senior	1919 1920 1924 1926 1927 1929 1931 1933 1935 1937 1939 1941 1943 1945 1947 1949 1952 1954 1956 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

Senior (unofficial)	1918 1922 1931 1946 1948 1950 1953 1957

Under-23	2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016

Junior	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

Youth	1973 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016

Race Walking	1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 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 2015

See also: Athletics at the South American Games

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