2002 South American Junior Championships in Athletics

XXXIV South American Junior Championships in Athletics

Host city	Belém, Brazil
Date(s)	August 1–3
Main stadium	Estádio Olímpico do Pará
Level	Junior
Participation	about 194 + guests athletes from 10 + 1 guest nation nations
Events	44
← 2001 Santa Fe 2003 Guayaquil →

The 34th South American Junior Championships in Athletics were held at the Estádio Olímpico do Pará^[1]^[2] in Belém, Brazil from August 1–3, 2002 in conjunction with the 7th South American (ODESUR) Games. Athletes from the Netherlands Antilles competed solely for the South American Games, and were considered as guests for the South American Junior Championships.^[1]

Medal summary

Medal winners are published for men^[3] and women^[4] Complete results can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website.^[5]

For full event details see 2002 South American Junior Championships in Athletics – Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (0.8 m/s)	Bruno Pacheco (BRA)	10.50	Eliezer de Almeida (BRA)	10.60	Pablo Colville (CHI)	10.77
200 metres (1.1 m/s)	Bruno Pacheco (BRA)	20.54	Jorge Sena (BRA)	21.18	Kael Becerra (CHI)	21.46
400 metres	Luís Ambrósio (BRA)	46.51	Luis Luna (VEN)	46.82	Andrés Silva (URU)	47.50
800 metres	Cristián Matute (ECU)	1:50.99	Tai Payne (GUY)	1:51.05	Thiago Chyaromont (BRA)	1:51.66
1500 metres	Clayton Aguiar (BRA)	3:53.48	Nico Herrera (VEN)	3:55.67	Alex Lopes (BRA)	3:55.68
5000 metres	Fernando Fernandes (BRA)	14:13.29	Franck de Almeida (BRA)	14:14.18	Deivis Sánchez (VEN)	14:53.51
10,000 metres	Franck de Almeida (BRA)	29:39.25	Deivis Sánchez (VEN)	31:22.78	Gilialdo Koball (BRA)	31:38.64
3000 metres steeplechase	Fernando Fernandes (BRA)	8:59.76	Diego Moreno (PER)	9:08.34	Rodolfo Hass (BRA)	9:20.70
110 metres hurdles (1.5 m/s)	Thiago Dias (BRA)	13.94	Leandro Peyrano (ARG)	15.03	Cristóbal Lyon (CHI)	15.34
400 metres hurdles	Raphael Fernandes (BRA)	52.85	Daivison da Silva (BRA)	53.31	Pablo Schilling (CHI)	53.52
High jump	Fábio Baptista (BRA)	2.07	Luis Conde (VEN)	2.04	Francisco Tamariz (ECU)	2.01
Pole vault	Fábio da Silva (BRA)	5.10	José Francisco Nava (CHI)	4.90	Daniel Gabriel (BRA)	4.60
Long jump	Thiago Dias (BRA)	7.92 (0.6 m/s)	Marcos Trivelato (BRA)	7.30 (0.7 m/s)	Luis Tristán (PER)	7.20 (0.5 m/s)
Triple jump	Leonardo dos Santos (BRA)	15.97 (0.1 m/s)	Thiago Dias (BRA)	15.55 (1.8 m/s)	Francisco Castro (CHI)	14.48 (0.5 m/s)
Shot put	Gustavo de Mendonça (BRA)	17.71*	Germán Lauro (ARG)	17.56*	Juan Jaramillo (VEN)	17.26*
Discus throw	Gustavo de Mendonça (BRA)	52.78*	Germán Lauro (ARG)	52.44*	Reginaldo Diógenes (BRA)	49.33*
Hammer throw	Fabián Di Paolo (ARG)	73.69*	Roberto Sáez (CHI)	68.93*	Wagner Domingos (BRA)	65.15*
Javelin throw	Júlio César de Oliveira (BRA)	63.49	Marcelo Junckes (BRA)	61.42	José Palma (VEN)	59.00
Decathlon	Fagner Martins (BRA)	6626*	Randy Gutiérrez (VEN)	6329*	Alcino dos Santos (BRA)	6208*
10,000 metres track walk	Rafael Duarte (BRA)	43:11.39	Andrés Chocho (ECU)	44:36.81	Carlos Borgoño (CHI)	45:56.57
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil Bruno Pacheco Eliezer de Almeida Jorge Sena Bruno Góes	39.64	Chile Pablo Colville Diego Valdés Kael Becerra Nicolás Sepúlveda	41.22	Argentina Federico Satler José Manuel Garaventa Pablo Heredia Sebastián Lasquera	41.45
4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil Diego Venâncio Luís Ambrósio Thiago Chyaromont Luiz da Silva	3:06.68	Venezuela Nico Herrera Luis Luna Arnold Amaya José Acevedo	3:11.20	Argentina Sebastián Lasquera Leandro Peyrano José Ignacio Pignataro Matías López	3:14.16

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (1.3 m/s)	Thatiana Ignácio (BRA)	11.57	Wilmary Álvarez (VEN)	11.76	Evelyn dos Santos (BRA)	11.90
200 metres (1.7 m/s)	Wilmary Álvarez (VEN)	23.85	Joyce Prieto (BRA)	23.99	Evelyn dos Santos (BRA)	24.23
400 metres	Yusmelys García (VEN)	54.38	Joyce Prieto (BRA)	54.50	Ángela Alfonso (VEN)	54.82
800 metres	Juliana de Azevedo (BRA)	2:06.01	Jenny Mejías (VEN)	2:10.58	Rejane da Silva (BRA)	2:14.93
1500 metres	Eliane Vásquez (CHI)	4:39.47	Susana Aburto (CHI)	4:41.16	Silvia Paredes (ECU)	4:43.64
3000 metres	Nadia Rodríguez (ARG)	9:50.03	Silvia Paredes (ECU)	9:54.15	Inés Melchor (PER)	10:05.60
5000 metres	Nadia Rodríguez (ARG)	17:08.23	Silvia Paredes (ECU)	17:16.88	Patrícia Lobo (BRA)	17:33.13
3000 metres steeplechase	Sabine Heitling (BRA)	10:52.77	Elena Arias (ECU)	11:07.82	Soledad Del Carlo (ARG)	11:12.88
100 metres hurdles (-0.9 m/s)	Janaína Sestrem (BRA)	13.94	Sandrine Legenort (VEN)	14.14	Soledad Donzino (ARG)	14.24
400 metres hurdles	Yusmelys García (VEN)	58.54	Amanda Dias (BRA)	58.86	Raquel da Costa (BRA)	59.39
High jump	Mônica de Freitas (BRA)	1.74	Marielys Rojas (VEN)	1.71	Daniela Carrillo (CHI) Jhoris Luque (VEN)	1.68
Pole vault	Karla da Silva (BRA)	3.90	Rosângela da Silva (BRA)	3.70	Alejandra Llorente (ARG)	3.60
Long jump	Keila Costa (BRA)	6.37 (1.4 m/s)	Fernanda Gonçalves (BRA)	5.99 (0.3 m/s)	Michelle Vaughn (GUY)	5.88 (0.4 m/s)
Triple jump	Keila Costa (BRA)	13.78 (-0.5 m/s)	Fernanda Gonçalves (BRA)	12.26 (-0.6 m/s)	Michelle Vaughn (GUY)	12.23 (-0.3 m/s)
Shot put	Ahymará Espinoza (VEN)	13.97	Jennifer Dahlgren (ARG)	13.61	Regiane Alves (BRA)	13.12
Discus throw	Roberta de Oliveira (BRA)	41.85	Jennifer Dahlgren (ARG)	41.41	Roberto Argentino (BRA)	40.70
Hammer throw	Jennifer Dahlgren (ARG)	55.73	Stefanía Żoryez (URU)	50.54	Adriana Benaventa (VEN)	50.19
Javelin throw	Maria Ramos (BRA)	45.31	Maria Cruz (BRA)	44.31	Adriana Benaventa (VEN)	32.78
Heptathlon	Soledad Donzino (ARG)	5139	Macarena Reyes (CHI)	4683	Bruna Gomes (BRA)	4536
10,000 metres track walk	Alessandra Picagevicz (BRA)	50:34.59	Lizbeth Zúñiga (PER)	53:20.19	Josette Sepúlveda (CHI)	55:13.41
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil Thatiana Ignâcio Evelyn dos Santos Alessandra Joaquim Mônica de Freitas	45.30	Venezuela Yessica Bermúdez Angela Alfonso Wilmary Álvarez Sandrine Legenort	45.58	Chile Daniela Riderelli Macarena Keys Fernanda MacKenna Javiera Escobedo	47.11
4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil Juliana de Azevedo Amanda Dias Raquel da Costa Ana Souza	3:40.56	Ecuador Grace Arias Lucy Jaramillo Gabriela Chala Mónica Ceballos	3:45.70	Venezuela Angela Alfonso Yusmelys García Jenny Mejías Sandrine Legenort	3:45.78

Doping

Eliane Pereira from Brazil was tested positive for Stanozolol, an anabolic steroid. Consequently, she lost her gold medal in 1,500 m (in 4:33.19) and her silver medal in 3,000 m (in 9:52.42),^[6] and was banned for two years.

Two further cases with enhanced Testosterone/Epitestosterone ratio were discovered (no medalists involved).^[6]

Medal table (unofficial)

The host country is highlighted in lavender blue

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil	33	14	16	63
2	Argentina	5	5	5	15
3	Venezuela	4	11	8	23
4	Chile	1	5	9	15
5	Ecuador	1	5	2	8
6	Peru	0	2	2	4
7	Guyana	0	1	2	3
8	Uruguay	0	1	1	2

Final scoring per countries

The winners in point scoring per country were published.^[7]

The host country is highlighted in lavender blue

Rank	Nation	Points
1	Brazil	587
2	Venezuela	180.5
3	Argentina	163

Participation (unofficial)

Detailed result lists can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website.^[5] An unofficial count yields the number of about 194 athletes (plus an unknown number of guest athletes from the Netherlands Antilles) from about 10 countries:

Argentina (22)
Bolivia (7)
Brazil (69)
Chile (29)

Ecuador (19)
Guyana (4)
Paraguay (3)
Perú (8)

Uruguay (3)
Venezuela (30)

Guest Nation:

Netherlands Antilles (unknown)

References

1 2 Belém recebe Sul-Americano juvenil de atletismo (in Portuguese), Emsergipe.com – Rádio Televisão de Sergipe S/A, August 1, 2002, retrieved November 4, 2011
↑ Biscayart, Eduardo (August 4, 2002), Brazil retains South American Junior crown – 7 area junior records fall, IAAF, retrieved November 6, 2011
↑ "SOUTH AMERICAN JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS (MEN)", Athletics Weekly, retrieved November 1, 2011
↑ "SOUTH AMERICAN JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS (WOMEN)", Athletics Weekly, retrieved November 1, 2011
1 2 World Junior Athletics History, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), retrieved November 1, 2011
1 2 Rodríguez III, Ernesto (2010), LIBROS DEL CICLO OLÍMPICO ARGENTINO - Libro I de los Juegos Odesur 1978-2010 (in Spanish) (1a. ed.), Buenos Aires: Alarco Ediciones, p. 192, ISBN 978-987-1367-18-4, retrieved June 3, 2012
↑ Brasil reina no sul-americano de atletismo juvenil (in Portuguese), Copacabana Runners, August 4, 2002, retrieved November 4, 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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