1972 South American Junior Championships in Athletics

IX South American Junior Championships in Athletics
IX South American Junior Championships in Athletics
Dates	October 21–25
Host city	Asunción, Paraguay
Level	Junior
Events	33
Participation	about 194 athletes from ; 8 nations
	← 1970 Cali 1974 Lima →

The ninth South American Junior Championships in Athletics were held in Asunción, Paraguay from October 21–25, 1972.

Participation (unofficial)

Detailed result lists can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website.^[1] An unofficial count yields the number of about 194 athletes from about 8 countries: Argentina (40), Brazil (32), Chile (33), Colombia (22), Ecuador (6), Paraguay (24), Peru (22), Uruguay (15).

Medal summary

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

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Welbe Barreto (BRA)	10.9	Ángel Guerrero (PAR)	11.1	Jorge Lobera (ARG)	11.1
200 metres	Delmo da Silva (BRA)	22.4	Welbe Barreto (BRA)	22.5	Diego Valencia (COL)	22.5
400 metres	Pedro Teixeira (BRA)	49.8	Francisco Bozzo (CHI)	50.6	Francisco Rojas (PAR)	50.9
800 metres	Ángel Holman (ARG)	1:58.6	Ary Pinto (BRA)	1:59.3	André Pereira (BRA)	2:00.2
1500 metres	Antonio Tello (ARG)	4:04.1	Jairo Correa (COL)	4:05.1	André Pereira (BRA)	4:05.7
3000 metres	Jairo Correa (COL)	8:58.6	Luis Tipán (ECU)	9:05.2	Carlos Soria (ECU)	9:08.7
1500 metres steeplechase	Germán Aranda (COL)	4:31.6	Roberto Assumpção (BRA)	4:34.9	Antonio Tello (ARG)	4:35.1
110 metres hurdles	Nicolás Rodillo (CHI)	16.3	Eduardo Sosa (ARG)	16.5	Rodolfo Iturraspe (ARG)	16.6
400 metres hurdles	Francisco Rojas (PAR)	53.9	Roberto Comisso (ARG)	57.5	Rodolfo Iturraspe (ARG)	58.6
High jump	Milton Reis (BRA)	1.90	José Machado (BRA)	1.85	Daniel Abugattás (PER)	1.80
Pole vault	Ernesto Koike (BRA)	4.00	Juan Rossetti (ARG)	3.70	Raúl Lyon (CHI)	3.70
Long jump	Héctor Elizón (ARG)	6.90	Geraldo Rodrigues (BRA)	6.84	César Vega (PAR)	6.50
Triple jump	João Carlos de Oliveira (BRA)	14.67	Rodney Gomes (BRA)	14.07	Carlos Arrastía (ARG)	13.98
Shot put	Joaquim Pérez (CHI)	14.29	Humberto Vianna (BRA)	14.13	Carlos Castro (BRA)	13.33
Discus throw	Edval Petrechen (BRA)	42.62	Oscar Attes (ARG)	38.62	Eduardo Galvão (BRA)	36.46
Hammer throw	Francisco Pedro (ARG)	53.20	José Rangel (COL)	48.28	Jorge Maldonado (COL)	46.72
Javelin throw	Dante Bertorello (ARG)	55.64	Humberto Vianna (BRA)	53.24	Adolfo Leyva (CHI)	53.20
Pentathlon*	Geraldo Rodrigues (BRA)	3653	Pablo Pérez (COL)	3518	Luis Betancourt (COL)	3460
4 × 100 metres relay	Colombia	43.3	Paraguay	43.4	Ecuador	43.9
4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil	3:26.3	Colombia	3:28.6	Argentina	3:31.3

* = another source^[1] rather states: Hexathlon

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Leslie Cooper (CHI)	12.5	Carmela Bolívar (PER)	12.7	Ivete Barbosa (BRA)	13.0
200 metres	Carmela Bolívar (PER)	25.5	Hilda Javier (URU)	25.8	Ivete Barbosa (BRA)	26.2
400 metres	Carla Ramos (CHI)	59.4	Hilda Javier (URU)	59.5	Magaly Zumaeta (PER)	59.6
800 metres	Rosângela Verissimo (BRA)	2:21.0	Magaly Zumaeta (PER)	2:23.5	Carla Ramos (CHI)	2:23.6
100 metres hurdles	Edith Noeding (PER)	15.0	Elisa Barros (BRA)	16.0	Hildegard Krause (BRA)	16.0
High jump	Catalina Recordón (CHI)	1.60	Cecilia Rossi (CHI)	1.50	Mónica Rodríguez (ARG)	1.45
Long jump	Conceição Geremias (BRA)	5.86	Edith Noeding (PER)	5.63	Ana Desevici (URU)	5.42
Shot put	Verônica Brunner (BRA)	12.28	Eucaris Echevarría (COL)	11.37	Soledad Jiménez (PER)	10.84
Discus throw	Verônica Brunner (BRA)	36.28	Eucaris Echevarría (COL)	33.70	Gladys Sánchez (ARG)	32.20
Javelin throw	María Rojas (CHI)	35.14	Asunción Figueroa (CHI)	34.20	Susana Sánchez (ARG)	34.18
Pentathlon	Edith Noeding (PER)	3432	Mirtha Fleitas (URU)	2957	Hildegard Krause (BRA)	2947
4 × 100 metres relay	Peru	49.4	Brazil	49.4	Argentina	49.9
4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil	4:08.0	Chile	4:11.5	Argentina	4:19.7