Athletics at the 2022 South American Games
Athletics pictogram
Venue	Athletics National Center Costanera José Asunción Flores
Dates	12–15 October
Competitors	321 from 13 nations
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Athletics competitions at the 2022 South American Games in Asunción, Paraguay will be held from 12 to 15 October 2022 at the Athletics National Center in the Parque Olímpico cluster in Luque, a sub-venue outside Asunción, with the marathon and 35 km racewalks being held at Costanera José Asunción Flores.

Forty nine medal events are scheduled to be contested; 48 events equally divided among men and women plus a 4 × 400 metres relay mixed event. A total of 324 athletes will compete in the events. The events were open competitions without age restrictions.^[1]

Athletes who achieve the gold medal in each event will qualify for the 2023 Pan American Games, with the qualification quotas going to the athletes and not their NOCs.^[1]

Brazil are the athletics competitions defending champions having won them in the previous edition in Cochabamba 2018.

Participating nations

A total of 13 nations registered athletes for the athletics competitions. Each nation was able to enter a maximum of 85 athletes; up to 2 men and 2 women for the individual events and one team for each relay event:^[1]

Venues

The athletics competitions were held in two venues. Road events (marathons and 35 km racewalks) will take place at Costanera José Asunción Flores in Asunción, while track and field events (including 20 km racewalks) will be held at Athletics National Center located within the Parque Olímpico in Luque. The athletic track has a certificate of the World Athletics.^[2]

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Paraguay)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil (BRA)	14	13	15	42
2	Argentina (ARG)	9	4	2	15
3	Colombia (COL)	8	7	9	24
4	Venezuela (VEN)	6	4	2	12
5	Ecuador (ECU)	5	8	6	19
6	Chile (CHI)	4	5	4	13
7	Peru (PER)	1	2	5	8
8	Uruguay (URU)	1	2	2	5
9	Panama (PAN)	1	0	1	2
10	Paraguay (PAR)*	0	3	1	4
11	Curaçao (CUR)	0	1	0	1
12	Bolivia (BOL)	0	0	2	2
Totals (12 entries)		49	49	49	147

Medalists

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Franco Florio  Argentina	10.35	Felipe Bardi  Brazil	10.37	Carlos Palacios  Colombia	10.46
200 metres	Lucas da Silva  Brazil	20.89	Anderson Marquinez  Ecuador	20.95	Rafael Vásquez  Venezuela	21.15
400 metres	Elián Larregina  Argentina	45.80	Kelvis Padrino  Venezuela	46.41	Lucas Carvalho  Brazil	46.47
800 metres	Chamar Chambers  Panama	1:46.99	José Antonio Maita  Venezuela	1:47.26	Eduardo Moreira  Brazil	1:47.39
1500 metres	Federico Bruno  Argentina	3:40.90	Guilherme Kurtz  Brazil	3:41.58	Santiago Catrofe  Uruguay	3:42.57
5000 metres	Federico Bruno  Argentina	13:54.79 GR	Santiago Catrofe  Uruguay	13:55.24	Ignacio Velásquez  Chile	14:01.12
10,000 metres	Carlos Díaz  Chile	29:15.66	Ignacio Velásquez  Chile	29:30.81	Héctor Garibay  Bolivia	29:35.87
110 metres hurdles	Eduardo de Deus  Brazil	13.70	Fanor Escobar  Colombia	13.96	Gabriel Constantino  Brazil	14.00
400 metres hurdles	Fanor Escobar  Colombia	50.63	Bruno De Genaro  Argentina	50.68	Hederson Estefani  Brazil	50.99
3000 metres steeplechase	Gerard Giraldo  Colombia	8:40.28	Carlos San Martín  Colombia	8:52.46	Diddier Rodríguez  Panama	8:54.61
4 × 100 metres relay	Venezuela (VEN) David Vivas Rafael Vásquez Alexis Nieves Abdel Kalil	39.47	Paraguay (PAR) Jonathan Wolk Fredy Maidana Nilo Duré César Almirón	39.60	Colombia (COL) Jhonny Rentería Carlos Flórez Óscar Baltán Carlos Palacios	39.74
4 × 400 metres relay	Venezuela (VEN) Julio Rodríguez José Maita Javier Gómez Kelvis Padrino	3:06.54	Brazil (BRA) Lucas da Silva Lucas Carvalho Douglas da Silva Vitor de Miranda	3:06.79	Colombia (COL) Nicolás Salinas Kevin Mina Neiker Abello Raúl Mena	3:09.40
Marathon	Christian Vascónez  Ecuador	2:16:34 GR	Derlys Ayala  Paraguay	2:17:11	Ernesto Zamora  Uruguay	2:17:42
20 kilometres walk[3]	Brian Pintado  Ecuador	1:19:43 GR	David Hurtado  Ecuador	1:20:44	Caio Bonfim  Brazil	1:21:01
35 kilometres walk	Caio Bonfim  Brazil	2:34:17 GR	César Rodríguez  Peru	2:35:20	Diego Pinzón  Colombia	2:35:27
High jump	Thiago Moura  Brazil	2.19 m	Gilmar Correa  Colombia	2.13 m	Nicolás Numair  Chile	2.10 m
Pole vault	Germán Chiaraviglio  Argentina	5.45 m	Dyander Pacho  Ecuador	5.35 m	Augusto Dutra de Oliveira  Brazil	5.30 m
Long jump	José Luis Mandros  Peru	8.07 m	Emiliano Lasa  Uruguay	7.93 m	Jhon Berrio  Colombia	7.89 m
Triple jump	Leodan Torrealba  Venezuela	16.31 m	Frixon Chila  Ecuador	16.03 m	Mateus de Sá  Brazil	15.98 m
Shot put	Welington Morais  Brazil	20.00	Willian Dourado  Brazil	19.77	Nazareno Sasia  Argentina	19.73
Discus throw	Claudio Romero  Chile	64.99 m GR	Mauricio Ortega  Colombia	63.59 m	Juan José Caicedo  Ecuador	62.10 m
Hammer throw	Gabriel Kehr  Chile	76.81 m GR	Humberto Mansilla  Chile	74.12 m	Joaquín Gómez  Argentina	73.56 m
Javelin throw	Luiz Maurício da Silva  Brazil	76.90 m	Billy Julio  Colombia	74.38 m	Antonio Ortiz  Paraguay	70.96 m
Decathlon[4]	Felipe dos Santos  Brazil	7692 pts	Andy Preciado  Ecuador	7679 pts	Gerson Izaguirre  Venezuela	7449 pts

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Ana Azevedo  Brazil	11.75	María Florencia Lamboglia  Argentina	11.90	Ángela Tenorio  Ecuador	11.93
200 metres	Anahí Suárez  Ecuador	23.06	Orangy Jiménez  Venezuela	23.31	Ana Azevedo  Brazil	23.43
400 metres	Evelis Aguilar  Colombia	51.90	Martina Weil  Chile	51.92	Anahí Suárez  Ecuador	52.24
800 metres	Deborah Rodríguez  Uruguay	2:08.14	Jaqueline Weber  Brazil	2:08.97	Rosangélica Escobar  Colombia	2:09.56
1500 metres	Fedra Luna  Argentina	4:14.69 GR	Mariana Borelli  Argentina	4:16.49	Jaqueline Weber  Brazil	4:17.50
5000 metres	Fedra Luna  Argentina	15:41.78 GR	Joselyn Brea  Venezuela	15:42.70	Luz Mery Rojas  Peru	15:49.85
10,000 metres	Florencia Borelli  Argentina	33:43.37	Daiana Ocampo  Argentina	33:46.47	Luz Mery Rojas  Peru	33:50.44
100 metres hurdles	Yoveinny Mota  Venezuela	13.60	Micaela de Mello  Brazil	13.69	María Alejandra Murillo  Colombia	14.06
400 metres hurdles	Valeria Cabezas  Colombia	57.17	Chayenne da Silva  Brazil	57.91	Liliane Parrela  Brazil	57.92
3000 metres steeplechase	Belén Casetta  Argentina	10:23.28	Mirelle da Silva  Brazil	10:25.28	Stefany López  Colombia	10:26.82
4 × 100 metres relay	Colombia (COL) Angélica Gamboa Evelyn Rivera Melany Bolaño María Alejandra Murillo	44.61	Chile (CHI) Macarena Borie María Ignacia Montt Isidora Jiménez Javiera Cañas	45.04	Brazil (BRA) Vida Aurora Ana Azevedo Gabriela Mourão Micaela de Mello	45.43
4 × 400 metres relay	Colombia (COL) Lina Licona Rosangélica Escobar Valeria Cabezas Evelis Aguilar	3:31.30 GR	Brazil (BRA) Tábata de Carvalho Liliane Parrela Maria Victória de Sena Tiffani Marinho	3:35.61	Chile (CHI) Rocío Muñoz Berdine Castillo Poulette Cardoch Martina Weil	3:37.58
Marathon	Rosa Chacha  Ecuador	2:34:25 GR	Soledad Torre  Peru	2:37:02	Helen Baltazar  Bolivia	2:50:31
20 kilometres walk[5]	Glenda Morejón  Ecuador	1:31:34 GR	Viviane Lyra  Brazil	1:32:31	Evelyn Inga  Peru	1:35:49
35 kilometres walk	Viviane Lyra  Brazil	2:50:57 GR	Karla Jaramillo  Ecuador	2:54:01	Evelyn Inga  Peru	2:54:54
High jump[6]	Valdileia Martins  Brazil	1.87 m	Glenka Antonia  Curaçao	1.81 m	Sarah Freitas  Brazil	1.78 m
Pole vault	Robeilys Peinado  Venezuela	4.20 m	Juliana Campos  Brazil	4.20 m	Isabel de Quadros  Brazil	4.10 m
Long jump	Leticia Melo  Brazil	6.64 m	Natalia Linares  Colombia	6.43 m	Yuliana Angulo  Ecuador	6.22 m
Triple jump	Gabriele dos Santos  Brazil	13.74 m	Liuba Zaldívar  Ecuador	13.49 m	Núbia Soares  Brazil	13.10 m
Shot put	Natalia Duco  Chile	17.08 m	Ivana Gallardo  Chile	16.73 m	Ana Caroline da Silva  Brazil	16.40 m
Discus throw	Izabela da Silva  Brazil	60.86 m GR	Andressa de Morais  Brazil	60.10 m	Karen Gallardo  Chile	57.62 m
Hammer throw[7]	Rosa Rodríguez  Venezuela	68.90 m	Mayra Gaviria  Colombia	65.40 m	Ximena Zorrilla  Peru	62.78 m
Javelin throw[8]	Flor Ruiz  Colombia	62.97 m GR	Jucilene de Lima  Brazil	62.42 m	Juleisy Angulo  Ecuador	61.10 m NR
Heptathlon	Martha Araújo  Colombia	6112 pts GR	Ana Camila Pirelli  Paraguay	5756 pts	Joice Micolta  Ecuador	5396 pts

Mixed event

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil (BRA) Anderson Freitas Maria Victória de Sena Douglas Mendes da Silva Tábata de Carvalho	3:21.53 GR	Ecuador (ECU) Francisco Tejeda Evelyn Mercado Alan Minda Nicole Caicedo	3:22.27	Colombia (COL) Nicolás Salinas Rosangélica Escobar Raúl Mena Lina Licona	3:22.87