2012 South American Cross Country Championships

The 2012 South American Cross Country Championships took place on March 4, 2012. The races were held at the Escuela de Equitación del Ejército (Army’s Equestrian School) in Lima, Perú.[1] A detailed report of the event was given for the IAAF.[2]

2012 South American Cross Country Championships
Organisers	CONSUDATLE
Edition	27th
Date	March 4
Host city	Lima, Perú
Venue	Escuela de Equitación del Ejército
Events	6
Distances	12 km – Senior men 8 km – Junior men (U20) 4 km – Youth men (U18) 8 km – Senior women 6 km – Junior women (U20) 3 km – Youth women (U18)
Participation	85 athletes from 9 nations
← 2011 Asunción 2013 Concordia →

Complete results[3][4] and results for junior and youth competitions[5] were published.

Medallists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual
Senior men (12 km)	Gilberto Silvestre Lopes  Brazil	38:05.4	Sergio Celestino da Silva  Brazil	38:27.0	Raúl Machacuay Perú	38:54.4
Junior (U20) men (8 km)	Thiarles Cacanha dos Santos  Brazil	26:21.3	Yerson Orellana Perú	26:31.5	Ioran Fernandes Etchechury  Brazil	26:34.6
Youth (U18) men (4 km)	Victor Vinícius Alves da Silva  Brazil	12:40.1	Thiago do Rosário André  Brazil	12:42.3	Weverton Fidélis  Brazil	12:49.2
Senior women (8 km)	Tatiele Roberta de Carvalho  Brazil	28:58.4	Angie Orjuela Soche  Colombia	29:30.4	Nubia Arteaga  Venezuela	29:34.0
Junior (U20) women (6 km)	Luz Mery Rojas Perú	22:54.7	Belén Casetta  Argentina	23:14.9	Evelyn Escobar Perú	23:28.9
Youth (U18) women (3 km)	Lucy Basilio Perú	10:59.0	Angie Legarda Bejarano  Colombia	11:04.6	Zulema Arenas Perú	11:05.9
Team
Senior men	Brazil	8	Ecuador	21	Perú	25
Junior (U20) men	Brazil	9	Perú	25	Argentina	39
Youth (U18) men	Brazil	3	Colombia	11	Ecuador	14
Senior women	Brazil	12	Perú	21
Junior (U20) women	Perú	8	Argentina	26	Brazil	27
Youth (U18) women	Perú	4	Brazil	12

Race results

Senior men's race (12 km)

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Gilberto Silvestre Lopes	Brazil	38:05.4
	Sergio Celestino da Silva	Brazil	38:27.0
	Raúl Machacuay	Perú	38:54.4
4	Paulo Buenaño	Ecuador	39:01.3
5	Leandro Prates Oliveira	Brazil	39:06.5
6	Rafael Santos Novais	Brazil	39:31.3
7	Altobeli Santos da Silva	Brazil	39:39.4
8	Miguel Almachi	Ecuador	39:45.1
9	César Pilaluisa	Ecuador	39:57.7
10	José Luis Rojas	Perú	40:15.1
11	Gerardo Villacres	Ecuador	40:30.0
12	Jean Pierre Castro	Perú	41:00.8
13	Juan Hilario	Perú	41:37.3
—	Alexis Peña	Venezuela	DNF
—	Miguel Amador	Colombia	DNF
—	Abel Villanueva	Peru	DNS

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Brazil Gilberto Silvestre Lopes 1 Sergio Celestino da Silva 2 Leandro Prates Oliveira 5 (Rafael Santos Novais) (6) (Altobeli Santos da Silva) (7)	8
	Ecuador Paulo Buenaño 4 Miguel Almachi 8 César Pilaluisa 9 (Gerardo Villacres) (11)	21
	Perú Raúl Machacuay 3 José Luis Rojas 10 Jean Pierre Castro 12 (Juan Hilario) (13)	25

• Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result.

Junior (U20) men's race (8 km)

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Thiarles Cacanha dos Santos	Brazil	26:21.3
	Yerson Orellana	Perú	26:31.5
	Ioran Fernandes Etchechury	Brazil	26:34.6
4	Mauricio Matute	Ecuador	26:47.3
5	Alex Render de Almeida	Brazil	27:05.4
6	Iván Choque	Bolivia	27:21.4
7	Marcelo Fabricius	Argentina	27:24.0
8	Cristian Pacheco	Perú	27:25.5
9	Jorge Camargo	Venezuela	27:39.5
10	Vladimir Uzuay	Ecuador	27:41.4
11	Daniel Alcântara	Brazil	27:54.5
12	José Andrés Plata	Colombia	28:07.7
13	Alexander Riaño	Colombia	28:21.2
14	Kevin Aguirre	Argentina	29:04.2
15	Mauricio Díaz	Perú	29:43.6
16	William Díaz	Venezuela	30:15.5
17	Juan Limachi	Perú	30:38.0
18	Miguel Altamirano	Argentina	30:59.2
—	Justino Giraldo	Perú	DNF
—	Sebastián Cano	Argentina	DNF

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Brazil Thiarles Cacanha dos Santos 1 Ioran Fernandes Etchechury 3 Alex Render de Almeida 5 (Daniel Alcântara) (11)	9
	Perú Yerson Orellana 2 Cristian Pacheco 8 Mauricio Díaz 15 (Juan Limachi) (17) (Justino Giraldo) (DNF)	25
	Argentina Marcelo Fabricius 7 Kevin Aguirre 14 Miguel Altamirano 18 (Sebastián Cano) (DNF)	39

• Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result.

Youth (U18) men's race (4 km)

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Victor Vinícius Alves da Silva	Brazil	12:40.1
	Thiago do Rosário André	Brazil	12:42.3
	Weverton Fidélis	Brazil	12:49.2
4	Camilo Aguillón	Colombia	12:52.2
5	Jhordan Ccope	Perú	12:54.0
6	Jonathán Mogrovejo	Ecuador	13:03.0
7	Ramiro Sanabria	Colombia	13:07.3
8	Pedro Mogrovejo	Ecuador	13:18.6
9	Jhon Vargas	Perú	13:24.5
10	Pablo Quispe	Ecuador	13:25.4
11	Yonathan Ñuñonca	Perú	13:34.5
12	Kevin Gadea	Uruguay	14:05.6

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Brazil Victor Vinícius Alves da Silva 1 Thiago do Rosário André 2 (Weverton Fidélis) (3)	3
	Colombia Camilo Aguillón 4 Ramiro Sanabria 7	11
	Ecuador Jonathán Mogrovejo 6 Pedro Mogrovejo 8 (Pablo Quispe) (10)	14
4	Perú Jhordan Ccope 5 Jhon Vargas 9 (Yonathan Ñuñonca) (11)	14

• Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result.

Senior women's race (8 km)

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Tatiele Roberta de Carvalho	Brazil	28:58.4
	Angie Orjuela Soche	Colombia	29:30.4
	Nubia Arteaga	Venezuela	29:34.0
4	Hortencia Arzapalo	Perú	29:34.5
5	Tatiana de Souza Araújo	Brazil	29:42.4
6	Sirlene Souza de Pinho	Brazil	29:42.9
7	Valdilene dos Santos Silva	Brazil	29:44.8
8	Karina Villazana	Perú	30:00.3
9	Rocío Cantará	Perú	30:05.1
10	Cynthia Ruiz	Perú	30:39.3
11	Andrea Ferris	Panamá	30:52.3
12	Yoni Ninahuamán	Perú	31:52.3
13	Mileidys Jaimes	Venezuela	32:04.6
—	Egris Arias	Venezuela	DNF

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Brazil Tatiele Roberta de Carvalho 1 Tatiana de Souza Araújo 5 Sirlene Souza de Pinho 6 (Valdilene dos Santos Silva) (7)	12
	Perú Hortencia Arzapalo 4 Karina Villazana 8 Rocío Cantará 9 (Cynthia Ruiz) (10) (Yoni Ninahuamán) (12)	21
—	Venezuela (Nubia Arteaga) (3) (Mileidys Jaimes) (13) (Egris Arias) (DNF)	(DNF)

• Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result.

Junior (U20) women's race (6 km)

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Luz Mery Rojas	Perú	22:54.7
	Belén Casetta	Argentina	23:14.9
	Evelyn Escobar	Perú	23:28.9
4	Angelly Gonzáles	Perú	23:55.4
5	Sunilda Lozano	Perú	24:09.3
6	Nelly Puma	Perú	24:13.7
7	Lizeth Choque	Bolivia	24:17.4
8	Jacira Coutinho de Freitas Santos	Brazil	24:30.0
9	Ana Oliveira Pacheco	Brazil	24:43.6
10	Flávia Maria de Lima	Brazil	25:17.5
11	Tamara Arias	Argentina	25:52.7
12	Paola Ríos	Ecuador	26:17.7
13	Estrella Isabel Maldonado	Argentina	26:22.4
14	Sofía Luna	Argentina	27:55.4
—	Jéssica Ladeira Soares	Brazil	DNF
—	Wilyeska Suárez	Venezuela	DNF

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Perú Luz Mery Rojas 1 Evelyn Escobar 3 Angelly Gonzáles 4 (Sunilda Lozano) (5) (Nelly Puma) (6)	8
	Argentina Belén Casetta 2 Tamara Arias 11 Estrella Isabel Maldonado 13 (Sofía Luna) (14)	26
	Brazil Jacira Coutinho de Freitas Santos 8 Ana Oliveira Pacheco 9 Flávia Maria de Lima 10 (Jéssica Ladeira Soares) (DNF)	27

• Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result.

Youth (U18) women's race (3 km)

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Lucy Basilio	Perú	10:59.0
	Angie Legarda Bejarano	Colombia	11:04.6
	Zulema Arenas	Perú	11:05.9
4	Aldana Sabatel	Uruguay	11:16.5
5	Nathália de Assis Ramalho	Brazil	11:32.7
6	Hetaira Palacios	Perú	11:34.0
7	Alessandra Cordeiro da Rosa	Brazil	11:34.3
8	Karina Pereira Gualberto	Brazil	11:45.4

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Perú Lucy Basilio 1 Zulema Arenas 3 (Hetaira Palacios) (6)	4
	Brazil Nathália de Assis Ramalho 5 Alessandra Cordeiro da Rosa 7 (Karina Pereira Gualberto) (8)	12

• Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result.

Medal table (unofficial)

  *   Host nation (Peru)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil (BRA)	8	3	3	14
2	Peru (PER)*	4	3	4	11
3	Colombia (COL)	0	3	0	3
4	Argentina (ARG)	0	2	1	3
5	Ecuador (ECU)	0	1	1	2
6	Venezuela (VEN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 nations)		12	12	10	34

• Note: Totals include both individual and team medals, with medals in the team competition counting as one medal.

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 85 athletes from 9 countries participated.

Argentina (8)  Bolivia (2)  Brazil (23)

Colombia (7)  Ecuador (10) Panamá (1)

Perú (25)  Uruguay (2)  Venezuela (7)

See also

• 2012 in athletics (track and field)

References

1. XXVII CAMPEONATO SUDAMERICANO DE CROSS COUNTRY - 04 DE MARZO DEL 2012 / LIMA – PERU (PDF) (in Spanish), Federación Deportiva Peruana de Atletismo, archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-01-02, retrieved January 2, 2014
2. Biscayart, Eduardo (March 5, 2012), Brazilians shine at South American Cross Country Championships, IAAF, retrieved January 2, 2014
3. CAMPEONATO SUDAMERICANO DE CROSS-COUNTRY - RESULTADOS OFICIALES (PDF) (in Spanish), Federación Deportiva Peruana de Atletismo, March 4, 2012, archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-01-02, retrieved January 2, 2014
4. 27º CAMPEONATO SUDAMERICANO DE CROSS COUNTRY - LIMA (PER) - 4.3.2012 (PDF), CONSUDATLE, March 4, 2012, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-05-12, retrieved January 1, 2014
5. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas (November 3, 2012), SOUTH AMERICAN CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS - SAXC - 2012 Lima PER Mar 4, World Junior Athletics History (WJAH), retrieved January 1, 2014