2008 South American Swimming Championships

The 2008 South American Aquatics Championships, or Campeonato Sudamericano de Primera Fuerza de Deportes Acuáticos (as they were called in Spanish), were held March 12–16, 2008, in São Paulo, Brazil. The Championships were an event of CONSANAT, the South American Swimming Confederation, and featured competitions in diving, swimming, open water swimming, synchronized swimming and water polo.

XXXIX South American Swimming Championships
Host city	São Paulo, Brazil
Date(s)	March 12–16, 2008
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The swimming competition at the Championships served as a qualifying event for the 2008 Olympics.

The water polo competition served as the South American qualifier for the UANA Cup: the Americas qualifier for the 2009 World Championships.

Diving

Men's results

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1 m springboard	Ramón Fumadó   Venezuela 375.80	César Castro   Brazil 373.60	Luis Villarroel   Venezuela 362.95
3 m springboard	César Castro   Brazil 448.60	Luis Villarroel   Venezuela 404.15	Juan Urán   Colombia 385.50
Platform	Juan Urán   Colombia 482.90	Hugo Parisi   Brazil 411.10	Sebastian Castañeda   Colombia 384.55
Synchronized 3 m springboard	Luis Villarroel / Ramón Fumadó   Venezuela 399.45	Juan Urán / Victor Ortega   Colombia 358.47	César Castro / Ubirajara Barbos   Brazil 347.55
Synchronized platform	Juan Urán / Victor Ortega   Colombia 402.21	Hugo Parisi / Bira Barbosa   Brazil 340.02	Donato Neglia / Moises Abarla   Chile 214.74

Women's results

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1 m springboard	Alejandra Fuentes   Venezuela 270.35	Juliana Veloso   Brazil 259.45	Diana Pineda   Colombia 232.25
3 m springboard	Alejandra Fuentes   Venezuela 306.60	Diana Pineda   Colombia 306.40	Juliana Veloso   Brazil 300.30
Platform	Juliana Veloso   Brazil 335.50	Kiara Buelva   Venezuela 281.65	Milena Canto Sae   Brazil 258.75
Synchronized 3 m springboard	Juliana Veloso / Tammy Galera   Brazil 272.34	Kiara Buelvas / Yhessen Hernandez   Venezuela 252.69	Rafaella Suarez / Gabriela Sabando   Ecuador 241.95
Synchronized platform	Milena Canto Sae / Evelyn Winkler   Brazil 259.32	Diana Pineda / Laura Vasquez   Colombia 233.88	Rafaella Suarez / Gabriela Sabando   Ecuador 227.76

Point standings

Rank	Country	Points
1	Brazil	223
2	Colombia	203
3	Venezuela	172
4	Ecuador	61
5	Chile	52

Swimming

Note: Competition was in a long course (50 m) pool.

Men's results

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Nicholas Santos   Brazil	22.72	Lucas Del Piccolo   Argentina	23.14	Camilo Becerra   Colombia	23.20
100 m freestyle	Fernando Souza da Silva   Brazil	50.60	Crox Acuña   Venezuela Eduardo Deboni   Brazil	51.16
200 m freestyle	Rodrigo Castro   Brazil	1:50.41 CR	Martin Kutscher   Uruguay	1:52.45	Crox Acuña   Venezuela	1:52.49
400 m freestyle	Ricardo Monasterio   Venezuela	3:56.50	Rodrigo Castro   Brazil	3:56.99	Armando Negreiros   Brazil	4:01.89
800 m freestyle	Ricardo Monasterio   Venezuela	8:12.04	Daniele Tirabasi   Venezuela	8:21.84	Luiz Rogerio Arapiraca   Brazil	8:23.03
1500 m freestyle	Ricardo Monasterio   Venezuela	15:43.07	Juan Martin Pereira   Argentina	15:57.42	Mateo de Angulo Velasco   Colombia	15:57.88
50 m backstroke	Guilherme Guido   Brazil	25.41	Eduardo German Otero   Argentina	26.59	Camilo Becerra   Colombia	27.43
100 m backstroke	Guilherme Guido   Brazil	55.54	Thiago Pereira   Brazil	57.27	Eduardo German Otero   Argentina	58.33
200 m backstroke	Lucas Salatta   Brazil	2:01.22	Thiago Pereira   Brazil	2:05.70	Luciano Sales Rubio   Argentina	2:08.10
50 m breaststroke	Felipe Lima   Brazil	28.46	Felipe Silva   Brazil	28.74	Walter Archiprete   Argentina	29.28
100 m breaststroke	Henrique Barbosa   Brazil	1:01.44 CR SAR	Felipe Lima   Brazil	1:01.89	Walter Archiprete   Argentina	1:05.44
200 m breaststroke	Henrique Barbosa   Brazil	2:18.14	Bastian Nordenflytch   Chile	2:24.46	Diego Bonilla   Colombia	2:24.78
50 m butterfly	Nicholas Santos   Brazil	23.88 CR	Candido da Silva   Brazil	24.72	Camilo Becerra   Colombia	24.88
100 m butterfly	Fernando Souza da Silva   Brazil	54.61	Camilo Becerra   Colombia	54.76	Gordon Touw Ngie Tjouw   Suriname	54.80
200 m butterfly	Andres José Gonzalez   Argentina	2:01.77	Julio Cesar Montes   Colombia	2:01.95	Alexis Marquez   Venezuela	2:02.62
200 m individual medley	Thiago Pereira   Brazil	2:05.22	Tales Rocha Cerdeira   Brazil	2:06.16	Diego Bonilla   Colombia	2:08.05
400 m individual medley	Thiago Pereira   Brazil	4:27.58	Lucas Salatta   Brazil	4:36.39	Benjamin Guzmán   Chile	4:37.29
400 m freestyle relay	Brazil Nicholas Santos, Fernando Souza da Silva, Eduardo Deboni, Tales Rocha Cerdeira	3:24.47	Uruguay Francisco Picasso, José Gabriel Álvez, Paul Kutscher, Martin Kutscher	3:25.40	Argentina Lucas del Piccolo, Eduardo German Otero, Sergio Ferreira, Damian Roth	3:32.05
800 m freestyle relay	Venezuela Daniel Tirabasi, Juan Francisco Morales, Jesus Casanova, Crox Acuña	7:33.30 CR	Brazil Lucas Salatta, Armando Negreiros, Thiago Pereira, Rodrigo Castro	7:45.06	Argentina Agustín Fiorilli, Damian Roth, Freddy Renzo Zschach, Juan Martín Pereira	7:46.24
400 m medley relay	Brazil Guilherme Guido, Henrique Barbosa, Lucas Salatta, Eduardo Deboni	3:43.87	Argentina Eduardo German Otero, Sergio Ferreira, Gustavo Daniel Paschetta, Damian Roth	3:49.41	Uruguay Nicolas Francia, Martin Melconiam, Martin Kutscher, Paul Kutscher	3:50.00

Women's results

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Flavia Delaroli-Cazziolato   Brazil	25.25 CR	Ximena Vilar   Venezuela	26.51	Yamilé Bahamonde   Ecuador Julyana Bassi Kury   Brazil	26.64
100 m freestyle	Tatiana Lemos   Brazil	56.06	Flavia Delaroli-Cazziolato   Brazil	56.16	Carolina Colorado Henao   Colombia	57.49
200 m freestyle	Monique Ferreira   Brazil	2:00.62	Tatiana Lemos   Brazil	2:02.26	Cecilia Elizabeth Biagioli   Argentina	2:04.47
400 m freestyle	Monique Ferreira   Brazil	4:13.77	Kristel Köbrich   Chile	4:17.94	Cecilia Elizabeth Biagioli   Argentina	4:19.81
800 m freestyle	Kristel Köbrich   Chile	8:51.90	Cecilia Elizabeth Biagioli   Argentina	8:59.89	Darneyis Orozco   Venezuela	9:06.17
1500 m freestyle	Kristel Köbrich   Chile	16:38.57	Sofia Osaba   Argentina	17:29.64	Darneyis Orozco   Venezuela	17:35.73
50 m backstroke	Fabíola Molina   Brazil	29.11	Etiene Medeiros   Brazil	29.91	Carolina Colorado Henao   Colombia	30.62
100 m backstroke	Fabíola Molina   Brazil	1:01.93	Carolina Colorado Henao   Colombia	1:04.04	Juanita Barreto   Colombia	1:05.26
200 m backstroke	Erin Volcán   Venezuela	2:17.47 CR	Eliana Cassini   Argentina	2:22.16	Julyana Bassi Kury   Brazil	2:23.38
50 m breaststroke	Valeria Silva Merea   Peru	32.53 CR, NR	Javiera Salcedo   Argentina	33.22	Liliana Guiscardo   Argentina	33.27
100 m breaststroke	Valeria Silva Merea   Peru	1:12.46	Javiera Salcedo   Argentina	1:12.78	Tatiane Mayumi Sakemi   Brazil	1:13.39
200 m breaststroke	Tatiane Mayumi Sakemi   Brazil	2:38.49	Carolina Hurga Mussi   Brazil	2:39.70	Nora Miro Quesada Woll   Peru	2:40.61
50 m butterfly	Gabriella Silva   Brazil	27.49	Carolina Colorado Henao   Colombia	28.22	Yamile Bahamonde   Ecuador	28.44
100 m butterfly	Gabriella Silva   Brazil	1:00.74	Daiene Marçal Dias   Brazil	1:01.77	Carolina Colorado Henao   Colombia	1:01.96
200 m butterfly	Joanna Maranhão   Brazil	2:13.41 CR	Georgina Bardach   Argentina	2:18.21	Daiene Marçal Dias   Brazil	2:19.02
200 m individual medley	Joanna Maranhão   Brazil	2:17.10	Georgina Bardach   Argentina	2:23.08	Erin Volcán   Venezuela	2:23.81
400 m individual medley	Joanna Maranhão   Brazil	4:49.62	Georgina Bardach   Argentina	4:55.59	Virginia Bardach   Argentina	5:06.27
400 m freestyle relay	Brazil Julyaana Bassi Kury, Etiene Medeiros, Monique Ferreira, Tatiana Lemos Barbosa	3:49.21	Argentina Nadia Soledad Colovini, Manuela Morano, Ariadna Ghirard, Cecilia Elizabeth Biagioli	3:55.02	Venezuela Ximena Vilar, Jesserick Pinto, Jenifer Marquez, Erin Volcán	3:56.50
800 m freestyle relay	Brazil Manuela Lyrio, Tatiana Lemos Barbosa, Joanna Maranhão, Monique Ferreira	8:23.77	Argentina Nadia Soledad Colovini, Adriadna Ghirard, Georgina Bardach, Cecilia Elizabeth Biagioli		Venezuela Jenifer Marquez, Darneyis Orozco, Patricia Maldonado, Erin Volcán
400 m medley relay	Brazil Fabíola Molina, Tatiane Mayumi Sakemi, Gabriella Silva, Tatiana Lemos Barbosa	4:11.53 CR SAR	Venezuela Erin Volcán, Gloria González, Elimar Barrios, Ximena Vilar	4:23.39	Argentina Eliana Cassini, Javiera Salcedo, Florencia Ghione, Nadia Soledad Colovini	4:25.01

Records

10 South American Records were set in:

• Men's 100 m backstroke: 54.67, Guilherme Guido, Brazil
• Men's 100 m breaststroke: 1:01.44, Henrique Barbosa, Brazil
• Women's 100 m freestyle: 55.73, Tatiana Lemos, Brazil
• Women's 200 m freestyle: 2:00.62, Monique Ferreira, Brazil
• Women's 50 m backstroke: 28.45, Fabíola Molina, Brazil
• Women's 100 m backstroke: 1:01.40, Fabíola Molina, Brazil
• Women's 50 m breaststroke: 32.53, Valéria Merea, Peru
• Women's 50 m butterfly: 27.48, Gabriella Silva, Brazil
• Women's 100 m butterfly: 59.79, Gabriella Silva, Brazil
• Women's 400 m medley relay: 4:11.53, Brazil (Molina, Sakemi, Silva, Lemos)

Additionally, 8 Championship Records (CRs) were set in:

• Men's 200 m freestyle: 1:50.41, Rodrigo Castro, Brazil
• Men's 50 m backstroke: 25.19, Guilherme Guido, Brazil
• Men's 50 m breaststroke: 28.40, Felipe Lima, Brazil
• Men's 50 m butterfly: 23.88, Nicholas Santos, Brazil
• Men's 400 m individual medley: 4:17.64, Thiago Pereira, Brazil
• Men's 800 m freestyle relay: 7:33.30, Venezuela
• Women's 50 m freestyle: 25.25, Flávia Delaroli Cazziolato, Brazil
• Women's 400 m freestyle: 4:13.77, Monique Ferreira, Brazil

Open water swimming

Note: Competition dates were March 7 (5 km) and March 9 (10 km).

Men's results

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km	Luiz Lima   Brazil 57:34.85	Roberto Penailillo   Chile 57:40.28	Carlos Pavão   Brazil 57:41.04
10 km	Allan do Carmo   Brazil 2:02:19	Roberto Penailillo   Chile 2:02:22	Marcelo Romanelli   Brazil 2:02:25

Women's results

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km	Kristel Köbrich   Chile 1:03:15	Ana Marcela Cunha   Brazil 1:03:16	Maria de Penha Cruz   Brazil 1:03:53
10 km	Kristel Köbrich   Chile 2:02:33	Ana Marcela Cunha   Brazil 2:06:22	Andreína Pinto   Venezuela 2:06:43

Team results

Place	Country	Time (hours/minutes/seconds)
1	Brazil	9h 09m 38s
2	Venezuela	9h 14m 57s
3	Chile	9h 20m 31s
4	Argentina	9h 27m 06s
5	Ecuador	9h 35m 25s

Note: Based on fastest total time of compiled 3 fastest times (male and female) per country in both events.

Synchronized swimming

Results

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Solo	Giovana Stephan   Brazil 87.498 (T=42.915 / F=44.583)	Jennifer Cerquera   Colombia 83.498 (T=40.665 / F=42.833)	Julieta Díaz   Argentina 81.915 (T=40.250 / F=41.666)
Duet	Lara Teixeira / Nayara Figueira Giovana Stephan (r)   Brazil 89.748 (T=44.499 / F=45.249)	Anna Soto / Mary Soto   Venezuela 84.665 (T=41.416 / F=43.249)	Jennifer Cerquera / Ingrid Cubillos Stefanie Garcia (r)   Colombia 82.332 (T=40.333 / F=41.999)
Team	Brazil Maria Bruno, Michelle Frota, Joseane Martins, Lorena Molinos, Pamela Nogueira, Gláucia Souza, Giovana Stephan, Camila Ururay (r): Nayara Figueira and Lara Teixeira 87.999 (T=43.583 / F=44.416)	Colombia Ailin Alegria, Asly Alegria, Paula Arcila, Jennifer Cerquera, Ingrid Cubillos, Luana Prato, Monica Sarai, Marilza Valencia, (r): Stefanie Garcia and Maria Reyna 84.332 (T=41.749 / F=42.583)	Venezuela Rosa Maria Avila, Ariana Bencomo, Paula Fernandez, Geraldine Narvaez, Adriana Scotton, Fredmary Zambrano (r): Darlin Hernandez and Amanda Mendez 82.415 (T=40.999 / F=41.416)

T=Technical program score; F=Free program score (each weights equally)

Point standings

Rank	Country	Solo	Duet	Team	Total
1	Brazil	24	36	72	132
2	Colombia	22	30	66	118
3	Venezuela	18	33	60	111
4	Argentina	20	27	54	101
5	Aruba*	16	-	-	16

*Aruba is not a normal CONSANAT member, and only competed in the synchro solo competition at these Championships.

Water polo

Game winners are italicized.

Men's tournament

Round	Teams	Score
Day 5 games	Colombia v. Argentina	6-5
	Venezuela v. Brazil	5-14
	Venezuela v. Argentina	6-10
	Colombia v. Brazil	1-13
Day 6 games	Colombia v. Venezuela	9-11
	Brazil v. Argentina	11-6
Semifinals
	Venezuela v. Argentina	6-8
	Brazil v. Colombia	16-6
Finals
Bronze medal	Argentina v. Colombia	7-8
Gold medal	Brazil v. Venezuela	15-4

Women's tournament

Round	Teams	Score
Day 4 games	Venezuela v. Chile	23-1
	Brazil v. Argentina	13-4
Day 5 games	Venezuela v. Argentina	10-4
	Brazil v. Chile	27-3
Day 6 games	Chile v. Argentina	0-17
	Brazil v. Venezuela	13-6
Semifinals
	Venezuela v. Argentina	8-10
	Brazil v. Chile	25-4
Finals
Bronze medal	Venezuela v. Chile	28-0
Gold medal	Brazil v. Argentina	11-3

Final standings

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th
Men	Brazil	Venezuela	Colombia	Argentina
Women	Brazil	Argentina	Venezuela	Chile

Overall medals table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil (BRA)	42	21	12	75
2	Venezuela (VEN)	9	9	12	30
3	Chile (CHI)	4	4	2	10
4	Colombia (COL)	2	10	15	27
5	Peru (PER)	2	0	1	3
6	Argentina (ARG)	1	15	12	28
7	Uruguay (URU)	0	2	1	3
8	Ecuador (ECU)	0	0	4	4
9	Suriname (SUR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		60	61	60	181

External links

• Event page on the Brazilian Swimming Federation website 2010-11-17 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish and Portuguese)