The South American Race Walking Championships (Spanish: Campeonatos Sudamericanos de Marcha Atlética) is a biennial race walking competition organized by CONSUDATLE for athletes representing the countries of its member associations. Races for senior men and women, for junior and for youth athletes are featured. In addition, there are separate team competitions. The event was established (most probably) in 1989 as South American Race Walking Cup (Spanish: Copa Sudamericana de Marcha Atlética), and was occurring annually at first. The 2001 event was held in conjunction with the Pan American Race Walking Cup. The name as well as the frequency of the competition were changed in 2004.
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Results
A couple of gold medal winners were published by Athletics Weekly, or CONSUDATLE. Results for the junior and youth competitions can be found on the World Junior Athletics History ("WJAH") webpage. Further results were assembled from other sources.
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1.): In 1997, Bernardo Segura from Mexico was invited starting out of competition and finished second in 1:28:06.
2.): In 1998, some non-CONSUDATLE race walkers were invited to start out of competition. Julio Martínez from Guatemala finished second in 1:25:13, Rogelio Sánchez from Mexico finished 3rd in 1:27:04, and Giovanni De Benedictis from Italy finished 4th in 1:30:12.
3.): In 2014, Erick Barrondo from Guatemala was 2nd in 1:26:42 competing as a guest.
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*: In 2012 and 2016, Érica Rocha de Sena from Brazil got better times out of competition (1:33:24.0 and 1:34:09).