1978 South American Games / Participant (Uruguay)
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Uruguay took part in the 1st South American Gamesin Bolivia in 1978 with a delegation of 21 athletes.
The Uruguayan delegation was led by Gustavo Nicolich and accompanied by the two team doctors Julio Ekroth and Andrés Folle. She arrived on site on October 21, 1978, and settled in the Hotel Copacabana for ten days to acclimatize almost two weeks before the start of the competition . The Uruguayan athletes won a total of 31 medals in the course of the games, including four gold, 16 silver and eleven bronze medals. With that they finished fifth in the medal table of the games.
Participants by sport
Boxing
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Ultimar Juvencio
- Welter weight (67 kg): bronze
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Juan Scassino
- Middle weight (71 kg): silver
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Mario Melucci
- Lightweight flyweight (48 kg): bronze
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Domingo Alberto
- Fly weight (51 kg): bronze
fencing
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Aldo Ponzoni
- Foil (team): silver
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Alberto Varela
- Foil (team): silver
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Eduardo Zeballos
- Foil (team): silver
- Gustavo Quartino
Judo
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Alvaro Ciappesoni
- 78 kg: bronze
- Free weight class: bronze
athletics
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Abel Godoy
- 1500 meters: bronze / 4:14:09 minutes
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Norma Lucía Azcune
- Discus: gold / 39.72 meters
- Luis Cabral
swim
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Alvaro Roda
- 100 meters back: silver / 1:04:26 minutes
- 200 meters back: gold / 2:16:91 minutes
- 200 meter medley: silver / 2:23:65 minutes
- 400 meters freestyle: bronze / 4:34:11 minutes
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Ana Sofía Peroni
- 100 meter freestyle: silver / 1:05:19 minutes
- 4 × 100 meter freestyle: silver / 4:23:30 minutes
- 4 × 100 meter medley: silver / 4:57:69 minutes
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Gabriel Etchart
- 100 meters freestyle: bronze
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Elena Ospitaletche
- 100 meters chest: gold / 1:21:76 minutes
- 200 meters chest: gold / 2:59:79 minutes
- 4 × 100 meter freestyle: silver / 4:23:30 minutes
- 4 × 100 meter medley: silver / 4:57:69 minutes
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Ruben D. Hernández
- 100 meters chest: bronze
- 200 meters chest: bronze
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Carolina Peroni
- 100 meters freestyle: bronze
- 200 meters freestyle: Silver / 5:10:92 minutes
- 400 meters freestyle: silver / 2:23:23 minutes
- 4 × 100 meter freestyle: silver / 4:23:30 minutes
- 4 × 100 meter medley: silver / 4:57:69 minutes
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Silvana Barbato
- 100 meter butterfly: silver / 1:13:00 minutes
- 200 meter butterfly: silver / 2:50:08 minutes
- 100 meters back: silver / 1:15:39 minutes
- 200 meters back: silver / 2:44:62 minutes
- 200 meter medley: silver / 2:48:63 minutes
- 4 × 100 meter freestyle: silver / 4:23:30 minutes
- 4 × 100 meter medley: silver / 4:57:69 minutes
tennis
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Pablo Stapff
- Double: silver
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Diego Perez
- Single: silver
- Double: silver
Web links
- BOLIVIA 1978 - Uruguay's team line-up on the COU website, accessed on August 22, 2012
- Results of the Uruguayan athletes on the COU website, accessed on August 22, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ La "Celeste" compite en seis deportes y obtiene 31 medallas (Spanish) in La República on September 19, 2006, accessed on October 14, 2013