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

• Ultimar Juvencio

  Welter weight (67 kg): bronze

• Juan Scassino

  Middle weight (71 kg): silver

• Mario Melucci

  Lightweight flyweight (48 kg): bronze

• Domingo Alberto

  Fly weight (51 kg): bronze

fencing

• Aldo Ponzoni

  Foil (team): silver

• Alberto Varela

  Foil (team): silver

• Eduardo Zeballos

  Foil (team): silver

• Gustavo Quartino

Judo

• Alvaro Ciappesoni

  78 kg: bronze

  Free weight class: bronze

athletics

• Abel Godoy

  1500 meters: bronze / 4:14:09 minutes

• Norma Lucía Azcune

  Discus: gold / 39.72 meters

• Luis Cabral

swim

• 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

• 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

• Gabriel Etchart

  100 meters freestyle: bronze

• 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

• Ruben D. Hernández

  100 meters chest: bronze

  200 meters chest: bronze

• 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

• 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

• Pablo Stapff

  Double: silver

• 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

1. ↑ La "Celeste" compite en seis deportes y obtiene 31 medallas (Spanish) in La República on September 19, 2006, accessed on October 14, 2013