A fine weekend for Brazil

Racing in the city, Sao Paulo
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Brazil dominated the South American Rowing Championships last weekend when they won 12 of the 17 events on their home turf of Sao Paulo against solid competition from 11 other nations. This placed Brazil in a fine position as they look towards the Pan American Games again on home soil of Rio de Janeiro in 2007.

One of the closest battles went on in the men’s four between Brazil and Chile with Brazil managing to stay just enough ahead to finish one second over Chile’s four which included Miguel Cerda who holds the current World Best time in the lightweight pair.

But sitting in Brazil’s four, Allan Bittencourt and Alexandre Altair finished up as regatta stars after securing a total of three gold medals. Bittencourt and Altair completed a clean sweep of the sweep events by winning the pair and eight as well.

This left Cerda and team mate Felipe Leal with silver in the pair and bronze in the eight.

Cerda’s team mate from 2002 when he set the World Best Time, Christian Yantani, joined Cerda in the eight and also swapped to sculling finishing second in the lightweight double with Marco Cantaneda.

Brazil’s two-time Olympian in the men’s single, Anderson Nocetti also helped his country to three gold medals finishing first in the eight, quad and double.

Two-time Olympic single sculler Soraya Jadue of Chile joined Maria Orellana in the women’s double but could only manage silver behind Argentina’s Gabriela Best and Veronica Quagliarello. Best, who competed internationally as a junior in 2000 and 2001, also won the women’s single. She finished nearly 10 seconds ahead of nearest rival Mariana Cadore of Brazil. 

The biggest field of nine entries lined up in the lightweight men’s single with Ronaldo Vargas of Brazil easily winning over Victor Aspillaga of Peru. Vargas also took gold in the second biggest event – the lightweight men’s double.

The championships were held on the Raia Olímpica course in the University of Sao Pablo campus.

RESULTS

1x Junior Men
1. Rodrigo Ruiz/ARG ? 7min40s42
2. Emiliano Guaraglia/URU ? 7min55s40
3. João Palassão/BRA ? 8min01s49
4. Francisco Oxilia/PAR ? 8min03s36
5. Eduardo Linares/PER ? 8min22s33

2- Junior Men
1. André Vigiani e Renan Koplewski/BRA ? 7min25s62
2. Nicolas Carrieri e Kevin Atem/ARG ? 7min26s52

1x Men
1. Armando Max Ribeiro/BRA ? 7min39s69
2. Carlos Giambroni/PER ? 7min42s55
3. Dhison Hernandez/VEN ? 7min50s88
4. Arturo Leyva/COL ? 8min55s19
5. Santiago Fernandez/ARG ? abandonó

2- Men
1. Allan Bittencourt y Alexandre Altair/BRA ? 6min57s99
2. Felipe Leal y Miguel Cerda/CHI ? 6min59s72
3. Sebastian Claus y Ezequiel Godoy/ARG ? 7min24s21
4. Oscar Delgado y Luis Asencio/ECU ? 7min56s29

1x Women
1. Gabriela Best/ARG ? 8min29s11
2. Mariana Cadore/BRA ? 8min38s23
3. Camila Vargas/ESA ? 8min48s36
4. Yuleima Charris/VEM ? 9min19s19

1x Lightweight Women
1. Fabiana Beltrame/BRA ? 8min33s64
2. Milka Kraljev/ARG ? 8min50s02
3. Carolina Figueroa/ESA ? 8min54s63
4. Rita Correa/PAR ? 9min06s86
5. Alejandra Vivo/URU ? 9min16s08
6. Maria Fernanda Barrios/ECU ? 9min33s98

1x Lightweight Men
1. Ronaldo Vargas/BRA ? 7min33s30
2. Victor Aspillaga/PER ? 7min38s68
3. Edgard Nanne/GUA ? 7min44s20
4.Rodolfo Collazo/URU ? 7min46s73
5. Daniel Sosa/PAR ? 7min52s80
6. Jose Czcy/ARG ? abandonó

2- Lightweight Men
1. Javier Godoy e Jorge Morgenstern/CHI ? 7min10s90
2. Adrian Rubia e Nicolas Gonzalez/ARG ? 7min18s79
3. Guillermo Capelo e Giovane Re/PAR ? 7min31s96
4. Miguel Angel Del Pezo e Giovanni Alvarez/ECU ? 8min00s96

4x Men
1. Marcelus Marcili, Anderson Nocetti, Alexandre Altair e Allan Bittencourt/BRA ? 6min13s55
2. Mauricio Cifuentes, Abraham Gonzalez, Oscar Vasquez e Jorge Rodrigues/CHI ? 6min21s85
3. Oscar Delgado, Luis Arsencio, Miguel Angel Del Pezo e Giovanni Alvarez/ECU ? 7min11s21

4- Junior Men
1. Gabriel Pires, Thiago Leite, Renan Koplewski, Marco Martins/BRA ? 6min46s76
2. Nicolas Carrieri, Kevin Atem, Kurt Lingefelder, Brian Rosso/ARG ? 6min51s07
3. Felipe Oyarzun, Avendaño Rene, Felipe Oñate, Fabian Oyarzun/CHI ? 6min57s07

2x Men
1. Anderson Nocetti e Marcelus Marcili/BRA ? 6min48s50
2. Ariel Suarez e Rodrigo Murillo/ARG ? 6min50s66
3. Leandro Rattaro e German Pochellu ? 7min09s33
4. Enrique Paats e Daniel Sosa ? 7min28s57

4- Men
1. Allan Bittencourt, Gibran Vieira, Alexandre Altair e Leandro Tozzo/BRA ? 6min20s21
2. Jorge Rodriguez, Felipe Leal, Oscar Vasquez e Miguel Cerda/CHI ? 6min21s61
3. Emilio Torres, Carlos Torres, Raul Balize e Jorge Chalas/VEM ? 6min54s23
4. Oscar Delgado, Luis Asencio, Miguel Angel Del Pezo, Giovanni Alvarez/ECU ? 7min08s91

2x Junior Men
1. Rodrigo Ruiz e Nicolas Sanchez/ARG ? 6min54s67
2. Marco Martins e Gabriel Pires/BRA ? 7min09s59
3. Walter Montaña e Santiago Camargo/URU ? 7min20s71
4. Francisco Oxilua e Alejandro Bordaberry/PAR ? 7min24s90

2x Women
1. Gabriela Best e Vronica Quagliarello/ARG ? 7min33s98
2. Soraya Jadue e Maria Orellana/CHI ? 7min41s10
3. Caroline Beloni e Kissya Cataldo/BRA ? 7min52s07
4. Yuleima Charris e Ana Santoyo/VEM ? 8min02s13
5. Emilia Juarez e Camila Vargas/ESA ? 8min07s77

2x Lightweight Women
1. Fabiana Beltrame e Ana Palassão/BRA ? 7min38s79
2. Evelyn Bonifácio e Alejandra Vivo/URU ? 8min13s26
3. Rita Correa e Giselle Barrail/PAR ? 8min17s53
4. Carolina Figueroa e Aida Turcos/ESA ? 8min20s40

2x Lightweight Men
1. Thiago Gomes e Ronaldo Vargas/BRA ? 6min53s06
2. Cristian Yantani e Marco Cantañeda/CHI ? 7min05s10
3. Rodolfo Collazo e Angel Corrane/URU ? 7min05s48
4. Miguel Angel Castillo e Oscar Gudiel/GUA ? 7min08s18
5. Christian Cortez e Alfredo Santamaría/ESA ? 7min09s95
6. Victor Aspillaga e Diego Mejia/PER ? 7min39s63

4- Lightweight Men
1. Leandro Loureiro, Rui Schaedler, Luciano Souza e Thiago Almeida/BRA ? 6min27s26
2. Diego Wehrendt, Mario Ceas, Mariano Bajac e Juan Abadie/ARG ? 6min29s78
3. Javier Godoy, Jorge Morgenstern, Daniel Atero e Herbert Jans/CHI ? 6min38s28

8+ Men
1. Anderson Nocetti, Allan Bittencourt, Marcelus Marcili, Alexandre Altair, Gibran Cunha, Leandro Tozzo, César Lamm e Cleyton Wiggers. Tim. Alexandre Fernandes/BRA ? 5min59s32
2. Federico Steindl, Marcos Morales, Gustavo Nores, Alejandro Cucchieti, Danian Ordas, Ezequiel Godoy, Alan San Martin, Germano Sotelo e Sebastian Claus/ARG ? 6min04s37
3. Marco Castañeda, Oscar Vasquez, Miguel Cerda, Felipe Leal, Abraham Gonzalez, Cristian Yantani, Gerson Madrid, Jorge Rodriguez e Mauricio Cifuentes/CHI ? 6min05s87

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