2021 South American Swimming Championships

The 45th South American Swimming Championships were held from 16 to 19 March at the Parque Olímpico de la Juventud in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

XLV South American Swimming Championships
Host city	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date(s)	16–19 March
Venue(s)	Parque Olímpico de la Juventud
Events	41
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Participating countries

•  Argentina
•  Bolivia
•  Brazil
•  Chile
•  Colombia
•  Ecuador
•  El Salvador*
•  Guatemala*
•  Guyana
•  Haiti*
•  Honduras*
•  Mexico*
•  Panama*
•  Paraguay
•  Peru
•  Puerto Rico*
•  Suriname
•  Uruguay
•  Venezuela

*Invitated countries

Results

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Lucas Peixoto (BRA)  Alberto Mestre Vivas (VEN)  Enzo Martinez Scarpe (URU) NRTooltip List of Uruguayan records in swimming	22.44	none awarded		none awarded
100 m freestyle	Lucas Peixoto (BRA)	49.36	Alberto Mestre Vivas (VEN)	49.43	Cristian Quintero (VEN)	49.60
200 m freestyle	Cristian Quintero (VEN)	1:50.22	Lucas Peixoto (BRA)	1:50.25	Pablo Vieira (BRA)	1:50.45
400 m freestyle	Murilo Sartori (BRA)	3:54.24	Pablo Silva Vieira (BRA)	3:54.46	Joaquín Vargas (PER)	3:55.54 NRTooltip List of Peruvian records in swimming
800 m freestyle	Juan Morales (COL)	8:02.29 NRTooltip List of Colombian records in swimming	Eduardo Oliveira Moraes (BRA)	8:08.50	Santiago Corredor (COL)	8:09.51
1500 m freestyle	Ivo Cassini (ARG)	15:30.81	Pedro Guastelli Farias (BRA)	15:33.16	Martín Carrizo (ARG)	15:36.91
50 m backstroke	Anthony Rincón (COL)	25.90	Charles Hockin (PAR)	25.98	Pedro Motta (BRA)	26.00
100 m backstroke	Anthony Rincón (COL)	55.91	Agustín Hernández (ARG)	56.23	Omar Pinzón (COL)	56.47
200 m backstroke	Omar Pinzón (COL)	2:02.03	Tomas Peribonio (ECU)	2:02.87 NRTooltip List of Ecuadorian records in swimming	Juan Ignacio Méndez (ARG)	2:03.38
50 m breaststroke	Renato Prono (PAR)	27.60	Jorge Murillo (COL)	27.83	Gabriel Morelli (ARG)	28.37
100 m breaststroke	Jorge Murillo (COL)	1:00.53	Gabriel Morelli (ARG)	1:02.26	Renato Prono (PAR)	1:02.44
200 m breaststroke	Jorge Murillo (COL)	2:12.70	Gabriel Morelli (ARG)	2:14.01	Pedro Cristo (BRA)	2:19.49
50 m butterfly	Victor Baganha (BRA)	24.03	Roberto Strelkov (ARG)	24.07	Guido Buscaglia (ARG)	24.29
100 m butterfly	Victor Baganha (BRA)	53.40	Jorge Otaiza (VEN)	53.65	Bryan Chávez (VEN)	53.90
200 m butterfly	Gustavo Saldo (BRA)	1:58.76	Federico Ludueña (ARG)	2:01.15	Nicolás Deferrari (ARG)	2:01.60
200 m individual medley	Tomas Peribonio (ECU)	2:00.84	Omar Pinzón (COL)	2:03.77	Vinícius Assunção (BRA)	2:03.99
400 m individual medley	Tomas Peribonio (ECU)	4:19.92	Vinícius Assunção (BRA)	4:29.72	Pedro Cristo (BRA)	4:30.62
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	Brazil Guilherme Caribé Santos (50.74) Victor Alcará (49.02) Victor Baganha (49.61) Lucas Peixoto (49.17)	3:18.54	Venezuela Alberto Mestre Vivas (49.63) Jesús López (50.91) Bryan Chávez (50.05) Cristian Quintero (49.05)	3:19.64	Argentina Joaquín González Piñero (51.45) Roberto Strelkov (49.87) Joaquín Renzi (51.60) Guido Buscaglia (49.47)	3:22.39
4 × 200 m freestyle relay	Brazil Murilo Sartori (1:49.47) Pablo Silva Vieira (1:51.26) Gustavo Saldo (1:49.19) Lucas Peixoto (1:54.40)	7:24.32	Argentina Joaquín González Piñero (1:51.11) Franco Melián (1:55.40) Martín Carrizo (1:54.32) Joaquín Renzi (1:53.20)	7:34.03	Chile Jorge Depassier (1:55.69) Eduardo Cisternas (1:55.74) Mariano Lazzerini (1:56.02) Gabriel Araya (1:52.19)	7:39.64
4 × 100 m medley relay	Colombia Anthony Rincón (56.10) Jorge Murillo (1:00.20) Esnaider Reales (53.72) Santiago Aguilera (51.10)	3:41.12	Argentina Agustín Hernández (56.46) Gabriel Morelli (1:01.41) Nicolás Deferrari (54.48) Guido Buscaglia (49.30)	3:41.65	Brazil Pedro Motta (56.88) Davi Martins Mourão (1:04.18) Victor Baganha (52.66) Lucas Peixoto (49.19)	3:42.91

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle	Isabella Arcila (COL)	25.38	Jeserik Pinto (VEN)	25.52	Andrea Berrino (ARG)	25.74
100 m freestyle	Anicka Delgado (ECU)	55.97	Isabella Arcila (COL)	56.01	Andrea Berrino (ARG)	56.86
200 m freestyle	Rafaela Raurich (BRA)	2:01.83	Sofia Rondel (BRA)	2:02.12	Inés Marín (CHI)	2:03.77
400 m freestyle	Delfina Pignatiello (ARG)	4:15.00	Rafaela Raurich (BRA)	4:17.32	Lucía Gauna (ARG)	4:18.25
800 m freestyle	Delfina Pignatiello (ARG)	8:34.10	Kristel Kobrich (CHI)	8:34.11	Delfina Dini (ARG)	9:44.82
1500 m freestyle	Kristel Kobrich (CHI)	16:06.78 CR	Delfina Pignatiello (ARG)	16:25.68	Delfina Dini (ARG)	16:40.97
50 m backstroke	Isabella Arcila (COL)	28.77	Andrea Berrino (ARG)	29.12	Alexia Sotomayor (PER)	29.60
100 m backstroke	Isabella Arcila (COL)	1:02.08	Maria Luiza Pessanha (BRA)	1:02.71	McKenna DeBever (PER)	1:02.88
200 m backstroke	Andrea Berrino (ARG)	2:16.43	Maria Luiza Pessanha (BRA)	2:16.46	Alexia Assunção (BRA)	2:17.19
50 m breaststroke	Macarena Ceballos (ARG)	31.27 CR	Julia Sebastián (ARG)	31.55	Karina Vivas (COL)	31.91
100 m breaststroke	Julia Sebastián (ARG)	1:08.93	Macarena Ceballos (ARG)	1:09.49	Karina Vivas (COL)	1:10.22
200 m breaststroke	Julia Sebastián (ARG)	2:27.59	Gabrielle da Silva (BRA)	2:28.53	Macarena Ceballos (ARG)	2:31.18
50 m butterfly	Anicka Delgado (ECU)	26.66 NRTooltip List of Ecuadorian records in swimming	Jeserik Pinto (VEN)	26.94	Luanna de Oliveira (BRA)	27.36
100 m butterfly	Anicka Delgado (ECU)	1:00.27 NRTooltip List of Ecuadorian records in swimming	Macarena Ceballos (ARG)	1:00.49 NRTooltip List of Argentine records in swimming	Luanna de Oliveira (BRA)	1:00.61
200 m butterfly	Rafaela Raurich (BRA)	2:14.09	Virginia Bardach (ARG)	2:14.58	Maria Luiza Pessanha (BRA)	2:15.51
200 m individual medley	McKenna DeBever (PER)	2:16.07	Fernanda Celidônio (BRA)	2:16.83	Virginia Bardach (ARG)	2:17.76
400 m individual medley	Virginia Bardach (ARG)	4:49.76	María Alborzen (ARG)	4:53.98	Fernanda Celidônio (BRA)	4:57.50
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	Argentina María Ruggiero (58.36) Lucía Gauna (56.95) Macarena Ceballos (57.64) Andrea Berrino (57.07)	3:50.02	Colombia Isabella Arcila (56.35) Karen Durango (57.86) María Álvarez (58.91) Daniela Gutiérrez (57.39)	3:50.51	Brazil Rafaela Raurich (57.52) Júlia Góes (58.11) Fernanda Andrade (57.61) Sofia Rondel (57.39)	3:50.73
4 × 200 m freestyle relay	Brazil Rafaela Raurich (2:01.24) Fernanda Andrade (2:07.09) Giulia Chicon (2:05.49) Sofia Rondel (2:01.53)	8:15.35	Argentina Lucía Gauna Virginia Bardach Delfina Dini (2:06.57) Delfina Pignatiello (2:04.71)	8:20.71	Colombia Karen Durango (2:06.04) Laura Melo (2:10.43) María Álvarez (2:04.72) Daniela Gutiérrez (2:06.76)	8:27.95
4 × 100 m medley relay	Argentina Andrea Berrino (1:03.31) Julia Sebastián (1:08.95) Macarena Ceballos (1:01.32) Lucía Gauna (56.98)	4:10.56	Colombia Isabella Arcila (1:01.92) Karina Vivas (1:10.29) Valentina Becerra (1:01.71) Daniela Gutiérrez (57.40)	4:11.31	Brazil Maria Luiza Pessanha (1:03.13) Gabrielle da Silva (1:11.00) Luanna de Oliveira (1:00.42) Fernanda Andrade (57.89)	4:12.44

Mixed events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4 × 100 m medley relay	Colombia Isabella Arcila (1:01.98) Jorge Murillo (1:00.15) Esnaider Reales (53.71) Daniela Gutiérrez (57.24)	3:53.08	Argentina Agustín Hernández (56.33) Julia Sebastián (1:07.75) Macarena Ceballos Guido Buscaglia	3:53.84	Brazil Maria Luiza Pessanha (1:02.88) Gabrielle da Silva (1:11.69) Victor Baganha (53.34) Lucas Peixoto (48.92)	3:56.83

Medal standings

  *   Host nation (Argentina)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil (BRA)	11	11	14	36
2	Colombia (COL)	11	5	5	21
3	Argentina (ARG)*	10	16	13	39
4	Ecuador (ECU)	5	1	0	6
5	Venezuela (VEN)	2	5	2	9
6	Chile (CHI)	1	1	2	4
7	Paraguay (PAR)	1	1	1	3
8	Peru (PER)	1	0	3	4
9	Uruguay (URU)	1	0	0	1
Totals (9 entries)		43	40	40	123

Team ranking

Rank	Team	Points
1	Argentina	439
2	Brazil	419.33
3	Colombia	267
4	Chile	139
5	Venezuela	122.33
6	Ecuador	75.5
7	Paraguay	69
8	Peru	67.5
9	Uruguay	51.33
10	Bolivia	12