South American Cross Country Championships


The South American Cross Country Championships is an annual continental cross country running competition for athletes from South America or, more specifically, member countries of CONSUDATLE. It was first held in 1986, making it the oldest of the continental cross country championships. The event is typically held in late February or early March.
The South American Championships in Athletics were the precursor to the competition in that cross country was featured on the main athletics programme between 1924 and 1949. After the introduction of an independent championships in 1986, multiple races were held: the initial competition schedule featured long races for senior men and women, and shorter races for junior men and women. This was expanded in 1991 with the addition of a youth competition for younger runners. Keeping in line with changes to the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, the South American championships also held senior short race competitions between 1998 and 2006, to complement the established long races. The short races were removed from the programme after their removal from the World Championships in 2006.
Brazil have been the most successful nation at the championships: they were undefeated in both of the long race team contests between 1993 and 2001.

Editions

EditionYearVenueCityCountryDateNo. of
runners
1st1986San Carlos de BarilocheArgentina28
2nd1987SantiagoChile23
3rd1988TandilArgentina23
4th1989AsunciónParaguay32
5th1990CaracasVenezuela26
6th1991AmbatoEcuador
7th1992Jóckey ClubSão PauloBrazil
8th1993CaliColombia89
9th1994ManausBrazil81 + 1 guest
10th1995CaliColombia60
11th1996Club MbiguáAsunciónParaguay108
12th1997Santa Lucía Golf ClubComodoro RivadaviaArgentina82 + 1 guest
13th1998Artur NogueiraBrazil117
14th1999Artur NogueiraBrazil89
15th2000Cartagena de IndiasColombia81 + 69 foreign guests + 45 locals
16th2001Rio de JaneiroBrazil88 + 114 local
17th2002Santa Cruz de la SierraBolivia72
18th2003Ñu Guasú ParkAsunciónParaguay95
19th2004Forte Marechal HermesMacaéBrazil89
20th2005Club de Golf del UruguayMontevideoUruguay138
21st2006Naval BaseMar del PlataArgentina142
22nd2007Centro de Treinamento da MarinhaRio de JaneiroBrazil86 + 1 guest
23rd2008Ñu Guasú ParkAsunciónParaguay91
24th2009Parque del Stadio ItalianoCoronelChile73
25th2010Campus La SalleGuayaquilEcuador27 February82
26th2011Club Deportivo SajoniaAsunciónParaguay20 February97
27th2012Escuela de Equitación del EjércitoLimaPeru4 March85
28th2013Ayuí Hotel ComplexConcordia, Entre RíosArgentina24 February91
29th2014Jardín Botánico y ZoológicoAsunciónParaguay23 February158
30th2015BarranquillaColombia22 February
31st2016CaraballedaVenezuela4 March
32nd2017Parque Padre HurtadoSantiagoChile19 February
33rd2018La LibertadEl Salvador17 February
34th2019SamanesGuayasEcuador23 February
35th2022SerraBrazil27 March
36th2023BarilocheArgentina22 January