South American Championships of Aquatic Sports Wrap Up

COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 6. THE swimming portion of the South American Championships of Aquatic Sports concluded Saturday after four days of competition in Venezuela. The athletes of Brazil emerged the victors of championships.

Brazil swept every relay throughout the competition. The team opened the meet capturing both the men's 15 & Under 400-meter freestyle (3:41.75) and women's 16-18 400-meter medley relay (4:25.01). Brazil carried its winning streak into the next day, notching victories in the women's Youth A 400-meter freestyle relay and men's Youth B 400-medley relay in the respective times of 4:04.31 and 3:54.38.

On the final day of competition, Brazil won both the men's 16-18 400-meter freestyle relay and the women's 15 & Under 400-meter medley relay. The men swam a combined time of 3:29.81, while the women completed the event in 4:38.16.

Venezuelan Andreina Pinto stopped the clock first in two events. On the third day of the meet, she edged Ecuador's Nicole Marmol to capture the Youth B 200-meter freestyle title in 2:06.14. Her second victory was in the Youth B 400-meter freestyle. Pinto (4:26.28) swam the event four seconds faster than her competitions to take home the gold.

Jesserick Pinto, who also hails from Venezuela, was responsible for wins in both the 100- and 200-meter backstroke Youth B division. She recorded times of 1:08.48 and 2:25.34, respectively.

Antonella Scanavino also won a pair of events. The 14-year old from Uruguay won the 15 & Under 200-meter butterfly in 2:22.26, as well as the Youth A 200-meter individual medley in 2:27.96.

The second day of the competition saw a pair of records fall. Ferananda Moraces of Brasil posted the first record of the meet when she eclipsed the women's youth B record in the 100-meter freestyle by .04 seconds. She swam the event in 58.03 to capture her only victory of the meet.

Venezuela's Ernesto Acuna and Brazil's Carlos Viveros tied the 200-meter freestyle to share the victory as well as the men's youth B record. Their time of 1:53.30 is half a second under the previous record set by Nicolas Oliveira in 2005.

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