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2008 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics

Field	Value
Name	XIII Ibero-American Championships in Athletics
Logo	Iquique 2008.jpg
Colour	#FFCA4D
Host city	Iquique, ChileChile
Dates	13 – 15 June 2008
Stadium	Estadio Tierra de Campeones
Nations participating	19
Athletes participating	316
Events	44
Previous	2006 Ponce
Next	2010 San Fernando

The 2008 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics (Spanish: XIII Campeonato Iberoamericano de Atletismo), was an athletics competition which was held at the Estadio Tierra de Campeones in Iquique, Chile from June 13 to the 15th. A total of forty-four events were contested, of which 22 by male and 22 by female athletes.

Iquique was selected as the host city for the event, in May 2006, at the Iberoamerican Athletics Confederation Congress (Congreso de la Confederación Iberoamericana de Atletismo). A running track was installed at the stadium specifically for the competition.

No championship records were set at an edition which has hampered by cold, windy whether in the Chilean city. Six national records were broken at the competition, however, including a Chilean record throw of 18.65 m by shot put winner Natalia Ducó, which was also a South American junior record. Ecuador's Bayron Piedra was another stand-out performer as he set a national record to win the 3000 metres, adding to his silver medal from the 1500 metres.

The competition was dominated by Brazilian athletes: seventeen gold medals were won by the country's athletes and it topped the medal table with a total of 44 medals – a third of those on offer. Colombia had the next most golds with five and Spain and Argentina took four each. The hosts Chile had two golds in their medal haul of eight altogether.

Medal summary

Main article: 2008 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics – Results

Men

Decathlon	Odirlei Pessoni	7362 pts	Ânderson Venâncio	6944 pts	Tiago Marto	6915 pts

Women

Heptathlon	Lucimara da Silva	5739 pts	Ana Capdevila	5312 pts	Macarena Reyes	5278 pts

Medal table

Participation

Of the twenty-eight members of the Asociación Iberoamericana de Atletismo, nineteen nations sent delegations to the 2008 championships. This represented all the organisation's members but for Guinea-Bissau. A total of 322 athletes were set to take part in the competition of which 316 actually participated.

(33)
(15)
(64)
(48)
(23)
(8)
(7)
(10)
(5)
Honduras (4)
(17)
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(5)
(6)
(8)
(30)
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(27)

References

;Day reports

Biscayart, Eduardo (2008-06-14). Shot putter Ducó extends South American junior record in Iquique - Ibero-American Champs Day 1. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-01-03.
Biscayart, Eduardo (2008-06-15). Brazil leads after day 2 of Ibero-American Championships in Iquique. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-01-03.
Biscayart, Eduardo (2008-06-16). Brazil takes Ibero-American Championships in Chile – Final Day. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-01-03. ;Results
Day 1 (archived)
Day 2 (archived)
Day 3 (archived)

References

[http://www.cooperativa.cl/prontus_nots/site/artic/20060525/pags/20060525190349.html Iquique será la sede del Iberoamericano de Atletismo 2008]. Cooperativa (2006-05-26). Retrieved on 2011-01-03.
link. (2011-07-07 . ''Estrella Iquique'' (2007-04-27). Retrieved on 2011-01-03.)
Biscayart, Eduardo (2008-06-16). [http://www.iaaf.org/news/newsid=45332.html Brazil takes Ibero-American Championships in Chile – Final Day]. [[IAAF]]. Retrieved on 2011-01-03.
Biscayart, Eduardo (2008-06-14). Shot putter Ducó extends South American junior record in Iquique - Ibero-American Champs Day 1. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-01-03.
[http://www.rfea.es/aeea/archivos/libroiberoamericano2010.pdf El Atletismo Ibero-Americano - San Fernando 2010] {{Webarchive. link. (2011-11-23 (pg. 214). RFEA. Retrieved on 2012-01-08.)

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