The Asunción 2022 South American Games are over and Argentina got back on the podium after having finished in fourth position in the editions of Medellín 2010, Santiago de Chile 2014 and Cochabamba 2018.
The national delegation won a total of 197 medals in the Paraguayan capital, surpassing the 165 it had won four years ago in Bolivia. The medal table was led by Brazil with 319 and in the second position was Colombia with 255.
Argentina added 58 gold medals at the South American Games in Asunción (in Cochabamba 2018 there had been 42), while 65 medals were silver and 74 bronze.
Swimming, with 21 medals and five of those gold medals, was the sport that gave Argentina the most medals at the South American Games, although it was athletics (garnering a total of 15) the one that climbed to the top of the podium the most times: nine.
Canoeing also had an outstanding performance by collecting eight gold medals and a total of nine, as well as table tennis, artistic gymnastics and track cycling, while judo finished with 10.
Of the 58 gold medals that the Argentine delegation won in Asunción 2022, three went to Brenda Rojas, who became the one who stood on the podium the most times: the paddler won the K1 200, K1 500 and K2 500 together with Maria Magdalena Garro. Meanwhile, several athletes left the South American Games with a couple of dams.
Swimming was the sport that gave Argentina the most medals with a total of 21, and of those seven they belonged to Macarena Ceballos, who did not get on the podium in only two of the finals she played.
