ASU2025: Argentina claim 95 medals, finish fifth in the table

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·24 August 2025

ASU2025: Argentina claim 95 medals, finish fifth in the table

The Argentine delegation, composed of 338 athletes (172 men and 166 women), obtained 95 medals - 27 gold, 38 silver, and 30 bronze - and finished fifth in the medal count of the Junior Pan American Games in Asunción, Paraguay. Review the main achievements and the list with each podium.

Cycling brought the first joys to the delegation in ASU2025 with the silver medal of Julia Benedetti Venturella and the bronze of Delfina Dibella Latorre, both in the individual time trial discipline. In addition, cycling gave the delegation two gold medals: Santiago Gruñeiro, in men's omnium track cycling, and Julieta Benedetti in the road race. And also a bronze from the hand of Octavio Salomón.

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Agostina Hein broke it in the swimming events and closed her participation by contributing eight medals to Argentina! And achieved three of the 27 gold medals accumulated by the delegation. The native of Campana fulfilled all the expectations that were on her: first, she imposed herself in the 400m freestyle and added the victory in the 400m medley and in the 200m medley.

In addition, the Viking, who participated in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at just 16 years old, was part of the women's 4×100 freestyle relay team that won the bronze medal along with Magdalena Portela Walter, Lucía Gauna, and Malena Santillán. She added the silver medal in the 4×100 combined women's relay along with Cecilia Diekele, Catalina Acacio, and Gauna.

As if all that were not enough, she also contributed to the mixed events to win the silver medal in the 4×100 freestyle relay along with Gauna, Matías Chaillou, and Matías Santiso. In the 4×100 combined, she won silver with Gauna, Ulises Saravia Peláez, and Dante Nicola Rho.

Ulises Saravia gave another gold to Argentina, in the final of the 100 meters backstroke men's event, with a time of 53.89 (Pan American junior record) and also achieved the classification to the 2027 Pan American Games.

Malena Santillán, meanwhile, also added a gold medal in the 200 meters backstroke that even came with a South American record of 2:10.36, thus surpassing the previous mark of the Brazilian Fernanda de Goeij of 2:11.95 in 2019.

Another of the Argentine gold medals in Asunción came from Ignacio Espínola, who won in the 58-kilogram category in taekwondo, while tennis players Sol Larraya and Candela Vázquez won the women's doubles and the men's doubles also went to Argentina thanks to Ian Vertberger and Dante Pagani.

Team sports also brought joy to the Argentine delegation: Rugby 7, the men's 3×3 basketball team, and field hockey both men and women added more gold medals.

On the other hand, Aramís Sánchez gave the national delegation its 17th gold medal. He did it in Canoeing, in the C1 1000m Men's event, with a time of 4:17.18. The podium was completed by Mateus Nunes from Brazil, who took the silver, and José Gil from Mexico, who won the bronze. In the same discipline, but in K1 200m Women's, Paulina Barreiro took the first place with a time of 45.71.

As for water skiing, Francisco Giorgis gave the Argentine team another gold medal by winning the men's jump competition. With a score of 54.6, he led the podium above the American Jake Abelson and the Canadian Jacob Chambers. Meanwhile, Tomás Olivera won in the hammer throw with an attempt of 70.61 meters - Pan American junior record - and the delegation reached its twentieth gold medal in the competition.

The Friday session started in a great way for Argentina, which added two more gold medals in speed canoeing. In the K4 500m category, the Argentine male and female representatives were the fastest and climbed to the top of the podium. Then, Federico Capello was crowned champion in BMX and achieved the classification to Lima 2027.

This Saturday, the joys were renewed from early on with a new gold medal from Vicente Vergauven and Baltazar Itria in Canoeing, K2 500M men's category.

All Argentine medals at the 2025 Asunción Junior Pan American Games

Gold medals (27)

Agostina Hein – Swimming – 400 meters freestyle women's
Agostina Hein – Swimming – 400 meters medley women's
Malena Santillán – Swimming – 200 meters backstroke (South American record)
Ulises Saravia – Swimming – 100 meters backstroke (Pan American junior record)
Agostina Hein – Swimming – 200 meters medley women's (Argentine record)
Santiago Gruñeiro – Cycling – Omnium
José Materano, Matías Chaillou, Ulises Cazau, Matías Santiso, Dante Nicola, and Ulises Saravia – Swimming – 4x100 men's medley relay
Ignacio Espínola – Taekwondo
Sol Larraya and Candela Vázquez – Tennis – Women's doubles
Ian Vertberger and Dante Pagani – Tennis – Men's doubles
Julieta Benedetti – Cycling – Road race
Rugby 7 – Men's
3×3 Basketball – Men's
Field Hockey – Men's
Field Hockey – Women's
Juan Manuel Arrieguez – Shot put
Aramís Sánchez – Canoeing – C1 1000m Men's
Aramís Sánchez – Canoeing – C1 500M Men's
Paulina Barreiro – Canoeing – K1 200m Women's
Francisco Giorgis – Water Skiing – Men's jump
Tomás Olivera – Athletics – Hammer throw men's
Vicente Vergauven, Luca Micatrotta, Agustín Sánchez, and Baltazar Itria – Canoeing – K4 500m Men's
Priscila Vukonich, Martina Catalano, Paulina Barreiro, Candela Velázquez – Canoeing – K4 500m Women's
Federico Capello – BMX Racing Men's
Juan Ignacio Gallardo – Karate – Men's -67
Vicente Vergauven and Baltazar Itria – Canoeing K2 500m Men's
Paulina Barreiro and Agustín Sánchez – Canoeing K2 500m Mixed.

Silver medals (38)

Julieta Benedetti Venturella – Cycling Road – Women's individual time trial
Lucía Miralles – Mountain Bike – Women's Cross-Country
Nicolás Reynoso – Mountain Bike – Men's Cross-Country
Manuel Turone – BMX Freestyle
Santiago Gruñeiro, Mateo Duque, Agustín Ferrari, and Ramiro Videla – Cycling track – Men's team pursuit
Guadalupe Díaz, Valentina Méndez, and Valentina Luna – Cycling track – Women's team speed
Julieta Benedetti – Cycling track – Omnium
Agustín Annese, Fernando Álvarez, Marcos Rojas, and Martín Mansilla – Rowing – Men's coxless four
Santino Menin – Rowing – Men's lightweight double sculls
Joaquín Cisneros – Shooting – Men's trap
Agostina Hein, Magdalena Portela Walter, Lucía Gauna, Matías Chaillou, Matías Santiso, and Ulises Saravia Peláez – Swimming – 4x100 mixed freestyle relay
Ulises Cazau – Swimming – 100 meters butterfly
Cecilia Dieleke – Swimming – 100 meters backstroke
Ulises Saravia, Dante Nichola Rho, Agostina Hein, and Lucía Gauna – Swimming – 4x100 mixed medley relay
Magdalena Portela – Swimming – 400 meters medley women's
Hein, Gauna, Portela, and Santillán – Swimming – 4×200 freestyle relay women's
Catalina Borrelli – Fencing – Women's sabre individual
Segundo Portabales – Squash – Men's singles
Santiago Portabales and Francisco Alfonso – Squash – Men's doubles
Cecilia Dieleke, Magdalena Portela, Martina Urgelles, Catalina Acacio, Lucía Gauna, Agostina Hein, Malena Santillán – 4×100 medley relay women's
Matías Murillo – Cycling track – Men's keirin
Women's Handball team
Sol Larraya – Tennis – Women's singles
Dante Pagani – Tennis – Men's singles
Santiago Portabales, Segundo Portabales, and Francisco Alfonso – Squash – Men's team
Chiara Ferretti – iQ Foil sailing
Vicente Vergauven – Canoeing – K1 1000m Men's
Bautista Ahumada Cirrincone – Water Skiing – Men's slalom
Julieta Lucas – Artistic Gymnastics – Women's all-around
Paulina Bareiro – Canoeing – K1 500m Women's
Francisco Giorgis – Water Skiing – Men's overall
Diego Benjamín Turner – Weightlifting – 79kg Men's
Maria Paz Casadevall – Weightlifting – 63 kg Women's
Santiago Barberia – Athletics – Men's high jump
Julieta Lucas – Artistic Gymnastics – Women's uneven bars
Men's Volleyball team
Men's Handball team
Joaquín Mesa – Weightlifting – +98 Men's

Bronze medals (30)

Delfina Dibella Latorre – Cycling Road – Women's individual time trial
Alejo Betique – Cycling track – Men's speed
Josefina Mella – Shooting – Women's 10m air pistol
Alma Pueyo – Archery – Women's individual recurve
Esteban Silva – Archery – Men's individual recurve
Cecilia Dieleke, Magdalena Portela Walter, Martina Urgelles, Catalina Acacio, Lucía Gauna, Agostina Hein, Malena Santillán – Swimming – 4×100 freestyle relay women's
Cecilia Dieleke – Swimming – 200 meters backstroke
Matías Santiso – Swimming – 200 meters freestyle
Alem Yuma – Judo – Men's -81kg
Morena Domínguez – Skateboarding – Women's street
Tomás Roberti and Tobías Weise Gontier – Trampoline Gymnastics – Men's synchronized
Paula Rivero and Segundo Portabales – Squash – Mixed doubles
Candela Vázquez – Tennis – Women's singles
Maria Oblán – Shooting – Women's 10m air rifle
Mateo Di Leo – Taekwondo – Men's Kyorugui 80kg
Brenda Ruiz – Taekwondo – Women's Kyorugui 67kg
Octavio Salomón – Cycling – Road race
Ricardo Gómez – Greco-Roman wrestling 97 kg
Vicente Vergauven – Canoeing – K1 500m Men's
Lucrecia Amoroso – Water Skiing – Women's wakeboard
Uriel Muñoz – Athletics – Men's 1500m
Camila Amarilla – Wrestling – Women's freestyle 57kg
Juan Sagasta, Lucas Villegas, Tomás Villegas, Tomás Mondino – Athletics – Men's 4x100 relay
Luka Salesky – Karate – Men's -75kg
Micaela Pacheco – Karate – Women's -61kg
Vladimir Milazzo – Karate – Men's -67 kg
Arnoldo Proboste – Wrestling – Men's freestyle 74 kg
Juan Rodríguez – Artistic Roller Skating – Men's free
Agustín Carril – Athletics – Men's pole vault
Aramís Sánchez Ayala / Santiago Piedras – Canoeing C2 500m Men's