Baumann's result of 78.70 metres was the then South American record, surpassing Colombia's thrower Luis Lucumi's throw of 77.80m which was held since 1989.

– Said Baumann, among these obstacles he mentioned the lack of support and the directors of his time[13] In the same year, he threw 72.90m in Sweden at the World Championships, attending the competition again with Cuba's Emeterio González, who reached 76.54m.

[17] Baumann and tennis player Rossana de los Ríos were expelled of the delegation, confirmed by Ramón Zubizarreta, the president of the Paraguayan Olympic Committee.

[19] The then president of the Paraguayan Olympic Committee, Ramón Zubizarreta, said that Edgar Baumann was separated from the team that competed in the Sydney due a doping test that led positive results for cocaine and amphetamines.

Baumann said that the alleged doping tests in question were declared "false and irrelevant" in the trial he filed against the authorities and the Paraguayan Olympic Committee.

[20] José Luis Chilavert, along with Claudio Escauriza, Tomás Orué and lawyer Alejandro Rubin, attended a Press Conference at main mall of the country,the Shopping del Sol,in Assunción, in support of Baumann when he eventually had received a favorable ruling from the Paraguay Supreme Court in a case against the Paraguay Olympic Committee president Ramón Zubizarreta for robbing him the right of competing at the 2000 Summer Olympics and also taking his sums of money that he earned from his scholarship.

[5] On 27 September 2016, ADN Newspaper reported that Baumann presented a project to Itaipú Dam to form an athletes and citizen leaders in Paraguay.

"The purpose of the proposal plan is to discover the potential of each child and young person and to empower them in what they know how to do, always based on sport.