1961 South American Championships in Athletics

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The 1961 South American Championships in Athletics were held in Lima, Peru.

Contents 1 Medal summary 1.1 Men's events 1.2 Women's events 2 Medal table 3 External links

[edit] Medal summary

[edit] Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Arquímedes Herrera  Venezuela	10.6	Horacio Esteves  Venezuela	10.6	José Telles da Conceição  Brazil	10.7
200 metres	Horacio Esteves  Venezuela	21.3	Arquímedes Herrera  Venezuela	21.6	Luis Vienna  Argentina	21.8
400 metres	Anubes da Silva  Brazil	48.8	Juan Carlos Dyrzka  Argentina	49.3	Eulogio Gomes  Peru	50.0
800 metres	Ramón Sandoval  Chile	1:51.2	José Neira  Colombia	1:52.6	Eduardo Balducci  Argentina	1:53.3
1500 metres	Ramón Sandoval  Chile	3:51.2	Osvaldo Suárez  Argentina	3:53.5	Eduardo Balducci  Argentina	3:54.6
5000 metres	Osvaldo Suárez  Argentina	14:54.7	Luis Sandoval  Argentina	14:55.5	Alberto Ríos  Argentina	15:02.6
10000 metres	Osvaldo Suárez  Argentina	30:18.1	Luis Sandoval  Argentina	31:13.9	Luis Campusano  Chile	31:27.3
Marathon	Juan Silva  Chile	2:39:36	Ricardo Vidal  Chile	2:41:16	Armando Pino  Argentina	2:42:21
3000 metres steeplechase	Sebastião Mendes  Brazil	9:14.8	Domingo Amaisón  Argentina	9:20.6	Alberto Ríos  Argentina	9:23.4
110 metres hurdles	Carlos Mossa  Brazil	14.5	José Telles da Conceição  Brazil	14.7	Teófilo Davis Bell  Venezuela	15.0
400 metres hurdles	Juan Carlos Dyrzka  Argentina	52.3	Anubes da Silva  Brazil	52.8	Ulisses dos Santos  Brazil	54.0
High jump	Eugenio Velasco  Chile	1.95	Eleuterio Fassi  Argentina	1.95	Horacio Martínez  Argentina	1.95
Pole vault	Marcelo de Souza  Brazil	3.90	Tomatsu Nishida  Brazil	3.90	Brígido Iriarte  Venezuela	3.80
Long jump	Juan Muñoz  Venezuela	7.13	Newton de Castro  Brazil	7.06	Fermín Donazar  Uruguay	6.92
Triple jump	Arnoldo Devonish  Venezuela	14.68	Sylvio Moreira  Brazil	14.52	Reinaldo de Oliveira  Brazil	14.42
Shot putt	Enrique Helf  Argentina	15.86	Luis Di Cursi  Argentina	15.69	Héctor Thomas  Venezuela	14.58
Discus throw	Günther Kruse  Argentina	48.57	Enrique Helf  Argentina	46.98	Héctor Menacho  Peru	46.97
Hammer throw	Daniel Cereali  Venezuela	52.55	Roberto Chapchap  Brazil	50.81	Carlos Marzo  Argentina	50.50
Javelin throw	Ricardo Heber  Argentina	64.25	Orlando Garrido  Brazil	63.56	Luis Zárate  Peru	61.40
Decathlon	Bernabé Souza  Brazil	5662	Tito Bracho  Venezuela	5587	Cleomenes da Cunha  Brazil	5502
4 x 100 metres relay	Venezuela	41.0	Brazil	41.5	Argentina	42.2
4 x 400 metres relay	Venezuela	3:16.0	Argentina	3:16.9	Brazil	3:18.1

[edit] Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Edith Berg  Argentina	12.4	Nancy Correa  Chile	12.4	Marisol Massot  Chile	12.5
200 metres	Edith Berg  Argentina	25.7	Ada Brener  Argentina	25.8	Marta Buongiorno  Argentina	26.0
80 metres hurdles	Wanda dos Santos  Brazil	11.5	Maria José de Lima  Brazil	11.9	Maria Teixeira  Brazil	12.0
High jump	Aída dos Santos  Brazil	1.60	Nelly Gómez  Chile	1.55	Maria José de Lima  Brazil	1.50
Long jump	Wanda dos Santos  Brazil	5.38	Ada Brener  Argentina	5.32	Alicia Kaufmanas  Argentina	5.21
Shot putt	Ingeborg Pfuller  Argentina	12.41	Vera Trezoitko  Brazil	12.16	Pradelia Delgado  Chile	11.81
Discus throw	Ingeborg Pfuller  Argentina	41.92	Pradelia Delgado  Chile	39.78	Sumiko Yamakawa  Brazil	38.89
Javelin throw	Marlene Ahrens  Chile	42.85	Mercedes García  Venezuela	37.45	Vera Trezoitko  Brazil	37.29
4 x 100 metres relay	Brazil	48.9	Argentina	48.9	Chile	49.2

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Argentina	10	12	11	33
2	Brazil	9	10	9	28
3	Venezuela	7	4	3	14
4	Chile	5	4	4	13
5	Colombia	0	1	0	1
6	Peru	0	0	3	3
7	Uruguay	0	0	1	1

[edit] External links

• Results - GBR Athletics