1979 South American Championships in Athletics

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The 1979 South American Championships in Athletics were held in Bucaramanga, Colombia.

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	Altevir de Araújo  Brazil	10.1	Manuel Ramírez  Colombia	10.4	Reinaldo Lizardi  Venezuela	10.6
200 metres	Altevir de Araújo  Brazil	20.5	Katsuhiko Nakaia  Brazil	20.8	Héctor Daley  Panama	21.1
400 metres	Geraldo Pegado  Brazil	46.20	Antônio Díaz Ferreira  Brazil	46.90	Héctor Daley  Panama	47.40
800 metres	Cristián Molina  Chile	1:47.8	William Wuycke  Venezuela	1:47.9	Pedro Cáceras  Argentina	1:48.5
1500 metres	Emilio Ulloa  Chile	3:47.0	José Velásquez  Venezuela	3:47.5	Wilson de Santana  Brazil	3:47.9
5000 metres	Alejandro Silva  Chile	13:57.2	Domingo Tibaduiza  Colombia	14:03.4	Johnny Pérez  Bolivia	14:16.1
10000 metres	Silvio Salazar  Colombia	28:50.4	Domingo Tibaduiza  Colombia	28:51.2	Víctor Maldonado  Venezuela	29:37.3
Marathon	Luis Barboza  Colombia	1:56:12	Alfonso Torres  Colombia	1:57:25	Lucirio Garrido  Venezuela	1:59:30
20 kilometre road walk	Ernesto Alfaro  Colombia	1:29:31	Waldemar da Silva  Brazil	1:29:37	Jorge Quiñones  Colombia	1:29:51
3000 metres steeplechase	Germán Aranda  Colombia	8:52.3	Elói Schleder  Brazil	8:57.4	Johnny Pérez  Bolivia	8:58.6
110 metres hurdles	Wellington da Nobrega  Brazil	14.4	Carlos dos Santos  Brazil	14.6	Andrés Lyon  Chile	14.9
400 metres hurdles	Antônio Díaz Ferreira  Brazil	50.7	Donizete Soares  Brazil	51.1	José Davis  Venezuela	51.5
High jump	Daniel Mamet  Argentina	2.12	Geraldo Rodrigues  Brazil	2.09	Iraja Cecy  Brazil	2.09
Pole vault	Fernando Ruocco  Uruguay	4.70	Tito Steiner  Argentina	4.60	Henry Gómez  Chile	4.45
Long jump	Oswaldo Torres  Venezuela	7.67	Carlos Gambetta  Argentina	7.58	Francisco de Oliveira  Brazil	7.57
Triple jump	José Salazar  Venezuela	16.23	Francisco de Oliveira  Brazil	16.15	Celso Pereira  Brazil	15.83
Shot putt	Gert Weil  Chile	16.42	Jesús Ramos  Venezuela	16.22	José Jacques  Brazil	16.20
Discus throw	Sérgio Thomé  Brazil	56.10*	Luis Palacios  Venezuela	54.42*	José Jacques  Brazil	53.10*
Hammer throw	José Vallejo  Argentina	63.44	Celso de Moraes  Brazil	61.44	Daniel Gómez  Argentina	57.60
Javelin throw	Ramón Ángel Garmendia  Argentina	72.32	Orángel Rodríguez  Venezuela	70.32	Paulo Hasse  Brazil	68.84
Decathlon	Alfredo Silva  Chile	6991	Ramón Montezuma  Venezuela	6964	Claudio Escauriza  Paraguay	6791
4 x 100 metres relay	Venezuela	40.0	Brazil	40.2	Argentina	40.4
4 x 400 metres relay	Venezuela	3:09.8	Argentina	3:10.5	Brazil	3:10.5

[edit] Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Beatriz Allocco  Argentina	11.7	Carmela Bolívar  Peru	11.8	Esmeralda García  Brazil	11.8
200 metres	Beatriz Allocco  Argentina	23.5	Tânia Miranda  Brazil	24.1	Esmeralda García  Brazil	24.1
400 metres	Tânia Miranda  Brazil	54.2	Margarita Grün  Uruguay	54.8	Miriam Rojas  Colombia	54.8
800 metres	Alejandra Ramos  Chile	2:04.2	Nancy González  Chile	2:09.8	Adriana Marchena  Venezuela	2:10.4
1500 metres	Alejandra Ramos  Chile	4:23.2	Teresa Rodríguez  Colombia	4:32.6	Mónica Regonessi  Chile	4:36.1
100 metres hurdles	Yvonne Neddermann  Argentina	14.2	Olga Verissimo  Brazil	14.4	Beatriz Capotosto  Argentina	14.7
High jump	Ana Maria Marcón  Brazil	1.75	Liliana Arigoni  Argentina	1.75	Beatriz Bonfim  Brazil	1.70
Long jump	Themis Zambrzycki  Brazil	6.03	Conceição Geremias  Brazil	5.95	Yvonne Neddermann  Argentina	5.92
Shot putt	Magdalena Gómez  Colombia	13.94	Themis Zambrzycki  Brazil	13.84	Maria Boso  Brazil	13.24
Discus throw	Sandra Peres  Brazil	46.11	Maria Boso  Brazil	42.54	Selene Saldarriaga  Colombia	41.78
Javelin throw	Marli dos Santos  Brazil	50.92	Neuza Trolezzi  Brazil	45.07	Ana María Campillay  Argentina	42.30
Pentathlon	Themis Zambrzycki  Brazil	4117	Conceição Geremias  Brazil	3880	Yvonne Neddermann  Argentina	3833
4 x 100 metres relay	Argentina	46.0	Brazil	46.1	Venezuela	46.6
4 x 400 metres relay	Brazil	3:42.0	Chile	3:44.6	Colombia	3:45.1

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil	13	18	12	43
2	Argentina	7	4	7	18
3	Chile	7	2	3	12
4	Colombia	5	5	4	14
5	Venezuela	4	6	6	16
6	Uruguay	1	1	0	2
7	Peru	0	1	0	1
8	Panama	0	0	2	2
	Bolivia	0	0	2	2
10	Paraguay	0	0	1	1

[edit] External links

• Results - GBR Athletics