1941 South American Championships in Athletics

1941 South American Championships in Athletics
Dates	26 April–4 May
Host city	Buenos Aires, Argentina
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The 1941 South American Championships in Athletics were held in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, between 26 April and 4 May.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	José de Assis   Brazil	10.8	José Ferraz   Brazil	10.9	Roberto Valenzuela   Chile	11.1
200 metres	José de Assis   Brazil	21.4 =CR	Luis Venini   Argentina	21.8	Roberto Valenzuela   Chile	22.4
400 metres	Rosalvo Ramos   Brazil	50.2	Agenor da Silva   Brazil	50.3	Antonio Cuba   Peru	50.4
800 metres	Guillermo García   Chile	1:54.2 CR	Isidoro Ferrere   Argentina	1:55.7	Roberto Yokota   Chile	1:55.7
1500 metres	Guillermo García   Chile	3:58.7	Isidoro Ferrere   Argentina	4:02.2	Arturo Torres   Chile	4:03.1
3000 metres	Raúl Ibarra   Argentina	8:39.4 CR	Arturo Torres   Chile	8:47.6	Delfo Cabrera   Argentina	8:48.0
5000 metres	Raúl Ibarra   Argentina	14:57.2 CR	Reinaldo Gorno   Argentina	15:12.1	Raúl Inostroza   Chile	15:13.3
10,000 metres	Raúl Ibarra   Argentina	30:45.0 CR	Reinaldo Gorno   Argentina	31:39.6	René Millas   Chile	31:41.8
Road race	Tomás Palomeque   Argentina	2:03:16	Saturnino Cuello   Argentina	2:03:22	Eusebio Guiñez   Argentina	2:03:42
110 metres hurdles	Mário da Cunha   Brazil	15.1	Hélio Pereira   Brazil	15.2	Julio Jaime   Uruguay	15.5
400 metres hurdles	Alfonso Hoelzel   Chile	56.4	Alfonso Rozas   Chile	56.9	Sylvio Padilha   Brazil	57.0
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil Márcio de Oliveira Sylvio Padilha Guilherme Puschnik José de Assis	42.3	Chile Nelson Pereira Alejandro González Alfonso Hoelzel Roberto Valenzuela	42.7	Argentina Alejandro de Anchorena Jaime Slullitel Guillermo Martínez Bo Luis Venini	43.4
4 × 400 metres relay	Chile Raúl Muñoz Ernesto Riveros Roberto Yokota Roberto Yokota	3:21.9	Argentina Luis Venini Victorino Triulzi Briggs Eligio Chiapetta	3:22.3	Uruguay Carlos Baroffio Alberto Perreira José Cuneo Julio Jaime	3:27.8
3000 metres team race	Argentina	10	Chile	14	Brazil	26
Cross country	Raúl Ibarra   Argentina	36:11.0	Raúl Inostroza   Venezuela	37:18.0	René Aldana   Chile	37:27.4
High jump	Guido Hanning   Chile	1.94 CR	Alfredo Mendes   Brazil	1.85	Faustino Poyo   Argentina	1.85
Pole vault	Lúcio de Castro   Brazil	4.00 CR	Icaro Mello   Brazil	4.00	Erwin Reimer   Chile	3.70
Long jump	Guillermo Dyer   Peru	7.20	Ernesto Juárez   Argentina	7.05	Mario Quesada   Argentina	6.94
Triple jump	Carlos Pinto   Brazil	15.10	Néstor Tenorio   Argentina	14.90	Jorge Richard   Brazil	14.59
Shot put	Ricardo Nitz   Brazil	14.62 CR	Carmine Di Giorgio   Brazil	13.71	Antônio Lyra   Brazil	13.51
Discus throw	Manuel Consiglieri   Peru	46.40 CR	Karsten Brödersen   Chile	45.05	Bento Barros   Brazil	45.02
Hammer throw	Assis Naban   Brazil	49.71	Juan Fusé   Argentina	48.98	Federico Kleger   Argentina	46.60
Javelin throw	Egon Falkenberg   Brazil	59.42	Alberto Becher   Argentina	59.05	Efraín Santibáñez   Chile	56.37
Decathlon	Emilio Rüegg   Brazil	6411	Juan Colín   Chile	6315	Karsten Brödersen   Chile	6037

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Lelia Spuhr   Argentina	13.1	María Malvicini   Argentina	13.3	Crista Jane Giese   Brazil	13.3
200 metres	Lelia Spuhr   Argentina	26.0	Elizabeth Müller   Brazil	26.4	Julia Yáñez   Peru	27.6
80 metres hurdles	Crista Jane Giese   Brazil	12.4 CR	Betty Morales   Chile	12.5	Ursula Hennel   Brazil	13.0
4 × 100 metres relay	Argentina Elsa Irigoyen Noemi Simonetto Olga Tassi Lelia Spuhr	51.2	Chile Lily Warch Elena Martinelli Betty Morales Ilse Barends	51.8	Brazil Crista Jane Giese Elizabeth Müller Ursula Hennel Ursula Kraus	52.6
High jump	Lelia Spuhr   Argentina	1.55 CR	Ilse Barends   Chile	1.50	Crista Jane Giese   Brazil Instrud Kastdorff   Uruguay Noemi Simonetto   Argentina	1.45
Long jump	Instrud Kastdorff   Uruguay	5.12	Ilse Barends   Chile	5.03	Noemí Simonetto   Argentina	4.96
Shot put	Ingeborg Mello   Argentina	11.81 CR	Edith Klempau   Chile	10.74	Julia Iriarte   Bolivia	10.45
Discus throw	Christel Balde   Chile	35.59 CR	María Boecke   Chile	35.04	Ingeborg Mello   Argentina	33.80
Javelin throw	Ruth Caro   Argentina	36.87 CR	Ursula Holle   Chile	36.68	Olga Merino   Chile	34.63

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Argentina  (ARG)	12	12	9	33
2	Brazil  (BRA)	12	7	9	28
3	Chile  (CHI)	6	13	11	30
4	Peru  (PER)	2	0	2	4
5	Uruguay  (URU)	1	0	3	4
6	Venezuela  (VEN)	0	1	0	1
7	Bolivia  (BOL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		33	33	35	101

External links

• Men Results – GBR Athletics
• Women Results – GBR Athletics
• Medallists