1956 South American Championships in Athletics

1956 South American Championships in Athletics
Dates	14–22 April
Host city	Santiago, Chile
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The 1956 South American Championships in Athletics were held in the Chilean capital, Santiago, between 14 and 22 April.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Paulo de Fonseca   Brazil	10.6	Gerardo Bönnhoff   Argentina	10.7	João Pires Sobrinho   Brazil	10.7
200 metres	João Pires Sobrinho   Brazil	21.5	Jaime Aparicio   Colombia	21.7	Gerardo Bönnhoff   Argentina	21.8
400 metres	Jaime Aparicio   Colombia	47.7 CR	Zados Guardiola   Colombia	48.2	Argemiro Roque   Brazil	49.0
800 metres	Ramón Sandoval   Chile	1:49.0 CR	Eduardo Balducci   Argentina	1:51.5	Argemiro Roque   Brazil	1:52.4
1500 metres	Ramón Sandoval   Chile	3:48.4 CR	Eduardo Balducci   Argentina	3:53.4	Waldo Sandoval   Chile	3:54.5
5000 metres	Osvaldo Suárez   Argentina	14:30.8 CR	Jaime Correa   Chile	14:47.8	Walter Lemos   Argentina	14:51.7
10,000 metres	Osvaldo Suárez   Argentina	30:12.2 CR	Walter Lemos   Argentina	30:27.4	Alfredo de Oliveira   Brazil	31:41.0
Half marathon	Osvaldo Suárez   Argentina	1:08:54 CR	Walter Lemos   Argentina	1:09:00	Juan Silva   Chile	1:10:31
3000 metres steeplechase	Santiago Novas   Chile	9:09.0 CR	Sebastião Mendes   Brazil	9:17.4	Guillermo Solá   Chile	9:25.8
110 metres hurdles	Ijoel da Silva   Brazil	14.7	Estanislao Kocourek   Argentina	14.9	Francisco Bergonzoni   Brazil	15.1
400 metres hurdles	Jaime Aparicio   Colombia	52.0 CR	Zados Guardiola   Colombia	53.1	Anubes da Silva   Brazil	54.2
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil João Pires Sobrinho Jorge de Barros Paulo da Fonseca Anubes da Silva	41.4	Argentina Luis Vienna Roberto Ferrairo Gerardo Bönnhoff Mariano Acosta	41.5	Colombia Gilberto Truque Constantino Fascie Antonio Vanegas Aristipo Lerma	42.6
4 × 400 metres relay	Colombia Jaime Aparicio Zados Guardiola Carlos Sierra Antonio Vanegas	3:14.6 CR	Brazil Argemiro Roque Mário do Nascimento Adhemar da Silva Agenor da Silva	3:16.1	Argentina Rodolfo Beltrán Mariano Acosta Gerardo Bönnhoff Eduardo Balducci	3:16.8
High jump	Oscar Bártoli   Argentina	1.93	Ernesto Lagos   Chile	1.90	Alberto Bacán   Brazil Juan Ruiz   Chile	1.85
Pole vault	José Infante   Chile	3.90	José Rojas   Chile	3.90	Fausto de Souza   Brazil	3.90
Long jump	Fermín Donazar   Uruguay	7.23	Ary de Sá   Brazil	7.14	Luís Akuta   Brazil	7.10
Triple jump	Jorgely Figueira   Brazil	15.14	Luis Huarcaya   Peru	14.59	Carlos Vera   Chile	14.63
Shot put	Alcides Dambrós   Brazil	14.97	Rubén Scaraffia   Argentina	14.72	Günther Kruse   Argentina	13.97
Discus throw	Günther Kruse   Argentina	48.57 CR	Hernán Haddad   Chile	47.24	Pedro Ucke   Argentina	46.56
Hammer throw	Alejandro Díaz   Chile	52.88	Edmundo Zúñiga   Chile	51.71	Elvio Porta   Argentina	51.55
Javelin throw	Ricardo Héber   Argentina	64.45	Néstor Matteucci   Argentina	61.51	Carlos Monge   Peru	59.20
Decathlon	Héctor Menacho   Peru	5670	Leonardo Kittsteiner   Chile	5499	Aldo Ribeiro   Brazil	5401

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Gladys Erbetta   Argentina	12.2 =CR	Beatriz Kretschmer   Chile	12.4	Eliana Gaete   Chile	12.4
200 metres	Beatriz Kretschmer   Chile	25.5 =CR	Gladys Erbetta   Argentina	25.8	Martha Huby   Peru	26.1
80 metres hurdles	Wanda dos Santos   Brazil	11.5	Eliana Gaete   Chile	11.6	Ada Brener   Argentina	11.9
4 × 100 metres relay	Argentina Gladys Erbetta Lilian Buglia Edith Berg Olga Bianchi	48.6	Chile Marlene Hyslop Eliana Gaete Carmen Venegas Patricia Rodoni	49.3	Brazil Wanda dos Santos María José de Lima Marlene Porto Hannelore Poetscher	49.4
High jump	Nelly Gómez   Chile	1.50	Elizabeth Müller   Brazil	1.50	María Cañas   Chile Cleide Eloy   Brazil	1.50
Long jump	Gladys Erbetta   Argentina	5.88 CR	Ada Brener   Argentina	5.41	Olga Bianchi   Argentina	5.39
Shot put	Eliana Bahamondes   Chile	11.95 CR	Pradelia Delgado   Chile	11.84	Elizabeth Müller   Brazil	11.31
Discus throw	Isabel Avellán   Argentina	44.08 CR	Rosa Riveros   Chile	38.22	Ingeborg Mello   Argentina	38.08
Javelin throw	Marlene Ahrens   Chile	48.73 CR	Carmen Venegas   Chile	40.70	Adriana Silva   Chile	38.91

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Argentina  (ARG)	10	11	9	30
2	Chile  (CHI)	9	12	8	29
3	Brazil  (BRA)	7	4	13	24
4	Colombia  (COL)	3	3	1	7
5	Peru  (PER)	1	1	2	4
6	Uruguay  (URU)	1	0	0	1
Totals (6 entries)		31	31	33	95

External links

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