1958 South American Championships in Athletics

1958 South American Championships in Athletics
Dates	19–27 April
Host city	Montevideo, Uruguay
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The 1958 South American Championships in Athletics were held in Montevideo, Uruguay, between 19 and 27 April.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -2.0 m/s)	José Telles da Conceição   Brazil	10.5 =CR	Luis Vienna   Argentina	10.6	João Pires Sobrinho   Brazil	10.8
200 metres	José Telles da Conceição   Brazil	21.6	Jorge de Barros   Brazil	22.3	Guillermo Sebastiani   Peru	22.4
400 metres	Argemiro Roque   Brazil	48.6	Ulisses dos Santos   Brazil	49.1	Geraldo Costa   Brazil	49.5
800 metres	Ramón Sandoval   Chile	1:49.6	Eduardo Balducci   Argentina	1:51.3	Argemiro Roque   Brazil	1:52.6
1500 metres	Ramón Sandoval   Chile	3:47.5 CR	Gilberto Miori   Argentina	3:51.3	Eduardo Balducci   Argentina	3:51.3
5000 metres	Osvaldo Suárez   Argentina	14:26.1 CR	Walter Lemos   Argentina	14:40.6	Luis Sandoval   Argentina	14:49.2
10,000 metres	Osvaldo Suárez   Argentina	30:37.2	Walter Lemos   Argentina	30:37.4	Armando Pino   Argentina	31:23.0
Half marathon	Osvaldo Suárez   Argentina	1:12:38	Armando Pino   Argentina	1:13:29	Juan Silva   Chile	1:13:45
3000 metres steeplechase	Sebastião Mendes   Brazil	9:20.0	Santiago Novas   Chile	9:20.4	Alberto Ríos   Argentina	9:29.8
110 metres hurdles	Wilson Carneiro   Brazil	14.9	Francisco Bergonzoni   Brazil	15.1	Ijoel da Silva   Brazil	15.1
400 metres hurdles	Ulisses dos Santos   Brazil	52.5	Jaime Aparicio   Colombia	52.6	Erwino Stobaus   Brazil	54.2
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil Affonso da Silva Jorge de Barros João Pires Sobrinho José da Conceição	41.3	Argentina Pedro Marcel Juan Salom Vicente Giorgio Luis Vienna	41.8	Chile Eduardo Bezanilla Teodoro Blaschke Hugo de la Fuente Gert Wagner	42.2
4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil Ulisses dos Santos Mário do Nascimento Geraldo Costa Argemiro Roque	3:16.3	Peru Ramón Sánchez José Laca Guillermo Sebastiani Eulogio Gomes	3:17.4	Argentina Roberto Batistelo Víctor Lozano Eduardo Balducci Francisco Paganesi	3:18.5
High jump	José Telles da Conceição   Brazil	1.90	Alfredo Lopes   Brazil	1.90	Oscar Bártoli   Argentina Reinaldo de Oliveira   Brazil Ernesto Lagos   Chile Horacio Martínez   Argentina Juan Ruiz   Chile	1.80
Pole vault	José Infante   Chile	4.00 =CR	Fausto de Souza   Brazil	3.90	Carlos Kreuz   Argentina	3.80
Long jump	Fermín Donazar   Uruguay	7.24	Ary de Sá   Brazil	7.18	Eduardo Krumm   Chile	7.11
Triple jump	Adhemar da Silva   Brazil	15.70	Reinaldo de Oliveira   Brazil	14.78	Itiro Nakaie   Brazil	14.60
Shot put	Enrique Helf   Argentina	15.41 CR	Isolino Taborda   Brazil	15.00	Rubén Scaraffia   Argentina	14.67
Discus throw	Hernán Haddad   Chile	49.10 CR	Günther Kruse   Argentina	47.43	Pedro Ucke   Argentina	46.49
Hammer throw	Alejandro Díaz   Chile	54.45 CR	Walter Kupper   Brazil	51.77	Walter Rodrigues   Brazil	51.69
Javelin throw	Ricardo Héber   Argentina	65.78	Walter de Almeida   Brazil	65.14	Janis Laipenieks   Chile	60.14
Decathlon	Leonardo Kittsteiner   Chile	5645	Yelton Bagnasco   Uruguay	5634	Mario Cachile   Argentina	5547

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Martha Huby   Peru	12.4	Marlene Porto   Brazil	12.5	Nancy Correa   Chile	12.5
200 metres	Martha Huby   Peru	25.5 =CR	Erica da Silva   Brazil	25.6	Teresa Venegas   Chile	25.8
80 metres hurdles	Wanda dos Santos   Brazil	11.5	Maria José de Lima   Brazil	12.1	Lucía Fantino   Argentina	12.2
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil Wanda dos Santos Erica da Silva Melânia Luz Marlene Porto	48.7	Chile Katte Harzenett Teresa Venegas Nancy Correa Marta Gatica	50.2	Argentina Dolores Bonacassi Miriam Cabanillas Lucia Fantino Marta González	50.6
High jump	Renata Friedrichs   Chile	1.55	Deyse de Castro   Brazil	1.50	Cleide Eloy   Brazil	1.50
Long jump	Iris dos Santos   Brazil	5.54	Wanda dos Santos   Brazil	5.48	Marta González   Argentina	5.32
Shot put	Isabel Avellán   Argentina	12.69 CR	Eliana Bahamondes   Chile	12.16	Vera Trezoitko   Brazil	12.06
Discus throw	Isabel Avellán   Argentina	44.57 CR	Pradelia Delgado   Chile	39.68	Ingeborg Mello   Argentina	39.05
Javelin throw	Marlene Ahrens   Chile	43.85	Adriana Silva   Chile	39.75	Magdalena García   Argentina	39.10

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil  (BRA)	13	15	10	38
2	Chile  (CHI)	8	5	8	21
3	Argentina  (ARG)	7	8	16	31
4	Peru  (PER)	2	1	1	4
5	Uruguay  (URU)	1	1	0	2
6	Colombia  (COL)	0	1	0	1
Totals (6 entries)		31	31	35	97

External links

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