1961 South American Championships in Athletics

1961 South American Championships in Athletics
Dates	20–28 May
Host city	Lima, Peru
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The 1961 South American Championships in Athletics were held in Lima, Peru, between 20 and 28 May.

Medal summary

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
10,000 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 CR	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 =CR	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
4 × 100 metres relay	Venezuela Clive Bonas Horacio Esteves Arquímedes Herrera Emilio Romero	41.0	Brazil Affonso da Silva Jorge de Barros Anubes da Silva José da Conceição	41.5	Argentina Luis Vienna Juan Stocker Roberto Ferrairo Guillermo Bahler	42.2
4 × 400 metres relay	Venezuela Rafael Romero Emilio Romero Horacio Esteves Hortensio Fucil	3:16.0	Argentina Raúl Zabala Luis Vienna Juan Stocker Juan Carlos Dyrzka	3:16.9	Brazil Ulisses dos Santos Anubes da Silva Peter Ostermaier Carlos Alberto Ferreira	3:18.1
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	Asnoldo Devonish   Venezuela	14.68	Sylvio Moreira   Brazil	14.52	Reinaldo de Oliveira   Brazil	14.42
Shot put	Enrique Helf   Argentina	15.86 CR	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 Héber   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

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
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil Wanda dos Santos Maria Caldeira Laurette Godoy Erica da Silva	48.9	Argentina Edith Berg Marta Buongiorno Alicia Kaufmanas Ada Brener	48.9	Chile Aurora Bianchi Marisol Massot Doris Peter Nancy Correa	49.2
High jump	Aída dos Santos   Brazil	1.60 =CR	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 put	Ingeborg Pfüller   Argentina	12.41	Vera Trezoitko   Brazil	12.16	Pradelia Delgado   Chile	11.81
Discus throw	Ingeborg Pfüller   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

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Argentina  (ARG)	10	12	11	33
2	Brazil  (BRA)	9	10	9	28
3	Venezuela  (VEN)	7	4	3	14
4	Chile  (CHI)	5	4	4	13
5	Colombia  (COL)	0	1	0	1
6	Peru  (PER)	0	0	3	3
7	Uruguay  (URU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		31	31	31	93

External links

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