1965 South American Championships in Athletics

1965 South American Championships in Athletics
Dates	8–16 May
Host city	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Events	31
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The 1965 South American Championships in Athletics were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between 8 and 16 May. This was the last edition of the Championships in which Brazil did not top the medal table.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Iván Moreno   Chile	10.4	Héctor Thomas   Venezuela	10.5	Manuel Planchart   Venezuela	10.7
200 metres	Carlos Barón   Chile	21.6	Hortensio Fucil   Venezuela	21.6	Iván Moreno   Chile	21.9
400 metres	Víctor Maldonado   Venezuela	47.5	Pedro Grajales   Colombia	47.5	Andrés Calonge   Argentina	48.4
800 metres	Leslie Mentor   Venezuela	1:54.5	Jorge Grosser   Chile	1:55.1	José Azevedo   Brazil	1:55.3
1500 metres	Tharso de Andrade   Brazil	3:53.9	Albertino Etchechury   Uruguay	3:54.1	Domingo Amaisón   Argentina	3:54.5
5000 metres	Domingo Amaisón   Argentina	14:46.5	Mario Cutropia   Argentina	14:49.9	Ricardo Vidal   Chile	14:53.8
10,000 metres	Mario Cutropia   Argentina	31:39.1	Domingo Amaisón   Argentina	32:01.0	Ricardo Vidal   Chile	32:11.0
Marathon	Ricardo Vidal   Chile	2:38:15 CR	Dorival Silva   Brazil	2:38:23	Domingo Amaisón   Argentina	2:40:13
110 metres hurdles	Carlos Mossa   Brazil	15.2	Guillermo Vallanía   Argentina	15.3	Hernando Arrechea   Colombia	15.7
400 metres hurdles	Víctor Maldonado   Venezuela	51.5	Juan Carlos Dyrzka   Argentina	52.0	José Cavero   Peru	52.5
3000 metres steeplechase	Domingo Amaisón   Argentina	9:03.0 CR	Albertino Etchechury   Uruguay	9:07.5	Sebastião Mendes   Brazil	9:22.2
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil Joel Satow Jose da Conceição Affonso da Silva Araken da Costa	41.2	Venezuela Arquímedes Herrera Manuel Planchart Rafael Romero Hortensio Fusil	41.3	Colombia Miguel Carabacho Francisco Gutiérrez Tito Diago Pedro Grajales	41.6
4 × 400 metres relay	Venezuela Aristides Pineda José Jacinto Hidalgo Hortensio Fusil Víctor Maldonado	3:14.5	Brazil Altemerindo Amorim Joel Rocha Waldemar Montesano Ernani Eisele	3:15.9	Argentina Carlos Meucheri Guillermo Vallania Juan Carlos Dyrzka Andrés Calonge	3:17.3
High jump	Eleuterio Fassi   Argentina	1.97	Roberto Abugattás   Peru	1.97	Carlos Colchado   Peru	1.91
Pole vault	Erico Barney   Argentina	4.25 CR	Parmenio Restrepo   Colombia	3.95	Maurício de Souza   Brazil	3.90
Long jump	Iván Moreno   Chile	7.29	Héctor Thomas   Venezuela	7.24	José Telles da Conceição   Brazil	7.06
Triple jump	Nelson Prudêncio   Brazil	14.96	Mário Gomes   Brazil	14.87	Juan Ivanovic   Chile	14.53
Shot put	José Jacques   Brazil	15.61	Luis Di Cursi   Argentina	15.29	Mario Peretti   Argentina	15.00
Discus throw	João Alexandre   Brazil	48.25	Dieter Gevert   Chile	48.15	Dagoberto González   Colombia	48.04
Hammer throw	Roberto Chapchap   Brazil	56.62 CR	José Vallejo   Argentina	54.94	Marcelino Borrero   Colombia	51.46
Javelin throw	Ian Barney   Argentina	66.43	Patricio Etcheverry   Chile	64.45	Jesús Rodríguez   Venezuela	64.28
Decathlon	Héctor Thomas   Venezuela	6555	Roberto Caravaca   Venezuela	6028	Renato Renk   Brazil	5486

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Marta Buongiorno   Argentina	12.2	Erica da Silva   Brazil	12.4	Emilia Dyrzka   Argentina	12.5
200 metres	Marta Buongiorno   Argentina	25.3	Erica da Silva   Brazil	25.6	Ada Brener   Argentina	25.7
80 metres hurdles	Emilia Dyrzka   Argentina	11.6	Carlota Ulloa   Chile	12.0	Marisol Massot   Chile	12.1
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil Edir Ribeiro Gloria Ferraz Leda dos Santos Erica da Silva	47.7	Argentina Alicia Kaufmanas Emilia Dyrzka Ada Brener Marta Buongiorno	47.9	Chile Carlota Ulloa María Ducci Marisol Massot Nelly Arduz Orellana	49.0
High jump	Maria da Conceição   Brazil	1.69 CR	Aída dos Santos   Brazil	1.66	Irenice Rodrigues   Brazil	1.51
Long jump	Carlota Ulloa   Chile	5.53	Alicia Kaufmanas   Argentina	5.38	Edir Ribeiro   Brazil	5.28
Shot put	Norma Suárez   Argentina	12.93 CR	Miriam Yutronic   Chile	12.38	Eliana Bahamondes   Chile	12.25
Discus throw	Miriam Yutronic   Chile	45.33	Odete Domingos   Brazil	39.92	Isolina Vergara   Colombia	39.73
Javelin throw	Kiyomi Nakagawa   Brazil	41.51	Delia Vera   Peru	40.76	Rosa Molina   Chile	40.23

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Brazil)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Argentina  (ARG)	10	8	7	25
2	Brazil  (BRA)*	10	7	7	24
3	Chile  (CHI)	6	5	8	19
4	Venezuela  (VEN)	5	5	2	12
5	Colombia  (COL)	0	2	5	7
6	Peru  (PER)	0	2	2	4
7	Uruguay  (URU)	0	2	0	2
Totals (7 entries)		31	31	31	93

External links

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