1987 South American Championships in Athletics

1987 South American Championships in Athletics
Dates	8–11 October
Host city	São Paulo, Brazil
Venue	Estádio Ícaro de Castro Melo
Events	40
Participation	207 athletes from 10 nations
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The 1987 South American Championships in Athletics were held in São Paulo, Brazil, between 8 and 11 October.

Medal summary

Further information: 1987 South American Championships in Athletics – Results

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Robson da Silva   Brazil	10.39	Carlos Moreno   Chile	10.51	Carlos de Oliveira   Brazil	10.68
200 metres (wind: -0.6 m/s)	Robson da Silva   Brazil	21.04	Carlos Moreno   Chile	21.41	Álvaro Prenafeta   Chile	21.48
400 metres	Héctor Daley   Panama	45.80 CR	Gérson de Souza   Brazil	46.26	Cristián Courbis   Chile	46.37
800 metres	Luis Migueles   Argentina	1:47.35	Pablo Squella   Chile	1:48.64	Jamir Garcez   Brazil	1:49.49
1500 metres	Gilson Wiggers   Brazil	3:46.62	Emilio Ulloa   Chile	3:46.69	Manuel Balmaceda   Chile	3:47.43
5000 metres	Rolando Vera   Ecuador	14:03.00	Florinda Corrêa   Brazil	14:04.60	Omar Aguilar   Chile	14:05.50
10,000 metres	Juan Pablo Juárez   Argentina	29:18.39	Rolando Vera   Ecuador	29:19.16	Omar Aguilar   Chile	29:30.01
Marathon	Osmiro Silva   Brazil	2:21:06	José César de Souza   Brazil	2:24:49	Wilson Pérez   Ecuador	2:26:22
110 metres hurdles (wind: -0.8 m/s)	Lyndon Campos   Brazil	14.13	Joilto Bonfim   Brazil	14.54	Carlos Varas   Argentina	14.55
400 metres hurdles	Pablo Squella   Chile	50.42	Antônio Dias Ferreira   Brazil	50.67	Carlos dos Santos   Brazil	52.43
3000 metres steeplechase	Emilio Ulloa   Chile	8:51.41	Carlos Naput   Argentina	8:53.84	Ricardo Vera   Uruguay	8:58.99
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil Carlos de Oliveira Pedro Miguel da Silva Reginaldo Aguiar Robson da Silva	40.17	Argentina Oscar Barrionuevo Carlos Gats José María Beduino Gerardo Meinardi	40.72	Chile Carlos Moreno Álvaro Prenafeta Juan Carlos Fuentes Héctor Fernández	40.75
4 × 400 metres relay	Chile Cristián Courbis Manuel Balmaceda Pablo Squella Carlos Morales	3:07.64 CR	Brazil Gérson de Souza Paulo César de Souza Geraldo de Assis Nilson Neri	3:08.43	Argentina Fabián Garbolino Dardo Angerami Luis Migueles José María Beduino	3:10.36
20 kilometres road walk	Cláudio Bertolino   Brazil	1:38:34	Jorge Yannone   Argentina	1:39:12	Juan Canevaro   Chile	1:40:51
High jump	Fernando Moreno   Argentina	2.17 =CR	Fernando Pastoriza   Argentina	2.17	Milton Riitano Francisco   Brazil	2.14
Pole vault	Oscar Veit   Argentina	5.25 CR	Thomas Riether   Chile	5.15	Renato Bortolocci   Brazil	5.05
Long jump	Paulo de Oliveira   Brazil	7.65	Fernando Valiente   Peru	7.56	Ricardo Valiente   Peru	7.45
Triple jump	Jorge da Silva   Brazil	16.24	Abcelvio Rodrigues   Brazil	16.11	José Quiñaliza   Ecuador	15.77
Shot put	Gert Weil   Chile	19.35	Adilson Oliveira   Brazil	18.04	Gerardo Carucci   Argentina	16.70
Discus throw	Carlos Brynner   Argentina	55.34 CR	José Jacques   Brazil	54.46	João dos Santos   Brazil	51.16
Hammer throw	Andrés Charadia   Argentina	66.72 CR	Pedro Rivail Atílio   Brazil	62.68	Adrián Marzo   Argentina	59.94
Javelin throw (Current design)	Nivaldo Beje Filho   Brazil	64.46 CR	Rodrigo Zelaya   Chile	64.06	Jorge Parraguirre   Chile	63.98
Decathlon	Paulo Lima   Brazil	7491	Fidel Solórzano   Ecuador	6947	Carlos Martín   Argentina	6924

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Deborah Bell   Argentina	11.68	Ximena Restrepo   Colombia	11.77	Inês Ribeiro   Brazil	11.91
200 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Ximena Restrepo   Colombia	23.49	Liliana Chalá   Ecuador	23.74	Deborah Bell   Argentina	23.87
400 metres	Liliana Chalá   Ecuador	52.9 CR	Suzete Montalvão   Brazil	53.7	Soledad Acerenza   Uruguay	55.2
800 metres	Soraya Telles   Brazil	2:07.71	Graciela Mardones   Chile	2:09.21	Luiza do Nascimento   Brazil	2:09.39
1500 metres	Soraya Telles   Brazil	4:29.9	Rita de Jesus   Brazil	4:30.9	Graciela Mardones   Chile	4:33.9
3000 metres	Monica Regonesi   Chile	9:47.30	Martha Tenorio   Ecuador	10:02.63	María Martínez   Argentina	10:05.93
10,000 metres	Angélica de Almeida   Brazil	34:59.2	Monica Regonesi   Chile	35:00.6	Martha Tenorio   Ecuador	35:11.5
100 metres hurdles (wind: -0.3 m/s)	Carmen Bezanilla   Chile	14.22	Carolina Gutiérrez   Argentina	14.34	Alejandra Martínez   Chile	14.49
400 metres hurdles	Liliana Chalá   Ecuador	58.46 CR	Maria do Carmo Fialho   Brazil	59.92	Margit Weise   Brazil	60.05
4 × 100 metres relay	Argentina Milagros Allende Olga Conte Laura de Falco Deborah Bell	45.45	Brazil Iara Ribeiro Jupira da Graça Roberta Correa Inês Ribeiro	45.78	Uruguay Rosanna Biasco Margarita Martirena Soledad Acerenza Claudia Acerenza	46.54
4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil Suzete Montalvão Soraya Telles Maria do Carmo Fialho Eliane Silva	3:38.13 CR	Argentina Viviana Cortes Olga Conte Milagros Allende Laura de Falco	3:43.56	Chile Carmen Bezanilla Claudia Hoelzel Graciela Mardones Ismenia Guzmán	3:43.61
High jump	Orlane dos Santos   Brazil	1.80	Liliana Lohmann   Brazil	1.73	Carmen Garib   Chile	1.70
Long jump	Rita Slompo   Brazil	6.17	Ana Martina Vizioli   Argentina	6.01	Orlane dos Santos   Brazil	5.90
Shot put	Maria Fernandes   Brazil	14.49	Berenice da Silva   Uruguay	14.36	Eliane de Campos   Brazil	13.88
Discus throw	Luz María Quiñonez   Ecuador	48.00	Márcia Barbosa   Brazil	45.66	Gloria Martínez   Chile	44.66
Javelin throw	Sueli dos Santos   Brazil	56.00 CR	Berta Gómez   Colombia	47.62	Sonia Favre   Argentina	46.68
Heptathlon	Conceição Geremias   Brazil	5550	Carmen Bezanilla   Chile	5066	Carolina Gutiérrez   Argentina	4765

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil  (BRA)	20	16	11	47
2	Argentina  (ARG)	8	7	9	24
3	Chile  (CHI)	6	9	13	28
4	Ecuador  (ECU)	4	4	3	11
5	Colombia  (COL)	1	2	0	3
6	Panama  (PAN)	1	0	0	1
7	Uruguay  (URU)	0	1	3	4
8	Peru  (PER)	0	1	1	2
Totals (8 entries)		40	40	40	120

Participating nations

•   Argentina (45)
•   Bolivia (4)
•   Brazil (64)
•   Chile (32)
•   Colombia (2)
•   Ecuador (21)
•   Panama (1)
•   Paraguay (9)
•   Peru (10)
•   Uruguay (19)

External links

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