Athletics at the 1994 South American Games

Athletics at the V South American Games
Dates	November
Host city	Valencia, Venezuela
Venue	Polideportivo Misael Delgado
Level	Senior
Events	43 (24 men, 19 women)
Records set	(about) 26 games records
← 1990 Lima 1998 Cuenca → 1994 South American Games

Athletics events at the 1994 South American Games were held at the Polideportivo Misael Delgado in Valencia, Venezuela. ^[1] A total of 43 events were contested, 24 by men and 19 by women.

Following a controversy between Sabino Hernández, president of the Comité Olímpico Ecuatoriano and Jacobo Bucaram, president of the Federación Ecuatoriana de Atletismo in the context of funding the number of athletes to travel to the games (22 versus 33 athletes), Ecuador did not participate in this year's athletics competitions. ^[2]

On the other hand, athletics heavyweights Brazil (although only with a small delegation) and Colombia competed for the first time, leading to a noticeable improvement of the results as evident from the setting of (about) 26 games records.

Medal summary

Medal winners were published in a book written by Argentinian journalist Ernesto Rodríguez III with support of the Argentine Olympic Committee (Spanish: Comité Olímpico Argentino) under the auspices of the Ministry of Education (Spanish: Ministerio de Educación de la Nación) in collaboration with the Office of Sports (Spanish: Secretaría de Deporte de la Nación). ^[3] Eduardo Biscayart supplied the list of winners and their results. ^[4] Further results were published elsewhere. ^{[5] [6]}

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.4 m/s)	Robinson Urrutia   Colombia	10.29 GR, NR	Claudinei Silva   Brazil	10.42	Marcelo Brivilati da Silva   Brazil	10.43
200 metres (wind: +0.4 m/s)	Sebastián Keitel   Chile	20.1 GR	Claudinei Silva   Brazil	20.6	Jorge Cañizales   Venezuela	20.9
400 metres	Wenceslao Ferrín   Colombia	45.84 GR	Sebastián Keitel   Chile	46.01	Llimi Rivas   Colombia	47.12
800 metres	José Gregorio López   Venezuela	1:50.53	Pablo Squella   Chile	1:51.24	Manuel Balmaceda   Chile	1:51.57
1500 metres	José Gregorio López   Venezuela	3:47.56	Jacinto Navarrete   Colombia	3:48.67	Jaime Valenzuela   Chile	3:50.91
5000 metres	Jacinto Navarrete   Colombia	14:10.3	Germán Beltrán   Venezuela	14:19.7	Félix Ladera   Venezuela	14:25.6
10,000 metres	Rubén Maza   Venezuela	29:49.1	Mariano Mamaní   Bolivia	30:08.8	Félix Ladera   Venezuela	30:37.2
Marathon	Policarpo Calizaya   Bolivia	2:32:06	Gilberto Torres   Peru	2:32:58	Freddy Luján   Bolivia	2:38:50
110 metres hurdles	Eliécer Pulgar   Venezuela	14.33 GR	José Rivas   Colombia	14.42	Elvis Cedeño   Venezuela	14.46
400 metres hurdles	Llimi Rivas   Colombia	51.14	Luis Gómez   Venezuela	52.57	Juan Mago   Venezuela	53.68
3000 metres steeplechase	Jaime Valenzuela   Chile	9:04.2	Juan Díaz   Venezuela	9:06.4	Néstor Nieves   Venezuela	9:10.7
4 × 100 metres relay	Chile Pablo Almeida Sebastián Keitel Carlos Moreno Ricardo Roach	39.67 GR	Brazil Fernando Botasso Claudinei da Silva Marcelo Brivilati da Silva Nelson Ferreira	39.76	Colombia Robinson Urrutia Luis Vega Wenceslao Ferrín José Humberto Rivas	40.32
4 × 400 metres relay	Chile Carlos Moreno Pablo Squella Ricardo Roach Sebastián Keitel	3:06.92 GR	Colombia Llimy Rivas Luis Vega Alcides Pinto Gilmar Mayo	3:07.84	Venezuela Vladimir Aponte Claudio Silva Medolphe Henry Aguiar	3:15.74
20 kilometres race walk	José Querubín Moreno   Colombia	1:29:10.0 GR	Carlos Ramones   Venezuela	1:30:56	Luis Quispe   Bolivia	1:35:45
50 kilometres race walk	Luis Quispe   Bolivia	4:36.08	Rubén López   Venezuela	4:40:11	Luis García   Venezuela	4:43:52
High jump	Gilmar Mayo   Colombia	2.25 GR	Hugo Muñoz   Peru	2.14	Valery Abugattas   Peru	2.08
Pole vault	Oscar Veit   Argentina	5.10	Cristián Aspillaga   Chile	5.00	Luis Hidalgo   Venezuela	4.65
Long jump	Nelson Ferreira   Brazil	7.84 GR	Luis Lourduy   Colombia	7.47	Oscar Valiente   Peru	7.40
Triple jump	Sergio Saavedra   Venezuela	16.26	Oscar Valiente   Peru	15.60	Ascanio Winston   Venezuela	15.29
Shot put	Gert Weil   Chile	18.74 GR	Yoger Medina   Venezuela	18.06	Adrián Marzo   Argentina	16.88
Discus throw	Ramón Jiménez Gaona   Paraguay	57.88 GR	Yoger Medina   Venezuela	57.42	Marcelo Pugliese   Argentina	56.40
Hammer throw	Andrés Charadia   Argentina	70.80 GR	Adrián Marzo   Argentina	66.98	José Manuel Llano   Chile	59.96
Javelin throw	Nery Kennedy   Paraguay	76.70 GR	Rodrigo Zelaya   Chile	76.50	Edgar Baumann   Paraguay	70.78
Decathlon	Eladio Farfán   Venezuela	6678	Iván Romero   Venezuela	6297

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Felipa Palacios   Colombia	11.51	Katia Santos   Brazil	11.54	Mirtha Brock   Colombia	11.66
200 metres (wind: +0.5 m/s)	Felipa Palacios   Colombia	23.6	Patricia Rodríguez   Colombia	23.7	Katia Santos   Brazil	23.9
400 metres	Ximena Restrepo   Colombia	51.31 GR	Elia Mera   Colombia	54.08	Luciana Mendes   Brazil	54.72
800 metres	Luciana Mendes   Brazil	2:01.99 GR	Letitia Vriesde   Suriname	2:03.80	Marta Orellana   Argentina	2:06.37
1500 metres	Marta Orellana   Argentina	4:22.33 GR	Letitia Vriesde   Suriname	4:24.50	Clara Morales   Colombia	4:26.54
3000 metres	Erika Olivera   Chile	9:31.06 GR	Estela Castro   Colombia	9:49.1	María Flores   Chile	9:49.7
10,000 metres	Erika Olivera   Chile	34:40.9 GR	Estela Castro   Colombia	35:07.6	María Flores   Chile	35:29.6
100 metres hurdles (wind: -0.8 m/s)	Alejandra Martínez   Chile	14.42	Zorobabelia Córdoba   Colombia	14.63	Lisette Rondón   Chile	14.74
400 metres hurdles	Ximena Restrepo   Colombia	56.05 GR, NR	Flor Robledo   Colombia	60.20	Paula Yáñez   Venezuela	62.05
4 × 100 metres relay	Colombia Patricia Rodríguez Mirtha Brock Felipa Palacios Ximena Restrepo	44.98 GR	Chile Alejandra Martínez Marcela Barros Lisette Rondón Judith de la Fuente	46.97
4 × 400 metres relay	Colombia Elia Mera Patricia Rodríguez Janeth Lucumí Flor Robledo	3:40.33 GR	Chile Marcela Barros Clara Morales Lisette Rondón Ismenia Guzman	3:47.37	Venezuela Xiomara Díaz Dilza Buaiz Suarez Shamira Valero	3:52.27
10 kilometres race walk	Liliana Bermeo   Colombia	48:54.9	Geovana Irusta   Bolivia	53:23.0	Carolin Rosales   Venezuela	55:41.4
High jump	Alejandra Chomalí   Chile	1.73	Teresa Rodríguez   Venezuela	1.70	Rubia Quintanilla   Venezuela	1.65
Long jump	Andrea Ávila   Argentina	6.51 GR	Mónica Castro   Chile	6.12	Nathaniel Gómez   Venezuela	6.01
Triple jump	Andrea Ávila   Argentina	13.12 GR	Nathaniel Gómez   Venezuela	12.48	Milly Figueroa   Colombia	12.37
Shot put	Lila Morales   Venezuela	13.02	Tyolanda Orozco   Venezuela	12.07
Discus throw	María Isabel Urrutia   Colombia	58.08 GR	Liliana Martinelli   Argentina	56.74	Fanny García   Venezuela	48.54
Javelin throw	Zuleima Aramendiz   Colombia	55.46 GR	Marieta Riera   Venezuela	50.64	Verónica Prieto   Colombia	49.76
Heptathlon	Zorobabelia Córdoba   Colombia	5448 GR	Rubia Quintanilla   Venezuela	4915 NR	Mónica Castro   Chile	4508

Medal table (unofficial)

  *   Host nation (Venezuela)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Colombia	16	10	6	32
2	Chile	9	7	7	23
3	Venezuela*	7	13	16	36
4	Argentina	5	2	3	10
5	Brazil	2	4	3	9
6	Bolivia	2	2	2	6
7	Paraguay	2	0	1	3
8	Peru	0	3	2	5
9	Suriname	0	2	0	2
Totals (9 entries)		43	43	40	126

References

1. VALENCIA 94, VENEZUELA, V JUEGOS SUDAMERICANOS, Fecha de apertura: 19 de noviembre de 1994, Fecha de clausura: 28 de noviembre de 1994 (in Spanish), ODESUR, archived from the original on 2014-03-15, retrieved June 12, 2012
2. SACRIFICADO EL ATLETISMO (in Spanish), Explored, Quito, Ecuador, 17 November 1994, archived from the original on 6 January 2013, retrieved 13 June 2012
3. Rodríguez III, Ernesto (2010), LIBROS DEL CICLO OLÍMPICO ARGENTINO - Libro I de los Juegos Odesur 1978-2010 (in Spanish) (1a. ed.), Buenos Aires: Alarco Ediciones, p. 192, ISBN   978-987-1367-18-4, archived from the original on 2012-01-04, retrieved June 3, 2012
4. SOUTH AMERICAN (ODESUR) GAMES, Athletics Weekly, retrieved June 3, 2012
5. RANKING ARGENTINO PERMANENTE (in Spanish), CADA Confederación Argentina De Atletismo, June 15, 2012, archived from the original on 5 October 2009, retrieved 15 June 2012
6. TABLA DE RECORDS SUDAMERICANOS (absolutos), PISTA Y CAMPO, Al día 30 de junio de 2005 (in Spanish), Atletismo en México, 30 June 2005, archived from the original on 27 August 2007, retrieved 15 June 2012