1920 South American Championships in Athletics

The 1920 South American Championships in Athletics were held in Santiago, Chile between 23 and 25 April.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Chile	10.8 CR, AR	Uruguay	11.0	Chile
200 metres	Isabelino Gradín  Uruguay	22.4 CR, AR	Chile	22.6	Uruguay	23.4
400 metres	Isabelino Gradín  Uruguay	54.0	Eduardo Flores  Uruguay	54.6	Chile
800 metres	Enrique Thompson  Argentina	2:06.2	Uruguay	2:06.4	Chile	2:06.8
1500 metres	Argentina	4:23.2 CR	Chile	4:23.4	Chile	4:26.2
5000 metres	Chile	16:11.4 CR	Chile	16:21.8	Manuel Plaza  Chile	16:29.4
10,000 metres	Chile	33:13.6 CR	Manuel Plaza  Chile	33:18.2	Chile
110 metres hurdles	Chile	16.4 CR	Uruguay	16.6	Argentina
200 metres hurdles	Chile	26.2 CR	Uruguay	26.8	Francisco Silveira  Uruguay
400 metres hurdles	Andrés Mazali  Uruguay	59.0 CR	Chile	59.8	Francisco Silveira  Uruguay
4 × 400 metres relay	Uruguay Isabelino Gradín	3:34.0 CR	Argentina Enrique Thompson
High jump	Chile	1.76 CR	Uruguay	1.75	Chile	1.70
Standing high jump	Argentina	1.44 CR	Chile	1.43	Uruguay	1.42
Pole vault	Uruguay	3.26 CR	Chile	3.25	Chile	3.20
Long jump	Chile	6.52	Uruguay	6.11	Héctor Benapres  Chile	6.10
Standing long jump	Chile	3.00	Chile	2.98	Argentina	2.95
Triple jump	Chile	13.40 CR	Héctor Benapres  Chile	13.21	Chile	12.69
Shot put	Argentina	11.96 CR	Chile	11.54	Argentina	11.50
Discus throw	Argentina	35.28	Uruguay	34.64	Chile	34.55
Hammer throw	Uruguay	34.14 CR	Argentina	33.05	Chile	32.97
Javelin throw	Arturo Medina  Chile	49.49 CR	Uruguay	41.51	Chile	40.90

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Chile (CHI)	10	10	13	33
2	Uruguay (URU)	6	9	4	19
3	Argentina (ARG)	5	2	3	10
Totals (3 nations)		21	21	20	62

External links[]

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