1941 South American Championships in Athletics

The 1941 South American Championships in Athletics were held in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, between 26 April and 4 May.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Brazil	10.8	Brazil	10.9	Chile	11.1
200 metres	Brazil	21.4 =CR	Argentina	21.8	Chile	22.4
400 metres	Rosalvo Ramos  Brazil	50.2	Brazil	50.3	Antonio Cuba  Peru	50.4
800 metres	Chile	1:54.2 CR	Argentina	1:55.7	Chile	1:55.7
1500 metres	Chile	3:58.7	Argentina	4:02.2	Chile	4:03.1
3000 metres	Argentina	8:39.4 CR	Chile	8:47.6	Delfo Cabrera  Argentina	8:48.0
5000 metres	Argentina	14:57.2 CR	Reinaldo Gorno  Argentina	15:12.1	Raúl Inostroza  Chile	15:13.3
10,000 metres	Argentina	30:45.0 CR	Reinaldo Gorno  Argentina	31:39.6	Chile	31:41.8
Road race	Argentina	2:03:16	Argentina	2:03:22	Eusebio Guiñez  Argentina	2:03:42
110 metres hurdles	Brazil	15.1	Brazil	15.2	Uruguay	15.5
400 metres hurdles	Chile	56.4	Chile	56.9	Sylvio Padilha  Brazil	57.0
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil Márcio de Oliveira Sylvio Padilha	42.3	Chile N. Pereira	42.7	Argentina Anchorena Martínez Bo	43.4
4 × 400 metres relay	Chile Raúl Muñoz	3:21.9	Argentina Briggs Chiapetta	3:22.3	Uruguay Perreira	3:27.8
3000 metres team race	Argentina	10	Chile	14	Brazil	26
Cross country	Argentina	36:11.0	Raúl Inostroza  Venezuela	37:18.0	Chile	37:27.4
High jump	Chile	1.94 CR	Alfredo Mendes  Brazil	1.85	Argentina	1.85
Pole vault	Lúcio de Castro  Brazil	4.00 CR	Icaro Mello  Brazil	4.00	Erwin Reimer  Chile	3.70
Long jump	Peru	7.20	Ernesto Juárez  Argentina	7.05	Argentina	6.94
Triple jump	Brazil	15.10	Argentina	14.90	Brazil	14.59
Shot put	Brazil	14.62 CR	Brazil	13.71	Antônio Lyra  Brazil	13.51
Discus throw	Manuel Consiglieri  Peru	46.40 CR	Chile	45.05	Brazil	45.02
Hammer throw	Assis Naban  Brazil	49.71	Juan Fusé  Argentina	48.98	Federico Kleger  Argentina	46.60
Javelin throw	Brazil	59.42	Argentina	59.05	Chile	56.37
Decathlon	Brazil	6411	Chile	6315	Chile	6037

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Argentina	13.1	Argentina	13.3	Brazil	13.3
200 metres	Argentina	26.0	Elizabeth Müller  Brazil	26.4	Peru	27.6
80 metres hurdles	Brazil	12.4 CR	Chile	12.5	Brazil	13.0
4 × 100 metres relay	Argentina Elsa Irigoyen Noemi Simonetto	51.2	Chile	51.8	Brazil	52.6
High jump	Argentina	1.55 CR	Chile	1.50	Brazil  Uruguay Noemi Simonetto  Argentina	1.45
Long jump	Uruguay	5.12	Chile	5.03	Noemí Simonetto  Argentina	4.96
Shot put	Ingeborg Mello  Argentina	11.81 CR	Chile	10.74	Bolivia	10.45
Discus throw	Chile	35.59 CR	Chile	35.04	Ingeborg Mello  Argentina	33.80
Javelin throw	Argentina	36.87 CR	Chile	36.68	Chile	34.63

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Argentina (ARG)	12	12	9	33
2	Brazil (BRA)	12	7	9	28
3	Chile (CHI)	6	13	11	30
4	Peru (PER)	2	0	2	4
5	Uruguay (URU)	1	0	3	4
6	Venezuela (VEN)	0	1	0	1
7	Bolivia (BOL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 nations)		33	33	35	101

External links[]

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