1947 South American Championships in Athletics

The 1947 South American Championships in Athletics were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between 25 April and 3 May.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Gerardo Bönnhoff  Argentina	11.0	Santiago Ferrando  Peru	11.2	Argentina	11.3
200 metres	Alberto Triulzi  Argentina	22.0	Gerardo Bönnhoff  Argentina	22.3	Alberto Labarthe  Chile	22.4
400 metres	Gustavo Ehlers  Chile	49.0	Antonio Pocovi  Argentina	49.2	Guillermo Avalos  Argentina	49.5
800 metres	Adán Torres  Argentina	1:53.7 CR	Argentina	1:54.3	Chile	1:54.9
1500 metres	Melchor Palmeiro  Argentina	3:57.8	Argentina	4:00.1	Raúl Inostroza  Chile	4:01.7
3000 metres	Ricardo Bralo  Argentina	8:44.3	Raúl Inostroza  Chile	8:45.0	Delfo Cabrera  Argentina	8:46.9
5000 metres	Raúl Inostroza  Chile	15:07.8	Eusebio Guiñez  Argentina	15:14.0	Brazil	15:15.2
10,000 metres	Brazil	33:01.2	Brazil	33:17.6	Delfo Cabrera  Argentina	33:19.0
Road race	Argentina	1:56:23	Eusebio Guiñez  Argentina	1:57:17	Brazil	1:59:00
110 metres hurdles	Alberto Triulzi  Argentina	14.7 =CR	Brazil	15.3	Chile	15.4
400 metres hurdles	Sergio Guzmán  Chile	54.8	Argentina	54.9	Chile	55.2
4 × 100 metres relay	Argentina Alberto Triulzi Gerardo Bönnhoff	42.3	Uruguay Mario Fayos Walter Pérez	42.9	Brazil	43.5
4 × 400 metres relay	Argentina Guillermo Evans Guillermo Avalos Antonio Pocovi	3:16.0 CR	Chile Jaime Hitelman Sergio Guzmán Gustavo Ehlers	3:17.0	Brazil Rosalvo Ramos	3:19.9
Cross country	Brazil	37:28.9	Reinaldo Gorno  Argentina	38:39.0	Chile	38:48.0
High jump	Alfredo Jadresic  Chile	1.91	Brazil	1.91	Carlos Altamirano  Chile	1.88
Pole vault	Lúcio de Castro  Brazil	3.90	Chile	3.80	Brazil	3.80
Long jump	Brazil	7.10	Peru	7.08	Enrique Kistenmacher  Argentina	7.07
Triple jump	Geraldo de Oliveira  Brazil	15.16	Carlos Vera  Chile	15.03	Chile	14.33
Shot put	Emilio Malchiodi  Argentina	14.30	Brazil	14.05	Argentina	13.94
Discus throw	Chile	45.24	Eduardo Julve  Peru	44.07	Emilio Malchiodi  Argentina	43.92
Hammer throw	Edmundo Zúñiga  Chile	49.07	Juan Fusé  Argentina	47.95	Brazil	45.97
Javelin throw	Ricardo Héber  Argentina	59.59	Lúcio de Castro  Brazil	57.37	Chile	56.59
Decathlon	Enrique Kistenmacher  Argentina	7011	Eduardo Julve  Peru	6460	Brazil	6328

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Noemí Simonetto  Argentina	12.4 =CR	Chile	12.7	Melania Luz  Brazil	12.8
200 metres	Chile	26.6	Melania Luz  Brazil	26.6	Adriana Millard  Chile	27.1
80 metres hurdles	Noemí Simonetto  Argentina	11.5 CR	Wanda dos Santos  Brazil	12.1	Argentina	12.2
4 × 100 metres relay	Argentina Noemi Simonetto	49.9	Brazil ? ? ? Melania Luz	50.3	Chile ? ? Annegret Weller	50.5
High jump	Chile	1.60 CR	Noemí Simonetto  Argentina	1.55	Brazil	1.45
Long jump	Noemí Simonetto  Argentina	5.40	Wanda dos Santos  Brazil	5.16	Eliana Gaete  Chile	5.13
Shot put	Ingeborg Mello  Argentina	11.58	Chile	11.27	Chile	11.11
Discus throw	Ingeborg Mello  Argentina	38.40 CR	Chile	36.49	Brazil	34.02
Javelin throw	Gerda Martín  Chile	38.22	Ingeborg Mello  Argentina	36.08	Chile	35.87

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Argentina (ARG)	18	11	8	37
2	Chile (CHI)	9	7	14	30
3	Brazil (BRA)	5	9	10	24
4	Peru (PER)	0	4	0	4
5	Uruguay (URU)	0	1	0	1
Totals (5 nations)		32	32	32	96

External links[]

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