1954 South American Championships in Athletics

The 1954 South American Championships in Athletics were held in Brazil's largest city, São Paulo, between 17 and 25 April.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +1.9 m/s)	Brazil	10.6	José Telles da Conceição  Brazil	10.7	Benedito Ferreira  Brazil	10.7
200 metres	José Telles da Conceição  Brazil	21.2 CR	Jaime Aparicio  Colombia	21.7	Brazil	21.8
400 metres	Brazil	48.3 CR	Argemiro Roque  Brazil	49.1	Ramón Sandoval  Chile	49.5
800 metres	Ramón Sandoval  Chile	1:50.9 CR	Argemiro Roque  Brazil	1:53.6	Brazil	1:54.2
1500 metres	Chile	3:56.5 CR	Guillermo Solá  Chile	3:57.2	Chile	3:57.7
5000 metres	Chile	15:00.6	Chile	15:07.8	Brazil	15:14.1
10,000 metres	Chile	31:41.0	Brazil	32:14.5	Brazil	32:30.5
Half marathon	Brazil	1:13:02	Brazil	1:13:43	Chile	1:15:48
3000 metres steeplechase	Brazil	9:14.9 CR	Guillermo Solá  Chile	9:16.0	Chile	9:26.6
110 metres hurdles (wind: +4.2 m/s)	Wilson Carneiro  Brazil	14.3w	Teófilo Davis  Venezuela	14.5w	Juan Leiva  Venezuela	14.8w
400 metres hurdles	Jaime Aparicio  Colombia	52.2 CR	Wilson Carneiro  Brazil	53.5	Ulisses dos Santos  Brazil	54.9
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil José da Conceição	40.8 CR	Peru Máximo Reyes	41.8	Venezuela	42.2
4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil Argemiro Roque Ulisses dos Santos Arm. Silva	3:15.6 CR	Chile Pena Waldo Sandoval Gustavo Ehlers Ramón Sandoval	3:16.9	Venezuela	3:21.0
High jump	José Telles da Conceição  Brazil	2.00 CR	Ernesto Lagos  Chile	1.95	Brazil	1.90
Pole vault	Brígido Iriarte  Venezuela	3.90	Brazil	3.90	Brazil	3.90
Long jump	Fermín Donazar  Uruguay	7.51w	Brazil	7.47w	Ary de Sá  Brazil	7.19
Triple jump	Adhemar da Silva  Brazil	16.22 CR	Hélio da Silva  Brazil	14.86	Brazil	14.70
Shot put	Brazil	15.32 CR	Brazil	13.81	Chile	13.79
Discus throw	Eduardo Julve  Peru	47.44	Hernán Haddad  Chile	46.52	Brazil	45.09
Hammer throw	Brazil	50.65	Alejandro Díaz  Chile	50.04	Arturo Melcher  Chile	49.47
Javelin throw	Peru	61.33	Chile	60.88	Chile	56.81
Decathlon	Brazil	6047	Brígido Iriarte  Venezuela	6002	Brazil	5765

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +2.7 m/s)	Benedicta de Oliveira  Brazil	12.3w	Deyse de Castro  Brazil	12.3w	Chile	12.3w
200 metres	Deyse de Castro  Brazil	25.7	Chile	25.8	Benedicta de Oliveira  Brazil	26.2
80 metres hurdles	Wanda dos Santos  Brazil	11.4 CR	Eliana Gaete  Chile	11.9	Uruguay	12.2
4 × 100 metres relay	Chile Eliana Gaete Betty Kretschmer	48.4 CR	Brazil Benedita de Oliveira Elizabeth Müller Melânia Luz Deyse de Castro	48.5
High jump	Uruguay	1.55	Elizabeth Müller  Brazil	1.55	Deyse de Castro  Brazil	1.55
Long jump	Chile	5.75 CR	Deyse de Castro  Brazil	5.47	Wanda dos Santos  Brazil	5.42
Shot put	Elizabeth Müller  Brazil	11.79	Chile	11.70	Brazil	11.60
Discus throw	Chile	39.84	Brazil	39.40	Chile	38.23
Javelin throw	Brazil	42.07 CR	Marlene Ahrens  Chile	41.68	Chile	41.65

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil (BRA)	18	15	16	49
2	Chile (CHI)	7	12	10	29
3	Peru (PER)	2	1	0	3
4	Uruguay (URU)	2	0	1	3
5	Venezuela (VEN)	1	2	3	6
6	Colombia (COL)	1	1	0	2
Totals (6 nations)		31	31	30	92

External links[]

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