1961 South American Championships in Athletics

The 1961 South American Championships in Athletics were held in Lima, Peru, between 20 and 28 May.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Arquímedes Herrera  Venezuela	10.6	Horacio Esteves  Venezuela	10.6	José Telles da Conceição  Brazil	10.7
200 metres	Horacio Esteves  Venezuela	21.3	Arquímedes Herrera  Venezuela	21.6	Argentina	21.8
400 metres	Anubes da Silva  Brazil	48.8	Juan Carlos Dyrzka  Argentina	49.3	Peru	50.0
800 metres	Ramón Sandoval  Chile	1:51.2	José Neira  Colombia	1:52.6	Argentina	1:53.3
1500 metres	Ramón Sandoval  Chile	3:51.2	Osvaldo Suárez  Argentina	3:53.5	Argentina	3:54.6
5000 metres	Osvaldo Suárez  Argentina	14:54.7	Argentina	14:55.5	Argentina	15:02.6
10,000 metres	Osvaldo Suárez  Argentina	30:18.1	Argentina	31:13.9	Luis Campusano  Chile	31:27.3
Marathon	Juan Silva  Chile	2:39:36 CR	Ricardo Vidal  Chile	2:41:16	Argentina	2:42:21
3000 metres steeplechase	Brazil	9:14.8	Domingo Amaisón  Argentina	9:20.6	Argentina	9:23.4
110 metres hurdles	Brazil	14.5 =CR	José Telles da Conceição  Brazil	14.7	Teófilo Davis Bell  Venezuela	15.0
400 metres hurdles	Juan Carlos Dyrzka  Argentina	52.3	Anubes da Silva  Brazil	52.8	Ulisses dos Santos  Brazil	54.0
4 × 100 metres relay	Venezuela Clive Bonas Horacio Esteves Arquímedes Herrera Emilio Romero	41.0	Brazil Affonso da Silva Jorge de Barros Anubes da Silva José da Conceição	41.5	Argentina Ferrairo	42.2
4 × 400 metres relay	Venezuela Rafael Romero Emilio Romero Horacio Esteves Hortensio Fucil	3:16.0	Argentina Juan Carlos Dyrzka	3:16.9	Brazil	3:18.1
High jump	Chile	1.95	Argentina	1.95	Argentina	1.95
Pole vault	Brazil	3.90	Brazil	3.90	Brígido Iriarte  Venezuela	3.80
Long jump	Venezuela	7.13	Brazil	7.06	Fermín Donazar  Uruguay	6.92
Triple jump	Asnoldo Devonish  Venezuela	14.68	Brazil	14.52	Brazil	14.42
Shot put	Argentina	15.86 CR	Argentina	15.69	Héctor Thomas  Venezuela	14.58
Discus throw	Günther Kruse  Argentina	48.57	Argentina	46.98	Héctor Menacho  Peru	46.97
Hammer throw	Daniel Cereali  Venezuela	52.55	Brazil	50.81	Argentina	50.50
Javelin throw	Ricardo Héber  Argentina	64.25	Orlando Garrido  Brazil	63.56	Luis Zárate  Peru	61.40
Decathlon	Brazil	5662	Venezuela	5587	Brazil	5502

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Edith Berg  Argentina	12.4	Chile	12.4	Chile	12.5
200 metres	Edith Berg  Argentina	25.7	Argentina	25.8	Argentina	26.0
80 metres hurdles	Wanda dos Santos  Brazil	11.5	Brazil	11.9	Brazil	12.0
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil Wanda dos Santos	48.9	Argentina Edith Berg Alicia Kaufmanas	48.9	Chile	49.2
High jump	Aída dos Santos  Brazil	1.60 =CR	Chile	1.55	Brazil	1.50
Long jump	Wanda dos Santos  Brazil	5.38	Argentina	5.32	Alicia Kaufmanas  Argentina	5.21
Shot put	Ingeborg Pfüller  Argentina	12.41	Brazil	12.16	Chile	11.81
Discus throw	Ingeborg Pfüller  Argentina	41.92	Chile	39.78	Brazil	38.89
Javelin throw	Marlene Ahrens  Chile	42.85	Venezuela	37.45	Brazil	37.29

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Argentina (ARG)	10	12	11	33
2	Brazil (BRA)	9	10	9	28
3	Venezuela (VEN)	7	4	3	14
4	Chile (CHI)	5	4	4	13
5	Colombia (COL)	0	1	0	1
6	Peru (PER)	0	0	3	3
7	Uruguay (URU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 nations)		31	31	31	93

External links[]

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