1965 South American Championships in Athletics

The 1965 South American Championships in Athletics were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between 8 and 16 May. This was the last edition of the Championships in which Brazil did not top the medal table.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Iván Moreno  Chile	10.4	Héctor Thomas  Venezuela	10.5	Manuel Planchart  Venezuela	10.7
200 metres	Chile	21.6	Hortensio Fucil  Venezuela	21.6	Iván Moreno  Chile	21.9
400 metres	Víctor Maldonado  Venezuela	47.5	Pedro Grajales  Colombia	47.5	Andrés Calonge  Argentina	48.4
800 metres	Venezuela	1:54.5	Jorge Grosser  Chile	1:55.1	Brazil	1:55.3
1500 metres	Brazil	3:53.9	Albertino Etchechury  Uruguay	3:54.1	Domingo Amaisón  Argentina	3:54.5
5000 metres	Domingo Amaisón  Argentina	14:46.5	Argentina	14:49.9	Ricardo Vidal  Chile	14:53.8
10,000 metres	Argentina	31:39.1	Domingo Amaisón  Argentina	32:01.0	Ricardo Vidal  Chile	32:11.0
Marathon	Ricardo Vidal  Chile	2:38:15 CR	Brazil	2:38:23	Domingo Amaisón  Argentina	2:40:13
3000 metres steeplechase	Domingo Amaisón  Argentina	9:03.0 CR	Albertino Etchechury  Uruguay	9:07.5	Brazil	9:22.2
110 metres hurdles	Brazil	15.2	Argentina	15.3	Hernando Arrechea  Colombia	15.7
400 metres hurdles	Víctor Maldonado  Venezuela	51.5	Juan Carlos Dyrzka  Argentina	52.0	José Cavero  Peru	52.5
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil Affonso da Silva	41.2	Venezuela Arquímedes Herrera Manuel Planchart Rafael Romero	41.3	Colombia Francisco Gutiérrez Pedro Grajales	41.6
4 × 400 metres relay	Venezuela José Jacinto Hidalgo Víctor Maldonado	3:14.5	Brazil	3:15.9	Argentina Juan Carlos Dyrzka Andrés Calonge	3:17.3
High jump	Argentina	1.97	Roberto Abugattás  Peru	1.97	Peru	1.91
Pole vault	Argentina	4.25 CR	Colombia	3.95	Brazil	3.90
Long jump	Iván Moreno  Chile	7.29	Héctor Thomas  Venezuela	7.24	José Telles da Conceição  Brazil	7.06
Triple jump	Nelson Prudêncio  Brazil	14.96	Brazil	14.87	Chile	14.53
Shot put	Brazil	15.61	Argentina	15.29	Argentina	15.00
Discus throw	Brazil	48.25	Chile	48.15	Colombia	48.04
Hammer throw	Brazil	56.62 CR	Argentina	54.94	Colombia	51.46
Javelin throw	Ian Barney  Argentina	66.43	Patricio Etcheverry  Chile	64.45	Venezuela	64.28
Decathlon	Héctor Thomas  Venezuela	6555	Venezuela	6028	Brazil	5486

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Argentina	12.2	Brazil	12.4	Argentina	12.5
200 metres	Argentina	25.3	Brazil	25.6	Argentina	25.7
80 metres hurdles	Argentina	11.6	Carlota Ulloa  Chile	12.0	Chile	12.1
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil	47.7	Argentina Alicia Kaufmanas	47.9	Chile	49.0
High jump	Brazil	1.69 CR	Aída dos Santos  Brazil	1.66	Brazil	1.51
Long jump	Carlota Ulloa  Chile	5.53	Alicia Kaufmanas  Argentina	5.38	Brazil	5.28
Shot put	Argentina	12.93 CR	Chile	12.38	Chile	12.25
Discus throw	Chile	45.33	Brazil	39.92	Colombia	39.73
Javelin throw	Brazil	41.51	Peru	40.76	Rosa Molina  Chile	40.23

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Argentina (ARG)	10	8	7	25
2	Brazil (BRA)	10	7	7	24
3	Chile (CHI)	6	5	8	19
4	Venezuela (VEN)	5	5	2	12
5	Colombia (COL)	0	2	5	7
6	Peru (PER)	0	2	2	4
7	Uruguay (URU)	0	2	0	2
Totals (7 nations)		31	31	31	93

External links[]

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