1974 South American Championships in Athletics

The 1974 South American Championships in Athletics were held in Santiago, Chile, between 16 and 21 April.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Rui da Silva  Brazil	10.5	Jesús Rico  Venezuela	10.5	Venezuela	10.6
200 metres	Rui da Silva  Brazil	21.2	Erick Phillips  Venezuela	21.5	Venezuela	21.7
400 metres	Venezuela	46.6	Erick Phillips  Venezuela	46.8	Brazil	48.1
800 metres	Héctor López  Venezuela	1:50.4	Brazil	1:50.6	Colombia	1:51.6
1500 metres	Venezuela	3:48.8	Brazil	3:51.2	Argentina	3:52.6
5000 metres	Edmundo Warnke  Chile	14:17.6	Jairo Correa  Colombia	14:22.4	Brazil	14:22.8
10000 metres	Jairo Correa  Colombia	29:27.3	Edmundo Warnke  Chile	29:32.8	Jairo Cubillos  Colombia	30:25.6
Marathon	Chile	2:30:42	Colombia	2:32:27	Brazil	2:34:46
3000 metres steeplechase	Venezuela	8:59.4 CR	Jorge Grosser  Chile	9:00.0	Lucirio Garrido  Venezuela	9:01.2
110 metres hurdles	Venezuela	14.6	Brazil	14.9	Peru	15.0
400 metres hurdles	Francisco Rojas  Paraguay	52.1	Brazil	53.1	Chile	53.5
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil	40.3	Venezuela	40.7	Argentina	41.1
4 × 400 metres relay	Venezuela	3:10.7 CR	Argentina	3:12.7	Chile	3:12.8
20 kilometres road walk	Adalberto Scorza  Argentina	1:46:24 CR	Argentina	1:48:27	Colombia	1:49:00
High jump	Peru	2.06 CR	Luis Barrionuevo  Argentina	2.06	Roberto Abugattás  Peru	2.03
Pole vault	Colombia	4.40	Peru	4.20	Chile	4.00
Long jump	Argentina	7.29	Brazil	7.21	João Carlos de Oliveira  Brazil	7.17
Triple jump	João Carlos de Oliveira  Brazil	16.34 =CR	Nelson Prudêncio  Brazil	16.09	Venezuela	15.16
Shot put	Juan Turri  Argentina	17.09 CR	Brazil	15.96	Venezuela	15.81
Discus throw	Hernán Haddad  Chile	47.12	Brazil	46.56	Argentina	46.52
Hammer throw	Darwin Piñeyrúa  Uruguay	62.99 CR	Argentina	61.55	Brazil	59.34
Javelin throw	Colombia	68.86	Brazil	66.04	Brazil	65.32
Decathlon	Venezuela	7000	Tito Steiner  Argentina	6964	Chile	6772

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Conceição Geremias  Brazil	12.1	Elsy Rivas  Colombia	12.1	Argentina	12.1
200 metres	Elsy Rivas  Colombia	24.1	Argentina	24.7	Conceição Geremias  Brazil	24.7
400 metres	Colombia	56.1	Venezuela	57.0	Brazil	57.1
800 metres	Argentina	2:11.9 CR	Brazil	2:12.6	Chile	2:13.9
1500 metres	Chile	4:32.1 CR	Argentina	4:33.5	Argentina	4:41.7
100 metres hurdles	Edith Noeding  Peru	13.9 CR	Brazil	14.4	Maria Luisa Betioli  Brazil	15.0
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil	47.3	Peru	47.5	Venezuela	47.8
4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil Conceição Geremias	3:47.4 CR	Chile	3:54.0	Venezuela	3:55.0
High jump	Maria Luisa Betioli  Brazil	1.75 CR	Edith Noeding  Peru	1.65	Brazil	1.65
Long jump	Brazil	6.06 CR	Conceição Geremias  Brazil	6.03	Edith Noeding  Peru	5.91
Shot put	Rosa Molina  Chile	14.93 CR	Brazil	13.99	Chile	13.23
Discus throw	Chile	49.36 CR	Brazil	48.22	Argentina	42.90
Javelin throw	Gladys González  Venezuela	49.86 CR	Argentina	43.18	Chile	42.46
Pentathlon	Edith Noeding  Peru	4170	Brazil	3975	Maria Luisa Betioli  Brazil	3741

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil	9	15	11	35
2	Venezuela	8	5	7	20
3	Chile	6	3	7	16
4	Colombia	5	3	3	11
5	Argentina	4	8	6	18
6	Peru	3	3	3	9
7	Paraguay	1	0	0	1
	Uruguay	1	0	0	1
Totals (8 nations)		37	37	37	111

External links[]

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