1977 South American Championships in Athletics

The 1977 South American Championships in Athletics were held in Montevideo, Uruguay, between 4 and 6 November 1977.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +1.5 m/s)	Rui da Silva  Brazil	10.3	Katsuhiko Nakaia  Brazil	10.4	Venezuela	10.6
200 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Rui da Silva  Brazil	21.3	Katsuhiko Nakaia  Brazil	21.7	Venezuela	22.1
400 metres	Delmo da Silva  Brazil	47.70	Chile	47.71	Brazil	48.24
800 metres	Agberto Guimarães  Brazil	1:52.4	Argentina	1:52.8	Argentina	1:53.3
1500 metres	Venezuela	3:51.7	Emilio Ulloa  Chile	3:51.7	Brazil	3:51.7
5000 metres	Domingo Tibaduiza  Colombia	14:24.4	Brazil	14:25.4	Jairo Correa  Colombia	14:26.0
10,000 metres	Domingo Tibaduiza  Colombia	29:44.2	Brazil	29:57.0	Brazil	30:12.3
Marathon	Colombia	2:19:56	Colombia	2:24:48	Elói Schleder  Brazil	2:26:48
110 metres hurdles (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Venezuela	15.0	Jesús Villegas  Colombia	15.0	Brazil	15.2
400 metres hurdles	Venezuela	53.7	Brazil	54.1	Brazil	54.4
3000 metres steeplechase	Jairo Correa  Colombia	9:00.5	Lucirio Garrido  Venezuela	9:01.5	Argentina	9:13.0
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil Nelson dos Santos Rui da Silva Katsuhiko Nakaya	41.4	Venezuela	41.7	Uruguay	42.1
4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil	3:15.1	Venezuela	3:17.4	Chile	3:23.1
20 kilometres road walk	Enrique Peña  Colombia	1:37:21 CR	Osvaldo Morejón  Bolivia	1:39:23	Rafael Vega  Colombia	1:40:14
High jump	Iraja Cecy  Brazil	2.05	Peru	2.00	Luis Barrionuevo  Argentina	2.00
Pole vault	Brazil	4.40	Tito Steiner  Argentina	4.30	Chile	4.10
Long jump	João Carlos de Oliveira  Brazil	7.95 CR	Argentina	7.31	Ronald Raborg  Peru	7.22
Triple jump	João Carlos de Oliveira  Brazil	16.40	Argentina	15.15	Chile	14.87
Shot put	Brazil	16.83	Venezuela	15.70	Brazil	15.62
Discus throw	Brazil	52.24	Colombia	50.64	Brazil	46.42
Hammer throw	Argentina	64.66 CR	Brazil	63.52	Brazil	63.40
Javelin throw	Colombia	66.96	Brazil	66.50	Argentina	65.72
Decathlon	Tito Steiner  Argentina	7411	Brazil	7076	Venezuela	6976

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.5 m/s)	Argentina	11.97	Beatriz Capotosto  Argentina	12.20	Peru  Chile	12.27
200 metres	Argentina	24.7	Brazil	25.2	Chile	25.3
400 metres	Colombia	55.3	Venezuela	56.48	Argentina	56.69
800 metres	Alejandra Ramos  Chile	2:12.3	Venezuela	2:15.8	Brazil	2:15.8
1500 metres	Alejandra Ramos  Chile	4:39.8	Brazil	4:46.8	Bolivia	4:46.8
100 metres hurdles (wind: -0.5 m/s)	Edith Noeding  Peru	14.47	Themis Zambrzycki  Brazil	14.76	Maria Luisa Betioli  Brazil	14.80
4 × 100 metres relay	Argentina Beatriz Capotosto	46.7	Chile	47.8	Brazil Conceição Geremias	47.8
4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil	3:49.7	Argentina	3:53.4	Venezuela	3:55.2
High jump	Maria Luisa Betioli  Brazil	1.80 CR	Brazil	1.70	Chile	1.60
Long jump	Argentina	5.65	Themis Zambrzycki  Brazil	5.49	Conceição Geremias  Brazil	5.49
Shot put	Brazil	13.80	Chile	13.26	Brazil	12.59
Discus throw	Brazil	51.56 CR	Brazil	49.68	Venezuela	40.86
Javelin throw	Patricia Guerrero  Peru	45.46	Brazil	42.92	Brazil	41.18
Pentathlon	Conceição Geremias  Brazil	3863	Themis Zambrzycki  Brazil	3856	Argentina	3425

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil (BRA)	17	16	15	48
2	Colombia (COL)	7	3	2	12
3	Argentina (ARG)	6	6	6	18
4	Venezuela (VEN)	3	6	5	14
5	Chile (CHI)	2	4	6	12
6	Peru (PER)	2	1	2	5
7	Bolivia (BOL)	0	1	1	2
8	Uruguay (URU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 nations)		37	37	38	112

External links[]

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