1979 South American Championships in Athletics

The 1979 South American Championships in Athletics were held in Bucaramanga, Colombia, between 31 October and 4 November.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Altevir de Araújo  Brazil	10.1 CR	Manuel Ramírez  Colombia	10.4	Reinaldo Lizardi  Venezuela	10.6
200 metres	Altevir de Araújo  Brazil	20.5 CR	Katsuhiko Nakaia  Brazil	20.8	Panama	21.1
400 metres	Geraldo Pegado  Brazil	46.20 CR	Antônio Dias Ferreira  Brazil	46.90	Panama	47.40
800 metres	Cristián Molina  Chile	1:47.8 CR	William Wuycke  Venezuela	1:47.9	Pedro Cáceres  Argentina	1:48.5
1500 metres	Emilio Ulloa  Chile	3:47.0 CR	Venezuela	3:47.5	Brazil	3:47.9
5000 metres	Alejandro Silva  Chile	13:57.2 CR	Domingo Tibaduiza  Colombia	14:03.4	Bolivia	14:16.1
10,000 metres	Colombia	28:50.4	Domingo Tibaduiza  Colombia	28:51.2	Víctor Maldonado  Venezuela	29:37.3
Marathon †	Luis Barbosa  Colombia	1:56:12	Colombia	1:57:25	Lucirio Garrido  Venezuela	1:59:30
3000 metres steeplechase	Colombia	8:52.3	Elói Schleder  Brazil	8:57.4	Bolivia	8:58.6 (NR)
110 metres hurdles	Brazil	14.4	Brazil	14.6	Chile	14.9
400 metres hurdles	Antônio Dias Ferreira  Brazil	50.7 CR	Brazil	51.1	Venezuela	51.5
4 × 100 metres relay	Venezuela	40.0 CR	Brazil	40.2	Argentina	40.4
4 × 400 metres relay	Venezuela	3:09.8	Argentina Pedro Cáceres	3:10.5	Brazil	3:10.5
20 kilometres road walk †	Ernesto Alfaro  Colombia	1:29:31	Brazil	1:29:37	Colombia	1:29:51
High jump	Argentina	2.12 CR	Brazil	2.09	Iraja Cecy  Brazil	2.09
Pole vault	Uruguay	4.70 CR	Tito Steiner  Argentina	4.60	Chile	4.45
Long jump	Venezuela	7.67	Argentina	7.58	Brazil	7.57
Triple jump	José Salazar  Venezuela	16.23	Brazil	16.15	Brazil	15.83
Shot put	Gert Weil  Chile	16.42	Venezuela	16.22	Brazil	16.20
Discus throw	Brazil	56.10*	Venezuela	54.42*	Brazil	53.10*
Hammer throw	Argentina	63.44	Brazil	61.44	Argentina	57.60
Javelin throw	Argentina	72.32 CR	Venezuela	70.32	Brazil	68.84
Decathlon	Chile	6991	Venezuela	6964	Claudio Escauriza  Paraguay	6791

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Argentina	11.7 =CR	Peru	11.8	Esmeralda de Jesus Garcia  Brazil	11.8
200 metres	Argentina	23.5	Tânia Miranda  Brazil	24.1	Esmeralda de Jesus Garcia  Brazil	24.1
400 metres	Tânia Miranda  Brazil	54.2 CR	Uruguay	54.8	Colombia	54.8
800 metres	Alejandra Ramos  Chile	2:04.2 CR	Chile	2:09.8	Venezuela	2:10.4
1500 metres	Alejandra Ramos  Chile	4:23.2 CR	Colombia	4:32.6	Monica Regonesi  Chile	4:36.1
100 metres hurdles	Argentina	14.2	Brazil	14.4	Beatriz Capotosto  Argentina	14.7
4 × 100 metres relay	Argentina	46.0	Brazil	46.1	Venezuela	46.6
4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil	3:42.0 CR	Chile	3:44.6	Colombia	3:45.1
High jump	Brazil	1.75	Liliana Arigoni  Argentina	1.75	Brazil	1.70
Long jump	Themis Zambrzycki  Brazil	6.03	Conceição Geremias  Brazil	5.95	Argentina	5.92
Shot put	Colombia	13.94	Themis Zambrzycki  Brazil	13.84	Brazil	13.24
Discus throw	Brazil	46.11	Brazil	42.54	Colombia	41.78
Javelin throw	Brazil	50.92 CR	Brazil	45.07	Argentina	42.30
Pentathlon	Themis Zambrzycki  Brazil	4117	Conceição Geremias  Brazil	3880	Argentina	3833

† = short course (c37km)
* = light implement (1.75 kg)
† = short course

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil (BRA)	13	18	12	43
2	Argentina (ARG)	7	4	7	18
3	Chile (CHI)	7	2	3	12
4	Colombia (COL)	5	5	4	14
5	Venezuela (VEN)	4	6	6	16
6	Uruguay (URU)	1	1	0	2
7	Peru (PER)	0	1	0	1
8	Bolivia (BOL)	0	0	2	2
	Panama (PAN)	0	0	2	2
10	Paraguay (PAR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 nations)		37	37	37	111

External links[]

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