1985 South American Championships in Athletics

The 33rd South American Championships in Athletics were held in Santiago, Chile between 12 and 15 September.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -1.0 m/s)	Arnaldo da Silva  Brazil	10.39	Robson da Silva  Brazil	10.45	Venezuela	10.69
200 metres (wind: -0.5 m/s)	Robson da Silva  Brazil	20.70	Argentina	21.42	Sérgio Menezes  Brazil	21.47
400 metres	Panama	46.06 CR	Sérgio Menezes  Brazil	46.53	Venezuela	46.66
800 metres	Luis Migueles  Argentina	1:46.90 CR	Brazil	1:47.61	Brazil	1:49.35
1500 metres	Adauto Domingues  Brazil	3:42.16 CR	Emilio Ulloa  Chile	3:43.63	Ricardo Vera  Uruguay	3:46.87
5000 metres	Omar Aguilar  Chile	13:53.69 CR	Colombia	14:03.18	João de Souza  Brazil	14:09.43
10,000 metres	Omar Aguilar  Chile	28:39.90 CR	João de Souza  Brazil	29:02.34	Colombia	29:03.34
Marathon	Elói Schleder  Brazil	2:22:13	Chile	2:24:10	Chile	2:26:41
110 metres hurdles (wind: -0.1 m/s)	Pedro Chiamulera  Brazil	13.87 CR	Joilto Bonfim  Brazil	14.21	Chile	14.40
400 metres hurdles	Pedro Chiamulera  Brazil	49.71 CR	Antônio Dias Ferreira  Brazil	50.36	Venezuela	51.36
3000 metres steeplechase	Adauto Domingues  Brazil	8:44.38 CR	Ricardo Vera  Uruguay	8:44.85	Emilio Ulloa  Chile	8:45.27
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil Arnaldo da Silva Robson da Silva	40.00	Chile	40.69	Venezuela	40.87
4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil	3:07.96 CR	Argentina Luis Migueles	3:10.21	Venezuela	3:11.29
20 kilometres road walk	Argentina	1:39:04	Venezuela	1:42:23	Venezuela	1:45:41
High jump	Brazil	2.17 CR	Fernando Pastoriza  Argentina	2.11	Cláudio Freire  Brazil	2.08
Pole vault	Argentina	4.90 =CR	Chile	4.80	Brazil	4.80
Long jump	Venezuela	7.54	Brazil	7.46	Argentina	7.20
Triple jump	Brazil	16.87	Jailto Bonfim  Brazil	16.06	Venezuela	15.62
Shot put	Gert Weil  Chile	20.14 CR	Brazil	17.13	Chile	16.20
Discus throw	Brazil	53.10	Argentina	51.60	Brazil	50.92
Hammer throw	Argentina	60.26	Brazil	60.20	Brazil	60.04
Javelin throw	Argentina	75.10 CR	Luis Lucumí  Colombia	70.64	Chile	70.30
Decathlon	Brazil	7341	Argentina	6770	Claudio Escauriza  Paraguay	6599

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Chile	11.78	Cláudia Santos  Brazil	12.02	Chile	12.11
200 metres	Brazil	23.99	Chile	24.13	Liliana Chalá  Ecuador	24.26
400 metres	Norfalia Carabalí  Colombia	53.25 CR	Brazil	54.36	Uruguay	54.39 NR
800 metres	Alejandra Ramos  Chile	2:03.5 CR	Soraya Telles  Brazil	2:06.3	Brazil	2:09.2
1500 metres	Alejandra Ramos  Chile	4:20.16 CR	Monica Regonesi  Chile	4:22.45	Fabiola Rueda  Colombia	4:22.63
3000 metres	Monica Regonesi  Chile	9:29.67 CR	Carmem de Oliveira  Brazil	9:30.37	Fabiola Rueda  Colombia	9:31.10
10,000 metres	Monica Regonesi  Chile	34:31.37 CR	Carmem de Oliveira  Brazil	34:47.02	Argentina	36:16.80
100 metres hurdles	Beatriz Capotosto  Argentina	13.87	Argentina	13.94	Brazil	13.97
400 metres hurdles	Brazil	59.45 CR	Brazil	60.28	Chile	61.42
4 × 100 metres relay	Chile Carino	45.80	Brazil	46.09	Argentina Beatriz Capotosto	46.80
4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil Soraya Telles-Teixeira	3:39.77 CR	Uruguay	3:41.49	Chile	3:43.85
High jump	Brazil	1.88 CR	Chile	1.76	Conceição Geremias  Brazil	1.73
Long jump	Conceição Geremias  Brazil	6.04	Argentina	5.81	Uruguay	5.81
Shot put	Brazil	14.89	Chile	14.50	Brazil	14.44
Discus throw	Brazil	46.16	Brazil	43.50	Argentina	42.20
Javelin throw	Brazil	52.08 CR	Sueli dos Santos  Brazil	51.52	Patricia Guerrero  Peru	45.38
Heptathlon	Argentina	4866	Nancy Vallecilla  Ecuador	4865	Brazil	4710

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil (BRA)	21	19	12	52
2	Chile (CHI)	9	8	8	25
3	Argentina (ARG)	7	7	4	18
4	Colombia (COL)	1	2	3	6
5	Venezuela (VEN)	1	1	7	9
6	Panama (PAN)	1	0	0	1
7	Uruguay (URU)	0	2	3	5
8	Ecuador (ECU)	0	1	1	2
9	Paraguay (PAR)	0	0	1	1
	Peru (PER)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 nations)		40	40	40	120

See also[]

• 1985 in athletics (track and field)

External links[]

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