1987 South American Championships in Athletics

The 1987 South American Championships in Athletics were held in São Paulo, Brazil, between 8 and 11 October.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Robson da Silva  Brazil	10.39	Carlos Moreno  Chile	10.51	Brazil	10.68
200 metres (wind: -0.6 m/s)	Robson da Silva  Brazil	21.04	Carlos Moreno  Chile	21.41	Chile	21.48
400 metres	Panama	45.80 CR	Gerson de Souza  Brazil	46.26	Chile	46.37
800 metres	Luis Migueles  Argentina	1:47.35	Pablo Squella  Chile	1:48.64	Brazil	1:49.49
1500 metres	Brazil	3:46.62	Emilio Ulloa  Chile	3:46.69	Chile	3:47.43
5000 metres	Rolando Vera  Ecuador	14:03.00	Brazil	14:04.60	Omar Aguilar  Chile	14:05.50
10,000 metres	Argentina	29:18.39	Rolando Vera  Ecuador	29:19.16	Omar Aguilar  Chile	29:30.01
Marathon	Osmiro Silva  Brazil	2:21:06	José César de Souza  Brazil	2:24:49	Ecuador	2:26:22
110 metres hurdles (wind: -0.8 m/s)	Brazil	14.13	Joilto Bonfim  Brazil	14.54	Argentina	14.55
400 metres hurdles	Pablo Squella  Chile	50.42	Antônio Dias Ferreira  Brazil	50.67	Brazil	52.43
3000 metres steeplechase	Emilio Ulloa  Chile	8:51.41	Argentina	8:53.84	Ricardo Vera  Uruguay	8:58.99
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil	40.17	Argentina Carlos Gats	40.72	Chile	40.75
4 × 400 metres relay	Chile Pablo Squella	3:07.64 CR	Brazil	3:08.43	Argentina Luis Migueles	3:10.36
20 kilometres road walk	Cláudio Bertolino  Brazil	1:38:34	Argentina	1:39:12	Chile	1:40:51
High jump	Argentina	2.17 =CR	Fernando Pastoriza  Argentina	2.17	Brazil	2.14
Pole vault	Argentina	5.25 CR	Thomas Riether  Chile	5.15	Brazil	5.05
Long jump	Brazil	7.65	Peru	7.56	Ricardo Valiente  Peru	7.45
Triple jump	Jorge da Silva  Brazil	16.24	Abcelvio Rodrigues  Brazil	16.11	José Quiñaliza  Ecuador	15.77
Shot put	Gert Weil  Chile	19.35	Brazil	18.04	Argentina	16.70
Discus throw	Argentina	55.34 CR	Brazil	54.46	Brazil	51.16
Hammer throw	Andrés Charadia  Argentina	66.72 CR	Brazil	62.68	Adrián Marzo  Argentina	59.94
Javelin throw (Current design)	Brazil	64.46 CR	Rodrigo Zelaya  Chile	64.06	Chile	63.98
Decathlon	Brazil	7491	Fidel Solórzano  Ecuador	6947	Argentina	6924

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Argentina	11.68	Ximena Restrepo  Colombia	11.77	Brazil	11.91
200 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Ximena Restrepo  Colombia	23.49	Liliana Chalá  Ecuador	23.74	Argentina	23.87
400 metres	Liliana Chalá  Ecuador	52.9 CR	Suzete Montalvão  Brazil	53.7	Uruguay	55.2
800 metres	Soraya Telles  Brazil	2:07.71	Chile	2:09.21	Brazil	2:09.39
1500 metres	Soraya Telles  Brazil	4:29.9	Brazil	4:30.9	Chile	4:33.9
3000 metres	Monica Regonesi  Chile	9:47.30	Martha Tenorio  Ecuador	10:02.63	Argentina	10:05.93
10,000 metres	Angélica de Almeida  Brazil	34:59.2	Monica Regonesi  Chile	35:00.6	Martha Tenorio  Ecuador	35:11.5
100 metres hurdles (wind: -0.3 m/s)	Chile	14.22	Argentina	14.34	Chile	14.49
400 metres hurdles	Liliana Chalá  Ecuador	58.46 CR	Brazil	59.92	Brazil	60.05
4 × 100 metres relay	Argentina	45.45	Brazil	45.78	Uruguay	46.54
4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil	3:38.13 CR	Argentina	3:43.56	Chile	3:43.61
High jump	Brazil	1.80	Brazil	1.73	Chile	1.70
Long jump	Brazil	6.17	Argentina	6.01	Brazil	5.90
Shot put	Brazil	14.49	Uruguay	14.36	Brazil	13.88
Discus throw	Ecuador	48.00	Brazil	45.66	Chile	44.66
Javelin throw	Sueli dos Santos  Brazil	56.00 CR	Colombia	47.62	Argentina	46.68
Heptathlon	Conceição Geremias  Brazil	5550	Chile	5066	Argentina	4765

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil (BRA)	20	16	11	47
2	Argentina (ARG)	8	7	9	24
3	Chile (CHI)	6	9	13	28
4	Ecuador (ECU)	4	4	3	11
5	Colombia (COL)	1	2	0	3
6	Panama (PAN)	1	0	0	1
7	Uruguay (URU)	0	1	3	4
8	Peru (PER)	0	1	1	2
Totals (8 nations)		40	40	40	120

External links[]

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