1989 South American Championships in Athletics

The 1989 South American Championships in Athletics were held in Medellín, Colombia, between 5 and 8 August.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Colombia	10.4A	Florencio Aguilar  Panama	10.4A	Brazil	10.5A
200 metres	Robson da Silva  Brazil	20.44A	Sérgio Menezes  Brazil	20.88A	Venezuela	21.12A
400 metres	Sérgio Menezes  Brazil	45.88A	Colombia	45.91A	Brazil	46.38A
800 metres	Pablo Squella  Chile	1:49.19A	Brazil	1:49.29A	Edgar de Oliveira  Brazil	1:49.51A
1500 metres	Edgar de Oliveira  Brazil	3:47.7A	Venezuela	3:47.9A	Colombia	3:48.9A
5000 metres	Brazil	14:09.60A	Colombia	14:10.58A	Silvio Guerra  Ecuador	14:11.20A
10,000 metres	Rolando Vera  Ecuador	29:28.1A	Brazil	29:55.5A	Colombia	30:14.3A
Marathon	Ecuador	2:23:42A	Ecuador	2:23:47A	Colombia	2:39:44A
110 metres hurdles (wind: +0.1 m/s)	Pedro Chiamulera  Brazil	14.1A	Venezuela	14.1A	Venezuela	14.1A
400 metres hurdles	Pedro Chiamulera  Brazil	50.12A	Antônio Dias Ferreira  Brazil	51.26A	Venezuela	51.32A
3000 metres steeplechase	Adauto Domingues  Brazil	8:49.2A	Brazil	8:53.9A	Ricardo Vera  Uruguay	8:57.5A
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil	39.84A	Colombia	39.87A	Venezuela	40.81A
4 × 400 metres relay	Venezuela	3:05.76A CR	Brazil	3:06.33A	Chile Pablo Squella	3:06.34A
20 kilometre road walk	Sérgio Galdino  Brazil	1:24:51A	Héctor Moreno  Colombia	1:24:56A	Querubín Moreno  Colombia	1:28:32A
High jump	Brazil	2.15A	Peru	2.09A	Brazil	2.03A
Pole vault	Brazil	5.10A	Colombia	5.10A	Brazil	4.90A
Long jump	Colombia	7.77A	Venezuela	7.74A	Brazil	7.68A
Triple jump	Venezuela	16.86A NR	Abcelvio Rodrigues  Brazil	16.48A	Jorge da Silva  Brazil	16.38A
Shot put	Gert Weil  Chile	19.98A	Brazil	17.49A	Brazil	16.25A
Discus throw	Brazil	58.00A CR	Brazil	52.88A	Gert Weil  Chile	52.36A
Hammer throw	Marcelo Pugliese  Argentina	67.00A CR	Andrés Charadia  Argentina	65.56A	Brazil	63.34A
Javelin throw	Luis Lucumí  Colombia	77.80A CR	Colombia	67.20A	Venezuela	65.38A
Decathlon	Argentina	7378A	Brazil	7324A	Argentina	7033A

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Amparo Caicedo  Colombia	11.3A	Ximena Restrepo  Colombia	11.4A	Cleide Amaral  Brazil	11.5A
200 metres	Argentina	23.33A CR	Brazil	23.44A	Amparo Caicedo  Colombia	23.68A
400 metres	Norfalia Carabalí  Colombia	52.10A CR	Argentina	53.47A	Brazil	54.26A
800 metres	Brazil	2:08.79A	Colombia	2:08.83A	Brazil	2:08.99A
1500 metres	Brazil	4:31.6A	Silvana Pereira  Brazil	4:32.1A	Janeth Caizalitín  Ecuador	4:32.9A
3000 metres	Carmem de Oliveira  Brazil	9:22.58A CR	Janeth Caizalitín  Ecuador	9:36.43A	Brazil	9:36.95A
10,000 metres	Carmem de Oliveira  Brazil	35:08.5A	Sandra Ruales  Ecuador	35:55.2A	Ecuador	35:55.3A
100 metres hurdles (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Brazil	13.5A	Argentina	13.7A	Arlene Phillips  Venezuela	13.8A
400 metres hurdles	Liliana Chalá  Ecuador	57.68A CR	Colombia	60.30A	Brazil	60.69A
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil	44.69A CR	Colombia Amparo Caicedo Norfalia Carabalí	45.26A	Uruguay	46.61A
4 × 400 metres relay	Colombia Norfalia Carabalí	3:37.0A CR	Brazil	3:37.7A	Uruguay	3:44.0A
10,000 metres track walk	Miriam Ramón  Ecuador	50:30.3A CR	Ecuador	50:30.3A	Colombia	51:02.4A
High jump	Brazil	1.85A	Brazil	1.79A	Colombia	1.70A
Long jump	Brazil	6.22A	Brazil	6.05A	Argentina	5.96A
Shot put	Brazil	15.16A CR	Brazil	14.95A	Venezuela	14.20A
Discus throw	Brazil	49.36A	Colombia	47.54A	Brazil	44.54A
Javelin throw	Brazil	54.94A	Marieta Riera  Venezuela	54.70A	Sueli dos Santos  Brazil	52.78A
Heptathlon	Conceição Geremias  Brazil	5574A	Colombia	5436A	Brazil	5271A

A = affected by altitude

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil (BRA)	24	16	17	57
2	Colombia (COL)	6	12	7	25
3	Ecuador (ECU)	4	4	3	11
4	Argentina (ARG)	3	3	2	8
5	Venezuela (VEN)	2	4	7	13
6	Chile (CHI)	2	0	2	4
7	Panama (PAN)	0	1	0	1
	Peru (PER)	0	1	0	1
9	Uruguay (URU)	0	0	3	3
Totals (9 nations)		41	41	41	123

See also[]

• 1989 in athletics (track and field)

External links[]

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