1991 South American Championships in Athletics

The 36th South American Championships in Athletics were held in Manaus, Brazil, between 28 and 30 June 1991.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.7 m/s)	Robson da Silva  Brazil	10.18	Arnaldo da Silva  Brazil	10.39	Carlos Moreno  Chile	10.44
200 metres (wind: +0.5 m/s)	Robson da Silva  Brazil	20.79	Brazil	20.94	Venezuela	21.18
400 metres	Chile	46.55	Brazil	46.90	Venezuela	47.02
800 metres	Flavio Godoy  Brazil	1:47.94	Brazil	1:48.16	Pablo Squella  Chile	1:48.21
1500 metres	Edgar de Oliveira  Brazil	3:42.41	Brazil	3:42.48	Argentina	3:50.09
5000 metres	Valdenor dos Santos  Brazil	14:09.03	Brazil	14:13.35	Venezuela	14:16.06
10,000 metres	Valdenor dos Santos  Brazil	29:25.20	Juan José Castillo  Peru	29:37.40	Ecuador	30:00.40
Marathon	Joseildo Rocha  Brazil	2:33:22	Chile	2:39:57	Brazil	2:41:38
3000 metres steeplechase	Adauto Domingues  Brazil	8:36.21 CR	Wander Moura  Brazil	8:49.11	Argentina	8:52.08
110 metres hurdles (wind: -1.1 m/s)	Joilto Bonfim  Brazil	14.11	Venezuela	14.23	Venezuela	14.38
400 metres hurdles	Eronilde de Araújo  Brazil	49.65 CR	Venezuela	50.14	Venezuela	50.73
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil ? ? Arnaldo da Silva Robson da Silva	39.90	Chile	40.61	Argentina	41.22
4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil Ediélson Tenório	3:05.60 CR	Venezuela	3:08.39	Argentina	3:11.10
20 kilometres road walk	Sérgio Galdino  Brazil	1:26:26	Querubín Moreno  Colombia	1:28:56	Colombia	1:30:22
High jump	Gilmar Mayo  Colombia	2.20 CR	Argentina	2.17	Brazil	2.11
Pole vault	Chile	5.00	Venezuela	5.00	Thomas Riether  Chile	4.80
Long jump	Brazil	7.83	Brazil	7.46	Panama	7.40
Triple jump	Anísio Silva  Brazil	16.15	Venezuela	15.98	Brazil	15.74
Shot put	Gert Weil  Chile	18.37	Brazil	18.08	Yojer Medina  Venezuela	16.35
Discus throw	Brazil	58.08 CR	Marcelo Pugliese  Argentina	53.08	Brazil	51.62
Hammer throw	Adrián Marzo  Argentina	65.12	Andrés Charadia  Argentina	62.88	Brazil	61.32
Javelin throw	Luis Lucumí  Colombia	74.42	Rodrigo Zelaya  Chile	73.88	Chile	68.64
Decathlon	Brazil	7227	Brazil	6189	Ecuador	4617

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -1.1 m/s)	Brazil	11.84	Brazil	11.93	Colombia	11.96
200 metres (wind: +0.1 m/s)	Ximena Restrepo  Colombia	23.21 CR	Brazil	23.37	Brazil	23.92
400 metres	Maria Figueirêdo  Brazil	51.56 CR	Brazil	53.76	Colombia	54.11
800 metres	Maria Figueirêdo  Brazil	2:00.45 CR	Luciana Mendes  Brazil	2:04.44	Colombia	2:07.60
1500 metres	Brazil	4:19.18 CR	Brazil	4:21.64	Colombia	4:29.48
3000 metres	Carmem de Oliveira  Brazil	9:17.50 CR	Brazil	9:24.44	Peru	9:39.04
10,000 metres	Carmem de Oliveira  Brazil	33:27.85 CR	Solange de Souza  Brazil	34:00.90	Sandra Ruales  Ecuador	34:57.00
100 metres hurdles (wind: -1.8 m/s)	Chile	13.73	Arlene Phillips  Venezuela	13.85	Argentina	14.20
400 metres hurdles	Liliana Chalá  Ecuador	57.16 CR	Colombia	57.23	Arlene Phillips  Venezuela	58.42
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil Cleide Amaral	44.87	Colombia Ximena Restrepo	45.00	Argentina	46.14
4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil Maria Magnólia Figueiredo F. Vera Cruz Luciana Mendes	3:32.59 CR	Colombia ? ?	3:36.56	Uruguay Claudia Acerenza	3:40.19 NR
10,000 metres track walk	Chile	52:40.5	Ecuador	52:53.2	Brazil	53:38.1
High jump	Brazil	1.89 CR	Brazil	1.81	Chile	1.75
Long jump	Brazil	5.94	Luciana dos Santos  Brazil	5.78	Paraguay	5.51
Shot put	María Isabel Urrutia  Colombia	16.34 CR	Elisângela Adriano  Brazil	16.04	Brazil	14.95
Discus throw	María Isabel Urrutia  Colombia	51.70 CR	Brazil	49.74	Brazil	47.80
Javelin throw	Marieta Riera  Venezuela	57.40 CR	Sueli dos Santos  Brazil	56.64	Brazil	50.26
Heptathlon	Colombia	5564	Conceição Geremias  Brazil	5277	Brazil	4837

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil	27	23	11	61
2	Colombia	6	4	5	15
3	Chile	5	3	5	13
4	Venezuela	1	6	7	14
5	Argentina	1	3	6	10
6	Ecuador	1	1	3	5
7	Peru	0	1	1	2
8	Panama	0	0	1	1
	Paraguay	0	0	1	1
	Uruguay	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 nations)		41	41	41	123

See also[]

• 1991 in athletics (track and field)

External links[]

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