Athletics at the 1978 Southern Cross Games

Athletics at the I Southern Cross Games
Athletics at the I Southern Cross Games
	Hernando Siles Stadium, the national stadium of Bolivia located in the Miraflores borough of La Paz
Dates	November
Host city	La Paz, Bolivia
Venue	Estadio Olímpico Hernando Siles
Level	Senior
Events	35 (22 men, 13 women)
Participation	7 nations
	1982 Santa Fe → ; 1978 Southern Cross Games

Athletics events at the 1978 Southern Cross Games were held at the Estadio Olímpico Hernando Siles in La Paz, Bolivia in November.^[1] The stadium was one of the first in South America equipped with a synthetic track. A total of 35 events were contested, 22 by men and 13 by women.

Best performances were by from Chile winning four gold medals (100m, 200m, 4x100m relay, 4x400m relay),^[2] by native from Bolivia winning three gold medals (1500 m, 5000 m, and 3000 m steeplechase), by from Argentina winning two gold (long jump, 4×100 m relay), two silver (100 m hurdles, pentathlon) and one bronze medal (shot put), and finally by Nancy Vallecilla from Ecuador winning two gold (100 m hurdles, pentathlon), one silver (400 m), and one bronze medal (long jump). She was awarded the unofficial title of "Queen of the Games" (Spanish: Reina de los Juegos).^[3]

Medal summary[]

Medal winners were published in a book written by Argentinian journalist Ernesto Rodríguez III with support of the Argentine Olympic Committee (Spanish: Comité Olímpico Argentino) under the auspices of the Ministry of Education (Spanish: Ministerio de Educación de la Nación) in collaboration with the Office of Sports (Spanish: Secretaría de Deporte de la Nación).^[3] Eduardo Biscayart supplied the list of winners and their results.^[4] All results are marked as "affected by altitude" (A), because the stadium in La Paz is situated 3,650 metres above sea level.

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver	Bronze
100 metres	Chile	10.70 A	José Luis Elías Peru	Argentina
200 metres	Chile	21.4 A	Argentina	José Luis Elías Peru
400 metres	Chile	48.31 A	Chile	Bolivia
800 metres	Argentina	1:56.68 A	Argentina	Chile
1500 metres	Bolivia	4:11.56 A	Bolivia	Uruguay
5000 metres	Bolivia	15:54.33 A	Luis Tipán Ecuador	Lucio Guachalla Bolivia
10,000 metres	Luis Tipán Ecuador	33:28.14 A	Lucio Guachalla Bolivia	Bolivia
4×100 metres relay	Chile	40.35 A	Bolivia	Argentina
4×400 metres relay	Chile	3:18.48 A	Argentina	Bolivia
110 m hurdles	Chile	14.64 A	Argentina	Chile
400 m hurdles	Chile	53.26 A	Argentina	Argentina
3000 m steeplechase	Bolivia	9:53.08 A	Luis Tipán Ecuador	Argentina
20 kilometres walk	Oswaldo Morejón Bolivia	1:56:13 A	Bolivia	Paraguay
Long jump	Chile	7.47 A	Chile	Ronald Raborg Peru
Triple jump	Chile	16.27 A	Argentina	Bolivia
High jump	Argentina	2.18 A	Peru	Chile
Pole vault	Argentina	4.60 A	Alejandro Jadresic Chile	Chile
Shot put	José Alberto Vallejo Argentina	14.46 A	Argentina	Miro Ronac Peru
Discus throw	Argentina	47.10 A	José Alberto Vallejo Argentina	Chile
Hammer throw	José Alberto Vallejo Argentina	63.90 A	Argentina	Miro Ronac Peru
Javelin throw	Argentina	70.70 A	Miro Ronac Peru
Decathlon	Argentina	6624 A	Alejandro Silva Chile

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver	Bronze
100 metres	Argentina	11.73 A	Peru	Bolivia
200 metres	Argentina	22.94 A	Peru	Bolivia
400 metres	Alejandra Ramos Chile	56.68 A	Nancy Vallecilla Ecuador	Blanca Ibáñez Bolivia
800 metres	Argentina	2:15.85 A	Bolivia	Ecuador
1500 metres	Argentina		Ecuador	Chile
4×100 metres relay	Argentina	46.06 A	Blanca Ibáñez Bolivia
100 m hurdles	Nancy Vallecilla Ecuador	13.80 A	Argentina	Argentina
Long jump	Argentina	6.05 A	Chile	Nancy Vallecilla Ecuador
High jump	Chile	1.75 A	Argentina	Chile
Shot put	Argentina	12.91 A	Chile	Argentina
Discus throw	Uruguay	39.72 A	Chile	Bolivia
Javelin throw	Argentina	46.72 A	Bolivia	Chile
Pentathlon	Nancy Vallecilla Ecuador	3798 A	Argentina	Chile

Medal table (unofficial)[]

* Host nation (Bolivia)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Argentina (ARG)	16	12	6	34
2	Chile (CHI)	11	7	9	27
3	Bolivia (BOL)*	4	7	9	20
4	Ecuador (ECU)	3	4	2	9
5	Uruguay (URU)	1	0	1	2
6	Peru (PER)	0	5	4	9
7	Paraguay (PAR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 nations)		35	35	32	102

References[]

^ LA PAZ 78, BOLÍVIA, I JUEGOS SUDAMERICANOS, Fecha de apertura: 3 de noviembre de 1978, Fecha de clausura: 12 de noviembre de 1978 (in Spanish), ODESUR, archived from the original on 2014-03-15, retrieved June 2, 2012
^ Guzmán M., María Elena, Chile en los Juegos Suramericanos (Odesur) (PDF) (in Spanish), Associatión Deportistas Olímpicos, retrieved June 8, 2012^{[permanent dead link]}
^ ^a ^b Rodríguez III, Ernesto (2010), LIBROS DEL CICLO OLÍMPICO ARGENTINO - Libro I de los Juegos Odesur 1978-2010 (in Spanish) (1a. ed.), Buenos Aires: Alarco Ediciones, p. 192, ISBN 978-987-1367-18-4, archived from the original on 2012-01-04, retrieved June 3, 2012
^ SOUTH AMERICAN (ODESUR) GAMES, Athletics Weekly, retrieved June 3, 2012

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[cada-3] Rodríguez III, Ernesto (2010), LIBROS DEL CICLO OLÍMPICO ARGENTINO - Libro I de los Juegos Odesur 1978-2010 (in Spanish) (1a. ed.), Buenos Aires: Alarco Ediciones, p. 192, ISBN 978-987-1367-18-4, archived from the original on 2012-01-04, retrieved June 3, 2012

[gbr-4] SOUTH AMERICAN (ODESUR) GAMES, Athletics Weekly, retrieved June 3, 2012

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