1929 South American Championships in Athletics

Men's events

100 metres 100 metres The 100 metres, or 100-metre dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, it is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896...	Hernán Spinassi Argentina	10.7 CR	Carlos Bianchi Lutti Argentina		Juan Carlos Ure Aldao Argentina
200 metres 200 metres A 200 metres race is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 m track, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques are needed to successfully run the race. A slightly shorter race, called the stadion and run on a straight track, was the first...	Hernán Spinassi Argentina	21.9 CR	José Vicente Salinas Chile		Juan Carlos Ure Aldao Argentina
400 metres 400 metres The 400 metres, or 400 metre dash, is a common sprinting event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 . On a standard outdoor running track, it is exactly one lap around the track. Runners start in staggered positions and...	José Vicente Salinas Chile	49.0 CR	Santiago Hintze Argentina	49.4	Ernesto Riveros Chile
800 metres 800 metres The 800 meter race is a common track running event. It is the shortest common middle distance track event. The 800 meter is run over two laps of the track and has always been an Olympic event. During indoor track season the event is usually run on a 200 meter track, therefore requiring four laps...	Leopoldo Ledesma Argentina	1:55.2 CR	Hermenegildo Del Rosso Argentina		Ernesto Medel Chile
1500 metres 1500 metres The 1,500-metre run is the premier middle distance track event.Aerobic endurance is the biggest factor contributing to success in the 1500 metres but the athlete also requires significant sprint speed.In modern times, the 1,500-metre run has been run at a pace faster than the average person could...	Leopoldo Ledesma Argentina	4:01.0 CR	Ernesto Medel Chile		Roger Ceballos Argentina
3000 metres 3000 metres The 3000 metres is a popular amateur middle distance track event where 7.5 laps are completed around a 400 metre track. This event is generally classified as middle distance, but it could be classed as a long distance event in many high schools, since they do not promote races such as the 5000 and...	Belisario Alarcón Chile	8:51.0 CR
5000 metres 5000 metres The 5000 metres is a popular running distance also known as 5 km or 5K in American English. It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics. "5000 metres" refers to racing on a track and "5K" usually refers to a roadrace or cross country event...	Belisario Alarcón Chile	15:44.8	Lindor Pizarro Chile		Pedro Pérez Chile
10000 metres 10000 metres The 10,000 metres or 10K is a common long distance running event. As "10,000 metres" it is a track event, and appears in athletics events such as the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics; as "10K" it is a roadrace or cross country running event...	José Ribas Argentina	32:10.4	Fernando Cicarelli Argentina		Juan Bravo Juan Bravo (athlete) Juan Bravo was a Chilean athlete in the 1920s. He was a 10000 metres runner.He won the silver medal in the 1924 South American Championships in Athletics, and the bronze medal in the 1926 South American Championships in Athletics and the 1929 South American Championships in Athletics... Chile
110 metres hurdles 110 metres hurdles The 110 metres hurdles is a hurdling track and field event for men. It is incuded in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympic Games. The female counterpart is the 100 metre hurdles. As part of a racing event, ten hurdles of 1.067 metres in height are evenly spaced along a straight...	Valerio Vallanía Argentina	15.3 CR	Alfredo Ugarte Chile	15.4	Evaristo Gomes Peru
400 metres hurdles 400 metres hurdles The 400 metres hurdles is an Olympic athletics event in track and field. On a standard outdoor track 400 metres is the length of the inside lane once around the stadium. Runners stay in their lane the entire way after starting out of the blocks and must clear ten hurdles that are evenly...	Pedro Gálvez Peru	55.2 CR	Juan Acosta Argentina	55.4	Juan Figueiras Argentina
High jump High jump The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....	Valerio Vallanía Argentina	1.80	Luis Garay Chile	1.80	Pablo Riesen Argentina	1.75
Pole vault Pole vault Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts...	Diego Pajmaevich Argentina	3.80 CR	Adolfo Schlegel Chile	3.70	Alfredo Escobedo Argentina	3.70
Long jump Long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...	Juan Moura Chile	6.87 CR	Pedro Aizcorbe Argentina	6.74	Carlos Butti Argentina	6.63
Triple jump Triple jump The triple jump is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a “hop, bound and jump” routine, whereby the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit.The triple jump has its origins in the Ancient Olympics and has been a...	Luis Brunetto Luis Brunetto Luis Antonio Brunetto was an Argentine athlete who competed mainly in the triple jump.He competed for Argentina in the 1924 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France, in the triple jump where he won the silver medal.... Argentina	14.77	Ricardo Mendiburo Chile	14.45	Pedro Aizcorbe Argentina	14.27
Shot put Shot put The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....	Kurt Pollack Chile	13.23 CR	Héctor Benapres Chile	12.77	Guillermo Otto Chile	12.64
Discus throw Discus throw The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...	Héctor Benapres Chile	41.64 CR	Pedro Elsa Argentina	41.44	Arístides Domínguez Argentina	40.63
Hammer throw Hammer throw The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown...	Federico Kleger Argentina	49.57 CR	Alfredo Wismer Argentina	46.55	Ricardo Bayer Chile	46.42
Javelin throw Javelin throw The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...	Tomás Medián Chile	53.31	Antonio Medvesigh Argentina	51.76	F. Vega Chile	49.52
Decathlon Decathlon The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word decathlon is of Greek origin . Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are determined by the combined performance in all. Performance is judged on a points system in each event, not...	Héctor Berra Argentina	6511.34	Santiago León Amatrián Argentina	6264.33	Fernando Primard Chile	6075
4 x 100 metres relay 4 x 100 metres relay The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners begin in the same stagger as for the individual 400 m race...	Argentina	42.2 CR	Peru	43.2	Chile
4 x 400 metres relay 4 x 400 metres relay The 4 x 400 meters relay or long relay is an athletics track event in which teams comprise four runners who each complete 400 meters or one lap. It is traditionally the final event of a track meet. At top class events, the first 500 meters is run in lanes...	Chile	3:22.4 CR	Argentina		Peru
3000 metres team race 3000 metres The 3000 metres is a popular amateur middle distance track event where 7.5 laps are completed around a 400 metre track. This event is generally classified as middle distance, but it could be classed as a long distance event in many high schools, since they do not promote races such as the 5000 and...	Argentina		Chile
Cross country Cross country running Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...	Belisario Alarcón Chile	33/36:16.0	Arturo Velert Argentina		Fernando Cicarelli Argentina

Medal table

1	Argentina	13	12	10	35
2	Chile	9	9	9	27
3	Peru	1	1	2	4

External links

Men Results - GBR Athletics
Women Results - GBR Athletics

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