1931 South American Championships in Athletics

The 1931 South American Championships in Athletics
South American Championships in Athletics
The South American Championships in Athletics is a biennial athletics event organized by CONSUDATLE. The first edition in 1919 was competed between only two countries , but it has since expanded and has generally been held every two years since 1927.In addition, 8 unofficial championships were held...

were held in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

, Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

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...	Carlos Bianchi Lutti Argentina	10.9	José de Almeida Brazil	11.0	Juan Piña 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...	Carlos Bianchi Lutti Argentina	21.9 =CR	Juan Piña Argentina	22.2	José Vicente Salinas Chile
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	49.6	Héctor Domínguez Uruguay	49.8	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...	Hermenegildo Del Rosso Argentina	1:58.6	Leopoldo Ledesma Argentina	1:59.6	Alfredo Narváez Peru
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	4:05.8	Hermenegildo Del Rosso Argentina	4:07.0	Ernesto Medel Chile	4:09.6
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...	Luis Oliva Luis Oliva Luis Oliva was an Argentine athlete who competed in two Olympic Games in 1932 and 1936. He was born in Córdoba, Argentina and was discovered while fulfilling military service in Argentina... Argentina	8:46.8 CR	Belisario Alarcón Chile	8:47.0	Juan Carlos Zabala Juan Carlos Zabala Juan Carlos Zabala -aka: "El Ñandú Criollo"- was an Argentine athlete, winner of the marathon race at the 1932 Summer Olympics.... Argentina	8:48.2
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...	José Ribas Argentina	15:04.8 CR	Juan Carlos Zabala Juan Carlos Zabala Juan Carlos Zabala -aka: "El Ñandú Criollo"- was an Argentine athlete, winner of the marathon race at the 1932 Summer Olympics.... Argentina	15:11.6	Belisario Alarcón Chile	15:16.6
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...	Juan Carlos Zabala Juan Carlos Zabala Juan Carlos Zabala -aka: "El Ñandú Criollo"- was an Argentine athlete, winner of the marathon race at the 1932 Summer Olympics.... Argentina	31:19.0 CR	José Ribas Argentina	31:26.8	Belisario Alarcón Chile	32:19.6
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...	Miguel Aldatz Argentina	15.6	Armando Sorucco Chile	15.6	Valerio Vallanía Argentina
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...	Sylvio Padilha Brazil	54.8 CR	Carlos dos Reis Brazil	55.6	Carlos Müller Chile	56.0
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	1.85	Alfonso Burgos Chile	1.85	Alberto Estrada Chile	1.80
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	3.70	Adolfo Schlegel Chile	3.70	Carlos Joel Nelli Brazil	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...	Héctor Berra Argentina	6.97 CR	Ciro Falcão Brazil	6.91	Juan Moura Chile	6.69
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	14.23	Pedro Aizcorbe Argentina	13.64	Ricardo Mendiburo Chile	13.63
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....	Héctor Benapres Chile	13.39 CR	Juan Conrads Juan Conrads Juan Conrads was a Chilean shot put champion in the 30's.He represented Chile in the 1931 South American Championships in Athletics.Later he became a businessman and started Inchalam, Chile's major wire producer, together with Victor and Jorge Matetic.... Chile	13.38	Rodolfo Butori Argentina	13.36
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	44.30 CR	Armando Peloursson Argentina	41.39	Bento Barros Brazil	40.59
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...	Pedro Goic Chile	46.50	Federico Kleger Argentina	45.57	Alfredo Wismer Argentina	45.44
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...	Joaquim da Silva Brazil	55.74 CR	Efraín Santibáñez Chile	55.58	José Pergañeda Argentina	54.96
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	7065.62 CR	Armando Sorucco Chile	6962.9	Carlos Woebcken Brazil	6591.19
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	43.0	Brazil	43.6	Uruguay
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	3:25.2	Argentina	3:25.8	Brazil	3:28.2
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		Brazil
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...	Fernando Cicarelli Argentina	45:51.0	Humberto Delgado Argentina	45:52.2	Jorge Donoso Chile	46:13.0

Medal table

1	Argentina	16	10	6	32
2	Chile	5	8	10	23
3	Brazil	2	4	5	11
4	Uruguay	0	1	1	2
5	Peru	0	0	1	1

External links

Men Results - GBR Athletics
Women Results - GBR Athletics

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