1939 South American Championships in Athletics

The 1939 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 Lima

Lima

Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...

, Peru

Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

. This edition marked the introduction of athletic events for women competitors.

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...	José de Assis Brazil	10.6 =CR	Roberto Valenzuela Chile	10.8	Eulogio Higueras Peru	10.9
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...	José de Assis Brazil	21.4 CR	Roberto Valenzuela Chile	21.9	Jaime Slullitel Argentina	22.0
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...	Sylvio Padilha Brazil	49.1	Antonio Cuba Peru	49.4	Raúl Muñoz Raúl Muñoz Raúl Andrés Muñoz Mardones is a retired Chilean footballer who played as a defender.-Football career:... Chile	49.6
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...	Luis Espinoza Peru	1:55.6	Luis Elorga Argentina	1:56.3	Guillermo García Chile	1:56.3
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...	Miguel Castro Chile	3:57.6 CR	Guillermo García Chile	3:58.6	Juan Herrera Juan Herrera Juan Herrera is a retired Mexican boxer in the Lightweight division. He is the former WBA World Flyweight Champion.-Professional career:... Argentina	4:01.8
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...	Miguel Castro Chile	8:42.4 CR	Ubaldo Ibarra Argentina	8:44.0	Guillermo García Chile	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...	Miguel Castro Chile	15:06.0	Roger Ceballos Argentina	15:09.8	Ubaldo Ibarra Argentina	15:12.2
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...	Roger Ceballos Argentina	31:48.0	Raúl Ibarra Argentina	31:53.6	Ezequiel Bustamente Argentina	31:57.4
Road race	Manuel Ramírez Chile	1:58:59	Julio Montecinos Chile	1:59:46	Segundo Rosas Chile	2:01:10
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...	Alfredo Mendes Brazil	15.0	Mário da Cunha Brazil	15.6	Hélio Pereira Brazil	15.6
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	53.6 CR	Marcelo Julca Peru	55.0	Roberto González Roberto Gonzalez For the Puerto Rican Roman Catholic archbishop, see Roberto González Nieves.Roberto González was a Mexican Champ Car driver from Monterrey. He competed briefly in the 2003 season and for all of 2004. In 2003, he made his debut in the race at St.Petersburg in Florida for Dale Coyne Racing failing... Argentina	55.5
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....	Julio Mera Peru	1.85	Icaro Mello Brazil	1.85	Carlos Pinto Brazil	1.85
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...	Erwin Reimer Chile	3.85	Luís Taliberti Brazil	3.80	Fernando Montero Chile	3.80
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...	Márcio de Oliveira Brazil	7.29	Guillermo Dyer Peru	7.25	Carlos Iturri Carlos Iturri Carlos Iturri was a Peruvian Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual épée event at the 1948 Summer Olympics.-References:... Peru	6.97
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...	Oscar Bringas Peru	15.22 CR	Néstor Tenorio Argentina	15.19	Carlos Pinto Brazil	14.40
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....	Francisco Scabello Brazil	13.88	Karsten Brödersen Chile	13.59	Carmine Di Giorgio Brazil	13.55
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...	Bento Barros Brazil	44.47 CR	Karsten Brödersen Chile	41.55	Antônio Giusfredi Brazil	41.39
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...	Juan Fusé Argentina	49.77	Assis Naban Brazil	49.05	Antonio Barticevic Chile	47.74
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...	Egon Falkenberg Brazil	62.84 CR	Luís Pagliari Brazil	60.14	Oswaldo Wenzel Chile	58.85
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...	Juan Colín Chile	5932	João Rehder Netto Brazil	5887	Karsten Brödersen Chile	5862
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...	Brazil	42.1 CR	Chile	42.4	Argentina	42.4
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...	Brazil	3:19.0 CR	Argentina	3:19.8	Chile	3:20.2
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...	Chile	10	Argentina	11	Brazil	33
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...	Manuel Carreño Chile	49:56.0	Raúl Ibarra Argentina	50:16.6	Domingo Ticona Peru	50:23.4

Women'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...	Carola Castro Ecuador	12.6	Lelia Spuhr Argentina	12.7	Julia Druskus Argentina	12.7
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...	Lelia Spuhr Argentina	25.9	Carola Castro Ecuador	26.2	Lily Warch Chile	27.1
80 metres hurdles 100 metres hurdles The 100 m hurdles are an Olympic track and field athletics discipline run by women . For the race ten hurdles of a height of 83.8 cm are placed evenly spaced along a straight course of 100 meters. They are positioned so that they will fall over if bumped into by the runner...	Sofía Dreyer Argentina	12.5	Rosa Marticorena Peru	13.1	Olga Tassi Argentina	13.1
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....	Ilse Barends Chile	1.45	Gabriela Sprenger Chile	1.45	Lelia Spuhr Argentina	1.45
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...	Raquel Martínez Chile	5.13	Olga Tassi Argentina	5.12	Zoila Garcés Peru	4.80
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....	Ruth Caro Argentina	11.22	Edith Klempau Chile	10.96	Kate Fastner Argentina	10.71
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...	María Boecke Chile	32.61	Ernestina Casaverde Peru	30.61	Edith Klempau Chile	28.98
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...	Ruth Caro Argentina	36.85	Olga Merino Chile	31.91	Kate Fastner Argentina	30.28
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	49.5	Chile	50.8	Peru	50.9

Medal table

1	Chile	11	11	11	33
2	Brazil	11	6	6	23
3	Argentina	7	10	11	28
4	Peru	3	5	5	13
5	Ecuador	1	1	0	2

External links

Men Results - GBR Athletics
Women Results - GBR Athletics

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