1974 South American Championships in Athletics
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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...

Rui da Silva
 Brazil
10.5 Jesús Rico
 Venezuela
10.5 José Chacín
 Venezuela
10.6
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...

Rui da Silva
 Brazil
21.2 Erick Phillips
 Venezuela
21.5 Víctor Patínez
 Venezuela
21.7
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...

Víctor Patínez
 Venezuela
46.6 Erick Phillips
 Venezuela
46.8 Pedro Teixeira
Pedro Teixeira
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 Brazil
48.1
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...

Héctor López
Héctor López
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 Venezuela
1:50.4 Darcy Pereira
 Brazil
1:50.6 Reinel Suárez
 Colombia
1:51.6
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...

José González
José González
José González is a Swedish-Argentine indie folk singer-songwriter and guitarist from Gothenburg, Sweden.González is also a member of Swedish band Junip, along with Elias Araya and Tobias Winterkorn.- Biography :...


 Venezuela
3:48.8 Darcy Pereira
 Brazil
3:51.2 Omar Amdematten
 Argentina
3:52.6
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...

Edmundo Warnke
 Chile
14:17.6 Jairo Correa
 Colombia
14:22.4 José Romão Silva
 Brazil
14:22.8
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...

Jairo Correa
 Colombia
29:27.3 Edmundo Warnke
 Chile
29:32.8 Jairo Cubillos
 Colombia
30:25.6
Marathon
Marathon
The marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres , that is usually run as a road race...

José Ramírez
José Ramírez
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 Chile
2:30:42 Gilberto Cerna
 Colombia
2:32:27 Orides Alves
 Brazil
2:34:46
3000 metres steeplechase José González
José González
José González is a Swedish-Argentine indie folk singer-songwriter and guitarist from Gothenburg, Sweden.González is also a member of Swedish band Junip, along with Elias Araya and Tobias Winterkorn.- Biography :...


 Venezuela
8:59.4 CR Jorge Grosser
 Chile
9:00.0 Lucirio Garrido
 Venezuela
9:01.2
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...

Oscar Marín
 Venezuela
14.6 Márcio Lomónaco
 Brazil
14.9 Roberto Gonzáles
 Peru
15.0
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...

Francisco Rojas
Francisco Rojas
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 Paraguay
52.1 Dorival Negrisoli
 Brazil
53.1 Santiago Gordon
 Chile
53.5
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....

Luis Arbulú
 Peru
2.06 CR Luis Barrionuevo
 Argentina
2.06 Roberto Abugattás
 Peru
2.03
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...

Ciro Valdés
 Colombia
4.40 Luis Cárdenas
 Peru
4.20 Tulio Moya
 Chile
4.00
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...

Emilio Mazzeo
 Argentina
7.29 Ronaldo Lobato
 Brazil
7.21 João Carlos de Oliveira
João Carlos de Oliveira
João Carlos de Oliveira, also known as "João do Pulo" was a Brazilian athlete who competed in the triple jump and the long jump....


 Brazil
7.17
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...

João Carlos de Oliveira
João Carlos de Oliveira
João Carlos de Oliveira, also known as "João do Pulo" was a Brazilian athlete who competed in the triple jump and the long jump....


 Brazil
16.34 =CR Nelson Prudêncio
Nelson Prudêncio
Nelson Prudêncio is a retired Brazilian athlete who competed in the triple jump. He won one Olympic silver medal and one bronze during his career.-References:*...


 Brazil
16.09 Edgar Moreno
 Venezuela
15.16
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....

Juan Turri
 Argentina
17.09 CR Nelson Fernandes
Nélson Fernandes
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 Brazil
15.96 José Carreño
Jose Carreño
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 Venezuela
15.81
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...

Hernán Haddad
 Chile
47.12 José Jacques
 Brazil
46.56 Esteban Drapich
 Argentina
46.52
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...

Darwin Piñeyrúa
 Uruguay
62.99 CR José Vallejo
José Vallejo
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 Argentina
61.55 Celso de Moraes
 Brazil
59.34
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...

Mario Sotomayor
 Colombia
68.86 Paulo de Faría
Paulo de Faria
Paulo de Faria is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population in 2004 is 8,550 and the area is 742.94 km². The elevation is 444 m.-Ecological Estate:...


 Brazil
66.04 Humberto Vianna
 Brazil
65.32
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...

Ramón Montezuma
 Venezuela
7000 Tito Steiner
Tito Steiner
Tito Steiner is a retired decathlete of German descent, who represented Argentina in the 1970s and 1980s. He set the national record in 1981, collecting 8,279 points at a meet in Baton Rouge, United States . He improved himself with a score of 8,291 points, set on June 23, 1983, which still is the...


 Argentina
6964 Alfredo Silva
 Chile
6772
20 kilometres road walk Adalberto Scorza
 Argentina
1:46:24 CR Rito Molina
 Argentina
1:48:27 Antonio Moraga
 Colombia
1:49:00
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 40.3  Venezuela 40.7  Argentina 41.1
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...

 Venezuela 3:10.7 CR  Argentina 3:12.7  Chile 3:12.8

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...

Conceição Geremias
Conceição Geremias
Conceição Aparecida Geremias is a retired female heptathlete and long jumper from Brazil, who won the gold medal at the 1983 Pan American Games in Caracas. She is a three-time Olympian.-Achievements:-References:...


 Brazil
12.1 Elsy Rivas
 Colombia
12.1 Belkis Fava
 Argentina
12.1
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...

Elsy Rivas
 Colombia
24.1 Ángela Godoy
 Argentina
24.7 Conceição Geremias
Conceição Geremias
Conceição Aparecida Geremias is a retired female heptathlete and long jumper from Brazil, who won the gold medal at the 1983 Pan American Games in Caracas. She is a three-time Olympian.-Achievements:-References:...


 Brazil
24.7
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...

Eucaris Caicedo
 Colombia
56.1 Adriana Marchena
 Venezuela
57.0 Rosângela Verissimo
 Brazil
57.1
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...

Ana María Nielsen
 Argentina
2:11.9 CR Rosângela Verissimo
 Brazil
2:12.6 Carmen Oyé
 Chile
2:13.9
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...

Carmen Oyé
 Chile
4:32.1 CR Ana María Nielsen
 Argentina
4:33.5 Iris Fernández
 Argentina
4:41.7
100 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...

Edith Noeding
Edith Noeding
Edith Noeding is a retired female track and field athlete from Peru, who competed in the hurdles event during her career. She won the gold medal at the 1975 Pan American Games in the women's 100 metres hurdles event. There Noeding set her personal best in the women's 100 metres hurdles event on...


 Peru
13.9 CR Elisabeth Nunes
 Brazil
14.4 Maria Luisa Betioli
 Brazil
15.0
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....

Maria Luisa Betioli
 Brazil
1.75 CR Edith Noeding
Edith Noeding
Edith Noeding is a retired female track and field athlete from Peru, who competed in the hurdles event during her career. She won the gold medal at the 1975 Pan American Games in the women's 100 metres hurdles event. There Noeding set her personal best in the women's 100 metres hurdles event on...


 Peru
1.65 Beatriz Bonfim
 Brazil
1.65
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...

Elisabeth Nunes
 Brazil
6.06 CR Conceição Geremias
Conceição Geremias
Conceição Aparecida Geremias is a retired female heptathlete and long jumper from Brazil, who won the gold medal at the 1983 Pan American Games in Caracas. She is a three-time Olympian.-Achievements:-References:...


 Brazil
6.03 Edith Noeding
Edith Noeding
Edith Noeding is a retired female track and field athlete from Peru, who competed in the hurdles event during her career. She won the gold medal at the 1975 Pan American Games in the women's 100 metres hurdles event. There Noeding set her personal best in the women's 100 metres hurdles event on...


 Peru
5.91
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....

Rosa Molina
 Chile
14.93 CR Maria Boso
 Brazil
13.99 Miriam Yutronic
 Chile
13.23
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...

Miriam Yutronic
 Chile
49.36 CR Odete Domingos
 Brazil
48.22 Gladys Ortega
 Argentina
42.90
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...

Gladys González
 Venezuela
49.86 CR Ana María Campillay
 Argentina
43.18 Verónica Díaz
 Chile
42.46
Pentathlon
Pentathlon
A pentathlon is a contest featuring five different events. The name is derived from Greek: combining the words pente and -athlon . The first pentathlon was documented in Ancient Greece and was part of the Ancient Olympic Games...

Edith Noeding
Edith Noeding
Edith Noeding is a retired female track and field athlete from Peru, who competed in the hurdles event during her career. She won the gold medal at the 1975 Pan American Games in the women's 100 metres hurdles event. There Noeding set her personal best in the women's 100 metres hurdles event on...


 Peru
4170 Elisabeth Nunes
 Brazil
3975 Maria Luisa Betioli
 Brazil
3741
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 47.3  Peru 47.5  Venezuela 47.8
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 3:47.4 CR  Chile 3:54.0  Venezuela 3:55.0

Medal table

1  Brazil 9 15 11 35
2  Venezuela 8 5 7 20
3  Chile 6 3 7 16
4  Colombia 5 3 3 11
5  Argentina 4 8 6 18
6  Peru 3 3 3 9
7  Uruguay 1 0 0 1
7  Paraguay 1 0 0 1

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