1991 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...

Robson da Silva
Robson da Silva
Robson Caetano da Silva is the most successful Brazilian sprinter to date. He participated in four consecutive Olympic Summer Games and won the bronze medal over 200 metres in the 1988 Seoul Olympics as well as in the 4×100 m relay in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.Possibly Da Silva's greatest...


 Brazil
10.18 Arnaldo da Silva
Arnaldo da Silva
Arnaldo de Oliveira da Silva is a former Brazilian athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. He is a four-time Olympian ....


 Brazil
10.39 Carlos Moreno
Carlos Moreno (athlete)
Carlos Bernardo Moreno Lira is a retired track and field sprinter from Chile, who represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.-Achievements:-References:*...


 Chile
10.44
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...

Robson da Silva
Robson da Silva
Robson Caetano da Silva is the most successful Brazilian sprinter to date. He participated in four consecutive Olympic Summer Games and won the bronze medal over 200 metres in the 1988 Seoul Olympics as well as in the 4×100 m relay in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.Possibly Da Silva's greatest...


 Brazil
20.79 Marcelo da Silva
 Brazil
20.94 Jesús Malavé
 Venezuela
21.18
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...

Carlos Morales
 Chile
46.55 Carlos Bortolotto
 Brazil
46.90 Henry Aguiar
 Venezuela
47.02
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...

Flavio Godoy
 Brazil
1:47.94 Luís José Gonçalves
 Brazil
1:48.16 Pablo Squella
Pablo Squella
Pablo Squella Serrano is a retired middle distance runner from Chile, who represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.-Achievements:-References:* * *...


 Chile
1:48.21
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...

Edgar de Oliveira
 Brazil
3:42.41 Luís José Gonçalves
 Brazil
3:42.48 Carlos Naput
 Argentina
3:50.09
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...

Valdenor dos Santos
 Brazil
14:09.03 Otoniel dos Santos
 Brazil
14:13.35 Eduardo Navas
 Venezuela
14:16.06
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...

Valdenor dos Santos
 Brazil
29:25.20 Juan José Castillo
José Castillo (athlete)
Juan José Castillo Izarra is a retired male long-distance runner from Peru, who is a one-time winner of the Buenos Aires Marathon . He represented his native South American country in the men's 10,000 metres at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.-Achievements:-References: -External links:...


 Peru
29:37.40 Roberto Punina
 Ecuador
30:00.40
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...

Joseildo Rocha
 Brazil
2:33:22 Luis Nempo
 Chile
2:39:57 Doval da Silva
 Brazil
2:41:38
3000 metres steeplechase Adauto Domingues
Adauto Domingues
Adauto Domingues is a retired middle-distance runner from Brazil, who twice won the gold medal in the men's 3.000 metres steeplechase at the Pan American Games: in 1987 and 1991. He represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics.-Achievements:-References:* *...


 Brazil
8:36.21 CR Wander Moura
Wander Moura
Wander do Prado Moura is a retired long-distance runner from Brazil, who won the gold medal in the men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata, Argentina...


 Brazil
8:49.11 Oscar Amaya
 Argentina
8:52.08
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...

Joilto Bonfim
 Brazil
14.11 Elvis Cedeño
 Venezuela
14.23 Eliexer Pulgar
 Venezuela
14.38
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...

Eronilde de Araújo
Eronilde de Araújo
Eronilde Nunes de Araújo is a Brazilian athlete who specializes in 400 metres hurdles. He dominated the event on the South American scene during the 1990s, and personal best of 48.04 seconds is also the South American record.-Achievements:-External links:...


 Brazil
49.65 CR Antonio Smith
 Venezuela
50.14 Luis Bello
 Venezuela
50.73
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....

Gilmar Mayo
Gilmar Mayo
Gilmar Jalith Mayo Lozano is a Colombian high jumper. His personal best jump is 2.33 metres, achieved in October 1994 in Pereira. This is the current Colombian record.-Achievements:-References:...


 Colombia
2.20 CR Fernando Moreno
 Argentina
2.17 Jorge Archanjo
 Brazil
2.11
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...

Cristián Aspillaga
 Chile
5.00 Konstantín Zagustín
 Venezuela
5.00 Thomas Riether
 Chile
4.80
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...

Paulo de Oliveira
 Brazil
7.83 Gelson Vaqueiro
 Brazil
7.46 Jimmy Ávila
 Panama
7.40
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...

Anísio Silva
Anísio Silva
Anísio Souza Silva is a retired triple jumper from Brazil, who won the silver medal in the men's triple jump at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba. He represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992.-Achievements:-References:* *...


 Brazil
16.15 Sergio Saavedra
 Venezuela
15.98 Ednilson de Miranda
 Brazil
15.74
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....

Gert Weil
Gert Weil
Gert Michael Weil is a retired Chilean shot putter of German ancestry, who dominated the sport on the South American scene during the 1980s and early 1990s. His best performance at a global event was a sixth place at the 1988 Olympic Games...


 Chile
18.37 Adilson Oliveira
 Brazil
18.08 Yojer Medina
Yojer Medina
Yojer Enrique Medina is a Venezuelan shot putter and discus thrower.-Regional competitions:Medina has been highly successful on the regional level. He won gold medals at the Central American and Caribbean Championships in 1995, 1997, 2001 and 2003...


 Venezuela
16.35
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...

João dos Santos
 Brazil
58.08 CR Marcelo Pugliese
Marcelo Pugliese
Marcelo Adrián Pugliese is an Argentine discus thrower. His personal best throw is 64.23 metres, achieved in April 2002 in Mar del Plata.He became South American champion in 1999, 2001 and 2003...


 Argentina
53.08 Jair Teutonio
 Brazil
51.62
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...

Adrián Marzo
 Argentina
65.12 Andrés Charadia
Andrés Charadia
Andrés Charadia Alfieri is a retired male hammer thrower from Argentina, who represented his native country three times in the men's hammer throw event at the Summer Olympics, starting in 1988. He set his personal best on October 9, 1994 at a meet in Cordoba, Argentina.-Achievements:-References:* *...


 Argentina
62.88 Pedro Rivail Atílio
 Brazil
61.32
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...

Luis Lucumí
 Colombia
74.42 Rodrigo Zelaya
 Chile
73.88 Gustavo Wielandt
 Chile
68.64
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...

José de Assis
 Brazil
7227 Marco Antônio Brito
 Brazil
6189 Giovanny Gudino
 Ecuador
4617
20 kilometres road walk Sérgio Galdino
Sérgio Galdino
Sérgio Vieira Galdino is a Brazilian race walker.-Achievements:-References:...


 Brazil
1:26:26 Querubín Moreno
Querubín Moreno
José Querubín Moreno is a retired Colombian race walker.-Achievements:-External links:...


 Colombia
1:28:56 Orlando Díaz
 Colombia
1:30:22
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 39.90  Chile 40.61  Argentina 41.22
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 3:05.60 CR  Venezuela 3:08.39  Argentina 3:11.10

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...

Claudete Alves Pina
 Brazil
11.84 Berenice Ferreira
 Brazil
11.93 Alejandra Quiñones
 Colombia
11.96
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...

Ximena Restrepo
Ximena Restrepo
Ximena Restrepo Gaviria is a former Colombian sprinter. With the time of 49.64 seconds she won a bronze medal in 400 metres at the 1992 Olympic Games, Colombia's first athletics medal. This result is still a South American record, as is the case with her 200 metres time of 22.92 seconds, which she...


 Colombia
23.21 CR Claudete Alves Pina
 Brazil
23.37 Eliane de Souza
 Brazil
23.92
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...

Maria Figueirêdo
 Brazil
51.56 CR Eliane de Souza
 Brazil
53.76 Ángela Mancilla
 Colombia
54.11
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...

Maria Figueirêdo
 Brazil
2:00.45 CR Luciana Mendes
 Brazil
2:04.44 Amparo Alba
 Colombia
2:07.60
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...

Rita de Jesus
 Brazil
4:19.18 CR Célia dos Santos
 Brazil
4:21.64 Amparo Alba
 Colombia
4:29.48
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...

Carmen de Oliveira
 Brazil
9:17.50 CR Rita de Jesus
 Brazil
9:24.44 Ruth Jaime
 Peru
9:39.04
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...

Carmen de Oliveira
 Brazil
33:27.85 CR Solange de Souza
 Brazil
34:00.90 Sandra Ruales
Sandra Ruales
Sandra de las Mercedes Ruales Mosquera is a female Ecuadorian athlete, who competes in the long-distance events. She twice competed for her native country at the Summer Olympics: 2004 and 2008...


 Ecuador
34:57.00
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...

Carmen Bezanilla
 Chile
13.73 Arlene Phillips
Arlene Phillips
Arlene Phillips OBE is an English choreographer, theatre director, talent scout, TV presenter, TV judge and former dancer, who has worked in many fields of entertainment...


 Venezuela
13.85 Anabella von Kesselstatt
 Argentina
14.20
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...

Liliana Chalá
Liliana Chalá
Elsa Liliana Chalá Mejía is a retired female athlete from Ecuador, who competed in the 400 m hurdling and sprints events. She represented her native country twice at the Summer Olympics: 1988 and 1992.-Achievements:-References:*...


 Ecuador
57.16 CR Maribelsy Peña
 Colombia
57.23 Arlene Phillips
Arlene Phillips
Arlene Phillips OBE is an English choreographer, theatre director, talent scout, TV presenter, TV judge and former dancer, who has worked in many fields of entertainment...


 Venezuela
58.42
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....

Orlane dos Santos
 Brazil
1.89 CR Mônica Lun kilometreoss
 Brazil
1.81 Leonor Carter
 Chile
1.75
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...

Rita Slompo
 Brazil
5.94 Luciana dos Santos
Luciana dos Santos
Luciana Alves dos Santos is a Brazilian long jumper, triple jumper and sprinter.She was born in Ilhéus. She competed in the long jump at the World Championships in 1997 and 1999, and in both events at the 2000 Summer Olympics, but without reaching the final...


 Brazil
5.78 Ingrid Meilicke
 Paraguay
5.51
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....

María Isabel Urrutia
María Isabel Urrutia
María Isabel Urrutia Ocoró is a weightlifter and politician from Colombia.-Athletic career:Initially she competed in shot put and discus throw, and participated in the 1988 Summer Olympics in these events. She switched to weightlifting in 1989, and won silver at the 1989 World Championships...


 Colombia
16.34 CR Elisângela Adriano
Elisângela Adriano
Elisângela Maria Adriano is a Brazilian shot putter and discus thrower, whose personal best put is 19.30 metres, achieved in July 2001 in Tunja. Her personal best discus throw is 61.96 metres, achieved in May 1998 in São Leopoldo. In 1999 she was suspended by the IAAF for a two-year period, but...


 Brazil
16.04 Alexandra Amaro
 Brazil
14.95
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 Isabel Urrutia
María Isabel Urrutia
María Isabel Urrutia Ocoró is a weightlifter and politician from Colombia.-Athletic career:Initially she competed in shot put and discus throw, and participated in the 1988 Summer Olympics in these events. She switched to weightlifting in 1989, and won silver at the 1989 World Championships...


 Colombia
51.70 CR Fátima Germano
 Brazil
49.74 Rosana Piovesan
 Brazil
47.80
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...

Marieta Riera
Marieta Riera
Marieta Riera is a retired Venezuelan track and field athlete who competed in the women's javelin throw competition during her career.-Achievements:-External links:...


 Venezuela
57.40 CR Sueli dos Santos
Sueli dos Santos
Sueli Pereira dos Santos is a retired female javelin thrower from Brazil. She set her personal best on May 6, 2000 in Bogotá.-Achievements:-References:*...


 Brazil
56.64 Mônica Rocha
 Brazil
50.26
Heptathlon
Heptathlon
A heptathlon is a track and field athletics combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek hepta and athlon . A competitor in a heptathlon is referred to as a heptathlete.-Women's Heptathlon:...

Zorobabelia Córdoba
 Colombia
5564 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
5277 Ana Lúcia Silva
 Brazil
4837
10000 metres track walk Gloria Moreno
 Chile
52:40.5 Bertha Vera
 Ecuador
52:53.2 Ivana Henn
 Brazil
53:38.1
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 44.87  Colombia 45.00  Argentina 46.14
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 3:32.59 CR  Colombia 3:36.56  Uruguay 3:40.19

Medal table

1  Brazil 27 23 11 61
2  Colombia 6 4 5 15
3  Chile 5 3 5 13
4  Venezuela 1 6 7 14
5  Argentina 1 3 6 10
6  Ecuador 1 1 3 5
7  Peru 0 1 1 2
8  Paraguay 0 0 1 1
 Uruguay 0 0 1 1
 Panama 0 0 1 1

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