1943 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...	Adelio Márquez Argentina	10.8	Walter Pérez Uruguay	10.9	Roberto Valenzuela Chile	11.0
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...	Roberto Valenzuela Chile	22.2	Adelio Márquez Argentina	22.2	Victorino Triulzi Argentina	22.3
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...	Jorge Ehlers Chile	48.6	Víctorino Triulzi Argentina	49.2	Enrique Hurtado Chile	49.8
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...	Alfonso Rozas Chile	1:54.6	Guillermo García Chile	1:55.4	Marino Cid Argentina	1:55.5
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...	Guillermo García Chile	4:03.2	Melchor Palmeiro Argentina	4:03.5	Marino Cid Argentina	4:05.4
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...	Raúl Inostroza Chile	8:32.4 CR	Miguel Castro Chile	8:35.0	Delfo Cabrera Delfo Cabrera Delfo Cabrera Gómez was an Argentine athlete, winner of the marathon race at the 1948 Summer Olympics in one of the most dramatic finishes in athletics history.-Biography:... Argentina	8:44.6
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...	Raúl Inostroza Chile	15:00.0	Miguel Castro Chile	15:09.9	Delfo Cabrera Delfo Cabrera Delfo Cabrera Gómez was an Argentine athlete, winner of the marathon race at the 1948 Summer Olympics in one of the most dramatic finishes in athletics history.-Biography:... Argentina	15:11.0
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...	René Millas Chile	31:27.4	Manuel Díaz Chile	31:34.0	Delfo Cabrera Delfo Cabrera Delfo Cabrera Gómez was an Argentine athlete, winner of the marathon race at the 1948 Summer Olympics in one of the most dramatic finishes in athletics history.-Biography:... Argentina	31:36.8
Road race	Corsino Fernández Argentina	1:45:45	Eusebio Guiñez Argentina	1:45:53	Julio Montecinos Chile	1:49:03
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...	Julio Jaime Uruguay	15.7	Jorge Undurraga Chile	15.8	Juan Colín Chile	15.8
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...	Alfonso Rozas Chile	55.1	Juan Hoelzel Chile	55.6	Octavio Montero Octavio Montero Jesús Octavio Montero González is an undefeated Mexican professional boxer in the Light Heavyweight division.-Professional career:... Chile	57.1
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....	Antonio Barrionuevo Argentina	1.83	Carlos Capella Chile	1.80	Alfonso Burgos Chile	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...	Federico Horn Chile	4.00 =CR	Erwin Reimer Chile	3.80	Carlos Baumann Argentina	3.60
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...	Alberto Eggeling Chile	7.02	Juan Hoelzel Chile	6.85	Guillermo Dyer Peru	6.80
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...	Guillermo Dyer Peru	14.43	Oscar Bringas Peru	14.41	Celestino Sarraua Argentina	14.15
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....	Julián Llorente Argentina	14.33	Raúl Rebagliatti Argentina	13.50	Guillermo Otto Chile	12.75
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...	Manuel Consiglieri Peru	44.43	Eduardo Julve Peru	41.64	Alfredo Meynet Chile	39.53
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...	Manuel Etchepare Argentina	46.81	Juan Fusé Argentina	46.06	Antonio Barticevic Chile	44.82
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...	Otto Wenzel Chile	57.08	Raúl Cóccaro Uruguay	55.52	Rodolfo Correa Chile	53.99
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	6069	Eduardo Julve Peru	6046	Roberto Stahringer Argentina	5912
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	42.4	Chile	42.4	Uruguay	43.2
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...	Argentina	3:18.8 CR	Chile	3:19.4	Bolivia	3:41.1
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	6	Bolivia	4
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...	Raúl Inostroza Chile	46:08.0	Eusebio Guiñez Argentina	46:14.0	René Millas Chile	46:30.4

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...	Noemí Simonetto Argentina	12.4 CR	Beatriz Kretschmer Chile	12.6	Ilse Hammerl Argentina	12.8
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...	Ilse Hammerl Argentina	26.5	Beatriz Kretschmer Chile	26.7	María Malvicini Argentina	27.0
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...	Edith Klempau Chile	12.0 CR	Susana Krumenaker Argentina	12.1	Ilse Barends Chile	12.2
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	1.50	Edith Klempau Chile	1.50	Noemí Simonetto Argentina	1.50
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...	Noemí Simonetto Argentina	5.27 CR	Ilse Barends Chile	5.25	Lily Warch Chile	4.93
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....	Edith Klempau Chile	11.70	Ingeborg Mello Ingeborg Mello Ingeborg Mello de Preiss was a female track and field athlete from Argentina, competing in the discus throw and the shot put. She represented her native country twice at the Summer Olympics: 1948 and 1952. She won the gold medal in the women's discus throw and the shot put event at the 1951 Pan... Argentina	10.98	Lore Zippelius Chile	10.79
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...	Lore Zippelius Chile	37.16 CR	Ingeborg Mello Ingeborg Mello Ingeborg Mello de Preiss was a female track and field athlete from Argentina, competing in the discus throw and the shot put. She represented her native country twice at the Summer Olympics: 1948 and 1952. She won the gold medal in the women's discus throw and the shot put event at the 1951 Pan... Argentina	34.60	Christel Balde Chile	34.53
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...	Edith Klempau Chile	34.19	Ilse Caro Argentina	34.17	Mercedes Martín Chile	33.02
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 =CR	Chile	50.8	Bolivia	53.3

Medal table

1	Chile	19	16	16	51
2	Argentina	11	12	12	35
3	Peru	2	3	1	6
4	Uruguay	1	2	1	4
5	Bolivia	0	0	3	3

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