1956 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...	Paulo de Fonseca Brazil	10.6	Gerardo Bönnhoff Argentina	10.7	João Pires Sobrinho Brazil	10.7
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...	João Pires Sobrinho Brazil	21.5	Jaime Aparicio Colombia	21.7	Gerardo Bönnhoff Argentina	21.8
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...	Jaime Aparicio Colombia	47.7 CR	Zados Guardiola Colombia	48.2	Argemiro Roque Brazil	49.0
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...	Ramón Sandoval Chile	1:49.0 CR	Eduardo Balducci Argentina	1:51.5	Argemiro Roque Brazil	1:52.4
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...	Ramón Sandoval Chile	3:48.4 CR	Eduardo Balducci Argentina	3:53.4	Waldo Sandoval Chile	3:54.5
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...	Osvaldo Suárez Osvaldo Suárez Juan Osvaldo Roberto Suárez is a long-distance runner from Argentina who won four gold medals at the Pan American Games. He represented his native country at two Summer Olympics: 1960 and 1964. After his active career, he became a professional athletics coach.-References:... Argentina	14:30.8 CR	Jaime Correa Córdoba Chile	14:47.8	Walter Lemos Argentina	14:51.7
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...	Osvaldo Suárez Osvaldo Suárez Juan Osvaldo Roberto Suárez is a long-distance runner from Argentina who won four gold medals at the Pan American Games. He represented his native country at two Summer Olympics: 1960 and 1964. After his active career, he became a professional athletics coach.-References:... Argentina	30:12.2 CR	Walter Lemos Argentina	30:27.4	Alfredo de Oliveira Brazil	31:41.0
Half marathon Half marathon A half marathon is a road running event of . It is half the distance of a marathon and usually run on roads. Participation in half marathons has grown steadily recently. One of the main reasons for this is that it is a challenging distance, but does not require the same level of training that a...	Osvaldo Suárez Osvaldo Suárez Juan Osvaldo Roberto Suárez is a long-distance runner from Argentina who won four gold medals at the Pan American Games. He represented his native country at two Summer Olympics: 1960 and 1964. After his active career, he became a professional athletics coach.-References:... Argentina	1:08:54 CR	Walter Lemos Argentina	1:09:00	Juan Silva Juan Silva Juan Silva Cardenas is a Chilean footballer who plays is playing at Ñublense.-Club Career:Juan Silva is a player of 20 years who have not matured by many acts of indicipline has had especially in the club starting Santiago Wanderers. In 2006 he made his debut with Silva shirt Wanderers in a match... Chile	1:10:31
3000 metres steeplechase	Santiago Novas Chile	9:09.0 CR	Sebastião Mendes Brazil	9:17.4	Guillermo Solá Guillermo Solá Guillermo Solá Aravena is a retired middle- and long-distance runner from Chile. He won the gold medal in the men's 3.000 metres steeplechase event at the 1955 Pan American Games. Solá represented his native South American country at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.-References:*... Chile	9:25.8
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...	Ijoel da Silva Brazil	14.7	Estanislao Kocourek Argentina	14.9	Francisco Bergonzoni Brazil	15.1
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...	Jaime Aparicio Colombia	52.0 CR	Zados Guardiola Colombia	53.1	Anubes da Silva Brazil	54.2
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....	Oscar Bártoli Argentina	1.93	Ernesto Lagos Chile	1.90	Alberto Bacán Brazil Juan Ruiz Juan Ruiz Juan Ruiz , known as the Archpriest of Hita , was a medieval Spanish poet. He is best known for his ribald, earthy poem, Libro de buen amor .-Origins:... Chile	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...	José Infante Chile	3.90	José Rojas Chile	3.90	Fausto de Souza Brazil	3.90
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...	Fermín Donazar Uruguay	7.23	Ary de Sá Ary de Sá Ary Façanha de Sá is a former Brazilian long jumper.At the 1952 Summer Olympics he finished fourth in the long jump. He also competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He became South American long jump champion in 1952, won silver medals in 1956 and 1958 and a bronze medal in 1954... Brazil	7.14	Luís Akuta Brazil	7.10
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...	Jorgely Figueira Brazil	15.14	Luis Huarcaya Peru	14.59	Carlos Vera Carlos Vera Carlos Alfredo Vera Rodríguez is an Ecuadorian football referee. He has been an international referee since 2006. He has officiated matches in the Copa Libertadores, Copa Sudamericana, FIFA World Cup qualifiers and the South American Youth Championship. He was selected as a referee for the 2011... Chile	14.63
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....	Alcides Dambrós Brazil	14.97	Rubén Scaraffia Argentina	14.72	Günther Kruse Argentina	13.97
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...	Günther Kruse Argentina	48.57 CR	Hernán Haddad Chile	47.24	Pedro Ucke Argentina	46.56
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...	Alejandro Díaz Alejandro Diaz Alejandro Diaz is a former professional baseball player. He is the first person to transfer from Nippon Professional Baseball to Major League Baseball through the posting system.Diaz played for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp in 1998... Chile	52.88	Edmundo Zúñiga Chile	51.71	Elvio Porta Argentina	51.55
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...	Ricardo Heber Argentina	64.45	Néstor Matteucci Argentina	61.51	Carlos Monge Peru	59.20
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 Menacho Peru	5670	Leonardo Kittsteiner Chile	5499	Aldo Ribeiro Brazil	5401
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	41.4	Argentina	41.5	Colombia	42.6
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...	Colombia	3:14.6 CR	Brazil	3:16.1	Argentina	3:16.8

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...	Gladys Erbetta Argentina	12.2 =CR	Beatriz Kretschmer Chile	12.4	Eliana Gaete Eliana Gaete Eliana Gaete is a female former track and field athlete from Chile. She earned gold medals in women's 80m hurdles at the 1951 and 1955 Pan American Games.-References:*... Chile	12.4
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...	Beatriz Kretschmer Chile	25.5 =CR	Gladys Erbetta Argentina	25.8	Martha Huby Peru	26.1
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...	Wanda dos Santos Wanda dos Santos Wanda dos Santos is a retired female hurdler from Brazil, who represented her native country at two Summer Olympics, starting in 1952. She won a total number of four individual medals at the Pan American Games during her career.... Brazil	11.5	Eliana Gaete Eliana Gaete Eliana Gaete is a female former track and field athlete from Chile. She earned gold medals in women's 80m hurdles at the 1951 and 1955 Pan American Games.-References:*... Chile	11.6	Ada Brener Argentina	11.9
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....	Nelly Gómez Chile	1.50	Elizabeth Müller Brazil	1.50	María Cañas Chile Cleide Eloy Brazil	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...	Gladys Erbetta Argentina	5.88 CR	Ada Brener Argentina	5.41	Olga Bianchi Argentina	5.39
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....	Eliana Bahamondes Chile	11.95 CR	Pradelia Delgado Chile	11.84	Elizabeth Müller Brazil	11.31
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...	Isabel Avellán Argentina	44.08 CR	Rosa Riveros Chile	38.22	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	38.08
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...	Marlene Ahrens Marlene Ahrens Marlene Ahrens Ostertag is a female Chilean athlete. She won the silver medal in Javelin throw at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne with a distance of 50.38 metres. She remains the only Chilean woman to have won an Olympic medal. She is the mother of the journalist Karin Ebensperger.-References:... Chile	48.73 CR	Carmen Venegas Chile	40.70	Adriana Silva Chile	38.91
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	48.6	Chile	49.3	Brazil	49.4

Medal table

1	Argentina	10	11	9	30
2	Chile	9	12	8	29
3	Brazil	7	4	13	24
4	Colombia	3	3	1	7
5	Peru	1	1	2	4
6	Uruguay	1	0	0	1

External links

Men Results - GBR Athletics
Women Results - GBR Athletics

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