1949 South American Championships in Athletics explained

1949 South American Championships in Athletics
Host City:	Lima, Peru
Dates:	16 April–3 May
Previous:	La Paz 1948 (U)
Next:	Montevideo 1950 (U)

The 1949 South American Championships in Athletics were held in the Peruvian capital, Lima, between 16 and 24 April.

Medal summary

Men's events

100 metres	Gerardo Salazar	10.7	Aroldo da Silva	10.7	Mario Fayos	10.8
200 metres	Mario Fayos	21.7	Fernando Lapuente	22.2	Alberto Triulzi	22.5
400 metres	Gustavo Ehlers	49.5	Rosalvo Ramos	49.8	Antonio Pocovi	50.0
800 metres	Hugo Ponce	1:56.6	Nilo Riveros	1:56.8	Agenor da Silva	1:57.2
1500 metres	Hugo Nuttini	4:01.2	Melchor Palmeiro	4:02.5	Oscar Gauharou	4:03.3
3000 metres	Raúl Inostroza	8:49.2	Melchor Palmeiro	8:50.3	Oscar Moreira	8:50.6
5000 metres	Ricardo Bralo	15:02.8	Oscar Moreira	15:04.7	Raúl Inostroza	15:18.8
10,000 metres	Ricardo Bralo	31:46.3	Pedro Caffa	31:47.2	Oscar Moreira	31:48.0
20 kilometre race	Delfo Cabrera	1:06:52	Oscar Moreira	1:07:02	Eusebio Guiñez	1:09:11
110 metres hurdles	Alberto Triulzi	14.5 CR	Manuel Aldunate	14.9	Wilson Carneiro	14.9
400 metres hurdles	Hermenelindo Alberti	54.7	Víctor Henríquez	55.4	Carlos Hey	55.5
4 × 100 metres relay	Gerardo Salazar Máximo Reyes Miguel León Pizzarro Santiago Ferrando	42.3	Gerardo Bönnhoff Fernando Lapuente Alberto Biedermann Adelio Marquez	42.3	Alberto Labarthe José López Carlos Silva Raúl Dassori	42.5
4 × 400 metres relay	João de Oliveira Rosalvo Ramos Agenor da Silva Argemiro Roque	3:19.7	Antonio Pocovi Guillermo Evans Guillermo Avalos Julio Ferreyra	3:20.1	Víctor Henríquez Reinaldo Martín Müller Gustavo Ehlers Hugo Nuttini	3:24.5
Cross country	Adán Zárate	36:51.4	Oscar Moreira	36:53.7	Pedro Caffa	36:56.0
High jump	Hércules Azcune	1.90	Geraldo de Oliveira	1.85	Alfredo Jadresic	1.85
Pole vault	Eduardo de Oca	3.90	Luis Ganoza	3.90	Sinibaldo Gerbasi	3.80
Long jump	Enrique Kistenmacher	7.37 =CR	Carlos Vera	7.11	Máximo Reyes	7.04
Triple jump	Hélio da Silva	15.26 CR	Geraldo de Oliveira	15.03	Adhemar da Silva	14.79
Shot put	Julián Llorente	14.44	Nadim Marreis	14.29	Juan Kahnert	14.25
Discus throw	Emilio Malchiodi	45.07	Karsten Brödersen	44.76	Manuel Consiglieri	44.14
Hammer throw	Edmundo Zúñiga	50.67	Emilio Ortiz	48.22	Manuel Etchepare	48.09
Javelin throw	Ricardo Héber	65.56 CR	Horst Walter	60.17	Efraín Santibáñez	57.59
Decathlon	Enrique Kistenmacher	6853	Hércules Azcune	6205	Eduardo Julve	6048

Women's events

100 metres	Julia Sánchez	12.7	Adriana Millard	12.8	Benedicta de Oliveira	12.8
200 metres	Adriana Millard	25.8 CR	Melania Luz	25.9	Benedicta de Oliveira	26.5
80 metres hurdles	Wanda dos Santos	11.7	Marion Huber	12.2	Eliana Gaete	12.3
4 × 100 metres relay	Melânia Luz Elizabeth Müller Lucila Pini Benedita de Oliveira	49.2 CR	Adriana Millard Annegret Weller Eliana Gaete Teresa Venegas	50.8	Lilia Menendez Nelida Cajide Irma Lavaglia Teresa Carvajal	51.0
High jump	Elizabeth Müller	1.55	Lelia Spuhr	1.50	Hilda Lassen	1.50
Long jump	Wanda dos Santos	5.53 CR	Adriana Millard	5.42	Hilda Yamasaki	5.39
Shot put	Ingeborg Mello	11.58	Elizabeth Müller	11.29	Haydeé Valet	11.12
Discus throw	Ingeborg Mello	37.36	Zita Brandt	36.28	Ingeborg Pfüller	36.05
Javelin throw	Estrella Puente	37.74	Gerda Martín	37.39	Ingeborg Mello	36.50

External links

• Men Results – GBR Athletics
• Women Results – GBR Athletics
• Medallists