1961 South American Championships in Athletics explained

1961 South American Championships in Athletics
Host City:	Lima, Peru
Dates:	20–28 May
Previous:	Montevideo 1958
Next:	Cali 1963

The 1961 South American Championships in Athletics were held in Lima, Peru, between 20 and 28 May.

Medal summary

Men's events

100 metres	Arquímedes Herrera	10.6	Horacio Esteves	10.6	José Telles da Conceição	10.7
200 metres	Horacio Esteves	21.3	Arquímedes Herrera	21.6	Luis Vienna	21.8
400 metres	Anubes da Silva	48.8	Juan Carlos Dyrzka	49.3	Eulogio Gomes	50.0
800 metres	Ramón Sandoval	1:51.2	José Neira	1:52.6	Eduardo Balducci	1:53.3
1500 metres	Ramón Sandoval	3:51.2	Osvaldo Suárez	3:53.5	Eduardo Balducci	3:54.6
5000 metres	Osvaldo Suárez	14:54.7	Luis Sandoval	14:55.5	Alberto Ríos	15:02.6
10,000 metres	Osvaldo Suárez	30:18.1	Luis Sandoval	31:13.9	Luis Campusano	31:27.3
Marathon	Juan Silva	2:39:36 CR	Ricardo Vidal	2:41:16	Armando Pino	2:42:21
3000 metres steeplechase	Sebastião Mendes	9:14.8	Domingo Amaisón	9:20.6	Alberto Ríos	9:23.4
110 metres hurdles	Carlos Mossa	14.5 =CR	José Telles da Conceição	14.7	Teófilo Davis Bell	15.0
400 metres hurdles	Juan Carlos Dyrzka	52.3	Anubes da Silva	52.8	Ulisses dos Santos	54.0
4 × 100 metres relay	Clive Bonas Horacio Esteves Arquímedes Herrera Emilio Romero	41.0	Affonso da Silva Jorge de Barros Anubes da Silva José da Conceição	41.5	Luis Vienna Juan Stocker Roberto Ferrairo Guillermo Bahler	42.2
4 × 400 metres relay	Rafael Romero Emilio Romero Horacio Esteves Hortensio Fucil	3:16.0	Raúl Zabala Luis Vienna Juan Stocker Juan Carlos Dyrzka	3:16.9	Ulisses dos Santos Anubes da Silva Peter Ostermaier Carlos Alberto Ferreira	3:18.1
High jump	Eugenio Velasco	1.95	Eleuterio Fassi	1.95	Horacio Martínez	1.95
Pole vault	Marcelo de Souza	3.90	Tomatsu Nishida	3.90	Brígido Iriarte	3.80
Long jump	Juan Muñoz	7.13	Newton de Castro	7.06	Fermín Donazar	6.92
Triple jump	Asnoldo Devonish	14.68	Sylvio Moreira	14.52	Reinaldo de Oliveira	14.42
Shot put	Enrique Helf	15.86 CR	Luis Di Cursi	15.69	Héctor Thomas	14.58
Discus throw	Günther Kruse	48.57	Enrique Helf	46.98	Héctor Menacho	46.97
Hammer throw	Daniel Cereali	52.55	Roberto Chapchap	50.81	Carlos Marzo	50.50
Javelin throw	Ricardo Héber	64.25	Orlando Garrido	63.56	Luis Zárate	61.40
Decathlon	Bernabé Souza	5662	Tito Bracho	5587	Cleomenes da Cunha	5502

Women's events

100 metres	Edith Berg	12.4	Nancy Correa	12.4	Marisol Massot	12.5
200 metres	Edith Berg	25.7	Ada Brener	25.8	Marta Buongiorno	26.0
80 metres hurdles	Wanda dos Santos	11.5	Maria José de Lima	11.9	Maria Teixeira	12.0
4 × 100 metres relay	Wanda dos Santos Maria Caldeira Laurette Godoy Erica da Silva	48.9	Edith Berg Marta Buongiorno Alicia Kaufmanas Ada Brener	48.9	Aurora Bianchi Marisol Massot Doris Peter Nancy Correa	49.2
High jump	Aída dos Santos	1.60 =CR	Nelly Gómez	1.55	Maria José de Lima	1.50
Long jump	Wanda dos Santos	5.38	Ada Brener	5.32	Alicia Kaufmanas	5.21
Shot put	Ingeborg Pfüller	12.41	Vera Trezoitko	12.16	Pradelia Delgado	11.81
Discus throw	Ingeborg Pfüller	41.92	Pradelia Delgado	39.78	Sumiko Yamakawa	38.89
Javelin throw	Marlene Ahrens	42.85	Mercedes García	37.45	Vera Trezoitko	37.29

External links

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