1965 South American Championships in Athletics

1965 South American Championships in Athletics
Dates	8–16 May
Host city	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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The 1965 South American Championships in Athletics were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between 8 and 16 May. This was the last edition of the Championships in which Brazil did not top the medal table.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Iván Moreno Chile	10.4	Héctor Thomas Venezuela	10.5	Manuel Planchart Venezuela	10.7
200 metres	Carlos Baron Chile	21.6	Hortensio Fucil Venezuela	21.6	Iván Moreno Chile	21.9
400 metres	Víctor Maldonado Venezuela	47.5	Pedro Grajales Colombia	47.5	Andrés Calonge Argentina	48.4
800 metres	Leslie Mentor Venezuela	1:54.5	Jorge Grosser Chile	1:55.1	José Azevedo Brazil	1:55.3
1500 metres	Tharso de Andrade Brazil	3:53.9	Albertino Etchechury Uruguay	3:54.1	Domingo Amaisón Argentina	3:54.5
5000 metres	Domingo Amaisón Argentina	14:46.5	Mario Cutropia Argentina	14:49.9	Ricardo Vidal Chile	14:53.8
10,000 metres	Mario Cutropia Argentina	31:39.1	Domingo Amaisón Argentina	32:01.0	Ricardo Vidal Chile	32:11.0
Marathon	Ricardo Vidal Chile	2:38:15 CR	Dorival Silva Brazil	2:38:23	Domingo Amaisón Argentina	2:40:13
3000 metres steeplechase	Domingo Amaisón Argentina	9:03.0 CR	Albertino Etchechury Uruguay	9:07.5	Sebastião Mendes Brazil	9:22.2
110 metres hurdles	Carlos Mossa Brazil	15.2	Guillermo Vallanía Argentina	15.3	Hernando Arrechea Colombia	15.7
400 metres hurdles	Víctor Maldonado Venezuela	51.5	Juan Carlos Dyrzka Argentina	52.0	José Cavero Peru	52.5
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil Joel Satow Jose da Conceição Affonso da Silva Araken da Costa	41.2	Venezuela Arquímedes Herrera Manuel Planchart Rafael Romero Hortensio Fusil	41.3	Colombia Miguel Carabacho Francisco Gutiérrez Tito Diago Pedro Grajales	41.6
4 × 400 metres relay	Venezuela Aristides Pineda José Jacinto Hidalgo Hortensio Fusil Víctor Maldonado	3:14.5	Brazil Altemerindo Amorim Joel Rocha Waldemar Montesano Ernani Eisele	3:15.9	Argentina Carlos Meucheri Guillermo Vallania Juan Carlos Dyrzka Andrés Calonge	3:17.3
High jump	Eleuterio Fassi Argentina	1.97	Roberto Abugattás Peru	1.97	Carlos Colchado Peru	1.91
Pole vault	Erico Barney Argentina	4.25 CR	Parmenio Restrepo Colombia	3.95	Maurício de Souza Brazil	3.90
Long jump	Iván Moreno Chile	7.29	Héctor Thomas Venezuela	7.24	José Telles da Conceição Brazil	7.06
Triple jump	Nelson Prudêncio Brazil	14.96	Mário Gomes Brazil	14.87	Juan Ivanovic Chile	14.53
Shot put	José Jacques Brazil	15.61	Luis Di Cursi Argentina	15.29	Mario Peretti Argentina	15.00
Discus throw	João Alexandre Brazil	48.25	Dieter Gevert Chile	48.15	Dagoberto González Colombia	48.04
Hammer throw	Roberto Chapchap Brazil	56.62 CR	José Vallejo Argentina	54.94	Marcelino Borrero Colombia	51.46
Javelin throw	Ian Barney Argentina	66.43	Patricio Etcheverry Chile	64.45	Jesús Rodríguez Venezuela	64.28
Decathlon	Héctor Thomas Venezuela	6555	Roberto Caravaca Venezuela	6028	Renato Renk Brazil	5486

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Marta Buongiorno Argentina	12.2	Erica da Silva Brazil	12.4	Emilia Dyrzka Argentina	12.5
200 metres	Marta Buongiorno Argentina	25.3	Erica da Silva Brazil	25.6	Ada Brener Argentina	25.7
80 metres hurdles	Emilia Dyrzka Argentina	11.6	Carlota Ulloa Chile	12.0	Marisol Massot Chile	12.1
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil Edir Ribeiro Gloria Ferraz Leda dos Santos Erica da Silva	47.7	Argentina Alicia Kaufmanas Emilia Dyrzka Ada Brener Marta Buongiorno	47.9	Chile Carlota Ulloa María Ducci Marisol Massot Nelly Arduz Orellana	49.0
High jump	Maria da Conceição Brazil	1.69 CR	Aída dos Santos Brazil	1.66	Irenice Rodrigues Brazil	1.51
Long jump	Carlota Ulloa Chile	5.53	Alicia Kaufmanas Argentina	5.38	Edir Ribeiro Brazil	5.28
Shot put	Norma Suárez Argentina	12.93 CR	Miriam Yutronic Chile	12.38	Eliana Bahamondes Chile	12.25
Discus throw	Miriam Yutronic Chile	45.33	Odete Domingos Brazil	39.92	Isolina Vergara Colombia	39.73
Javelin throw	Kiyomi Nakagawa Brazil	41.51	Delia Vera Peru	40.76	Rosa Molina Chile	40.23

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Brazil)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Argentina (ARG)	10	8	7	25
2	Brazil (BRA)*	10	7	7	24
3	Chile (CHI)	6	5	8	19
4	Venezuela (VEN)	5	5	2	12
5	Colombia (COL)	0	2	5	7
6	Peru (PER)	0	2	2	4
7	Uruguay (URU)	0	2	0	2
Totals (7 entries)		31	31	31	93

External links

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