1969 South American Championships in Athletics – Results

These are the results of the 1969 South American Championships in Athletics which took place at the Estadio Atahualpa in Quito, Ecuador, between 4 and 12 October.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Men's results

100 metres

200 metres

400 metres

800 metres

1500 metres

5000 metres

5 October

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Víctor Mora  Colombia 15:36.6
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Clelio Jacome  Ecuador 15:41.4
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) José Ramírez  Chile 15:49.3
4 Héctor Mejía  Ecuador 15:56.9
5 Ezequiel Baeza  Chile 16:20.2
6 Nazario Araújo  Argentina 16:26.8

10,000 metres

5 October

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Víctor Mora  Colombia 32:27.2
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Mario Cutropia  Argentina 32:28.6
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) José Ramírez  Chile 32:41.0
4 Gustavo Gutiérrez  Ecuador 33:12.6
5 Germán Correa  Colombia 33:52.4
6 Jorge Zurita  Ecuador 33:52.4
Antônio Fernandes Filho  Brazil ?
Ezequiel Baeza  Chile ?
Alfredo Alcázar  Peru ?
Abel Gutiérrez  Peru ?
Ulises Usuca  Uruguay ?

Marathon

12 October

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Pedro Cárdenas  Colombia 2:36:36
2nd place, silver medalist(s) José Ramírez  Chile 2:43:41
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Mario Cutropia  Argentina 2:46:56
4 Nazario Araújo  Argentina 2:50:09
5 Ezequiel Baeza  Chile 2:51:03
6 Jaime Silva  Ecuador 2:51:28
José Silva  Brazil ?

110 metres hurdles

400 metres hurdles

3000 metres steeplechase

12 October

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Jorge Grosser  Chile 9:51.2
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Víctor Mora  Colombia 9:53.1
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Rafael Baracaldo  Argentina 9:53.2
4 Eduardo Córdoba  Ecuador 10:08.8
5 Ulises Usuca  Uruguay 10:20.2
6 Francisco Vega  Peru 10:24.8
Carlos Loto  Argentina ?
Anônio Nogueira  Brazil ?
Jorge Zurita  Ecuador ?

4 × 100 metres relay

12 October

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Colombia Jimmy Sierra, Wenceslao Ferrín, Óscar Loboa, Pedro Grajales 40.2 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Peru Fernando Acevedo, Jorge Alemán, Julio Chía, Roberto Lay Su 40.7 NR
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Chile Einar Erlandsen, Iván Moreno, Patricio Saavedra, Juan Santiago Gordón 40.7 NR
4  Brazil Wilson Branco, Admilson Chitarra, Paulo Alcántara Pereira, Anani dos Santos 40.8
5  Argentina Juan Carlos Dyrzka, Roberto Schaefer, Andrés Calonje, Roberto Linares 42.2
6  Ecuador Abdalá Bucaram, Fernando Bustamante, Miguel Villacres, Jacobo Bucaram 42.3

4 × 400 metres relay

12 October

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Argentina Andrés Calonge, Juan Carlos Dyrzka, Carlos Bertotti, José Luis Amatti 3:12.3 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Brazil José Rabaca, Darcy Pereira, Napoleão Menezes, Juradir Ienne 3:13.2
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Peru Fernando Acevedo, Jorge Alemán, Rosales, Alfredo Deza 3:13.7
4  Chile Jorge Grosser, Juan Santiago Gordón, Iván Moreno, Pedro Kromschroeder 3:13.9
5  Colombia Fabio Zuñiga, Hugo Burgos, Jimmy Sierra, Pedro Grajales 3:16.0
6  Ecuador Alejandro Arroyo, Raúl Chevasco, Jorge Vallecilla, Jorge Almeida 3:20.4

High jump

12 October

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Luis Arbulú  Peru 2.00 =CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Luis Barrionuevo  Argentina 1.95
2nd place, silver medalist(s) José Ernesto Dalmastro  Argentina 1.95
4 Patricio Labán  Chile 1.95
5 Oscar Canqui  Peru 1.95
6 Juan Berger  Uruguay 1.90

Pole vault

12 October

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Daniel Argoitía  Argentina 4.40 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Ciro Valdés  Colombia 4.10
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Augusto León Piqueras  Peru 3.70
4 Cezar Kassab  Brazil 3.50
5 Álvaro Chiriboga  Ecuador 3.40
6 Arno Lagies  Chile 3.20

Long jump

5 October

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Admilson Chitarra  Brazil 7.60 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Iván Moreno  Chile 7.54
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Eduardo Labalta  Argentina 7.21
4 Enrique Naranjo  Chile 7.00
5 Nelson Prudêncio  Brazil 7.00
6 Alfredo Boncagni  Argentina 6.96

Triple jump

4 October

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Nelson Prudêncio  Brazil 16.34 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Joel Dias  Brazil 14.80
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Ariel González  Argentina 14.65
4 Manuel Gutiérrez  Colombia 14.48
5 Jaime Pautt  Colombia 14.35
6 Roberto dos Santos  Uruguay 14.30

Shot put

4 October

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) José Carlos Jacques  Brazil 16.88 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Mario Peretti  Argentina 15.65
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Juan Adolfo Turri  Argentina 15.64
4 Cláudio Baeta  Brazil 15.39
5 Dagoberto González  Colombia 14.63
6 Luis Bustamante  Chile 14.56

Discus throw

5 October

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Dagoberto González  Colombia 51.66
2nd place, silver medalist(s) José Carlos Jacques  Brazil 50.88
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Gustavo Gutiérrez  Colombia 50.64
4 Hugo Bassetti  Argentina 45.78
5 Cláudio Romanini  Brazil 45.76
6 Mario Peretti  Argentina 42.24

Hammer throw

11 October

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) José Alberto Vallejo  Argentina 61.58 AR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Celso Moraes  Brazil 56.50
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Darwin Piñeyrúa  Uruguay 56.48
4 Clovis da Silva  Brazil 53.60
5 Carlos Gatica  Argentina 53.00
6 Carlos Mencheli  Peru 52.18

Javelin throw

12 October – Old model

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Rolf Hoppe  Chile 69.76 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Paulo de Faría  Brazil 63.50
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Jorge Peña  Chile 62.98
4 Dante Yorges  Peru 61.54
5 Ricardo Héber  Argentina 61.12
6 Héctor Castro  Peru 59.56

Decathlon

8–9 October – 1962 tables (1985 conversions given with *)

  The highest mark recorded in each event is highlighted in yellow
Rank Athlete Nationality 100m LJ SP HJ 400m 110m H DT PV JT 1500m Points Conv. Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Héctor Thomas  Venezuela 10.9 6.95 13.80 1.70 54.2 15.9 38.22 4.00 59.00 6:00.7 6679 6464*
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Paulo Matschinske  Brazil 11.2 6.01 13.20 1.74 52.7 15.9 35.94 2.94 49.38 5:26.8 6124 5933*
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Arno Lagies  Chile 11.3 6.68 11.18 1.65 52.1 15.7 30.92 3.34 38.26 5:21.4 5948 5782*
4 Rodolfo Valgoni  Argentina 11.6 6.50 12.40 1.78 57.7 16.5 38.20 2.94 44.04 5:48.7 5768 5546*
5 Héctor Rivas  Argentina 11.7 6.62 10.10 1.78 52.2 17.6 31.68 3.34 40.52 5:39.3 5695 5484*
6 Jorge Rissi  Peru 11.1 6.12 10.34 1.82 54.9 17.0 33.88 2.70 42.46 5:54.9 5540 5335*
7 Roberto dos Santos  Uruguay 11.9 6.20 9.80 1.76 52.5 16.5 31.64 2.80 35.20 5:14.5 5466 5328*
Werner Klotzer  Chile 11.7 5.83 11.30 1.45 ? DNF DNF
Leonardo Astudillo  Ecuador 11.4 5.92 9.12 ? DNF DNF
Valdir Barbanti  Brazil 11.4 ? DNF DNF

Women's results

100 metres

200 metres

400 metres

11 October

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Josefa Vicent  Uruguay 56.1 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Melania Fontanarrosa  Argentina 57.4
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Cristina Filgueira  Argentina 57.5
4 Gloria González  Chile 57.6
5 Marlene Campos  Brazil 58.3
6 Terezinha Ugayama  Brazil 1:01.2

800 metres

12 October

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Melania Fontanarrosa  Argentina 2:17.8
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Iris Fernández  Argentina 2:18.4
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Lourdes Vega  Ecuador 2:32.3
4 Terezinha Ugayama  Brazil 2:36.8
5 Fabiola Quiñónez  Ecuador 2:50.1
Dora González  Chile DQ

80 metres hurdles

4 × 100 metres relay

12 October

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Brazil Silvina Pereira, Elisabeth Nunes, Aída dos Santos, Gloria Ferraz 46.0 AR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Argentina Liliana Cragno, Cristina Filgueira, Alicia Kaufmanas, Alicia Masuccio 47.0
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Chile Silvia Kinzel, Gloria González, Sara Montecinos, Aurora Sáenz 48.6
4  Peru Alicia Barrera, Edith Noeding, Bertha Arce, María Luisa Vilca 48.6
5  Ecuador Alba Maldonado, Cristina Infante, Elvira Quiñónez, Silvana Lasso 49.0
6  Colombia Juana Mosquera, Elsy Rivas, Amparo Bravo, Flor Umaña 50.7

High jump

5 October

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Maria Cipriano  Brazil 1.70 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Aída dos Santos  Brazil 1.60
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Patricia Mantero  Peru 1.55
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Ana Udini  Uruguay 1.55
5 Patricia Miranda  Chile 1.50
6 Lila Negro  Argentina 1.50
6 Cecilia Godard  Chile 1.50

Long jump

9 October

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Silvina Pereira  Brazil 5.85
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Alicia Kaufmanas  Argentina 5.70
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Ana Akiko Omote  Brazil 5.61
4 Silvia Kinzel  Chile 5.59
5 Carlota Ulloa  Chile 5.58
6 Cristina Infante  Ecuador 5.56

Shot put

9 October

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Rosa Molina  Chile 13.30
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Neide Gomes  Brazil 13.02
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Maria Boso  Brazil 12.68
4 Delia Vera  Peru 12.12
5 Gladys Ortega  Argentina 11.90
6 Ana María Mellado  Chile 11.62
7 Irma Pérez  Argentina 11.25

Discus throw

4 October

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Odete Domingos  Brazil 42.92
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Gladys Ortega  Argentina 41.92
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Isolina Vergara  Colombia 40.48
4 Patricia Mora  Chile 39.66
5 Pradelia Delgado  Chile 38.12
6 Maria Boso  Brazil 35.34

Javelin throw

5 October – Old model

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Rosa Molina  Chile 45.52
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Flor Umaña  Colombia 43.74
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Kiyomi Nakagawa  Brazil 41.02
4 Delia Vera  Peru 38.50
5 Aída dos Santos  Brazil 38.38
6 María Esther Rollandi  Argentina 36.90
7 Ana Julieta Scursoni  Argentina 36.14

Pentathlon

11–12 October

  The highest mark recorded in each event is highlighted in yellow.
Rank Athlete Nationality 100m H SP HJ LJ 200m Points Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Aída dos Santos  Brazil 12.1 11.86 1.65 5.05 24.9 4422 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Elisabeth Nunes  Brazil 12.1 11.43 1.50 5.49 26.1 4234
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Carlota Ulloa  Chile 11.2 9.63 1.40 5.17 25.4 4107
4 Ana Udini  Uruguay 11.5 9.81 1.52 5.34 27.5 4002
5 Graciela Paviotti  Argentina 11.4 8.04 1.45 4.98 25.8 3926
6 Cecilia Goddard  Chile 12.3 9.20 1.50 4.97 26.2 3907
7 Angela Modón  Argentina 12.3 10.82 1.45 4.96 27.0 3926
8 Elvira Quiñónez  Ecuador 12.3 9.20 1.50 4.38 26.7 3716
9 Juana Mosquera  Colombia 13.4 8.77 1.40 4.62 25.0 3640
10 Alicia Barrera  Peru 11.8 8.85 1.30 4.60 26.8 3570

References

  1. ^ Detailed results (pp 229–237)
  2. ^ "Sensacional triunfo de Chile en el Sudamericano de atletismo" (PDF). La Nación (Chile) (in Spanish). 13 October 1969. p. 13. Retrieved 7 August 2025.
  3. ^ "Jorge Grosser campeón sudamericano en 1.500" (PDF). La Nación (Chile) (in Spanish). 12 October 1969. p. 11. Retrieved 7 August 2025.
  4. ^ "Jorge Grosser ganó cuarta medalla de oro" (PDF). La Nación (Chile) (in Spanish). 10 October 1969. p. 8. Retrieved 7 August 2025.
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  6. ^ "A la orilla del S.A. de atletismo" (PDF). La Nación (Chile) (in Spanish). 8 October 1969. p. 12. Retrieved 7 August 2025.
  7. ^ "Carlota Ulloa, Iván Moreno y Rosa Molina: medallas de oro para Chile" (PDF). La Nación (Chile) (in Spanish). 6 October 1969. p. 1. Retrieved 7 August 2025.
  8. ^ "Carlota Ulloa batió record S.A.: 80 mts. vallas" (PDF). La Nación (Chile) (in Spanish). 5 October 1969. p. 1. Retrieved 7 August 2025.