1963 South American Championships in Athletics

The 1963 South American Championships in Athletics were held in Cali, Colombia.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Arquímedes Herrera  Venezuela	10.2 CR	Joe Satow  Brazil	10.4	Alfonso da Silva  Brazil	10.7
200 metres	Arquímedes Herrera  Venezuela	20.9 CR	Hortensio Fucil  Venezuela	21.0	Gerardo Di Tolla  Peru	21.2
400 metres	Hortensio Fucil  Venezuela	46.7 CR	Juan Carlos Dyrzka  Argentina	47.6	Víctor Maldonado  Venezuela	48.5
800 metres	Oscar Rivera  Colombia	1:52.2	José Neira  Colombia	1:52.9	Leslie Mentor  Venezuela	1:53.1
1500 metres	Álvaro Mejía  Colombia	3:53.5	José Neira  Colombia	3:54.4	José Azevedo  Brazil	3:55.9
5000 metres	Osvaldo Suárez  Argentina	14:59.8	Harvey Borrero  Colombia	15:00.5	Domingo Amaisón  Argentina	15:01.2
10000 metres	Osvaldo Suárez  Argentina	31:09.6	Domingo Amaisón  Argentina	31:17.0	Luiz Caetano  Brazil	31:20.9
Half marathon	Luiz Caetano  Brazil	1:09:41	Luis Navas  Colombia	1:09:55	Hernán Barreneche  Colombia	1:11:29
3000 metres steeplechase	Domingo Amaisón  Argentina	9:13.0	Sebastião Mendes  Brazil	9:28.7	José Primo  Brazil	9:29.7
110 metres hurdles	Juan Muñoz  Venezuela	15.0	José Telles da Conceição  Brazil	15.2	Cleomenes da Cunha  Brazil	15.5
400 metres hurdles	Juan Carlos Dyrzka  Argentina	51.0 CR	Víctor Maldonado  Venezuela	51.5	Anubes da Silva  Brazil	51.8
High jump	Roberto Abugattás  Peru	1.97	Eleuterio Fassi  Argentina	1.94	Manuel César  Brazil	1.88
Pole vault	Mario Eleusippi  Argentina	4.10 CR	César Quintero  Colombia	3.80	Marcelo de Souza  Brazil	3.70
Long jump	Héctor Thomas  Venezuela	7.22	Juan Muñoz  Venezuela	7.16	Roberto Caravaca  Venezuela	6.97
Triple jump	Arnoldo Devonish  Venezuela	15.09	José López  Venezuela	15.01	Mário Gomes  Brazil	14.90
Shot put	José Jacques  Brazil	15.08	Luis Di Cursi  Argentina	15.06	Dagoberto González  Colombia	14.02
Discus throw	Dagoberto González  Colombia	48.84	Daniel Cereali  Venezuela	47.85	Luis Di Cursi  Argentina	46.37
Hammer throw	Daniel Cereali  Venezuela	56.07 CR	Roberto Chapchap  Brazil	55.08	Orlando Guaita  Chile	54.64
Javelin throw	Héctor Thomas  Venezuela	64.79	Walter de Almeida  Brazil	63.49	Patricio Etcheverry  Chile	63.18
Decathlon	Héctor Thomas  Venezuela	6825	Cleomenes da Cunha  Brazil	6269	Roberto Caravaca  Venezuela	5991
4 x 100 metres relay	Brazil	40.9	Colombia	41.2	Argentina	41.6
4 x 400 metres relay	Venezuela	3:13.0 CR	Brazil	3:14.7	Argentina	3:15.3

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Erica da Silva  Brazil	12.0 CR	Margarita Formeiro  Argentina	12.1	Susana Ritchie  Argentina	12.3
200 metres	Erica da Silva  Brazil	24.3 CR	Susana Ritchie  Argentina	25.2	Marta Buongiorno  Argentina	25.4
80 metres hurdles	Emilia Dyrzka  Argentina	11.5	Leda dos Santos  Brazil	11.5	Maria Teixeira  Brazil	11.8
High jump	Maria da Conceição  Brazil	1.58	Aída dos Santos  Brazil	1.58	Irenice Rodrigues  Brazil	1.50
Long jump	Mabel Farina  Argentina	5.74	Iris dos Santos  Brazil	5.37	Gisela Vidal  Venezuela	5.31
Shot put	Ingeborg Pfüller  Argentina	12.82 CR	Vera Trezoitko  Brazil	12.43	Maria da Conceição  Brazil	12.31
Discus throw	Ingeborg Pfüller  Argentina	46.36 CR	Isolina Vergara  Colombia	39.42	Ingeborg Mello  Argentina	39.05
Javelin throw	Marlene Ahrens  Chile	44.67	Aída dos Santos  Brazil	38.29	Carmen Brea  Venezuela	37.93
4 x 100 metres relay	Brazil	47.6 CR	Argentina	47.8	Colombia	49.8

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Venezuela	10	5	6	21
2	Argentina	9	7	7	23
3	Brazil	7	12	12	31
4	Colombia	3	7	3	13
5	Chile	1	0	2	3
6	Peru	1	0	1	2

External links

• Men Results - GBR Athletics
• Women Results - GBR Athletics

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