1974 South American Championships in Athletics

The 1974 South American Championships in Athletics were held in Santiago, Chile.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Rui da Silva  Brazil	10.5	Jesús Rico  Venezuela	10.5	José Chacín  Venezuela	10.6
200 metres	Rui da Silva  Brazil	21.2	Erick Phillips  Venezuela	21.5	Víctor Patínez  Venezuela	21.7
400 metres	Víctor Patínez  Venezuela	46.6	Erick Phillips  Venezuela	46.8	Pedro Teixeira  Brazil	48.1
800 metres	Héctor López  Venezuela	1:50.4	Darcy Pereira  Brazil	1:50.6	Reinel Suárez  Colombia	1:51.6
1500 metres	José González  Venezuela	3:48.8	Darcy Pereira  Brazil	3:51.2	Omar Amdematten  Argentina	3:52.6
5000 metres	Edmundo Warnke  Chile	14:17.6	Jairo Correa  Colombia	14:22.4	José Romão Silva  Brazil	14:22.8
10000 metres	Jairo Correa  Colombia	29:27.3	Edmundo Warnke  Chile	29:32.8	Jairo Cubillos  Colombia	30:25.6
Marathon	José Ramírez (athlete)  Chile	2:30:42	Gilberto Cerna  Colombia	2:32:27	Orides Alves  Brazil	2:34:46
3000 metres steeplechase	José González  Venezuela	8:59.4 CR	Jorge Grosser  Chile	9:00.0	Lucirio Garrido  Venezuela	9:01.2
110 metres hurdles	Oscar Marín  Venezuela	14.6	Márcio Lomónaco  Brazil	14.9	Roberto Gonzáles  Peru	15.0
400 metres hurdles	Francisco Rojas  Paraguay	52.1	Dorival Negrisoli  Brazil	53.1	Santiago Gordon  Chile	53.5
High jump	Luis Arbulú  Peru	2.06 CR	Luis Barrionuevo  Argentina	2.06	Roberto Abugattás  Peru	2.03
Pole vault	Ciro Valdés  Colombia	4.40	Luis Cárdenas  Peru	4.20	Tulio Moya  Chile	4.00
Long jump	Emilio Mazzeo  Argentina	7.29	Ronaldo Lobato  Brazil	7.21	João Carlos de Oliveira  Brazil	7.17
Triple jump	João Carlos de Oliveira  Brazil	16.34 =CR	Nelson Prudêncio  Brazil	16.09	Edgar Moreno  Venezuela	15.16
Shot put	Juan Turri  Argentina	17.09 CR	Nelson Fernandes  Brazil	15.96	José Carreño  Venezuela	15.81
Discus throw	Hernán Haddad  Chile	47.12	José Jacques  Brazil	46.56	Esteban Drapich  Argentina	46.52
Hammer throw	Darwin Piñeyrúa  Uruguay	62.99 CR	José Vallejo  Argentina	61.55	Celso de Moraes  Brazil	59.34
Javelin throw	Mario Sotomayor  Colombia	68.86	Paulo de Faría  Brazil	66.04	Humberto Vianna  Brazil	65.32
Decathlon	Ramón Montezuma  Venezuela	7000	Tito Steiner  Argentina	6964	Alfredo Silva  Chile	6772
20 kilometres road walk	Adalberto Scorza  Argentina	1:46:24 CR	Rito Molina  Argentina	1:48:27	Antonio Moraga  Colombia	1:49:00
4 x 100 metres relay	Brazil	40.3	Venezuela	40.7	Argentina	41.1
4 x 400 metres relay	Venezuela	3:10.7 CR	Argentina	3:12.7	Chile	3:12.8

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Conceição Geremias  Brazil	12.1	Elsy Rivas  Colombia	12.1	Belkis Fava  Argentina	12.1
200 metres	Elsy Rivas  Colombia	24.1	Ángela Godoy  Argentina	24.7	Conceição Geremias  Brazil	24.7
400 metres	Eucaris Caicedo  Colombia	56.1	Adriana Marchena  Venezuela	57.0	Rosângela Verissimo  Brazil	57.1
800 metres	Ana María Nielsen  Argentina	2:11.9 CR	Rosângela Verissimo  Brazil	2:12.6	Carmen Oyé  Chile	2:13.9
1500 metres	Carmen Oyé  Chile	4:32.1 CR	Ana María Nielsen  Argentina	4:33.5	Iris Fernández  Argentina	4:41.7
100 metres hurdles	Edith Noeding  Peru	13.9 CR	Elisabeth Nunes  Brazil	14.4	Maria Luisa Betioli  Brazil	15.0
High jump	Maria Luisa Betioli  Brazil	1.75 CR	Edith Noeding  Peru	1.65	Beatriz Bonfim  Brazil	1.65
Long jump	Elisabeth Nunes  Brazil	6.06 CR	Conceição Geremias  Brazil	6.03	Edith Noeding  Peru	5.91
Shot put	Rosa Molina  Chile	14.93 CR	Maria Boso  Brazil	13.99	Miriam Yutronic  Chile	13.23
Discus throw	Miriam Yutronic  Chile	49.36 CR	Odete Domingos  Brazil	48.22	Gladys Ortega  Argentina	42.90
Javelin throw	Gladys González  Venezuela	49.86 CR	Ana María Campillay  Argentina	43.18	Verónica Díaz  Chile	42.46
Pentathlon	Edith Noeding  Peru	4170	Elisabeth Nunes  Brazil	3975	Maria Luisa Betioli  Brazil	3741
4 x 100 metres relay	Brazil	47.3	Peru	47.5	Venezuela	47.8
4 x 400 metres relay	Brazil	3:47.4 CR	Chile	3:54.0	Venezuela	3:55.0

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil	9	15	11	35
2	Venezuela	8	5	7	20
3	Chile	6	3	7	16
4	Colombia	5	3	3	11
5	Argentina	4	8	6	18
6	Peru	3	3	3	9
7	Uruguay	1	0	0	1
7	Paraguay	1	0	0	1

External links

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

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