1979 South American Championships in Athletics

The 1979 South American Championships in Athletics were held in Bucaramanga, Colombia, between 31 October and 4 November.

It was the last edition to feature women's pentathlon before replacing it with the heptathlon.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Altevir de Araújo Template:Flagcountry	10.1 CR	Manuel Ramírez Template:Flagcountry	10.4	Reinaldo Lizardi Template:Flagcountry	10.6
200 metres	Altevir de Araújo Template:Flagcountry	20.5 CR	Katsuhiko Nakaia Template:Flagcountry	20.8	Héctor Daley Template:Flagcountry	21.1
400 metres	Geraldo José Pegado Template:Flagcountry	46.20 CR	Antônio Dias Ferreira Template:Flagcountry	46.90	Héctor Daley Template:Flagcountry	47.40
800 metres	Cristián Molina Template:Flagcountry	1:47.8 CR	William Wuycke Template:Flagcountry	1:47.9	Pedro Cáceres Template:Flagcountry	1:48.5
1500 metres	Emilio Ulloa Template:Flagcountry	3:47.0 CR	José Velásquez Template:Flagcountry	3:47.5	Wilson de Santana Template:Flagcountry	3:47.9
5000 metres	Alejandro Silva Template:Flagcountry	13:57.2 CR	Domingo Tibaduiza Template:Flagcountry	14:03.4	Johnny Pérez Template:Flagcountry	14:16.1
10,000 metres	Silvio Salazar Template:Flagcountry	28:50.4	Domingo Tibaduiza Template:Flagcountry	28:51.2	Víctor Maldonado Template:Flagcountry	29:37.3
Marathon †	Luis Barbosa Template:Flagcountry	1:56:12	Alfonso Torres Template:Flagcountry	1:57:25	Lucirio Garrido Template:Flagcountry	1:59:30
3000 metres steeplechase	Germán Aranda Template:Flagcountry	8:52.3	Elói Schleder Template:Flagcountry	8:57.4	Johnny Pérez Template:Flagcountry	8:58.6 (NR)
110 metres hurdles	Wellington da Nóbrega Template:Flagcountry	14.4	Carlos dos Santos Template:Flagcountry	14.6	Andrés Lyon Template:Flagcountry	14.9
400 metres hurdles	Antônio Dias Ferreira Template:Flagcountry	50.7 CR	Donizete Soares Template:Flagcountry	51.1	José Davis Template:Flagcountry	51.5
4 × 100 metres relay	Template:Flagcountry Reinaldo Lizardi Ely Zabala Esteban Briceño Miguel Condé	40.0 CR	Template:Flagcountry Milton de Castro Geraldo Pegado Katsuhiko Nakaya Altevir de Araújo	40.2	Template:Flagcountry Angel Gagliano Gustavo Dubarbier Carlos Gambetta Ricardo Donda	40.4
4 × 400 metres relay	Template:Flagcountry Hipolito Brown Alexis Herrera Oswaldo Zea William Wuycke	3:09.8	Template:Flagcountry Gabriel Castellá Carlos Gambetta Pedro Cáceres Angel Gagliano	3:10.5	Template:Flagcountry Donizete Soares Wilson dos Santos Antônio Ferreira Geraldo Pegado	3:10.5
20 kilometres road walk †	Ernesto Alfaro Template:Flagcountry	1:29:31	Waldemar da Silva Template:Flagcountry	1:29:37	Jorge Quiñones Template:Flagcountry	1:29:51
High jump	Daniel Mamet Template:Flagcountry	2.12 CR	Geraldo Rodrigues Template:Flagcountry	2.09	Iraja Cecy Template:Flagcountry	2.09
Pole vault	Fernando Ruocco Template:Flagcountry	4.70 CR	Tito Steiner Template:Flagcountry	4.60	Henry Gómez Template:Flagcountry	4.45
Long jump	Oswaldo Torres Template:Flagcountry	7.67	Carlos Gambetta Template:Flagcountry	7.58	Francisco de Oliveira Template:Flagcountry	7.57
Triple jump	José Salazar Template:Flagcountry	16.23	Francisco de Oliveira Template:Flagcountry	16.15	Celso Pereira Template:Flagcountry	15.83
Shot put	Gert Weil Template:Flagcountry	16.42	Jesús Ramos Template:Flagcountry	16.22	José Jacques Template:Flagcountry	16.20
Discus throw	Sérgio Thomé Template:Flagcountry	56.10*	Luis Palacios Template:Flagcountry	54.42*	José Jacques Template:Flagcountry	53.10*
Hammer throw	José Vallejo Template:Flagcountry	63.44	Celso de Moraes Template:Flagcountry	61.44	Daniel Gómez Template:Flagcountry	57.60
Javelin throw	Angel Garmendia Template:Flagcountry	72.32 CR	Orángel Rodríguez Template:Flagcountry	70.32	Paulo Hasse Template:Flagcountry	68.84
Decathlon	Alfredo Silva Template:Flagcountry	6991	Ramón Montezuma Template:Flagcountry	6964	Claudio Escauriza Template:Flagcountry	6791

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Beatriz Allocco Template:Flagcountry	11.7 =CR	Carmela Bolívar Template:Flagcountry	11.8	Esmeralda de Jesus Garcia Template:Flagcountry	11.8
200 metres	Beatriz Allocco Template:Flagcountry	23.5	Tânia Miranda Template:Flagcountry	24.1	Esmeralda de Jesus Garcia Template:Flagcountry	24.1
400 metres	Tânia Miranda Template:Flagcountry	54.2 CR	Margarita Grün Template:Flagcountry	54.8	Miriam Rojas Template:Flagcountry	54.8
800 metres	Alejandra Ramos Template:Flagcountry	2:04.2 AR	Nancy González Template:Flagcountry	2:09.8	Adriana Marchena Template:Flagcountry	2:10.4
1500 metres	Alejandra Ramos Template:Flagcountry	4:23.2 CR	Teresa Rodríguez Template:Flagcountry	4:32.6	Monica Regonesi Template:Flagcountry	4:36.1
100 metres hurdles	Yvonne Neddermann Template:Flagcountry	14.2	Olga Verissimo Template:Flagcountry	14.4	Beatriz Capotosto Template:Flagcountry	14.7
4 × 100 metres relay	Template:Flagcountry Marisol Besada Belkis Fava Yvonne Neddermann Beatriz Allocco	46.0	Template:Flagcountry Maria Teresa Soares Olga Verissimo Esmeralda de Jesus Garcia Sheila de Oliveira	46.1	Template:Flagcountry Glennis Báez Adriana Marchena Elsa Antúnez Yaneris Guerra	46.6
4 × 400 metres relay	Template:Flagcountry Maria Teresa Soares Joyce Felipe dos Santos Conceição Geremias Tânia Miranda	3:42.0 AR	Template:Flagcountry María Eugenia Guzmán Carla Herencia Nancy González Alejandra Ramos	3:44.6	Template:Flagcountry Ángela Mancilla Luz Villa Maŕia Ocoro Miriam Rojas	3:45.1
High jump	Ana Maria Marcon Template:Flagcountry	1.75	Liliana Arigoni Template:Flagcountry	1.75	Beatriz Bonfim Template:Flagcountry	1.70
Long jump	Themis Zambrzycki Template:Flagcountry	6.03	Conceição Geremias Template:Flagcountry	5.95	Yvonne Neddermann Template:Flagcountry	5.92
Shot put	Magdalena Gómez Template:Flagcountry	13.94	Themis Zambrzycki Template:Flagcountry	13.84	Maria Boso Template:Flagcountry	13.24
Discus throw	Sandra Peres Template:Flagcountry	46.11	Maria Boso Template:Flagcountry	42.54	Selene Saldarriaga Template:Flagcountry	41.78
Javelin throw	Marli dos Santos Template:Flagcountry	50.92 CR	Neuza Trolezzi Template:Flagcountry	45.07	Ana María Campillay Template:Flagcountry	42.30
Pentathlon	Themis Zambrzycki Template:Flagcountry	4117	Conceição Geremias Template:Flagcountry	3880	Yvonne Neddermann Template:Flagcountry	3833

† = short course (c37km)
* = light implement (1.75 kg)
† = short course

Participating nations

• (36)
• (1)
• (49)
• (41)
• (40)
• (9)
• (1)
• (15)
• (5)
• (43)

External links

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