1977 South American Championships in Athletics – Results

These are the results of the 1977 South American Championships in Athletics which took place at the Pista del Parque Batlle y Ordoñez (today Pista de Atletismo Darwin Piñeyrúa) in Montevideo, Uruguay, on 4, 5 and 6 November.^[1]

Men's results

100 metres

Heats – 4 November Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 Rui da Silva  Brazil 10.51 Q 2 2 Miguel Sulbarán  Venezuela 10.63 Q 3 1 Katsuhiko Nakaya  Brazil 10.65 Q 4 1 José Chacín  Venezuela 10.67 Q 5 2 José Gonçalves  Uruguay 10.82 Q 6 2 Luis Alberto Schneider  Chile 10.83 Q 7 2 Ricardo Donda  Argentina 10.88 8 1 Gustavo Dubarbier  Argentina 11.00 Q 9 2 Edgar Biojó  Colombia 11.06 10 1 Luis Sánchez  Uruguay 11.15 Q 11 2 Ángel Guerrero  Paraguay 11.16 12 1 Onías Palacios  Colombia 11.26 13 1 Rafael Edwards  Chile 11.29

Final – 5 November Wind: +1.5 m/s Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Rui da Silva  Brazil 10.3 Katsuhiko Nakaya  Brazil 10.4 Miguel Sulbarán  Venezuela 10.6 4 José Chacín  Venezuela 10.8 5 José Gonçalves  Uruguay 10.9 6 Luis Alberto Schneider  Chile 11.0 7 Gustavo Dubarbier  Argentina 11.0 8 Luis Sánchez  Uruguay 11.2

200 metres

Heats – 6 November Wind: Heat 1: 0.0 m/s, Heat 2: -1.0 m/s Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Rui da Silva  Brazil 22.2 Q 2 1 José Chacín  Venezuela 22.5 Q 3 1 Gustavo Dubarbier  Argentina 22.6 Q 4 1 Rafael Rossi  Chile 22.6 5 1 Luis Sánchez  Uruguay 23.0 6 1 Onías Palacios  Colombia 23.2 1 2 Hipólito Brown  Venezuela 22.1 Q 2 2 Katsuhiko Nakaya  Brazil 22.2 Q 3 2 José Gonçalves  Uruguay 22.6 Q 4 2 Edgar Biojó  Colombia 23.1 5 2 Ángel Guerrero  Paraguay 23.2

Final – 6 November Wind: 0.0 m/s Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Rui da Silva  Brazil 21.3 Katsuhiko Nakaya  Brazil 21.7 Hipólito Brown  Venezuela 22.1 4 José Gonçalves  Uruguay 22.2 5 José Chacín  Venezuela 22.3 6 Gustavo Dubarbier  Argentina 22.4

400 metres

Heats – 4 November Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Delmo da Silva  Brazil 49.0 Q 2 1 Alexis Herrera  Venezuela 49.5 Q 3 1 Eduardo Sandes  Argentina 49.9 1 Julio Acosta  Colombia DQ 1 2 Djalma de Oliveira  Brazil 49.2 Q 2 2 Ariel Santolaya  Chile 49.7 Q 3 2 Ricardo Vigo  Argentina 50.0 4 2 Héctor Olivera  Uruguay 52.0 1 3 Hipólito Brown  Venezuela 49.3 Q 2 3 Almir da Cunha  Uruguay 51.4 Q 3 Gabriel Lopera  Colombia DQ

Final – 5 November Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Delmo da Silva  Brazil 47.70 Ariel Santolaya  Chile 47.71 Djalma de Oliveira  Brazil 48.24 4 Hipólito Brown  Venezuela 48.36 5 Alexis Herrera  Venezuela 48.64 6 Almir da Cunha  Uruguay 53.64

800 metres

Heats – 6 November Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Agberto Guimarães  Brazil 1:56.7 Q 2 1 Omar Amdematten  Argentina 1:56.9 Q 3 1 Edgar Gómez  Colombia 1:57.4 4 1 Miguel Velázquez  Venezuela 1:57.5 5 1 Ramón Silva  Paraguay 2:04.4 1 2 Ricardo Vigo  Argentina 1:57.5 Q 2 2 Wilson dos Santos  Brazil 1:57.7 Q 3 2 Eduardo Valenzuela  Chile 1:57.7 4 2 Héctor Olivera  Uruguay 1:59.9 5 2 Felipe Neri  Paraguay 2:00.1 1 3 Cristián Molina  Chile 1:57.7 Q 2 3 William Wuycke  Venezuela 1:57.7 Q 3 3 Hugo Villegas  Colombia 1:59.3 4 3 Juan Lazarte  Uruguay 2:00.9 5 3 Pedro Foronda  Bolivia 2:01.2

Final – 6 November Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Agberto Guimarães  Brazil 1:52.4 Omar Amdematten  Argentina 1:52.8 Ricardo Vigo  Argentina 1:53.4 4 Cristián Molina  Chile 1:54.4 5 William Wuycke  Venezuela 1:56.4 6 Wilson dos Santos  Brazil 2:00.5

1500 metres

5 November

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	José González	Venezuela	3:51.7
	Emilio Ulloa	Chile	3:51.7
	Cosme do Nascimento	Brazil	3:51.7
4	Abel Godoy	Uruguay	3:53.1
5	Jairo Cubillos	Colombia	3:55.8
6	Omar Amdematten	Argentina	3:57.7
7	Osmán Escobar	Venezuela	3:58.1
8	Alberto Lopes	Brazil	3:59.3
9	Félix Riverdieu	Uruguay	3:59.7

5000 metres

5 November

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Domingo Tibaduiza	Colombia	14:24.4
	Darcy Pereira	Brazil	14:25.4
	Jairo Correa	Colombia	14:26.0
4	Carlos Alves	Brazil	14:33.4
5	Lucirio Garrido	Venezuela	14:35.0
6	Juan Adolfo Carrizo	Argentina	14:55.8
7	Luis Rudas	Venezuela	14:56.7
8	Norberto Limonta	Argentina	14:57.6
9	Óscar Carrión	Uruguay	15:05.6
10	Alejandro Silva	Chile	15:15.1
11	Enrique Dihi	Uruguay	16:04.4

10,000 metres

4 November

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Domingo Tibaduiza	Colombia	29:44.2
	Aloisio de Araújo	Brazil	29:57.0
	Carlos Alves	Brazil	30:12.3
4	Juan Adolfo Carrizo	Argentina	30:23.9
5	Luis Rudas	Venezuela	31:10.4
6	Héctor Rodríguez	Colombia	31:17.4
7	Alejandro Silva	Chile	31:47.9
8	Héctor Robatti	Uruguay	32:07.0

Marathon

6 November

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Héctor Rodríguez	Colombia	2:19:56
	Víctor Rodríguez	Colombia	2:24:48
	Elói Schleder	Brazil	2:26:48
4	Osvaldo Cornejo	Chile	2:31:14
5	José Ramírez	Chile	2:34:06
6	Efraín Manquel	Argentina	2:36:16
7	Eusebio Cardoso	Paraguay	2:47:34
8	Domingo Moreira	Uruguay	2:49:12
9	Marcial Congo	Paraguay	3:08:27

110 metres hurdles

Heats – 4 November Wind: Heat 1: -0.3 m/s, Heat 2: -0.8 m/s Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Jesús Villegas  Colombia 14.8 Q 2 1 Carlos dos Santos  Brazil 15.0 Q 3 1 Rodolfo Iturraspe  Argentina 15.1 Q 4 1 Hans Miethe  Chile 15.7 Q 1 2 Óscar Marín  Venezuela 15.6 Q 2 2 Tito Steiner  Argentina 16.0 Q 3 2 Francisco Fuentes  Chile 16.4 Q

Final – 5 November Wind: 0.0 m/s Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Óscar Marín  Venezuela 14.97 Jesús Villegas  Colombia 15.04 Carlos dos Santos  Brazil 15.23 4 Hans Miethe  Chile 15.71 5 Rodolfo Iturraspe  Argentina 15.80 6 Francisco Fuentes  Chile 15.95 Tito Steiner  Argentina ?

400 metres hurdles

Heats – 5 November Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Moisés Zambrano  Venezuela 55.4 Q 2 1 Francisco Rojas  Paraguay 56.1 Q 3 1 Joelmerson de Carvalho  Brazil 56.1 Q 4 1 Alfredo Velasco  Chile 56.6 5 1 Harry Franco  Uruguay 57.8 1 2 Donizete Soares  Brazil 54.5 Q 2 2 Fabio Zúñiga  Colombia 54.7 Q 3 2 Ariel Santolaya  Chile 54.7 Q 4 2 Jorge Gómez  Venezuela 54.7 5 2 Rodolfo Iturraspe  Argentina 55.6 6 2 Sergio Collis  Uruguay 1:06.5

Final – 6 November Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Moisés Zambrano  Venezuela 53.7 Donizete Soares  Brazil 54.1 Joelmerson de Carvalho  Brazil 54.4 4 Fabio Zúñiga  Colombia 54.8 5 Ariel Santolaya  Chile 55.3 6 Francisco Rojas  Paraguay 57.1

3000 metres steeplechase

4 November

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Jairo Correa	Colombia	9:00.5
	Lucirio Garrido	Venezuela	9:01.5
	Abel Córdoba	Argentina	9:13.0
4	Víctor Rodríguez	Colombia	9:15.6
5	Emilio Ulloa	Chile	9:27.0
6	Gérson Monteiro	Brazil	9:29.8
7	Antônio Ranzani	Brazil	9:37.8
8	Víctor Gil	Venezuela	9:37.8
	Norberto Limonta	Argentina	DNF

4 × 100 metres relay

Heats – 5 November

Rank	Heat	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	2	Venezuela		41.36	Q
2	1	Brazil		42.73	Q
3	2	Uruguay		43.08	Q
4	1	Colombia		43.10	Q
5	1	Chile		43.11	Q
6	1	Paraguay		43.79	q
	2	Argentina		DNF

Final – 5 November

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Brazil	Antônio Carlos dos Santos, Nelson dos Santos, Rui da Silva, Katsuhiko Nakaya	41.4
	Venezuela	José Chacín, Manuel Briceño, Ely Zabala, Hipólito Brown	41.7
	Uruguay	Servio Labruna, Luis Sánchez, Luis Barbosa, José Gonçalves	42.1
4	Colombia	Onías Palacios, Julio Acosta, Edgar Biojó, Jesús Villegas	43.0
5	Paraguay	Ángel Guerrero, Francisco Rojas, Adolfo Marín, Hugo Martínez	43.4
	Chile		?

4 × 400 metres relay

Heats – 6 November

Rank	Heat	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	1	Brazil		3:22.6	Q
2	1	Chile		3:24.2	Q
3	1	Colombia		3:24.4	Q
1	2	Venezuela		3:23.9	Q
2	2	Argentina		3:25.3	Q
3	2	Uruguay		3:27.2	Q
4	2	Paraguay		3:35.9

Final – 6 November

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Brazil	Djalma de Oliveira, Delmo da Silva, Pedro Teixeira, Donizete Soares	3:15.1
	Venezuela	Hipólito Brown, E. López, Alexis Herrera, Moisés Zambrano	3:17.4
	Chile	Ariel Santolaya, Cristián Molina, Emilio Ulloa, Alfredo Edwards	3:23.1
4	Colombia	Gabriel Lopera, Onías Palacios, Fabio Zúñiga, Julio Acosta	3:23.5
5	Argentina	Rodolfo Iturraspe, Juan José Rodríguez, Angel Gagliano, Eduardo Sandes	3:24.2
6	Uruguay	Héctor Olivera, Gancio, Almir da Cunha, Sosa	3:32.9

20 kilometres walk

5 November

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Enrique Peña	Colombia	1:37:21	CR
	Osvaldo Morejón	Bolivia	1:39:23
	Rafael Vega	Colombia	1:40:14
4	Rito Molina	Argentina	1:45:44
5	José Rodríguez	Argentina	1:46:19
6	Waldemar da Silva	Brazil	1:51:37
7	Ricardo Nuske	Brazil	1:53:34
8	Estebán Quelele	Bolivia	1:53:34
9	Antonio Moraga	Chile	2:01:18

High jump

6 November

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Irajá Cecy	Brazil	2.05
	Luis Arbulú	Peru	2.00
	Luis Barrionuevo	Argentina	2.00
4	Javier Olivar	Uruguay	1.85
5	Rubén Osorio	Paraguay	1.75
6	Carlos Guillén	Bolivia	1.70

Pole vault

4 November

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Renato Bortolocci	Brazil	4.40
	Tito Steiner	Argentina	4.30
	Fernando Hoces	Chile	4.10
4	Guillermo Chiaraviglio	Argentina	4.10
5	Darío Castagnino	Paraguay	4.00
6	Claudio Escauriza	Paraguay	3.60
	Fernando Ruocco	Uruguay	NM

Long jump

6 November

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	João Carlos de Oliveira	Brazil	7.95	CR
	Hugo Meriano	Argentina	7.31
	Ronald Raborg	Peru	7.22
4	João Carlos dos Santos	Brazil	7.12
5	Eduardo Labalta	Argentina	7.07
6	Francisco Pichott	Chile	6.92
7	Luis Alberto Schneider	Chile	6.77
8	Jorge do Prado	Uruguay	6.70

Triple jump

5 November

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	João Carlos de Oliveira	Brazil	16.40	x	15.86	–	–	–	16.40
	Angel Gagliano	Argentina							15.15
	Francisco Pichott	Chile							14.87
4	Emilio Mazzeo	Argentina							14.86
5	João Carlos dos Santos	Brazil							14.09
6	José Gregorio Salazar	Venezuela							13.70
7	José Sosa	Paraguay							13.50

Shot put

6 November

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	José Luiz Carabolante	Brazil	15.83
	José Carreño	Venezuela	15.70
	José Carlos Jacques	Brazil	15.62
4	Jesús Ramos	Venezuela	15.46
5	Modesto Barreto	Colombia	14.90
6	Néstor Sánchez	Argentina	14.69
7	Óscar Gadea	Uruguay	14.18
8	José Jara	Chile	14.17
9	Héctor Rivero	Argentina	13.44
10	Omar González	Uruguay	12.98
11	Víctor Martínez	Paraguay	12.42

Discus throw

4 November

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Sérgio Thomé	Brazil	52.24
	Modesto Barreto	Colombia	50.64
	José Carlos Jacques	Brazil	46.42
4	Héctor Rivero	Argentina	46.22
5	Ramón Montezuma	Venezuela	45.10
6	José Carreño	Venezuela	43.56
7	Óscar Gadea	Uruguay	40.90
8	José Alberto Vallejo	Argentina	40.48

Hammer throw

6 November

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Daniel Gómez	Argentina	64.66	CR
	Celso de Moraes	Brazil	63.52
	Ivam Bertelli	Brazil	63.40
4	José Alberto Vallejo	Argentina	63.22
5	Pelayo Quintana	Venezuela	50.84
6	Edgar Yarce	Colombia	50.48
7	Humberto Cáceres	Chile	49.32

Javelin throw

5 November – Old model

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Mario Sotomayor	Colombia	66.96
	Paulo de Faría	Brazil	66.50
	Angel Garmendia	Argentina	65.72
4	Orangel Rodríguez	Venezuela	63.68
5	Claudio Escauriza	Paraguay	60.44
6	Hugo Balsani	Uruguay	57.68
7	Humberto Vianna	Brazil	56.08
8	Horst Klotzer	Chile	55.54

Decathlon

5–6 November – 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
	Tito Steiner	Argentina	11.6	6.78	14.28	1.83	51.2	15.5	44.54	4.50	56.16	4:35.7	7411	7264*
	Renato Bortolocci	Brazil	11.2	6.67	11.82	1.97	51.9	16.4	37.22	4.50	52.98	4:47.2	7076	6894*
	Ángel Montezuma	Venezuela	11.3	6.25	12.40	1.80	50.5	16.2	43.64	3.80	53.94	4:33.3	6976	6783*
4	Alfredo Silva	Chile	11.3	6.29	11.98	1.90	51.4	16.2	35.14	3.40	45.88	4:47.1	6529	6329*
5	Eduardo Sotomayor	Chile	11.6	6.64	10.61	1.83	52.4	16.4	33.34	3.40	42.16	4:47.5	6230	6045*
6	Juan Ríos	Venezuela	11.1	6.08	11.06	1.75	55.1	17.6	35.38	3.40	52.80	4:45.7	6114	5956*
7	Jorge da Silva	Brazil	11.3	5.95	11.58	1.80	54.7	16.2	33.54	3.20	49.06	5:07.2	6049	5852*
8	Claudio Escauriza	Paraguay	11.8	6.14	11.17	1.60	56.1	18.6	33.42	3.70	51.18	5:13.9	5658	5431*
	Alfredo Rossi	Uruguay	12.7	5.50	11.11	1.65	62.4	19.4	40.24	3.40	42.94	DNS	DNF	–
	Rodolfo Díaz	Uruguay	12.2	5.49	10.65	NM	61.1	DNF	DNS	–	–	–	DNF	–

Women's results

100 metres

Heats – 4 November Wind: Heat 1: -0.5 m/s, Heat 2: ? Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Beatriz Allocco  Argentina 11.73 Q 2 1 Flavia Villar  Chile 12.00 Q 3 1 Carmela Bolívar  Peru 12.02 Q 4 1 Rocío Rebollo  Uruguay 12.10 Q 5 2 Beatriz Capotosto  Argentina 12.10 Q 6 1 Marta Meléndez  Colombia 12.20 7 2 Bárbara do Nascimento  Brazil 12.24 Q 8 2 Carla Herencia  Chile 12.30 Q 9 1 Maria Levien  Brazil 12.40 10 2 Margarita Grun  Uruguay 12.43 Q 11 2 Elsa Antúnez  Venezuela 12.45 12 1 Isabel Aleman  Bolivia 12.50 13 2 Cecilia Echeverry  Colombia 12.60 14 2 María Roldán  Paraguay 12.92

Final – 5 November Wind: +0.5 m/s Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Beatriz Allocco  Argentina 11.97 Beatriz Capotosto  Argentina 12.20 Carmela Bolívar  Peru 12.27 Carla Herencia  Chile 12.27 5 Flavia Villar  Chile 12.32 6 Rocío Rebollo  Uruguay 12.46 7 Bárbara do Nascimento  Brazil 12.49 8 Margarita Grun  Uruguay 12.62

200 metres

Heats – 6 November Wind: Heat 1: 0.0 m/s, Heat 2: +0.8 m/s, Heat 3: -0.2 m/s Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Beatriz Allocco  Argentina 24.9 Q 2 1 Sueli Machado  Brazil 25.3 Q 3 1 Elsa Antúnez  Venezuela 25.8 4 1 Carmela Bolívar  Peru 26.3 5 1 María Rolón  Paraguay 27.2 1 2 Carla Herencia  Chile 25.4 Q 2 2 Margarita Grun  Uruguay 25.5 Q 3 2 Maria Luísa Betioli  Brazil 26.2 4 2 Patricia Morales  Colombia 27.2 1 3 Flavia Villar  Chile 25.3 Q 2 3 Beatriz Capotosto  Argentina 25.5 Q 3 3 Marta Meléndez  Colombia 25.8 4 3 Alicia Vicent  Uruguay 26.0

Final – 6 November Wind: ? Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Beatriz Allocco  Argentina 24.7 Sueli Machado  Brazil 25.2 Flavia Villar  Chile 25.3 4 Carla Herencia  Chile 25.5 5 Margarita Grun  Uruguay 25.6 6 Beatriz Capotosto  Argentina 25.6

400 metres

Heats – 4 November Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Eucaris Caicedo  Colombia 59.2 Q 2 1 Adriana Marchena  Venezuela 59.4 Q 2 1 Juana Rossano  Paraguay 1:04.7 1 2 Inoilde Cruz  Brazil 57.4 Q 2 2 Margarita Grun  Uruguay 58.2 Q 3 2 Janeth Carvajal  Venezuela 59.5 4 2 Silvia Augsburger  Argentina 1:01.0 1 3 Marcela López  Argentina 57.5 Q 2 3 Cecilia Rodríguez  Chile 57.8 Q 3 3 Tânia Miranda  Brazil 58.5 4 3 Verónica Arrionda  Uruguay 59.8 5 3 Blanca Ibáñez  Bolivia 1:01.2

Final – 5 November Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Eucaris Caicedo  Colombia 55.30 Adriana Marchena  Venezuela 56.48 Marcela López  Argentina 56.69 4 Cecilia Rodríguez  Chile 57.31 5 Inoilde Cruz  Brazil 58.41 6 Margarita Grun  Uruguay 59.51

800 metres

Heats – 5 November Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Alejandra Ramos  Chile 2:20.7 Q 2 1 Aparecida Adão  Brazil 2:22.4 Q 3 1 Nubia Medina  Colombia 2:23.3 4 1 Lucy Fernández  Uruguay 2:23.3 5 1 Mirta Ezcurra  Paraguay 2:27.2 1 2 Adriana Marchena  Venezuela 2:14.8 Q 2 2 Graciela Escalada  Argentina 2:15.4 Q 3 2 Joyce dos Santos  Brazil 2:21.4 4 2 Sara Vicenti  Bolivia 2:27.6 1 3 Laura Oyanctábal  Uruguay 2:21.5 Q 2 3 Mery Rojas  Bolivia 2:22.1 Q 3 3 Genoveva Caro  Chile 2:23.0 4 3 Nilda Blanco  Paraguay 2:28.4

Final – 6 November Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Alejandra Ramos  Chile 2:12.3 Adriana Marchena  Venezuela 2:15.8 Aparecida Adão  Brazil 2:15.8 4 Graciela Escalada  Argentina 2:17.7 5 Laura Oyanctábal  Uruguay 2:22.0 Mery Rojas  Bolivia ?

1500 metres

4 November

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Alejandra Ramos	Chile	4:39.8
	Maria Dias	Brazil	4:46.8
	Mery Rojas	Bolivia	4:46.8
4	Olga Caccaviello	Argentina	4:47.6
5	Aparecida Adão	Brazil	4:49.3
6	Genoveva Caro	Chile	4:51.5
7	Nubia Medina	Colombia	4:54.0
8	Laura Martiarena	Uruguay	4:58.5

100 metres hurdles

5 November
Wind: -0.5 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Edith Noeding	Peru	14.47
	Themis Zambrzycki	Brazil	14.76
	Maria Luísa Betioli	Brazil	14.80
4	Gloria Barturen	Chile	15.14
5	Yvonne Neddermann	Argentina	15.59

4 × 100 metres relay

Heats – 5 November

Rank	Heat	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	2	Chile		47.92	Q
2	2	Brazil		48.01	Q
3	1	Argentina		48.19	Q
4	2	Uruguay		48.20	Q
5	1	Colombia		48.91	Q
6	1	Venezuela		49.31	Q
7	2	Bolivia		51.0

Final – 5 November

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Argentina	Araceli Bruschini, Susana Perizzotti, Beatriz Capotosto, Beatriz Allocco	46.7
	Chile	Flavia Villar, Carla Herencia, Verónica Kinzer, Pía Ábalos	47.8
	Brazil	Maria Levien, Sueli Machado, Conceição Geremias, Bárbara do Nascimento	47.8
4	Uruguay	Rocío Rebollo, Margarita Grun, Alicia Vicent, Verónica Arrionda	47.9
5	Venezuela	Elsa Antúnez, Lourdes Nicola, Adriana Marchena, Arelis Pulvet	48.5
6	Colombia	Cecilia Echeverry, Marta Meléndez, Eucaris Caicedo, Patricia Morales	48.6

4 × 400 metres relay

Heats – 6 November

Rank	Heat	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	1	Venezuela		4:03.0	Q
2	1	Uruguay		4:05.0	Q
3	1	Argentina		4:08.2	Q
1	2	Brazil		4:03.9	Q
2	2	Colombia		4:09.7	Q
3	2	Chile		4:03.8	Q
4	2	Paraguay		4:26.9

Final – 6 November

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Brazil	Tânia Miranda, Sueli Machado, Joyce Felipe dos Santos, Inoilde Cruz	3:49.7
	Argentina	Graciela Escalada, Beatriz Allocco, Marcela López, Silvia Augsburger	3:53.4
	Venezuela	Elsa Antúnez, Lourdes Nicola, Adriana Marchena, Yaneth Carvajal	3:55.2
4	Chile	Flavia Villar, Alejandra Ramos, María Eugenia Guzmán, Cecilia Rodríguez	3:55.9
5	Colombia	Eucaris Caicedo, Marta Meléndez, Cecilia Echeverry, Patricia Morales	4:00.6
6	Uruguay	Lucy Fernández, Verónica Arrionda, Laura Oyanctábal, Margarita Grun	4:03.6

High jump

5 November

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Maria Luísa Betioli	Brazil	1.80	CR
	Beatriz Dias	Brazil	1.70
	Beatriz Arancibia	Chile	1.60
4	Elizabeth Huber	Chile	1.55
4	Ana Rojas	Venezuela	1.55
6	María Bico	Uruguay	1.50
7	Graciela Acosta	Uruguay	1.45

Long jump

6 November

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Yvonne Neddermann	Argentina	5.65
	Themis Zambrzycki	Brazil	5.49
	Conceição Geremias	Brazil	5.49
4	Evelyn Jabiles	Peru	5.44
5	Margot Mundin	Uruguay	5.32
6	Gloria Barturen	Chile	5.32
7	Araceli Bruschini	Argentina	5.27
8	Beatriz Arancibia	Chile	5.06

Shot put

5 November

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Maria Boso	Brazil	13.80
	Lorena Prado	Chile	13.26
	Marinalva dos Santos	Brazil	12.59
4	Patricia Andrus	Venezuela	12.28
5	Miriam Finochietti	Uruguay	12.12
6	Patricia Weber	Argentina	12.11
7	Ramona Brizuela	Argentina	12.01
8	Patricia Guerrero	Peru	11.75
9	Fulvia Benegas	Paraguay	11.10
10	Mirta Fleitas	Uruguay	10.90
11	Gladys Aguayo	Chile	9.22

Discus throw

5 November

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Odete Domingos	Brazil	51.56	CR
	Thea Reinhardt	Brazil	49.68
	Patricia Andrus	Venezuela	40.86
4	Gladys Ortega	Argentina	39.98
5	Miriam Finochietti	Uruguay	38.56
6	Lorena Prado	Chile	37.62
7	Ana Elena Gambaccini	Argentina	37.08
8	Fulvia Benegas	Paraguay	35.14

Javelin throw

4 November – Old model

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Patricia Guerrero	Peru	45.46
	Neuza Trolezzi	Brazil	42.92
	Magali Lopes	Brazil	41.18
4	Ana María Campillay	Argentina	40.62
5	Elsa Pérez	Chile	40.06
6	Gladys Aguayo	Chile	39.12
7	María Cristina Gauna	Argentina	38.24
8	Berenice da Silva	Uruguay	25.46

Pentathlon

4–5 November

  The highest mark recorded in each event is highlighted in yellow

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	100m H	SP	HJ	LJ	800m	Points	Notes
	Conceição Geremias	Brazil	15.50	12.59	1.64	5.66	2:26.8	3863
	Themis Zambrzycki	Brazil	14.92	12.22	1.64	5.43	2:26.5	3856
	Yvonne Neddermann	Argentina	15.30	11.39	1.35	5.39	2:26.8	3425
4	Rosa Jerabek	Argentina	16.14	10.43	1.40	5.29	2:41.0	3170
5	Alix Castillo	Venezuela	18.11	8.36	1.50	5.01	2:32.5	2992