1989 South American Championships in Athletics – Results

These are the results of the 1989 South American Championships in Athletics which took place at the Estadio Alfonso Galvis Duque in Medellín, Colombia, between 5 and 8 August.^[1]

Men's results

100 metres

Heats – 5 August Wind: Heat 1: +1.1 m/s, Heat 2: +1.1 m/s Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Arnaldo da Silva  Brazil 10.3 Q 2 1 John Mena  Colombia 10.4 Q 3 1 Florencio Aguilar  Panama 10.4 Q 4 1 Edgar Chourio  Venezuela 10.5 q 5 1 Fernando Espinosa  Ecuador 10.6 6 1 Hernán Hevia  Chile 10.8 1 2 Antônio dos Santos Filho  Brazil 10.3 Q 2 2 Carlos Bernardo Moreno  Chile 10.5 Q 3 2 Reinaldo Santana  Venezuela 10.5 Q 4 2 Robinson Urrutia  Colombia 10.6 q 5 2 Jorge Castellón  Bolivia 10.6 6 2 Danilo Almeida  Ecuador 10.7

Final – 6 August Wind: 0.0 m/s Rank Name Nationality Time Notes John Mena  Colombia 10.4 Florencio Aguilar  Panama 10.4 Antônio dos Santos Filho  Brazil 10.5 4 Edgar Chourio  Venezuela 10.5 5 Reinaldo Santana  Venezuela 10.5 6 Robinson Urrutia  Colombia 10.6 7 Carlos Bernardo Moreno  Chile 10.6 Arnaldo da Silva  Brazil DQ

200 metres

Heats – 7 August Wind: Heat 1: +1.6 m/s, Heat 2: +1.6 m/s Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 Sérgio Menezes  Brazil 20.79 Q 2 1 Robson da Silva  Brazil 20.99 Q 3 1 Mervin Solarte  Venezuela 21.24 Q 4 2 Jesús Malavé  Venezuela 21.26 Q 5 1 John Mena  Colombia 21.41 Q 6 1 Danilo Almeida  Ecuador 21.60 q 7 2 Fernando Espinosa  Ecuador 21.63 Q 8 2 Carlos Bernardo Moreno  Chile 21.66 q 9 1 Jorge Castellón  Bolivia 21.79 10 1 Alejandro Krauss  Chile 22.13

Final – 8 August Wind: ? m/s Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Robson da Silva  Brazil 20.44 Sérgio Menezes  Brazil 20.88 Jesús Malavé  Venezuela 21.12 4 Mervin Solarte  Venezuela 21.62 5 Carlos Bernardo Moreno  Chile 21.74 6 Danilo Almeida  Ecuador 21.81 7 Fernando Espinosa  Ecuador 21.93 John Mena  Colombia DQ

400 metres

Heats – 5 August Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Wilson Cañizales  Colombia 46.0 Q 2 1 Sérgio Menezes  Brazil 46.1 Q 3 1 Carlos Morales  Chile 46.6 Q 4 1 Jesús Malavé  Venezuela 46.7 q 5 1 Jaime Camargo  Panama 48.5 6 1 Aurelio Mancheno  Ecuador 48.7 1 2 Roberto Carlos Bortolotto  Brazil 46.7 Q 2 2 Henry Aguiar  Venezuela 46.9 Q 3 2 Héctor Daley  Panama 47.5 Q 4 2 Alejandro Krauss  Chile 47.6 q 5 2 Nicolás Valencia  Colombia 47.7 6 2 Geovanny Vascones  Ecuador 48.7

Final – 7 August Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Sérgio Menezes  Brazil 45.88 Wilson Cañizales  Colombia 45.91 Roberto Carlos Bortolotto  Brazil 46.38 4 Jesús Malavé  Venezuela 46.40 5 Carlos Morales  Chile 46.68 6 Henry Aguiar  Venezuela 47.34 7 Héctor Daley  Panama 47.47 8 Alejandro Krauss  Chile 49.44

800 metres

8 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Pablo Squella	Chile	1:49.19
	Geraldo de Assis	Brazil	1:49.29
	Edgar de Oliveira	Brazil	1:49.51
4	Juan Navarro	Venezuela	1:50.83
5	Diego Córdoba	Colombia	1:51.07
6	Hugo Endara	Ecuador	1:52.99
7	Charles Boddington	Venezuela	1:53.65

1500 metres

6 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Edgar de Oliveira	Brazil	3:47.7
	José López	Venezuela	3:47.9
	José Abel Segura	Colombia	3:48.9
4	Omar Aguilar	Chile	3:52.3
5	Ricardo Vera	Uruguay	3:53.3
6	Hugo Endara	Ecuador	3:53.9
7	Rudimir Ojeda	Chile	3:54.5
8	Diego Córdoba	Colombia	3:57.1
9	Clodoaldo do Carmo	Brazil	3:57.5
10	Dagoberto Yumán	Panama	4:09.2
11	Juan Navarro	Venezuela	4:16.2

5000 metres

7 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Geraldo Francisco de Assis	Brazil	14:09.60
	Silvio Salazar	Colombia	14:10.58
	Silvio Guerra	Ecuador	14:11.20
4	José Castillo	Peru	14:11.94
5	Eduardo Navas	Venezuela	14:18.50
6	Omar Aguilar	Chile	14:24.86
7	Herder Vásquez	Colombia	14:37.13
8	Artur Castro	Brazil	14:37.19
9	Roberto Punina	Ecuador	14:38.57
10	Óscar González	Venezuela	15:27.64
11	Agustín Morán	Panama	15:37.20
12	Concepción González	Panama	15:53.22

10,000 metres

5 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Rolando Vera	Ecuador	29:28.1
	Geraldo Francisco de Assis	Brazil	29:55.5
	Silvio Salazar	Colombia	30:14.3
4	Artur Castro	Brazil	30:55.5
5	Óscar González	Venezuela	31:09.2
6	Néstor Jami	Ecuador	31:14.4
7	Raúl Miranda	Panama	32:20.5
8	Agustín Morán	Panama	32:35.6

Marathon

7 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Gustavo Paredes	Ecuador	2:23:42
	Wilson Pérez	Ecuador	2:23:47
	Fernando Guio	Colombia	2:39:44

110 metres hurdles

6 August
Wind: +0.1 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Pedro Chiamulera	Brazil	14.1
	Eliexer Pulgar	Venezuela	14.1
	Elvis Cedeño	Venezuela	14.1
4	Joilto Bonfim	Brazil	14.1
5	José Humberto Rivas	Colombia	14.6
	Miguel Saldarriaga	Colombia	DNF

400 metres hurdles

8 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Pedro Chiamulera	Brazil	50.12
	Antônio Dias Ferreira	Brazil	51.26
	Antonio Smith	Venezuela	51.32
4	Wilfredo Ferrer	Venezuela	52.77
5	Leonel Pedroza	Colombia	52.87
6	Arnold Chará	Colombia	53.82
7	Juan Phillips	Panama	53.99
8	Teófilo Caicedo	Ecuador	55.44

3000 metres steeplechase

8 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Adauto Domingues	Brazil	8:49.2
	Carlos Ravani	Brazil	8:53.9
	Ricardo Vera	Uruguay	8:57.5
4	José Castillo	Peru	9:00.2
5	José Martínez	Venezuela	9:07.4
6	Carlos Ospina	Colombia	9:19.5
7	Amado Rivas	Venezuela	9:20.7
8	Rudimir Ojeda	Chile	9:29.4
9	Roberto Punina	Ecuador	9:32.7
10	Dagoberto Yumán	Panama	10:08.2

4 × 100 metres relay

8 August

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Brazil	Fernando Botasso, Carlos de Oliveira, Antônio dos Santos Filho, Arnaldo da Silva	39.84
	Colombia	Robinson Urrutia, Fernando Arroyo, Wilson Cañizales, John Mena	39.87
	Venezuela	Reinaldo Santana, Mervin Solarte, Ángel Tovar, Edgar Chourio	40.81
4	Ecuador	Danilo Almeida, Geovanny Vascones, Aurelio Mancheno, Fernando Espinosa	40.99
5	Chile	Alejandro Krauss, Carlos Bernardo Moreno, Carlos Morales, Hernán Hevia	41.66

4 × 400 metres relay

7 August

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Venezuela	Rafael Díaz, Wilfredo Ferrer, Henry Aguiar, Jesús Malavé	3:05.76	CR
	Brazil	Antônio Ferreira, Sidnei de Souza, Pedro Chiamulera, Roberto Bortolotto	3:06.33
	Chile	Hernán Hevia, Alejandro Krauss, Pablo Squella, Carlos Morales	3:06.34	NR
4	Colombia	Leonel Pedroza, Martínez, Nicolás Valencia, Wilson Cañizales	3:09.78
5	Ecuador	Danilo Almeida, Geovanny Vascones, Aurelio Mancheno, Fernando Espinosa	3:12.21

20 kilometres walk

7 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Sérgio Galdino	Brazil	1:24:51
	Héctor Moreno	Colombia	1:24:56
	Querubín Moreno	Colombia	1:28:32
4	Cláudio Bertolino	Brazil	1:31:50
5	Carlos Ramones	Venezuela	1:32:34
6	Henry Goitia	Venezuela	1:33:54
7	Juan Iván Rojas	Ecuador	1:36:29
8	Juan Canevaro	Chile	1:42:04
9	Mario Rodríguez	Panama	1:42:55
10	Leonel Ramos	Panama	1:47:08

High jump

5 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Milton Francisco	Brazil	2.15
	Santiago Lozada	Peru	2.09
	José Luís Mendes	Brazil	2.03
4	Jorge Quiñaliza	Ecuador	1.90
5	Pedro Aguirre	Panama	1.85
6	Roberto Bratwaite	Panama	1.80

Pole vault

7 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Renato Bortolocci	Brazil	5.10
	Miguel Saldarriaga	Colombia	5.10
	Elson de Souza	Brazil	4.90
4	Konstantín Zagustín	Venezuela	4.80
5	Oscar Veit	Argentina	4.70
6	Cristián Aspillaga	Chile	4.60

Long jump

6 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Luis Lourduy	Colombia	7.77
	Ángel Tovar	Venezuela	7.74
	Olivier Cadier	Brazil	7.68
4	Gilson Vaqueiro	Brazil	7.19
5	José Quiñaliza	Ecuador	6.77
6	Jimmy Ávila	Panama	6.61

Triple jump

8 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Sergio Saavedra	Venezuela	16.86	NR
	Abcélvio Rodrigues	Brazil	16.48
	Jorge da Silva	Brazil	16.38
4	José Quiñaliza	Ecuador	16.35
5	Roberto Audain	Venezuela	16.19
6	Gilmar Mayo	Colombia	15.94

Shot put

6 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Gert Weil	Chile	19.98
	Adilson Oliveira	Brazil	17.49
	João Joaquim dos Santos	Brazil	16.25
4	Andrés Charadía	Argentina	15.63
5	Celso Aragón	Colombia	15.04
6	Wilfredo Jaime	Venezuela	14.41
7	Jorge Coronel	Ecuador	12.75

Discus throw

5 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	João Joaquim dos Santos	Brazil	58.00	CR
	José Carlos Jacques	Brazil	52.88
	Gert Weil	Chile	52.36
4	Luis Palacios	Venezuela	49.20
5	Marcelo Pugliese	Argentina	48.46
6	Wilfredo Jaime	Venezuela	47.40
7	Andrés Charadía	Argentina	45.80
8	Jorge Coronel	Ecuador	39.28

Hammer throw

8 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Marcelo Pugliese	Argentina	67.00	CR
	Andrés Charadía	Argentina	65.56
	Pedro Rivail Atílio	Brazil	63.34
4	Alexandre Mantovani	Brazil	58.02
5	Roberto Lozano	Colombia	56.64
6	Edmundo Castillo	Venezuela	55.40
7	Carlos Yépez	Venezuela	54.90

Javelin throw

7 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Luis Lucumí	Colombia	77.80	AR
	Antar Martínez	Colombia	67.20
	Luis Carrasco	Venezuela	65.38
4	Nivaldo Beje Filho	Brazil	63.48
5	Rodrigo Zelaya	Chile	62.66
6	Orion Pedroso	Brazil	60.74
7	Jorge Coronel	Ecuador	54.60
8	Rodolfo Méndez	Panama	52.46

Decathlon

6–7 August

  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	Notes
	Martín Badano	Argentina	11.4	7.02	13.56	2.10	52.4	15.1	38.40	4.60	56.72	4:50.0	7378
	José Ricardo Nunes	Brazil	10.8	7.12	13.30	1.98	49.1	14.7	34.26	3.80	34.70	4:39.6	7324
	Oscar Veit	Argentina	11.1	7.15	12.81	1.86	52.3	15.1	38.44	5.10	54.42	5:47.2	7033
4	José Velázquez	Venezuela	11.2	6.91	13.78	1.80	54.2	14.7	43.74	4.30	56.80	5:37.4	6879
5	Rubén Herrada	Venezuela	11.2	6.53	13.85	1.92	50.4	15.8	36.38	3.90	48.92	4:49.2	6814
6	Pedro da Silva Filho	Brazil	11.2	7.16	14.49	1.92	56.4	14.7	41.56	NM	52.42	4:22.0	6619
7	Pedro Aguirre	Panama	11.5	5.31	8.76	1.74	57.6	17.8	22.88	2.80	NM	5:34.6	4156

Women's results

100 metres

Heats – 5 August Wind: Heat 1: ? m/s, Heat 2: +0.5 m/s Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Amparo Caicedo  Colombia 11.3 Q 2 1 Olga Conte  Argentina 11.9 Q 3 1 Claudia Acerenza  Uruguay 11.9 Q 4 1 Rosmeire Lopes  Brazil 11.9 q 5 1 Florinda Méndez  Venezuela 12.1 q 6 1 Narcisa Gaona  Ecuador 12.4 1 2 Ximena Restrepo  Colombia 11.4 Q 2 2 Cleide Amaral  Brazil 11.7 Q 3 2 Margarita Martirena  Uruguay 12.1 Q 4 2 Soledad Bacarezza  Chile 12.2 5 2 Marta Phillips  Panama 12.7

Final – 6 August Wind: 0.0 m/s Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Amparo Caicedo  Colombia 11.3 Ximena Restrepo  Colombia 11.4 Cleide Amaral  Brazil 11.5 4 Olga Conte  Argentina 11.6 5 Margarita Martirena  Uruguay 11.8 6 Rosmeire Lopes  Brazil 11.8 7 Claudia Acerenza  Uruguay 11.9 8 Florinda Méndez  Venezuela 11.9

200 metres

Heats – 7 August Wind: Heat 1: +2.0 m/s, Heat 2: +1.6 m/s Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 Jupira da Graça  Brazil 23.41 Q 2 1 Olga Conte  Argentina 23.45 Q 3 2 Amparo Caicedo  Colombia 23.57 Q 4 1 Claudete Alves Pina  Brazil 23.84 Q 5 2 Claudia Acerenza  Uruguay 24.05 Q 6 2 Ana María Comaschi  Argentina 24.14 q 7 1 Margarita Martirena  Uruguay 24.95 Q 8 2 Soledad Bacarezza  Chile 25.19 q 9 1 Narcisa Gaona  Ecuador 25.85 10 1 Marta Phillips  Panama 26.78

Final – 8 August Wind: ? m/s Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Olga Conte  Argentina 23.33 CR Jupira da Graça  Brazil 23.44 Amparo Caicedo  Colombia 23.68 4 Claudete Alves Pina  Brazil 24.01 5 Claudia Acerenza  Uruguay 24.07 6 Margarita Martirena  Uruguay 24.82 Ana María Comaschi  Argentina DNS Soledad Bacarezza  Chile DNS

400 metres

Heats – 5 August Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Norfalia Carabalí  Colombia 52.4 Q 2 1 Olga Conte  Argentina 53.1 Q 3 1 Claudete Alves Pina  Brazil 53.7 Q 4 1 Liliana Chalá  Ecuador 53.9 q 5 1 Ismenia Guzmán  Chile 54.8 q 6 2 Claudia Riquelme  Chile 54.9 Q 7 2 Soledad Acerenza  Uruguay 55.4 Q 8 2 Rosa Segovia  Colombia 56.1 Q 9 2 Rosângela Oliveira  Brazil 56.3 10 1 Yosira Sequera  Venezuela 57.2 11 2 Ingrid Rosero  Ecuador 58.9

Final – 7 August Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Norfalia Carabalí  Colombia 52.10 CR Olga Conte  Argentina 53.47 Claudete Alves Pina  Brazil 54.26 4 Liliana Chalá  Ecuador 54.34 5 Soledad Acerenza  Uruguay 55.38 6 Ismenia Guzmán  Chile 55.53 7 Claudia Riquelme  Chile 56.40 8 Rosa Segovia  Colombia 57.94

800 metres

7 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Maria Andrade	Brazil	2:08.79
	Amparo Alba	Colombia	2:08.83
	Célia dos Santos	Brazil	2:08.99
4	Rocío Estrada	Colombia	2:10.24
5	Ismenia Guzmán	Chile	2:12.84
6	Ingrid Rosero	Ecuador	2:18.76
7	Milexa Figueroa	Venezuela	2:22.31

1500 metres

6 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Rita de Jesus	Brazil	4:31.6
	Silvana Pereira	Brazil	4:32.1
	Janeth Caizalitín	Ecuador	4:32.9
4	Yolanda Quimbita	Ecuador	4:38.1
5	Rocío Estrada	Colombia	4:44.2
6	Amparo Alba	Colombia	4:47.5
7	Mileika Arauz	Panama	5:05.4

3000 metres

7 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Carmem de Oliveira	Brazil	9:22.58	CR
	Janeth Caizalitín	Ecuador	9:36.43
	Rita de Jesus	Brazil	9:36.95
4	Yolanda Quimbita	Ecuador	9:43.97
5	Marisol Cossio	Bolivia	10:28.49
6	María Arias	Colombia	10:32.87
7	Hilda Méndez	Panama	10:54.22
8	Mileika Arauz	Panama	11:11.09

10,000 metres

5 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Carmem de Oliveira	Brazil	35:08.5
	Sandra Ruales	Ecuador	35:55.2
	Yolanda Quimbita	Ecuador	35:55.3
4	Janeth Mayal	Brazil	36:4.7
5	Marisol Cossio	Bolivia	38:10.8
6	María Arias	Colombia	38:34.7
7	Hilda Méndez	Panama	39:36.2

100 metres hurdles

Heats – 5 August Wind: Heat 1: +0.1 m/s, Heat 2: 0.0 m/s Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Juraciara da Silva  Brazil 13.6 Q 2 1 Ana María Comaschi  Argentina 14.0 Q 3 1 Marta Dinas  Colombia 14.3 Q 4 1 Inés Justet  Uruguay 15.0 q 5 1 María Paulina Caroca  Chile 15.0 q 1 2 Arlene Phillips  Venezuela 13.6 Q 2 2 Carmen Bezanilla  Chile 13.6 Q 2 2 Conceição Geremias  Brazil 14.4 Q

Final – 6 August Wind: 0.0 m/s Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Juraciara da Silva  Brazil 13.5 Ana María Comaschi  Argentina 13.7 Arlene Phillips  Venezuela 13.8 4 Carmen Bezanilla  Chile 13.9 5 Conceição Geremias  Brazil 14.3 6 Marta Dinas  Colombia 14.8 7 Inés Justet  Uruguay 15.0 8 María Paulina Caroca  Chile 15.6

400 metres hurdles

8 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Liliana Chalá	Ecuador	57.68	CR
	Maribelcy Peña	Colombia	1:00.30
	Joana Caetano	Brazil	1:00.69
4	Maria do Carmo Fialho	Brazil	1:00.97
5	Claudia Riquelme	Chile	1:01.52
6	Inés Justet	Uruguay	1:01.59
7	Arlene Phillips	Venezuela	1:01.79
8	María Paulina Caroca	Chile	1:02.72

4 × 100 metres relay

8 August

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Brazil	Claudileia dos Santos, Jupira da Graça, Rosmeire Lopes, Cleide Amaral	44.69	AR
	Colombia	Rosa Segovia, Alejandra Quiñones, Amparo Caicedo, Norfalia Carabalí	45.26
	Uruguay	Margarita Martirena, Inés Justet, Soledad Acerenza, Claudia Acerenza	46.61
4	Chile	Ismenia Guzmán, Soleda Bacarezza, Carmen Bezanilla, Claudia Riquelme	47.20
5	Venezuela	Arlene Phillips, Milexa Figueroa, Sorelis Bohorquez, Florinda Mèndez	48.70
6	Ecuador	Narcisa Gaona, Ingrid Rosero, Sandra Barragán, Liliana Chalá	48.90

4 × 400 metres relay

7 August

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Colombia	Rosa Segovia, Alejandra Quiñones, Maribelcy Peña, Norfalia Carabalí	3:37.0	CR
	Brazil	Rosângela Oliveira, Jupira da Graça, Maria do Carmo Fialho, Claudete Alves Pina	3:37.7
	Uruguay	Inés Justet, Margarita Martirena, Soledad Acerenza, Claudia Acerenza	3:44.0
4	Chile	María Paulina Caroca, Ismenia Guzmán, Carmen Bezanilla, Claudia Riquelme	3:46.0
5	Ecuador	Sandra Barragán, Ingrid Rosero, Narcisa Gaona, Liliana Chalá	3:54.6
6	Venezuela	Yosira Sequera, Florinda Méndez, Milexa Figueroa, Arlene Phillips	3:58.9

10,000 metres walk

6 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Miriam Ramón	Ecuador	50:30.3	CR
	Luisa Nivicela	Ecuador	50:30.3
	Liliana Bermeo	Colombia	51:02.4
4	Gloria Moreno	Colombia	52:03.4
5	Ivana Hehn	Brazil	55:36.2

High jump

7 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Orlane dos Santos	Brazil	1.85
	Mónica Lunkmoss	Brazil	1.79
	Janeth Lagoyette	Colombia	1.70
4	Leonor Carter	Chile	1.70
5	Claudia Brien	Chile	1.65
5	Araceli Jaén	Panama	1.50

Long jump

8 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Rita Slompo	Brazil	6.22
	Maria Aparecida de Jesus	Brazil	6.05
	Ana María Comaschi	Argentina	5.96
4	Milly Figueroa	Colombia	5.84
5	Zorobabelia Córdoba	Colombia	5.75
6	Sorelis Bohorquez	Venezuela	5.75
7	Claudia Brien	Chile	5.39
8	Leonor Carter	Chile	5.12

Shot put

5 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Marinalva dos Santos	Brazil	15.16	CR
	Alexandra Amaro	Brazil	14.95
	Virginia Salomón	Venezuela	14.20
4	Berta Gómez	Colombia	13.76
5	Rosa Peña	Peru	13.69
6	Carmen Chalá	Ecuador	13.41
7	Lila Morales	Venezuela	13.06
8	Claudia Brien	Chile	12.30
9	Silka del Rosario	Panama	9.87

Discus throw

6 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Rosana Piovesan	Brazil	49.36
	Berta Gómez	Colombia	47.54
	Amelia Moreira	Brazil	44.54
4	Carmen Chalá	Ecuador	43.02
5	Yunaira Piña	Venezuela	42.26
6	Claudia Larenas	Chile	41.64
7	Lila Morales	Venezuela	40.22
8	Silka del Rosario	Panama	37.94

Javelin throw

8 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Mônica Rocha	Brazil	54.94
	Marietta Riera	Venezuela	54.70
	Sueli dos Santos	Brazil	52.78
4	Mariela Riera	Venezuela	51.36
5	Berta Gómez	Colombia	50.76
6	Carolina Weil	Chile	48.78
7	Verónica Prieto	Colombia	45.30
8	Carmen Chalá	Ecuador	30.04

Heptathlon

5–6 August

  The highest mark recorded in each event is highlighted in yellow

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	100m H	HJ	SP	200m	LJ	JT	800m	Points	Notes
	Conceição Geremias	Brazil	14.0	1.72	13.56	25.0	5.75	39.00	2:29.6	5574
	Zorobabelia Córdoba	Colombia	14.4	1.57	12.62	24.9	5.64	49.44	2:31.1	5436
	Joelma Oliveira	Brazil	14.6	1.78	11.68	25.1	5.26	38.08	2:29.6	5271
4	Claudia Brien	Chile	15.3	1.72	13.22	28.1	5.34	35.08	DNF	4224
	Ana María Comaschi	Argentina	14.1	1.63	13.16	DQ	DNS	–	–	DNF