Athletics at the 1998 South American Games

Athletics events at the 1998 South American Games were held at the Coliseo Mayor de Deportes Jefferson Pérez next to the Estadio Alejandro Serrano Aguilar in Cuenca, Ecuador, between October 26–30, 1998.^[1] A total of 45 events were contested, 24 by men and 21 by women. Brazil and Venezuela did not participate in the athletics events.

Athletics at the VI South American Games
Estadio Alejandro Serrano Aguilar
Dates	October 26–30
Host city	Cuenca, Ecuador
Venue	Estadio Alejandro Serrano Aguilar
Level	Senior
Events	45 (24 men, 21 women)
← 1994 Valencia 2002 Belém → 1998 South American Games

For the first time, a minimum participation of 4 nations per event was required to award a full set of medals. Men's triple jump and women's 4 x 400 m relay events were concerned, where athletes coming in third did not get bronze medals.^[2] Women's marathon was completely cancelled, because there would have been only athletes from host country Ecuador.^[3]

Medal summary

Medal winners were published in a book by written Argentinian journalist Ernesto Rodríguez III with support of the Argentine Olympic Committee (Spanish: Comité Olímpico Argentino) under the auspices of the Ministry of Education (Spanish: Ministerio de Educación de la Nación) in collaboration with the Office of Sports (Spanish: Secretaría de Deporte de la Nación).^[2] Eduardo Biscayart supplied the list of winners and their results.^[4] Further results were published elsewhere,^{[3][5][6][7][8][9][10]} or can be found in athlete's IAAF biographies.^[11]

All results are marked as "affected by altitude" (A), because the stadium in Cuenca is situated 2536 m above sea level.

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.3 m/s)	Ricardo Roach  Chile	10.36 A	Carlos Gats  Argentina	10.39 A	Juan Pablo Faúndez  Chile	10.49 A
200 metres (wind: +0.1 m/s)	Ricardo Roach  Chile	20.4 A	Héber Viera  Uruguay	21.0 A	Dick Perlaza  Ecuador	21.0 A
400 metres	Dick Perlaza  Ecuador	46.90 A	Carlos Zbinden  Chile	47.22 A	Fabián Aguilera  Chile	48.90 A
800 metres	Mauricio Torres  Chile	1:54.7 A	Pablo Ramírez  Ecuador	1:56.1 A	Carlos Salcedo  Ecuador	1:56.9 A
1500 metres	Pablo Ramírez  Ecuador	4:01.37 A	Richard Arias  Ecuador	4:01.49 A	Geovanni Morejón  Bolivia	4:03.84 A
5000 metres	Jacinto López  Colombia	14:45.09 A	Julio Cutipa  Peru	14:53.27 A	Vicente Chura  Peru	15:00.47 A
10,000 metres	Jacinto López  Colombia	30:09.5 A	Julio Cutipa  Peru	30:10.0 A	Franklin Tenorio  Ecuador	30:13.2 A
Marathon	William Ramírez  Ecuador	2:19:56 A	José Jami  Ecuador	2:29:08 A	Vicente Chura  Peru	2:29:22 A
110 metres hurdles (wind: +0.6 m/s)	Carlos Vega  Chile	14.57 A	Jackson Quiñónez  Ecuador	14.58 A	Omar Triviño  Ecuador	15.03 A
400 metres hurdles	Carlos Zbinden  Chile	50.1 A GR	Xavier Caicedo  Ecuador	55.7 A	Richard Ayoví  Ecuador	55.9 A
3000 metres steeplechase	Richard Arias  Ecuador	9:16.35 A	Pablo Ramírez  Ecuador	9:19.04 A	Geovanni Morejón  Bolivia	9:19.94 A
4 x 100 metres relay	Ecuador Jackson Quiñónez Dick Perlaza Julio Márquez Fernando Espinoza	40.40 A	Chile Fabian Aguilera Ricardo Roach Juan Pablo Faúndez Carlos Vega	40.63 A	Colombia Jhon Córdoba Gilmar Mayo Jacinto López José Alirio Carrasco	47.42 A
4 x 400 metres relay	Ecuador Xavier Caicedo Cristián Gutiérrez Reuber Navarro Dick Perlaza	3:11.7 A	Chile Fabián Aguilera Mauricio Torres Juan Pablo Faúndez Carlos Zbinden	3:12.0 A	Peru Julio Cutipa Eduardo Umbert Juan Tello Vicente Chura	4:12.2 A
20 Kilometres Walk	Jefferson Pérez  Ecuador	1:23:11 A GR	Nixon Zambrano  Colombia	1:29:28 A	Omar Aguirre  Ecuador	1:33:25 A
50 Kilometres Walk	Héctor Moreno  Colombia	4:27:13 A GR	Patricio Villacorte  Ecuador	4:45:34 A	Freddy Choque  Bolivia	4:46:15 A
High Jump	Gilmar Mayo  Colombia	2.24 A	Jackson Quiñónez  Ecuador	2.13 A	Wilmer Cortez  Ecuador	2.00 A
Pole Vault	Francisco León  Peru	4.60 A	Diego Moraga  Chile	3.20 A	Flavio Corozo  Ecuador	3.05 A
Long Jump	Cristián Antivilo  Chile	7.44 A	Gilmar Mayo  Colombia	7.29 A	Wilmer Cortez  Ecuador	7.28 A
Triple Jump	Gilmar Mayo  Colombia	15.78 A	Wilmer Cortez  Ecuador	15.40 A	Cristián Antivilo†  Chile
Shot Put	Marco Antonio Verni  Chile	17.76 A	Juan Tello  Peru	16.66 A	Marcelo Pugliese  Argentina	15.46 A
Discus Throw	Marcelo Pugliese  Argentina	59.74 A GR	Marco Antonio Verni  Chile	51.88 A	Juan Tello  Peru	49.46 A
Hammer Throw	Juan Cerra  Argentina	68.56 A	Eduardo Acuña  Peru	63.94 A	José Llano  Chile	63.28 A
Javelin Throw	Nery Kennedy  Paraguay	71.70 A	Diego Moraga  Chile	67.94 A	Flavio Corozo  Ecuador	57.85 A
Decathlon	Santiago Lorenzo  Argentina	6940 A GR	Flavio Corozo  Ecuador	6244 A

Notes

^†: No medal because of lack of minimum participation.

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -0.2 m/s)	Ana Caicedo  Ecuador	11.57 A GR	Felipa Palacios  Colombia	11.62 A	Lisette Rondón  Chile	11.76 A
200 metres (wind: +0.1 m/s)	Felipa Palacios  Colombia	22.78 A GR	Lisette Rondón  Chile	23.79 A	Ana Caicedo  Ecuador	23.9 A
400 metres	Felipa Palacios  Colombia	53.45 A	Sulay Nazareno  Ecuador	55.03 A	Hannelore Grosser  Chile	55.64 A
800 metres	Janeth Caizalitín  Ecuador	2:07.14 A	Niusha Mansilla  Bolivia	2:07.85 A	Mercy Colorado  Ecuador	2:09.65 A
1500 metres	Janeth Caizalitín  Ecuador	4:23.07 A	Niusha Mansilla  Bolivia	4:25.42 A	Bertha Sánchez  Colombia	4:26.29 A
5000 metres	Martha Tenorio  Ecuador	16:27.6 A GR	Janeth Caizalitín  Ecuador	16:48.6 A	Niusha Mansilla  Bolivia	17:17.9 A
10,000 metres	Martha Tenorio  Ecuador	34:23.6 A GR	Erika Olivera  Chile	36:00.0 A	Raquel Aceituno  Peru	37:26.1 A
100 metres hurdles (wind: +0.5 m/s)	Verónica Depaoli  Argentina	13.62 A GR	María Quiñones  Colombia	13.69 A	Ondina Rodríguez  Ecuador	14.68 A
400 metres hurdles	Ondina Rodríguez  Ecuador	60.0 A	Martha González  Ecuador	65.6 A	Minerva Navarrete  Chile
4 x 100 metres relay	Ecuador Sulay Nazareno Ondina Rodríguez Maritza Valencia Ana Caicedo	45.9 A	Colombia María Quiñones Felipa Palacios Zorobabelia Córdoba Sabina Moya	46.6 A	Chile Minerva Navarrete María Isabel Coloma Hannelore Grosser Lisette Rondón	53.0 A
4 x 400 metres relay	Ecuador Mercy Colorado Ondina Rodríguez Sulay Nazareno Maritza Quiñónez	3:44.12 A	Chile		Colombia†
10 Kilometres Walk	Bertha Vera  Ecuador	47:59.2 A GR	Geovana Irusta  Bolivia	48:22.0 A	Miriam Ramón  Ecuador	48:30.0 A
High Jump	Solange Witteveen  Argentina	1.75 A =GR	Paula Palma  Chile	1.45 A	Paola Ruiz  Ecuador	1.40 A
Pole Vault	Alejandra García  Argentina	4.05 A GR	Déborah Gyurcsek  Uruguay	4.00 A	Irina Castillo  Peru	3.30 A
Long Jump	Mónica Falcioni  Uruguay	6.47 A	Andrea Ávila  Argentina	6.36 A	Ana Caicedo  Ecuador	6.05 A
Triple Jump	Andrea Ávila  Argentina	13.60 A GR	Mónica Falcioni  Uruguay	13.55 A	Ana Gabriela Villacís  Ecuador	11.90 A
Shot Put	Zorobabelia Córdoba  Colombia	13.92 A	Karina Díaz  Ecuador	12.26 A	Paula Palma  Chile	11.84 A
Discus Throw	María Eugenia Villamizar  Colombia	41.00 A	Karina Córdova  Ecuador	38.26 A	Karina Díaz  Ecuador	36.64 A
Hammer Throw	María Eugenia Villamizar  Colombia	57.84 A GR	Ana Cuastumal  Ecuador	50.00 A	Karina Córdova  Ecuador	48.93 A
Javelin Throw	Sabina Moya  Colombia	54.08 A	Daniela Masoli  Chile	47.64 A	Paula Palma  Chile	46.30 A
Heptathlon	Zorobabelia Córdoba  Colombia	4868 A	Minerva Navarrete  Chile	4604 A	Dolores Martínez  Ecuador	3305 A

Notes

^†: No medal because of lack of minimum participation.

Medal table (unofficial)

  *   Host nation (Ecuador)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Ecuador*†	16	16	20	52
2	Colombia	12	5	2	19
3	Chile	7	12	9	28
4	Argentina	7	2	1	10
5	Peru	1	4	6	11
6	Uruguay	1	3	0	4
7	Paraguay	1	0	0	1
8	Bolivia	0	3	4	7
Totals (8 entries)		45	45	42	132

Notes

^†: In contrast to the unofficial count above, only 15 gold, 14 silver and 19 bronze medals for Ecuador are published.^[10] There might have been further events than marked above falling short of participants leading to a reduced number of medals.