1953 South American Championships in Athletics (unofficial)

International athletics championship event

Unofficial South American Championships in Athletics
Dates	April, 19-26
Host city	Santiago, Chile
Venue	Estadio Nacional
Level	Senior
Events	31
← 1952 Buenos Aires 1954 São Paulo →

Unofficial South American Championships in Athletics (Campeonato Sudamericano Extraordinario de Atletismo) were held on 19–26 April 1953, at Chile's national stadium, Estadio Nacional in the capital, Santiago.

Medal summary

Medal winners are published.

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Gerardo Bönnhoff (ARG)	10.9	Romeo Galán (ARG)	11.0	Gerardo Salazar (PER)	11.0
200 metres	Gerardo Bönnhoff (ARG)	21.8	Benedito Ferreira (BRA)	21.8	Gustavo Ehlers (CHI)	22.1
400 metres	Argemiro Roque (BRA)	48.2	Gustavo Ehlers (CHI)	48.5	Ramón Sandoval (CHI)	49.1
800 metres	Ramón Sandoval (CHI)	1:52.3	Argemiro Roque (BRA)	1:53.7	Waldomiro Monteiro (BRA)	1:54.5
1500 metres	Guillermo Solá (CHI)	3:58.6	Juan Miranda (ARG)	4:00.4	Laudionor da Silva (BRA)	4:03.0
5000 metres	Osvaldo Suárez (ARG)	15:23.1	Raúl Ibarra (ARG)	15:25.5	Luis Campusano (CHI)	15:27.0
10,000 metres	Ricardo Bralo (ARG)	31:36.0	Alfredo Cornejo (CHI)	32:10.2	Raúl Ibarra (ARG)	32:19.2
Half Marathon	Reinaldo Gorno (ARG)	1:09:47	Ezequiel Bustamente (ARG)	1:09:49	Juan Gau (URU)	1:11:17
3000 metres steeplechase	Guillermo Solá (CHI)	9:25.3	Edgard Mitt (BRA)	9:28.8	Santiago Novas (CHI)	9:29.7
110 metres hurdles	Estanislao Kocourek (ARG)	14.7	Wilson Carneiro (BRA)	14.7	Ijoel da Silva (BRA)	15.0
400 metres hurdles	Wilson Carneiro (BRA)	51.9	Jörn Gevert (CHI)	52.4	Humberto Cabrera (ARG)	53.9
High jump	José Telles da Conceição (BRA)	1.93	Ernesto Lagos (CHI)	1.93	Carlos Puebla (CHI)	1.85
Pole vault	Eduardo de Oca (ARG)	3.80	Hélio da Silva (BRA)	3.80	Luis Ganoza (PER)	3.60
Long jump	Ary de Sá (BRA)	7.31	Aldo Zuccolillo (PAR)	7.17	Ahylton da Conceição (BRA)	7.16
Triple jump	Adhemar da Silva (BRA)	15.61	Renato do Nascimento (BRA)	14.95	Alberto Betalleluz (PER)	14.08
Shot put	Alcides Dambrós (BRA)	15.08	Rubén Scaraffia (ARG)	13.74	Nadim Marreis (BRA)	13.61
Discus throw	Eduardo Julve (PER)	46.82	Elvio Porta (ARG)	46.68	Pedro Ucke (ARG)	44.86
Hammer throw	Arturo Melcher (CHI)	49.14	Elvio Porta (ARG)	48.75	Alejandro Díaz (CHI)	48.65
Javelin throw	Ricardo Héber (ARG)	68.23	Janis Stendzenieks (CHI)	64.94	Gerardo Mielke (ARG)	61.96
Decathlon	Carlos Vera (CHI)	5436	Francisco Moura (BRA)	5359	Hércules Azcune (URU)	5291
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil	41.7	Argentina	41.9	Chile	42.6
4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil	3:15.5	Chile	3:17.1	Argentina	3:19.1

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Lilián Buglia (ARG)	12.6	Deyse de Castro (BRA)	12.7	Lilián Heinz (ARG)	12.8
200 metres	Deyse de Castro (BRA)	25.2	Lilián Heinz (ARG)	25.6	Gladys Erbetta (ARG)	26.0
80 metres hurdles	Wanda dos Santos (BRA)	11.7	Eliana Gaete (CHI)	11.7	Anice Burgos (BRA)	12.3
High jump	Deyse de Castro (BRA)	1.55	Elizabeth Müller (BRA)	1.50	María Cañas (CHI)	1.45
Long jump	Gladys Erbetta (ARG)	5.54	Lisa Peters (CHI)	5.46	Lilián Buglia (ARG)	5.45
Shot put	Vera Trezoitko (BRA)	11.91	Isabel Avellán (ARG)	11.37	Elizabeth Müller (BRA)	11.11
Discus throw	Isabel Avellán (ARG)	41.17	Ingeborg Pfüller (ARG)	39.09	Erika Trömel (CHI)	38.18
Javelin throw	Anneliese Schmidt (BRA)	39.67	Adriana Silva (CHI)	38.20	Carmen Venegas (CHI)	37.43
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil	48.2	Argentina	48.7	Chile	50.3

Medal table (unofficial)

* Host nation (Chile)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil (BRA)	14	9	7	30
2	Argentina (ARG)	11	12	8	31
3	Chile (CHI)*	5	9	11	25
4	Peru (PER)	1	0	3	4
5	Paraguay (PAR)	0	1	0	1
6	Uruguay (URU)	0	0	2	2
Totals (6 entries)		31	31	31	93

References

^ "SOUTH AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIPS (UNOFFICIAL)", Athletics Weekly, retrieved October 29, 2011
Historia – cronología del atletismo en Chile (in Spanish), Federación Atlética de Chile, archived from the original on 2012-04-03, retrieved October 29, 2011

External links

gbrathletics.com

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