1943 South American Championships in Athletics

The 1943 South American Championships in Athletics were held in Santiago, Chile.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Adelio Márquez  Argentina	10.8	Walter Pérez  Uruguay	10.9	Roberto Valenzuela  Chile	11.0
200 metres	Roberto Valenzuela  Chile	22.2	Adelio Márquez  Argentina	22.2	Victorino Triulzi  Argentina	22.3
400 metres	Jorge Ehlers  Chile	48.6	Víctorino Triulzi  Argentina	49.2	Enrique Hurtado  Chile	49.8
800 metres	Alfonso Rozas  Chile	1:54.6	Guillermo García  Chile	1:55.4	Marino Cid  Argentina	1:55.5
1500 metres	Guillermo García  Chile	4:03.2	Melchor Palmeiro  Argentina	4:03.5	Marino Cid  Argentina	4:05.4
3000 metres	Raúl Inostroza  Chile	8:32.4 CR	Miguel Castro  Chile	8:35.0	Delfo Cabrera  Argentina	8:44.6
5000 metres	Raúl Inostroza  Chile	15:00.0	Miguel Castro  Chile	15:09.9	Delfo Cabrera  Argentina	15:11.0
10000 metres	René Millas  Chile	31:27.4	Manuel Díaz  Chile	31:34.0	Delfo Cabrera  Argentina	31:36.8
Road race	Corsino Fernández  Argentina	1:45:45	Eusebio Guiñez  Argentina	1:45:53	Julio Montecinos  Chile	1:49:03
110 metres hurdles	Julio Jaime  Uruguay	15.7	Jorge Undurraga  Chile	15.8	Juan Colín  Chile	15.8
400 metres hurdles	Alfonso Rozas  Chile	55.1	Juan Hoelzel  Chile	55.6	Octavio Montero  Chile	57.1
High jump	Antonio Barrionuevo  Argentina	1.83	Carlos Capella  Chile	1.80	Alfonso Burgos  Chile	1.75
Pole vault	Federico Horn  Chile	4.00 =CR	Erwin Reimer  Chile	3.80	Carlos Baumann  Argentina	3.60
Long jump	Alberto Eggeling  Chile	7.02	Juan Hoelzel  Chile	6.85	Guillermo Dyer  Peru	6.80
Triple jump	Guillermo Dyer  Peru	14.43	Oscar Bringas  Peru	14.41	Celestino Sarraua  Argentina	14.15
Shot put	Julián Llorente  Argentina	14.33	Raúl Rebagliatti  Argentina	13.50	Guillermo Otto  Chile	12.75
Discus throw	Manuel Consiglieri  Peru	44.43	Eduardo Julve  Peru	41.64	Alfredo Meynet  Chile	39.53
Hammer throw	Manuel Etchepare  Argentina	46.81	Juan Fusé  Argentina	46.06	Antonio Barticevic  Chile	44.82
Javelin throw	Otto Wenzel  Chile	57.08	Raúl Cóccaro  Uruguay	55.52	Rodolfo Correa  Chile	53.99
Decathlon	Juan Colín  Chile	6069	Eduardo Julve  Peru	6046	Roberto Stahringer  Argentina	5912
4 × 100 metres relay	Argentina	42.4	Chile	42.4	Uruguay	43.2
4 × 400 metres relay	Argentina	3:18.8 CR	Chile	3:19.4	Bolivia	3:41.1
3000 metres team race	Chile	10	Argentina	6	Bolivia	4
Cross country	Raúl Inostroza  Chile	46:08.0	Eusebio Guiñez  Argentina	46:14.0	René Millas  Chile	46:30.4

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Noemí Simonetto  Argentina	12.4 CR	Beatriz Kretschmer  Chile	12.6	Ilse Hammerl  Argentina	12.8
200 metres	Ilse Hammerl  Argentina	26.5	Beatriz Kretschmer  Chile	26.7	María Malvicini  Argentina	27.0
80 metres hurdles	Edith Klempau  Chile	12.0 CR	Susana Krumenaker  Argentina	12.1	Ilse Barends  Chile	12.2
High jump	Ilse Barends  Chile	1.50	Edith Klempau  Chile	1.50	Noemí Simonetto  Argentina	1.50
Long jump	Noemí Simonetto  Argentina	5.27 CR	Ilse Barends  Chile	5.25	Lily Warch  Chile	4.93
Shot put	Edith Klempau  Chile	11.70	Ingeborg Mello  Argentina	10.98	Lore Zippelius  Chile	10.79
Discus throw	Lore Zippelius  Chile	37.16 CR	Ingeborg Mello  Argentina	34.60	Christel Balde  Chile	34.53
Javelin throw	Edith Klempau  Chile	34.19	Ilse Caro  Argentina	34.17	Mercedes Martín  Chile	33.02
4 × 100 metres relay	Argentina	49.5 =CR	Chile	50.8	Bolivia	53.3

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Chile (CHI)	19	16	16	51
2	Argentina (ARG)	11	12	12	35
3	Peru (PER)	2	3	1	6
4	Uruguay (URU)	1	2	1	4
5	Bolivia (BOL)	0	0	3	3
Totals (5 nations)		33	33	33	99

References

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