1956 South American Championships in Athletics – Results
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These are the results of the 1956 South American Championships in Athletics which took place at the Estadio Nacional in Santiago, Chile, between 14 and 22 April.[1] Only the top 6 athletes have been reported for some finals.
Men's results
100 metres
Heats – 14 April
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Semifinals – 14 April[2]
Final – 15 April
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200 metres
Heats – 17 April
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Semifinals – 17 April
Final – 19 April
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400 metres
Heats – 14 April
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Final – 15 April
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800 metres
19 April[3]
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Ramón Sandoval |  Chile | 1:49.0 | AR |
 | Eduardo Balducci |  Argentina | 1:51.5 | NR |
 | Argemiro Roque |  Brazil | 1:52.4 | NR |
| 4 | Waldo Sandoval | Chile | 1:52.4 | |
| 5 | Eduardo Fontecilla | Chile | 1:54.0 | |
| 6 | Sebastião Mendes | Brazil | 1:54.3 | |
| Odilon Dias Netto | Brazil | NT | ||
| Albano Arízar |  Colombia | NT | ||
| Jorge O'Brien |  Peru | NT | ||
| Juan López | Peru | NT | ||
| Orlando Arevalo |  Uruguay | NT | ||
| Emir Miller | Uruguay | NT | ||
| Carlos Pereira | Uruguay | NT |
1500 metres
15 April
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ramón Sandoval | Chile | 3:48.4 | AR |
| Eduardo Balducci | Argentina | 3:53.4 | |
| Waldo Sandoval | Chile | 3:54.5 | |
| 4 | Sebastião Mendes | Brazil | 3:55.2 | |
| 5 | Eduardo Fontecilla | Chile | 3:57.6 | |
| 6 | Antônio Roque | Brazil | 4:01.3 | |
| Albano Arízar | Colombia | NT | ||
| Orlando Arevalo | Uruguay | NT | ||
| Juan Miranda | Argentina | DNF |
5000 metres
14 April
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Osvaldo Suárez | Argentina | 14:30.8 | CR |
| Jaime Correa | Chile | 14:47.8 | |
| Walter Lemos | Argentina | 14:51.7 | |
| 4 | Santiago Novas | Chile | 15:10.4 | |
| 5 | Luís Rodrigues | Brazil | 15:11.8 | |
| 6 | Jorge González | Chile | 15:17.4 | |
| Juan Guerra | Argentina | NT | ||
| Laudinor da Silva | Brazil | NT | ||
| Edgar Freire | Brazil | NT | ||
| Albérico Correa | Uruguay | NT | ||
| Segundo Torres | Peru | NT | ||
| Luis Paredes | Peru | NT | ||
| Wenceslao Bárzola | Peru | NT |
10,000 metres
19 April
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Osvaldo Suárez | Argentina | 30:12.2 | CR |
| Walter Lemos | Argentina | 30:27.4 | |
| Alfredo de Oliveira | Brazil | 31:41.0 | |
| 4 | João dos Santos | Brazil | 31:47.2 | |
| 5 | Armando Pino | Argentina | 32:09.8 | |
| 6 | Haroldo Gallardo | Chile | 32:26.2 | |
| Armando Terán |  Ecuador | NT | ||
| Segundo Torres | Peru | NT | ||
| Luis Paredes | Peru | NT | ||
| Wenceslao Bárzola | Peru | NT | ||
| Albérico Correa | Uruguay | NT | ||
| Jaime Correa | Chile | DNF | ||
| Jorge González | Chile | DNF |
Half marathon
22 April
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Osvaldo Suárez | Argentina | 1:08:54 | CR |
| Walter Lemos | Argentina | 1:09:00 | |
| Juan Silva | Chile | 1:10:31 | |
| 4 | Armando Pino | Argentina | 1:10:57 | |
| 5 | Alfredo de Oliveira | Brazil | 1:11:06 | |
| 6 | Luís Rodrigues | Brazil | 1:12:32 | |
| 7 | Alfonso Cornejo | Chile | NT | |
| 8 | João dos Santos | Brazil | NT | |
| 9 | Luis Paredes | Peru | NT | |
| 10 | Wenceslao Bárzola | Peru | NT | |
| 11 | Segundo Torres | Peru | NT | |
| 12 | Armando Terán | Ecuador | NT | |
| 13 | José Elías Pérez | Chile | NT |
110 metres hurdles
Heats – 15 April
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Final – 17 April
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400 metres hurdles
Heats – 19 April
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Final – 21 April
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3000 metres steeplechase
21 April[4]
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santiago Novas | Chile | 9:09.0 | AR |
| Sebastião Mendes | Brazil | 9:17.4 | |
| Guillermo Solá | Chile | 9:25.8 | |
| 4 | Haroldo Gallardo | Chile | 9:32.2 | |
| 5 | Edgar Freire | Brazil | 9:58.4 | |
| 6 | Viterbo Rivero | Uruguay | 10:02.6 | |
| Rolando Subirós | Argentina | NT | ||
| Armando Terán | Ecuador | NT |
4 × 100 metres relay
Heats – 19 April[3]
| Rank | Lane | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Argentina | Luis Vienna, Roberto Ferrario, Gerardo Bönnhoff, Juan Carlos Acosta | 42.0 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Uruguay | Fermín Donazar, José Ravell, Óscar Nietzel, Carlos Pereira | 42.8 | Q |
| 1 | Peru | Gerardo Salazar, Enrique Stewart, Guillermo Sebastiani, Wilfredo Sanguinetti | DQ | ||
| 1 | 2 | Chile | Teodoro Blaschke, Eduardo Bezanilla, Jorge Pérez, Patricio Letelier | 42.4 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Colombia | Gilberto Truque, Constantin Fascie, Antonio Venegas, Aristipo Lerma | 42.4 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Brazil | João Pires Sobrinho, Jorge de Barros, Paulo da Fonseca, Armando da Silva | 43.7 | Q |
| 2 | Ecuador | Arturo Flores, Guillermo Martínez, Pedro Araguin, N. Alvarado | DQ |
Final – 21 April
| Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | João Pires Sobrinho, Jorge de Barros, Paulo da Fonseca, Armando da Silva | 41.4 | |
| Argentina | Gerardo Bönnhoff, Luis Vienna, Roberto Ferrario, Juan Carlos Acosta | 41.5 | |
| Colombia | Gilberto Truque, Constantin Fascie, Antonio Venegas, Aristipo Lerma | 42.6 | |
| 4 | Uruguay | Fermín Donazar, José Ravell, Óscar Nietzel, Carlos Pereira | 43.0 | |
| Chile | DQ |
4 × 400 metres relay
22 April
| Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colombia | Jaime Aparicio, Zados Guardiola, Carlos Sierra, Antonio Vanegas | 3:14.6 | AR |
| Brazil | Argemiro Roque, Mário do Nascimento, Anubes da Silva, Armando da Silva | 3:16.1 | |
| Argentina | Rodolfo Beltrán, Juan Carlos Acosta, Gerardo Bönnhoff, Eduardo Balducci | 3:16.8 | |
| 4 | Chile | Hugo Krauss, Waldo Sandoval, Ramón Sandoval, Pablo Eitel | 3:17.3 | |
| 5 | Peru | Eulogio Gómez, Jorge O'Brien, José Laca, Juan López | 3:19.1 | |
| 6 | Uruguay | José Ravell, Carlos Pereira, Heber Etcheverry, Emir Miller | 3:24.8 |
High jump
14 April
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oscar Bártoli | Argentina | 1.93 | |
| Ernesto Lagos | Chile | 1.90 | |
| Juan Ruiz | Chile | 1.85 | |
| Alberto Bacan | Brazil | 1.85 | |
| 5 | Horacio Martínez | Argentina | 1.85 | |
| 6 | Sergio Montes | Chile | 1.85 | |
| 7 | Hajime Nakajima | Brazil | 1.80 | |
| 7 | Luis Huarcaya | Peru | 1.80 | |
| 7 | Odilon Dias Netto | Brazil | 1.80 | |
| 10 | Roberto Vázquez | Argentina | 1.75 | |
| 11 | Carlos Guarderas | Ecuador | 1.70 | |
| 11 | Martín Richtenberg | Uruguay | 1.70 |
Pole vault
17 April
Long jump
15 April
| Rank | Name | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fermín Donazar | Uruguay | x | 7.23 | 7.23 | |||||
| Ary de Sá | Brazil | 7.14 | – | – | 6.94 | 6.83 | 6.94 | 7.14 | |
| Luís Akuta | Brazil | x | x | x | 7.10 | ||||
| 4 | Ahylton da Conceiçao | Brazil | 7.05 | |||||||
| 5 | Albino Geist | Argentina | 6.95 | |||||||
| 6 | Carlos Vera | Chile | 6.79 |
Triple jump
19 April
Shot put
15 April
| Rank | Name | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alcides Dambrós | Brazil | 14.52 | 14.77 | 14.97 | 14.72 | 14.77 | x | 14.97 | |
| Rubén Scaraffia | Argentina | 14.72 | 14.72 | ||||||
| Günther Kruse | Argentina | 13.97 | |||||||
| 4 | Nadim Marreis | Brazil | 13.82 | |||||||
| 5 | Armin Nevermann | Chile | 13.80 | |||||||
| 6 | Isolino Taborda | Brazil | 13.78 | |||||||
| Leonardo Kittsteiner | Chile | 13.5? | ||||||||
| Fernando Morales | Chile | 13.?? |
Discus throw
21 April
| Rank | Name | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Günther Kruse | Argentina | 47.61 | 47.22 | 46.62 | 40.82 | 41.68 | 47.58 | 47.61 | CR |
| Hernán Haddad | Chile | 47.24 | 47.24 | ||||||
| Pedro Ucke | Argentina | 46.56 | |||||||
| 4 | Eduardo Julve | Peru | 45.49 | |||||||
| 5 | Elvio Porta | Argentina | 44.17 | |||||||
| 6 | Dieter Gevert | Chile | 42.43 | |||||||
| 7 | Manuel Fernández | Peru | 41.56 | |||||||
| 8 | Nadim Marreis | Brazil | 41.39 | |||||||
| 9 | Héctor Menacho | Peru | 40.03 | |||||||
| 10 | Walter Yaeger | Chile | 39.63 | |||||||
| 11 | Walter da Costa | Brazil | 39.61 | |||||||
| 12 | Enrique Vázquez | Uruguay | 37.91 |
Hammer throw
17 April
| Rank | Name | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alejandro Díaz | Chile | 52.88 | 52.88 | ||||||
| Edmundo Zúñiga | Chile | x | 50.69 | 50.76 | 50.81 | 51.71 | 50.11 | 51.71 | |
| Elvio Porta | Argentina | 47.48 | 48.81 | 49.64 | x | 51.55 | 48.05 | 51.55 | |
| 4 | Walter da Costa | Brazil | 50.38 | 50.38 | ||||||
| 5 | Arturo Melcher | Chile | 49.58 | |||||||
| 6 | Walter Kupper | Brazil | 49.55 | |||||||
| 7 | Enrique Vázquez | Uruguay | 44.59 | |||||||
| 8 | Haroldo Guimarães | Brazil | 43.46 | |||||||
| 9 | Manuel Etchepare | Argentina | 43.24 |
Javelin throw
14 April – old model
| Rank | Name | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ricardo Héber | Argentina | 58.59 | 60.80 | 64.18 | 62.33 | 64.45 | 58.55 | 64.45 | |
| Néstor Matteucci | Argentina | 61.51 | 61.51 | ||||||
| Carlos Monge | Peru | 59.20 | |||||||
| 4 | Fernando Ceballos | Chile | 58.72 | 58.72 | ||||||
| 5 | Janis Stendzeniecks | Chile | 52.14 | 58.34 | x | 56.13 | 57.85 | 57.58 | 58.34 | |
| 6 | Osmar Duque | Brazil | 56.40 | |||||||
| 7 | Manoel da Silva | Brazil | 55.92 | |||||||
| 8 | Mar Núñez | Chile | 55.87 | |||||||
| 9 | Hans Hillmann | Peru | 54.71 | |||||||
| 10 | Jorge Tostirelli | Argentina | 54.65 | |||||||
| 11 | Orlando Couto | Brazil | 52.90 |
Decathlon
21–22 April – 1952 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Héctor Menacho | Peru | 11.4 | 6.14 | 12.39 | 1.65 | 51.5 | 16.3 | 42.93 | 3.10 | 42.71 | 4:43.8 | 5671 | 6132* | |
| Leonardo Kittsteiner | Chile | 11.7 | 6.11 | 14.19 | 1.67 | 52.4 | 16.3 | 33.73 | 3.00 | 51.57 | 4:54.3 | 5499 | 6007* | |
| Aldo Ribeiro | Brazil | 11.4 | 6.18 | 10.70 | 1.74 | 52.5 | 15.8 | 31.48 | 3.20 | 47.88 | 4:54.8 | 5401 | 5926* | |
| 4 | Oscar Bártoli | Argentina | 12.1 | 6.49 | 10.99 | 1.95 | 54.3 | 17.2 | 35.21 | 3.20 | 48.32 | 4:52.0 | 5364 | 5930* | |
| 5 | Luís Fernandes | Brazil | 11.6 | 6.05 | 9.77 | 1.65 | 52.5 | 16.2 | 31.34 | 3.20 | 42.15 | 4:26.2 | 5211 | 5777* | |
| 6 | Ary de Sá | Brazil | 11.0 | 6.88 | 10.04 | 1.72 | 54.7 | 16.0 | 28.20 | 3.00 | 43.07 | 5:20.2 | 5110 | 5674* | |
| 7 | Roberto Vásquez | Argentina | 12.3 | 6.16 | 11.33 | 1.87 | 54.9 | 17.2 | 35.28 | 3.20 | 43.68 | 5:05.8 | 4937 | 5597* | |
| 8 | Emir Martínez | Argentina | 11.6 | 6.19 | 12.14 | 1.65 | 1:01.1 | 17.9 | 37.61 | 3.20 | 45.37 | 4:43.7 | 4871 | 5512* | |
| 9 | Raúl Osorio | Chile | 11.7 | 6.12 | 10.42 | 1.70 | 51.8 | 17.3 | 30.23 | 3.10 | 45.93 | DNF | 4630 | 5006* | |
| Hernán Figueroa | Chile | 12.0 | 5.53 | 11.58 | 1.75 | 59.5 | ? | 33.72 | ? | – | – | DNF | – |
Women's results
100 metres
Heats – 14 April
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Final – 15 April
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200 metres
Heats – 17 April
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Final – 19 April
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80 metres hurdles
Heats – 21 April
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Final – 22 April
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4 × 100 metres relay
22 April
| Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina | Gladys Erbetta, Lilián Buglia, Edith Berg, Olga Bianchi | 48.6 | |
| Chile | Marlene Hyslop, Eliana Gaete, Teresa Venegas, Patricia Rodoni | 49.3 | |
| Brazil | Wanda dos Santos, Maria José de Lima, Marlene Matos, Hannelore Poetscher | 49.4 | |
| 4 | Peru | Elsa Campos, Gaby Donaire, Dora Sánchez, Martha Huby | 51.0 |
High jump
21 April
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nelly Gómez | Chile | 1.50 | |
| Elizabeth Müller | Brazil | 1.50 | |
| María Cañas | Chile | 1.50 | |
| Cleide Eloy | Brazil | 1.50 | |
| 5 | Ida Visentainer | Chile | 1.45 | |
| 5 | Gladys Erbetta | Argentina | 1.45 |
Long jump
15 April
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gladys Erbetta | Argentina | 5.88 | AR |
| Ada Brener | Argentina | 5.41 | |
| Olga Bianchi | Argentina | 5.39 | |
| 4 | Marlene Hyslop | Chile | 5.32 | |
| 5 | Wanda dos Santos | Brazil | 5.25 | |
| 6 | Ida Visentainer | Chile | 5.04 |
Shot put
19 April
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eliana Bahamondes | Chile | 11.95 | CR |
| Pradelia Delgado | Chile | 11.84 | |
| Elizabeth Müller | Brazil | 11.31 | |
| 4 | Isabel Avellán | Argentina | 11.20 | |
| 5 | Julia Huapaya | Peru | 11.06 | |
| 6 | Nelly Yugo | Chile | 10.57 | |
| 7 | Ingeborg Mello | Argentina | 10.45 | |
| 8 | Lilian Poetzcher | Brazil | 10.00 | |
| 9 | Zulema Bonaparte | Argentina | 9.18 |
Discus throw
14 April
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isabel Avellán | Argentina | 44.08 | CR |
| Rosa Riveros | Chile | 38.22 | |
| Ingeborg Mello | Argentina | 38.08 | |
| 4 | Daisy Hoffmann | Chile | 37.63 | |
| 5 | Zulema Bonaparte | Argentina | 37.02 | |
| 6 | Pradelia Delgado | Chile | 36.97 | |
| 7 | Lilian Poetzcher | Brazil | 34.81 | |
| 8 | Julia Huarpaya | Peru | 34.31 |
Javelin throw
22 April – old model