1957 South American Athletics Championships

Host City	Santiago
Country	CHI
Held	19 – 21 April 1957
Competitors	53
Countries	3

Unofficial

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Brazil	BRA	10	7	4	21
2	Chile	CHI	6	9	13	28
3	Argentina	ARG	6	6	7	19

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
100 m, Men	Jorge de Barros	BRA	João Pires Sobrinho	BRA	Gerardo Bönnhoff	ARG
200 m, Men	João Pires Sobrinho	BRA	Jorge de Barros	BRA	Teodoro Blaschke	CHI
400 m, Men	Ulisses dos Santos	BRA	Anubes da Silva	BRA	Hugo Krauss	CHI
800 m, Men	Ramón Sandoval	CHI	Argemiro Roque	BRA	Waldo Sandoval	CHI
1,500 m, Men	Ramón Sandoval	CHI	Eduardo Fontecilla	CHI	Gilberto Miori	ARG
5,000 m, Men	Jorge González	CHI	Jaime Correa	CHI	Armando Pino	ARG
10,000 m, Men	Walter Lemos	ARG	Armando Pino	ARG	José Calixto	BRA
Half Marathon, Men	Argentina	ARG	Brazil	BRA	Chile	CHI
110 m Hurdles, Men	Francisco Bergonzoni	BRA	Héctor Rodríguez	CHI	Wilson Carneiro	BRA
400 m Hurdles, Men	Ulisses dos Santos	BRA	Anubes da Silva	BRA	Pablo Eitel	CHI
3,000 m Steeplechase, Men	António Núñez	ARG	Santiago Novas	CHI	José Primo	BRA
4 x 100 m Relay, Men	Brazil	BRA	Argentina	ARG	Chile	CHI
4 x 400 m Relay, Men	Brazil	BRA	Chile	CHI	Argentina	ARG
High Jump, Men	Ernesto Lagos	CHI	Horacio Martínez del Sel	ARG	José da Conceição Juan Ruiz Óscar Bártoli	BRA CHI ARG
Pole Vault, Men	Fausto De Souza	BRA	José Infante	CHI	Ricardo Bonino	CHI
Long Jump, Men	Eduardo Krumm	CHI	Pedro Marcel	ARG	Wladimiro Leyton	CHI
Triple Jump, Men	Adhemar da Silva	BRA	Ariel Standen	CHI	Jorge Castillo	ARG
Shot Put, Men	Enrique Helf	ARG	Isolino Taborda	BRA	Günther Kruse	ARG
Discus Throw, Men	Günther Kruse	ARG	Hernán Haddad	CHI	Dieter Gevert	CHI
Hammer Throw, Men	Bruno Strohmeyer	BRA	Arturo Melcher	CHI	Alejandro Díaz	CHI
Javelin Throw, Men	Ricardo Héber	ARG	Nelson Matteucci	ARG	Juris Laipenieks	CHI
Decathlon, Men	Hernán Figueroa	CHI	Óscar Bártoli	ARG	Leonardo Kittsteiner	CHI