1979 South American Athletics Championships

Host City	Bucaramanga
Country	COL
Held	31 October – 4 November 1979
Competitors	107
Countries	10

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Brazil	BRA	13	18	12	43
2	Argentina	ARG	7	4	7	18
3	Chile	CHI	7	2	2	11
4	Colombia	COL	5	5	5	15
5	Venezuela	VEN	4	6	6	16
6	Uruguay	URU	1	1	0	2
7	Peru	PER	0	1	0	1
8	Bolivia	BOL	0	0	2	2
=	Panama	PAN	0	0	2	2
10	Paraguay	PAR	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
100 m, Men	Altevir de Araújo	BRA	Manuel Ramírez	COL	Reinaldo Lizardi	VEN
200 m, Men	Altevir de Araújo	BRA	Katsuhiko Nakaya	BRA	Héctor Daley	PAN
400 m, Men	Geraldo José Pegado	BRA	Antônio Ferreira	BRA	Héctor Daley	PAN
800 m, Men	Cristián Molina	CHI	William Wuycke	VEN	Pedro Cáceres	ARG
1,500 m, Men	Emilio Ulloa	CHI	José Luis Velázquez	VEN	Wilson Parreiras de Santana	BRA
5,000 m, Men	Alejandro Silva	CHI	Domingo Tibaduiza	COL	Johnny Pérez	BOL
10,000 m, Men	Silvio Salazar	COL	Domingo Tibaduiza	COL	Víctor Maldonado	VEN
Marathon, Men	Luis Barbosa	COL	Alfonso Torres	COL	Lucirio Garrido	VEN
110 m Hurdles, Men	Wellington da Nobrega	BRA	Carlos Alberto Alves	BRA	Andrés Lyon	CHI
400 m Hurdles, Men	Antônio Ferreira	BRA	Donizete Soares	BRA	José Davis	VEN
3,000 m Steeplechase, Men	Germán Aranda	COL	Elói Schleder	BRA	Johnny Pérez	BOL
4 x 100 m Relay, Men	Venezuela	VEN	Brazil	BRA	Argentina	ARG
4 x 400 m Relay, Men	Venezuela	VEN	Argentina	ARG	Brazil	BRA
20 km Walk, Men	Ernesto Alfaro	COL	Waldemar Florêncio da Silva	BRA	Jorge Quiñones	COL
High Jump, Men	Daniel Mamet	ARG	Geraldo Rodrígues	BRA	Irajá Cecy	BRA
Pole Vault, Men	Fernando Ruocco	URU	Tito Steiner	ARG	Henry Gómez	COL
Long Jump, Men	Oswaldo Torres	VEN	Carlos Gambetta	ARG	Francisco De Oliveira	BRA
Triple Jump, Men	José Salazar	VEN	Francisco De Oliveira	BRA	Celso Pereira	BRA
Shot Put, Men	Gert Weil	CHI	Jesús Ramos	VEN	José Carlos Jacques	BRA
Discus Throw, Men	Sérgio Thomé	BRA	Luis Palacios	VEN	José Carlos Jacques	BRA
Hammer Throw, Men	José Alberto Vallejo	ARG	Celso de Morães	BRA	Daniel Gómez	ARG
Javelin Throw, Men	Ramón Garmendía	ARG	Orángel Rodríguez	VEN	Paulo Roberto Hasse	BRA
Decathlon, Men	Alfredo Silva	CHI	Ramón Montezuma	VEN	Claudio Escauriza	PAR
100 m, Women	Beatriz Allocco	ARG	Carmela Bolívar	PER	Esmeralda Garcia	BRA
200 m, Women	Beatriz Allocco	ARG	Tânia Miranda	BRA	Esmeralda Garcia	BRA
400 m, Women	Tânia Miranda	BRA	Margarita Grun	URU	Miriam Rojas	COL
800 m, Women	Alejandra Ramos	CHI	Nancy González	CHI	Adriana Marchena	VEN
1,500 m, Women	Alejandra Ramos	CHI	Teresa Rodríguez	COL	Mónica Regonesi	CHI
100 m Hurdles, Women	Yvonne Neddermann	ARG	Olga Veríssimo	BRA	Beatriz Capotosto	ARG
4 x 100 m Relay, Women	Argentina	ARG	Brazil	BRA	Venezuela	VEN
4 x 400 m Relay, Women	Brazil	BRA	Chile	CHI	Colombia	COL
High Jump, Women	Ana Maria Marcón	BRA	Liliana Arigoni	ARG	Beatriz Bonfim Dias	BRA
Long Jump, Women	Themis Zambrzycki	BRA	Conceição Geremias	BRA	Yvonne Neddermann	ARG
Shot Put, Women	Magdalena Gómez	COL	Themis Zambrzycki	BRA	Maria Boso	BRA
Discus Throw, Women	Sandra Peres	BRA	Maria Boso	BRA	Selene Saldarriaga	COL
Javelin Throw, Women	Marli Dos Santos	BRA	Neuza Trolezzi	BRA	Ana María Campillay	ARG
Pentathlon, Women	Themis Zambrzycki	BRA	Conceição Geremias	BRA	Yvonne Neddermann	ARG