1950 South American Championships in Athletics (unofficial)

Unofficial South American Championships in Athletics were held in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1950. It is stated that the event was held in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Uruguayan Athletics Federation.[1] However, the foundation date of the Confederación Atlética del Uruguay (CAU) was already two years earlier on March 1, 1918.[2]

Unofficial South American Championships in Athletics
Host city	Montevideo, Uruguay
Level	Senior
Events	30
← 1949 Lima 1952 Buenos Aires →

Medal summary

Medal winners are published.[1]

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Walter Pérez (URU)	10.5	Fernando Salas (CHI)	10.7	Enrique Falco (URU)	11.1
1922	Walter Pérez (URU)	21.9	Jörn Gevert (CHI)	22.7	Enrique Falco (URU)	23.0
400 metres	Pedro Laborde (URU)	52.1	Nelson García (URU)	52.1	Carlos Pereira (URU)
800 metres	Emir Miller (URU)	1:58.9	Pedro Laborde (URU)	1:59.0	Nelson García (URU)	2:00.3
1500 metres	Raúl Inostroza (CHI)	4:02.4	Horst Knüppel (URU)	4:05.3	Emir Miller (URU)	4:09.5
3000 metres	Oscar Moreira (URU)	8:42.8	Raúl Inostroza (CHI)	8:43.4	Horst Knüppel (URU)	9:01.2
5000 metres	Oscar Moreira (URU)	14:51.6	Raúl Inostroza (CHI)	15:15.2	Gilberto Sánzhez (URU)	15:47.6
10,000 metres	Oscar Moreira (URU)	31:08.7	Gilberto Sánzhez (URU)	32:53.4	Juan Gau (URU)	34:07.2
110 metres hurdles	Jörn Gevert (CHI)	15.2	Mario Recordón (CHI)	15.3	Nelson Coitiño (URU)
400 metres hurdles	Nelson Coitiño (URU)	56.0	Juan Torinotti (URU)	58.6
High jump	Hércules Azcune (URU)	1.95	Jörn Gevert (CHI)	1.85	Pedro Listur (URU)	1.85
Pole vault	Napoleon Araujo (BOL)	3.40	Hernán Ortiz (PAR)	3.40	Ubaldo Busconi (URU)	3.30
Long jump	Eduardo Julve (PER)	6.52	Alcides Rodríguez (URU)	6.47	Hernán Figueroa (CHI)	6.45
Triple jump	Alcides Rodríguez (URU)	13.71	Jörn Gevert (CHI)	13.59	Edgar Andrade (ECU)	13.35
Shot put	Eduardo Julve (PER)	13.77	Mario Recordón (CHI)	12.80	Enrique Vázquez (URU)	12.43
Discus throw	Eduardo Julve (PER)	47.50	Hernán Haddad (CHI)	44.29	Enrique Vázquez (URU)	41.92
Hammer throw	Rubén Carrerou (URU)	50.29	Edmundo Zúñiga (CHI)	48.80	Enrique Vázquez (URU)	46.61
Javelin throw	Janis Stendzenieks (CHI)	59.90	Raúl Cóccaro (URU)	51.44	Juan Sastre (URU)	48.76
4 × 100 metres relay	Uruguay	43.1	Chile	43.6	Paraguay	45.4
4 × 400 metres relay	Uruguay	3:25.9	Chile	3:35.8	Paraguay	3:45.0
Cross Country 12000 metres	Oscar Moreira (URU)	38:43.8	Juan Gau (URU)	41:51.8	Álvaro Donángelo (URU)

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Eliana Gaete (CHI)	12.5	Adriana Millard (CHI)	12.6	Perla Anza (URU)	12.7
200 metres	Adriana Millard (CHI)	26.2	Beatriz Daher (URU)	27.0	Mirtha Ibarra (URU)	27.2
80 metres hurdles	Eliana Gaete (CHI)	11.8	Popelka Sosa (URU)	13.1	Juana Cal (URU)	13.3
High jump	Norma Morales (URU)	1.45	Carmela Antezana (BOL)	1.45	Adriana Millard (CHI)	1.45
Long jump	Adriana Millard (CHI)	5.35	Eliana Gaete (CHI)	5.11	Carmela Antezana (BOL)	4.85
Shot put	Ursula Holle (CHI)	10.59	Sara Rosello (URU)	10.37	Eler Goffer (CHI)	9.68
Discus throw	Ursula Holle (CHI)	30.01	Sara Rosello (URU)	28.72
Javelin throw	Estrella Puente (URU)	41.14	Ursula Holle (CHI)	39.05
4 × 100 metres relay	Uruguay	52.0	Chile	52.9

Medal table (unofficial)

  *   Host nation (Uruguay)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Uruguay (URU)*	17	12	19	48
2	Chile (CHI)	9	16	3	28
3	Peru (PER)	3	0	0	3
4	Bolivia (BOL)	1	1	1	3
5	Paraguay (PAR)	0	1	2	3
6	Ecuador (ECU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 nations)		30	30	26	86

References

1. "SOUTH AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIPS (UNOFFICIAL)", Athletics Weekly, retrieved October 29, 2011
2. ¿Que es la CAU? (in Spanish), Confederación Atlética del Uruguay, archived from the original on 2012-10-17, retrieved October 29, 2011

External links

• gbrathletics.com