1952 South American Championships in Athletics – Results

These are the results of the 1952 South American Championships in Athletics which took place at the Estadio River Plate in Buenos Aires, Argentina, between 3 and 11 May.Detailed results (pp 163–172)

Men's results 100 metres

Heats – 3 MayWind:Heat 1: -0.8 m/s, Heat 2: -0.1 m/s, Heat 3: -0.4 m/s, Heat 4: +0.7 m/s Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Armando Zapata 10.8 Q 2 1 Luis Montico 11.0 Q 3 1 Walter Pérez 11.0 Q 4 1 Fernando Salinas 11.0 1 2 Gerardo Salazar 10.8 Q 2 2 Geraldo Murgel 10.9 Q 3 2 Romeo Galán 10.9 Q 4 2 Arturo Flores 11.0 5 2 Anastasio Zelaya 11.3 1 3 Máximo Reyes 10.8 Q 2 3 José Zelaya 11.1 Q 3 3 Mario Fayos 11.1 Q 4 3 Ary de Sá 11.1 5 3 Andrés Jeannerette 11.1 1 4 Gerardo Bönnhoff 10.6 Q 2 4 José Telles da Conceição 10.9 Q 3 4 Aníbal Estradé 10.9 Q 4 4 Boris Tomicic 11.0 5 4 Mario Drouet 11.3 Semifinals – 3 MayWind:Heat 1: +1.0 m/s, Heat 2: +0.5 m/s Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Armando Zapata 10.9 Q 2 1 José Zelaya 11.0 Q 3 1 Máximo Reyes 11.0 Q 4 1 Mario Fayos 11.0 5 1 Luis Montico 11.0 6 1 Walter Pérez 11.1 1 2 Gerardo Bönnhoff 10.7 Q 2 2 Gerardo Salazar 10.8 Q 3 2 José Telles da Conceição 10.8 Q 4 2 Geraldo Murgel 10.8 5 2 Romeo Galán 10.9 6 2 Aníbal Estradé 11.0

Final – 4 MayWind: -0.1 m/s Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 2 Gerardo Salazar 10.7 5 Gerardo Bönnhoff 10.8 6 José Telles da Conceição 10.8 4 1 Armando Zapata 10.9 5 4 Máximo Reyes 11.0 6 3 José Zelaya 11.0

200 metres

Heats – 6 May Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Óscar Maldonado 22.4 Q 2 1 Mario Fayos 22.4 Q 3 1 Geraldo Murgel 22.5 Q 4 1 Luis Montico 22.7 5 1 Andrés Jeannerette 23.1 1 2 Gerardo Bönnhoff 22.2 Q 2 2 Ary de Sá 22.9 Q 3 2 Mario Drouet 23.1 Q 4 2 Santiago Ferrando 23.2 5 2 Anastasio Zelaya 23.4 1 3 Arturo Flores 22.8 Q 2 3 Juan Romero 23.0 Q 3 3 Gustavo Ehlers 24.0 Q 1 4 Alexandre Netto 22.2 Q 2 4 Fernando Lapuente 22.8 Q 3 4 Fernando Salinas 22.8 Q 4 4 Ciro Brazeiro 23.1 Semifinals – 6 May Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Gustavo Ehlers 22.1 Q 2 1 Mario Fayos 22.6 Q 3 1 Óscar Maldonado 22.6 Q 4 1 Geraldo Murgel 22.6 5 1 Arturo Flores 22.6 6 1 Juan Romero 22.8 1 2 Gerardo Bönnhoff 21.8 Q 2 2 Alexandre Netto 22.1 Q 3 2 Fernando Lapuente 22.1 Q 4 2 Ary de Sá 22.7 5 2 Mario Drouet 22.9 6 2 Fernando Salinas 23.1

Final – 8 May Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Gerardo Bönnhoff 21.5 5 Fernando Lapuente 22.0 1 Gustavo Ehlers 22.0 4 3 Mario Fayos 22.2 5 6 Alexandre Netto 22.5 6 2 Óscar Maldonado 22.6

400 metres

Heats – 3 May Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Gustavo Ehlers 49.9 Q 2 1 Mário do Nascimento 50.7 Q 3 1 Mario Drouet 51.0 4 1 Máximo Guerra 51.4 1 2 Geraldo Maranhão 50.1 Q 2 2 Ramón Sandoval 50.3 Q 3 2 Eduardo Balducci 50.3 4 2 Óscar Maldonado 52.0 5 2 Óscar Corvalán 52.5 6 2 Félix Pery 52.7 1 3 Argemiro Roque 49.7 Q 2 3 Reinaldo Martín 50.4 Q 3 3 Federico Jacobs 50.4 4 3 Santiago Ferrando 58.1 Final – 4 May Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Gustavo Ehlers 48.7 Argemiro Roque 49.1 Mário do Nascimento 49.7 4 Reinaldo Martín 49.8 5 Geraldo Maranhão 50.5 6 Ramón Sandoval 50.5

800 metres

Heats – 6 May Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Waldomiro Monteiro 2:01.2 Q 2 1 Carlos Gajardo 2:01.4 Q 3 1 Argemiro Roque 2:01.4 Q 4 1 Jorge Lombao 2:01.7 5 1 Orlando Arévalo 2:02.1 6 1 Rubén Figueredo 2:03.7 1 2 Odilon Dias Netto 1:57.2 Q 2 2 Nilo Riveros 1:57.4 Q 3 2 Ricardo Vidal 1:57.4 Q 4 2 Juan López 1:57.5 5 2 Adolfo Augustyn 1:57.5 6 2 Luis Saavedra 1:58.4 Final – 8 May Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Argemiro Roque 1:53.3 Waldomiro Monteiro 1:53.9 Carlos Gajardo 1:55.3 4 Ricardo Vidal 1:55.7 5 Nilo Riveros 1:55.8 6 Odilon Dias Netto 1:56.2

1500 metres 4 May Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Nilo Riveros 3:58.5 Guillermo Solá 3:59.6 Luís Rodrigues 4:00.3 4 Antônio Roque 4:01.5 5 Ricardo Vidal 4:02.1 6 Osvaldo Suárez 4:02.9 Laudionor da Silva Enrique Chávez José Carlos González Luis Pisconti-Flores

5000 metres 3 May Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Raúl Inostroza 14:59.8 Reinaldo Gorno 15:05.5 Juan Miranda 15:09.0 4 Alfonso Cornejo 15:10.6 5 Gustavo Rojas 15:16.4 6 Walter Lemos 15:21.0 Pedro de Andrade Edgard Mitt João Oitica Albero Pinares Amparo Achucarro

10,000 metres 8 May Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Delfo Cabrera 31:05.7 Raúl Inostroza 31:26.9 Corsino Fernández 31:32.3 4 Ezequiel Bustamante 32:14.9 5 Geraldo Felipe 32:15.2 6 Gustavo Rojas 32:28.1 João Oitica Luís Rodrigues Alberto Pinales Alfonso Cornejo

Half marathon 11 May Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Delfo Cabrera 1:09:19 Reinaldo Gorno 1:11:28 Corsino Fernández 1:11:28 4 João Oitica 1:13:13 5 Gustavo Rojas 1:13:41 6 Gilberto Sánchez 1:13:52

110 metres hurdles

Heats – 4 MayWind:Heat 1: 0.0 m/s, Heat 2: -0.3 m/s Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Estanislao Kocourek 14.6 Q 2 1 Carlos Claro 15.0 Q 3 1 Hernán Alzamora 15.2 Q 4 1 Jorge de Medeiros 15.4 5 1 Julio Ramírez 15.7 1 2 Wilson Carneiro 14.9 Q 2 2 Jörn Gevert 15.1 Q 3 2 Ijoel da Silva 15.1 Q 4 2 Ricardo Scipioni 15.2 5 2 Francisco Pieslinger 15.7

Final – 6 MayWind: -1.7 m/s Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Jörn Gevert 14.9 Estanislao Kocourek 15.0 Wilson Carneiro 15.1 4 Carlos Claro 15.2 5 Hernán Alzamora 15.3 6 Ijoel da Silva 15.4

400 metres hurdles

Heats – 8 May Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Wilson Carneiro 54.4 Q 2 1 Jörn Gevert 54.5 Q 3 1 Reinaldo Martín 54.7 Q 4 1 Ernesto Igler 54.9 5 1 Ernesto Rogg 56.6 1 2 Pedro Yoma 54.6 Q 2 2 Juan Carlos Isola 56.4 Q 3 2 Mario Drouet 56.4 Q 4 2 Ulisses dos Santos 56.5 5 2 Landualdo da Silva 57.0 Final – 10 May Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Wilson Carneiro 52.7 Jörn Gevert 53.5 Pedro Yoma 54.6 4 Reinaldo Martín 55.4 5 Juan Carlos Isola 56.2 6 Mario Drouet 57.3

3000 metres steeplechase 10 May Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Guillermo Solá 9:32.0 Edgard Mitt 9:34.6 Haroldo Gallardo 9:38.4 4 Pedro de Andrade 9:41.1 5 Rómulo Gomes 9:46.0 6 Guillermo San Miguel 9:51.5 J. González Pedro Caffa Luis Pisconti-Flores Juan Carlos Carranza

4 × 100 metres relay 10 May Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes Enrique Beckles, Mariano Acosta, Gerardo Bönnhoff, Romeo Galán 41.4 Gerardo Salazar, Máximo Reyes, Óscar Maldonado, Armando Zapata 42.0 Alexandre Netto, Rui Lima, Geraldo Murgel, Ary de Sá 42.2 4 Gustavo Ehlers, Fernando Salinas, Jörn Gevert, Boris Tomicic 42.5 5 Ciro Braceiro, Aníbal Estradé, Walter Pérez, Mario Fayos 42.5 6 José Zelaya, Anastasio Zelaya, José Giménez, Nelson Núñez 44.9

4 × 400 metres relay 11 May Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes Wilson Carneiro, Geraldo Maranhão, Mário do Nascimento, Argemiro Roque 3:17.5 Máximo Guerra, Enrique Kistenmacher, Adán Torres, Gerardo Bönnhoff 3:18.0 Ramón Sandoval, Carlos Gajardo, Reinaldo Martín, Gustavo Ehlers 3:18.1 4 Juan Romero, Emir Miller, Orlando Arévalo, Mario Fayos 3:25.7 5 Juan López, Óscar Maldonado, Gerardo Salazar, Armando Zapata 3:25.7 6 José Zelaya, Anastasio Zelaya, Óscar Ré, Rubén Figueredo 3:28.8

High jump 3 May Rank Name Nationality Result Notes José Telles da Conceição 1.90 Ernesto Lagos 1.85 Alberto Bacan 1.85 Hércules Azcune 1.85 5 Geraldo de Oliveira 1.85 6 Carlos Puebla 1.85 7 Pablo Barión 1.80 8 Carlos Vera 1.75 9 Reinaldo Pieslinger 1.75 10 Pedro Listur 1.70

Pole vault 9 May Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Helcio da Silva 4.00 = Jaime Piqueras 3.90 Luis Ganoza 3.90 4 Fausto de Souza 3.80 5 Luis Barja 3.70 6 Raimundo Rodrigues 3.70 7 Eduardo Montes de Oca 3.60 8 Cristián Raab 3.60

Long jump 4 May Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Ary de Sá 7.39 Carlos Vera 7.13 Ahylton da Conceição 7.08 4 Albino Geist 6.89 5 Adhemar da Silva 6.86 6 Boris Tomicic 6.64 7 Bruno Witthaus 6.42 8 Juan Carlos Guerrero 6.39 9 Máximo Reyes 6.35 10 Fermín Donazar 6.32

Triple jump 10 May Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Adhemar da Silva 15.39 Geraldo de Oliveira 15.11 Jorgely Figueira 14.75 4 Alberto Betalleluz 14.0 5 Juan Carlos Guerrero 13.93 6 Carlos Puebla 13.75 7 Miroslav Gal 13.71 8 Fermín Donazar 13.64 9 Bruno Witthaus 13.61 10 Enrique Vivas 12.86

Shot put 4 May Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Reidar Soerlie 14.44 Augusto Maalstein 13.86 Emilio Stelig 13.77 4 Rubén Scaraffia 13.75 5 Nadim Marreis 13.64 6 Leonardo Kittsteiner 13.36 7 Alcides Dambrós 13.23 8 Hernán Figueroa 13.08 9 Gerardo Mielke 12.87

Discus throw 10 May Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Reidar Soerlie 47.72 Elvio Porta 45.27 Hernán Haddad 45.15 4 Eduardo Julve 44.92 5 Emilio Malchiodi 43.45 6 Karsten Brodersen 41.20 7 Nadim Marreis 41.02 8 Augusto Maalstein 37.88

Hammer throw 6 May Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Arturo Melcher 50.75 Elvio Porta 49.73 Emilio Ortiz 49.25 4 Manuel Etchepare 47.25 5 Walter Kupper 44.85 6 Enrique Vázquez 43.57 7 Walter Rodrigues 41.83 8 Augusto Maalstein 41.20

Javelin throw 3 May – old model Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Ricardo Héber 67.68 Gerardo Mielke 63.10 Janis Stendzeniecks 60.51 4 Horst Walter 60.25 5 Fernando Ceballos 56.64 6 Efraín Santibañez 54.27 7 Osmar Duque 53.00 8 Miguel da Silva 50.55

Decathlon 10–11 May– 1952 tables (1985 conversions given with *)

RankAthleteNationality100mLJSPHJ400m110m HDTPVJT1500mPointsConv.Notes Hernán Figueroa 11.4 6.60 13.31 1.73 51.9 16.4 38.55 3.50 52.03 5:15.0 6698 6295* Hernán Alzamora 11.6 6.13 10.94 1.84 53.2 15.3 31.80 2.60 48.18 5:39.4 5849 5634* Carlos Vera 11.3 7.03 9.81 1.84 52.2 17.4 26.91 3.60 34.17 5:39.4 5844 5594* 4 Ricardo Héber 11.6 6.36 12.83 1.60 54.0 18.8 29.96 3.00 62.67 5:26.0 5793 5551* 5 Aldo Ribeiro 11.4 6.20 10.69 1.70 51.2 15.7 31.55 3.20 49.14 5774 5395* 6 Jorge Peter 12.0 6.18 11.86 1.73 55.8 17.3 33.60 3.40 44.74 5:25.6 5680 5403* 7 Albino Geist 11.3 6.87 10.05 1.65 55.3 16.7 25.10 3.10 33.28 5:55.6 5233 5186* 8 Hernán Molinas 12.8 5.32 8.95 1.60 65.6 21.8 25.50 3.10 38.90 6:13.3 3724 3635* Raimundo Rodrigues 12.0 6.33 11.80 1.65 53.8 16.7 34.50 3.40 51.72 Roberto Méndez Parry 11.6 6.47 9.57 1.80 53.8 16.8 28.86 Francisco Moura 11.2 6.83 9.68 1.80 54.2

Women's results 100 metres

Heats – 3 MayWind:Heat 1: -0.4 m/s, Heat 2: -0.1 m/s, Heat 3: +0.1 m/s Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Helena de Menezes 12.2 Q, 2 1 Lilian Buglia 12.4 Q 3 1 Aurora Bianchi 12.9 4 1 Beatriz Daher 13.2 1 2 Julia Sánchez 12.2 Q, = 2 2 Betty Kretschmer 12.5 Q 3 2 Deyse de Castro 12.6 4 2 Ana María Fontán 12.6 5 2 María Perla Anza 12.9 1 3 Lilian Heinz 12.3 Q 2 3 Adriana Millard 12.7 Q 3 3 Benedita de Oliveira 12.7 Final – 4 MayWind: -0.1 m/s Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 2 Julia Sánchez 12.2 = 6 Adriana Millard 12.4 5 Lilian Buglia 12.4 4 3 Helena de Menezes 12.4 5 4 Lilian Heinz 12.4 6 1 Betty Kretschmer 12.6

200 metres

Heats – 6 May Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Helena de Menezes 26.1 Q 2 1 Teresa Carvajal 26.4 Q 3 1 Julia Sánchez 26.4 4 1 Aurora Bianchi 26.9 1 2 Adriana Millard 25.8 Q 2 2 Benedita de Oliveira 26.4 Q 3 2 Gladys Erbetta 26.4 1 3 Lilian Heinz 25.7 Q, , 2 3 Deyse de Castro 26.1 Q 3 3 Norma Díaz 26.5 Final – 8 May Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Deyse de Castro 25.5* Adriana Millard 25.5* Lilian Heinz 25.8 4 Teresa Carvajal 26.3 5 Benedita de Oliveira 26.3 6 Helena de Menezes 26.7 * after run-off, both athletes ran 25.5 in both races

80 metres hurdles

Heats – 10 MayWind:Heat 1: -0.5 m/s, Heat 2: -0.3 m/s Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Wanda dos Santos 11.7 Q 2 1 Luisa Pfarr 12.2 Q 3 1 Adriana Millard 12.2 Q 4 1 Betty Kretschmer 12.7 1 2 Marion Huber 11.9 Q 2 2 Lourdes de Abreu 12.4 Q 3 2 Anice Burgos 12.5 Q 4 2 Elisa Kaczmarek 13.0 5 2 Aida Cedeño 13.2 Final – 11 MayWind: +0.1 m/s Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Wanda dos Santos 11.7 Marion Huber 11.7 Adriana Millard 12.2 4 Lourdes de Abreu 12.2 5 Luisa Pfarr 12.4 6 Anice Burgos 13.0

4 × 100 metres relay 11 May