1924 South American Championships in Athletics

The 1924 South American Championships in Athletics were held in Buenos Aires, Argentina between 17 and 22 April.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Miguel Enrico  Argentina	10.9	Augusto de Negri  Argentina		Luis Miguel  Chile
200 metres	Félix Escobar  Argentina	22.1 CR	Luis Miguel  Chile		Roberto García  Argentina
400 metres	Félix Escobar  Argentina	49.4 CR	Francisco Dova  Argentina	49.4	Federico Brewster  Argentina
800 metres	Francisco Dova  Argentina	2:02.9 CR	Alfredo Iglesias  Uruguay
1500 metres	Víctor Moreno  Chile	4:11.9 CR	Luis Decouvieres  Chile	4:13.0	Juan Baeza  Chile
3000 metres	Manuel Plaza  Chile	8:56.3 CR
5000 metres	Manuel Plaza  Chile	15:37.2 CR	Juan Baeza  Chile		Luis Celis  Chile
10,000 metres	Manuel Plaza  Chile	32:19.8 CR	Juan Bravo  Chile	33:04.5	Luis Celis  Chile	33:12.8
110 metres hurdles	Guillermo Newbery  Argentina	15.8 CR	Otto Dietsch  Argentina		Leandro Gómez  Uruguay
400 metres hurdles	Humberto Lara  Chile	56.2 CR	Enrique Thompson  Argentina		Carlos Müller  Chile
4 × 100 metres relay	Argentina Camilo Ribas Augusto Negri Otto Dietsch Miguel Enrico	42.9 CR	Uruguay Isabelino Gradín Jesús Posadas Carlos Bastos Juan Felitto		Chile ? ? Marcos Loyola Luis Miguel
4 × 400 metres relay	Argentina Casanova Félix Escobar Francisco Dova Federico Brewster	3:23.4 CR	Chile Elias Catalan Fernando Primard Carlos Müller David Aste		Uruguay ? Isabelino Gradín ? Raúl Lafitte
3000 metres team race	Chile
Cross country	Manuel Plaza  Chile	58:17.3	Juan Baeza  Chile		Víctor Moreno  Chile
High jump	Valerio Vallanía  Argentina	1.80 CR	Hernán Orrego  Chile	1.75	Carlos Fernández  Uruguay	1.70
Pole vault	Jorge Haeberli  Argentina	3.60 CR	Ernesto Goycolea  Chile	3.50	Roberto Holm  Argentina	3.50
Long jump	Ramiro García  Chile	6.63	Luis Brunetto  Argentina	6.63	Juan Felitto  Uruguay	6.41
Triple jump	Luis Brunetto  Argentina	14.64 CR	Alfredo Miserere  Argentina	13.72	Ángel Colombo  Uruguay	13.55
Shot put	Domingo Minetti  Argentina	12.74 CR	Benjamín Acevedo  Chile	12.49	Jorge Llobet Cullen  Argentina	12.46
Discus throw	David Martín Estévez  Uruguay	38.34 CR	Héctor Benapres  Chile	37.81	Jorge Llobet Cullen  Argentina	36.83
Hammer throw	Alfredo Wismer  Argentina	41.61 CR	Jorge Llobet Cullen  Argentina	40.39	Luis Romana  Argentina	39.50
Javelin throw	Arturo Medina  Chile	53.70 CR	José Jiménez  Argentina	50.18	Guillermo Newbery  Argentina	48.45
Decathlon	Enrique Thompson  Argentina	5876.67 CR	Guillermo Newbery  Argentina	5851.7	Benjamín Acevedo  Chile

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Argentina (ARG)	13	9	7	29
2	Chile (CHI)	9	10	8	27
3	Uruguay (URU)	1	2	5	8
Totals (3 entries)		23	21	20	64

References

• Men Results – GBR Athletics
• Women Results – GBR Athletics