1966 South American Junior Championships in Athletics

The sixth South American Junior Championships in Athletics were held in Montevideo, Uruguay from October 9–14, 1966. For the first time, women's events were included.

VI South American Junior Championships in Athletics
Dates	October 9–14
Host city	Montevideo, Uruguay
Level	Junior
Events	29
Participation	about 159 athletes from 6 nations
← 1964 Santiago 1968 São Paulo →

Participation (unofficial)

Detailed result lists can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website. An unofficial count yields the number of about 159 athletes from about 6 countries: Argentina (36), Brazil (36), Chile (33), Paraguay (11), Peru (22), Uruguay (21).

Medal summary

Medal winners are published for men and women Complete results can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website.

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Carlos Ripoli (ARG)	10.5	Lincoln Flores (PER)	10.7	Marcos Vilela (BRA)	10.7
200 metres	Carlos Ripoli (ARG)	22.0	Eduardo Satoyama (ARG)	22.2	Lincoln Flores (PER)	22.3
400 metres	Jaime Núñez (CHI)	49.9	Celso Wolf (BRA)	50.1	Carlos Schopf (URU)	50.3
800 metres	Homero Arce (CHI)	1:58.5	José de Andrade (BRA)	1:59.5	Alberto Gajate (ARG)	1:59.8
1500 metres	Homero Arce (CHI)	4:02.4	Jorge Henríquez (ARG)	4:02.6	Alfredo Aguirre (ARG)	4:03.3
3000 metres	Alfredo Aguirre (ARG)	9:03.0	Jorge Weulle (CHI)	9:04.4	Juan López (CHI)	9:13.8
1500 metres steeplechase	Jorge Enríquez (ARG)	4:22.5	José Parra (CHI)	4:28.1	Enrique Urrejola (CHI)	4:29.6
110 metres hurdles	Patricio Saavedra (CHI)	14.7	Raúl Domínguez (ARG)	15.5	Ricardo Sirvent (ARG)	15.7
400 metres hurdles	Santiago Gordon (CHI)	54.7	Ricardo Sirvent (ARG)	56.3	Juan Kromschroder (CHI)	57.5
High jump	José Dalmastro (ARG)	1.95	Fernando Abugattás (PER)	1.90	Patricio Labar (CHI)	1.90
Pole vault	Marco Baroni (BRA)	3.20	César Noya (PER)	3.20	Luis Cárdenas (PER)	3.20
Long jump	Dominique Castillo (CHI)	6.89	Roberto Chagra (ARG)	6.88	Carlos Proto (CHI)	6.88
Triple jump	Juan Kurata (BRA)	14.18	Luís Puhl (BRA)	13.83	Mario Delfino (ARG)	13.73
Shot put	Cláudio Leal (BRA)	15.86	Juan Bryce (PER)	15.04	Pedro Ugarte (CHI)	14.65
Discus throw	Juan Ruggieri (ARG)	40.88	Esteban Drapich (ARG)	38.95	Juan Bryce (PER)	38.65
Hammer throw	Carlos Gatica (ARG)	54.66	Walter Drago (BRA)	53.43	Celso de Moraes (BRA)	53.20
Javelin throw	Werner Klötzer (CHI)	56.15	Manuel Morimoto (BRA)	50.91	Arnaldo Albero (ARG)	49.61
Pentathlon*	Valdir Barbanti (BRA)	3711	Werner Klötzer (CHI)	3521	Kenji Kido (BRA)	3521
4 × 100 metres relay	Argentina	41.9	Chile	42.1	Peru	42.6
4 × 400 metres relay	Chile	3:21.8	Brazil	3:24.3	Argentina	NTT

* = another source states rather: Hexathlon

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Mabel Camprubi (CHI)	12.2	Josefa Vicent (URU)	12.2	Alicia Masuccio (ARG)	12.3
200 metres	Josefa Vicent (URU)	25.7	Graciela Pinto (ARG)	25.9	Alba Oberti (ARG)	26.3
80 metres hurdles	Rosa Sains (CHI)	12.2	Adilia do Rosário (BRA)	12.3	Ana Akiko Omote (BRA)	12.4
High jump	Ana Akiko Omote (BRA)	1.45	Patricia Mantero (PER)	1.45	Cecilia Goddard (CHI)	1.45
Long jump	Yolanda Durant (CHI)	5.01	Yolanda Dimarco (URU)	4.98	Cristina Miguel (CHI)	4.97
Shot put	Marta Silva (CHI)	10.91	M. Jorgensen (BRA)	10.57	Neide Nakatsukasa (BRA)	10.18
Discus throw	Eleonor Torres (CHI)	33.50	Marta Silva (CHI)	33.16	Neide Nakatsukasa (BRA)	33.00
Javelin throw	Maria Sogabe (BRA)	36.47	Hilda Rebolledo (CHI)	34.41	Vilma Totaro (ARG)	32.96
4 × 100 metres relay	Chile	48.9	Argentina	49.0	Brazil	49.0

Medal table (unofficial)

  *   Host nation (Uruguay)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Chile (CHI)	14	6	8	28
2	Argentina (ARG)	8	8	9	25
3	Brazil (BRA)	6	8	7	21
4	Uruguay (URU)*	1	2	1	4
5	Peru (PER)	0	5	4	9
Totals (5 entries)		29	29	29	87

External links

• World Junior Athletics History