The1954South American Championships in Athletics were held in Brazil's largest city,São Paulo, between 17 and 25 April.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +1.9 m/s)	Paulo de Fonseca  Brazil	10.6	José Telles da Conceição  Brazil	10.7	Benedito Ferreira  Brazil	10.7
200 metres	José Telles da Conceição  Brazil	21.2CR	Jaime Aparicio  Colombia	21.7	Paulo de Fonseca  Brazil	21.8
400 metres	Mário do Nascimento  Brazil	48.3CR	Argemiro Roque  Brazil	49.1	Ramón Sandoval  Chile	49.5
800 metres	Ramón Sandoval  Chile	1:50.9CR	Argemiro Roque  Brazil	1:53.6	Odilon Netto  Brazil	1:54.2
1500 metres	Jaime Correa  Chile	3:56.5CR	Guillermo Solá  Chile	3:57.2	Santiago Novas  Chile	3:57.7
5000 metres	Jaime Correa  Chile	15:00.6	Santiago Novas  Chile	15:07.8	Edgard Mitt  Brazil	15:14.1
10,000 metres	Jaime Correa  Chile	31:41.0	Geraldo Alves  Brazil	32:14.5	Luís Rodrigues  Brazil	32:30.5
Half marathon	Geraldo Alves  Brazil	1:13:02	Joaquín da Silva  Brazil	1:13:43	José Pérez  Chile	1:15:48
3000 metres steeplechase	Edgard Mitt  Brazil	9:14.9CR	Guillermo Solá  Chile	9:16.0	Santiago Novas  Chile	9:26.6
110 metres hurdles (wind: +4.2 m/s)	Wilson Carneiro  Brazil	14.3w	Teófilo Davis  Venezuela	14.5w	Juan Leiva  Venezuela	14.8w
400 metres hurdles	Jaime Aparicio  Colombia	52.2CR	Wilson Carneiro  Brazil	53.5	Ulisses dos Santos  Brazil	54.9
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil Francisco Antonio Kadlec Benedito Ferreira Paulo da Fonseca José da Conceição	40.8CR	Peru Gerardo Salazar Máximo Reyes Oscar Maldonado Guillermo Sebastiani	41.8	Venezuela Teófilo Davis Juan Leiva Apolinar Solórzano Guillermo Gutiérrez	42.2
4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil Argemiro Roque Ulisses dos Santos Arm. Silva Mário do Nascimento	3:15.6CR	Chile Segundo Pena Waldo Sandoval Gustavo Ehlers Ramón Sandoval	3:16.9	Venezuela Filemón Camacho Juan Leiva Apolinar Solórzano Guillermo Gutiérrez	3:21.0
High jump	José Telles da Conceição  Brazil	2.00CR	Ernesto Lagos  Chile	1.95	Adilton Luz  Brazil	1.90
Pole vault	Brígido Iriarte  Venezuela	3.90	Carlos Moschen  Brazil	3.90	Fausto de Souza  Brazil	3.90
Long jump	Fermín Donazar  Uruguay	7.51w	Mário Gonzales  Brazil	7.47w	Ary de Sá  Brazil	7.19
Triple jump	Adhemar da Silva  Brazil	16.22CR	Hélio da Silva  Brazil	14.86	Renato do Nascimento  Brazil	14.70
Shot put	Alcides Dambrós  Brazil	15.32CR	Nadim Marreis  Brazil	13.81	Armín Neverman  Chile	13.79
Discus throw	Eduardo Julve  Peru	47.44	Hernán Haddad  Chile	46.52	Alcides Dambrós  Brazil	45.09
Hammer throw	Walter Kupper  Brazil	50.65	Alejandro Díaz  Chile	50.04	Arturo Melcher  Chile	49.47
Javelin throw	Carlos Monge  Peru	61.33	Janis Stendzenieks  Chile	60.88	Francisco Céspedes  Chile	56.81
Decathlon	Francisco Moura  Brazil	6047	Brígido Iriarte  Venezuela	6002	Aldo Ribeiro  Brazil	5765

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +2.7 m/s)	Benedicta de Oliveira  Brazil	12.3w	Deyse de Castro  Brazil	12.3w	Elda Selamé  Chile	12.3w
200 metres	Deyse de Castro  Brazil	25.7	Elda Selamé  Chile	25.8	Benedicta de Oliveira  Brazil	26.2
80 metres hurdles	Wanda dos Santos  Brazil	11.4CR	Eliana Gaete  Chile	11.9	Delia Díaz  Uruguay	12.2
4 × 100 metres relay	Chile Aurora Bianchi Elda Selame Eliana Gaete Betty Kretschmer	48.4CR	Brazil Benedita de Oliveira Elizabeth Müller Melânia Luz Deyse de Castro	48.5
High jump	Delia Díaz  Uruguay	1.55	Elizabeth Müller  Brazil	1.55	Deyse de Castro  Brazil	1.55
Long jump	Lisa Peters  Chile	5.75CR	Deyse de Castro  Brazil	5.47	Wanda dos Santos  Brazil	5.42
Shot put	Elizabeth Müller  Brazil	11.79	Pradelia Delgado  Chile	11.70	Vera Trezoitko  Brazil	11.60
Discus throw	Erika Trömel  Chile	39.84	Ilse Gerdau  Brazil	39.40	Pradelia Delgado  Chile	38.23
Javelin throw	Anneliese Schmidt  Brazil	42.07CR	Marlene Ahrens  Chile	41.68	Carmen Venegas  Chile	41.65

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil (BRA)	18	15	16	49
2	Chile (CHI)	7	12	10	29
3	Peru (PER)	2	1	0	3
4	Uruguay (URU)	2	0	1	3
5	Venezuela (VEN)	1	2	3	6
6	Colombia (COL)	1	1	0	2
Totals (6 entries)		31	31	30	92

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

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