III South American Junior Championships in Athletics
Dates	October 15–16
Host city	Santa Fe, Argentina
Level	U20
Events	18
Participation	about 56 athletes from 5 nations
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The thirdSouth American Junior Championships in Athletics were held inSanta Fe, Argentina from October 15–16, 1961.

Detailed result lists can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website.^[1] An unofficial count yields the number of about 56 athletes from about 5 countries: Argentina (21), Brazil (13), Chile (14), Peru (5), Uruguay (3).

Medal winners are published.^[2]Complete results can be found on the "World Junior Athletics History" website.^[1]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Iván Moreno (CHI)	10.7	Juan Byers (CHI)	10.7	Juan Hasegawa (PER)	10.8
200 metres	Iván Moreno (CHI)	22.1	Gerardo Di Tolla (PER)	22.2	Juan Byers (CHI)	22.2
400 metres	López Medrano (ARG)	50.7	Jaime Vega (CHI)	50.9	Jorge Vilaboa (URU)	NTT
800 metres	Jaime Vega (CHI)	1:58.8	Luis Alarcón (CHI)	1:59.6	Rogelio Rodríguez (ARG)	1:59.8
1500 metres	Luis Alarcón (CHI)	4:07.8	Hugo Roldán (ARG)	4:10.5	Mario Cutropia (ARG)	4:11.8
3000 metres	Mario Cutropia (ARG)	9:07.2	Horácio Ferreira (BRA)	9:17.2	José Pincheire (BRA)	9:27.0
110 metres hurdles	Hildemar Cimolini (ARG)	15.2	Guillermo Vallanía (ARG)	15.3	João Gonzales (BRA)	15.7
400 metres hurdles	João Gonzales (BRA)	57.4	Manuel Jordán (CHI)	58.5	Santiago Gordon (CHI)	58.8
4 × 100 metres relay	Argentina Julián Méndez Guillermo Vallanía Pedro Pablo Blache Juan Bagnoli	43.4	Peru Gerardo Di Tolla Juan Hasegawa Roberto Abugattás Miguel González	43.9	Brazil Andres Montero Jauro Koga Raimundo Silva Oscar Colombo	44.2
4 × 400 metres relay	Chile Manuel Jordan Luis Alarcón Juan Santiago Gordon Jaime Vega	3:29.0	Argentina Hugo Hollman Pedro Pablo Blache Guillermo Vallania Mario López Nodaro	3:29.8	Brazil Jauro Koga Castro Pereira Luís Castro Oscar Colombo	3:32.0
High jump	Roberto Abugattás (PER)	1.85	José Barros (BRA)	1.80	Luis Cornaglia (ARG)	1.75
Pole vault	Geraldo Morandé (CHI)	3.60	Daniel Argoitía (ARG)	3.60	Eduardo Nakayama (BRA)	3.40
Long jump	Julián Méndez (ARG)	6.78	Carlos Ermter (CHI)	6.57	Jauro Koga (BRA)	6.51
Triple jump	Iván Moreno (CHI)	14.33	Herbert da Silva (BRA)	13.94	Arturo Arancibia (ARG)	13.50
Shot put	José Alberto Vallejo (ARG)	12.91	Cláudio Romanini (BRA)	12.59	Ramón García (CHI)	12.28
Discus throw	Gilberto Matusiak (BRA)	47.98	Cláudio Romanini (BRA)	46.67	Miguel Gesto (URU)	44.28
Hammer throw	Hugo Grazioli (ARG)	49.77	José Alberto Vallejo (ARG)	48.97	Hugo Peña (CHI)	47.84
Javelin throw	José Denis (PER)	53.92	Héctor Ramos (ARG)	51.50	Patricio Etcheverry (CHI)	49.90

  *   Host nation (Argentina)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Argentina (ARG)*	7	6	4	17
2	Chile (CHI)	7	5	5	17
3	Brazil (BRA)	2	5	6	13
4	Peru (PER)	2	2	1	5
5	Uruguay (URU)	0	0	2	2
Totals (5 entries)		18	18	18	54

• World Junior Athletics History

• South American U20 Championships in Athletics
• 1961 in Argentine sport
• 1961 in the sport of athletics
• International athletics competitions hosted by Argentina
• Sports competitions in Santa Fe Province
• 1961 in youth sport
• October 1961 sports events in South America

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