| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|
100 metres
(wind: +4.5 m/s) | Lucimar de Moura
 Brazil | 11.47w | Felipa Palacios
 Colombia | 11.48w | Zandra Borrero
Colombia | 11.75w |
200 metres
(wind: -0.8 m/s) | Felipa Palacios
Colombia | 23.20CR | Lucimar de Moura
Brazil | 23.51 | Olga Conte
 Argentina | 23.90 |
| 400 metres | Olga Conte
Argentina | 53.41 | Maria Figueirêdo
Brazil | 53.49 | Norfalia Carabalí
Colombia | 54.47 |
| 800 metres | Luciana Mendes
Brazil | 2:03.56 | Mercy Colorado
 Ecuador | 2:06.90 NR | Fátima dos Santos
Brazil | 2:09.08 |
| 1500 metres | Janeth Caizalitín
Ecuador | 4:33.65 | Niusha Mancilla
 Bolivia | 4:34.90 | Célia dos Santos
Brazil | 4:35.29 |
| 5000 metres | Stella Castro
Colombia | 15:48.82CRNR | Érika Olivera
 Chile | 15:52.27 | Elisa Cobañea
Argentina | 16:05.51 |
| 10,000 metres | Stella Castro
Colombia | 33:24.07CR | Érika Olivera
Chile | 33:56.98 | Mónica Cervera
Argentina | 36:39.25 |
100 metres hurdles
(wind: +8.0 m/s) | Verónica Depaoli
Argentina | 13.41w | Maurren Maggi
Brazil | 13.65w | Vânia da Silva
Brazil | 13.95w |
| 400 metres hurdles | Verónica Depaoli
Argentina | 59.05 | Maria dos Santos
Brazil | 59.62 | Marise da Silva
Brazil | 60.00 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay | Colombia
Mirtha Brock
Norfalia Carabalí
Felipa Palacios
Sandra Borrero | 44.58CR | Brazil
Maria Magnólia Figueiredo
Lucimar de Moura
Claudete Alves Pina
Kátia Regina Santos | 45.21 | Argentina
Daniela Lebreo
Veronica Depaoli
Vanesa Wohlgemuth
Olga Conte | 46.18 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay | Colombia
Mirtha Brock
Norfalia Carabalí
Felipa Palacios
Janeth Lucumi | 3:36.71 | Brazil
Maria Magnólia Figueiredo
Luciana Mendes
Claudete Alves Pina
Fatima dos Santos | 3:38.18 | Argentina
Daniela Lebreo
Marina Arias
Veronica Depaoli
Olga Conte | 3:40.72 |
| 10,000 metres track walk | Geovana Irusta
Bolivia | 46:01.1CR | Miriam Ramón
Ecuador | 46:50.6 | Bertha Vera
Ecuador | 47:15.9 |
| High jump | Solange Witteveen
Argentina | 1.89=CR | Delfina Blaquier
Argentina
Orlane dos Santos
Brazil | 1.83 | | |
| Pole vault | Déborah Gyurcsek
 Uruguay | 3.85CR | Alejandra García
Argentina | 3.50 | Mariela Laurora
Argentina | 3.45 |
| Long jump | Maurren Maggi
Brazil | 6.54 | Andrea Ávila
Argentina | 6.26w | Mónica Falcioni
Uruguay | 6.25w |
| Triple jump | Andrea Ávila
Argentina | 13.76 | Maria de Souza
Brazil | 13.72 | Luciana dos Santos
Brazil | 13.30 |
| Shot put | Elisângela Adriano
Brazil | 18.16CR | Alexandra Amaro
Brazil | 16.34 | Silvana Filippi
Argentina | 13.81 |
| Discus throw | Elisângela Adriano
Brazil | 58.46CR | Liliana Martinelli
Argentina | 52.26 | María Eugenia Giggi
Argentina | 45.80 |
| Hammer throw | María Eugenia Villamizar
Colombia | 55.48 | Karina Moya
Argentina | 54.30 | Zulma Lambert
Argentina | 50.64 |
| Javelin throw | Zuleima Araméndiz
Colombia | 56.66 | Sabina Moya
Colombia | 55.30 | Mariela Arch
Argentina | 54.08 |
| Heptathlon | Euzinete dos Reis
Brazil | 5549 | Zorobabelia Córdoba
Colombia | 5428 | Joelma Souza
Brazil | 4380 |
WR world record |AR area record |CR championship record |GR games record |NR national record |OR Olympic record |PB personal best |SB season best |WL world leading (in a given season) |
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