Athletics at the II Southern Cross Games
Host city	Santa Fe, Argentina
Venue	Centro de Alto Rendimiento Deportivo Pedro Candioti
Level	Senior
Events	39 (23 men, 16 women)
← 1978 La Paz 1986 Santiago → 1982 Southern Cross Games

Athletics events at the 1982 Southern Cross Games were held at the Centro de Alto Rendimiento Deportivo Pedro Candioti (CARD), equipped with one of the first synthetic tracks in Argentina, in Santa Fe, Argentina.^[1] A total of 39 events were contested, 23 by men and 16 by women.

Medal summary

Medal winners were published in a book written by Argentinian journalist Ernesto Rodríguez III with support of the Argentine Olympic Committee (Spanish: Comité Olímpico Argentino) under the auspices of the Ministry of Education (Spanish: Ministerio de Educación de la Nación) in collaboration with the Office of Sports (Spanish: Secretaría de Deporte de la Nación).^[2] Eduardo Biscayart supplied the list of winners and their results.^[3]

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Luis Schneider  Chile	10.87	Hugo Alzamora  Argentina	10.91	Mauricio Urquiza  Chile	11.01
200 metres	Luis Schneider  Chile	21.28	Gustavo Capart  Argentina	21.58	Ernesto Braun  Argentina	21.84
400 metres	Pablo Squella  Chile	47.47	Daniel Bambicha  Argentina	48.20	Rubén Da Cunha  Uruguay	49.07
800 metres	Manuel Ramírez  Colombia	1:50.10	Emilio Ulloa  Chile	1:50.12	Raúl López  Argentina	1:51.45
1500 metres	Emilio Ulloa  Chile	3:46.70	Ricardo Vera  Uruguay	3:48.85	Abel Washington Godoy  Uruguay	3:49.06
5000 metres	Ricardo Vera  Uruguay	14:07.4	Alejandro Silva  Chile	14:09.0	Omar Ortega  Argentina	14:10.1
10,000 metres	Alejandro Silva  Chile	29:35.9	Luis Tipán  Ecuador	29:47.0	Omar Aguilar  Chile	29:55.6
4×100 metres relay	Mauricio Urquiza Francisco Pichot Juan Carlos Fuentes Luis Schneider  Chile	41.00	Jorge Cotito Ronald Raborg Enrique Goytisolo Mirko Kuljevan  Peru	43.00
4×400 metres relay	Juan Carlos Fuentes Alfredo Edwards Luis Schneider Pablo Squella  Chile	3:11.65	Jorge Díaz Raúl López Gabriel Castellà Daniel Bambicha  Argentina	3:13.99	Gabriel Díaz Javier Olivar Luis Cabral Rubén da Cunha  Uruguay	3:19.57
Marathon	Alfredo Maravilla  Argentina	2:26:45	Luis Tipán  Ecuador	2:27:00	Carlos Carvajal  Chile	2:30:00
110 m hurdles	Juan Carlos Fuentes  Chile	15.15	Javier Olivar  Uruguay	15.27	Andrés Lyon  Chile	15.28
400 m hurdles	Pablo Squella  Chile	50.81	Ricardo Biosco  Colombia	52.16	Javier Olivar  Uruguay	52.50
3000 m steeplechase	Emilio Ulloa  Chile	8:50.6	Luis Palma  Chile	8:56.4	Sigfredo Romero  Colombia	9:06.0
20 kilometres walk	Oswaldo Morejón  Bolivia	1:37:06	Jorge Yannone  Argentina	1:38:01	Esteban Quelale  Bolivia	1:38:12
Long jump	Francisco Pichot  Chile	7.44	Eduardo Labalta  Argentina	7.17	Mirko Kuljevan  Paraguay	7.06
Triple jump	Francisco Pichot  Chile	15.73 w	Angel Gagliano  Argentina	15.19 w	Jorge Mazzeo  Argentina	15.07 w
High jump	Fernando Pastoriza  Argentina	2.03	Joaquín del Real  Chile	2.03	Horacio Acevedo  Argentina	2.00
Pole vault	Fernando Hoces  Chile	4.80	Fernando Ruocco  Uruguay	4.80	Marcelo Cibié  Chile	4.50
Shot put	Gert Weil  Chile	17.37	Tito Steiner  Argentina	15.29	Gerardo Carucci  Argentina	15.12
Discus throw	Carlos Brynner  Argentina	50.26	Gert Weil  Chile	47.90	Alejandro Serrano  Chile	47.60
Hammer throw	Daniel Gómez  Argentina	56.24	Ernesto Iglesias  Argentina	53.40	Gert Weil  Chile	35.08
Javelin throw	Luis Lucumi  Colombia	77.98	Juan Francisco Garmendia  Argentina	76.12	Antar Martínez  Colombia	68.70
Decathlon	Carlos Gambetta  Argentina	7103pts	Claudio Escauriza  Paraguay	6774pts	Hugo Giménez  Argentina	6168pts

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Carmela Bolívar  Peru	12.40	Leslie Cooper  Chile	12.55	Carla Herencia  Chile	12.72
200 metres	Eucaris Caicedo  Colombia	24.48	Margarita Grun  Uruguay	24.70	Carmela Bolívar  Peru	24.99
400 metres	Eucaris Caicedo  Colombia	54.21	Margarita Grun  Uruguay	54.84	Cecilia Rodríguez  Chile	56.19
800 metres	Liliana Góngora  Argentina	2:09.06	Norfalia Carabalí  Colombia	2:11.55	Silvia Augsburger  Argentina	2:11.78
1500 metres	Liliana Góngora  Argentina	4:25.92	Mónica Regonesi  Chile	4:29.19	Marcela Arriagada  Chile	4:34.06
3000 metres	Mónica Regonesi  Chile	9:53.9	Marcia Susana Chiliquinga  Ecuador	10:04.5	Sonia Molina  Argentina	10:12.5
4×100 metres relay	Hilda Márquez Susana Jenkins Graciela Palacín Beatriz Capotosto  Argentina	47.1	Cecilia Rodríguez Carla Herencia Daisy Salas Leslie Cooper  Chile	47.3	María Isabel Urrutia Norfalia Carabalí Nadia Katich Eucaris Caicedo  Colombia	49.3
4×400 metres relay	Carla Herencia Paola Raab Graciela Mardones Cecilia Rodríguez  Chile	3:45.74	Amalia Linietzky Silvia Augsburger Anabella Dal Lago Marcela López Espinosa  Argentina	3:46.26
100 m hurdles	Beatriz Capotosto  Argentina	13.75	Susana Jenkins  Argentina	14.90	Nadia Katich  Colombia	15.15
400 m hurdles	Anabella Dal Lago  Argentina	62.20	Valentina Bahamonde  Chile	63.37
Long jump	Araceli Bruschini  Argentina	5.85 w	Graciela Acosta  Uruguay	5.83 w	Andrea Sassi  Uruguay	5.54 w
High jump	Andrea Sassi  Uruguay	1.70	Carmen Gloria Garib  Chile	1.70	Mónica Halporn  Argentina	1.65
Shot put	María Isabel Urrutia  Colombia	13.27	Jazmín Cirio  Chile	13.18	Alejandra Bevacqua  Argentina	12.71
Discus throw	María Isabel Urrutia  Colombia	44.84	Gloria Martínez  Chile	44.22	Elizabeth Martínez  Argentina	39.80
Javelin throw	Patricia Guerrero  Peru	49.32	Ana María Campillay  Argentina	46.22	Carolina Kittsteiner  Chile	46.20
Heptathlon	Paola Raab  Chile	4754pts	Ana María Comaschi  Argentina	4580pts	María Esther Mediano  Chile	4540pts

Medal table (unofficial)

  *   Host nation (Argentina)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Chile (CHI)	17	12	12	41
2	Argentina (ARG)*	11	14	12	37
3	Colombia (COL)	6	2	4	12
4	Uruguay (URU)	2	6	5	13
5	Peru (PER)	2	1	1	4
6	Bolivia (BOL)	1	0	1	2
7	Ecuador (ECU)	0	3	0	3
8	Paraguay (PAR)	0	1	1	2
Totals (8 entries)		39	39	36	114