Athletics at the V South American Games
Dates	November
Host city	Valencia, Venezuela
Venue	Polideportivo Misael Delgado
Level	Senior
Events	43 (24 men, 19 women)
Records set	(about) 26 games records
← 1990 Lima 1998 Cuenca → 1994 South American Games

Athletics events at the 1994 South American Games were held at the Polideportivo Misael Delgado in Valencia, Venezuela.^[1] A total of 43 events were contested, 24 by men and 19 by women.

Following a controversy between Sabino Hernández, president of the Comité Olímpico Ecuatoriano and Jacobo Bucaram, president of the Federación Ecuatoriana de Atletismo in the context of funding the number of athletes to travel to the games (22 versus 33 athletes), Ecuador did not participate in this year's athletics competitions.^[2]

On the other hand, athletics heavyweights Brazil (although only with a small delegation) and Colombia competed for the first time, leading to a noticeable improvement of the results as evident from the setting of (about) 26 games records.

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).^[3] Eduardo Biscayart supplied the list of winners and their results.^[4] Further results were published elsewhere.^[5][6]

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.4 m/s)	Robinson Urrutia  Colombia	10.29 GR, NR	Claudinei Silva  Brazil	10.42	Marcelo Silva  Brazil	10.43
200 metres (wind: +0.4 m/s)	Sebastián Keitel  Chile	20.1 GR	Claudinei Silva  Brazil	20.6	Jorge Cañizares  Venezuela	20.9
400 metres	Wenceslao Ferrín  Colombia	45.84 GR	Sebastián Keitel  Chile	46.01	Llimi Rivas  Colombia	47.12
800 metres	José López  Venezuela	1:50.53	Pablo Squella  Chile	1:51.24	Manuel Balmaceda  Chile	1:51.57
1500 metres	Gregorio López  Venezuela	3:47.56	Jacinto Navarrete  Colombia	3:48.67	Jaime Valenzuela  Chile	3:50.91
5000 metres	Jacinto Navarrete  Colombia	14:10.3	Germán Beltrán  Venezuela	14:19.7	Félix Ladera  Venezuela	14:25.6
10,000 metres	Rubén Maza  Venezuela	29:49.1	Mariano Mamaní  Bolivia	30:08.8	Félix Ladera  Venezuela	30:37.2
Marathon	Policarpo Calizaya  Bolivia	2:32:06	Gilberto Torres  Peru	2:32:58	Freddy Luján  Bolivia	2:38:50
110 metres hurdles	Eliécer Pulgar  Venezuela	14.33 GR	José Rivas  Colombia	14.42	Elvis Cedeño  Venezuela	14.46
400 metres hurdles	Llimi Rivas  Colombia	51.14	Luis Gómez  Venezuela	52.57	Juan Mago  Venezuela	53.68
3000 metres steeplechase	Jaime Valenzuela  Chile	9:04.2	Juan Díaz  Venezuela	9:06.4	Néstor Nieves  Venezuela	9:10.7
4 x 100 metres relay	Chile Pablo Almeida Sebastián Keitel Carlos Moreno Ricardo Roach	39.67 GR	Brazil Fernando Botasso Claudinei da Silva Marcelo Silva Nelson Ferreira	39.76	Colombia Robinson Urrutia Luis Vega Wenceslao Ferrín José Humberto Rivas	40.32
4 x 400 metres relay	Chile Carlos Moreno Pablo Squella Ricardo Roach Sebastián Keitel	3:06.92 GR	Colombia Llimy Rivas Luis Vega Alcides Pinto Gilmar Mayo	3:07.84	Venezuela Vladimir Aponte Claudio Silva Medolphe Henry Aguiar	3:15.74
20 Kilometres Walk	José Querubín Moreno  Colombia	1:29:10.0 GR	Carlos Ramones  Venezuela	1:30:56	Luis Quispe  Bolivia	1:35:45
50 Kilometres Walk	Luis Quispe  Bolivia	4:36.08	Rubén López  Venezuela	4:40:11	Luis García  Venezuela	4:43:52
High jump	Gilmar Mayo  Colombia	2.25 GR	Hugo Muñoz  Peru	2.14	Valery Abugattas  Peru	2.08
Pole vault	Oscar Veit  Argentina	5.10	Cristián Aspillaga  Chile	5.00	Luis Hidalgo  Venezuela	4.65
Long jump	Nelson Ferreira  Brazil	7.84 GR	Luis Lourduy  Colombia	7.47	Oscar Valiente  Peru	7.40
Triple jump	Sergio Saavedra  Venezuela	16.26	Oscar Valiente  Peru	15.60	Ascanio Winston  Venezuela	15.29
Shot put	Gert Weil  Chile	18.74 GR	Yoger Medina  Venezuela	18.06	Adrián Marzo  Argentina	16.88
Discus throw	Ramón Jiménez Gaona  Paraguay	57.88 GR	Yoger Medina  Venezuela	57.42	Marcelo Pugliese  Argentina	56.40
Hammer throw	Andrés Charadia  Argentina	70.80 GR	Adrián Marzo  Argentina	66.98	José Manuel Llano  Chile	59.96
Javelin throw	Nery Kennedy  Paraguay	76.70 GR	Rodrigo Zelaya  Chile	76.50	Edgar Baumann  Paraguay	70.78
Decathlon	Eladio Farfán  Venezuela	6678	Iván Romero  Venezuela	6297

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Felipa Palacios  Colombia	11.51	Katia Santos  Brazil	11.54	Mirtha Brock  Colombia	11.66
200 metres (wind: +0.5 m/s)	Felipa Palacios  Colombia	23.6	Patricia Rodríguez  Colombia	23.7	Katia Santos  Brazil	23.9
400 metres	Ximena Restrepo  Colombia	51.31 GR	Elia Mera  Colombia	54.08	Luciana Mendes  Brazil	54.72
800 metres	Luciana Mendes  Brazil	2:01.99 GR	Letitia Vriesde  Suriname	2:03.80	Marta Orellana  Argentina	2:06.37
1500 metres	Marta Orellana  Argentina	4:22.33 GR	Letitia Vriesde  Suriname	4:24.50	Clara Morales  Colombia	4:26.54
3000 metres	Erika Olivera  Chile	9:31.06 GR	Estela Castro  Colombia	9:49.1	María Flores  Chile	9:49.7
10,000 metres	Erika Olivera  Chile	34:40.9 GR	Estela Castro  Colombia	35:07.6	María Flores  Chile	35:29.6
100 metres hurdles (wind: -0.8 m/s)	Alejandra Martínez  Chile	14.42	Zorobabelia Córdoba  Colombia	14.63	Lisette Rondón  Chile	14.74
400 metres hurdles	Ximena Restrepo  Colombia	56.05 GR, NR	Flor Robledo  Colombia	60.20	Paula Yáñez  Venezuela	62.05
4 x 100 metres relay	Colombia Patricia Rodríguez Mirtha Brock Felipa Palacios Ximena Restrepo	44.98 GR	Chile Alejandra Martínez Marcela Barros Lisette Rondón Judith de la Fuente	46.97
4 x 400 metres relay	Colombia Elia Mera Patricia Rodríguez Janeth Lucumí Flor Robledo	3:40.33 GR	Chile Marcela Barros Clara Morales Lisette Rondón Ismenia Guzman	3:47.37	Venezuela Xiomara Díaz Dilza Buaiz Suarez Shamira Valero	3:52.27
10 Kilometres Walk	Liliana Bermeo  Colombia	48:54.9	Geovana Irusta  Bolivia	53:23.0	Carolin Rosales  Venezuela	55:41.4
High jump	Alejandra Chomalí  Chile	1.73	Teresa Rodríguez  Venezuela	1.70	Rubia Quintanilla  Venezuela	1.65
Long jump	Andrea Ávila  Argentina	6.51 GR	Mónica Castro  Chile	6.12	Nathaniel Gómez  Venezuela	6.01
Triple jump	Andrea Ávila  Argentina	13.12 GR	Nathaniel Gómez  Venezuela	12.48	Milly Figueroa  Colombia	12.37
Shot put	Lila Morales  Venezuela	13.02	Tyolanda Orozco  Venezuela	12.07
Discus throw	María Isabel Urrutia  Colombia	58.08 GR	Liliana Martinelli  Argentina	56.74	Fanny García  Venezuela	48.54
Javelin throw	Zuleima Aramendiz  Colombia	55.46 GR	Marieta Riera  Venezuela	50.64	Verónica Prieto  Colombia	49.76
Heptathlon	Zorobabelia Córdoba  Colombia	5448 GR	Rubia Quintanilla  Venezuela	4915 NR	Mónica Castro  Chile	4508

Medal table (unofficial)

  *   Host nation (Venezuela)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Colombia	16	10	6	32
2	Chile	9	7	7	23
3	Venezuela*	7	13	16	36
4	Argentina	5	2	3	10
5	Brazil	2	4	3	9
6	Bolivia	2	2	2	6
7	Paraguay	2	0	1	3
8	Peru	0	3	2	5
9	Suriname	0	2	0	2
Totals (9 entries)		43	43	40	126