The 1963 South American Championships in Athletics were held in Cali, Colombia, between 29 June and 7 July.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Arquímedes Herrera   Venezuela	10.2 CR	Joe Satow   Brazil	10.4	Alfonso da Silva   Brazil	10.7
200 metres	Arquímedes Herrera   Venezuela	20.9 CR	Hortensio Fucil   Venezuela	21.0	Gerardo Di Tolla   Peru	21.2
400 metres	Hortensio Fucil   Venezuela	46.7 CR	Juan Carlos Dyrzka   Argentina	47.6	Víctor Maldonado   Venezuela	48.5
800 metres	Oscar Rivera   Colombia	1:52.2	José Neira   Colombia	1:52.9	Leslie Mentor   Venezuela	1:53.1
1500 metres	Álvaro Mejía   Colombia	3:53.5	José Neira   Colombia	3:54.4	José Azevedo   Brazil	3:55.9
5000 metres	Osvaldo Suárez   Argentina	14:59.8	Harvey Borrero   Colombia	15:00.5	Domingo Amaisón   Argentina	15:01.2
10,000 metres	Osvaldo Suárez   Argentina	31:09.6	Domingo Amaisón   Argentina	31:17.0	Luiz Caetano   Brazil	31:20.9
Half marathon	Luiz Caetano   Brazil	1:09:41	Luis Navas   Colombia	1:09:55	Hernán Barreneche   Colombia	1:11:29
3000 metres steeplechase	Domingo Amaisón   Argentina	9:13.0	Sebastião Mendes   Brazil	9:28.7	José Primo   Brazil	9:29.7
110 metres hurdles	Juan Muñoz   Venezuela	15.0	José Telles da Conceição   Brazil	15.2	Cleomenes da Cunha   Brazil	15.5
400 metres hurdles	Juan Carlos Dyrzka   Argentina	51.0 CR	Víctor Maldonado   Venezuela	51.5	Anubes da Silva   Brazil	51.8
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil Joel Satow Joel Costa Affonso da Silva Jose da Conceição	40.9	Colombia Jaime Uribe Francisco Gutiérrez Pedro Grajales Leonel Pedroza	41.2	Argentina Carlos Vampoecke Juan Carlos Dyrzka Guillermo Vallania Carlos Biondi	41.6
4 × 400 metres relay	Venezuela Aristides Pineda Leslie Mentor Víctor Maldonado Hortensio Fusil	3:13.0 CR	Brazil Antonio da Silva Joel Rocha Geraldo Costa Anubes da Silva	3:14.7	Argentina Mario Rivert Guillermo Vallania Juan Stocker Juan Carlos Dyrzka	3:15.3
High jump	Roberto Abugattás   Peru	1.97	Eleuterio Fassi   Argentina	1.94	Manuel César   Brazil	1.88
Pole vault	Mario Eleusippi   Argentina	4.10 CR	César Quintero   Colombia	3.80	Marcelo de Souza   Brazil	3.70
Long jump	Héctor Thomas   Venezuela	7.22	Juan Muñoz   Venezuela	7.16	Roberto Caravaca   Venezuela	6.97
Triple jump	Asnoldo Devonish   Venezuela	15.09	José López   Venezuela	15.01	Mário Gomes   Brazil	14.90
Shot put	José Jacques   Brazil	15.08	Luis Di Cursi   Argentina	15.06	Dagoberto González   Colombia	14.02
Discus throw	Dagoberto González   Colombia	48.84	Daniel Cereali   Venezuela	47.85	Luis Di Cursi   Argentina	46.37
Hammer throw	Daniel Cereali   Venezuela	56.07 CR	Roberto Chapchap   Brazil	55.08	Orlando Guaita   Chile	54.64
Javelin throw	Héctor Thomas   Venezuela	64.79	Walter de Almeida   Brazil	63.49	Patricio Etcheverry   Chile	63.18
Decathlon	Héctor Thomas   Venezuela	6825	Cleomenes da Cunha   Brazil	6269	Roberto Caravaca   Venezuela	5991

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Erica da Silva   Brazil	12.0 CR	Margarita Formeiro   Argentina	12.1	Susana Ritchie   Argentina	12.3
200 metres	Erica da Silva   Brazil	24.3 CR	Susana Ritchie   Argentina	25.2	Marta Buongiorno   Argentina	25.4
80 metres hurdles	Emilia Dyrzka   Argentina	11.5	Leda dos Santos   Brazil	11.5	Maria Teixeira   Brazil	11.8
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil Edir Ribeiro Ines Pimenta Leda dos Santos Erica da Silva	47.6 CR	Argentina Margarita Formeiro Marta Buongiorno Emilia Dyrzka Susana Ritchie	47.8	Colombia Gloria Aguirre Ana Alvarado Smirna Paz Amparo Ramos	49.8
High jump	Maria da Conceição   Brazil	1.58	Aída dos Santos   Brazil	1.58	Irenice Rodrigues   Brazil	1.50
Long jump	Mabel Farina   Argentina	5.74	Iris dos Santos   Brazil	5.37	Gisela Vidal   Venezuela	5.31
Shot put	Ingeborg Pfüller   Argentina	12.82 CR	Vera Trezoitko   Brazil	12.43	Maria da Conceição   Brazil	12.31
Discus throw	Ingeborg Pfüller   Argentina	46.36 CR	Isolina Vergara   Colombia	39.42	Ingeborg Mello   Argentina	39.05
Javelin throw	Marlene Ahrens   Chile	44.67	Aída dos Santos   Brazil	38.29	Carmen Brea   Venezuela	37.93

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Venezuela (VEN)	10	5	6	21
2	Argentina (ARG)	9	7	7	23
3	Brazil (BRA)	7	12	12	31
4	Colombia (COL)	3	7	3	13
5	Chile (CHI)	1	0	2	3
6	Peru (PER)	1	0	1	2
Totals (6 entries)		31	31	31	93

External links

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