South American track and field continental records

The South American continental athletics records are the best performances of athletes of the South American continental association Confederación Sudamericana de Atletismo , which were established in disciplines of athletics. Only those disciplines were recorded in which the Continental Association also officially holds a record. These best performances were ratified in accordance with the regulations of the Continental Association.

Olympic disciplines

Open-air continental records, men (24 disciplines)

discipline	power	athlete	country	date	place
100 m	10.00 s A (1.6)	Robson da Silva	BRA	07/22/1988	Mexico city
200 m	19.81 s (−0.3)	Alonso Edward	PAN	08/20/2009	Berlin
400 m	44.29 s	Sanderlei Claro Parrela	BRA	08/26/1999	Seville
800 m	1: 41.77 min	Joaquim Cruz	BRA	08/26/1984	Cologne
1500 m	3: 33.25 min	Hudson de Souza	BRA	08/28/2005	Rieti
5000 m	13: 19.43 min	Marílson dos Santos	BRA	06/08/2006	kassel
10,000 m	27: 28.12 min	Marílson dos Santos	BRA	06/02/2007	Neerpelt
marathon	2:06:05 h	Ronaldo da Costa	BRA	09/20/1998	Berlin
110 m hurdles	13.29 s (−0.4)	Redelén dos Santos	BRA	06/13/2004	Lisbon
	13.29 s (0.7)	Paulo Villar	COL	07/26/2006	Cartagena
400 m hurdles	47.84 s	Bayano Kamani	PAN	08/07/2005	Helsinki
3000 m obstacle	8: 14.41 min	Wander do Prado Moura	BRA	03/22/1995	Mar del Plata
high jump	2.33 mA	Gilmar Mayo	COL	10/17/1994	Pereira
Pole vault	5.92 m	Thiago Braz da Silva	BRA	06/24/2015	Baku
Long jump	8.73 m (1.2)	Irving Saladino	PAN	05/24/2008	Hengelo
Triple jump	17.90 m (0.4)	Jadel Gregório	BRA	05/20/2007	Belém
Shot put	21.14 m	Marco Antonio Verni	CHI	07/29/2004	Santiago de Chile
Discus throw	66.32 m	Jorge Balliengo	ARG	04/15/2006	Rosario
Hammer throw	76.42 m	Juan Ignacio Cerra	ARG	07/25/2001	Trieste
Javelin throw	84.70 m	Edgar Baumann	PAR	10/17/1999	San Marcos
Decathlon	8276 points	Luiz Alberto de Araújo	BRA	06/30/2012	São Paulo
	10.80 s (100 m) , 7.39 m (long jump) , 14.93 m (shot put) , 1.98 m (high jump) , 48.54 s (400 m) , 14.12 s (110 m hurdles ) , 46.15 m (discus throw) , 4.90 m (pole vault) , 52.11 m (javelin throw) , 4: 27.75 min (1500 m)
	8291 points A ht	Tito Steiner	ARG	06/23/1983	Provo
	10.8 s (100 m) , 7.45 m (long jump) , 16.35 m (shot put) , 2.04 m (high jump) , 49.0 s (400 m) , 14.1 s (110 m hurdles ) , 50.02 m (discus throw) , 4.56 m (pole vault) , 61.50 m (javelin throw) , 4: 51.6 min (1500 m)
20 km walk	1:17:21 h	Jefferson Perez	ECU	08/23/2003	Saint Denis
50 km walk	3:49:32 h	Andrés Chocho	ECU	09/28/2011	Daegu
4 × 100 m relay	37.90 s	Vicente Lima Édson Ribeiro André da Silva Claudinei da Silva	BRA	09/30/2000	Sydney
4 × 400 m relay	2: 58.56 min	Eronilde de Araújo Sanderlei Claro Parrela Cleverson da Silva Sérgio dos Santos	BRA	07/30/1999	Winnipeg

Open-air continental records, women (23 disciplines)

discipline	power	athlete	country	date	place
100 m	11.15 s (1.4)	Ana Cláudia Silva	BRA	04.09.2010	São Paulo
200 m	22.48 s (1.0)	Ana Cláudia Silva	BRA	08/06/2011	Bogotá
400 m	49.64 s	Ximena Restrepo	COL	08/05/1992	Barcelona
800 m	1: 56.68 min	Letitia Vriesde	SUR	08/13/1995	Gothenburg
1500 m	4: 05.67 min	Letitia Vriesde	SUR	08/31/1991	Tokyo
5000 m	15: 18.85 min	Simone da Silva	BRA	05/20/2011	São Paulo
10,000 m	31: 16.56 min	Simone da Silva	BRA	08/03/2011	São Paulo
marathon	2:26:17 ha	Yolanda Caballero	COL	04/18/2011	Boston
	2:28:54 h	Ines Melchor	By	08/05/2012	London
100 m hurdles	12.71 s (0.1)	Maurren Higa Maggi	BRA	05/19/2001	Manaus
400 m hurdles	55.84 s	Lucimar Teodoro	BRA	05/24/2009	Cubatão
3000 m obstacle	9: 41.22 min	Sabine Heitling	BRA	July 25, 2009	London
high jump	1.96 m	As long as Witteveen	ARG	09/08/1997	Oristano
Pole vault	4.85 m	Fabiana Murer	BRA	06/04/2010	San Fernando
				08/30/2011	Daegu
Long jump	7.26 m A (1.8)	Maurren Higa Maggi	BRA	06/26/1999	Bogotá
Triple jump	14.99 mA (1.7)	Caterine Ibargüen	COL	08/13/2011	Bogotá
Shot put	19.30 m A	Elisângela Adriano	BRA	07/14/2001	Tunja
Discus throw	64.21 m	Andressa de Morais	BRA	06/10/2012	Barquisimeto
Hammer throw	73.74 m	Jennifer Dahlgren	ARG	06/10/2010	Buenos Aires
Javelin throw	62.62 m A	Sabina Moya	COL	05/12/2002	Guatemala City
Heptathlon	6160 points	Lucimara da Silva	BRA	06/10/202	Barquisimeto
	13.78 s (−2.0) (100 m hurdles) , 1.83 m (high jump) , 12.63 m (shot put) , 24.98 s (−0.4) (200 m) , 6.44 m (0.5) (long jump) , 42.22 m (javelin) , 2: 18.52 min (800 m)
20 km walk	1:31:25 h	Miriam Ramón	ECU	05/07/2005	Lima
4 × 100 m relay	42.55	Ana Cláudia Silva Franciela Krasucki Evelyn dos Santos Rosângela Santos	BRA	08/09/2012	London
4 × 400 m relay	3: 26.68 min	Geisa Aparecida Coutinho Barbara de Oliveira Joelma Sousa Jailma de Lima	BRA	08/07/2011	São Paulo

Non-Olympic disciplines

Open-air continental records, men (22 disciplines)

discipline	power	athlete	country	date	place
1000 m	2: 14.09 min	Joaquim Cruz	BRA	08/20/1984	Nice
A mile	3: 51.05 min	Hudson de Souza	BRA	07/29/2005	Oslo
2000 m	5: 03.34 min	Hudson de Souza	BRA	04/06/2002	Manaus
3000 m	7: 39.70 min	Hudson de Souza	BRA	07/02/2002	Lausanne
10 km road run	27:48 min +	Marílson dos Santos	BRA	10/14/2007	Udine
15 km road run	42:15 min +	Marílson dos Santos	BRA	10/14/2007	Udine
20,000 m	1:03:09 h	Robinson Semolini	BRA	08/12/1990	Plovdiv
20 km road run	56:32 min +	Marílson dos Santos	BRA	10/14/2007	Udine
One hour	No officially held record
half marathon	59:33 min	Marílson dos Santos	BRA	10/14/2007	Udine
25,000 m	No officially held record
25 km road run	1:14:31 h + a	Marílson dos Santos	BRA	04/17/2011	London
	1:15:02 h +	Silvio Guerra	ECU	03/04/2001	Lake Biwa
		Vanderlei de Lima	BRA	07/12/2003	Fukuoka
30,000 m	No officially held record
30 km road race	1:29:21 h +	Marílson dos Santos	BRA	04/17/2011	London
100 km road run	No officially held record
	6:18:09 h #	Valmir Nunes	BRA	09/16/1995	Winschoten
20,000 m walk	1: 20: 23.8 ht	Andrés Chocho	ECU	06/05/2011	Buenos Aires
30,000 m walk	No officially held record
50,000 m walk	3: 57: 58.0 h	Cláudio dos Santos	BRA	09/20/2008	Blumenau
4 × 200 m relay	No officially held record
4 × 800 m relay	No officially held record
4 × 1500 m relay	No officially held record
Marathon relay	2:04:50 h	Elenilson da Silva Tomix da Costa Ronaldo da Costa Daniel Lopes Ferreira Leonardo Guedes Sergio Goncalves da Silva	BRA	04/19/1998	Manaus

Open-air continental records, women (21 disciplines)

discipline	power	athlete	country	date	place
1000 m	2: 32.25 min	Letitia Vriesde	SUR	09/10/1991	Berlin
A mile	4: 30.05 min	Soraya Vieira Telles	BRA	06/09/1988	Bratislava
2000 m	5: 59.96 min	Niusha Mancilla	BOL	06/10/2004	Rivas-Vaciamadrid
3000 m	9: 02.37 min	Delirium Maria Bernardi	BRA	07/04/1994	Linz
10 km road run	32:03 min	Carmem de Oliveira	BRA	06/04/1993	New York City
15 km road run	48:38 min	Carmem de Oliveira	BRA	02/26/1994	Tampa
20,000 m	No officially held record
20 km road run	1:09:27 h +	Nadir Sabino de Siqueira	BRA	04/10/1997	Košice
One hour	No officially held record
half marathon	1:11:15 h	Silvana Pereira	BRA	07/13/1991	Florianópolis
	1:09:31 ha #	Carmem de Oliveira	BRA	03/13/1994	Lisbon
25,000 m	No officially held record
25 km road run	1:25:03 h + a	Yolanda Caballero	COL	04/18/2011	Boston
	1:27:20 h	Marcia Narloch	BRA	05/06/1990	Berlin
30,000 m	No officially held record
30 km road race	1:42:28 h + a	Yolanda Caballero	COL	04/18/2011	Boston
	1:46:46 h + #	Carmem de Oliveira	BRA	11/21/1993	Tokyo
	1:46:55 h +	Griselda González	ARG	05/11/1997	Turin
100 km road run	No officially held record
	7:20:22 h #	Maria Venâncio	BRA	08/08/1998	Cubatão
Decathlon	No officially held record
	6570 points #	Andrea Bordalejo	ARG	11/28/2004	Rosario
	(100 m) , (discus throw) , (pole vault) , (javelin throw) , (400 m) , (110 m hurdles) , (long jump) , (shot put) , (high jump) , (1500 m)
10,000 m walk	45: 59.95 min	Geovana Irusta	BOL	05/20/2000	Rio de Janeiro
	45: 11.2 min A ht #	Sandra Arenas	COL	04/15/2012	Medellin
20,000 m walk	1: 32: 09.4 h	Ingrid Hernández	COL	06/05/2011	Buenos Aires
4 × 200 m relay	No officially held record
4 × 800 m relay	9: 29.10 min	Cristiane Barbosa Cintia Fragoso Lorena FV Oliveira Ana Paula C. Pereira	BRA	December 21, 2000	Rio de Janeiro
Marathon relay	2:32:55 h	Ana Claudia de Souza Maria Lucia Vieira Celia dos Santos Rosangela Pereira Farias Solange de Sousa Selma candida dos Reis	BRA	04/18/1998	Manaus

Legend

symbol	meaning
	Current world record
A.	Erected at an altitude of 1000 meters or more
a	Route favors faster times and does not comply with the regulations (IAAF rule 260.28)
w	Favored by wind (the back wind was more than 2 m / s)
i	Scored in the hall. Records (outdoor records) can be set in a stadium with or without a roof since 1998 (IAAF rule 260.18a).
est	estimated
ht	Hand stop
!	Time measurement by means of a photocell
+	Record set on part of a longer route
*	Subject to ratification by the IAAF
#	Not an officially ratified outdoor record (some indoor records are marked with this symbol)
╳	not ratified because no doping control was carried out
OT	Oversized career
(X, X)	In brackets: wind in meters per second (minus figures: headwind)

literature

• IAAF Statistics Handbook Daegue 2011: Part 1 (PDF, 6.25 MB), Part 2 (PDF, 2.27 MB), Part 3 (PDF, 4.00 MB), Part 4 (PDF, 3.07 MB), Part 5 (PDF, 5.52 MB)
• IAAF Statistics Handbook Istanbul 2012: Part 1 (PDF, 7.02 MB), Part 2 (PDF, 4.89 MB), Part 3 (PDF, 1.45 MB), Part 4 (PDF, 1.29 MB), Part 5 (PDF, 1.63 MB)

Web links

• Area records on the IAAF website
• Official website of the Confederación Sudamericana de Atletismo

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} The South American Association also ratifies top performances in road running that are achieved on routes that do not comply with the IAAF regulations (rule 260.28) and favor faster times such as. B. Boston.