Athletics at the 1947–48 Bolivarian Games

Athletics at the II Bolivarian Games
Athletics at the II Bolivarian Games
Dates	December 26 - January 8
Host city	Lima, Perú
Level	Senior
Events	33 (23 men, 10 women)
	← 1938 Bogotá 1951 Caracas → ; 1947-48 Bolivarian Games

Athletics competitions at the 1947–48 Bolivarian Games were held in Lima, Perú, in December 1947 and January 1948.

A detailed history of the early editions of the Bolivarian Games between 1938 and 1989 was published in a book written (in Spanish) by José Gamarra Zorrilla, former president of the Bolivian Olympic Committee, and first president (1976–1982) of ODESUR.^[1] Gold medal winners from Ecuador were published by the Comité Olímpico Ecuatoriano.^[2]

A total of 33 events were contested, 23 by men and 10 by women. Unusually, cross country events (individual and team) were part of the games.

Medal summary

Medal winners were published.^[3]

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Lloyd LaBeach (PAN)	10.5	Santiago Ferrando (PER)	10.9	Miguel León (PER)	11.0
200 metres	Lloyd LaBeach (PAN)	21.0	Santiago Ferrando (PER)	22.0	Ricardo Rojas (PER)	22.7
400 metres	José Tovar (VEN)	49.5	Jaime Aparicio (COL)	49.9	Mario Rosas (COL)	50.4
800 metres	Antero Mongrut (PER)	1:54.9	Frank Prince (PAN)	1:56.5	Marcos Pujazón (PER)	1:58.7
1500 metres	Antero Mongrut (PER)	4:08.7	Marcos Pujazón (PER)	4:11.5	Rafael Zambrano (PER)	4:11.7
5000 metres	Adán Zárate (PER)	15:52.0	Leonidas Botiquín (PER)	16:11.0	Máximo Matos (PER)	16:18.4
10000 metres	Adán Zárate (PER)	33:15.6	Carlos Fonseca (ECU)	33:59.0	Lino Ruelas (PER)	35:45.8
Half Marathon^†	Espiridión Villarcel (BOL)	1:09:21			Carlos Cruz (PER)	1:10:40
110 metres hurdles	Hernán Alzamora (PER)	15.4	Livio Montoya (PER)	16.4	Saul Arrechea (COL)	16.6
400 metres hurdles	Jaime Aparicio (COL)	55.9	Mario Rosas (COL)	56.7	Carlos Bahamonde (PER)	57.6
High Jump	Edmundo Masias (PER)	1.86	Miguel Clovis (PAN)	1.83	Edgar Audman (ECU)	1.83
Pole Vault	Luis Ganoza (PER)	3.80	Jaime Piqueras (PER) Jorge Piqueras (PER)	3.40
Long Jump	Lloyd LaBeach (PAN)	6.99	Guillermo Dyer (PER)	6.75	Máximo Reyes (PER)	6.32
Triple Jump	Guillermo Dyer (PER)	14.70	Máximo Reyes (PER)	14.32	Jorge Mendoza (PER)	13.36
Shot Put	Leonelo Patiño (PER)	14.08	Eduardo Julve (PER)	13.68	Mauricio Rodríguez (VEN)	12.11
Discus Throw	Eduardo Julve (PER)	44.54	Manuel Consiglieri (PER)	43.72	Héctor Mendoza (PER)	38.21
Hammer Throw	Alberto Peirano (PER)	43.16	Manuel Consiglieri (PER)	42.38	Vicente Lagoyete (COL)	40.70
Javelin Throw	José Romero (VEN)	53.24	Eduardo Julve (PER)	50.81	Guillermo Falkonert (COL)	50.09
Pentathlon	Eduardo Julve (PER)	3086	Máximo Reyes (PER)	2666	Mauricio Rodríguez (VEN)	2635
4 x 100 metres relay	Panama	41.6	Peru	42.4	Colombia	43.4
4 x 400 metres relay	Panama	3:20.4	Peru	3:22.8	Ecuador	3:27.7
Cross Country - Individual	Francisco Montaño (BOL)	52:05	Espiridión Villarcel (BOL)	52:07	Luis Ruelas (PER)	53:31
Cross Country - Team

Notes

^†: 20 kilometres ?

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 metres	Julia Sánchez (PER)	6.8	Julia Iriarte (BOL)	7.0	Carmen Soto (BOL)	7.2
100 metres	Julia Sánchez (PER)	13.3	Carmen Soto (BOL)	13.4	Laura Ortiz (BOL)	13.8
200 metres	Carmen Soto (BOL)	27.7	Julia Huapaya (PER)	28.8	Helena Amaya (PER)	28.9
80 metres hurdles	Julia Iriarte (BOL)	12.7	Carmen Soto (BOL)	15.5	Raquel Gamarra (PER)	15.5
High Jump	Julia Iriarte (BOL)	1.36	Carmen Soto (BOL)	1.36	Julia Sánchez (PER)	1.33
Long Jump	Julia Iriarte (BOL)	5.01	Julia Sánchez (PER)	4.76	Carmela Antezana (BOL)	4.73
Shot Put	Julia Iriarte (BOL)	10.77	Julia Huapaya (PER)	9.50	Elvira Casaverde (PER)	9.12
Discus Throw	Julia Iriarte (BOL)	31.97	Julia Huapaya (PER)	31.29	Amelia Michilena (PER)	30.30
Javelin Throw	Clorinda Herrera (PER)	30.81	Julia Iriarte (BOL)	29.58	Raquel Gamarra (PER)	21.55
4 x 100 metres relay	Peru	52.4	Bolivia	52.5

Medal table (unofficial)

* Host nation (Peru)

References

^ Gamarra Zorrilla, José, Bolivia Olímpica Capítulos VI al VIII (PDF) (in Spanish), ANDES Academia del Conocimiento y el Desarrollo "Fernando Diez de Medina", retrieved June 28, 2012
^ CUADRO DE MEDALLISTAS ECUATORIANOS EN LA HISTORIA DE LOS J. D. B. POR EDICIÓN (PDF) (in Spanish), Comité Olímpico Ecuatoriano, archived from the original (PDF) on June 8, 2012, retrieved June 28, 2012
^ BOLIVARIAN GAMES, Athletics Weekly, retrieved June 27, 2012

[bolivia-1] Gamarra Zorrilla, José, Bolivia Olímpica Capítulos VI al VIII (PDF) (in Spanish), ANDES Academia del Conocimiento y el Desarrollo "Fernando Diez de Medina", retrieved June 28, 2012

[2] CUADRO DE MEDALLISTAS ECUATORIANOS EN LA HISTORIA DE LOS J. D. B. POR EDICIÓN (PDF) (in Spanish), Comité Olímpico Ecuatoriano, archived from the original (PDF) on June 8, 2012, retrieved June 28, 2012

[gbr-3] BOLIVARIAN GAMES, Athletics Weekly, retrieved June 27, 2012

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