The 1929 South American Championships in Athletics were held in Lima, Peru between 5 and 10 May.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Hernán Spinassi  Argentina	10.7 CR	Carlos Bianchi Lutti  Argentina		Juan Carlos Ure Aldao  Argentina
200 metres	Hernán Spinassi  Argentina	21.9 CR	José Vicente Salinas  Chile		Juan Carlos Ure Aldao  Argentina
400 metres	José Vicente Salinas  Chile	49.0 CR	Santiago Hintze  Argentina	49.4	Ernesto Riveros  Chile
800 metres	Leopoldo Ledesma  Argentina	1:55.2 CR	Hermenegildo Del Rosso  Argentina		Ernesto Medel  Chile
1500 metres	Leopoldo Ledesma  Argentina	4:01.0 CR	Ernesto Medel  Chile		Roger Ceballos  Argentina
3000 metres	Belisario Alarcón  Chile	8:51.0 CR
5000 metres	Belisario Alarcón  Chile	15:44.8	Lindor Pizarro  Chile		Pedro Pérez  Chile
10,000 metres	José Ribas  Argentina	32:10.4	Fernando Cicarelli  Argentina		Juan Bravo  Chile
110 metres hurdles	Valerio Vallanía  Argentina	15.3 CR	Alfredo Ugarte  Chile	15.4	Evaristo Gomes  Peru
400 metres hurdles	Pedro Gálvez  Peru	55.2 CR	Juan Acosta  Argentina	55.4	Juan Figueiras  Argentina
4 × 100 metres relay	Argentina Hernan Spinassi Cagliardi Pages Juan Carlos Ure	42.2 CR	Peru García Serrot Pedro Gálvez Ordoñez	43.2	Chile Viollo Gutiérrez Rozas Luis Miguel
4 × 400 metres relay	Chile Gutiérrez Humberto Scacchi Guillermo Godoy José Vicente Salinas	3:22.4 CR	Argentina Roberto Genta Juan Acosta Santiago Hintze Salas		Peru Pedro Gálvez Souza Bravo Noya
3000 metres team race	Argentina		Chile
Cross country	Belisario Alarcón  Chile	33/36:16.0	Arturo Velert  Argentina		Fernando Cicarelli  Argentina
High jump	Valerio Vallanía  Argentina	1.80	Luis Garay  Chile	1.80	Pablo Riesen  Argentina	1.75
Pole vault	Diego Pajmaevich  Argentina	3.80 CR	Adolfo Schlegel  Chile	3.70	Alfredo Escobedo  Argentina	3.70
Long jump	Juan Moura  Chile	6.87 CR	Pedro Aizcorbe  Argentina	6.74	Carlos Butti  Argentina	6.63
Triple jump	Luis Brunetto  Argentina	14.77	Ricardo Mendiburo  Chile	14.45	Pedro Aizcorbe  Argentina	14.27
Shot put	Kurt Pollack  Chile	13.23 CR	Héctor Benapres  Chile	12.77	Guillermo Otto  Chile	12.64
Discus throw	Héctor Benapres  Chile	41.64 CR	Pedro Elsa  Argentina	41.44	Arístides Domínguez  Argentina	40.63
Hammer throw	Federico Kleger  Argentina	49.57 CR	Alfredo Wismer  Argentina	46.55	Ricardo Bayer  Chile	46.42
Javelin throw	Tomás Medián  Chile	53.31	Antonio Medvesigh  Argentina	51.76	F. Vega  Chile	49.52
Decathlon	Héctor Berra  Argentina	6511.34	Santiago León Amatrián  Argentina	6264.33	Fernando Primard  Chile	6075

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Argentina (ARG)	13	12	10	35
2	Chile (CHI)	9	9	9	27
3	Peru (PER)	1	1	2	4
Totals (3 entries)		23	22	21	66

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