The 1987 South American Championships in Athletics were held in São Paulo, Brazil, between 8 and 11 October.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Robson da Silva  Brazil	10.39	Carlos Moreno  Chile	10.51	Carlos de Oliveira  Brazil	10.68
200 metres (wind: -0.6 m/s)	Robson da Silva  Brazil	21.04	Carlos Moreno  Chile	21.41	Álvaro Prenafeta  Chile	21.48
400 metres	Héctor Daley  Panama	45.80 CR	Gérson de Souza  Brazil	46.26	Cristián Courbis  Chile	46.37
800 metres	Luis Migueles  Argentina	1:47.35	Pablo Squella  Chile	1:48.64	Jamir Garcez  Brazil	1:49.49
1500 metres	Gilson Wiggers  Brazil	3:46.62	Emilio Ulloa  Chile	3:46.69	Manuel Balmaceda  Chile	3:47.43
5000 metres	Rolando Vera  Ecuador	14:03.00	Florinda Corrêa  Brazil	14:04.60	Omar Aguilar  Chile	14:05.50
10,000 metres	Juan Pablo Juárez  Argentina	29:18.39	Rolando Vera  Ecuador	29:19.16	Omar Aguilar  Chile	29:30.01
Marathon	Osmiro Silva  Brazil	2:21:06	José César de Souza  Brazil	2:24:49	Wilson Pérez  Ecuador	2:26:22
110 metres hurdles (wind: -0.8 m/s)	Lyndon Campos  Brazil	14.13	Joilto Bonfim  Brazil	14.54	Carlos Varas  Argentina	14.55
400 metres hurdles	Pablo Squella  Chile	50.42	Antônio Dias Ferreira  Brazil	50.67	Carlos dos Santos  Brazil	52.43
3000 metres steeplechase	Emilio Ulloa  Chile	8:51.41	Carlos Naput  Argentina	8:53.84	Ricardo Vera  Uruguay	8:58.99
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil Carlos de Oliveira Pedro Miguel da Silva Reginaldo Aguiar Robson da Silva	40.17	Argentina Oscar Barrionuevo Carlos Gats José María Beduino Gerardo Meinardi	40.72	Chile Carlos Moreno Álvaro Prenafeta Juan Carlos Fuentes Héctor Fernández	40.75
4 × 400 metres relay	Chile Cristián Courbis Manuel Balmaceda Pablo Squella Carlos Morales	3:07.64 CR	Brazil Gérson de Souza Paulo César de Souza Geraldo de Assis Nilson Neri	3:08.43	Argentina Fabián Garbolino Dardo Angerami Luis Migueles José María Beduino	3:10.36
20 kilometres road walk	Cláudio Bertolino  Brazil	1:38:34	Jorge Yannone  Argentina	1:39:12	Juan Canevaro  Chile	1:40:51
High jump	Fernando Moreno  Argentina	2.17 =CR	Fernando Pastoriza  Argentina	2.17	Milton Riitano Francisco  Brazil	2.14
Pole vault	Oscar Veit  Argentina	5.25 CR	Thomas Riether  Chile	5.15	Renato Bortolocci  Brazil	5.05
Long jump	Paulo de Oliveira  Brazil	7.65	Fernando Valiente  Peru	7.56	Ricardo Valiente  Peru	7.45
Triple jump	Jorge da Silva  Brazil	16.24	Abcelvio Rodrigues  Brazil	16.11	José Quiñaliza  Ecuador	15.77
Shot put	Gert Weil  Chile	19.35	Adilson Oliveira  Brazil	18.04	Gerardo Carucci  Argentina	16.70
Discus throw	Carlos Brynner  Argentina	55.34 CR	José Jacques  Brazil	54.46	João dos Santos  Brazil	51.16
Hammer throw	Andrés Charadia  Argentina	66.72 CR	Pedro Rivail Atílio  Brazil	62.68	Adrián Marzo  Argentina	59.94
Javelin throw (Current design)	Nivaldo Beje Filho  Brazil	64.46 CR	Rodrigo Zelaya  Chile	64.06	Jorge Parraguirre  Chile	63.98
Decathlon	Paulo Lima  Brazil	7491	Fidel Solórzano  Ecuador	6947	Carlos Martín  Argentina	6924

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Deborah Bell  Argentina	11.68	Ximena Restrepo  Colombia	11.77	Inês Ribeiro  Brazil	11.91
200 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Ximena Restrepo  Colombia	23.49	Liliana Chalá  Ecuador	23.74	Deborah Bell  Argentina	23.87
400 metres	Liliana Chalá  Ecuador	52.9 CR	Suzete Montalvão  Brazil	53.7	Soledad Acerenza  Uruguay	55.2
800 metres	Soraya Telles  Brazil	2:07.71	Graciela Mardones  Chile	2:09.21	Luiza do Nascimento  Brazil	2:09.39
1500 metres	Soraya Telles  Brazil	4:29.9	Rita de Jesus  Brazil	4:30.9	Graciela Mardones  Chile	4:33.9
3000 metres	Monica Regonesi  Chile	9:47.30	Martha Tenorio  Ecuador	10:02.63	María Martínez  Argentina	10:05.93
10,000 metres	Angélica de Almeida  Brazil	34:59.2	Monica Regonesi  Chile	35:00.6	Martha Tenorio  Ecuador	35:11.5
100 metres hurdles (wind: -0.3 m/s)	Carmen Bezanilla  Chile	14.22	Carolina Gutiérrez  Argentina	14.34	Alejandra Martínez  Chile	14.49
400 metres hurdles	Liliana Chalá  Ecuador	58.46 CR	Maria do Carmo Fialho  Brazil	59.92	Margit Weise  Brazil	60.05
4 × 100 metres relay	Argentina Milagros Allende Olga Conte Laura de Falco Deborah Bell	45.45	Brazil Iara Ribeiro Jupira da Graça Roberta Correa Inês Ribeiro	45.78	Uruguay Rosanna Biasco Margarita Martirena Soledad Acerenza Claudia Acerenza	46.54
4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil Suzete Montalvão Soraya Telles Maria do Carmo Fialho Eliane Silva	3:38.13 CR	Argentina Viviana Cortes Olga Conte Milagros Allende Laura de Falco	3:43.56	Chile Carmen Bezanilla Claudia Hoelzel Graciela Mardones Ismenia Guzmán	3:43.61
High jump	Orlane dos Santos  Brazil	1.80	Liliana Lohmann  Brazil	1.73	Carmen Garib  Chile	1.70
Long jump	Rita Slompo  Brazil	6.17	Ana Martina Vizioli  Argentina	6.01	Orlane dos Santos  Brazil	5.90
Shot put	Maria Fernandes  Brazil	14.49	Berenice da Silva  Uruguay	14.36	Eliane de Campos  Brazil	13.88
Discus throw	Luz María Quiñonez  Ecuador	48.00	Márcia Barbosa  Brazil	45.66	Gloria Martínez  Chile	44.66
Javelin throw	Sueli dos Santos  Brazil	56.00 CR	Berta Gómez  Colombia	47.62	Sonia Favre  Argentina	46.68
Heptathlon	Conceição Geremias  Brazil	5550	Carmen Bezanilla  Chile	5066	Carolina Gutiérrez  Argentina	4765

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil (BRA)	20	16	11	47
2	Argentina (ARG)	8	7	9	24
3	Chile (CHI)	6	9	13	28
4	Ecuador (ECU)	4	4	3	11
5	Colombia (COL)	1	2	0	3
6	Panama (PAN)	1	0	0	1
7	Uruguay (URU)	0	1	3	4
8	Peru (PER)	0	1	1	2
Totals (8 entries)		40	40	40	120

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