The 1919 South American Championships in Athletics was the inaugural South American Championships and was contested by Uruguay and Chile were held in Montevideo, Uruguay between 11 and 13 April.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Henry Bowles  Uruguay	11.8	Marcelo Uranga  Chile	12.0	Ricardo Müller  Chile	12.1
200 metres	Isabelino Gradín  Uruguay	23.2	Julio Gorlero  Uruguay	23.4	Ricardo Müller  Chile	23.8
400 metres	Isabelino Gradín  Uruguay	52.4	Armando Camus  Chile	53.0	Carlos Stevens  Chile	54.6
800 metres	Juan Campos  Uruguay	2:04.8	Armando Camus  Chile	2:06.4	Carlos Stevens  Chile	2:07.0
1500 metres	Juan Baeza  Chile	4:29.8	Manuel Moraga  Chile	4:30.0	Enrique Calderón  Chile	4:31.4
10,000 metres	Gilberto Martínez  Uruguay	33:57.0	Juan Baeza  Chile	34:41.2	Enrique Calderón  Chile	34:55.6
110 metres hurdles	Harold Rosenqvist  Chile	17.0	Julio Kilián  Chile	17.2	Adolfo Reccius  Chile	18.0
200 metres hurdles	Julio Kilián  Chile	27.2	Adolfo Reccius  Chile	-	Harold Rosenqvist  Chile	28.0
400 metres hurdles	Julio Kilián  Chile	59.2	Adolfo Reccius  Chile	61.4	Andrés Mazzali  Uruguay	62.0
4 × 400 metres relay	Chile Julio Killian Armando Camus Ricardo Müller Carlos Stevens	3:39.0	Uruguay Julio Gorlero Mario Herrera Eduardo Venancio Flores Isabelino Gradín	3:39.4
High jump	Carlos Patiño  Uruguay	1.72	Hernán Orrego  Chile	1.70	Arturo Filloy  Uruguay	1.68
Standing high jump	Carlos Patiño  Uruguay	1.40	Carlos Fernández  Uruguay	1.38	Arturo Filloy  Uruguay	1.38
Pole vault	Eugen Fonck  Chile	3.20	José Amejeiras  Uruguay	3.15	Héctor Berruti  Uruguay	3.15
Long jump	Ricardo Müller  Chile	6.68	Adolfo Reccius  Chile	6.53	Ricardo Filloy  Uruguay	6.47
Standing long jump	Hugo Krumm  Chile	3.07	Carlos Patiño  Uruguay	2.95	Ernesto Ramón  Uruguay	2.91
Shot put	Teodoro Scheihing  Chile	11.47	Víctor Zaragoza  Uruguay	11.22	Harold Rosenqvist  Chile	10.95
Discus throw	Alberto Warnken  Chile	35.80	Leonardo de Lucca  Uruguay	33.68	Fernando Capellini  Uruguay	33.44
Hammer throw	Leonardo de Lucca  Uruguay	32.57	Evaldo Homberg  Chile	31.97	Teodoro Scheihing  Chile	30.40
Javelin throw	Arturo Medina  Chile	45.95	Fernando Capellini  Uruguay	43.27	Evaldo Homberg  Chile	40.50

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Chile (CHI)	11	11	11	33
2	Uruguay (URU)	8	8	7	23
Totals (2 entries)		19	19	18	56

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