1983 South American Championships in Athletics

1983 South American Championships in Athletics
Dates	29 September–2 October
Host city	Santa Fe, Argentina
Venue	Centro de Alto Rendimiento Deportivo Pedro Candioti
Events	39
Participation	231 athletes from 10 nations
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The 1983 South American Championships in Athletics were held at the Centro de Alto Rendimiento Deportivo Pedro Candioti in Santa Fe, Argentina, between 29 September and 2 October.

Medal summary

Further information: 1983 South American Championships in Athletics – Results

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -0.7 m/s)	Nelson dos Santos   Brazil	10.3	Paulo Correia   Brazil	10.5	Giorgio Mautino   Peru	10.5
200 metres (wind: -1.8 m/s)	Paulo Correia   Brazil	21.3	Nelson dos Santos   Brazil	21.5	José María Beduino   Argentina	21.7
400 metres	Sérgio Menezes   Brazil	46.8	Evaldo da Silva   Brazil	47.4	Wolfman Mena   Colombia	47.5
800 metres	José Luíz Barbosa   Brazil	1:49.1	Emilio Ulloa   Chile	1:49.2	Raúl López   Argentina	1:50.5
1500 metres	Emilio Ulloa   Chile	3:48.3	Omar Ortega   Argentina	3:48.9	Adauto Domingues   Brazil	3:50.8
5000 metres	Omar Aguilar   Chile	14:00.9	João de Ataide   Brazil	14:01.2	Germán Peña   Colombia	14:03.1
10,000 metres	Omar Aguilar   Chile	29:12.1	João de Ataide   Brazil	29:13.4	Jairo Correa   Colombia	29:22.7
Marathon	Juan Plagman   Chile	2:15:50	Jairo Correa   Colombia	2:17:43	Rafael Parra   Colombia	2:19:42
110 metres hurdles (wind: +0.9 m/s)	Pedro Chiamulera   Brazil	14.3	Wellington da Nobrega   Brazil	14.5	Rodolfo Iturraspe   Argentina	14.9
400 metres hurdles	Pedro Chiamulera   Brazil	52.2	Rodrigo de la Fuente   Chile	52.7	Elias da Fonseca   Brazil	52.8
3000 metres steeplechase	Emilio Ulloa   Chile	8:44.6 CR	Wilson de Santana   Brazil	8:47.7	Adauto Domingues   Brazil	8:50.8
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil Marcus Barros Nelson dos Santos Paulo Correia Sérgio Menezes	40.7	Argentina Alfredo Muro Oscar Barrionuevo Hugo Alzamora José María Beduino	40.8	Uruguay Luis Cabral Daniel Ipata Anataniel Guzmán Rubén da Cunha	41.4
4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil Paulo Roberto Correia Evaldo da Silva José Luíz Barbosa Sérgio Menezes	3:10.8	Chile Carlos Contreras Rodrigo de la Fuente Luis Alberto Schneider Mauricio Urquiza	3:13.6	Argentina Eduardo Sandes Daniel Bambicha Hugo Alzamora Raúl López	3:14.5
20 kilometres road walk	Héctor Moreno   Colombia	1:24:12 CR	Francisco Vargas   Colombia	1:25:35	Osvaldo Morejón   Bolivia	1:32:20
High jump	Jorge Archanjo   Brazil	2.14	Fernando Pastoriza   Argentina	2.14	Rodrigo de la Fuente   Chile	2.04
Pole vault	Fernando Hoces   Chile	4.70	Renato Bortolocci   Brazil	4.60	Walter Franzantti   Argentina Oscar Veit   Argentina	4.50
Long jump	Osvaldo Frigerio   Argentina	7.51	Luiz Favero   Brazil	7.41	Marcus Barros   Brazil	7.28
Triple jump	Francisco Pichott   Chile	15.64	José Quiñaliza   Ecuador	15.52	Jailto Bonfim   Brazil	15.44
Shot put	Gert Weil   Chile	18.29 CR	Juan Turri   Argentina	16.56	Adilson Oliveira   Brazil	15.70
Discus throw	José Jacques   Brazil	51.86	Celso da Cunha   Brazil	50.50	Andrés Pérez   Chile	49.24
Hammer throw	Ivam Bertelli   Brazil	61.16	Roberto Olcese   Argentina	60.56	Pedro Rivail Atílio   Brazil	59.74
Javelin throw	José de Souza   Brazil	74.54	Luis Martínez   Colombia	71.48	Amilcar de Barros   Brazil	71.24
Decathlon	Carlos Gambetta   Argentina	7252	Ronaldo Alcaraz   Brazil	7096	Antônio Balbuena   Brazil	6959

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.4 m/s)	Esmeralda de Jesus Garcia   Brazil	11.6	Sheila de Oliveira   Brazil	11.8	Daisy Salas   Chile	11.9
200 metres (wind: -1.5 m/s)	Jucilene Garcês   Brazil	24.5	Sheila de Oliveira   Brazil	24.9	Margarita Grün   Uruguay	24.9
400 metres	Elba Barbosa   Brazil	54.0	Jucilene Garcês   Brazil	54.0	Norfalia Carabalí   Colombia	54.8
800 metres	Alejandra Ramos   Chile	2:04.6	Soraya Telles   Brazil	2:06.2	Norfalia Carabalí   Colombia	2:07.2
1500 metres	Alejandra Ramos   Chile	4:25.3	Monica Regonesi   Chile	4:27.2	Adriana Marchena   Venezuela	4:27.5
3000 metres	Monica Regonesi   Chile	9:57.2 CR	María Victoria Biondi   Argentina	10:02.2	Ruth Jaime   Peru	10:06.3
100 metres hurdles (wind: -0.3 m/s)	Beatriz Capotosto   Argentina	13.2 CR	Juraciara da Silva   Brazil	13.7	Orlane dos Santos   Brazil	14.4
400 metres hurdles	Conceição Geremias   Brazil	59.5 CR	Margit Weise   Brazil	60.5	Anabella Dal Lago   Argentina	62.6
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil Elba Barbosa Juraciara da Silva Esmeralda Garcia Sheila de Oliveira	45.4	Uruguay Graciela Acosta Andrea Sassi Claudia Acerenza Margarita Grün	47.7	Only two finishers
4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil Margit Weise Maria do Carmo Fialho Jucilene Garcês Elba Barbosa	3:40.0 CR	Chile Graciela Mardones Paola Raab Alejandra Ramos Cecilia Rodríguez	3:45.3	Argentina Amalia Linietzky Marcela López María Elena Croatto Andrea Fuchs	3:48.7
High jump	Orlane dos Santos   Brazil	1.80	Conceição Geremias   Brazil	1.77	Liliana Arigoni   Argentina Carmen Garib   Chile	1.71
Long jump	Esmeralda de Jesus Garcia   Brazil	6.12	Adriana Ruffin   Chile	5.84	Orlane dos Santos   Brazil	5.79
Shot put	Maria Fernandes   Brazil	15.01 CR	Marinalva dos Santos   Brazil	14.87	Jazmín Cirio   Chile	14.04
Discus throw	Odete Domingos   Brazil	49.30	María Isabel Urrutia   Colombia	45.00	Maria Fernandes   Brazil	44.72
Javelin throw	Marieta Riera   Venezuela	51.04 CR	Carolina Weil   Chile	50.68	Mariela Riera   Venezuela	49.18
Heptathlon	Conceição Geremias   Brazil	5865 CR	Olga Verissimo   Brazil	5371	Yvonne Neddermann   Argentina	5273

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Brazil  (BRA)	23	20	12	55
2	Chile  (CHI)	11	7	5	23
3	Argentina  (ARG)	3	6	10	19
4	Colombia  (COL)	1	4	6	11
5	Venezuela  (VEN)	1	0	2	3
6	Uruguay  (URU)	0	1	2	3
7	Ecuador  (ECU)	0	1	0	1
8	Peru  (PER)	0	0	2	2
9	Bolivia  (BOL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		39	39	40	118

Participating nations

•   Argentina (67)
•   Bolivia (6)
•   Brazil (45)
•   Chile (36)
•   Colombia (15)
•   Ecuador (4)
•   Paraguay (15)
•   Peru (11)
•   Uruguay (25)
•   Venezuela (7)

See also

• 1983 in athletics (track and field)

External links

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