José Luis Félix Chilavert González is a Paraguayan former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Sportivo Luqueño, Guaraní, San Lorenzo de Almagro, Real Zaragoza, Vélez Sarsfield, RC Strasbourg, Peñarol and the Paraguay national team.
Bryan Ezra Tsumoru Clay is an American decathlete who was the 2008 Summer Olympic champion for the decathlon and was also World champion in 2005.
Nery Gustavo Kennedy Rolón is a javelin thrower from Paraguay, who represented his native country at two Summer Olympics. He briefly held the South American record for the Javelin Throw with a result of 81.28m, thrown on 9 May 1998, overtaking compatriot Edgar Baumann at the time. The mark stood until 1999, when compatriot Baumann threw 84.70 metres. In 2008, he worked as a coach in Canada with Frédérick Bouchard. He achieved the Texas A&M Javelin Throw record in 1994. Kennedy was coached by Juan De La Garza at Texas A&M in 1996.
Ashton James Eaton is a retired American decathlete and two-time Olympic champion, who holds the world record in the indoor heptathlon event. Eaton was the second decathlete to break the 9,000-point barrier in the decathlon, with 9,039 points, a score he bettered on August 29, 2015, when he beat his own world record with a score of 9,045 points, and remains the only person to exceed 9000 points twice. His world record was broken by Frenchman Kevin Mayer on September 16, 2018, with a total of 9,126 points, who became the third man to pass the 9,000-point barrier.
Yunior Díaz Zayas is a Cuban track and field athlete who specialises in the decathlon and long jump. He represented Cuba at the 2008 Summer Olympics and also at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics. He won the silver medal at the 2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics.
Edgar Andres Baumann Dure is a Paraguayan former Javelin Thrower, current Javelin Coach, Sports Promoter and Businessperson. He is of German descent.
Damian David George Warner is a Canadian track and field athlete specializing in decathlon. He is the 2020 Olympic champion and a four-time world medallist. Warner also won the bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics and was the 2014 Commonwealth champion and a two-time Pan American champion from the 2015 and 2019 Games. Competing in the heptathlon, he is the 2022 World Indoor champion.
Kevin Mayer is a French athlete specialising in decathlon and indoor heptathlon. He is two-time world champion, two-time Olympic silver medalist and the world record holder in the decathlon since 2018. He is also a world and three-time European champion in heptathlon.
Víctor Abel Fatecha Riveros is a Paraguayan athlete specializing in the javelin throw. He competed at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing without reaching the final.
The Paraguayan Athletics Federation is the governing body for the sport of athletics in Paraguay.
Asociación de Atletismo del Alto Paraná is a track and field athletics club based in the city of Ciudad del Este in Paraguay. The club is affiliated with the Federación Paraguaya de Atletismo. The majority of the club's participations and achievements are for Marathon and Long distance running. The AAAP also organizes many marathon events within Ciudad del Este and Hernandarias, and also competes in marathons in neighbor city Foz de Iguazu in Brazil. At national level, the Asociación de Atletismo del Alto Paraná is the best athletics club in Paraguay along with Club Sol de América and Paraguay Marathon Club.
Larson Giovanni Diaz Martinez is a Paraguayan javelin thrower. He has a scholarship with the Secretaria Nacional de Deportes and represents Paraguay Marathon Club in the Federación Paraguaya de Atletismo. Díaz claimed a silver medal at the 2013 South American Junior Championships in Athletics.
Club Atlético Águilas del Sur initialed CAAS is a track and field athletics club based in the city of Santa Rosa of the Misiones department in Paraguay. The club is affiliated with the Federación Paraguaya de Atletismo. Since 2015, the voluntary coach of Japanese nationality, Jun Mizushima, is working in the city of Santa Rosa on behalf of the Federación Paraguaya de Atletismo and the Secretaria Nacional de Deportes and wants to strengthen Paraguay in the disciplines of throwing hammer and discus.
The Campeonato de la Victoria or Torneo de la Victoria is Paraguay's most important national athletics competition, disputed annually since 1950. The Federación Paraguaya de Atletismo's calendar consists of several national evaluative athletics competitions disputed throughout the year and culminates with the Championship of the Victoria.
The 2015 Campeonato de la Victoria or 2015 Torneo de la Victoria was held at the Secretaria Nacional de Deportes in Asunción, organized by Federación Paraguaya de Atletismo. It was the 65th edition.
The 2013 Campeonato de la Victoria or 2013 Torneo de la Victoria was held at the Secretaria Nacional de Deportes in Asunción, organized by Federación Paraguaya de Atletismo. It was the 63rd edition.
The 2014 Campeonato de la Victoria or 2014 Torneo de la Victoria was held at the Secretaria Nacional de Deportes in Asunción, organized by Federación Paraguaya de Atletismo. It was the 64th edition.
Athletics in Paraguay in Paraguay is managed by the Federación Paraguaya de Atletismo. The sport is mainly practiced in the throwing modalities.
Édgar Fabian Jara Dohmann is a Paraguayan javelin thrower. He represented the University of Texas in the US and also Sol de América in Paraguay. Jara was coached by Olympic Athlete Claudio Escauriza and Santiago Pérez up to his arrival at the University of Texas in 2014, when he started training under American former javelin thrower, Ty Sevin.
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