1983 South American Championships in Athletics

The 1983 South American Championships in Athletics were held in Santa Fe, Argentina, between 29 September and 2 October.

Medal summary[]

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	Peru	10.5
200 metres (wind: -1.8 m/s)	Paulo Correia  Brazil	21.3	Nelson dos Santos  Brazil	21.5	Argentina	21.7
400 metres	Sérgio Menezes  Brazil	46.8	Evaldo da Silva  Brazil	47.4	Colombia	47.5
800 metres	José Luiz Barbosa  Brazil	1:49.1	Emilio Ulloa  Chile	1:49.2	Argentina	1:50.5
1500 metres	Emilio Ulloa  Chile	3:48.3	Argentina	3:48.9	Adauto Domingues  Brazil	3:50.8
5000 metres	Omar Aguilar  Chile	14:00.9	Brazil	14:01.2	Colombia	14:03.1
10,000 metres	Omar Aguilar  Chile	29:12.1	Brazil	29:13.4	Jairo Correa  Colombia	29:22.7
Marathon	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	Brazil	14.5	Argentina	14.9
400 metres hurdles	Pedro Chiamulera  Brazil	52.2	Rodrigo de la Fuente  Chile	52.7	Brazil	52.8
3000 metres steeplechase	Emilio Ulloa  Chile	8:44.6 CR	Brazil	8:47.7	Adauto Domingues  Brazil	8:50.8
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil Nelson dos Santos Paulo Correia Sérgio Menezes	40.7	Argentina	40.8	Uruguay	41.4
4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil	3:10.8	Chile	3:13.6	Argentina	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	Brazil	2.14	Fernando Pastoriza  Argentina	2.14	Rodrigo de la Fuente  Chile	2.04
Pole vault	Chile	4.70	Brazil	4.60	Argentina  Argentina	4.50
Long jump	Argentina	7.51	Brazil	7.41	Marcus Barros  Brazil	7.28
Triple jump	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	Brazil	15.70
Discus throw	Brazil	51.86	Brazil	50.50	Chile	49.24
Hammer throw	Brazil	61.16	Argentina	60.56	Brazil	59.74
Javelin throw	Brazil	74.54	Colombia	71.48	Brazil	71.24
Decathlon	Argentina	7252	Brazil	7096	Brazil	6959

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.4 m/s)	Esmeralda de Jesus Garcia  Brazil	11.6	Brazil	11.8	Chile	11.9
200 metres (wind: -1.5 m/s)	Brazil	24.5	Brazil	24.9	Uruguay	24.9
400 metres	Brazil	54.0	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	Venezuela	4:27.5
3000 metres	Monica Regonesi  Chile	9:57.2 CR	Argentina	10:02.2	Peru	10:06.3
100 metres hurdles (wind: -0.3 m/s)	Beatriz Capotosto  Argentina	13.2 CR	Brazil	13.7	Brazil	14.4
400 metres hurdles	Conceição Geremias  Brazil	59.5 CR	Brazil	60.5	Argentina	62.6
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil	45.4	Uruguay	47.7
4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil	3:40.0 CR	Chile	3:45.3	Argentina	3:48.7
High jump	Brazil	1.80	Conceição Geremias  Brazil	1.77	Liliana Arigoni  Argentina  Chile	1.71
Long jump	Esmeralda de Jesus Garcia  Brazil	6.12	Chile	5.84	Brazil	5.79
Shot put	Brazil	15.01 CR	Brazil	14.87	Chile	14.04
Discus throw	Brazil	49.30	María Isabel Urrutia  Colombia	45.00	Brazil	44.72
Javelin throw	Marieta Riera  Venezuela	51.04 CR	Chile	50.68	Venezuela	49.18
Heptathlon	Conceição Geremias  Brazil	5865 CR	Brazil	5371	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 nations)		39	39	40	118

See also[]

• 1983 in athletics (track and field)

External links[]

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