1983 South American Championships in Athletics

The 1983 South American Championships in Athletics were held in Santa Fe, Argentina.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Nelson dos Santos  Brazil	10.3	Paulo Correia  Brazil	10.5	Giorgino Mautino  Peru	10.5
200 metres	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 Luiz 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 Esteban  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
10000 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
3000 metres steeplechase	Emilio Ulloa  Chile	8:44.6 CR	Wilson de Santana  Brazil	8:47.7	Adauto Domingues  Brazil	8:50.8
110 metres hurdles	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	Elías da Fonseca  Brazil	52.8
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
20 kilometres road walk	Héctor Moreno  Colombia	1:24:12 CR	Francisco Vargas  Colombia	1:25:35	Osvaldo Morejón  Bolivia	1:32:20
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil	40.7	Argentina	40.8	Uruguay	41.4
4 × 400 metres relay	Brazil	3:10.8	Chile	3:13.6	Argentina	3:14.5

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Esmeralda de Jesus Garcia  Brazil	11.6	Sheila de Oliveira  Brazil	11.8	Daisy Salas  Chile	11.9
200 metres	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	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
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
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

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