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 entries)		39	39	40	118

See also

• 1983 in athletics (track and field)

External links

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