Athletics at the 1983 Pan American Games

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The Athletics competition in the 1983 Pan American Games were held in Caracas, Venezuela.

Contents 1 Medal Summary 1.1 Men's Events 1.2 Women's Events 2 Medal table 3 See also 4 References

[edit] Medal Summary

[edit] Men's Events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Leandro Peñalver  Cuba	10.06	Juan Núñez  Dominican Republic	10.14	Sam Graddy  United States	10.18
200 metres	Elliott Quow  United States	20.42	Leandro Peñalver  Cuba	20.53	Bernie Jackson  United States	20.81
400 metres	Cliff Wiley  United States	45.02	Lázaro Martínez  Cuba	45.37	Gerson de Souza  Brazil	45.45
800 metres	Agberto Guimarães  Brazil	1:46.31	José Luiz Barbosa  Brazil	1:46.65	Stanley Redwine  United States	1:47.26
1500 metres	Agberto Guimarães  Brazil	3:42.91	Ross Donahue  United States	3:43.09	Chuck Aragon  United States	3:44.57
5000 metres	Eduardo Castro  Mexico	13:54.11	Gerardo Alcalá  Mexico	13:54.37	Domingo Tibaduiza  Colombia	13:59.68
10000 metres	José Gómez  Mexico	29:14.75	Domingo Tibaduiza  Colombia	29:17.12	Mark Nenow  United States	29:22.46
Marathon	Jorge González  Puerto Rico	2:12:43	César Mercado  Puerto Rico	2:20:30	Miguel Cruz  Mexico	2:21:12
3000 metre steeplechase	Emilio Ulloa  Chile	8:57.62	Carmelo Ríos  Puerto Rico	9:01.47	Greg Duhaime  Canada	9:06.03
110 metres hurdles	Roger Kingdom  United States	13.44	Alejandro Casañas  Cuba	13.51	Tonie Campbell  United States	13.54
400 metres hurdles	Frank Montiéh  Cuba	50.02	Antônio Díaz Ferreira  Brazil	50.08	James King  United States	50.31
High jump	Francisco Centelles  Cuba	2.29	Leo Williams  United States	2.27	Jorge Alfaro  Cuba	2.25
Pole vault	Mike Tully  United States	5.45	Jeff Buckingham  United States	5.25	Tom Hintnaus  Brazil	5.20
Long jump	Jaime Jefferson  Cuba	8.03A	Vesco Bradley  United States	7.99	Juan Ortiz  Cuba	7.91
Triple jump	Jorge Reyna  Cuba	17.05	Lázaro Betancourt  Cuba	16.75	José Salazar  Venezuela	16.26
Shot put	Luis Delís  Cuba	18.24	Gert Weil  Chile	17.30	Hubert Maingot  Trinidad and Tobago	16.48
Discus throw	Luis Delís  Cuba	67.32	Bradley Cooper  Bahamas	62.38	Juan Martínez  Cuba	62.04
Hammer throw	Genovevo Morejón  Cuba	65.34	Harold Willers  Canada	64.22	Alfredo Luis  Cuba	63.16
Javelin throw	Laslo Babits  Canada	81.40	Ramón González  Cuba	78.34	Amado Morales  Puerto Rico	77.40
Decathlon	Dave Steen  Canada	7958	Douglas Fernández  Venezuela	7726	Freddy Aberdeen  Venezuela	7262
20 kilometre road walk	Ernesto Canto  Mexico	1:28:12	Raúl González  Mexico	1:29:21	Héctor Moreno  Colombia	1:30:05
50 kilometre road walk	Raúl González  Mexico	4:00:45	Martín Bermúdez  Mexico	4:04:20	Querubín Moreno  Colombia	4:23:20
4 x 100 metres relay	United States • Sam Graddy • Bernie Jackson • Ken Robinson • Elliott Quow	38.49	Cuba • Osvaldo Lara • Leandro Peñalver • Silvio Leonard • José Isalgue	38.55	Brazil • Gerson de Souza • João Batista Silva • Nelson Rocha • Robson da Silva	39.08
4 x 400 metres relay	United States • Alonzo Babers • Mike Bradley • James Rolle • Eddie Carey	3:00.47	Brazil • Evaldo da Silva • José Luiz Barbosa • Agberto Guimarães • Gerson de Souza	3:02.79	Cuba • Lázaro Martínez • Augustin Pavo • Carlos Reyte • Héctor Herrera	3:03.15

[edit] Women's Events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Esmeralda García  Brazil	11.31	Jackie Washington  United States	11.33	Luisa Ferrer  Cuba	11.38
200 metres	Randy Givens  United States	23.14	LaShon Nedd  United States	23.39	Luisa Ferrer  Cuba	23.39
400 metres	Charmaine Crooks  Canada	51.49	Ana Fidelia Quirot  Cuba	51.83	Esther Gabriel  United States	52.45
800 metres	Nery McKeen  Cuba	2:02.20	Ranza Clark  Canada	2:02.44	Alejandra Ramos  Chile	2:03.65
1500 metres	Ranza Clark  Canada	4:16.18	Cindy Bremser  United States	4:17.67	Missy Kane  United States	4:21.39
3000 metres	Joan Benoit  United States	9:14.19	Brenda Webb  United States	9:28.69	Mónica Regonessi  Chile	9:41.87
100 metres hurdles	Benita Fitzgerald  United States	13.16	Kim Turner  United States	13.39	Elida Aveillé  Cuba	13.41
400 metres hurdles	Judi Brown  United States	56.03	Sharieffa Barksdale  United States	56.09	Gwen Wall  Canada	56.93
High jump	Coleen Sommer  United States	1.91	Silvia Costa  Cuba	1.88	Joni Huntley  United States	1.82
Long jump	Kathy McMillan  United States	6.70	Eloína Echevarría  Cuba	6.61	Pat Johnson  United States	6.33
Shot putt	María Elena Sarría  Cuba	19.34	Rosa Fernández  Cuba	17.39	Lorna Griffin  United States	16.61
Discus throw	María Betancourt  Cuba	59.62	Maritza Martén  Cuba	59.62	Lorna Griffin  United States	56.52
Javelin throw	María Caridad Colón  Cuba	63.76	Mayra Vila  Cuba	63.32	Marieta Riera  Venezuela	53.60
Heptathlon	Conceição Geremias  Brazil	6084	Cindy Greiner  United States	6068	Elida Aveillé  Cuba	5755
4 x 100 metres relay	United States	43.21	Trinidad and Tobago	44.63	Canada	44.77
4 x 400 metres relay	United States	3:29.97	Canada	3:30.24	Cuba	3:30.76

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	14	11	13	38
2	Cuba	12	12	10	34
3	Brazil	4	3	3	10
	Canada	4	3	3	10
5	Mexico	4	3	1	8
6	Puerto Rico	1	2	1	4
7	Chile	1	1	2	4
8	Colombia	0	1	3	4
	Venezuela	0	1	3	4
10	Trinidad and Tobago	0	1	1	2
11	Dominican Republic	0	1	0	1
	Bahamas	0	1	0	1

[edit] See also

• 1983 in athletics (track and field)

[edit] References

• GBR Athletics

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