Athletics at the 1983 Pan American Games

The Athletics Competition at the 1983 Pan American Games was held at the Estadio Olímpico in Caracas, Venezuela, between 23 and 28 August.

Athletics at the 1983 Pan American Games
Dates	23–28 August
Host city	Caracas, Venezuela
Venue	Estadio Olímpico
Level	Senior
Events	40
Participation	340 athletes from 27 nations
← San Juan 1979 Indianapolis 1987 → 1983 Pan American Games

Medal summary

Men's Events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +2.0 m/s) details	Leandro Peñalver   Cuba	10.06	Sam Graddy   United States	10.18	Osvaldo Lara   Cuba	10.21
200 metres (wind: -1.3 m/s) details	Elliott Quow   United States	20.42	Leandro Peñalver   Cuba	20.53	Bernie Jackson   United States	20.81
400 metres details	Cliff Wiley   United States	45.02	Lázaro Martínez   Cuba	45.37	Gérson de Souza   Brazil	45.45
800 metres details	Agberto Guimarães   Brazil	1:46.31	José Luíz Barbosa   Brazil	1:46.65	Stanley Redwine   United States	1:47.26
1500 metres details	Agberto Guimarães   Brazil	3:42.91	Ross Donoghue   United States	3:43.09	Chuck Aragon   United States	3:44.57
5000 metres details	Eduardo Castro   Mexico	13:54.11	Gerardo Alcalá   Mexico	13:54.37	Domingo Tibaduiza   Colombia	13:59.68
10,000 metres details	José Gómez   Mexico	29:14.75	Domingo Tibaduiza   Colombia	29:17.12	Mark Nenow   United States	29:22.46
Marathon details	Jorge González   Puerto Rico	2:12:43 (NR)	César Mercado   Puerto Rico	2:20:30	Miguel Cruz   Mexico	2:21:12
3000 metres steeplechase details	Emilio Ulloa   Chile	8:57.62	Carmelo Ríos   Puerto Rico	9:01.47	Greg Duhaime   Canada	9:06.03
110 metres hurdles (wind: -3.2 m/s) details	Roger Kingdom   United States	13.44	Alejandro Casañas   Cuba	13.51	Tonie Campbell   United States	13.54
400 metres hurdles details	Frank Montiéh   Cuba	50.02	Antônio Dias Ferreira   Brazil	50.08	James King   United States	50.31
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States Sam Graddy Bernie Jackson Ken Robinson Elliott Quow	38.49	Cuba Osvaldo Lara Leandro Peñalver Silvio Leonard José Isalgue	38.55	Brazil Gérson de Souza João Batista da Silva Nelson dos Santos Robson da Silva	39.08
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States Alonzo Babers Mike Bradley James Rolle Eddie Carey	3:00.47	Brazil Evaldo da Silva José Luiz Barbosa Agberto Guimarães Gérson de Souza	3:02.79	Cuba Lázaro Martínez Agustín Pavó Carlos Reyté Héctor Herrera	3:03.15
20 kilometres walk details	Ernesto Canto   Mexico	1:28:12	Raúl González   Mexico	1:29:21	Héctor Moreno   Colombia	1:30:05
50 kilometres walk details	Raúl González   Mexico	4:00:45	Martín Bermúdez   Mexico	4:04:20	Querubín Moreno   Colombia	4:23:20
High jump details	Francisco Centelles   Cuba	2.29	Leo Williams   United States	2.27	Jorge Alfaro   Cuba	2.25
Pole vault details	Mike Tully   United States	5.45	Jeff Buckingham   United States	5.25	Tomás Valdemar Hintnaus   Brazil	5.20
Long jump details	Jaime Jefferson   Cuba	8.03A	Vesco Bradley   United States	7.99	Juan Felipe Ortiz   Cuba	7.91
Triple jump details	Jorge Reyna   Cuba	17.05	Lázaro Betancourt   Cuba	16.75	José Salazar   Venezuela	16.26
Shot put details	Luis Delís   Cuba	18.24	Gert Weil   Chile	17.30	Hubert Maingot   Trinidad and Tobago	16.48
Discus throw details	Luis Delís   Cuba	67.32	Bradley Cooper   Bahamas	62.38	Juan Martínez   Cuba	62.04
Hammer throw details	Genovevo Morejón   Cuba	65.34	Harold Willers   Canada	64.22	Alfredo Luis   Cuba	63.16
Javelin throw details	Laslo Babits   Canada	81.40	Ramón González   Cuba	78.34	Amado Morales   Puerto Rico	77.40
Decathlon details	Dave Steen   Canada	7958	Douglas Fernández   Venezuela	7726 (NR)	Freddy Aberdeen   Venezuela	7262

Women's Events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -2.7 m/s) details	Esmeralda de Jesus Garcia   Brazil	11.31	Jackie Washington   United States	11.33	Luisa Ferrer   Cuba	11.38
200 metres (wind: -0.8 m/s) details	Randy Givens   United States	23.14	LaShon Nedd   United States	23.39	Luisa Ferrer   Cuba	23.39
400 metres details	Charmaine Crooks   Canada	51.49	Ana Fidelia Quirot   Cuba	51.83	Easter Gabriel   United States	52.45
800 metres details	Nery McKeen   Cuba	2:02.20	Ranza Clark   Canada	2:02.44	Alejandra Ramos   Chile	2:03.65
1500 metres details	Ranza Clark   Canada	4:16.18	Cindy Bremser   United States	4:17.67	Missy Kane   United States	4:21.39
3000 metres details	Joan Benoit   United States	9:14.19	Brenda Webb   United States	9:28.69	Monica Regonesi   Chile	9:41.87
100 metres hurdles (wind: -0.9 m/s) details	Benita Fitzgerald   United States	13.16	Kim Turner   United States	13.39	Elida Aveillé   Cuba	13.41
400 metres hurdles details	Judi Brown   United States	56.03	Sharrieffa Barksdale   United States	56.09	Gwen Wall   Canada	56.93
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States Alice Jackson Jackie Washington Brenda Cliette Randy Givens^[1]	43.21	Trinidad and Tobago Gillian Forde Janice Bernard Esther Hope Angela Williams	44.63	Canada Karen Nelson Tanya Brothers Charmaine Crooks Jillian Richardson	44.77
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States Alice Jackson Judi Brown Easter Gabriel Kelia Bolton	3:29.97	Canada Andrea Page Gwen Wall Christine Slythe Jillian Richardson	3:30.24	Cuba Mayra Guerra Nery McKeen Mercedes Álvarez Ana Fidelia Quirot	3:30.76
High jump details	Coleen Sommer   United States	1.91	Silvia Costa   Cuba	1.88	Joni Huntley   United States	1.82
Long jump details	Kathy McMillan   United States	6.70	Eloína Echevarría   Cuba	6.61	Pat Johnson^[2]   United States	6.33
Shot put details	María Elena Sarría   Cuba	19.34	Lorna Griffin   United States	16.61	Rosemarie Hauch   Canada	16.38
Discus throw details	Maritza Martén   Cuba	59.62	Lorna Griffin   United States	56.52	Penny Neer   United States	53.32
Javelin throw details	María Caridad Colón   Cuba	63.76	Mayra Vila   Cuba	63.32	Marieta Riera   Venezuela	53.60
Heptathlon details	Conceição Geremias   Brazil	6084	Cindy Greiner   United States	6068	Elida Aveillé   Cuba	5755

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	14	14	11	39
2	Cuba (CUB)	12	10	11	33
3	Canada (CAN)	4	3	4	11
4	Brazil (BRA)	4	3	3	10
5	Mexico (MEX)	4	3	1	8
6	Puerto Rico (PUR)	1	2	1	4
7	Chile (CHI)	1	1	2	4
8	Colombia (COL)	0	1	3	4
	Venezuela (VEN)	0	1	3	4
10	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	0	1	1	2
11	Bahamas (BAH)	0	1	0	1
Totals (11 entries)		40	40	40	120

Participating nations

•   Antigua and Barbuda (15)
•   Argentina (8)
•   Bahamas (4)
•   Barbados (2)
•   Brazil (20)
•   Canada (34)
•   Chile (7)
•   Colombia (9)
•   Cuba (47)
•   Dominican Republic (8)
•   Ecuador (1)
•   Guatemala (2)
•   Guyana (2)
•   Honduras (2)
•   Jamaica (9)
•   Mexico (10)
•   Nicaragua (4)
•   Panama (4)
•   Paraguay (1)
•   Peru (1)
•   Puerto Rico (12)
•   El Salvador (1)
•   Trinidad and Tobago (17)
•   United States (63)
•   Virgin Islands (4)
•   Uruguay (4)
•   Venezuela (49)

See also

• 1983 in athletics (track and field)

References

1. Siddons, Larry (1983-08-29). Us Sprints To Pan Am Finish. The Spokesman-Review. Retrieved on 2015-07-08.
2. "Celebrate UW's Black History: Pat Johnson". uwbadgers.com. University of Wisconsin. Retrieved 2018-10-18.

• Pan American Games results at GBR Athletics