Claudio Escauriza
Claudio Escauriza (born 3 May 1958 in Paraguay)[1] is a Paraguayan athletics coach and former decathlete, who competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States of America and the 1st IAAF World Championships in 1983 in Helsinki, Finland. Escauriza represented Paraguay at several South American Championships, and also holds the Paraguayan national record in decathlon with a score of 6,943.[2] He was the coach of Paraguayan Javelin Thrower Fabian Jara.[3] Escauriza is the father of Paraguayan tennis player Lara Escauriza.[4]
Trajectory
[edit]Escuariza finished 2nd at the 1982 Southern Cross Games in Argentina.[5]
Coaching
[edit]Escauriza and Édgar Torres both attended the 2012 Summer Olympics as coaches of the group.[6]
At the 2013 South American Championships in Cartagena, Colombia, Escauriza was part of the coaching body with Plinio Penzzi and Hungarian Thomas Zuddy.[7]
Personal life
[edit]In 2009, Escauriza, along with José Luis Chilavert, Tomás Orué and lawyer Alejandro Rubin, attended a Press Conference at Asunción Shopping Centre Shopping del Sol, in support Edgar Baumann, who had received a favorable ruling from the Paraguay Supreme Court in a case against the Paraguay Olympic Committee president Ramón Zubizarreta for robbing him the right of competing at the 2000 Summer Olympics and also taking his sums of money that he earned from his scholarship.[8]
International competitions
[edit]| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Representing  Paraguay
| |||||
| 1979 | South American Championships | Bucaramanga, Colombia | 3rd | Decathlon | 6791 pts |
| 1981 | South American Championships | La Paz, Bolivia | 5th | Discus throw | 44.82 m |
| 8th | Javelin throw | 52.14 m | |||
| 2nd | Decathlon | 6702 pts | |||
| 1982 | Southern Cross Games | Santa Fe, Argentina | 2nd | Decathlon | 6774pts |
| 1983 | World Championships | Helsinki, Finland | – | Decathlon | DNF |
| Ibero-American Championships | Barcelona, Spain | 3rd | Pole vault | 4.30 m | |
| 4th | Discus throw | 48.70 m | |||
| 4th | Javelin throw | 59.92 m | |||
| 1984 | Olympic Games | Los Angeles, United States | 22nd | Decathlon | 6546 pts |
| 1985 | South American Championships | Santiago, Chile | 8th | Javelin throw | 58.86 m |
| 3rd | Decathlon | 6599 pts | |||
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "IAAF: Claudio Escauriza - Profile". iaaf.org. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "The Official Website of the University of Texas Athletics". www.texassports.com. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
- ^ "Secretaría Nacional de Deporte :: La tenista Lara Escauriza visitó al Ministro". Snd.gov.py. Retrieved 2018-09-21.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Libro I Juegos Odesur - Ernesto Rodríguez III". Archived from the original on 2012-01-04. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
- ^ "Equipo nacional, completo". Retrieved 21 September 2018.
- ^ Color, ABC. "La "Pantera" y el "Grillo" se alistan para debutar - Edicion Impresa - ABC Color". Retrieved 21 September 2018.
- ^ Color, ABC. "Zubizarreta tiene que renunciar, dice Chilavert - Deportes - ABC Color". Archived from the original on 19 January 2018. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
