Claudio Escauriza (born 3 May 1958 in Paraguay) 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. He was the coach of Paraguayan Javelin Thrower Fabian Jara. Escauriza is the father of Paraguayan tennis player Lara Escauriza.
Trajectory Escuariza finished 2nd at the 1982 Southern Cross Games in Argentina.
Coaching Escauriza and Édgar Torres both attended the 2012 Summer Olympics as coaches of the group.
At the 2013 South American Championships in Cartagena, Colombia, Escauriza was part of the coaching body with Plinio Penzzi and Hungarian Thomas Zuddy.
Personal life 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 of 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.
International competitions Representing 1977South American ChampionshipsMontevideo, Uruguay6thPole vault3.60 m5thJavelin throw60.44 m8thDecathlon5658 pts1979South American ChampionshipsBucaramanga, Colombia3rdDecathlon6791 pts1981South American ChampionshipsLa Paz, Bolivia5thDiscus throw44.82 m8thJavelin throw52.14 m2ndDecathlon6702 pts1982Southern Cross GamesSanta Fe, Argentina5thDiscus throw44.14 m2ndDecathlon6774 pts1983World Championships Helsinki, Finland –DecathlonDNFIbero-American ChampionshipsBarcelona, Spain3rdPole vault4.30 m4thDiscus throw48.70 m4thJavelin throw59.92 m1984Olympic Games Los Angeles, United States22ndDecathlon6546 pts1985South American ChampionshipsSantiago, Chile8thJavelin throw58.86 m3rdDecathlon6599 pts
See also List of Paraguayan records in athletics
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