Athletics at the 1983 Pan American Games – Men's 100 metres

The men's 100 metres event at the 1983 Pan American Games was held in Caracas, Venezuela on 23 and 24 August.[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Leandro Peñalver  Cuba	Sam Graddy  United States	Osvaldo Lara  Cuba

Juan Núñez of the Dominican Republic had originally won the silver, however, at the competition he tested positive for a banned stimulant fencamfamine and was stripped of his medal.[3][4]

Results

Heats

Wind:
Heat 1: -2.6 m/s, Heat 2: -2.4 m/s, Heat 3: -2.5 m/s

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Leandro Peñalver	Cuba	10.41	Q
1	3	Osvaldo Lara	Cuba	10.41	Q
3	1	Ben Johnson	Canada	10.49	Q
4	1	Sam Graddy	United States	10.50	Q
5	2	Juan Núñez	Dominican Republic	10.51	Q
5	1	Ray Stewart	Jamaica	10.55	Q
6	3	Desai Williams	Canada	10.58	Q
7	3	Christopher Brathwaite	Trinidad and Tobago	10.58	Q
8	2	Nelson dos Santos	Brazil	10.62	Q
9	1	Wilfredo Almonte	Dominican Republic	10.68	Q
10	2	Hipolito Brown	Venezuela	10.68	Q
11	3	Ken Robinson	United States	10.69	Q
12	2	Everard Samuels	Jamaica	10.71	Q
13	3	Neville Hodge	United States Virgin Islands	10.73	Q
14	3	Florencio Aguilar	Panama	10.81	q
15	3	Ángel Andrade	Venezuela	10.90
16	1	Luis Schneider	Chile	11.01	Q
17	2	Calvin Greenaway	Antigua and Barbuda	11.14
18	1	Katsuhiko Nakaya	Brazil	12.93
	1	Lester Benjamin	Antigua and Barbuda	DNS

Semifinals

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Wind:
Heat 1: -1.5 m/s, Heat 2: -1.4 m/s

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Leandro Peñalver	Cuba	10.16	Q[6]
2	1	Sam Graddy	United States	10.30	Q
3	1	Ray Stewart	Jamaica	10.31	Q
4	2	Ben Johnson	Canada	10.32	Q
5	1	Desai Williams	Canada	10.34	q
6	2	Osvaldo Lara	Cuba	10.35	Q
7	1	Nelson dos Santos	Brazil	10.43	q
8	2	Juan Núñez	Dominican Republic	10.52	Q
8	2	Christopher Brathwaite	Trinidad and Tobago	10.53
9	2	Everard Samuels	Jamaica	10.53
10	1	Wilfredo Almonte	Dominican Republic	10.57
11	2	Ken Robinson	United States	10.62
12	2	Hipólito Brown	Venezuela	10.65
13	1	Neville Hodge	United States Virgin Islands	10.73
14	1	Florencio Aguilar	Panama	10.74
15	2	Luis Schneider	Chile	10.75

Final

Wind: +2.0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Leandro Peñalver	Cuba	10.06	GR, PB
2	Juan Núñez	Dominican Republic	10.14	DQ
	Sam Graddy	United States	10.18
	Osvaldo Lara	Cuba	10.21
4	Ray Stewart	Jamaica	10.22
5	Ben Johnson	Canada	10.25
6	Nelson dos Santos	Brazil	10.35
	Desai Williams	Canada	DNS

References

1. Results
2. Full results
3. Games spoiled by controversy, The Cavalier Daily, 30 August 1983
4. Brigitte Berendonk: Doping-Dokumente. Von der Forschung zum Betrug. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-540-53742-2
5. "Pan American Games results". United Press International. August 24, 1983. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
6. "Year list". Retrieved 17 April 2019.