Athletics at the 1983 Pan American Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 200 metres event at the 1983 Pan American Games was held in Caracas, Venezuela on 25 and 26 August.^[1][2]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Elliott Quow  United States	Leandro Peñalver  Cuba	Bernie Jackson  United States

Wind:
Heat 1: -0.3 m/s, Heat 2: -2.5 m/s^[3][4]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	João Batista da Silva	Brazil	20.66	Q
2	1	Leandro Peñalver	Cuba	20.74	Q
3	2	Bernie Jackson	United States	20.86	Q
4	2	Tomás González	Cuba	20.88	Q
5	1	Elliott Quow	United States	20.90	Q
6	2	Juan Núñez	Dominican Republic	20.91	DQ[5][6]
6	2	Tony Sharpe	Canada	21.04	Q
7	1	Andrew Bruce	Trinidad and Tobago	21.05	q
8	2	Robson da Silva	Brazil	21.07
9	1	George Walcott	Jamaica	21.13
10	1	Luis Schneider	Chile	21.28
11	2	Christopher Brathwaite	Trinidad and Tobago	21.31
12	2	Alberto Lugo	Venezuela	21.31
13	1	Hipólito Brown	Venezuela	21.34
14	2	Everard Samuels	Jamaica	21.42
15	1	Neville Hodge	United States Virgin Islands	21.57

Wind: -1.3 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Elliott Quow	United States	20.42
	Leandro Peñalver	Cuba	20.53
	Bernie Jackson	United States	20.81
4	Tomás González	Cuba	20.85
5	Juan Núñez	Dominican Republic	21.06	DQ
5	João Batista da Silva	Brazil	21.12
6	Tony Sharpe	Canada	21.20
7	Andrew Bruce	Trinidad and Tobago	21.29