Claudio Escauriza

Claudio Escauriza is a Paraguayan athletics coach and former decathlete, who competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States of America and the 1983 [World Championships in Athletics|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 Athletics at the 1982 [Southern Cross Games|1982 Southern Cross Games] in Argentina.

Escauriza and Édgar Torres both attended the 2012 Summer Olympics as coaches of the group.
At the 2013 [South American Championships in Athletics|2013 South American Championships] in Cartagena, Colombia, Escauriza was part of the coaching body with Plinio Penzzi and Hungarian Thomas Zuddy.

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.