Athletics at the 1963 Pan American Games
Dates	27 April – 4 May
Host city	São Paulo, Brazil
Venue	Pacaembu Stadium
Level	Senior
Events	33
Participation	212 athletes from 20 nations
← Chicago 1959 Winnipeg 1967 → 1963 Pan American Games

The athletics competition at the 1963 Pan American Games was held in São Paulo, Brazil.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Enrique Figuerola  Cuba	10.46	Arquímedes Herrera  Venezuela	10.59	Ira Murchison  United States	10.62
200 metres details	Rafael Romero  Venezuela	21.23	Ollan Cassell  United States	21.23	Arquímedes Herrera  Venezuela	21.23
400 metres details	James Johnson  United States	46.80	Mel Spence  Jamaica	46.94	Clifton Bertrand  Trinidad and Tobago	47.43
800 metres details	Don Bertoia  Canada	1:48.46	Sig Ohlemann  Canada	1:48.63	Ernie Cunliffe  United States	1:48.92
1500 metres details	Jim Grelle  United States	3:43.62	Jim Beatty  United States	3:43.88	Don Bertoia  Canada	3:55.19
5000 metres details	Osvaldo Suárez  Argentina	14:25.81	Charley Clark  United States	14:27.16	Bob Schul  United States	14:29.21
10,000 metres details	Pete McArdle  United States	29:52.22	Osvaldo Suárez  Argentina	30:26.56	Eligio Galicia  Mexico	30:27.90
Marathon details	Fidel Negrete  Mexico	2:27:56	Gordon McKenzie  United States	2:31:18	Pete McArdle  United States	2:34:14
110 metres hurdles details	Blaine Lindgren  United States	13.8w	Willie May  United States	14.0w	Lázaro Betancourt  Cuba	14.3w
400 metres hurdles details	Juan Carlos Dyrzka  Argentina	50.32	Willie Atterberry  United States	50.49	Russ Rogers  United States	51.19
3000 metres steeplechase details	Jeff Fishback  United States	9:07.9	Sebastião Mendes  Brazil	9:12.8	Albertino Etchechury  Uruguay	9:17.3
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States Earl Young Ollan Cassell Brooks Johnson Ira Murchison	40.40	Venezuela Héctor Thomas Horacio Esteves Arquímides Herrera Rafael Romero	40.71	Trinidad and Tobago Clifton Bertrand Anthony Jones Irving Joseph Cipriani Phillip	40.87
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States Ollan Cassell James Johnson Richard Edmunds Earl Young	3:09.62	Venezuela Aristedes Pineda Leslie Mentor Victor Flores Hortensio Fucil	3:12.20	Jamaica Anthony Carr Rupert Hoilette Malcolm Spence Mel Spence	3:12.61
20 kilometres walk details	Alex Oakley  Canada	1:42:44	Nicole Marrone  Canada	1:46:35	Ron Zinn  United States	1:49:45
High jump details	Gene Johnson  United States	2.11	Teodoro Palacios  Guatemala	2.04	Anton Norris  Barbados	2.04
Pole vault details	Dave Tork  United States	4.90	Henry Wadsworth  United States	4.75	Rubén Cruz  Puerto Rico	4.30
Long jump details	Ralph Boston  United States	8.11	Darrell Horn  United States	8.02	Juan Muñoz  Venezuela	7.46
Triple jump details	Bill Sharpe  United States	15.15	Ramón López  Cuba	15.08	Mário Gomes  Brazil	14.97
Shot put details	Dave Davis  United States	18.52	Billy Joe  United States	17.77	Cosme Di Cursi  Argentina	16.26
Discus throw details	Bob Humphreys  United States	57.82	Dave Davis  United States	51.05	Ben Rebel Bout  Netherlands Antilles	49.78
Hammer throw details	Al Hall  United States	62.74	Jim Pryde  United States	58.56	Roberto Chapchap  Brazil	57.92
Javelin throw details	Dan Studney  United States	75.60	Nick Kovalakides  United States	73.71	Walter de Almeida  Brazil	64.61
Decathlon details	J. D. Martin  United States	7335	Bill Gairdner  Canada	6812	Héctor Thomas  Venezuela	6751

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Edith McGuire  United States	11.65	Miguelina Cobián  Cuba	11.69	Marilyn White  United States	11.85
200 metres details	Vivian Brown  United States	23.9	Miguelina Cobián  Cuba	24.0	Lorraine Dunn  Panama	24.7
800 metres details	Abby Hoffman  Canada	2:10.27	Leah Bennett Ferris  United States	2:13.79	Noreen Deuling  Canada	2:14.98
80 metres hurdles details	Jo Ann Terry  United States	11.37	Jenny Wingerson  Canada	11.48	Wanda dos Santos  Brazil	11.50
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States Marilyn White Vivian Brown Willye White Norma Harris	45.72	Cuba Fulgencia Romay Miguelina Cobián Irene Martínez Nereida Borges	46.44 NR	Brazil Leontina Santos Érica Lopes da Silva Edir Braga Ribeiro Inês Pimenta	48.18
High jump details	Eleanor Montgomery  United States	1.68	Diane Gerace  Canada	1.65	Patsy Callender  Barbados	1.62
Long jump details	Willye White  United States	6.15	Iris dos Santos  Brazil	5.65	Edith McGuire  United States	5.48
Shot put details	Nancy McCredie  Canada	15.32	Cynthia Wyatt  United States	14.27	Sharon Shepherd  United States	14.10
Discus throw details	Nancy McCredie  Canada	50.18	Ingeborg Pfüller  Argentina	47.83	Sharon Shepherd  United States	47.29
Javelin throw details	Marlene Ahrens  Chile	49.93	Frances Davenport  United States	47.22	Íris dos Santos  Brazil	35.51

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	22	15	10	47
2	Canada (CAN)	5	5	2	12
3	Argentina (ARG)	2	2	1	5
4	Cuba (CUB)	1	4	1	6
5	Venezuela (VEN)	1	3	3	7
6	Mexico (MEX)	1	0	1	2
7	Chile (CHI)	1	0	0	1
8	Brazil (BRA)	0	2	6	8
9	Jamaica (JAM)	0	1	1	2
10	Guatemala (GUA)	0	1	0	1
11	Barbados (BAR)	0	0	2	2
	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	0	0	2	2
13	Netherlands Antilles (AHO)	0	0	1	1
	Panama (PAN)	0	0	1	1
	Puerto Rico (PUR)	0	0	1	1
	Uruguay (URU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		33	33	33	99

Participating nations