The Argentine Athletics Confederation (CADA; ''Confederación Argentina de Atletismo'') is the national governing body for the sport of athletics in

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

. Current president is Juan Alberto Scarpín. He took office in September 2008 after the death of former president Hugo La Nasa, and was elected in April 2009 for the period 2009-2013.

History

CADA was founded on September 19, 1954. It replaced the Federación Atlética Argentina, which was founded on July 4, 1919. The latter followed the Fundación Pedestre Argentina, which was founded on February 13, 1911, and was founder member of the

CONSUDATLE Atletismo Sudamericano (''South American Athletics''), formerly CONSUDATLE (Spanish: Confederación Sudamericana de Atletismo; ''South American Athletics Confederation''), is the continental confederation governing body of athletics for national ...

on May 24, 1918, in Buenos Aires.

Affiliations

CADA is the national member federation for Argentina in the following international organisations: *

World Athletics World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation (from 1912 to 2001) and International Association of Athletics Federations (from 2001 to 2019, both abbreviated as the IAAF) is the international governing body fo ...

* Confederación Sudamericana de Atletismo (CONSUDATLE; South American Athletics Confederation) *

Association of Panamerican Athletics The Association of Panamerican Athletics (APA; Spanish: ''Asociación Panamericana de Atletismo'') is a new regional confederation governing body of athletics for national governing bodies and multi-national federations within Northern, Central, ...

(APA) *

Asociación Iberoamericana de Atletismo The Asociación Iberoamericana de Atletismo (AIA; ''Iberoamerican Athletics Association'') is the governing body for the sport of athletics of European, Latinamerican, and African countries with iberian origin and/or Spanish or Portuguese languag ...

(AIA; Ibero-American Athletics Association) Moreover, it is part of the following national organisations: *

Comité Olímpico Argentino The Argentine Olympic Committee or COA ( - COA) is the National Olympic Committee representing Argentina's athletes in the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Pan American Games and the South American Games. It is based in Buenos Aires. ...

Member federations

CADA comprises the athletics federations of the Argentinian provinces.

National records

CADA maintains the Argentine records in athletics.

External links

References

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Athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competi ...

Athletics in Argentina National governing bodies for athletics Sports organizations established in 1954