Claudio Escauriza (born 3 May 1958 in Paraguay) is a Paraguayan athletics coach and former decathlete, who competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States of America and the 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.