Athletics at the 1979 Pan American Games

The Athletics Competition at the 1979 Pan American Games was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Silvio Leonard Cuba	10.13	Harvey Glance United States	10.19	Emmit King United States	10.30
200 metres	Silvio Leonard Cuba	20.37w	James Gilkes Guyana	20.46w	Don Coleman United States	20.56w
400 metres	Tony Darden United States	45.11	Alberto Juantorena Cuba	45.24	Willie Smith United States	45.3
800 metres	James Robinson United States	1:46.3a	Alberto Juantorena Cuba	1:46.4a	Agberto Guimarães Brazil	1:46.8a
1500 metres	Don Paige United States	3:40.4a	Todd Harbour United States	3:41.5a	Agberto Guimarães Brazil	3:41.5a
5000 metres	Matt Centrowitz United States	14:01.0a	Herb Lindsay United States	14:04.1a	Rodolfo Gómez Mexico	14:05.0a
10000 metres	Rodolfo Gómez Mexico	29:02.4a	Enrique Aquino Mexico	29:03.9a	Frank Shorter United States	29:06.4a
Marathon	Radamés González Cuba	2:24:09	Luis Barbosa Colombia	2:24:44	Rich Hughson Canada	2:25:34
3000 metre steeplechase	Henry Marsh United States	8:43.6a	William McCullough United States	8:44.7a	Demetrio Cabanillos Mexico	8:52.4a
110 metres hurdles	Renaldo Nehemiah United States	13.20	Alejandro Casañas Cuba	13.46	Charles Foster United States	13.56
400 metres hurdles	James Walker United States	49.66	Antônio Dias Ferreira Brazil	50.85	Frank Montiéh Cuba	51.30
High jump	Franklin Jacobs United States	2.26	Benn Fields United States	2.19	Milton Ottey Canada	2.19
Pole vault	Bruce Simpson Canada	5.15	Greg Woepse United States	5.05	Brian Morrissette U.S. Virgin Islands	4.85
Long jump	João Carlos de Oliveira Brazil	8.18	David Giralt Cuba	8.15	Carl Lewis United States	8.13
Triple jump	João Carlos de Oliveira Brazil	17.27	Willie Banks United States	16.88	James Butts United States	16.69
Shot put	Dave Laut United States	20.22	Bishop Dolegiewicz Canada	19.67	Bruno Pauletto Canada	19.61
Discus throw	Mac Wilkins United States	63.30	Bradley Cooper Bahamas	62.16	Luis Delís Cuba	61.70
Hammer throw	Scott Neilson Canada	69.64	Armando Orozco Cuba	68.48	Genovevo Morejón Cuba	67.66
Javelin throw	Duncan Atwood United States	84.16	Antonio González Cuba	84.12	Raúl Pupo Cuba	81.96
Decathlon	Bobby Coffman United States	8078	Tito Steiner Argentina	7638	Zenon Smiechowski Canada	7337
20 kilometre road walk	Daniel Bautista Mexico	1:28:15	Neal Pyke United States	1:30:17	Todd Scully United States	1:32:30
50 kilometre road walk	Raúl González Mexico	4:05:17	Martín Bermúdez Mexico	4:11:13	Marco Evoniuk United States	4:24:20
4 × 100 metres relay	United States Harvey Glance Mike Roberson Cliff Wiley Steve Riddick	38.85	Cuba Alejandro Casañas Juan Saborit Silvio Leonard Osvaldo Lara	39.14	Brazil Milton de Castro Rui da Silva Nelson dos Santos Altevir de Araújo	39.44
4 × 400 metres relay	United States Tony Darden Maurice Peoples Herman Frazier James Walker	3:03.8a	Jamaica Colin Bradford Floyd Brown Ian Stapleton Bert Cameron	3:04.7a	Cuba Alberto Juantorena Pedro Tanis Carlos Álvarez Frank Montiéh	3:06.3a

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Evelyn Ashford United States	11.07	Brenda Morehead United States	11.11	Angella Taylor Canada	11.36
200 metres	Evelyn Ashford United States	22.24w	Angella Taylor Canada	22.74w	Merlene Ottey Jamaica	22.79w
400 metres	Sharon Dabney United States	51.81	June Griffith Guyana	51.81	Patricia Jackson United States	52.32
800 metres	Essie Kelley United States	2:01.2a	Julie Brown United States	2:01.2a	Aurelia Pentón Cuba	2:02.1a
1500 metres	Mary Decker United States	4:05.7a	Julie Brown United States	4:06.4a	Penny Werthner Canada	4:14.8a
3000 metres	Jan Merrill United States	8:53.6a	Julie Brown United States	8:59.9a	Geri Fitch Canada	9:35.7a
100 metres hurdles	Deby LaPlante United States	12.90w	Sharon Lane Canada	13.56w	Grisel Machado Cuba	13.60w
High jump	Louise Ritter United States	1.93	Pam Spencer United States	1.87	Debbie Brill Canada	1.85
Long jump	Kathy McMillan United States	6.46	Ana Alexander Cuba	6.31	Eloína Echevarría Cuba	6.27
Shot put	María Elena Sarría Cuba	18.81	Maren Seidler United States	18.57	Carmen Ionesco Canada	16.50
Discus throw	Carmen Romero Cuba	60.58	María Cristina Betancourt Cuba	60.44	Carmen Ionesco Canada	57.14
Javelin throw	María Caridad Colón Cuba	62.36A	Lynn Cannon United States	56.18	Cathy Sulinski United States	55.82
Pentathlon	Diane Konihowski Canada	4605	Jodi Anderson United States	4434	Jill Ross Canada	4112
4 × 100 metres relay	United States Valerie Brisco Chandra Cheeseborough Brenda Morehead Karen Hawkins	43.30	Jamaica Lelieth Hodges Rosie Allwood Carmetta Drummond Merlene Ottey	44.18	Cuba Eloína Echevarría Isabel Taylor Marta Zulueta Silvia Chivás	46.26
4 × 400 metres relay	United States Essie Kelley Sharon Dabney Patricia Jackson Rosalyn Bryant	3:29.4a	Cuba Ana Luisa Guibert Nery McKeen Ana Fidelia Quirot Aurelia Pentón	3:36.3a	Canada Anne Mackie-Morelli Jeanette Wood Marita Payne Micheline Racette	3:37.6a

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	25	16	11	52
2	Cuba	6	10	9	25
3	Canada	3	3	12	18
4	Mexico	3	2	2	7
5	Brazil	2	1	3	6
6	Jamaica	0	2	1	3
7	Guyana	0	2	0	2
8	Argentina	0	1	0	1
	Bahamas	0	1	0	1
	Colombia	0	1	0	1
11	U.S. Virgin Islands	0	0	1	1

References

GBR Athletics

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See also: List of Pan American Games records in athletics

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