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