Athletics at the 1999 Pan American Games

The athletics competition at the 1999 Pan American Games was held at University Stadium in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Two new events were introduced for women: pole vault and hammer throw. In addition the 20 km road walk replaced the 10,000 m track walk.

Athletics at the
1999 Pan American Games
DatesJuly 24–30
Host cityWinnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
VenueUniversity Stadium
LevelSenior
Events46
Participation446 athletes from
38 nations


Men's results

Track

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres

(Wind: +0.4 m/s)
Bernard Williams
 United States
10.08 Freddy Mayola
 Cuba
10.10 Claudinei da Silva
 Brazil
10.13
200 metres

(Wind: −1.9 m/s)
Claudinei da Silva
 Brazil
20.30 Curtis Perry
 USA
20.58 Sebastián Keitel
 Chile
20.82
400 metres
Greg Haughton
 Jamaica
44.59 Danny McCray
 USA
44.83 Alejandro Cárdenas
 Mexico
44.92
800 metres
Johnny Gray
 USA
1:45.38 Norberto Téllez
 Cuba
1:45.40 Zach Whitmarsh
 Canada
1:45.94
1500 metres
Graham Hood
 Canada
3:41.20 Michael Stember
 United States
3:41.96 Hudson de Souza
 Brazil
3:42.18
5000 metres
David Galván
 Mexico
13:42.04 Elenilson da Silva
 Brazil
13:43.13 Jeff Schiebler
 Canada
13:43.66
10,000 metres
Elenilson da Silva
 Brazil
28:43.50 David Galván
 Mexico
28:44.03 Pete Julian
 United States
28:44.55
Marathon
Vanderlei de Lima
 Brazil
2:17:20 Rubén Maza
 Venezuela
2:19:56 Éder Fialho
 Brazil
2:20:09
3000 metres steeplechase
Joël Bourgeois
 Canada
8:35.03 Francis O'Neill
 United States
8:35.73 Jean-Nicolas Duval
 Canada
8:39.52
110 metres hurdles

(Wind: +1.1 m/s)
Anier García
 Cuba
13.17 GR Yoel Hernández
 Cuba
13.24 Eugene Swift
 United States
13.41
400 metres hurdles
Eronilde de Araújo
 Brazil
48.23 GR Eric Thomas
 United States
48.40 Torrance Zellner
 United States
48.45
4 × 100 metres relay
 Brazil
Raphael de Oliveira
Claudinei da Silva
Édson Ribeiro
André da Silva
38.18 GR  Canada
Trevino Betty
Donovan Bailey
Glenroy Gilbert
Bradley McCuaig
38.49  Jamaica]
Dwight Thomas
Garth Robinson
Patrick Jarrett
Christopher Williams
38.82
4 × 400 metres relay
 Jamaica
Michael McDonald
Greg Haughton
Danny McFarlane
Davian Clarke
Paston Coke*
2:57.97 GR  Brazil
Sanderlei Parrela
Claudinei da Silva
Anderson Jorge dos Santos
Eronilde de Araújo
Cleverson da Silva*
2:58.56  United States
Danny McCray
Deon Minor
Torrance Zellner
Alvin Harrison
3:00.94
20 kilometres walk
Bernardo Segura
 Mexico
1:20:17 Daniel García
 Mexico
1:20:28 Jefferson Pérez
 Ecuador
1:20:46
50 kilometres walk
Joel Sánchez
 Mexico
4:06:31 Carlos Mercenario
 Mexico
4:09:48 Philip Dunn
 USA
4:13:45
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Field

Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
[1]
Kwaku Boateng
 Canada
Mark Boswell
 Canada
2.25 -- Charles Clinger
 United States
2.25
Pole vault
Pat Manson
 United States
5.60 Scott Hennig
 United States
5.55 Jason Pearce
 Canada
5.30
Long jump
Iván Pedroso
 Cuba
8.52 Kareem Streete-Thompson
 Cayman Islands
8.12 Luis Felipe Méliz
 Cuba
8.06
Triple jump
Yoelbi Quesada
 Cuba
17.19 LaMark Carter
 USA
17.09 Michael Calvo
 Cuba
17.03
Shot put
Brad Mears
 United States
19.93 Jamie Beyer
 United States
18.95 Bradley Snyder
 Canada
18.74
Discus throw
Anthony Washington
 USA
64.25 Alexis Elizalde
 Cuba
61.99 Jason Tunks
 Canada
61.75
Hammer throw
Lance Deal
 United States
79.61 GR Kevin McMahon
 United States
73.41 Juan Ignacio Cerra
 Argentina
70.68
Javelin throw
Emeterio González
 Cuba
77.46 Máximo Rigondeaux
 Cuba
76.24 Tom Petranoff
 United States
75.95
Decathlon
Chris Huffins
 United States
8170 pts GR Dan Steele
 United States
8070 pts Raúl Duany
 Cuba
7730 pts
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women's results

Track

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres

(Wind: +1.7 m/s)
Chandra Sturrup
 Bahamas
11.10 Angela Williams
 United States
11.16 Peta-Gaye Dowdie
 Jamaica
11.20
200 metres

(Wind: +0.7 m/s)
Debbie Ferguson
 Bahamas
22.83 Lucimar de Moura
 Brazil
23.03 Felipa Palacios
 Colombia
23.05
400 metres
Ana Guevara
 Mexico
50.91 Michelle Collins
 USA
51.21 Claudine Williams
 Jamaica
51.58
800 metres
Letitia Vriesde
 Suriname
1:59.95 Zulia Calatayud
 Cuba
2:00.67 Meredith Valmon
 USA
2:01.51
1500 metres
Marla Runyan
 United States
4:16.86 Leah Pells
 Canada
4:16.86 Stephanie Best
 United States
4:18.44
5000 metres
Adriana Fernández
 Mexico
15:56.57 Bertha Sánchez
 Colombia
15:59.04 Blake Phillips
 United States
15:59.77
10,000 metres
Nora Rocha
 Mexico
32:56.51 Stella Castro
 Colombia
33:05.97 NR Tina Connelly
 Canada
33:27.87
Marathon
Erika Olivera
 Chile
2:37:41 GR Iglandini González
 Colombia
2:40:06 Viviany de Oliveira
 Brazil
2:40:55
100 metres hurdles

(Wind: +1.2 m/s)
Aliuska López
 Cuba
12.76 GR Maurren Maggi
 Brazil
12.86 Miesha McKelvy
 USA
12.91
400 metres hurdles
Daimí Pernía
 Cuba
53.44 GR Andrea Blackett
 Barbados
53.98 Michelle Johnson
 United States
54.22
4 × 100 metres relay
 Jamaica
Kerry-Ann Richards
Aleen Bailey
Beverly Grant
Peta-Gaye Dowdie
42.62 GR  United States
Shelia Burrell
Passion Richardson
Angela Williams
Torri Edwards
43.27  Cuba
Misleidys Lazo
Idalia Hechavarría
Mercedes Carnesolta
Virgen Benavides
43.52
4 × 400 metres relay
 Cuba
Julia Duporty
Zulia Calatayud
Idalmis Bonne
Daimí Pernía
3:26.70  United States
Shanelle Porter
Yulanda Nelson
Michelle Collins
Andrea Anderson
3:27.50  Barbados
Joanne Durant
Andrea Blackett
Melissa Straker
Tanya Oxley
3:30.72
20 kilometres walk
Graciela Mendoza
 Mexico
1:34:19 Rosario Sánchez
 Mexico
1:34:46 Michelle Rohl
 United States
1:35:22
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Field

Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
[2]
Solange Witteveen
 Argentina
1.88 Luciane Dambacher
 Brazil
1.85 Nicole Forrester
 Canada
1.85
Pole vault
Alejandra García
 Argentina
4.30 Kellie Suttle
 USA
4.25 Déborah Gyurcsek
 Uruguay
4.15
Long jump
Maurren Maggi
 Brazil
6.59 Angela Brown
 USA
6.51 Elva Goulbourne
 Jamaica
6.41
Triple jump
Yamilé Aldama
 Cuba
14.77 GR Suzette Lee
 Jamaica
14.09 Magdelín Martínez
 Cuba
13.98
Shot put
Connie Price-Smith
 United States
19.06 Yumileidi Cumbá
 Cuba
18.67 Teri Tunks
 United States
18.03
Discus throw
Elisangela Adriano
 Brazil
60.92 Aretha Hill
 United States
59.06 Kris Kuehl
 United States
57.21
Hammer throw
Dawn Ellerbe
 USA
65.36 GR Yipsi Moreno
 Cuba
63.03 Caroline Wittrin
 Canada
61.28
Javelin throw
Osleidys Menéndez
 Cuba
65.85 Xiomara Rivero
 Cuba
62.46 Laverne Eve
 Bahamas
61.24
Heptathlon
Magalys García
 Cuba
6290 pts GR Shelia Burrell
 United States
6244 pts Nicole Haynes
 United States
6000 pts
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Medal table

Bernard Williams won the men's 100 m gold for the United States.
In 1999, Ana Guevara of Mexico won the first of her three 400 m titles.
Brazil's Maurren Maggi took long jump gold and 100 m hurdles silver.

  *   Host nation (Canada)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States (USA)10181644
2 Cuba (CUB)109524
3 Brazil (BRA)75416
4 Mexico (MEX)74112
5 Canada (CAN)*42915
6 Jamaica (JAM)3148
7 Argentina (ARG)2013
 Bahamas (BAH)2013
9 Chile (CHI)1012
10 Suriname (SUR)1001
11 Colombia (COL)0314
12 Barbados (BAR)0112
13 Cayman Islands (CAY)0101
 Venezuela (VEN)0101
15 Ecuador (ECU)0011
 Uruguay (URU)0011
Totals (16 nations)474546138

Participating nations

See also

  • 1999 in athletics (track and field)

References

  1. Original winner Javier Sotomayor was stripped of the gold medal after testing positive for cocaine. ("Drugs in world athletics". BBC. 2000-07-31. Retrieved 2007-03-11.)
  2. Original winner Juana Arrendel was stripped of the gold medal after testing positive for stanozolol. ("Drugs in world athletics". BBC. 2000-07-31. Retrieved 2007-03-11.)
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