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Athletics at the 1979 Pan American Games – Men's marathon

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Men's marathon at the 1979 Pan American Games
VenueEstadio Sixto Escobar
Dates14 July
Winning time2:24:09
Medalists
Gold medal   Cuba
Silver medal   Colombia
Bronze medal   Canada
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The men's marathon competition of the athletics events at the 1979 Pan American Games finished at the Estadio Sixto Escobar.[1][2] The defending Pan American Games champion was Rigoberto Mendoza of Cuba.

Records

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Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows:

World record  Shigeru So (JPN) 2:09:05.6 Japan February 5, 1978
Pan American Games record  Frank Shorter (USA) 2:22:40 Cali, Colombia 1971

Results

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KEY: WR World Record GR Pan American Record
Rank Name Nationality Time[3] Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Radamés González  Cuba 2:24:09
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Luis Barbosa  Colombia 2:24:44
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Rich Hughson  Canada 2:25:34
4 Héctor Rodríguez  Colombia 2:25:51
5 Edmundo Warnke  Chile 2:26:14
6 Tom Fleming  United States 2:28:06
7 Tom Howard  Canada 2:28:50
8 Francisco Vargas  Puerto Rico 2:29:11
9 Elói Schleder  Brazil 2:29:42 [4]
10 Virgilio Herrera  Guatemala 2:31:53
11 José de Jesús  Puerto Rico 2:34:35
12 Raymond Swan  Bermuda 2:42:15
13 Hipólito López  Honduras 2:43:08
14 José Hernández  El Salvador 2:43:16
15 Wallace Williams  Virgin Islands 3:22:12
Robert Doyle  United States DNF [5]
Hilario Álvarez  Mexico DNF [6]
Rafael Ángel Pérez  Costa Rica DNF
Miguel Ángel Legorreta  Mexico DNF [6]
Aldo Allen  Cuba DNF
José Medina  Venezuela DNS

References

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  1. ^ Memoria VIII Juegos Deportivos Panamericanos San Juan, Puerto Rico 1979 (PDF) (in Spanish). 1979 Pan American Games Organising Committee (COPAN 79). 1981. p. 197. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-11. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
  2. ^ Full results
  3. ^ Memoria VIII Juegos Deportivos Panamericanos San Juan, Puerto Rico 1979 (PDF) (in Spanish). 1979 Pan American Games Organising Committee (COPAN 79). 1981. p. 251. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-11. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
  4. ^ "Agberto e revezamento 4 x 100m trazem bronze" (in Portuguese). Jornal do Brasil. 15 July 1979. p. 33. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  5. ^ "Podium" (in Portuguese). Jornal do Brasil. 15 July 1979. p. 32. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  6. ^ a b Mexican results