Athletics at the 1979 Pan American Games – Men's marathon
International sporting event
| Men's marathon at the 1979 Pan American Games | ||||||||||
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| Venue | Estadio Sixto Escobar | |||||||||
| Dates | 14 July | |||||||||
| Winning time | 2:24:09 | |||||||||
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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
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
| KEY: | WR | World Record | GR | Pan American Record |
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time[3] | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Radamés González |  Cuba | 2:24:09 | |
 | Luis Barbosa |  Colombia | 2:24:44 | |
 | 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
- ^ 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.
- ^ Full results
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Agberto e revezamento 4 x 100m trazem bronze" (in Portuguese). Jornal do Brasil. 15 July 1979. p. 33. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
- ^ "Podium" (in Portuguese). Jornal do Brasil. 15 July 1979. p. 32. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
- ^ a b Mexican results
