Athletics at the 1999 Pan American Games

Athletics at the 1999 Pan American Games
Host city	Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date(s)	July 24–30
Main stadium	University Stadium
Level	Senior
Participation	38 nations
Events	46
← Mar del Plata 1995 Santo Domingo 2003 → 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.

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
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
4 × 100 metres relay	Brazil Raphael de Oliveira Claudinei da Silva Édson Ribeiro André da Silva	38.18 GR	Canada Donovan Bailey Glenroy Gilbert Bradley McCuaig Trevino Betty	38.49	Jamaica Garth Robinson Patrick Jarrett Christopher Williams Dwight Thomas	38.82
4 × 400 metres relay	Jamaica Michael McDonald Greg Haughton Danny McFarlane Davian Clarke Paston Coke*	2:57.97 GR	Brazil Eronilde de Araújo Claudinei da Silva Anderson Jorge dos Santos Sanderlei Parrela Cleverson da Silva*	2:58.56	United States Danny McCray Deon Minor Torrance Zellner Alvin Harrison	3:00.94
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
20 kilometres walk	Graciela Mendoza  Mexico	1:34:19	Rosario Sánchez  Mexico	1:34:46	Michelle Rohl  United States	1:35:22
4 × 100 metres relay	Jamaica Peta-Gaye Dowdie Kerry-Ann Richards Aleen Bailey Beverly Grant	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 Andrea Anderson Shanelle Porter Michelle Collins Yulanda Nelson	3:27.50	Barbados Joanne Durant Andrea Blackett Melissa Straker Tanya Oxley	3:30.72
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	Aretha Hill  United States	59.06	Kris Kuehl  United States	57.21	Anaelys Fernández  Cuba	56.32
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.

Key

  The host country is highlighted in lavender blue

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	11	18	15	44
2	Cuba (CUB)	10	9	6	25
3	Mexico (MEX)	7	4	1	12
4	Brazil (BRA)	6	5	4	15
5	Canada (CAN)	4	2	9	15
6	Jamaica (JAM)	3	1	4	8
7=	Argentina (ARG)	2	0	1	3
7=	Bahamas (BAH)	2	0	1	3
9	Chile (CHI)	1	0	1	2
10	Suriname (SUR)	1	0	0	1
11	Colombia (COL)	0	3	1	4
12	Barbados (BAR)	0	1	1	2
13=	Cayman Islands (CAY)	0	1	0	1
13=	Venezuela (VEN)	0	1	0	1
15=	Ecuador (ECU)	0	0	1	1
15=	Uruguay (URU)	0	0	1	1
Total		47	45	46	138

Participating nations

•  Antigua and Barbuda
•  Argentina
•  Bahamas
•  Barbados
•  Belize
•  Bermuda
•  Bolivia
•  Brazil
•  Canada
•  Cayman Islands
•  Chile
•  Colombia
•  Costa Rica
•  Cuba
•  Dominica
•  Dominican Republic
•  Ecuador
•  Guatemala
•  Grenada
•  Guyana
•  Haiti
•  Honduras
•  Jamaica
•  Mexico
•  Netherlands Antilles
•  Paraguay
•  Peru
•  Puerto Rico
•  Saint Lucia
•  Saint Kitts and Nevis
•  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
•  El Salvador
•  Suriname
•  Trinidad and Tobago
•  United States
•  United States Virgin Islands
•  Uruguay
•  Venezuela

See also

• 1999 in athletics (track and field)

References

• Full results at athletics.ca (Internet Archive)
• GBR Athletics

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.)