Roller sports at the 1979 Pan American Games

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Roller skating and roller hockey were contested at the 1979 Pan American Games, held in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Roller skating

Men's events

Speed

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
500 metres	Kenneth Sutton  United States	Curtis Cook  United States	Reynaldo Vega  Argentina
500 metres Pair Elimination	Kenneth Sutton  United States	Reynaldo Vega  Argentina	Raul Subiledt  Argentina
3000 metres Mass Start	Raul Subiledt  Argentina	Curtis Cook  United States	Christopher Snyder  United States
5000 metres Mass Start	Tom Peterson  United States	Adalberto Lugea  Argentina	Humberto Triana  Colombia
10,000 metres	Tom Peterson  United States	Christopher Snyder  United States	Jose Ramírez  Colombia
20,000 metres	Tom Peterson  United States	Christopher Snyder  United States	Raul Subiledt  Argentina
10,000m Relay	United States (USA)	United States (USA)	Argentina (ARG)

Artistic

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Long Program	Fred Morante  United States	Alexander Kane  United States	Guy Aubin  Canada

Women's events

Speed

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
500 metres	Nora Vega  Argentina	Linda Dorso  United States	Elaine Coley  United States
500 metres Pairs Elimination	Nora Vega  Argentina	Linda Dorso  United States	Claudia Rodríguez  Argentina
3000 metres Mass Start	Nora Vega  Argentina	Claudia Rodríguez  Argentina	Linsue Peterson  United States
5000 metres	Claudia Rodríguez  Argentina	Suzanne Dooley  United States	Sonia Freigeiro  Argentina
5000m Relay	Argentina (ARG)	United States (USA)	United States (USA)

Artistic

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Long Program	Natalie Dunn  United States	JoAnne Young  United States	Sylvie Gingras  Canada

Mixed events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Pairs	United States (USA)	United States (USA)	Canada (CAN)
Dance	United States (USA)	United States (USA)	Canada (CAN)

Roller hockey

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team	Argentina (ARG)	Brazil (BRA)	Chile (CHI)

References

Olderr, Steven (2009). The Pan American Games / Los Juegos Panamericanos: A Statistical History, 1951-1999 / Una Historia Estadistica, 1951-1999. McFarland. pp. 152–164. ISBN 978-0786443369.