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Athletics at the 1971 Pan American Games

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Athletics at the
1971 Pan American Games
Dates30 July – 5 August
Host cityCali, Colombia Colombia
VenueEstadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero
LevelSenior
Events37
Participation375 athletes from
28 nations
Records set1 WR, 19 GR


The athletics competition at the 1971 Pan American Games was held in Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero in Cali, Colombia. At almost exactly 1000 metres elevation, all the marks from this meet marginally qualify as "altitude assisted."

Medal summary

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Men's events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
(wind: 0.0 m/s)
details
Don Quarrie
 Jamaica
10.29 Lennox Miller
 Jamaica
10.32 Del Meriwether
 United States
10.34
200 metres
(wind: +1.0 m/s)
details
Don Quarrie
 Jamaica
19.86 GR Marshall Dill
 United States
20.39 Edwin Roberts
 Trinidad and Tobago
20.39
400 metres
details
John Smith
 United States
44.60 GR Fred Newhouse
 United States
45.09 Fernando Acevedo
 Peru
45.30 NR
800 metres
details
Ken Swenson
 United States
1:48.08 GR Art Sandison
 United States
1:48.42 Byron Dyce
 Jamaica
1:48.42
1500 metres
details
Marty Liquori
 United States
3:42.10 GR Bill Smart
 Canada
3:43.39 Jim Crawford
 United States
3:43.76
5000 metres
details
Steve Prefontaine
 United States
13:52.53 Steve Stageberg
 United States
14:00.76 Mario Pérez
 Mexico
14:03.98
10,000 metres
details
Frank Shorter
 United States
28:50.83 GR Juan Martínez
 Mexico
29:05.07 Álvaro Mejía
 Colombia
29:06.97
Marathon
details
Frank Shorter
 United States
2:22:40 José García
 Mexico
2:26:30 Hernán Barreneche
 Colombia
2:27:19
110 metres hurdles
(wind: +4.5 m/s)
details
Rod Milburn
 United States
13.46w Arnaldo Bristol
 Puerto Rico
13.81w Juan Morales
 Cuba
13.85w
400 metres hurdles
details
Ralph Mann
 United States
49.11 GR Jim Seymour
 United States
50.36 Jacinto Hidalgo
 Venezuela
51.68
3000 metres steeplechase
details
Mike Manley
 United States
8:42.27 Sidney Sink
 United States
8:42.90 Héctor Villanueva
 Mexico
8:46.09
4 × 100 metres relay
details
 Jamaica
Alfred Daley
Carl Lawson
Lennox Miller
Don Quarrie
39.28  Cuba
Barbaro Bandomo
Pablo Montes
Juan Morales
Hermes Ramírez
39.84  United States
Willie Deckard
Marshall Dill
Ron Draper
Rod Milburn
39.84
4 × 400 metres relay
details
 United States
Dale Alexander
Fred Newhouse
Tommy Turner
John Smith
3:00.63 GR  Jamaica
Leighton Priestley
Trevor Campbell
Alfred Daley
Garth Case
3:03.98  Trinidad and Tobago
Edwin Roberts
Ben Cayenne
Kent Bernard
Trevor James
3:04.58
20 kilometres walk
details
Goetz Klopfer
 United States
1:37:30 Tom Dooley
 United States
1:38:16 José Oliveros
 Mexico
1:40:26
50 kilometres walk
details
Larry Young
 United States
4:38:31 Gabriel Hernández
 Mexico
4:38:46 John Knifton
 United States
4:42:15
High jump
details
Pat Matzdorf
 United States
2.10 m Wilf Wedmann
 Canada
2.10 m Luis Arbulú
 Peru
2.05 m
Pole vault
details
Jan Johnson
 United States
5.33 m David Roberts
 United States
5.20 m Bruce Simpson
 Canada
4.90 m
Long jump
details
Arnie Robinson
 United States
8.02 m James "Bouncy" Moore
 United States
7.98 m Mike Mason
 Canada
7.65 m
Triple jump
details
Pedro Pérez
 Cuba
17.40 m WR Nelson Prudêncio
 Brazil
16.82 m John Craft
 United States
16.32 m
Shot put
details
Al Feuerbach
 United States
19.76 m Karl Salb
 United States
19.10 m Mike Mercer
 Canada
18.01 m
Discus throw
details
Dick Drescher
 United States
62.26 m GR Tim Vollmer
 United States
61.06 m Ain Roost
 Canada
58.06 m
Hammer throw
details
Al Hall
 United States
65.84 m GR George Frenn
 United States
65.68 m Darwin Piñeyrúa
 Uruguay
61.54 m
Javelin throw
details
Cary Feldmann
 United States
81.52 m GR Bill Skinner
 United States
80.36 m Amado Morales
 Puerto Rico
76.14 m
Decathlon
details
Rick Wanamaker
 United States
7648 pts Russ Hodge
 United States
7314 pts Jesús Mirabal
 Cuba
7295 pts

Women's events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
(wind: +3.0 m/s)
details
Iris Davis
 United States
11.25w Stephanie Berto
 Canada
11.40w Silvia Chivás
 Cuba
11.47w
200 metres
(wind: 0.0 m/s)
details
Stephanie Berto
 Canada
23.57 =GR Fulgencia Romay
 Cuba
23.70 Esther Stroy
 United States
23.82
400 metres
details
Marilyn Neufville
 Jamaica
52.34 GR Carmen Trustée
 Cuba
52.89 Yvonne Saunders
 Jamaica
53.13
800 metres
details
Abby Hoffman
 Canada
2:05.54 Doris Brown
 United States
2:05.90 Penny Werthner
 Canada
2:06.32
100 metres hurdles
(wind: +4.4 m/s)
details
Patty Johnson
 United States
13.19w Marlene Elejalde
 Cuba
13.54w Penny May
 Canada
13.70w
4 × 100 metres relay
details
 United States
Orien Brown
Pat Hawkins
Mattiline Render
Iris Davis
44.59  Cuba
Silvia Chivás
Marlene Elejarde
Fulgencia Romay
Carmen Valdés
45.01  Colombia
Aida Ortíz
Ana Maquilón
Elsy Rivas
Juana Mosquera
45.99
4 × 400 metres relay
details
 United States
Esther Stroy
Mavis Laing
Gwen Norman
Cheryl Toussaint
3:32.45 GR  Cuba
Beatriz Castillo
Marcela Chibás
Aurelia Pentón
Carmen Trustée
3:34.04  Jamaica
Beverly Franklin
Ruth Williams
Yvonne Saunders
Marilyn Neufville
3:34.05
High jump
details
Debbie Brill
 Canada
1.85 m GR Audrey Reid
 Jamaica
1.75 m Andrea Bruce
 Jamaica
1.70 m
Long jump
details
Brenda Eisler
 Canada
6.34 m GR Silvina Pereira
 Brazil
6.35 m Marina Samuells
 Cuba
6.14 m
Shot put
details
Lynn Graham
 United States
15.76 m GR Grecia Hamilton
 Cuba
14.63 m Rosa Molina
 Chile
14.50 m
Discus throw
details
Carmen Romero
 Cuba
57.20 m GR María Cristina Betancourt
 Cuba
51.76 m Carol Martin
 Canada
50.04 m
Javelin throw
details
Tomasa Núñez
 Cuba
54.02 m GR Sherry Calvert
 United States
51.52 m Roberta Brown
 United States
50.94 m
Pentathlon
details
Debbie Van Kiekebelt
 Canada
4290 pts Penny May
 Canada
4112 pts Aída dos Santos
 Brazil
3887 pts

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States2516748
2 Canada54716
3 Jamaica43411
4 Cuba38415
5 Mexico0336
6 Brazil0213
7 Puerto Rico0112
8 Colombia0033
9 Peru0022
 Trinidad and Tobago0022
11 Chile0011
 Uruguay0011
 Venezuela0011
Totals (13 entries)373737111

Participating nations

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References

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