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Athletics at the 1999 Pan American Games
Dates	July 24–30
Host city	Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Venue	University Stadium
Level	Senior
Events	46
Participation	446 athletes from 38 nations
← 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 details (Wind: +0.4  m/s)	Bernard Williams   United States	10.08	Freddy Mayola   Cuba	10.10	Claudinei da Silva   Brazil	10.13
200 metres details (Wind: −1.9  m/s)	Claudinei da Silva   Brazil	20.30	Curtis Perry   USA	20.58	Sebastián Keitel   Chile	20.82
400 metres details	Greg Haughton   Jamaica	44.59	Danny McCray   USA	44.83	Alejandro Cárdenas   Mexico	44.92
800 metres details	Johnny Gray   USA	1:45.38	Norberto Téllez   Cuba	1:45.40	Zach Whitmarsh   Canada	1:45.94
1500 metres details	Graham Hood   Canada	3:41.20	Michael Stember   United States	3:41.96	Hudson de Souza   Brazil	3:42.18
5000 metres details	David Galván   Mexico	13:42.04	Elenilson da Silva   Brazil	13:43.13	Jeff Schiebler   Canada	13:43.66
10,000 metres details	Elenilson da Silva   Brazil	28:43.50	David Galván   Mexico	28:44.03	Pete Julian   United States	28:44.55
Marathon details	Vanderlei de Lima   Brazil	2:17:20	Rubén Maza   Venezuela	2:19:56	Éder Fialho   Brazil	2:20:09
3000 metres steeplechase details	Joël Bourgeois   Canada	8:35.03	Francis O'Neill   United States	8:35.73	Jean-Nicolas Duval   Canada	8:39.52
110 metres hurdles details (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 details	Eronilde de Araújo   Brazil	48.23 GR	Eric Thomas   United States	48.40	Torrance Zellner   United States	48.45
4 × 100 metres relay details	Brazil Raphael de Oliveira Claudinei da Silva Édson Ribeiro André da Silva	38.18 GR	Canada Trevino Betty Donovan Bailey Glenroy Gilbert Bradley McCuaig	38.49	Jamaica Dwight Thomas Garth Robinson Patrick Jarrett Christopher Williams	38.82
4 × 400 metres relay details	Jamaica Michael McDonald Greg Haughton Danny McFarlane Davian Clarke Paston Coke*	2:57.97 GR	Brazil Sanderlei Parrela Claudinei da Silva Anderson Jorge dos Santos Eronilde de Araújo Cleverson da Silva*	2:58.56	United States Danny McCray Deon Minor Torrance Zellner Alvin Harrison	3:00.94
20 kilometres walk details	Bernardo Segura   Mexico	1:20:17	Daniel García   Mexico	1:20:28	Jefferson Pérez   Ecuador	1:20:46
50 kilometres walk details	Joel Sánchez   Mexico	4:06:31	Carlos Mercenario   Mexico	4:09:48	Philip Dunn   USA	4:13:45
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Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details [1]	Kwaku Boateng   Canada Mark Boswell   Canada	2.25	-	-	Charles Clinger   United States	2.25
Pole vault details	Pat Manson   United States	5.60	Scott Hennig   United States	5.55	Jason Pearce   Canada	5.30
Long jump details	Iván Pedroso   Cuba	8.52	Kareem Streete-Thompson   Cayman Islands	8.12	Luis Felipe Méliz   Cuba	8.06
Triple jump details	Yoelbi Quesada   Cuba	17.19	LaMark Carter   USA	17.09	Michael Calvo   Cuba	17.03
Shot put details	Brad Mears   United States	19.93	Jamie Beyer   United States	18.95	Bradley Snyder   Canada	18.74
Discus throw details	Anthony Washington   USA	64.25	Alexis Elizalde   Cuba	61.99	Jason Tunks   Canada	61.75
Hammer throw details	Lance Deal   United States	79.61 GR	Kevin McMahon   United States	73.41	Juan Ignacio Cerra   Argentina	70.68
Javelin throw details	Emeterio González   Cuba	77.46	Máximo Rigondeaux   Cuba	76.24	Tom Petranoff   United States	75.95
Decathlon details	Chris Huffins   United States	8170 pts GR	Dan Steele   United States	8070 pts	Raúl Duany   Cuba	7730 pts
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Women's results

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details (Wind: +1.7  m/s)	Chandra Sturrup   Bahamas	11.10	Angela Williams   United States	11.16	Peta-Gaye Dowdie   Jamaica	11.20
200 metres details (Wind: +0.7  m/s)	Debbie Ferguson   Bahamas	22.83	Lucimar de Moura   Brazil	23.03	Felipa Palacios   Colombia	23.05
400 metres details	Ana Guevara   Mexico	50.91	Michelle Collins   USA	51.21	Claudine Williams   Jamaica	51.58
800 metres details	Letitia Vriesde   Suriname	1:59.95	Zulia Calatayud   Cuba	2:00.67	Meredith Valmon   USA	2:01.51
1500 metres details	Marla Runyan   United States	4:16.86	Leah Pells   Canada	4:16.86	Stephanie Best   United States	4:18.44
5000 metres details	Adriana Fernández   Mexico	15:56.57	Bertha Sánchez   Colombia	15:59.04	Blake Phillips   United States	15:59.77
10,000 metres details	Nora Rocha   Mexico	32:56.51	Stella Castro   Colombia	33:05.97 NR	Tina Connelly   Canada	33:27.87
Marathon details	Erika Olivera   Chile	2:37:41 GR	Iglandini González   Colombia	2:40:06	Viviany de Oliveira   Brazil	2:40:55
100 metres hurdles details (Wind: +1.2  m/s)	Aliuska López   Cuba	12.76 GR	Maurren Maggi   Brazil	12.86	Miesha McKelvy   USA	12.91
400 metres hurdles details	Daimí Pernía   Cuba	53.44 GR	Andrea Blackett   Barbados	53.98	Michelle Johnson   United States	54.22
4 × 100 metres relay details	Jamaica Kerry-Ann Richards Aleen Bailey Beverly Grant Peta-Gaye Dowdie	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 details	Cuba Julia Duporty Zulia Calatayud Idalmis Bonne Daimí Pernía	3:26.70	United States Shanelle Porter Yulanda Nelson Michelle Collins Andrea Anderson	3:27.50	Barbados Joanne Durant Andrea Blackett Melissa Straker Tanya Oxley	3:30.72
20 kilometres walk details	Graciela Mendoza   Mexico	1:34:19	Rosario Sánchez   Mexico	1:34:46	Michelle Rohl   United States	1:35:22
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Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details [2]	Solange Witteveen   Argentina	1.88	Luciane Dambacher   Brazil	1.85	Nicole Forrester   Canada	1.85
Pole vault details	Alejandra García   Argentina	4.30	Kellie Suttle   USA	4.25	Déborah Gyurcsek   Uruguay	4.15
Long jump details	Maurren Maggi   Brazil	6.59	Angela Brown   USA	6.51	Elva Goulbourne   Jamaica	6.41
Triple jump details	Yamilé Aldama   Cuba	14.77 GR	Suzette Lee   Jamaica	14.09	Magdelín Martínez   Cuba	13.98
Shot put details	Connie Price-Smith   United States	19.06	Yumileidi Cumbá   Cuba	18.67	Teri Tunks   United States	18.03
Discus throw details	Elisangela Adriano   Brazil	60.92	Aretha Hill   United States	59.06	Kris Kuehl   United States	57.21
Hammer throw details	Dawn Ellerbe   USA	65.36 GR	Yipsi Moreno   Cuba	63.03	Caroline Wittrin   Canada	61.28
Javelin throw details	Osleidys Menéndez   Cuba	65.85	Xiomara Rivero   Cuba	62.46	Laverne Eve   Bahamas	61.24
Heptathlon details	Magalys García   Cuba	6290 pts GR	Shelia Burrell   United States	6244 pts	Nicole Haynes   United States	6000 pts
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Medal table

  *   Host nation ( Canada)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	10	18	16	44
2	Cuba	10	9	5	24
3	Brazil	7	5	4	16
4	Mexico	7	4	1	12
5	Canada*	4	2	9	15
6	Jamaica	3	1	4	8
7	Argentina	2	0	1	3
	Bahamas	2	0	1	3
9	Chile	1	0	1	2
10	Suriname	1	0	0	1
11	Colombia	0	3	1	4
12	Barbados	0	1	1	2
13	Cayman Islands	0	1	0	1
	Venezuela	0	1	0	1
15	Ecuador	0	0	1	1
	Uruguay	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		47	45	46	138

Participating nations

See also

• 1999 in athletics (track and field)

References

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