Athletics at the 1979 Pan American Games – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
Appearance
Men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1979 Pan American Games | |
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Venue | Estadio Sixto Escobar |
Dates | 13 & 14 July |
Winning time | 3:03.8 |
Medalists | |
«1975 1983» |
The men's 4 × 400 metres relay competition of the athletics events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place on 13 and 14 July at the Estadio Sixto Escobar.[1][2] The defending Pan American Games champion was the United States team.
Records
[edit]Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows:
World record | United States | 2:56.16 | Mexico City, Mexico | October 20, 1968 |
Pan American Games record | United States | 3:00.60 | Cali, Colombia | 1971 |
Results
[edit]KEY: | WR | World Record | GR | Pan American Record |
Heats
[edit]Rank | Heat | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
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1 | 1 | United States | James Walker, Herman Frazier, Maurice Peoples, Tony Darden | 3:06.4 | Q |
2 | 1 | Trinidad and Tobago | Michael Solomon, Raffer Mahammed, Joseph Coombs, Willie Alexander | 3:09.3 | Q |
3 | 1 | Canada | Dough Hinds, Frank van Doorn, Glenn Bogue, Bryan Saunders | 3:10.1 | Q |
4 | 2 | Jamaica | Ian Stapleton, Floyd Brown, Bert Cameron, Colin Bradford | 3:10.15 | Q |
5 | 1 | Antigua and Barbuda | Lester Flax, Elroy Turner, Fred Sowerby, Paul Richards | 3:12.4 | q |
6 | 2 | Brazil | Donizete Araújo, Geraldo José Pegado, Delmo da Silva, Antônio Dias Ferreira | 3:14.51 | Q |
7 | 2 | Cuba | Frank Montiéh, Carlos Álvarez, Alberto Juantorena, Pedro Tanis | 3:15.5 | Q |
8 | 1 | Dominican Republic | Francisco Solis, Anatalio Ramírez, Gil Fortuna, Rafael Félix | 3:15.7 | q |
2 | Puerto Rico | Víctor Ramos, Gustavo Rivera, Carlos Yambot, Julio Ferrer | DQ |
Final
[edit]Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
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United States | James Walker, Herman Frazier, Maurice Peoples, Tony Darden | 3:03.8 | ||
Jamaica | Ian Stapleton, Floyd Brown, Bert Cameron, Colin Bradford | 3:04.7 | ||
Cuba | Frank Montiéh, Carlos Álvarez, Alberto Juantorena, Pedro Tanis | 3:06.3 | ||
4 | Canada | Dough Hinds, Frank van Doorn, Glenn Bogue, Bryan Saunders | 3:09.2 | |
5 | Brazil | Donizete Araújo, Geraldo José Pegado, Delmo da Silva, Antônio Dias Ferreira | 3:10.9 | |
6 | Trinidad and Tobago | Michael Solomon, Raffer Mahammed, Joseph Coombs, Willie Alexander | 3:11.6 | |
7 | Dominican Republic | Francisco Solis, Anatalio Ramírez, Gil Fortuna, Rafael Félix | 3:14.1 | |
8 | Antigua and Barbuda | Lester Flax, Elroy Turner, Fred Sowerby, Paul Richards | 3:14.6 |
References
[edit]- ^ 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. 252. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-11. Retrieved 2019-08-16.