Athletics at the 1979 Pan American Games

Men's marathon at the 1979 Pan American Games

Venue

Dates

14 July

Winning time

2:24:09

Medalists

Records Edit

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows:

World record	Shigeru So (JPN)	2:09:05.6	Japan	February 5, 1978
Pan American Games record	Frank Shorter (USA)	2:22:40	Cali, Colombia	1971

KEY:	WR	World Record	GR	Pan American Record

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time^[3]	Notes
	Radamés González	Cuba	2:24:09
	Luis Barbosa	Colombia	2:24:44
	Rich Hughson	Canada	2:25:34
4	Héctor Rodríguez	Colombia	2:25:51
5	Edmundo Warnke	Chile	2:26:14
6	Tom Fleming	United States	2:28:06
7	Tom Howard	Canada	2:28:50
8	Francisco Vargas	Puerto Rico	2:29:11
9	Elói Schleder	Brazil	2:29:42	^[4]
10	Virgilio Herrera	Guatemala	2:31:53
11	José de Jesús	Puerto Rico	2:34:35
12	Raymond Swan	Bermuda	2:42:15
13	Hipólito López	Honduras	2:43:08
14	José Hernández	El Salvador	2:43:16
15	Wallace Williams	Virgin Islands	3:22:12
	Robert Doyle	United States	DNF	^[5]
	Hilario Álvarez	Mexico	DNF	^[6]
	Rafael Ángel Pérez	Costa Rica	DNF
	Miguel Ángel Legorreta	Mexico	DNF	^[6]
	Aldo Allen	Cuba	DNF
	José Medina	Venezuela	DNS

^ (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
^ (PDF) (in Spanish). 1979 Pan American Games Organising Committee (COPAN 79). 1981. p. 251. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-11. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
^ "Agberto e revezamento 4 x 100m trazem bronze" (in Portuguese). Jornal do Brasil. 15 July 1979. p. 33. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
^ "Podium" (in Portuguese). Jornal do Brasil. 15 July 1979. p. 32. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
^ ^a ^b Mexican results