Athletics at the 1975 Pan American Games
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The Athletics Competition at the 1975 Pan American Games
1975 Pan American Games
The 7th Pan American Games were held in Mexico City, Mexico, from October 12 to October 26, 1975, exactly twenty years after the 2nd Pan American Games were held there...

was held in Mexico City
Mexico City
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, Mexico
Mexico
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Men's events

100 metres
100 metres
The 100 metres, or 100-metre dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, it is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896...

Silvio Leonard
Silvio Leonard
Silvio Leonard Sarría also known as Silvio Leonard Tartabull is a former sprinter from Cuba. He was the second athlete to run the 100 metres in less than 10 seconds with electronic timing, running in 9.98 seconds on August 11, 1977 in Guadalajara. The first was 1968 Olympic champion Jim Hines...


 Cuba
10.15A Hasely Crawford
Hasely Crawford
Hasely Joachim Crawford is a former athlete from Trinidad and Tobago. In 1976, he became the first Olympic champion of his country. A stadium was renamed in his honour in 2001.-Early Years:...


 Trinidad and Tobago
10.21A Hermes Ramírez
Hermes Ramírez
Hermes Ramírez is a former sprinter from Cuba. Together with Juan Morales, Pablo Montes, and Enrique Figuerola he won an Olympic silver medal in 4 x 100 metres relay in Mexico City 1968...


 Cuba
10.34A
200 metres
200 metres
A 200 metres race is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 m track, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques are needed to successfully run the race. A slightly shorter race, called the stadion and run on a straight track, was the first...

James Gilkes
James Gilkes
James Gilkes is a former sprinter from Guyana who specialised in the 200 metres.He was 1975 Pan American 200 metre champion, and in 1979 he took the silver medal in the same event....


 Guyana
20.43A Larry Brown
 United States
20.69A Mike Sands
 The Bahamas
20.98A
400 metres
400 metres
The 400 metres, or 400 metre dash, is a common sprinting event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 . On a standard outdoor running track, it is exactly one lap around the track. Runners start in staggered positions and...

Ronny Ray
Ronny Ray
Ronny Ray is a retired male American track and field athlete, who competed in the sprints events during his career. He is best known for winning the men's 400 metres event at the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico City, Mexico. In that race on 18 October 1975 Ray set his personal best:...


 United States
44.45A Alberto Juantorena
Alberto Juantorena
Alberto Juantorena Danger is a Cuban former track athlete. At the 1976 Summer Olympics, he became the first and so far only athlete to win both the 400 and 800 m Olympic titles....


 Cuba
44.80A Delmo da Silva
 Brazil
45.53A
800 metres
800 metres
The 800 meter race is a common track running event. It is the shortest common middle distance track event. The 800 meter is run over two laps of the track and has always been an Olympic event. During indoor track season the event is usually run on a 200 meter track, therefore requiring four laps...

Luis Medina
Luis Medina (athlete)
Luis Medina Montoya is a retired middle distance runner from Cuba, who represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. He is best known for winning the gold medal in the men's 800 metres event at the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico City, Mexico.-References:*...


 Cuba
1:47.98A Leandro Civil
 Cuba
1:48.75A Carlos Martínez
 Mexico
1:48.78A
1500 metres
1500 metres
The 1,500-metre run is the premier middle distance track event.Aerobic endurance is the biggest factor contributing to success in the 1500 metres but the athlete also requires significant sprint speed.In modern times, the 1,500-metre run has been run at a pace faster than the average person could...

Tony Waldrop
Tony Waldrop
Tony Waldrop is an American professor, academic administrator and athlete, currently serving as the provost and executive vice president of the University of Central Florida. Waldrop is best known for setting the world indoor record in the mile...


 United States
3:45.09A Carlos Martínez
 Mexico
3:45.98A Luis Medina
Luis Medina (athlete)
Luis Medina Montoya is a retired middle distance runner from Cuba, who represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. He is best known for winning the gold medal in the men's 800 metres event at the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico City, Mexico.-References:*...


 Cuba
3:49.84A
5000 metres
5000 metres
The 5000 metres is a popular running distance also known as 5 km or 5K in American English. It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics. "5000 metres" refers to racing on a track and "5K" usually refers to a roadrace or cross country event...

Domingo Tibaduiza
Domingo Tibaduiza
Domingo Tibaduiza Reyes is a former long-distance runner from Gameza, Colombia, who represented his native country at four consecutive Summer Olympics: in the 10,000 metres , the 5,000 metres and in the men's marathon...


 Colombia
14:02.00A Theodore Castaneda
 United States
14:03.20A Rodolfo Gómez
Rodolfo Gómez
Rodolfo Gómez Orozco is a retired long-distance runner, who was one of the leading runners represented from Mexico in the 1970s and 1980s...


 Mexico
14:05.25A
10000 metres
10000 metres
The 10,000 metres or 10K is a common long distance running event. As "10,000 metres" it is a track event, and appears in athletics events such as the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics; as "10K" it is a roadrace or cross country running event...

Luis Hernández
Luis Hernández (athlete)
Luis Hernández is a retired long-distance runner from Mexico. He claimed the gold medal at the 1975 Pan American Games in the Men's 10,000 metres, and represented his native country the following year at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal, Canada.-References:* He also is one of the best...


 Mexico
29:19.28A Rodolfo Gómez
Rodolfo Gómez
Rodolfo Gómez Orozco is a retired long-distance runner, who was one of the leading runners represented from Mexico in the 1970s and 1980s...


 Mexico
29:21.22A Domingo Tibaduiza
Domingo Tibaduiza
Domingo Tibaduiza Reyes is a former long-distance runner from Gameza, Colombia, who represented his native country at four consecutive Summer Olympics: in the 10,000 metres , the 5,000 metres and in the men's marathon...


 Colombia
29:25.45A
Marathon
Marathon
The marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres , that is usually run as a road race...

Rigoberto Mendoza
Rigoberto Mendoza
Rigoberto Mendoza Pérez is a retired male marathon runner from Cuba. He won the gold medal at the 1975 Pan American Games and competed for his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics, finishing in 33rd place. He set his personal best in the classic distance in 1975.-Achievements:-References:*...


 Cuba
2:25:03A Charles "Chuck" Smead
Chuck Smead
Charles "Chuck" Smead is an American long distance runner, who made his most significant mark on the sport taking second in the Marathon at the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico City....


 United States
2:25:32A Tom Howard
 Canada
2:25:46A
3000 metre steeplechase Mike Manley
Mike Manley (athletics)
Peter Michael Manley is a retired middle- and long-distance runner from the United States. He twice won the gold medal in the men's 3.000 metres steeplechase event at the Pan American Games: 1971 and 1975....


 United States
9:04.29A José Andrade Silva
 Brazil
9:05.31A Octavio Guadarrama
 Mexico
9:15.00A
110 metres hurdles
110 metres hurdles
The 110 metres hurdles is a hurdling track and field event for men. It is incuded in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympic Games. The female counterpart is the 100 metre hurdles. As part of a racing event, ten hurdles of 1.067 metres in height are evenly spaced along a straight...

Alejandro Casañas
Alejandro Casañas
Alejandro Francisco Casañas Ramírez is a former Cuban hurdler....


 Cuba
13.44A Danny Smith
 The Bahamas
13.72A Arnaldo Bristol
 Puerto Rico
13.74A
400 metres hurdles
400 metres hurdles
The 400 metres hurdles is an Olympic athletics event in track and field. On a standard outdoor track 400 metres is the length of the inside lane once around the stadium. Runners stay in their lane the entire way after starting out of the blocks and must clear ten hurdles that are evenly...

James King
James King (athlete)
James King is an American hurdler. In 1975 he won the Pan American Games in the 400 Hurdles. He was a top level performer for many years also competing in the United States Olympic Trials in 1972, 1976, 1980, and 1984...


 United States
49.60A Ralph Mann
Ralph Mann
Ralph Mann was an American athlete who competed mainly in the 400 meter hurdles. He was an undergraduate at Brigham Young University, and later earned a Ph.D. in Biomechanics from the Washington State University...


 United States
50.04A Alfonso Damaso
 Cuba
50.19A
High jump
High jump
The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

Tom Woods
Tom Woods (athlete)
Tom Woods is a retired male high jumper from the United States, who competed in the 1970s for his native country. He set his personal best in the men's high jump event on 1975-06-20 in Eugene, Oregon, winning the national title....


 United States
2.25A John Beers
 Canada
2.17A Rick Cuttell
 Canada
2.17A
Pole vault
Pole vault
Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts...

Earl Bell
Earl Bell
Earl H. Bell is a former world record holding pole vaulter from the United States, winner of the bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics and current coach to a number of the nation's top men and women vaulters. He was born in Ancón, Panama Canal Zone.At his last Olympic appearance, Bell finished...


 United States
5.40A Bruce Simpson
Bruce Simpson (athlete)
Bruce Simpson is a retired male pole vaulter from Canada. He set his personal best in the men's pole vault on 13 February 1976 at a meet in Toronto.-Achievements:-References:**...


 Canada
5.20A Roberto Moré
 Cuba
5.20A
Long jump
Long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...

João Carlos de Oliveira
João Carlos de Oliveira
João Carlos de Oliveira, also known as "João do Pulo" was a Brazilian athlete who competed in the triple jump and the long jump....


 Brazil
8.19A Arnie Robinson
Arnie Robinson
Clarence Earl "Arnie" Robinson, Jr. won the gold medal for the men's long jump in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal. That was an improvement on the bronze medal he won at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.-Career:Robinson stayed in the San Diego area throughout his career, first at...


 United States
7.94A Al Lanier
 United States
7.91A
Triple jump
Triple jump
The triple jump is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a “hop, bound and jump” routine, whereby the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit.The triple jump has its origins in the Ancient Olympics and has been a...

João Carlos de Oliveira
João Carlos de Oliveira
João Carlos de Oliveira, also known as "João do Pulo" was a Brazilian athlete who competed in the triple jump and the long jump....


 Brazil
17.89A Tommy Haynes
 United States
17.20A Milan Tiff
Milan Tiff
Milan Tiff is primarily known for his Triple Jumping, but his skills pass through several arenas. He was the Bronze medalist in the 1975 Pan Am Games. At the Pan Am Games, his name shows the additional name of Abdul Rahman, and in the 1976 Olympic Trials he used the name Caleb Abdul Rahman but...

 Abdul Rahman
 United States
16.98A
Shot put
Shot put
The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....

Bruce Pirnie
 Canada
19.28A Bishop Dolegiewicz
Bishop Dolegiewicz
Zbigniew "Bishop" Dolegiewicz was a Canadian professional track and field athlete and coach who specialized in the shot put and the discus throw....


 Canada
19.18A Terry Albritton
Terry Albritton
Terence Hillary Albritton was an American athlete, former Shot put world record holder, and coach. He was born in Newport Beach, California.-Athletic accomplishments:...


 United States
19.18A
Discus throw
Discus throw
The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...

John Powell
John Powell (athlete)
John Gates Powell is an American track and field athlete, specifically, a discus thrower. Powell set the world record distance of 69.08 meters in 1975. His personal best throw was achieved in 1984 at 72.08 meters. That places him eighth in the all-time performers list...


 United States
62.36A Julián Morrison
Julián Morrison
Julián Morrison Gales is a former discus thrower from Cuba. He competed for his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal, Canada, where he did not reach the final in the men's discus throw event. He won the gold medal at the 1974 Central American and Caribbean Games.-References:*...


 Cuba
59.88A Jay Silvester
Jay Silvester
Jay Silvester was an American athlete who mainly competed in the discus throw. He competed for the United States in the men's discus throw at the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany, where he won the silver medal.Silvester was one of the U.S.'s most consistent discus throwers through the...


 United States
59.82A
Hammer throw
Hammer throw
The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown...

Larry Hart
Larry Hart
Lawrence Thomas Hart is a former American athlete who won the gold medal in the men's hammer throw event at the 1975 Pan American Games. He set his personal best on 11 June 1976 at a meet in Westwood, California.-References:**...


 United States
66.56A Ángel Cabrera
 Cuba
65.24A Scott Neilson
 Canada
64.56A
Javelin throw
Javelin throw
The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...

Sam Colson
 United States
83.82A Juan Jarvis
Juan Jarvis
Juan Nicolas Jarvis is a former Cuban athlete. He is the fourth son of Esther Ocana Nolasco and Teodoro Jarvis....


 Cuba
82.30A Raúl Fernández
 Cuba
72.90A
Decathlon
Decathlon
The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word decathlon is of Greek origin . Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are determined by the combined performance in all. Performance is judged on a points system in each event, not...

Bruce Jenner
Bruce Jenner
William Bruce Jenner is a former U.S. track and field athlete, motivational speaker, socialite and television personality. He won the gold medal for decathlon in the Montreal 1976 Summer Olympics....


 United States
8045A Fred Dixon
Fred Dixon
Fred Dixon was a Manitoba politician, and was for several years the dominant figure in the province's mainstream labour movement.Born in Englefield, England, Dixon was not a socialist...


 United States
8019A Jesús Mirabal
Jesús Mirabal
Jesús Mirabal is a former Cuban decathlete.He won the Central American and Caribbean Games in 1970 and 1974 and took bronze medals at the Pan American Games in 1971 and 1975. He was the first Cuban decathlete to break the 7000 point barrier, and eventually established his national record at 7506...


 Cuba
7582A
20 kilometre road walk Daniel Bautista
Daniel Bautista
Daniel Bautista Rocha is a former Mexican track and field athlete and Olympic champion. He was born in El Salado, San Luis Potosí....


 Mexico
1:33:06A Domingo Colín
 Mexico
1:33:59A Larry Young
Larry Young (athletics)
Larry Young is an American athlete who competed mainly in the 50 kilometer walk.He competed for the United States in the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City, Mexico in the 50 kilometer walk where he won the bronze medal. He repeated this feat four years later in Munich at the 1972 Summer...


 United States
1:37:54A
4 x 100 metres relay
4 x 100 metres relay
The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners begin in the same stagger as for the individual 400 m race...

 United States 38.31A  Cuba 38.46A  Canada 38.86A
4 x 400 metres relay
4 x 400 metres relay
The 4 x 400 meters relay or long relay is an athletics track event in which teams comprise four runners who each complete 400 meters or one lap. It is traditionally the final event of a track meet. At top class events, the first 500 meters is run in lanes...

 United States 3:00.76A  Cuba 3:02.82A  Canada 3:03.92A

Women's events

100 metres
100 metres
The 100 metres, or 100-metre dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, it is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896...

Pamela Jiles
 United States
11.38A Patty Loverock
 Canada
11.41A Marjorie Bailey
 Canada
11.42A
200 metres
200 metres
A 200 metres race is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 m track, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques are needed to successfully run the race. A slightly shorter race, called the stadion and run on a straight track, was the first...

Chandra Cheeseborough
Chandra Cheeseborough
Chandra Danette Cheeseborough is an American track and field athlete. Cheeseborough broke onto the international track scene at age 16 by winning two gold medals at the 1975 Pan American Games, taking the 200 m in an American record time of 22.77 seconds...


 United States
22.77A Pamela Jiles
 United States
22.81A Silvina Pereira
 Brazil
23.17A
400 metres
400 metres
The 400 metres, or 400 metre dash, is a common sprinting event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 . On a standard outdoor running track, it is exactly one lap around the track. Runners start in staggered positions and...

Joyce Yakubowich
 Canada
51.62A Debra Sapenter
Debra Sapenter
Debra Sapenter is an American athlete who competed mainly in the 400 meters. In 1975 she was rated as the number one 400 meter women's sprinter in the United States...


 United States
52.22A Lorna Forde
 Barbados
52.36A
800 metres
800 metres
The 800 meter race is a common track running event. It is the shortest common middle distance track event. The 800 meter is run over two laps of the track and has always been an Olympic event. During indoor track season the event is usually run on a 200 meter track, therefore requiring four laps...

Kathy Weston
Kathy Weston
Kathleen Stella Weston is a retired female middle distance runner from the United States. She set her personal best in the women's 800 metres at the 1976 Olympic trials. She was also a member of the 1976 US Olympic team and won many medals.-Achievements:-References:**...


 United States
2:04.93A Abby Hoffman
 Canada
2:06.93A Joan Wenzel
 Canada
2:06.93A
1500 metres
1500 metres
The 1,500-metre run is the premier middle distance track event.Aerobic endurance is the biggest factor contributing to success in the 1500 metres but the athlete also requires significant sprint speed.In modern times, the 1,500-metre run has been run at a pace faster than the average person could...

Jan Merrill
Jan Merrill
Janice Melbourne Merrill is a retired female middle distance runner from the United States. She was the dominant long distance runner of the middle 1970's, a notable front runner, her uniform with the large "M" on her chest would usually break away to an insurmountable lead in domestic meets...


 United States
4:18.32A Thelma Wright
 Canada
4:22.32A Abby Hoffman
 Canada
4:26.25A
100 metres hurdles
100 metres hurdles
The 100 m hurdles are an Olympic track and field athletics discipline run by women . For the race ten hurdles of a height of 83.8 cm are placed evenly spaced along a straight course of 100 meters. They are positioned so that they will fall over if bumped into by the runner...

Edith Noeding
Edith Noeding
Edith Noeding is a retired female track and field athlete from Peru, who competed in the hurdles event during her career. She won the gold medal at the 1975 Pan American Games in the women's 100 metres hurdles event. There Noeding set her personal best in the women's 100 metres hurdles event on...


 Peru
13.56A
(NR)
Debbie LaPlante
Debbie LaPlante
Debbie LaPlante is a retired female track and field athlete from the United States, who competed in the hurdles event. She twice won a medal at the Pan American Games during her career. LaPlante set her personal best in the women's 100m hurdles event on June 16, 1979, clocking 12.86 in Walnut,...


 United States
13.68A Marlene Elejalde
 Cuba
13.80A
High jump
High jump
The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

Joni Huntley
Joni Huntley
Joni Luann Huntley is an American athlete who won the bronze medal in the women's high jump event at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California....


 United States
1.89A Louise Walker
 Canada
1.86A Andrea Bruce
 Jamaica
1.83A
Long jump
Long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...

Ana Alexander
Ana Alexander
Ana Bella Alexander Lamothe is a retired female athlete from Cuba, who mainly competed in the women's long jump event during her career.-References:*...


 Cuba
6.63A Martha Watson
 United States
6.57A Kathy McMillan
Kathy McMillan
Kathy McMillan is a retired American athlete, who mainly competed in the long jump event....


 United States
6.49A
Shot put
Shot put
The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....

María Elena Sarría
María Elena Sarría
María Elena Sarría Díaz is a retired Cuban athlete who competed in the shot put during her career. Her personal best throw was 20.61 metres, and with 19.34 metres she still holds the Pan American Games record in the event.-Achievements:-External links:*...


 Cuba
18.03A Hilda Ramírez
 Cuba
17.28A Lucette Moreau
 Canada
16.98A
Discus throw
Discus throw
The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...

Carmen Romero
Carmen Romero
Carmen Romero Ferrer is a retired Cuban discus thrower. Her personal best throw was 69.08 metres, achieved in April 1976 in Havana.-Achievements:-References:...


 Cuba
60.16A María Betancourt
María Betancourt
María Cristina Betancourt Ramírez is a retired Cuban discus thrower. Her personal best throw was 66.54 metres, achieved in February 1981 in Havana.-Achievements:-References:...


 Cuba
58.52A Jane Haist
Jane Haist
Jane Haist was a female discus thrower and shot putter, who represented Canada at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. She is best known for winning two gold medals for Canada at the 1974 Commonwealth Games: in the women's discus throw and in the women's shot put event.-References:*...


 Canada
53.12A
Javelin throw
Javelin throw
The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...

Sherry Calvert
Sherry Calvert
Sharon Lynn Calvert is a retired female javelin thrower from the United States, who represented her native country twice at the Summer Olympics: 1972 and 1976. She set her personal best in 1978.-Achievements:-References:*...


 United States
54.70A María Beltrán
 Cuba
54.36A Beth Cannon
 United States
48.64A
Pentathlon
Pentathlon
A pentathlon is a contest featuring five different events. The name is derived from Greek: combining the words pente and -athlon . The first pentathlon was documented in Ancient Greece and was part of the Ancient Olympic Games...

Diane Jones
 Canada
4673A Gale Fitzgerald
 United States
4486A Andrea Bruce
 Jamaica
4391A
4 x 100 metres relay
4 x 100 metres relay
The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners begin in the same stagger as for the individual 400 m race...

 United States 42.90A  Cuba 43.65A  Canada 43.68A
4 x 400 metres relay
4 x 400 metres relay
The 4 x 400 meters relay or long relay is an athletics track event in which teams comprise four runners who each complete 400 meters or one lap. It is traditionally the final event of a track meet. At top class events, the first 500 meters is run in lanes...

 Canada 3:30.36A  United States
Debra Sapenter
Debra Sapenter
Debra Sapenter is an American athlete who competed mainly in the 400 meters. In 1975 she was rated as the number one 400 meter women's sprinter in the United States...


Kathy Weston
Kathy Weston
Kathleen Stella Weston is a retired female middle distance runner from the United States. She set her personal best in the women's 800 metres at the 1976 Olympic trials. She was also a member of the 1976 US Olympic team and won many medals.-Achievements:-References:**...


Sharon Dabney
Pat Helms
3:30.64A  Cuba 3:31.65A

Medal table

1  United States 19 13 7 39
2  Cuba 7 11 8 26
3  Canada 4 7 11 22
4  Mexico 2 3 3 8
5  Brazil 2 1 2 5
6  Colombia 1 0 1 2
7  Peru 1 0 0 1
 Guyana 1 0 0 1
9  The Bahamas 0 1 1 2
10  Trinidad and Tobago 0 1 0 1
11  Jamaica 0 0 2 2
12  Barbados 0 0 1 1
 Puerto Rico 0 0 1 1
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