Athletics at the 2007 Pan American Games

Athletics at the 2007 Pan American Games
The main stadium during the 2007 Games
Dates	22 – 29 July
Host city	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Venue	Estádio Olímpico João Havelange Flamengo Park
Level	Senior
Events	47
Participation	627 athletes from 41 nations
Records set	13 Games records
← Santo Domingo 2003 Guadalajara 2011 → 2007 Pan American Games

The athletics competition at the 2007 Pan American Games was held at the Flamengo Park and Estádio Olímpico João Havelange in Rio de Janeiro between 22 July and 29 July 2007. In the 47 events that took place, thirteen Games records in athletics were equalled or beaten at the 2007 edition.

Cuba fielded its best athletes and easily topped the medal table, winning twelve gold medals and also having the greatest medal haul overall with a total of 30. The hosts, Brazil, took second place on the table having won nine golds and 23 medals overall. The United States – continuing its tradition of fielding a far from full strength squad – had its worst performance ever in the Pan American athletics competition. With six golds for third place, it finished outside the top two for the first time in Games history (although its medal total of 24 was one greater than second-placed Brazil). Canada and Mexico were the next most successful nations, placing fourth and fifth in the medal tally, respectively.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Churandy Martina  Netherlands Antilles	10.15	Darvis Patton  United States	10.17	Brendan Christian  Antigua and Barbuda	10.26
200 metres details	Brendan Christian  Antigua and Barbuda	20.37	Marvin Anderson  Jamaica	20.38	Rubin Williams  United States	20.57
400 metres details	Chris Brown  Bahamas	44.85	Tyler Christopher  Canada	45.05	Chris Lloyd  Dominica	45.40
800 metres details	Yeimer López  Cuba	1:44.58 GR PB	Kléberson Davide  Brazil	1:45.47	Fabiano Peçanha  Brazil	1:45.54
1500 metres details	Hudson de Souza  Brazil	3:36.32 GR PB	Juan Barrios  Mexico	3:37.71	Byron Piedra  Ecuador	3:37.88 NR
5000 metres details	Ed Moran  United States	13:25.60 GR PB	Juan Barrios  Mexico	13:29.87	Marílson Gomes dos Santos  Brazil	13:30.87
10,000 metres details	José David Galván  Mexico	28:08.74 GR PB	Marílson Gomes dos Santos  Brazil	28:09.30	Alejandro Suárez  Mexico	28:09.95
Marathon details	Franck de Almeida  Brazil	2:14:03	José Amado García  Guatemala	2:14:27	Procopio Franco  Mexico	2:15:18
3000 metres steeplechase details	Joshua McAdams  United States	8:30.49	Michael Spence  United States	8:32.11	José Alberto Sánchez  Cuba	8:36.07
110 metres hurdles details	Dayron Robles  Cuba	13.25	David Payne  United States	13.43	Yoel Hernández  Cuba	13.50
400 metres hurdles details	Adam Kunkel  Canada	48.24	Bayano Kamani  Panama	48.70	LaRon Bennett  United States	49.07
4 x 100 m relay details	Brazil Vicente Lenilson, Rafael Ribeiro, Basílio de Moraes, Sandro Viana	38.81	Canada Richard Adu-Bobie, Anson Henry, Jared Connaughton, Bryan Barnett	38.87	United States J-Mee Samuels, Rae Edwards, Rubin Williams, Darvis Patton	38.88
4 x 400 m relay details	Bahamas Andrae Williams, Avard Moncur, Michael Mathieu, Chris Brown	3:01.94	United States Greg Nixon, Jamaal Torrance, LaRon Bennett, David Neville	3:02.44	Dominican Republic Carlos Santa Arismendy Peguero Yoel Tapia Félix Sánchez	3:02.48
20 km race walk details	Jefferson Pérez  Ecuador	1:22:08	Rolando Saquipay  Ecuador	1:23:28	Gustavo Restrepo  Colombia	1:24:51
50 km race walk details	Xavier Moreno  Ecuador	3:52:07	Horacio Nava  Mexico	3:52:35	Omar Zepeda  Mexico	3:56:04
High jump details	Víctor Moya  Cuba	2.32 m	Donald Thomas  Bahamas	2.30 m	James Grayman  Antigua and Barbuda	2.24 m
Pole vault details	Fábio Gomes da Silva  Brazil	5.40 m	Giovanni Lanaro  Mexico	5.30 m	Germán Chiaraviglio  Argentina	5.20 m
Long jump details	Irving Saladino  Panama	8.28 m	Wilfredo Martínez  Cuba	7.92 m	Bashir Ramzy  United States	7.90 m
Triple jump details	Jadel Gregório  Brazil	17.27 m	Osniel Tosca  Cuba	16.92 m	Yoandri Betanzos  Cuba	16.90 m
Shot put details	Dylan Armstrong  Canada	20.10 m	Dorian Scott  Jamaica	20.06 m	Carlos Véliz  Cuba	19.75 m
Discus throw details	Michael Robertson  United States	59.24 m	Adam Kuehl  United States	57.50 m	Dariusz Slowik  Canada	57.37 m
Hammer throw details	James Steacy  Canada	73.77 m	Kibwe Johnson  United States	73.23 m	Juan Ignacio Cerra  Argentina	72.12 m
Javelin throw details	Guillermo Martínez  Cuba	77.66 m	Mike Hazle  United States	75.33 m	Alexon Maximiano  Brazil	75.04 m
Decathlon   details	Maurice Smith  Jamaica	8278 GR PB	Yordanis García  Cuba	8113	Carlos Chinin  Brazil	7977

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Mikele Barber  United States	11.02 GR PB	Mechelle Lewis  United States	11.24	Chandra Sturrup  Bahamas	11.29
200 metres details	Roxana Díaz  Cuba	22.90	Sheri-Ann Brooks  Jamaica	22.92	Sherry Fletcher  Grenada	22.96
400 metres details	Ana Guevara  Mexico	50.34	Christine Amertil  Bahamas	50.99	Indira Terrero  Cuba	51.09
800 metres details	Diane Cummins  Canada	1:59.75	Rosibel García  Colombia	2:00.02	Zulia Calatayud  Cuba	2:00.34
1500 metres details	Juliana Paula dos Santos  Brazil	4:13.36	Mary Jayne Harrelson  United States	4:15.24	Rosibel García  Colombia	4:15.78 (NR)
5000 metres details	Megan Metcalfe  Canada	15:35.78	Catherine Ferrell  United States	15:42.01	Leticia Rocha de la Cruz  Mexico	15:43.80
10,000 metres details	Sara Slattery  United States	32:54.11 GR PB	Maria Rodriguez de la Cruz  Mexico	32:56.75	Lucélia Peres  Brazil	33:19.48
Marathon details	Mariela González  Cuba	2:43:11	Márcia Narloch  Brazil	2:45:10	Sirlene Pinho  Brazil	2:47:36
3000 metres steeplechase details	Sabine Heitling  Brazil	9:51.13 GR PB	Talis Apud  Mexico	9:55.43 (NR)	Zenaide Vieira  Brazil	9:55.71
100 metres hurdles details	Delloreen Ennis-London  Jamaica	12.65 GR PB	Perdita Felicien  Canada	12.65 GR	Angela Whyte  Canada	12.72
400 metres hurdles details	Sheena Johnson  United States	54.64	Nickiesha Wilson  Jamaica	54.91	Nicole Leach  United States	54.97
4 x 100 m relay details	Jamaica Sheri-Ann Brooks Tracy-Ann Rowe Aleen Bailey Peta-Gaye Dowdie	43.58	United States Shareese Woods Mechelle Lewis Alexis Weatherspoon Mikele Barber	43.62	Cuba Virgen Benavides Roxana Díaz Misleidys Lazo Anay Tejeda	43.80
4 x 400 m relay details	Cuba Aymée Martínez Daimy Pernia Zulia Calatayud Indira Terrero	3:27.51	Mexico Maria Teresa Rugerio Gabriela E. Medina Zudykey Rodriguez Ana Guevara	3:27.75	United States Debbie Dunn Angel Perkins Latonia Wilson Nicole Leach	3:27.84
20 km race walk details	Cristina Lopez  El Salvador	1:38:59	Miriam Ramón  Ecuador	1:40:03	Maria Sanchez  Mexico	1:41:47
High jump details	Romary Rifka  Mexico	1.95 m PB	Nicole Forrester  Canada	1.95 m	Levern Spencer  Saint Lucia	1.87 m
Pole vault details	Fabiana Murer  Brazil	4.60 m GR PB	April Steiner  United States	4.40 m	Yarisley Garcia  Cuba	4.30 m
Long jump details	Maurren Higa Maggi  Brazil	6.84 m	Keila Costa  Brazil	6.73 m	Yargelis Savigne  Cuba	6.66 m
Triple jump details	Yargelis Savigne  Cuba	14.80 m GR PB	Keila Costa  Brazil	14.38 m	Mabel Gay  Cuba	14.26 m
Shot put details	Misleydis González  Cuba	18.83 m	Yumileidi Cumbá  Cuba	18.28 m	Cleopatra Borel-Brown  Trinidad and Tobago	18.22 m
Discus throw details	Yarelis Barrios  Cuba	61.72 m	Yania Ferrales  Cuba	61.71 m	Elisângela Adriano  Brazil	60.27 m
Hammer throw details	Yipsi Moreno  Cuba	75.20 m GR PB	Arasay Thondike  Cuba	68.70 m	Jennifer Dahlgren  Argentina	68.37 m
Javelin throw details	Osleidys Menéndez  Cuba	62.34 m	Sonia Bisset  Cuba	60.68 m	Laverne Eve  Bahamas	58.10 m
Heptathlon details	Jessica Zelinka  Canada	6136	Gretchen Quintana  Cuba	6000	Lucimara da Silva  Brazil	5873

  *   Host nation (Brazil)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba	12	8	10	30
2	Brazil*	9	5	9	23
3	United States	6	12	6	24
4	Canada	6	4	2	12
5	Mexico	3	7	5	15
6	Jamaica	3	4	0	7
7	Bahamas	2	2	2	6
8	Ecuador	2	2	1	5
9	Panama	1	1	0	2
10	Antigua and Barbuda	1	0	2	3
11	El Salvador	1	0	0	1
	Netherlands Antilles	1	0	0	1
13	Colombia	0	1	2	3
14	Guatemala	0	1	0	1
15	Argentina	0	0	3	3
16	Dominica	0	0	1	1
	Dominican Republic	0	0	1	1
	Grenada	0	0	1	1
	Saint Lucia	0	0	1	1
	Trinidad and Tobago	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		47	47	47	141

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• Biscayart, Eduardo (2007-07-23). Rio opens-up to Athletics at XV Pan-American Games
• Biscayart, Eduardo (2007-07-24). Pérez retains 20km Walk title - Pan-American Games, Day One
• Biscayart, Eduardo (2007-07-25). Moreno takes Hammer with 75.20 Games record – Pan-American Games, Day Two
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