Athletics at the 1979 Pan American Games – Women's 100 metres hurdles

Women's 100 metres hurdles at the 1979 Pan American Games
Venue	Estadio Sixto Escobar
Dates	12 & 13 July
Winning time	12.90
Medalists
Deby LaPlante    United States   Sharon Lane    Canada   Grisel Machado    Cuba
«1975 1983»

The women's 100 metres hurdles sprint competition of the athletics events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place at the Estadio Sixto Escobar. ^{[1] [2]} The defending Pan American Games champion was Edith Noeding of Peru.

Records

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

World record	Grażyna Rabsztyn  (POL)	12.48	Fürth, West Germany	June 10, 1978
Pan American Games record	Patty Johnson  (USA)	13.1	Cali, Colombia	1971

Results

All times are in seconds. Deby LaPlante's winning time of 12.90 seconds in the final was not registered as a Pan American record because of wind conditions. ^[3]

KEY:

WR

World Record

GR

Pan American Record

Heats

^[4]

Wind:
Heat 1: +3.4 m/s, Heat 2: +2.8 m/s

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Deby LaPlante	United States	12.97	Q
2	1	Sharon Lane	Canada	13.64	Q
3	2	Cecilia Branch	Canada	13.73	Q
4	2	Candy Young	United States	13.74	Q
5	1	Nancy Vallecilla	Ecuador	13.98	Q
6	2	Grisel Machado	Cuba	14.13	Q
7	1	María Larrazábal	Cuba	14.27	q
8	1	Beatriz Capotosto	Argentina	14.34	q
9	2	Yvonne Neddermann	Argentina	14.44
10	1	Olga Verissimo	Brazil	14.47
11	1	June Caddle	Barbados	14.63
12	2	María Ángeles Cato	Mexico	14.66
13	2	Marisela Peralta	Dominican Republic	14.72

Final

Wind: +3.9 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Deby LaPlante	United States	12.90
	Sharon Lane	Canada	13.56
	Grisel Machado	Cuba	13.60
4	Candy Young	United States	13.67
5	Cecilia Branch	Canada	14.03
6	Beatriz Capotosto	Argentina	14.18
7	Nancy Vallecilla	Ecuador	14.23
8	María Larrazábal	Cuba	14.53

References

1. 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 2019-08-17.
2. Full results
3. Memoria VIII Juegos Deportivos Panamericanos San Juan, Puerto Rico 1979 (PDF) (in Spanish). 1979 Pan American Games Organising Committee (COPAN 79). 1981. p. 260. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-11. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
4. "Heats results". Tampa Bay Times. 13 July 1979. p. 40. Retrieved 12 December 2019.