Athletics at the 1979 Pan American Games – Women's 1500 metres

Women's 1500 metres at the 1979 Pan American Games
Venue	Estadio Sixto Escobar
Dates	13 July
Winning time	4:05.7
Medalists
Mary Decker    United States   Julie Brown    United States   Penny Werthner    Canada
«1975 1983»

The women's 1500 metres sprint competition of the athletics events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place on 13 July at the Estadio Sixto Escobar. ^{[1] [2]} The defending Pan American Games champion was Jan Merrill of the United States.

Records

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

World record	Tatyana Kazankina  (URS)	3:56.0	Podolsk, Soviet Union	June 28, 1976
Pan American Games record	Jan Merrill  (USA)	4:18.32	Mexico City, Mexico	1975

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds. ^[3]

KEY:

WR

World Record

GR

Pan American Record

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Mary Decker	United States	4:05.7	GR
	Julie Brown	United States	4:06.4
	Penny Werthner	Canada	4:14.8
4	Francine Gendron	Canada	4:15.0
5	Alejandra Ramos	Chile	4:24.8
6	Ileana Hocking	Puerto Rico	4:27.3
7	Soraya Vieira	Brazil	4:30.2
8	Carmen Garduño	Mexico	4:40.4
9	Angelita Lind	Puerto Rico	4:40.9
10	Norma Franco	El Salvador	5:02.7
11	Edith Rodríguez	Honduras	5:19.1

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. 259. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-11. Retrieved 2019-08-17.