Men's 50 kilometres walk at the 1979 Pan American Games | ||||||||||
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Venue | Estadio Sixto Escobar | |||||||||
Dates | 8 July | |||||||||
Winning time | 4:05:17 | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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«1971 1983» |
Athletics at the 1979 Pan American Games | ||
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Track events | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
800 m | men | women |
1500 m | men | women |
3000 m | women | |
5000 m | men | |
10,000 m | men | |
100 m hurdles | women | |
110 m hurdles | men | |
400 m hurdles | men | |
3000 m steeplechase | men | |
4 × 100 m relay | men | women |
4 × 400 m relay | men | women |
Road events | ||
Marathon | men | |
20 km walk | men | |
50 km walk | men | |
Field events | ||
High jump | men | women |
Pole vault | men | |
Long jump | men | women |
Triple jump | men | |
Shot put | men | women |
Discus throw | men | women |
Hammer throw | men | |
Javelin throw | men | women |
Combined events | ||
Pentathlon | women | |
Decathlon | men | |
The men's 50 kilometres walk competition of the athletics events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place at the Estadio Sixto Escobar. [1] [2]
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows:
World record | ![]() | 3:41:20 | Poděbrady, Czechoslovakia | June 11, 1978 |
Pan American Games record | ![]() | 4:26:20.8 | Winnipeg, Canada | 1967 |
KEY: | WR | World Record | GR | Pan American Record |
Rank | Name | Nation | Time [3] | Notes |
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![]() | Raúl González | ![]() | 4:05:17 | GR |
![]() | Martín Bermúdez | ![]() | 4:11:13 | |
![]() | Marco Evoniuk | ![]() | 4:24:23 | |
4 | Ernesto Alfaro | ![]() | 4:39:36 | |
5 | Vince O'Sullivan | ![]() | 4:44:20 | |
6 | Nicolás Soto | ![]() | 4:51:40 | |
7 | Henry Klein | ![]() | 5:17:01 | |
Marcel Jobin | ![]() | DNS |