Athletics at the 1979 Pan American Games – Women's pentathlon

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Women's pentathlon at the 1979 Pan American Games
Venue Estadio Sixto Escobar
Winning points4605
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
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The women's pentathlon competition of the athletics events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place at the Estadio Sixto Escobar. [1] [2] [3] It was the first edition where the 800 metres was contested instead of the 200 metres as part of the pentathlon. It was actually also pentathlon's last appearance at the Games being replaced by the heptathlon from the next edition.

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Records

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

World record Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Nadyezhda Tkachenko  (URS)4839 Lille, France September 18, 1977
Pan American Games record Flag of the United States.svg  Patty Winslow  (USA)4860 [a] Winnipeg, Canada 1967
  1. Result achieved under different event rules

Results

KEY:WRWorld RecordGRPan American Record
  The highest mark recorded in each event is highlighted in yellow
RankAthleteNationality100m HSPHJLJ800mPointsNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Diane Konihowski Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 14.1815.371.806.202:14.24605
Silver medal icon.svg Jodi Anderson Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 13.7012.281.716.132:10.84434
Bronze medal icon.svg Jill Ross Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 14.3210.191.655.932:11.24112
4 Olga Verissimo Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 14.5411.841.625.222:21.43865
5 Nancy Vallecilla Flag of Ecuador.svg  Ecuador 14.1010.741.565.292:20.03818
6 Yvonne Neddermann Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 14.55w11.271.565.462:21.83815 [4]
7 María Ángeles Cato Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 14.6810.401.655.542:28.03782
8 Elida Aveillé Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba 14.3810.691.655.522:41.03706
9 Margaret de Jesús Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico 15.658.551.444.322:21.43105
Jane Frederick Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 14.0114.521.77DNSDNF
Alix Castillo Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela DNSDNS

References

  1. "Results" . Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  2. "Detailed results". Philadelphia Daily News. 10 July 1979. p. 57. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  3. Full results
  4. Argentine results