Athletics at the 1979 Pan American Games – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay explained

Event:	Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
Games:	1979
Caption:	13 & 14 July
Venue:	Estadio Sixto Escobar
Dates:	13 & 14 July
Win Value:	3:03.8
Win Label:	Winning time
Gold:	James Walker, Herman Frazier, Maurice Peoples, Tony Darden
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Ian Stapleton, Floyd Brown, Bert Cameron, Colin Bradford
Silvernoc:	JAM
Bronze:	Frank Montiéh, Carlos Álvarez, Alberto Juantorena, Pedro Tanis
Bronzenoc:	CUB
Prev:	1975
Next:	1983

The men's 4 × 400 metres relay competition of the athletics events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place on 13 and 14 July at the Estadio Sixto Escobar.^{[1] [2]} The defending Pan American Games champion was the United States team.

Records

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

World record		2:56.16	Mexico City, Mexico	October 20, 1968
Pan American Games record		3:00.60	Cali, Colombia	1971

Results

KEY:

WR

World Record

GR

Pan American Record

Heats

Rank	Heat	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	1			3:06.4	Q
2	1			3:09.3	Q
3	1			3:10.1	Q
4	2			3:10.15	Q
5	1			3:12.4	q
6	2			3:14.51	Q
7	2			3:15.5	Q
8	1			3:15.7	q
	2

Final

^[3]

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
		James Walker, Herman Frazier, Maurice Peoples, Tony Darden	3:03.8
		Ian Stapleton, Floyd Brown, Bert Cameron, Colin Bradford	3:04.7
		Frank Montiéh, Carlos Álvarez, Alberto Juantorena, Pedro Tanis	3:06.3
4		Dough Hinds, Frank van Doorn, Glenn Bogue, Bryan Saunders	3:09.2
5		Donizete Araújo, Geraldo José Pegado, Delmo da Silva, Antônio Dias Ferreira	3:10.9
6		Michael Solomon, Raffer Mahammed, Joseph Coombs, Willie Alexander	3:11.6
7		Francisco Solis, Anatalio Ramírez, Gil Fortuna, Rafael Félix	3:14.1
8		Lester Flax, Elroy Turner, Fred Sowerby, Paul Richards	3:14.6

Notes and References

1. Book: Memoria VIII Juegos Deportivos Panamericanos San Juan, Puerto Rico 1979. 1981. es. 1979 Pan American Games Organising Committee (COPAN 79). 197. PDF. 2019-08-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20190811030601/https://www.panamsports.org/downloads/pdf/panamgames/1979-san-juan-tomo-1-lq.pdf. 2019-08-11. dead.
2. http://atfs.org/wp-content/uploads/Pan-Am-Games-1979.pdf Full results
3. Book: Memoria VIII Juegos Deportivos Panamericanos San Juan, Puerto Rico 1979. 1981. es. 1979 Pan American Games Organising Committee (COPAN 79). 252. PDF. 2019-08-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20190811030601/https://www.panamsports.org/downloads/pdf/panamgames/1979-san-juan-tomo-1-lq.pdf. 2019-08-11. dead.