Athletics at the 1979 Pan American Games – Men's 5000 metres explained

Event:	Men's 5000 metres
Games:	1979
Venue:	Estadio Sixto Escobar
Dates:	11 July
Win Value:	14:01.0
Win Label:	Winning time
Gold:	Matt Centrowitz
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Herb Lindsay
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Rodolfo Gómez
Bronzenoc:	MEX
Prev:	1975
Next:	1983

The men's 5000 metres sprint competition of the athletics events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place on 11 July at the Estadio Sixto Escobar.^{[1] [2]} The defending Pan American Games champion was Domingo Tibaduiza of Colombia.

Records

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

World record		13:08.4	Berkeley, United States	April 8, 1978
Pan American Games record		13:47.4	Winnipeg, Canada	1967

Results

KEY:

WR

World Record

GR

Pan American Record

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time^[3]	Notes
	Matt Centrowitz		14:01.0
	Herb Lindsay		14:04.1
	Rodolfo Gómez		14:05.0
	Enrique Aquino		14:05.9
	Peter Butler		14:07.6
	Jaime Vélez		14:17.2
	Víctor Mora		14:17.7
	Jorge Monín		14:21.3
	Luis Tipán		14:29.1
10	José Cobo		15:00.5
11	Sergio Gregorio da Silva		15:07.7
12	Luis Aquillón		15:22.5
	Silvio Salazar
	Domingo Tibaduiza
	Errol Drakes
	Michael Fuertado
	Luis Hernández
	Lucirio Garrido
	Víctor Gil

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. 2019-08-15. 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). 250. PDF. 2019-08-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20190811030601/https://www.panamsports.org/downloads/pdf/panamgames/1979-san-juan-tomo-1-lq.pdf. 2019-08-11. dead.