Athletics at the 1979 Pan American Games – Men's 50 kilometres walk explained

Event:	Men's 50 kilometres walk
Games:	1979
Venue:	Estadio Sixto Escobar
Dates:	8 July
Win Value:	4:05:17
Win Label:	Winning time
Gold:	Raúl González
Goldnoc:	MEX
Silver:	Martín Bermúdez
Silvernoc:	MEX
Bronze:	Marco Evoniuk
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	1971
Next:	1983

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]}

Records

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

Results

KEY:

WR

World Record

GR

Pan American Record

Rank	Name	Nation	Time^[3]	Notes
	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

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). 250. 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.