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

Event:	Men's decathlon
Games:	1979
Venue:	Estadio Sixto Escobar
Dates:	12 & 13 July
Win Value:	8078
Win Label:	Winning result
Gold:	Bobby Coffman
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Tito Steiner
Silvernoc:	ARG
Bronze:	Zenon Smiechowski
Bronzenoc:	CAN
Prev:	1975
Next:	1983

The men's decathlon competition of the athletics events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place on 12 and 13 July at the Estadio Sixto Escobar.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

Records

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

World record		8634	Montreal, Canada	July 30, 1976
Pan American Games record		8045	Mexico City, Mexico	October 1975

Results

KEY:

WR

World Record

GR

Pan American Record

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	100m	LJ	SP	HJ	400m	110m H	DT	PV	JT	1500m	Points	Notes
			10.61	7.05	15.63	1.94	49.11	13.96w	47.10	4.20	52.04	4:42.1	8078	GR
			11.28w	7.27	14.64	1.91	50.31	15.56w	44.04	4.60	57.50	4:53.0	7638
			11.26w	6.80	14.37	1.97	52.33	16.28w	42.80	3.80	61.68	5:00.7	7337
4			11.75w	6.61	12.80	1.91	53.12	16.12w	40.60	4.40	52.92	4:38.9	7021
5			11.05	6.83	11.44	1.82	50.37	16.01w	30.00	3.70	48.16	4:46.6	6669
			11.09	7.32	14.72	1.97	51.11	14.71w	46.14
			11.02	6.85	11.85	1.94	48.72	16.14	35.40					^[7]
			11.34	7.18	11.15	2.03	50.78	16.03w	34.50
			11.55	6.55	11.94	1.91	52.52	16.19	35.40
			11.43	6.47	12.02		53.76	17.34	37.08
			11.10	7.06	12.91	1.73
			11.14	5.84	11.84

Notes and References

1. Web site: Results . 23 November 2019.
2. News: Results . 12 December 2019 . . 14 July 1979 . 36.
3. News: Day 1 results . 30 December 2019 . 13 Jul 1979 . 25.
4. News: Day 2 results . 30 December 2019 . . 14 July 1979 . 11.
5. https://www.decathlon2000.com/upload/file/pdf/rpt10M1979.pdf 1979 results
6. http://atfs.org/wp-content/uploads/Pan-Am-Games-1979.pdf Full results
7. News: Dia foi salvo pelo revezamento 4 x 400 . 24 November 2019 . . 14 July 1979 . 23 . Portuguese.