Athletics at the 1979 Pan American Games – Women's 1500 metres explained

Event:	Women's 1500 metres
Games:	1979
Venue:	Estadio Sixto Escobar
Dates:	13 July
Win Value:	4:05.7
Win Label:	Winning time
Gold:	Mary Decker
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Julie Brown
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Penny Werthner
Bronzenoc:	CAN
Prev:	1975
Next:	1983

The women's 1500 metres sprint competition of the athletics events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place on 13 July at the Estadio Sixto Escobar.^{[1] [2]} The defending Pan American Games champion was Jan Merrill of the United States.

Records

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

World record		3:56.0	Podolsk, Soviet Union	June 28, 1976
Pan American Games record		4:18.32	Mexico City, Mexico	1975

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.^[3]

KEY:

WR

World Record

GR

Pan American Record

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Mary Decker		4:05.7	GR
	Julie Brown		4:06.4
	Penny Werthner		4:14.8
	Francine Gendron		4:15.0
	Alejandra Ramos		4:24.8
	Ileana Hocking		4:27.3
	Soraya Vieira		4:30.2
	Carmen Garduño		4:40.4
	Angelita Lind		4:40.9
10	Norma Franco		5:02.7
11	Edith Rodríguez		5:19.1

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. 2019-08-17. 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). 259. PDF. 2019-08-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20190811030601/https://www.panamsports.org/downloads/pdf/panamgames/1979-san-juan-tomo-1-lq.pdf. 2019-08-11. dead.