Athletics at the 1979 Pan American Games – Women's 800 metres explained

Event:	Women's 800 metres
Games:	1979
Venue:	Estadio Sixto Escobar
Dates:	8 & 9 July
Win Value:	2:01.2
Win Label:	Winning time
Gold:	Essie Kelley
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Julie Brown
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Aurelia Pentón
Bronzenoc:	CUB
Prev:	1975
Next:	1983

The women's 800 metres sprint competition of the athletics events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place on 8 and 9 July at the Estadio Sixto Escobar.^{[1] [2]} The defending Pan American Games champion was Kathy Weston of the United States.

Records

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

World record		1:54.94	Montreal, Canada	July 26, 1976
Pan American Games record		2:02.3	Winnipeg, Canada	1967

Results

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

KEY:

WR

World Record

GR

Pan American Record

Heats

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Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1			2:06.1	Q
2	1			2:06.2	Q
3	1			2:06.6	Q
4	1			2:07.0	q
5	2			2:08.9	Q
6	2			2:09.2	Q
7	1			2:09.3	q
7	2			2:09.3	Q
9	2			2:10.2
10	2			2:13.8
11	2			2:14.3
12	2			2:16.8
13	1			2:33.9
	1

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Essie Kelley		2:01.2	GR
	Julie Brown		2:01.2
	Aurelia Pentón		2:02.1
4	Anne Morelli		2:03.0
5	Nery McKeen		2:05.4
6	Alejandra Ramos		2:06.2
7	Brit Lind		2:06.7
8	Soraya Vieira		2:07.3	NR

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.
4. News: Heats results . 12 December 2019 . . 10 July 1979 . 10.
5. News: Soraia é a única finalista nos 800 . 23 November 2019 . . 9 July 1979 . Portuguese.