Athletics at the 1979 Pan American Games – Women's long jump explained

Event:	Women's long jump
Games:	1979
Venue:	Estadio Sixto Escobar
Dates:	8 July
Win Value:	6.46
Win Label:	Winning distance
Gold:	Kathy McMillan
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Ana Alexander
Silvernoc:	CUB
Bronze:	Eloína Echevarría
Bronzenoc:	CUB
Prev:	1975
Next:	1983

The women's long jump competition of the athletics events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place on 8 July at the Estadio Sixto Escobar.^[1] The defending Pan American Games champion was Ana Alexander of Cuba.

Records

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

World record		7.09	Prague, Czechoslovakia	August 29, 1978
Pan American Games record		6.63	Mexico City, Mexico	1975

Results

All distances shown are in meters.^[2]

KEY:

WR

World Record

GR

Pan American Record

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Distance	Notes
	Kathy McMillan		6.46
	Ana Alexander		6.31
	Eloína Echevarría		6.27
	Diane Jones-Konihowski		6.10
	Jane Frederick		6.10
	Shonel Ferguson		6.07
	Madeline de Jesús		5.88
	Jillian Ross		5.85
	Jennifer Innis		5.56
10	Yvonne Neddermann		5.54
11	Nancy Valecilla		5.29
	Themis Zambrzycki
	Sharol Henry
	Dorothy Scott
	Sorelli Bohorquez

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. Book: Memoria VIII Juegos Deportivos Panamericanos San Juan, Puerto Rico 1979. 1981. es. 1979 Pan American Games Organising Committee (COPAN 79). 261. 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.