Athletics at the 2015 Pan American Games explained

Event:	Athletics
Games:	2015
Venues:	Ontario Place West Channel
Dates:	July 19–26
Competitors:	709
Num Events:	47 (24 men, 23 women)
Nations:	41
Prev:	2011
Next:	2019

Athletics competitions at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto were held from July 19 to 26 at the newly built CIBC Pan Am and Parapan Am Athletics Stadium, located on the campus of York University.^[1] ^[2] The racewalking and marathon events were held on the temporary circuits around the Ontario Place West Channel. The sport of athletics is split into distinct sets of events: track and field events, road running events, and racewalking events.^[3]

Mirroring the Olympic athletics program, both men and women had very similar schedules of events. Men competed in 24 events and women in 23, as their schedule lacks the 50 km race walk. In addition, both the men's 110 m hurdles and decathlon are reflected in the women's schedule by the 100 m hurdles and heptathlon, respectively.^[3]

Competition schedule

The following is the competition schedule for the athletics competitions:^[4]

**Men**
Event↓/Date →	Sun 19	Tue 21	Wed 22		Thu 23		Fri 24		Sat 25	Sun 26
		H	½	F
					H	½	F
			½		F
			½		F
					½		F
									F
		F
							½	F
			½		F
		F
							½		F
							½		F
									F
	F
										F
		Q	F
							F
									F
		F
		F
					F
							F
			F
			F

**Women**
Event↓/Date →	Sat 18	Sun 19	Tue 21		Wed 22		Thu 23		Fri 24	Sat 25
			H		½	F
							H	½	F
					½		F
			½		F
									½	F
			F
							F
			½	F
			½		F
									F
									½	F
									½	F
	F
		F
							Q		F
			F
					F
							F
					F
									F
			F
			F
							F

Medalists

Men's events

100 metres		10.05		10.07		10.09
200 metres		19.88		19.90		19.90
400 metres		44.56		44.70		44.84
800 metres		1:47.19		1:47.23		1:47.73
1500 metres		3:41.41		3:41.66		3:41.79
5000 metres		13:46.47		13:46.60		13:46.94
10,000 metres		28:49.96		28:50.83		28:51.57
110 m hurdles		13.07 GR		13.17		13.21
400 m hurdles		48.51		48.67		48.72
3000 m steeplechase		8:32.18		8:33.83		8:36.83
4 × 100 m relay	BeeJay Lee Wallace Spearmon Kendal Williams Remontay McClain Sean McLean	38.27	Gustavo dos Santos Vítor Hugo dos Santos Bruno de Barros Aldemir da Silva Junior	38.68	Rondel Sorrillo Keston Bledman Emmanuel Callender Dan-Neil Telesford Mikel Thomas	38.69
4 × 400 m relay	Renny Quow Jarrin Solomon Emanuel Mayers Machel Cedenio Jehue Gordon	2:59.60	William Collazo Adrian Chacon Osmaidel Pellicier Yoandys Lescay	2:59.84	Kyle Clemons James Harris Marcus Chambers Kerron Clement Jeshua Anderson	3:00.21
Marathon		2:17:04		2:17:13		2:17:45
20 km walk		1:23:06		1:24:25		1:24:43
50 km walk		3:50:13		3:55:57		3:57:28
High jump		2.37 m		2.31 m		2.28 m
Pole vault		5.80 m =GR		5.75 m		5.40 m
Long jump ^†		8.54 m		8.27 m		8.17 m
Triple jump		17.54 m		16.99 m		16.94 m
Shot put		21.69 m GR,		20.53 m		20.24 m
Discus throw		64.80		64.65		62.64
Hammer throw		75.46 m		74.78 m		73.74 m
Javelin throw		83.27 m		81.62 m		80.94 m
Decathlon		8659 points GR		8269 points		8179 points

Women's events

100 metres		10.95		10.99		11.01
200 metres		22.65		22.72		22.74
400 metres		51.27		51.36		51.50
800 metres			1.59.62			1.59.76	2.00.40
1500 metres			4.09.05			4:09.13	4:10.11
5000 metres		15:45.97		15:47.19		15:52.78
10,000 metres		32:41.33 GR		32:43.99		32:46.03
100 m hurdles		12.52 GR		12.84		12.85
400 m hurdles		55.50		56.17		56.41
3000 m steeplechase		9:48.12 GR		9:49.96		9:53.03
4 × 100 m relay	Barbara Pierre LaKeisha Lawson Morolake Akinosun Kaylin Whitney	42.58 GR		42.68	Crystal Emmanuel Kimberly Hyacinthe Jellisa Westney Khamica Bingham	43.00
4 × 400 m relay	Shamier Little Kyra Jefferson Shakima Wimbley Kendall Baisden Alysia Montaño	3:25.68	Anastasia Le-Roy Verone Chambers Chrisann Gordon Bobby-Gaye Wilkins	3:27.27		3:27.74
Marathon		2:35:40 GR		2:36:30		2:41:06
20 km walk		1:29:24 GR		1:30:08		1:31:53
High jump		1.94 m		1.91 m		1.91 m
Pole vault		4.85 m GR		4.80 m		4.60 m
Long jump		6.90 m		6.69 m		6.66 m
Triple jump		15.08 m		14.50 m		14.38 m
Shot put		18.67 m		18.65 m		18.01 m
Discus throw		65.39 m		64.99 m		61.26 m
Hammer throw		71.61 m		71.22 m		69.51 m
Javelin throw		62.83 m		61.44 m		60.42 m
Heptathlon		6332 points GR		6178 points		6035 points

Participating nations

All 41 participating countries have qualified athletes. The number of athletes a nation has entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.

Qualification

See main article: Athletics at the 2015 Pan American Games – Qualification. A total of 680 athletes will qualify to compete at the games. A nation may enter a maximum of two athletes per event, granted they meet the qualification standard. Qualification times and standards can be set from January 1, 2014, to June 28, 2015. The winner of each event contested at the 2014 Pan American Sports Festival will also qualify. Furthermore, a total of sixteen relay teams per event will qualify as well.^[5]

Notes and References

News: 23 August 2010 . Pan Am Games track goes to York U . . Toronto, Canada . 29 January 2015.
Web site: Competition Schedule . 18 August 2014 . toronto2015.org . . 7 September 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140903164841/http://images.toronto2015.org/system/asset_pdfs/2043/original/pan-am-games-schedule.pdf?1407975204 . 3 September 2014 . dead .
Web site: Athletics . toronto2015.org . . 29 January 2015 . 9 February 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150209011034/http://www.toronto2015.org/athletics . dead .
Web site: Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games Ticket Program Guide . 20 April 2015 . toronto2015.org . . 26 April 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150420184712/http://images.toronto2015.org/system/asset_pdfs/4013/original/pan-am-games-ticket-guide-042015.pdf . 20 April 2015 . dead .
Web site: Athletics Technical Manual . 11 January 2015 . americasathletics.org . . 29 January 2015 . 21 April 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150421101153/http://americasathletics.org/attachments/article/115/CAN%20PANAM%20Games%20Jul2015%20-%20Technical%20Manual%20ENGLISH.pdf . dead .