Athletics at the 1979 Pan American Games – Men's 20 kilometres walk

The men's 20 kilometres walk competition of the athletics events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place at the Estadio Sixto Escobar.[1][2] The defending Pan American Games champion was Daniel Bautista of Mexico.

Men's 20 kilometres walk at the VIII Pan American Games
Venue	Estadio Sixto Escobar
Dates	13 July
Winning time	1:28:15
Medalists
Daniel Bautista   Mexico   Neal Pyke   United States   Todd Scully   United States
«1975 1983»

Records

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

World record	Reima Salonen (FIN)	1:21:01	Raisio, Finland	June 6, 1979
Pan American Games record	Ron Laird (USA)	1:33:05	Winnipeg, Canada	1967

Results

[3][4]

KEY:

WR

World Record

GR

Pan American Record

Rank	Name	Nation	Time	Notes
	Daniel Bautista	Mexico	1:28:15	GR
	Neal Pyke	United States	1:30:17
	Clark Scully	United States	1:32:30
4	Santiago Fonseca	Honduras	1:35:20
5	Marcel Jobin	Canada	1:38:42
6	Domingo Colín	Mexico	1:40:02
7	Ernesto Alfaro	Colombia	1:41:30
8	Alexis López	Costa Rica	1:41:33
9	Luis Mendez	Honduras	1:43:43
10	Helmut Bueck	Canada	1:44:55
11	Wilmer Santiago	Puerto Rico	1:47:58
12	Jorge Quiñonez	Colombia	1:50:43
13	Lino Medina	Cuba	1:54:48
	Glen Sweazey	Canada	DNS
	Edgar López	Costa Rica	DNS
	Reinaldo Luces	Venezuela	DNS

References

1. Memoria VIII Juegos Deportivos Panamericanos San Juan, Puerto Rico 1979 (PDF) (in Spanish). 1979 Pan American Games Organising Committee (COPAN 79). 1981. p. 197. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-11. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
2. Full results
3. Memoria VIII Juegos Deportivos Panamericanos San Juan, Puerto Rico 1979 (PDF) (in Spanish). 1979 Pan American Games Organising Committee (COPAN 79). 1981. p. 250. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-11. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
4. Ohio Racewalker (PDF). July 1979. p. 1.