Athletics at the 1979 Pan American Games – Men's 50 kilometres walk

The men's 50 kilometres walk competition of the athletics events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place at the Estadio Sixto Escobar.[1] [2]

Men's 50 kilometres walk at the VIII Pan American Games
Venue	Estadio Sixto Escobar
Dates	8 July
Winning time	4:05:17
Medalists
Raúl González   Mexico   Martín Bermúdez   Mexico   Marco Evoniuk   United States
«1971 1983»

Records

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

World record	Raúl González (MEX)	3:41:20	Poděbrady, Czechoslovakia	June 11, 1978
Pan American Games record	Larry Young (USA)	4:26:20.8	Winnipeg, Canada	1967

Results

KEY:

WR

World Record

GR

Pan American Record

Rank	Name	Nation	Time[3]	Notes
	Raúl González	Mexico	4:05:17	GR
	Martín Bermúdez	Mexico	4:11:13
	Marco Evoniuk	United States	4:24:23
4	Ernesto Alfaro	Colombia	4:39:36
5	Vince O'Sullivan	United States	4:44:20
6	Nicolás Soto	Puerto Rico	4:51:40
7	Henry Klein	Virgin Islands	5:17:01
	Marcel Jobin	Canada	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.