Athletics at the 1991 Pan American Games

The athletics competition at the 1991 Pan American Games was held in Havana, Cuba.

Athletics at the 1991 Pan American Games
Host venue (shown in 2013)
Dates	3–11 August
Host city	Havana, Cuba
Venue	Estadio Panamericano
Level	Senior
Events	43
Participation	434 athletes from 34 nations
← Indianapolis 1987 Mar del Plata 1995 → 1991 Pan American Games

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Robson da Silva  Brazil	10.32	Andre Cason  United States	10.35	Jeff Williams  United States	10.48
200 metres	Robson da Silva  Brazil	20.15	Kevin Little  United States	20.63	Félix Stevens  Cuba	20.76
400 metres	Roberto Hernández  Cuba	44.52	Ian Morris  Trinidad and Tobago	45.24	Jeff Reynolds  United States	45.81
800 metres	Ocky Clark  United States	1:46.91	Terril Davis  United States	1:46.99	Tommy Asinga  Suriname	1:47.24
1500 metres	José Valente  Brazil	3:42.90	Bill Burke  United States	3:43.04	Dan Bertoia  Canada	3:43.71
5000 metres	Arturo Barrios  Mexico	13:34.67	Ignacio Fragoso  Mexico	13:35.83	Antonio Silio  Argentina	13:45.15
10,000 metres	Martín Pitayo  Mexico	29:45.49	Ángel Rodríguez  Cuba	29:54.41	Juan Linares  Cuba	30:09.58
Marathon	Alberto Cuba  Cuba	2:19:27	José Santana  Brazil	2:19:29	Radamés González  Cuba	2:23:05
110 metres hurdles	Cletus Clark  United States	13.71	Alexis Sánchez  Cuba	13.76	Elbert Ellis  United States	13.89
400 metres hurdles	Eronilde Nunes de Araújo  Brazil	49.96	McClinton Neal  United States	50.05	Torrance Zellner  United States	50.21
3000 metres steeplechase	Adauto Domingues  Brazil	8:36.01	Ricardo Vera  Uruguay	8:36.83	Juan Ramón Conde  Cuba	8:37.53
4 × 100 metres relay	Cuba Jorge Aguilera Leandro Peñalver Félix Stevens Joel Lamela	39.08	Canada Everton Anderson Mike Dwyer Peter Ogilvie Donovan Bailey	39.95	U.S. Virgin Islands Derry Pemberton Neville Hodge Keith Smith Kevin Robinson	41.02
4 × 400 metres relay	Cuba Agustín Pavó Héctor Herrera Jorge Valentín Lázaro Martínez	3:01.93	United States Clarence Daniel Quincy Watts Jeff Reynolds Gabriel Luke	3:02.02	Jamaica Michael Anderson Howard Burnett Seymour Fagan Patrick O'Connor	3:02.12
20 kilometres walk	Héctor José Moreno  Colombia	1:24:56	Joel Sánchez Guerrero  Mexico	1:25:45	Marcelo Palma  Brazil	1:26:42
50 kilometres walk	Carlos Mercenario  Mexico	4:03:09	Miguel Ángel Rodríguez  Mexico	4:04:06	Edel Oliva  Cuba	4:16:27
High jump	Javier Sotomayor  Cuba	2.35	Troy Kemp  Bahamas	2.32	Hollis Conway  United States	2.32
Pole vault	Pat Manson  United States	5.50	Doug Wood  Canada	5.35	Ángel Luis García  Cuba	5.20
Long jump	Jaime Jefferson  Cuba	8.26	Llewellyn Starks  United States	8.01	Iván Pedroso  Cuba	7.96
Triple jump	Yoelbi Quesada  Cuba	17.06	Anísio Silva  Brazil	16.72	Wendell Lawrence  Bahamas	16.69
Shot put	Gert Weil  Chile	19.47	Paul Ruiz  Cuba	19.30	C.J. Hunter  United States	19.08
Discus throw	Anthony Washington  United States	65.04	Roberto Moya  Cuba	63.92	Juan Martínez  Cuba	63.52
Hammer throw	Jim Driscoll  United States	72.78	Jud Logan  United States	70.32	René Díaz  Cuba	68.36
Javelin throw	Ramón González  Cuba	79.12	Mike Barnett  United States	77.40	Luis Lucumí  Colombia	77.38
Decathlon	Pedro da Silva  Brazil	7762	Eugenio Balanqué  Cuba	7726	Sheldon Blockburger  United States	7363

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Liliana Allen  Cuba	11.39	Chryste Gaines  United States	11.46	Beverly McDonald  Jamaica	11.52
200 metres	Liliana Allen  Cuba	23.11	Ximena Restrepo  Colombia	23.16	Merlene Frazer  Jamaica	23.48
400 metres	Ana Fidelia Quirot  Cuba	49.61	Ximena Restrepo  Colombia	50.14 AR	Jearl Miles  United States	50.82
800 metres	Ana Fidelia Quirot  Cuba	1:58.71	Alisa Hill  United States	1:59.99	Celeste Halliday  United States	2:01.41
1500 metres	Alisa Hill  United States	4:13.12	Letitia Vriesde  Suriname	4:16.75	Sarah Howell  Canada	4:17.55
3000 metres	Sabrina Dornhoefer  United States	9:16.15	María del Carmen Díaz  Mexico	9:19.05	Carmem de Oliveira  Brazil	9:19.18
10,000 metres	María del Carmen Díaz  Mexico	34:21.13	Lisa Harvey  Canada	34:25.52	María Luisa Servín  Mexico	34:55.94
Marathon	Olga Appell  Mexico	2:43:36	Maribel Durruty  Cuba	2:46:04	Emperatriz Wilson  Cuba	2:48:48
100 metres hurdles	Aliuska López  Cuba	12.99	Odalys Adams  Cuba	13.06	Arnita Myricks  United States	13.23
400 metres hurdles	Lency Montelier  Cuba	57.34	Deon Hemmings  Jamaica	57.54	Tonja Buford  United States	57.81
4 × 100 metres relay	Jamaica Cheryl-Ann Phillips Merlene Frazer Beverly McDonald Dahlia Duhaney	43.79	Cuba Eusebia Riquelme Idalmis Bonne Julia Duporty Liliana Allen	44.31	United States Arnita Myricks Anita Howard LaMonda Miller Chryste Gaines	44.62
4 × 400 metres relay	United States Natasha Kaiser Tasha Downing Maicel Malone Jearl Miles	3:24.21	Cuba Julia Duporty Odalmis Limonta Nancy McLeón Ana Fidelia Quirot	3:24.91	Jamaica Vivienne Spence-Gardner Cathy Rattray-Williams Sandie Richards Inez Turner	3:28.33
10,000 metres walk	Graciela Mendoza  Mexico	46:41.56	Debbi Lawrence  United States	46:51.53	Maricela Chávez  Mexico	47:44.73
High jump	Ioamnet Quintero  Cuba	1.88	María del Carmen García  Cuba	1.85	Jan Wohlschlag  United States	1.80
Long jump	Diane Guthrie-Gresham  Jamaica	6.64	Eloína Echevarría  Cuba	6.60w	Julie Bright  United States	6.53w
Shot put	Belsy Laza  Cuba	18.87	Connie Price-Smith  United States	18.30	Ramona Pagel  United States	17.76
Discus throw	Bárbara Hechevarría  Cuba	63.50	Hilda Ramos  Cuba	63.38	Lacy Barnes  United States	60.32
Javelin throw	Dulce García  Cuba	64.78	Donna Mayhew  United States	58.44	Herminia Bouza  Cuba	56.70
Heptathlon	DeDee Nathan  United States	5778	Sharon Hanson  United States	5770	Magalys García  Cuba	5690

Medal table

Rank	Country				Total
1	Cuba (CUB)	18	12	12	42
2	United States (USA)	9	15	16	40
3	Mexico (MEX)	6	4	2	12
4	Brazil (BRA)	6	2	2	10
5	Jamaica (JAM)	2	1	4	7
6	Colombia (COL)	1	2	1	4
7	Chile (CHI)	1	0	0	1
8	Canada (CAN)	0	3	2	5
9	Suriname (SUR)	0	1	1	2
—	Bahamas (BAH)	0	1	1	2
11	Uruguay (URU)	0	1	0	1
—	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	0	1	0	1
13	Virgin Islands (ISV)	0	0	1	1
—	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1

Participating nations

•  Antigua and Barbuda (ATG) (2)
•  Argentina (ARG) (12)
•  Bahamas (BAH) (8)
•  Barbados (BAR) (6)
•  Belize (BIZ) (7)
•  Bermuda (BER) (8)
•  Bolivia (BOL) (6)
•  Brazil (BRA) (21)
•  British Virgin Islands (IVB) (4)
•  Canada (CAN) (47)
•  Chile (CHI) (9)
•  Colombia (COL) (12)
•  Costa Rica (CRC) (4)
•  Cuba (CUB) (75)
•  Grenada (GRN) (2)
•  Guatemala (GUA) (5)
•  Guyana (GUY) (3)
•  Haiti (HAI) (3)
•  Honduras (HON) (2)
•  Jamaica (JAM) (29)
•  Mexico (MEX) (21)
•  Nicaragua (NCA) (4)
•  Panama (PAN) (3)
•  Paraguay (PAR) (1)
•  Peru (PER) (3)
•  Puerto Rico (PUR) (10)
•  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (VIN) (6)
•  El Salvador (ESA) (2)
•  Suriname (SUR) (2)
•  Trinidad and Tobago (TRI) (10)
•  United States (USA) (84)
•  Virgin Islands (ISV) (10)
•  Uruguay (URU) (7)
•  Venezuela (VEN) (6)

See also

• 1991 in athletics (track and field)

References

• GBR Athletics