Athletics at the 2007 Pan American Games

The athletics competition at the 2007 Pan American Games was held at the Flamengo Park and Estádio Olímpico João Havelange in Rio de Janeiro between 22 July and 29 July 2007. In the 47 events that took place, thirteen Games records in athletics were equalled or beaten at the 2007 edition.

Athletics at the
2007 Pan American Games
The main stadium during the 2007 Games
Dates22 – 29 July
Host cityRio de Janeiro, Brazil
VenueEstádio Olímpico João Havelange
Flamengo Park
LevelSenior
Events47
Participation627 athletes from
41 nations
Records set13 Games records


Cuba fielded its best athletes and easily topped the medal table, winning twelve gold medals and also having the greatest medal haul overall with a total of 30. The hosts, Brazil, took second place on the table having won nine golds and 23 medals overall. The United States – continuing its tradition of fielding a far from full strength squad – had its worst performance ever in the Pan American athletics competition. With six golds for third place, it finished outside the top two for the first time in Games history (although its medal total of 24 was one greater than second-placed Brazil). Canada and Mexico were the next most successful nations, placing fourth and fifth in the medal tally, respectively.

Medal summary

Key:
WR World record AR Area record GR Games record NR National record PB Athlete's personal best

Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
Churandy Martina
 Netherlands Antilles
10.15 Darvis Patton
 United States
10.17 Brendan Christian
 Antigua and Barbuda
10.26
200 metres
Brendan Christian
 Antigua and Barbuda
20.37 Marvin Anderson
 Jamaica
20.38 Rubin Williams
 United States
20.57
400 metres
Chris Brown
 Bahamas
44.85 Tyler Christopher
 Canada
45.05 Chris Lloyd
 Dominica
45.40
800 metres
Yeimer López
 Cuba
1:44.58 GR PB Kléberson Davide
 Brazil
1:45.47 Fabiano Peçanha
 Brazil
1:45.54
1500 metres
Hudson de Souza
 Brazil
3:36.32 GR PB Juan Barrios
 Mexico
3:37.71 Byron Piedra
 Ecuador
3:37.88 NR
5000 metres
Ed Moran
 United States
13:25.60 GR PB Juan Barrios
 Mexico
13:29.87 Marílson Gomes dos Santos
 Brazil
13:30.87
10,000 metres
José David Galván
 Mexico
28:08.74 GR PB Marílson Gomes dos Santos
 Brazil
28:09.30 Alejandro Suárez
 Mexico
28:09.95
Marathon
Franck de Almeida
 Brazil
2:14:03 José Amado García
 Guatemala
2:14:27 Procopio Franco
 Mexico
2:15:18
3000 metres steeplechase
Joshua McAdams
 United States
8:30.49 Michael Spence
 United States
8:32.11 José Alberto Sánchez
 Cuba
8:36.07
110 metres hurdles
Dayron Robles
 Cuba
13.25 David Payne
 United States
13.43 Yoel Hernández
 Cuba
13.50
400 metres hurdles
Adam Kunkel
 Canada
48.24 Bayano Kamani
 Panama
48.70 LaRon Bennett
 United States
49.07
4 x 100 m relay
 Brazil
Vicente Lenilson,
Rafael Ribeiro,
Basílio de Moraes,
Sandro Viana
38.81  Canada
Richard Adu-Bobie,
Anson Henry,
Jared Connaughton,
Bryan Barnett
38.87  United States
J-Mee Samuels,
Rae Edwards,
Rubin Williams,
Darvis Patton
38.88
4 x 400 m relay
 Bahamas
Andrae Williams,
Avard Moncur,
Michael Matheau,
Chris Brown
3:01.94  United States
Greg Nixon,
Jamaal Torrance,
LaRon Bennett,
David Neville
3:02.44  Dominican Republic
Carlos Santa
Arismendy Peguero
Yoel Tapia
Félix Sánchez
3:02.48
20 km race walk
Jefferson Pérez
 Ecuador
1:22:08 Rolando Saquipay
 Ecuador
1:23:28 Gustavo Restrepo
 Colombia
1:24:51
50 km race walk
Xavier Moreno
 Ecuador
3:52:07 Horacio Nava
 Mexico
3:52:35 Omar Zepeda
 Mexico
3:56:04
High jump
Víctor Moya
 Cuba
2.32 m Donald Thomas
 Bahamas
2.30 m James Grayman
 Antigua and Barbuda
2.24 m
Pole vault
Fábio Gomes da Silva
 Brazil
5.40 m Giovanni Lanaro
 Mexico
5.30 m Germán Chiaraviglio
 Argentina
5.20 m
Long jump
Irving Saladino
 Panama
8.28 m Wilfredo Martínez
 Cuba
7.92 m Bashir Ramzy
 United States
7.90 m
Triple jump
Jadel Gregório
 Brazil
17.27 m Osniel Tosca
 Cuba
16.92 m Yoandri Betanzos
 Cuba
16.90 m
Shot put
Dylan Armstrong
 Canada
20.10 m Dorian Scott
 Jamaica
20.06 m Carlos Véliz
 Cuba
19.75 m
Discus throw
Michael Robertson
 United States
59.24 m Adam Kuehl
 United States
57.50 m Dariusz Slowik
 Canada
57.37 m
Hammer throw
James Steacy
 Canada
73.77 m Kibwe Johnson
 United States
73.23 m Juan Ignacio Cerra
 Argentina
72.12 m
Javelin throw
Guillermo Martínez
 Cuba
77.66 m Mike Hazle
 United States
75.33 m Alexon Maximiano
 Brazil
75.04 m
Decathlon
 
Maurice Smith
 Jamaica
8278 GR PB Yordanis García
 Cuba
8113 Carlos Chinin
 Brazil
7977

Women's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
Mikele Barber
 United States
11.02 GR PB Mechelle Lewis
 United States
11.24 Chandra Sturrup
 Bahamas
11.29
200 metres
Roxana Díaz
 Cuba
22.90 Sheri-Ann Brooks
 Jamaica
22.92 Sherry Fletcher
 Grenada
22.96
400 metres
Ana Guevara
 Mexico
50.34 Christine Amertil
 Bahamas
50.99 Indira Terrero
 Cuba
51.09
800 metres
Diane Cummins
 Canada
1:59.75 Rosibel García
 Colombia
2:00.02 Zulia Calatayud
 Cuba
2:00.34
1500 metres
Juliana Paula dos Santos
 Brazil
4:13.36 Mary Jayne Harrelson
 United States
4:15.24 Rosibel García
 Colombia
4:15.78
(NR)
5000 metres
Megan Metcalfe
 Canada
15:35.78 Catherine Ferrell
 United States
15:42.01 Leticia Rocha de la Cruz
 Mexico
15:43.80
10,000 metres
Sara Slattery
 United States
32:54.11 GR PB Maria Rodriguez de la Cruz
 Mexico
32:56.75 Lucélia Peres
 Brazil
33:19.48
Marathon
Mariela González
 Cuba
2:43:11 Márcia Narloch
 Brazil
2:45:10 Sirlene Pinho
 Brazil
2:47:36
3000 metres steeplechase
Sabine Heitling
 Brazil
9:51.13 GR PB Talis Apud
 Mexico
9:55.43
(NR)
Zenaide Vieira
 Brazil
9:55.71
100 metres hurdles
Delloreen Ennis-London
 Jamaica
12.65 GR PB Perdita Felicien
 Canada
12.65 GR Angela Whyte
 Canada
12.72
400 metres hurdles
Sheena Johnson
 United States
54.64 Nickiesha Wilson
 Jamaica
54.91 Nicole Leach
 United States
54.97
4 x 100 m relay
 Jamaica
Sheri-Ann Brooks
Tracy-Ann Rowe
Aleen Bailey
Peta-Gaye Dowdie
43.58  United States
Shareese Woods
Mechelle Lewis
Alexis Weatherspoon
Mikele Barber
43.62  Cuba
Virgen Benavides
Roxana Díaz
Misleidys Lazo
Anay Tejeda
43.80
4 x 400 m relay
 Cuba
Aymée Martínez
Daimy Pernia
Zulia Calatayud
Indira Terrero
3:27.51  Mexico
Maria Teresa Rugerio
Gabriela E. Medina
Zudykey Rodriguez
Ana Guevara
3:27.75  United States
Debbie Dunn
Angel Perkins
Latonia Wilson
Nicole Leach
3:27.84
20 km race walk
Cristina Lopez
 El Salvador
1:38:59 Miriam Ramón
 Ecuador
1:40:03 Maria Sanchez
 Mexico
1:41:47
High jump
Romary Rifka
 Mexico
1.95 m PB Nicole Forrester
 Canada
1.95 m Levern Spencer
 Saint Lucia
1.87 m
Pole vault
Fabiana Murer
 Brazil
4.60 m GR PB April Steiner
 United States
4.40 m Yarisley Garcia
 Cuba
4.30 m
Long jump
Maurren Higa Maggi
 Brazil
6.84 m Keila Costa
 Brazil
6.73 m Yargelis Savigne
 Cuba
6.66 m
Triple jump
Yargelis Savigne
 Cuba
14.80 m GR PB Keila Costa
 Brazil
14.38 m Mabel Gay
 Cuba
14.26 m
Shot put
Misleydis González
 Cuba
18.83 m Yumileidi Cumbá
 Cuba
18.28 m Cleopatra Borel-Brown
 Trinidad and Tobago
18.22 m
Discus throw
Yarelis Barrios
 Cuba
61.72 m Yania Ferrales
 Cuba
61.71 m Elisângela Adriano
 Brazil
60.27 m
Hammer throw
Yipsi Moreno
 Cuba
75.20 m GR PB Arasay Thondike
 Cuba
68.70 m Jennifer Dahlgren
 Argentina
68.37 m
Javelin throw
Osleidys Menéndez
 Cuba
62.34 m Sonia Bisset
 Cuba
60.68 m Laverne Eve
 Bahamas
58.10 m
Heptathlon
Jessica Zelinka
 Canada
6136 Gretchen Quintana
 Cuba
6000 Lucimara da Silva
 Brazil
5873

Medal table

Fabiana Murer en route to a pole vault Games record
Franck de Almeida winning the men's marathon for Brazil
Márcia Narloch and Sirlene Pinho with their marathon medals

  *   Host nation (Brazil)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Cuba (CUB)1281030
2 Brazil (BRA)*95923
3 United States (USA)612624
4 Canada (CAN)64212
5 Mexico (MEX)37515
6 Jamaica (JAM)3407
7 Bahamas (BAH)2226
8 Ecuador (ECU)2215
9 Panama (PAN)1102
10 Antigua and Barbuda (ANT)1023
11 El Salvador (ESA)1001
 Netherlands Antilles (AHO)1001
13 Colombia (COL)0123
14 Guatemala (GUA)0101
15 Argentina (ARG)0033
16 Dominica (DMA)0011
 Dominican Republic (DOM)0011
 Grenada (GRN)0011
 Saint Lucia (LCA)0011
 Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)0011
Totals (20 nations)474747141

Participating nations

See also

References

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