Athletics at the 2011 Pan American Games

Athletics at the 2011 Pan American Games
Dates	October 23–30
Host city	Guadalajara, Mexico
Venue	Telmex Athletics Stadium
Level	Senior
Events	47
Participation	668 athletes from 39 nations
Records set	14 Games records
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Athletics competitions at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara was held from October 23 to October 30 at the newly built Telmex Athletics Stadium. The racewalking and marathon events were held on the temporary Guadalajara Circuit and Route and the Pan American Marathon circuit respectively.^[1] The sport of athletics is split into distinct sets of events: track and field events, road running events, and racewalking events.

Mirroring the Olympic athletics programme, 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.

As they had done in the 2007 edition, Cuba topped the athletics medal table, taking 18 gold medals and 33 medals in total. The Brazilian team were a clear second with ten golds and 23 medals overall. The hosts Mexico and the United States both won four events each, while Colombia had the third greatest medal haul with seventeen altogether.

Over the seven-day competition, fourteen Pan American Games records were equalled or bettered. Furthermore, two South American records were set: Brazil's Lucimara da Silva broke the heptathlon record and the Brazilian women's 4 × 100 metres relay quartet also improved a continental mark.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Lerone Clarke  Jamaica	10.01 SB	Kim Collins  Saint Kitts and Nevis	10.04	Emmanuel Callender  Trinidad and Tobago	10.16
200 metres details	Roberto Skyers  Cuba	20.37	Lansford Spence  Jamaica	20.38	Bruno de Barros  Brazil	20.45
400 metres details	Nery Brenes  Costa Rica	44.65 NR	Luguelín Santos  Dominican Republic	44.71 NR	Ramon Miller  Bahamas	45.01 SB
800 metres details	Andy González  Cuba	1:45.58 SB	Kléberson Davide  Brazil	1:45.75	Raidel Acea  Cuba	1:46.23
1500 metres details	Leandro de Oliveira  Brazil	3:53.44	Byron Piedra  Ecuador	3:53.45	Eduar Villanueva  Venezuela	3:54.06
5,000 metres details	Juan Luis Barrios  Mexico	14:13.77	Byron Piedra  Ecuador	14:15.74	Joilson da Silva  Brazil	14:16.11
10,000 metres details	Marílson dos Santos  Brazil	29:00.64	Juan Carlos Romero  Mexico	29:41.00	Giovani dos Santos  Brazil	29:51.71
110 m hurdles details	Dayron Robles  Cuba	13.10 GR	Paulo Villar  Colombia	13.27 AR	Orlando Ortega  Cuba	13.30
400 m hurdles details	Omar Cisneros  Cuba	47.99 GR, NR	Isa Phillips  Jamaica	48.82	Félix Sánchez  Dominican Republic	48.85
3000 m steeplechase details	José Peña  Venezuela	8:48.19	Hudson de Souza  Brazil	8:48.75	José Alberto Sánchez  Cuba	8:49.75
4 × 100 m relay details	Brazil Ailson Feitosa Sandro Viana Nilson André Bruno de Barros	38.18 GR	Saint Kitts and Nevis Jason Rogers Antoine Adams Delwayne Delaney Brijesh Lawrence	38.81	United States Calesio Newman Jeremy Dodson Rubin Williams Monzavous Edwards	39.17
4 × 400 m relay details	Cuba Noel Ruíz Raidel Acea Omar Cisneros William Collazo	2:59.43 SB	Dominican Republic Arismendy Peguero Luguelín Santos Yoel Tapia Gustavo Cuesta	3:00.44 NR	Venezuela Arturo Ramírez Alberto Aguilar José Acevedo Omar Longart	3:00.82 NR
Marathon details	Solonei da Silva  Brazil	2:16:37	Diego Colorado  Colombia	2:17:13 PB	Juan Carlos Cardona  Colombia	2:18:20
20 km walk details	Erick Barrondo  Guatemala	1:21:51	James Rendón  Colombia	1:22:46	Luis Fernando López  Colombia	1:22:51
50 km walk details	Horacio Nava  Mexico	3:48.58	José Leyver  Mexico	3:49.16 PB	Jaime Quiyuch  Guatemala	3:50.33 PB
High jump details	Donald Thomas  Bahamas	2.32	Diego Ferrin  Ecuador	2.30 NR	Víctor Moya  Cuba	2.26
Pole vault details	Lázaro Borges  Cuba	5.80 GR	Jeremy Scott  United States	5.60	Giovanni Lanaro  Mexico	5.50
Long jump † details	Daniel Pineda  Chile	7.97	David Registe  Dominica	7.89	Jeremy Hicks  United States	7.83
Triple jump details	Alexis Copello  Cuba	17.21	Yoandri Betanzos  Cuba	16.54	Jefferson Sabino  Brazil	16.51
Shot put details	Dylan Armstrong  Canada	21.30 GR	Carlos Véliz  Cuba	20.76	Germán Lauro  Argentina	20.41 SB
Discus throw details	Jorge Fernández  Cuba	65.58	Jarred Rome  United States	61.71	Ronald Julião  Brazil	61.70
Hammer throw details	Kibwe Johnson  United States	79.63 GR	Michael Mai  United States	72.71	Noleysis Vicet  Cuba	72.57
Javelin throw details	Guillermo Martínez  Cuba	87.20 GR, NR	Cyrus Hostetler  United States	82.24 SB	Braian Toledo  Argentina	79.53 PB
Decathlon details	Leonel Suárez  Cuba	8373 GR	Maurice Smith  Jamaica	8214 SB	Yordani Garcia  Cuba	8074

• ^† : The original long jump winner was Víctor Castillo of Venezuela, but a positive drug test for methylhexaneamine meant he was stripped of his title and given a lifetime ban.^[2]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Rosângela Santos  Brazil	11.22 PB	Barbara Pierre  United States	11.25	Shakera Reece  Barbados	11.26 NR
200 metres details	Ana Cláudia Silva  Brazil	22.76	Simone Facey  Jamaica	22.86 PB	Mariely Sánchez  Dominican Republic	23.02 NR
400 metres details	Jennifer Padilla  Colombia	51.53 PB	Daisurami Bonne  Cuba	51.69 PB	Geisa Coutinho  Brazil	51.87
800 metres details	Adriana Muñoz  Cuba	2:04.08	Gabriela Medina  Mexico	2:04.41 SB	Rosibel García  Colombia	2:04.45
1500 metres details	Adriana Muñoz  Cuba	4:26.09	Rosibel García  Colombia	4:26.78	Malindi Elmore  Canada	4:27.57
5000 metres details	Marisol Romero  Mexico	16:24.08	Cruz da Silva  Brazil	16:29.75	Inés Melchor  Peru	16:41.50
10,000 metres details	Marisol Romero  Mexico	34:07.24	Cruz da Silva  Brazil	34:22.44	Yolanda Caballero  Colombia	34:39.14 PB
100 m hurdles details	Yvette Lewis  United States	12.82	Angela Whyte  Canada	13.09	Lina Flórez  Colombia	13.09
400 m hurdles details	Princesa Oliveros  Colombia	56.26 PB	Lucy Jaramillo  Ecuador	56.95 NR	Yolanda Osana  Dominican Republic	57.08 NR
3000 m steeplechase details	Sara Hall  United States	10:03.16	Ángela Figueroa  Colombia	10:10.14	Sabine Heitling  Brazil	10:10.98
4 × 100 m relay details	Brazil Ana Cláudia Silva Vanda Gomes Franciela Krasucki Rosângela Santos	42.85 AR	United States Kenyanna Wilson Barbara Pierre Yvette Lewis Chastity Riggien	43.10	Colombia Lina Flórez Jennifer Padilla Yomara Hinestroza Norma González	43.44 SB
4 × 400 m relay details	Cuba Aymée Martínez Diosmely Peña Susana Clement Daisurami Bonne	3:28.09	Brazil Joelma Sousa Geisa Coutinho Bárbara de Oliveira Jailma de Lima	3:29.59	Colombia Princesa Oliveros Norma González Evelis Aguilar Jennifer Padilla	3:29.94 NR
Marathon details	Adriana Aparecida da Silva  Brazil	2:36:37 GR	Madaí Pérez  Mexico	2:38:03	Gladys Tejeda  Peru	2:42:09
20 km walk details	Jamy Franco  Guatemala	1:32:38 GR	Mirna Ortiz  Guatemala	1:33:37 PB	Ingrid Hernández  Colombia	1:34:06
High jump details	Lesyani Mayor  Cuba	1.89 SB	Marielys Rojas  Venezuela	1.89 SB	Romary Rifka  Mexico	1.89
Pole vault details	Yarisley Silva  Cuba	4.75 GR	Fabiana Murer  Brazil	4.70	Becky Holliday  United States	4.30
Long jump details	Maurren Maggi  Brazil	6.94 SB	Shameka Marshall  United States	6.73	Caterine Ibargüen  Colombia	6.63 NR
Triple jump details	Caterine Ibargüen  Colombia	14.92 GR	Yargelis Savigne  Cuba	14.36	Mabel Gay  Cuba	14.28
Shot put details	Misleydis González  Cuba	18.57	Cleopatra Borel-Brown  Trinidad and Tobago	18.46 PB	Michelle Carter  United States	18.09
Discus throw details	Yarelys Barrios  Cuba	66.40 GR	Aretha Thurmond  United States	59.53	Denia Caballero  Cuba	58.63
Hammer throw details	Yipsi Moreno  Cuba	75.62 GR	Sultana Frizell  Canada	70.11	Amber Campbell  United States	69.93
Javelin throw details	Alicia DeShasier  United States	58.01 PB	Yainelis Ribeaux  Cuba	56.21	Yanet Cruz  Cuba	56.19
Heptathlon details	Lucimara da Silva  Brazil	6133 AR, PB	Yasmiany Pedroso  Cuba	5844	Francia Manzanillo  Dominican Republic	5710 PB

  *   Host nation (Mexico)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba	18	6	9	33
2	Brazil	10	6	7	23
3	United States	4	8	5	17
4	Mexico*	4	4	2	10
5	Colombia	3	5	9	17
6	Guatemala	2	1	1	4
7	Jamaica	1	4	0	5
8	Canada	1	2	1	4
9	Venezuela	1	1	2	4
10	Bahamas	1	0	1	2
11	Chile	1	0	0	1
	Costa Rica	1	0	0	1
13	Ecuador	0	4	0	4
14	Dominican Republic	0	2	4	6
15	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	2	0	2
16	Trinidad and Tobago	0	1	1	2
17	Dominica	0	1	0	1
18	Argentina	0	0	2	2
	Peru	0	0	2	2
20	Barbados	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		47	47	47	141

A total of 668 athletes from 39 countries were entered in the athletics competition.^[3] A maximum of two participants were allowed per country for each individual event. Nations were able to enter one competitor who had not achieved the minimum standard performance. To register a second competitor, both athletes needed to have achieved the minimum standard performance.^[1]

Day reports

• Robinson, Javier Clavelo (2011-10-24). Guatemala sweeps 20Km Race Walks, da Silva takes Marathon gold - Pan American Games, Day 1. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-31.
• Robinson, Javier Clavelo (2011-10-25). Silva upsets Murer to capture gold, Collins clocks 10.00 Games’ record in semis – Pan American Games, Day 2. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-31.
• Robinson, Javier Clavelo (2011-10-26). Suarez and Armstrong set new records, Clarke outsprints Collins - Pan American Games, Day 3. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-31.
• Robinson, Javier Clavelo (2011-10-27). Brenes improves to 44.65, Maggi sails 6.94m in Guadalajara - Pan American Games, Day 4. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-31.
• Robinson, Javier Clavelo (2011-10-28). Cisneros joins sub-48 club with 47.99, Thompson soars to 2.32m - Pan American Games, Day 5. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-31.
• Robinson, Javier Clavelo (2011-10-29). Robles 13.10, Borges 5.80m and Ibarguen 14.92m in Guadalajara - Pan American Games, Day 6. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-31.
• Robinson, Javier Clavelo (2011-10-31). Nava and da Silva take last athletics titles in Guadalajara as Pan American Games conclude. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-31.

Results

• PAG Guadalajara MEX 23 - 30 October - 16th Pan American Games, Telmex Stadium. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2011-11-02.
• All Athletics Pdfs until 30 of oct at 19:16^{[permanent dead link‍]}. Guadalajara2011. Retrieved on 2012-07-18.

• Official website
• Official athletics results page