Athletics at the 1995 Pan American Games

The Athletics Competition at the 1995 Pan American Games was held in Mar del Plata, Argentina between 17 and 25 March.

Athletics at the 1995 Pan American Games
Dates	17–25 March
Host city	Mar del Plata, Argentina
Venue	Estadio Atletico "Justo Roman"
Level	Senior
Events	44
Participation	434 athletes from 34 nations
← Havana 1991 Winnipeg 1999 → 1995 Pan American Games

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +3.4 m/s) details	Glenroy Gilbert  Canada	10.21w	Joel Isasi  Cuba	10.23w	André da Silva  Brazil	10.23w
200 metres (wind: +1.1 m/s) details	Iván García  Cuba	20.29	Andrew Tynes  Bahamas	20.33	Sebastián Keitel  Chile	20.55
400 metres details	Norberto Téllez  Cuba	45.38	Omar Mena  Cuba	45.64	Eswort Coombs  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	45.68
800 metres details	José Luíz Barbosa  Brazil	1:46.02	Alain Miranda  Cuba	1:46.88	Brad Sumner  United States	1:47.58
1500 metres details	Joaquim Cruz  Brazil	3:40.26	Terrance Herrington  United States	3:40.97	Jason Pyrah  United States	3:42.34
5000 metres details	Armando Quintanilla  Mexico	13:30.35	Wander do Prado Moura  Brazil	13:45.53	Silvio Guerra  Ecuador	13:52.29
10,000 metres details	Armando Quintanilla  Mexico	28:57.41	Valdenor dos Santos  Brazil	29:04.79	Ronaldo da Costa  Brazil	29:07.68
Marathon details	Benjamín Paredes  Mexico	2:14:44	Mark Coogan  United States	2:15:21	Luiz Carlos da Silva  Brazil	2:15:46
110 metres hurdles (wind: +0.8 m/s) details	Roger Kingdom  United States	13.39	Emilio Valle  Cuba	13.4	Courtney Hawkins  United States	13.54
400 metres hurdles details	Eronilde de Araújo  Brazil	49.29	Everson Teixeira  Brazil	50.24	Llimy Rivas  Colombia	50.37
3000 metres steeplechase details	Wander do Prado Moura  Brazil	8:14.41	Brian Diemer  United States	8:30.58	Dan Reese  United States	8:31.58
4 × 100 metres relay details	Cuba Joel Isasi Joel Lamela Iván García Jorge Aguilera	38.67	United States Dino Napier Ron Clark Robert Reading Wendell Gaskin	39.12	Mexico Jaime Barragán Alejandro Cárdenas Carlos Villaseñor Salvador Miranda	39.77
4 × 400 metres relay details	Cuba Iván García Jorge Crusellas Omar Meña Norberto Téllez	3:01.53	Jamaica Orville Taylor Michael McDonald Roxbert Martin Dennis Blake	3:02.11	Trinidad and Tobago Robert Guy Neil de Silva Hayden Stephen Ian Morris	3:02.24
20 kilometres walk details	Jefferson Pérez  Ecuador	1:22:53	Daniel García  Mexico	1:22:57	Julio René Martínez  Guatemala	1:23:50
50 kilometres walk details	Carlos Mercenario  Mexico	3:47:55	Miguel Rodríguez  Mexico	3:48:22	Julio César Urías  Guatemala	3:49:37 (NR)
High jump details	Javier Sotomayor  Cuba	2.40	Steve Smith  United States	2.29	Gilmar Mayo  Colombia	2.26
Pole vault details	Pat Manson  United States	5.75	Bill Deering  United States	5.60	Alberto Manzano  Cuba	5.40
Long jump details	Iván Pedroso  Cuba	8.50	Jaime Jefferson  Cuba	8.23	Elmer Williams  Puerto Rico	8.00w
Triple jump details	Yoelbi Quesada  Cuba	17.67	Jérôme Romain  Dominica	17.24	Yoel García  Cuba	17.21w
Shot put details	C.J. Hunter  United States	20.52	Jorge Montenegro  Cuba	18.94	Gert Weil  Chile	18.71
Discus throw details	Roberto Moya  Cuba	63.58	Alexis Elizalde  Cuba	62.00	Randy Heisler  United States	60.12
Hammer throw details	Lance Deal  United States	75.64	Alberto Sánchez  Cuba	73.94	Andrés Charadia  Argentina	71.78
Javelin throw details	Emeterio González  Cuba	79.28	Edgar Baumann  Paraguay	78.70	Todd Riech  United States	77.82
Decathlon details	Kip Janvrin  United States	8049	Eugenio Balanqué  Cuba	7948	Alejandro Cárdenas  Mexico	7387

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +4.9 m/s) details	Chryste Gaines  United States	11.05w	Liliana Allen  Cuba	11.16w	Heather Samuel  Antigua and Barbuda	11.33w
200 metres (wind: +0.7 m/s) details	Liliana Allen  Cuba	22.73	Dahlia Duhaney  Jamaica	23.03	Omegia Keeys  United States	23.24
400 metres details	Julia Duporty  Cuba	50.77	Nancy McLeón  Cuba	51.81	Flirtisha Harris  United States	52.51
800 metres details	Meredith Rainey  United States	1:59.44	Luciana Mendes  Brazil	2:01.71	Letitia Vriesde  Suriname	2:02.25
1500 metres details	Sarah Thorsett  United States	4:21.84	Sarah Howell  Canada	4:22.10	Marta Orellana  Argentina	4:22.44
5000 metres details	Adriana Fernández  Mexico	15:46.32	María del Carmen Díaz  Mexico	15:46.43	Carol Montgomery  Canada	15:46.80
10,000 metres details	Carmem de Oliveira  Brazil	33:10.19	Carol Montgomery  Canada	33:13.58	María del Carmen Díaz  Mexico	33:14.94
Marathon details	Maria Trujillo  United States	2:43:56	Jennifer Martin  United States	2:44:10	Emma Cabrera  Mexico	2:46:36
100 metres hurdles (wind: +2.1 m/s) details	Aliuska López  Cuba	12.68w	Donalda Duprey  Canada	13.16w	Odalys Adams  Cuba	13.17w
400 metres hurdles details	Kim Batten  United States	54.74	Tonja Buford  United States	55.05	Lency Montelier  Cuba	55.74
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States Shantel Twiggs Richelle Webb Flirtisha Harris Chryste Gaines	43.55	Cuba Miriam Ferrer Aliuska López Dainelky Pérez Liliana Allen	44.08	Colombia Elia Mera Felipa Palacios Patricia Rodríguez Mirtha Brock	44.10
4 × 400 metres relay details	Cuba Surella Morales Nancy McLeón Idalmis Bonne Julia Duporty	3:27.45	United States Tonya Williams Terri Dendy Flirtisha Harris Crystal Irving	3:31.22	Colombia Patricia Rodríguez Elia Mera Mirtha Brock Felipa Palacios	3:38.54
10,000 metres walk details	Graciela Mendoza  Mexico	46:31.9	Michelle Rohl  United States	46:36.5	Francisca Martínez  Mexico	47:44.8
High jump details	Ioamnet Quintero  Cuba	1.94	Silvia Costa  Cuba	1.91	Angela Bradburn  United States	1.91
Long jump details	Niurka Montalvo  Cuba	6.89	Andrea Ávila  Argentina	6.52	Jackie Edwards  Bahamas	6.50
Triple jump details	Laiza Carrillo  Cuba	14.09	Niurka Montalvo  Cuba	13.90w	Andrea Ávila  Argentina	13.84w
Hammer Throw details	Alexandria Given  United States	58.92	Eugenia Villmizar  Colombia	56.14	Sonja Fitts  United States	56.06
Shot put details	Connie Price-Smith  United States	19.17	Ramona Pagel  United States	18.50	Yumileidi Cumbá  Cuba	18.47
Javelin Throw details	Xiomara Rivero  Cuba	63.92	Laverne Eve  Bahamas	61.28	Valerie Tulloch  Canada	60.58
Discus throw details	Maritza Martén  Cuba	61.22	Bárbara Hechevarría  Cuba	60.20	Kris Kuehl  United States	56.92

Medal table

Place	Nation				Total
1	Cuba	18	15	5	38
2	United States	13	11	11	35
3	Mexico	6	3	5	14
4	Brazil	5	4	3	12
5	Canada	1	3	2	6
6	Ecuador	1	0	1	2
7	Bahamas	0	2	1	3
8	Jamaica	0	2	0	2
9	Argentina	0	1	3	4
10	Paraguay	0	1	0	1
	Dominica	0	1	0	1
12	Colombia	0	1	4	5
13	Guatemala	0	0	2	2
	Chile	0	0	2	2
15	Antigua and Barbuda	0	0	1	1
	Trinidad and Tobago	0	0	1	1
	Puerto Rico	0	0	1	1
	Suriname	0	0	1	1
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0	0	1	1
Total		44	44	44	132

Participating nations

•  Antigua and Barbuda (2)
•  Argentina (66)
•  Bahamas (7)
•  Barbados (3)
•  Belize (2)
•  Bermuda (2)
•  Bolivia (5)
•  Brazil (29)
•  Canada (27)
•  Chile (11)
•  Colombia (13)
•  Costa Rica (1)
•  Cuba (56)
•  Dominica (8)
•  Ecuador (8)
•  Grenada (5)
•  Guatemala (6)
•  Guyana (1)
•  Haiti (1)
•  Jamaica (16)
•  Mexico (30)
•  Nicaragua (2)
•  Paraguay (9)
•  Peru (4)
•  Puerto Rico (9)
•  Saint Kitts and Nevis (8)
•  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1)
•  El Salvador (1)
•  Suriname (2)
•  Trinidad and Tobago (9)
•  United States (81)
•  Virgin Islands (3)
•  Uruguay (2)
•  Venezuela (4)