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Men's 20 kilometres walk at the 1979 Pan American Games
Venue	Estadio Sixto Escobar
Dates	13 July
Winning time	1:28:15
Medalists
Daniel Bautista   Mexico   Neal Pyke   United States   Todd Scully   United States
«1975 1983»

Athletics at the 1979 Pan American Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 20 kilometres walk competition of the athletics events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place at the Estadio Sixto Escobar. The defending Pan American Games champion was Daniel Bautista of Mexico.

Records

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

World record	Reima Salonen (FIN)	1:21:01	Raisio, Finland	June 6, 1979
Pan American Games record	Ron Laird (USA)	1:33:05	Winnipeg, Canada	1967

Results

Rank	Name	Nation	Time	Notes
	Daniel Bautista	Mexico	1:28:15	GR
	Neal Pyke	United States	1:30:17
	Clark Scully	United States	1:32:30
4	Santiago Fonseca	Honduras	1:35:20
5	Marcel Jobin	Canada	1:38:42
6	Domingo Colín	Mexico	1:40:02
7	Ernesto Alfaro	Colombia	1:41:30
8	Alexis López	Costa Rica	1:41:33
9	Luis Mendez	Honduras	1:43:43
10	Helmut Bueck	Canada	1:44:55
11	Wilmer Santiago	Puerto Rico	1:47:58
12	Jorge Quiñonez	Colombia	1:50:43
13	Lino Medina	Cuba	1:54:48
	Glen Sweazey	Canada	DNS
	Edgar López	Costa Rica	DNS
	Reinaldo Luces	Venezuela	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.
4. Ohio Racewalker (PDF). July 1979. p. 1.

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