Athletics at the 1979 Pan American Games – Men's 50 kilometres walk

International sporting event

Men's 50 kilometres walk at the 1979 Pan American Games

Venue

Dates

8 July

Winning time

4:05:17

Medalists

International sporting event

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 50 kilometres walk competition of the athletics events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place at the Estadio Sixto Escobar.

Records

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

World record	Raúl González (MEX)	3:41:20	Poděbrady, Czechoslovakia	June 11, 1978
Pan American Games record	Larry Young (USA)	4:26:20.8	Winnipeg, Canada	1967

KEY:

World Record

Pan American Record

Rank	Name	Nation	Time	Notes
	Raúl González	Mexico	4:05:17	GR
	Martín Bermúdez	Mexico	4:11:13
	Marco Evoniuk	United States	4:24:23
4	Ernesto Alfaro	Colombia	4:39:36
5	Vince O'Sullivan	United States	4:44:20
6	Nicolás Soto	Puerto Rico	4:51:40
7	Henry Klein	Virgin Islands	5:17:01
	Marcel Jobin	Canada	DNS

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.
Full results
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.

v t e Race walking at the Pan American Games
Men's 10,000 m	1951
Men's 20 km	1951 1955 1959 1963 1967 1971 1975 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023
Men's 50 km	1951 1955 1959 1963 1967 1971 1975 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019
Women's 10,000 m	1951 1955 1959 1963 1967 1971 1975 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995
Women's 20 km	1951 1955 1959 1963 1967 1971 1975 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023
Women's 50 km	1951 1955 1959 1963 1967 1971 1975 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019
Mixed team	1951 1955 1959 1963 1967 1971 1975 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023