Event: | Men's shot put |
Games: | 1979 |
Venue: | Estadio Sixto Escobar |
Dates: | 7 July |
Win Value: | 20.22 |
Win Label: | Winning distance |
Gold: | Dave Laut |
Goldnoc: | USA |
Silver: | Bishop Dolegiewicz |
Silvernoc: | CAN |
Bronze: | Bruno Pauletto |
Bronzenoc: | CAN |
Prev: | 1975 |
Next: | 1983 |
The men's shot put competition of the athletics events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place at the Estadio Sixto Escobar.[1] [2] The defending Pan American Games champion was Bruce Pirnie of Canada.
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows:
World record | 22.15 | Gothenburg, Sweden | July 6, 1978 | ||
Pan American Games record | 19.83 | Winnipeg, Canada | 1967 |
All distances shown are in meters.[3]
KEY: | WR | World Record | GR | Pan American Record |
Rank | Name | Nationality | Distance | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dave Laut | 20.22 | GR | |||
Bishop Dolegiewicz | 19.67 | ||||
Bruno Pauletto | 19.61 | ||||
Al Feuerbach | 18.86 | ||||
Luis Delís | 18.21 | ||||
Nicolás Hernández | 16.37 | ||||
Radai Mendoza | 16.17 | ||||
Bradley Cooper | 15.37 | ||||
Pedro Serrano | 15.30 | ||||
10 | Gert Weil | 15.06 | |||
José Carreño | |||||
Jesús Ramos |