Athletics at the 1979 Pan American Games – Women's pentathlon explained

The women's pentathlon competition of the athletics events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place at the Estadio Sixto Escobar.^{[1] [2] [3]} It was the first edition where the 800 metres was contested instead of the 200 metres as part of the pentathlon. It was actually also pentathlon's last appearance at the Games being replaced by the heptathlon from the next edition.

Records

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

World record		4839	Lille, France	September 18, 1977
Pan American Games record		4860	Winnipeg, Canada	1967

Results

KEY:

WR

World Record

GR

Pan American Record

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	100m H	SP	HJ	LJ	800m	Points	Notes
			14.18	15.37	1.80	6.20	2:14.2	4605
			13.70	12.28	1.71	6.13	2:10.8	4434
			14.32	10.19	1.65	5.93	2:11.2	4112
			14.54	11.84	1.62	5.22	2:21.4	3865
			14.10	10.74	1.56	5.29	2:20.0	3818
			14.55w	11.27	1.56	5.46	2:21.8	3815	[4]
			14.68	10.40	1.65	5.54	2:28.0	3782
			14.38	10.69	1.65	5.52	2:41.0	3706
			15.65	8.55	1.44	4.32	2:21.4	3105
			14.01	14.52	1.77

Notes and References

1. Web site: Results . 23 November 2019.
2. News: Detailed results . 30 December 2019 . . 10 July 1979 . 57.
3. http://atfs.org/wp-content/uploads/Pan-Am-Games-1979.pdf Full results
4. https://web.archive.org/web/20081203003345/http://www.cada-atletismo.org/enlospan.pdf Argentine results