Athletics at the 2003 Pan American Games
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The athletics competition at the 2003 Pan American Games
2003 Pan American Games
The 14th Pan American Games were held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from 1 to 17 August 2003. The successful bid for the games was made in the mid-1990s, when this country had one of the highest growth rates in Latin America....

was held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic from Tuesday August 5 to Saturday August 9, 2003
2003 in athletics (track and field)
This article contains an overview of the sport of athletics, including track and field, cross country and road running, in the year 2003.The foremost competition of the year was the 2003 World Championships in Athletics, followed by the 2003 IAAF World Indoor Championships...

. The competition comprised track and field
Track and field
Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

 events plus marathon
Marathon
The marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres , that is usually run as a road race...

 races and three racewalking events, with a total of 46 contests taking place.

Track

100 m
 
Michael Frater
Michael Frater
Michael Frater O.D is a sprinter who specialises in the 100 metres event. He won a silver medal at the 2005 World Championships and a gold medal at the 2003 Pan American Games for the event....

 
 Jamaica
10.21 Mardy Scales
Mardy Scales
Marcellus Andrellious "Mardy" Scales is an American sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.He won a silver medal at the 2003 Pan American Games...

 
 United States
10.22 Anson Henry
Anson Henry
Anson Henry is a Canadian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres. He was born in Toronto, Ontario. His personal best time is 10.12 seconds, achieved in May 2006 in Doha...

 
 Canada
10.30
Wind: +0.7
200 m
 
Kenneth Brokenburr
Kenneth Brokenburr
Kenneth Brokenburr is a former American sprinter. He won an Olympic gold medal as part of the 4x100 meter relay team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.-Early life:...

 
 United States
20.42 Christopher Williams 
 Jamaica
20.54 André da Silva
André da Silva
André Domingos da Silva is a Brazilian athlete who competed mainly in the 100 and 200 metres....

 
 Brazil
20.68
Wind: +0.6
400 m
 
Mitch Potter
Mitch Potter
Mitchell "Mitch" Potter is a male American track and field athlete, who competes in the sprints events, primarily the 400 metres. He is best known for winning the men's 400 metres event at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo...

 
 United States
45.11 Yeimer López
Yeimer López
Yeimer López García is a middle distance runner from Cuba, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2004. He is best known for winning the gold medal in the men's 800 metres at the 2007 Pan American Games in Brazil. López is the twin brother of female...

 
 Cuba
45.13 Alleyne Francique
Alleyne Francique
Alleyne Jeremy Francique is a retired Grenadian athlete who specialized in 400 metres, his personal best being 44.47 seconds set in 2004. He is the 400m two time world indoor champion in 2004 and 2006....

 
 Grenada
45.51
800 m
 
Achraf Tadili
Achraf Tadili
Achraf Tadili is a Canadian athlete competing over 800 metres. He was born in Casablanca, Morocco.-Achievements:-External links:**...

 
 Canada
1:45.05 Osmar dos Santos
Osmar dos Santos
Osmar Barbosa dos Santos is a Brazilian middle distance runner who competes mostly over 800 metres. He started competing internationally around year 2000, and won a bronze medal at the 2004 World Indoor Championships....

 
 Brazil
1:45.64 Fabiano Peçanha
Fabiano Peçanha
Fabiano Peçanha is a Brazilian middle distance runner. He is a quadruple South American champion in 800 metres and 1500 metres.-Achievements:-External links:...

 
 Brazil
1:46.39
1500 m
 
Hudson de Souza
Hudson de Souza
Hudson Santos de Souza is a Brazilian middle distance runner who competes mostly over 1500 metres. He has broken a number of South American records in middle-distance events....

 
 Brazil
3:45.72 Michael Stember
Michael Stember
Michael Stember is a male track and field athlete from the United States, who is known for competing in the middle distance events. His first international competition was winning the gold medal in the 1500 metres at the 1997 Pan American Junior Championships...

 
 United States
3:46.31 Grant Robison
Grant Robison
Grant Robison is a male track and field athlete from the United States, who competed in the middle distance events. He competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He won the bronze medal in the men's 1,500 metres at the 2003 Pan American Games. He ran for the Stanford University.-References:*...

 
 United States
3:46.68
5000 m
 
Hudson de Souza
Hudson de Souza
Hudson Santos de Souza is a Brazilian middle distance runner who competes mostly over 1500 metres. He has broken a number of South American records in middle-distance events....

 
 Brazil
13:50.71 José David Galván 
 Mexico
13:52.92 Marílson dos Santos 
 Brazil
13:56.90
10,000 m
 
Teodoro Vega
Teodoro Vega
Teodoro Vega Morales is a Mexican long-distance runner who specializes in the 10,000 metres. He has not competed on top level since the 2009 season.-Achievements:-Personal bests:...

 
 Mexico
28:49.38 Marílson dos Santos 
 Brazil
28:49.48 Dan Browne
Dan Browne
Daniel J. Browne is a United States distance runner, who as won numerous major American road race championships and was a member of the 2004 Olympic team in the 10 km and marathon.-Education:...

 
 United States
29:06.23
Marathon
Marathon
The marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres , that is usually run as a road race...


 
Vanderlei de Lima
Vanderlei de Lima
Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima is a former long-distance runner who specialised in marathons. He received international renown after a spectator, a laicized Irish priest, attacked him at the 2004 Summer Olympics marathon while he was leading the race at 35 km...

 
 Brazil
2:19:08 Bruce Deacon
Bruce Deacon
Bruce William Deacon is a former Canadian long-distance runner. Deacon competed in the marathon at the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics. Deacon was the first two-time winner and is currently the only three-time winner of the California International Marathon...

 
 Canada
2:20:35 Diego Colorado
Diego Colorado
Diego Alberto Colorado is a male long-distance runner from Colombia. In October 2011, he won the silver medal in the men's marathon event at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, clocking a total time of 2:17.13, behind Brazil's Solonei Silva and before the bronze winner, fellow...

 
 Colombia
2:21:48
3000 m steeplechase
 
Néstor Nieves
Néstor Nieves
Néstor Francisco Nieves is a retired middle- and long-distance runner from Venezuela. He won the gold medal in the men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Nieves represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta,...

 
 Venezuela
8:34.26 Joël Bourgeois
Joël Bourgeois
Joël Denis Bourgeois is a middle- and long-distance runner competing for Canada. He won the gold medal for Canada in the men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada...

 
 Canada
8:36.78 Anthony Famiglietti
Anthony Famiglietti
Anthony Famiglietti is an American track and field athlete who competes professionally for Reckless Running. He was formerly sponsored by Adidas. He has competed for the U.S...

 
 United States
8:40.22
110 m hurdles
110 metres hurdles
The 110 metres hurdles is a hurdling track and field event for men. It is incuded in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympic Games. The female counterpart is the 100 metre hurdles. As part of a racing event, ten hurdles of 1.067 metres in height are evenly spaced along a straight...


 
Yuniel Hernández
Yuniel Hernández
Yuniel Hernández Solar is a Cuban hurdler.His personal best time is 13.26 seconds, achieved in July 2001 in Salamanca when he was still only 20 years old. The result places him sixth among Cuban 110 m hurdlers, behind Anier García, Dayron Robles, Emilio Valle, Alejandro Casañas and Yoel...

 
 Cuba
13.35 Larry Wade
Larry Wade
Larry Wade is an American track and field athlete who specializes in the 110 metres hurdles. His personal best is a time of 13.01 seconds, achieved in July 1999 in Lausanne. As a 2000 Olympic Hopeful, Wade had heart surgery. Between July 2004 and July 2006, Wade was suspended for USADA Doping...

 
 United States
13.35 Márcio de Souza
Márcio de Souza
Márcio Simão de Souza is a Brazilian hurdler who specializes in the 110 metres hurdles.He finished fifth at the 2003 World Championships in Paris and won a bronze medal at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo.His personal best time is 13.38 seconds, achieved in June 1999 in Rio de...

 
 Brazil
13.45
Wind: -0.2
400 m hurdles
400 metres hurdles
The 400 metres hurdles is an Olympic athletics event in track and field. On a standard outdoor track 400 metres is the length of the inside lane once around the stadium. Runners stay in their lane the entire way after starting out of the blocks and must clear ten hurdles that are evenly...


 
Félix Sánchez
Felix Sanchez
Félix Sánchez —nicknamed Super Felix, the Invincible and the Dictator— is a track and field athlete from New York City, United States who competes for The Dominican Republic...

 
 Dominican Republic
48.19 Eric Thomas
Eric Thomas (athlete)
Eric Ashley Thomas is a male hurdler from the United States, who represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia...

 
 United States
48.74 Dean Griffiths
Dean Griffiths
Dean Horace Griffiths is a male hurdler from Jamaica, who represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. He set his personal best while winning the men's 400m hurdles at the NCAA Championship on June 13, 2003 in Sacramento, California and help Auburn University to a...

 
 Jamaica
49.35
20 km race walk
 
Jefferson Pérez
Jefferson Pérez
Jefferson Leonardo Pérez Quezada is a retired Ecuadorian race walker. He specializes in the 20 km event, in which he has won the only two medals his country has ever achieved in the Olympic Games....

 
 Ecuador
1:23:06 Bernardo Segura
Bernardo Segura
Bernardo Segura Rivera is a Mexican race walker.He is a former holder of the 20,000m World Record for Race Walking with a time of 1:17:25.6....

 
 Mexico
1:23:31 Alejandro López
Alejandro López
Alejandro López is a Mexican race walker.-Achievements:-External links:...

 
 Mexico
1:24:33
50 km race walk
 
Germán Sánchez 
 Mexico
4:05:01 Mário dos Santos
Mário dos Santos
Mário José dos Santos Júnior is a male race walker from Brazil. He competed for his native country in two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2004 .-Achievements:-References:*...

 
 Brazil
4:07:36 Luis Fernando García
Luis Fernando García
Luis Fernando García Bechinie is a male race walker from Guatemala. He competed for his native country in four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 .-Achievements:-References:*...

 
 Guatemala
4:12:14
4 × 100 m relay
4 x 100 metres relay
The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners begin in the same stagger as for the individual 400 m race...


 
 Brazil
Vicente de Lima
Vicente de Lima
Vicente Lenílson de Lima is a Brazilian sprinter specializing in the 100 metres, 200 metres, and the 4×100 metres relay.De Lima represented Brazil at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney...


Edson Ribeiro
Édson Ribeiro
Édson Luciano Ribeiro is a Brazilian sprinter competing mostly in 100 metres. He has been successful on regional level, and won two Olympic medals with the Brazilian 4 x 100 metres relay team....


André da Silva
André da Silva
André Domingos da Silva is a Brazilian athlete who competed mainly in the 100 and 200 metres....


Claudinei da Silva
Claudinei da Silva
Claudinei Quirino da Silva is a Brazilian sprinter competing mostly in 200 metres. He has been successful on regional and world level, and won a 2000 Olympic silver medal with the Brazilian 4 x 100 metres relay team....

 
38.44  Trinidad and Tobago
Niconnor Alexander
Marc Burns
Marc Burns
Marc Burns is an athlete from Trinidad and Tobago specializing in the 100 metres and the 4x100 metres.Participating in the 2004 Summer Olympics, he was disqualified from his 100 metres heat, thus failing to make it through to the second round.Marc Burns placed second in the men's 100 metres dash...


Ato Boldon
Ato Boldon
Ato Jabari Boldon is a former athlete from Trinidad and Tobago and four-time Olympic medal winner. Only 2 other men in history, Frankie Fredericks and Carl Lewis, have won as many Olympic individual event sprint medals. He is the current national record holder in the 50, 60 and 200 metres events...


Darrel Brown
Darrel Brown
Darrel Brown is a sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago who specializes in the 100 metres.In the beginning of his career he performed well in World Youth and Junior Championships. At the 2000 World Junior Championships he finished fourth in both 100 metres and 4 x 100 metres relay...

 
38.53  Cuba
José César
José Carlos Peña
Luis Alexander Reyes
Juan Pita 
39.09
4 × 400 m relay
4 x 400 metres relay
The 4 x 400 meters relay or long relay is an athletics track event in which teams comprise four runners who each complete 400 meters or one lap. It is traditionally the final event of a track meet. At top class events, the first 500 meters is run in lanes...


 
 Jamaica
Michael Campbell
Michael Campbell (athlete)
Michael Campbell is a retired male track and field sprinter from Jamaica, who specialized in the 200 metres and the 400 metres during his career. His personal best time in the men's 200 metres was 21.07 seconds, achieved on May 30, 2004 in Sacramento, California...


Sanjay Ayre
Sanjay Ayre
Sanjay Claude Ayre is a world-class Jamaican sprinter specializing in the 400 meters.Puma North America Signed Ayre to an undisclosed record 3 year contract in June 2003. Together with Brandon Simpson, Lansford Spence and Davian Clarke he won a bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2005...


Lansford Spence
Lansford Spence
Lansford Spence is a Jamaican sprinter. Together with Sanjay Ayre, Brandon Simpson and Davian Clarke he won a bronze medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics. He also competed in the individual contest, but was knocked out in the semi final. In 2006 the relay team...


Davian Clarke
Davian Clarke
Davian Clarke is a Jamaican athlete, who mainly competes in the 400 metres. He won the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1996 Olympics, and many relay medals followed, before he won his first individual medal at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships.-Achievements:-External links:*...

 
3:01.81  United States
Mitchell Potter
Mitch Potter
Mitchell "Mitch" Potter is a male American track and field athlete, who competes in the sprints events, primarily the 400 metres. He is best known for winning the men's 400 metres event at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo...


Ja'Warren Hooker
Ja'Warren Hooker
Ja'Warren Hooker is a track and field sprinter and former University of Washington football player.Hooker is one of seven children and has not seen his biological father since he was little. Ja'Warren's step father is a chemist for the Washington State Agriculture Department...


Adam Steele
James Davis 
3:01.87  Dominican Republic
Arismendy Peguero
Arismendy Peguero
Arismendy Peguero Thicket is a sprinter from the Dominican Republic who specializes in the 400 metres. He was born in La Romana....


Carlos Santa
Carlos Santa
Carlos Johelín Santa is a sprinter from the Dominican Republic who specializes in the 400 metres.He competed at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics as well as the World Championships in 1999, 2003 and 2005, and finished fifth at the 2005 World Athletics Final.In 2006 he finished fifth in 4 x 400...


Julio Vidal
Félix Sánchez
Felix Sanchez
Félix Sánchez —nicknamed Super Felix, the Invincible and the Dictator— is a track and field athlete from New York City, United States who competes for The Dominican Republic...

 
3:02.02
(NR)

Field

High jump
High jump
The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....


 
Germaine Mason
Germaine Mason
Germaine Mason is a Jamaican-born athlete competing in high jump. In 2006 he switched sporting allegiance, and now represents Great Britain. He attended Wolmer's School in Kingston...

 
 Jamaica
2.34 Jamie Nieto
Jamie Nieto
Jamie Nieto in Seattle, Washington is an American high jumper and Actor who resides in Chula Vista, California. Nieto is currently training at the Olympic Training Center....

 
 United States
2.28 Terrance Woods 
 United States
2.22
Pole vault
Pole vault
Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts...


 
Toby Stevenson
Toby Stevenson
Toby "Crash" Stevenson is an Olympic class pole vaulter from the United States. He is known for being the only pole vaulter in the international elite to wear a helmet during jumps.-Biography:...

 
 United States
5.45 Russ Buller 
 United States
5.40 Dominic Johnson
Dominic Johnson
Dominic Laurence Johnson is a retired St Lucian athlete competing in the pole vault. He is a former decathlete.His personal best result is 5.70 metres, achieved in 2000. This is the current St Lucian record. He also holds the St Lucian records in decathlon, 110 metres hurdles and 4 x 100 metres...

 
 Saint Lucia
5.40
Long jump
Long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...


 
Iván Pedroso
Iván Pedroso
Iván Lázaro Pedroso Soler is a retired Cuban athlete, specializing in long jump.In July 1990, still at the age of 17, Pedroso jumped more than 8 meters for the first time. Facing tough competition from Carl Lewis, Mike Powell and others, he still won numerous gold medals in international...

 
 Cuba
8.23 Luis Meliz
Luis Méliz
Luis Felipe Méliz Linares is a male long jumper. He represents Spain. He originally represented Cuba, but obtained Spanish citizenship on 28 December 2007....

 
 Cuba
8.20 Víctor Castillo
Víctor Castillo
Víctor Manuel Castillo Petit is a Venezuelan track and field athlete who specialises in the long jump. His personal best jump is 8.34 metres, a Venezuelan record achieved in May 2004 in Cochabamba...

 
 Venezuela
7.98
Triple jump
Triple jump
The triple jump is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a “hop, bound and jump” routine, whereby the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit.The triple jump has its origins in the Ancient Olympics and has been a...


 
Yoandri Betanzos
Yoandri Betanzos
Yoandri Betanzos Francis is a Cuban athlete competing in the triple jump.His personal best jump is 17.65 metres, achieved in April 2009 in Havana...

 
 Cuba
17.26 Jadel Gregório
Jadel Gregório
Jadel Abdul Ghani Gregório is a Brazilian athlete competing in long jump and triple jump. Based in São Paulo, he has competed in several international championships since 2001, and never finished lower than 6th place.He was a competitor for Brazil in the 2008 Summer Olympics...

 
 Brazil
17.03 Yoelbi Quesada
Yoelbi Quesada
Yoelbi Luis Quesada Fernández is a Cuban athlete competing mostly in triple jump. He has an Olympic bronze medal, and became world champion in 1997 with a personal best jump of 17.85m.- Major achievements :...

 
 Cuba
16.78
Shot put
Shot put
The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....


 
Reese Hoffa
Reese Hoffa
Reese Hoffa is an American shot putter. Reese won the shot put in the 2006 World Indoor Track and Field Championships in Moscow, Russia. As of 2007, his personal bests stand at 22.11 m indoor and 22.43 m outdoor. His outdoor performance ranks him 11th on the world all-time lists...

 
 United States
20.95 Marco Antonio Verni
Marco Antonio Verni
Marco Antonio Verni is a Chilean shot putter. His personal best throw is 21.14 metres, achieved in July 2004 in Santiago de Chile....

 
 Chile
20.14 Brad Snyder 
 Canada
20.10
Discus throw
Discus throw
The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...


 
Jason Tunks
Jason Tunks
Jason Tunks is a retired international level discus thrower representing Canada.World Ranking: 35thQuick Notes:* Jason is married to Netherlands shot putter Lieja Tunks...

 
 Canada
63.70 Frank Casañas
Frank Casañas
Yennifer Frank Casañas Hernández is a Spanish discus thrower. He competed for Cuba until May 2008. In the 2008 Olympic Games he competed for Spain, reaching the fifth position in the final....

 
 Cuba
62.61 Loy Martínez 
 Cuba
61.36
Hammer throw
Hammer throw
The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown...


 
Juan Ignacio Cerra
Juan Ignacio Cerra
Juan Ignacio Cerra is a male hammer thrower from Argentina. His personal best throw is 76.42 metres, achieved in July 2001 in Trieste. This is also the South American record....

 
 Argentina
75.53 James Parker 
 United States
74.35 Yosvany Suárez
Yosvany Suárez
Yosvany Suárez Sandoval is a retired male hammer thrower from Cuba. His personal best throw is 73.93 metres, achieved in May 2006 in Havana....

 
 Cuba
70.24
Javelin throw
Javelin throw
The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...


 
Emeterio González
Emeterio González
Emeterio González Silva is a Cuban javelin thrower, whose current personal best throw is 87.12 metres, achieved in June 2000 in Jena.-Achievements:...

 
 Cuba
81.72 Isbel Luaces
Isbel Luaces
Isbel Luaces McKullock is a Cuban javelin thrower. His personal best throw is 83.63 metres, which he achieved in July 2002 in Havana.-Achievements:-References:*...

 
 Cuba
80.95 Breaux Greer
Breaux Greer
Breaux Greer is a male American javelin thrower. He is an eight time American Champion and American record holder for the javelin with a throw of 91.29 meters, achieved on June 21, 2007 during the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Indianapolis...

 
 United States
79.21
Decathlon
Decathlon
The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word decathlon is of Greek origin . Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are determined by the combined performance in all. Performance is judged on a points system in each event, not...


 
Stephen Moore
Stephen Moore (athlete)
Stephen Moore is a retired male decathlete from the United States. He set his personal best at a meet in Arles, France, on June 7, 2004.-Achievements:-External links:...

 
 United States
7809 pts Luiggy Llanos
Luiggy Llanos
Luiggy Llanos Cruz is a male decathlete from Puerto Rico. He set his personal best at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where he claimed the silver medal....

 
 Puerto Rico
7704 pts (NR) Yonelvis Águila
Yonelvis Águila
Yonelvis Águila is a male decathlete from Cuba. He set his personal best on February 23, 2002 in Havana.-Achievements:-External links:...

 
 Cuba
7593 pts

Track

100 m
 
Lauryn Williams
Lauryn Williams
Lauryn Williams is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for the United States...

 
 United States
11.12 Angela Williams
Angela Williams
Angela Williams is an American athlete. Williams attended the University of Southern California, graduating in 2002....

 
 United States
11.15 Liliana Allen
Liliana Allen
Liliana Allen Doll is a Cuban track and field athlete, competing for Mexico. She previously represented Cuba....

 
 Mexico
11.28
Wind: +1.6
200 m
 
Roxana Díaz 
 Cuba
22.69 Cydonie Mothersille 
 Cayman Islands
22.86 Allyson Felix
Allyson Felix
Allyson Felix is a track and field sprint athlete, who competes internationally for the United States, primarily in the 200 meters. She also competes at the 100 meters and the 400 meters distances...

 
 United States
22.93
Wind: +1.3
400 m
 
Ana Guevara
Ana Guevara
Ana Gabriela Guevara Espinoza is a now-retired Mexican track and field athlete, specialized in the 400 meters. Her career began in 1996 carrying out diverse tours, participating in her first international competences...

 
 Mexico
50.36 Hazel-Ann Regis
Hazel-Ann Regis
Hazel-Ann Regis is a Grenadian sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.She participated at the World Championships in Athletics in 1999, 2003 and 2005 as well as the Summer Olympics in 2000 and 2004, without reaching the final....

 
 Grenada
51.56 Aliann Pompey
Aliann Pompey
Aliann Pompey is a Guyanese sprinter who specializes in the 400 meters.Aliann graduated from Cohoes High School and received her bachelor's degree from Manhattan College in 1999....

 
 Guyana
52.06
800 m
 
Adriana Muñoz
Adriana Muñoz
Adriana Muñoz Premier is a Cuban middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 and 1500 metres.At the Pan American Games she won gold medals in both events, the latter in a career best time of 4:09.57 minutes...

 
 Cuba
2:02.56 Marian Burnett
Marian Burnett
Marian Joan Burnett is a female middle-distance runner from Guyana who specialises in the 800 metres...

 
 Guyana
2:03.58 Christiane dos Santos 
 Brazil
2:04.37
1500 m
 
Adriana Muñoz
Adriana Muñoz
Adriana Muñoz Premier is a Cuban middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 and 1500 metres.At the Pan American Games she won gold medals in both events, the latter in a career best time of 4:09.57 minutes...

 
 Cuba
4:09.57 Mary Jayne Harrelson
Mary Jayne Harrelson
Mary Jayne Harrelson-Reeves is a female middle distance runner from the United States. She is best known for winning the silver medal in the women's 1,500 metres event at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, behind Cuba's Adriana Muñoz.- External links :*...

 
 United States
4:09.72 Mardrea Hyman
Mardrea Hyman
Mardrea Hyman is a Jamaican runner who specializes in the 3000 metres steeplechase.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*800 metres - 1:59.71 min *1500 metres - 4:05.25 min *Mile run - 4:33.90 min...

 
 Jamaica
4:10.08
5000 m
 
Adriana Fernández
Adriana Fernández
Adriana Fernández Miranda is a long-distance runner from México.Fernández was 2nd in 1998, and in 1999, she became the first Mexican woman to win the New York City Marathon in a time of 2:25:06 in a dominant performance by taking charge on a windy day and kept building her lead.In 2003, Fernández...

 
 Mexico
15:30.65 Nora Rocha
Nora Rocha
Nora Leticia Rocha de la Cruz is a retired female track and field athlete from Mexico, who competed in the long-distance track events. She claimed the gold medal in the women's 10.000 metres at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada.-References:* *...

 
 Mexico
15:40.98 Nicole Jefferson 
 United States
15:42.40
10,000 m
 
Adriana Fernández
Adriana Fernández
Adriana Fernández Miranda is a long-distance runner from México.Fernández was 2nd in 1998, and in 1999, she became the first Mexican woman to win the New York City Marathon in a time of 2:25:06 in a dominant performance by taking charge on a windy day and kept building her lead.In 2003, Fernández...

 
 Mexico
33:16.05 Yudelkis Martínez
Yudelkis Martínez
Yudelkis Martínez Genaro is a female long-distance runner from Cuba. She represented her native country at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where she won the silver medal in the women's 10,000 metres event behind Mexico's Adriana Fernández.-References:*...

 
 Cuba
33:55.12 Bertha Sánchez
Bertha Sánchez
Bertha Oliva Sánchez Rivera is a female long-distance runner from Colombia, who won several medals on continental level from the mid-1990s on. She has won twice at the South American Cross Country Championships; first winning the long race in 2000, then winning the short race competition in...

 
 Colombia
33:56.17
Marathon
Marathon
The marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres , that is usually run as a road race...


 
Márcia Narloch
Márcia Narloch
Márcia Narloch is a female marathon runner from Brazil, who won the gold medal in the women's marathon at the 2003 Pan American Games. She represented her native country in four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992 .-References:*...

 
 Brazil
2:39:54 Mariela González
Mariela González
Mariela González Torres is a female marathon runner from Cuba, who won the gold medal in the women's marathon at the 2007 Pan American Games...

 
 Cuba
2:42:55 Erika Olivera
Érika Olivera
Érika Alejandra Olivera de la Fuente is a female marathon runner from Chile. She took the gold medal at the 1999 Pan American Games, setting a Pan American Games record at 2:37.41 hours. She won a bronze at the following edition in 2003...

 
 Chile
2:44:52
100 m hurdles
100 metres hurdles
The 100 m hurdles are an Olympic track and field athletics discipline run by women . For the race ten hurdles of a height of 83.8 cm are placed evenly spaced along a straight course of 100 meters. They are positioned so that they will fall over if bumped into by the runner...


 
Brigitte Foster 
 Jamaica
12.67 Perdita Felicien
Perdita Felicien
Perdita Felicien is a Canadian hurdler.-Early life:Felicien carries her mother's maiden name, whose origins are in the Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia...

 
 Canada
12.70 Lacena Golding-Clarke
Lacena Golding-Clarke
Lacena Golding-Clarke is a retired female hurdling athlete from Jamaica. She represented Jamaica at the Summer Olympics in 1996, 2000 and 2004, and took part in the World Championships in Athletics on five separate occasions.She began her career as a long jumper and she participated in this event...

 
 Jamaica
12.79
Wind: -0.3
400 m hurdles
400 metres hurdles
The 400 metres hurdles is an Olympic athletics event in track and field. On a standard outdoor track 400 metres is the length of the inside lane once around the stadium. Runners stay in their lane the entire way after starting out of the blocks and must clear ten hurdles that are evenly...


 
Joanna Hayes
Joanna Hayes
Joanna Dove Hayes is an American hurdler, who won the gold medal in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2004 Summer Olympics....

 
 United States
54.77 Daimí Pernía
Daimí Pernía
Daimí Pernía Figueroa is a Cuban athlete competing mainly in 400 m hurdles. A former basketball player, she did not rise to international level until 1999, when she lowered her personal best from 55.51s to 52.89s and even became world champion.-Personal bests:*400 metres hurdles - 52.89 *200...

 
 Cuba
55.10 Andrea Blackett
Andrea Blackett
Andrea Blackett is a Barbadian athlete who specializes in the 400 metres hurdles. She is also an assistant women's track coach at her alma mater, Rice University.-Education:...

 
 Barbados
55.24
20 km race walk
 
Victoria Palacios
Victoria Palacios
Victoria Palacios Carillo is a retired female race walker from Mexico.-Achievements:-References:*...

 
 Mexico
1:35:16 Rosario Sánchez
Rosario Sánchez
María del Rosario Sánchez Guerrero is a female track and field athlete from Mexico, who competed in race walking. She represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece....

 
 Mexico
1:35:21 Joanne Dow
Joanne Dow
Joanne Dow is an American athlete who competes in racewalking. Dow competed in the 20 kilometer walk for the United States Olympic team at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She placed thirty-first with a time of 1:34:15.-Early life and education:Dow graduated from Trinity High School in Manchester in 1982...

 
 United States
1:35:48
4 × 100 m relay
4 x 100 metres relay
The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners begin in the same stagger as for the individual 400 m race...


 
 United States
Ara Towns
Consuella Moore
Consuella Moore
Consuella "Connie" Moore is an American track and field sprinter who competes in the 100 and 200 meters.Born in Chicago, Illinois, her first major outing came when she represented the United States in the 100 m at the 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics...


Allyson Felix
Allyson Felix
Allyson Felix is a track and field sprint athlete, who competes internationally for the United States, primarily in the 200 meters. She also competes at the 100 meters and the 400 meters distances...


Angela Daigle
Angela Daigle
Angela Daigle is an American sprinter, she graduated from Fresno in 1999. Together with Muna Lee, Me'Lisa Barber and Lauryn Williams she won a gold medal in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics.-External:...

 
43.06  Cuba
Dainelky Pérez
Roxana Díaz
Virgen Benavides
Virgen Benavides
Virgen Benavides Muñoz is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Cuba.Benavides represented Cuba at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed third in her first round heat after Ivet Lalova and Montell Douglas in a time of...


Mileydis Lazo 
43.40  Jamaica
Lacena Golding-Clarke
Lacena Golding-Clarke
Lacena Golding-Clarke is a retired female hurdling athlete from Jamaica. She represented Jamaica at the Summer Olympics in 1996, 2000 and 2004, and took part in the World Championships in Athletics on five separate occasions.She began her career as a long jumper and she participated in this event...


Judyth Kitson
Judyth Kitson
Judyth Kitson is a retired female track and field sprinter from Jamaica, who specialized in the 100 metres. Her personal best time was 11.26 seconds, achieved in May 2003 in Knoxville and also in June 2003 in Kingston, Jamaica....


Shellene Williams
Shellene Williams
Shellene Williams is a retired female track and field sprinter from Jamaica. She specialized in the 200 metres and the 400 metres. Her personal best time in the women's 200 metres was 23.50 seconds, achieved on May 1, 2004 in Iowa City, Iowa...


Danielle Browning
Danielle Browning
Danielle Browning is a retired female track and field sprinter from Jamaica, who specialized in the 200 metres. Her personal best time was 23.21 seconds, achieved in August 2003 in Santo Domingo...

43.71
4 × 400 m relay
4 x 400 metres relay
The 4 x 400 meters relay or long relay is an athletics track event in which teams comprise four runners who each complete 400 meters or one lap. It is traditionally the final event of a track meet. At top class events, the first 500 meters is run in lanes...


 
 United States
Me'Lisa Barber
Me'Lisa Barber
Me'Lisa Barber is an American track and field sprint athlete.-Career:Barber won her first major international championships gold medal by running the lead leg on Team USA’s winning 4x400 m relay team at the 2003 World Outdoor Championships in Paris.She ran on the 2001 Team USA World University...


Moushaumi Robinson
Moushaumi Robinson
Moushaumi Robinson is an American athlete. She represented the United States at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she won a gold medal in the 4×400 metres relay for her contributions in the preliminary round.-External links:* , from http://www.sports-reference.com/....


Julian Clay
De'Hashia Trotter 
3:27.76  Jamaica
Naleya Downer
Naleya Downer
Naleya Downer is a retired female track and field sprinter from Jamaica, who competed in the 400 metres and the 400 metres hurdles during her career. Her personal best time in the women's 400 metres is 52.61, set on May 4, 2002 in Austin, Texas...


Michelle Burgher
Michelle Burgher
Michelle Burgher is a track and field athlete, competing internationally for Jamaica. She was a bronze medalist in the 4x400m relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece....


Novlene Williams
Novlene Williams
Novlene Hilaire Williams-Mills is a track and field athlete, competing internationally for Jamaica. She was initially a bronze medalist in the 4 x 400 m relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece...


Allison Beckford
Allison Beckford
Allison J. Beckford Allison J. Beckford Allison J. Beckford (born May 8, 1979 in Westmorland is a Jamaican. She attended Manning's High school in Savanna-La-Mar, Westmoreland Jamaica. Where she was one of the star athletes coached by Howard Daugharty. She was also academically astute passing...

 
3:27.34  Brazil
Maria Almirão
Josiane Tito
Geisa Coutinho
Geisa Coutinho
Geisa Aparecida Muniz Coutinho is a Brazilian track and field athlete who competes in the 400 metres sprint. She represented Brazil at the 2004 Summer Olympics and is a three-time participant of the World Championships in Athletics...


Lucimar Teodoro
Lucimar Teodoro
Lucimar Teodoro is a Brazilian track and field athlete who specialises in the 400 metres sprint and the 400 metres hurdles.Teodoro was born in Guararapes, São Paulo and began competing in senior athletics in 2001. She attended her first Olympics at the 2004 Athens Games as part of the 4×400 metres...

 
3:28.07

Field

High jump
High jump
The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....


 
Juana Arrendel
Juana Arrendel
Juana Rosario Arrendel is a female high jumper from the Dominican Republic.Arrendel originally won the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, but lost the gold medal after testing positive for stanozolol. In 2006 she became the sixth woman to win three Central American and Caribbean Games titles in...

 
 Dominican Republic
1.94 Romary Rifka
Romary Rifka
María Romary Rifka González is a female Mexican high jumper. She is married to track & field athlete, Alejandro Cárdenas. Her personal best jump is 1.97 metres, achieved in April 2004 in Xalapa. This is the current Mexican record.-Achievements:-References:...

 
 Mexico
1.94 Yarianny Argüelles 
 Cuba
1.89
Pole vault
Pole vault
Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts...


 
Melissa Mueller
Melissa Mueller
Melissa Mueller is an American pole vaulter.She finished fifth at the 1999 World Indoor Championships and won the gold medal at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo...

 
 United States
4.40 Carolina Torres
Carolina Torres
Carolina Alejandra Torres Guzmán is a Chilean pole vaulter.She won the silver medal at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, vaulting her personal best of 4.30 metres. She also competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.-Achievements:-References:...

 
 Chile
4.30 Stephanie McCann
Stephanie McCann
Stephanie Lynn McCann is an Canadian pole vaulter.She finished fifth at the 2001 Summer Universiade and tenth at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She won the bronze medals at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, the 2003 Pan American Games and the 2006 Commonwealth Games...

 
 Canada
4.20
Long jump
Long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...


 
Alice Falaiye
Alice Falaiye
Alice Falaiye is an Canadian long jumper.She has won gold medals at the 2003 Pan American Games and the 2010 Commonwealth Games. She also competed at the 2001 World Championships without reaching the final....

 
 Canada
6.43 Jackie Edwards
Jackie Edwards (athlete)
Jacqueline Lois Elizabeth Edwards is a Bahamian long jumper, who was born in Jamaica....

 
 The Bahamas
6.41 Yargelis Savigne
Yargelis Savigne
Yargelis Savigne Herrera is a Cuban athlete competing in the triple jump and long jump.Her international breakthrough came in 2005, when she, competing in both the triple and long jump events at the 2005 World Championships, won a silver medal and finished fourth, respectively...

 
 Cuba
6.40
Triple jump
Triple jump
The triple jump is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a “hop, bound and jump” routine, whereby the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit.The triple jump has its origins in the Ancient Olympics and has been a...


 
Mabel Gay
Mabel Gay
Mabel Gay Tamayo is a Cuban triple jumper. Her personal best jump is 14.66 metres, achieved in March 2007 in Havana.-Achievements:-References:...

 
 Cuba
14.42 Yuliana Pérez 
 United States
13.99 Yusmay Bicet
Yusmay Bicet
Yusmay Bicet Planas is a Cuban triple jumper.Her personal best jump is 14.61 metres, achieved in March 2004 in Havana.-Achievements:-External links:...

 
 Cuba
13.90
Shot put
Shot put
The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....


 
Yumileidi Cumbá
Yumileidi Cumbá
Yumileidi Cumbá Jay is a Cuban shot putter.Her greatest season was 2004, when she won an Olympic gold medal and achieved a new personal best throw....

 
 Cuba
19.31 Elisângela Adriano
Elisângela Adriano
Elisângela Maria Adriano is a Brazilian shot putter and discus thrower, whose personal best put is 19.30 metres, achieved in July 2001 in Tunja. Her personal best discus throw is 61.96 metres, achieved in May 1998 in São Leopoldo. In 1999 she was suspended by the IAAF for a two-year period, but...

 
 Brazil
18.48 Fior Vásquez
Fior Vásquez
Fior Vásquez is a female shot putter from the Dominican Republic. Her first name is sometimes also spelled as Flor.-Career:...

 
 Dominican Republic
18.14
NR
Discus throw
Discus throw
The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...


 
Aretha Hill 
 United States
63.30 Anaelys Fernández
Anaelys Fernández
Anaelys Fernández is a retired female discus thrower from Cuba. Her personal best throw is 62.09 metres, achieved on June 13, 2003 in Havana....

 
 Cuba
61.26 Yania Ferrales
Yania Ferrales
Yania Ferrales Monteagudo is a Cuban discus thrower. Her personal best throw is 66.00 metres, achieved in February 2006 in Havana.-Achievements:-References:...

 
 Cuba
60.03
Hammer throw
Hammer throw
The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown...


 
Yipsi Moreno
Yipsi Moreno
Yipsi Moreno González is a Cuban hammer thrower. She is a double world champion and Olympic silver medalist, a former world junior record holder and current area record holder...

 
 Cuba
74.25 Yunaika Crawford
Yunaika Crawford
Yunaika Crawford Rogert is a Cuban hammer thrower who won the Olympic bronze medal in 2004 with a personal best throw of 73.16 metres.-Early career:...

 
 Cuba
69.57 Candice Scott
Candice Scott
Candice Henrietta Scott is a track and field athlete who is a hammer throw specialist from Trinidad and Tobago.Her personal best throw is 71.45 metres, achieved in May 2005 in Marietta, Georgia....

 
 Trinidad and Tobago
69.06
Javelin throw
Javelin throw
The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...


 
Kim Kreiner
Kim Kreiner
Kimberly A. Kreiner is a female javelin thrower from the United States. Her personal best throw is 64.19 metres, achieved in May 2007 in Fortaleza....

 
 United States
60.86 Laverne Eve
Laverne Eve
Laverne Eve is a female track and field athlete from the Bahamas, who competes in the javelin throw. Her personal best throw is 63.73 metres, achieved in April 2000 in Nashville. In her early career she also competed in shot put and discus throw...

 
 The Bahamas
60.68 Osleidys Menéndez
Osleidys Menéndez
Osleidys Menéndez Sáez is a Cuban athlete competing in the javelin throw. She is a former Olympic champion, world champion, and world record holder. She has been described as the female "Jan Železný" of her times....

 
 Cuba
60.20
Heptathlon
Heptathlon
A heptathlon is a track and field athletics combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek hepta and athlon . A competitor in a heptathlon is referred to as a heptathlete.-Women's Heptathlon:...


 
Tiffany Lott-Hogan
Tiffany Lott-Hogan
Tiffany Lott-Hogan is an Olympic athlete representing the United States, competing in the heptathlon.Lott-Hogan won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2003 Pan American Games, and won the NCAA championship in the event in 1997 and 1998 while attending Brigham Young University...

 
 United States
6064 pts Nicole Haynes
Nicole Haynes
Nicole Haynes is a retired female track and field athlete from the United States, who competed in the heptathlon. In 1999, employed as a teacher for the LAUSD, Haynes had her best year when she set a personal record, won the bronze medal at the Pan American Games and was third at the U.S. Outdoor...

 
 Canada
5959 pts Magalys García
Magalys García
Magalys García Leliebre is a retired Cuban heptathlete.-Achievements:-External links:*...


 Cuba
5864 pts

Medal table

Key:
1 13 11 8 32
2 10 10 11 31
3 6 5 2 13
4 5 5 6 16
5 4 2 4 10
6 3 4 3 10
7 2 0 2 4
8 1 0 1 2
9= 1 0 0 1
9= 1 0 0 1
11 0 2 1 3
12 0 2 0 2
13= 0 1 1 2
13= 0 1 1 2
13= 0 1 1 2
16= 0 1 0 1
16= 0 1 0 1
18 0 0 2 2
19= 0 0 1 1
19= 0 0 1 1
19= 0 0 1 1
Total 46 46 46 138
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