Athletics at the 1987 Pan American Games

The Athletics Competition at the 1987 Pan American Games was held in Indianapolis, United States. The events were competed at the IU Indianapolis Track and Soccer Stadium.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Lee McRae  United States	10.26	Ray Stewart  Jamaica	10.27	Juan Núñez  Dominican Republic	10.44
200 metres	Floyd Heard  United States	20.25	Robson da Silva  Brazil	20.49	Wallace Spearmon Sr.  United States	20.53
400 metres	Raymond Pierre  United States	44.60	Bert Cameron  Jamaica	44.72	Roberto Hernández  Cuba	45.13
800 metres	Johnny Gray  United States	1:46.79	José Luiz Barbosa  Brazil	1:47.37	Stanley Redwine  United States	1:47.73
1500 metres	Joaquim Cruz  Brazil	3:47.34	Jim Spivey  United States	3:47.46	Steve Scott  United States	3:47.76
5000 metres	Arturo Barrios  Mexico	13:31.40	Adauto Domingues  Brazil	13:46.41	Omar Aguilar  Chile	13:47.86
10000 metres	Bruce Bickford  United States	28:20.37	Rolando Vera  Ecuador	28:22.56	Paul McCloy  Canada	28:38.07
Marathon	Ivo Rodrigues  Brazil	2:20:13	Ronald Lanzoni  Costa Rica	2:20:39	Jorge González  Puerto Rico	2:21:14
3000 metre steeplechase	Adauto Domingues  Brazil	8:23.26	Henry Marsh  United States	8:23.77	Brian Abshire  United States	8:27.30
110 metres hurdles	Andrew Parker  Jamaica	13.82w	Modesto Castillo  Dominican Republic	13.96w	Ernesto Torres  Puerto Rico	14.68w
400 metres hurdles	Winthrop Graham  Jamaica	48.49	Kevin Young  United States	48.74	Dave Patrick  United States	49.47
High jump	Javier Sotomayor  Cuba	2.32	Troy Kemp  Bahamas	2.28	Jerome Carter  United States	2.28
Pole vault	Mike Tully  United States	5.71	Rubén Camino  Cuba	5.50	Scott Davis  United States	5.30
Long jump	Carl Lewis  United States	8.75	Larry Myricks  United States	8.58w	Jaime Jefferson  Cuba	8.51
Triple jump	Mike Conley  United States	17.31w	Willie Banks  United States	16.87w	Frank Rutherford  Bahamas	16.68w
Shot put	Gert Weil  Chile	20.21	Gregg Tafralis  United States	20.17	Paul Ruiz  Cuba	18.86
Discus throw	Luis Delís  Cuba	67.14	Bradley Cooper  Bahamas	64.56	Randy Heisler  United States	62.76
Hammer throw	Jud Logan  United States	77.24	Andrés Charadia  Argentina	69.36	Vicente Sánchez  Cuba	66.02
Javelin throw	Duncan Atwood  United States	78.68	Ramón González  Cuba	75.58	Juan de la Garza  Mexico	73.76
Decathlon	Mike Gonzales  United States	7649	Keith Robinson  United States	7573	Gordon Orlikow  Canada	7441
20 kilometre road walk	Carlos Mercenario  Mexico	1:24:50	Tim Lewis  United States	1:25:50	Querubín Moreno  Colombia	1:27:08
50 kilometre road walk	Martín Bermúdez  Mexico	3:58:54	Raúl González  Mexico	4:07:27	Héctor Moreno  Colombia	4:18:48
4 x 100 metres relay	United States	38.41	Cuba	38.86	Jamaica	38.86
4 x 400 metres relay	United States	2:59.54	Cuba	2:59.72	Jamaica	3:03.57

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Gail Devers  United States	11.14	Diane Williams  United States	11.25	Pauline Davis-Thompson  Bahamas	11.47
200 metres	Gwen Torrence  United States	22.52w	Randy Givens  United States	22.71w	Pauline Davis-Thompson  Bahamas	22.99w
400 metres	Ana Fidelia Quirot  Cuba	50.27	Jillian Richardson  Canada	50.35	Denean Howard  United States	50.72
800 metres	Ana Fidelia Quirot  Cuba	1:59.06	Delisa Walton-Floyd  United States	2:00.54	Soraya Telles  Brazil	2:00.56
1500 metres	Linda Sheskey  United States	4:07.84	Debbie Bowker  Canada	4:08.43	Brit McRoberts  Canada	4:11.35
3000 metres	Mary Knisely  United States	9:06.75	Angela Chalmers  Canada	9:14.48	Leslie Seymour  United States	9:19.26
10000 metres	Marty Cooksey  United States	33:00.00	Nancy Tinari  Canada	33:02.41	Patty Murray  United States	33:38.12
Marathon	María del Carmen Díaz  Mexico	2:52:06	Debbie Warner  United States	2:54:49	Maribel Durruty  Cuba	2:56:21
100 metres hurdles	LaVonna Martin  United States	12.81	Stephanie Hightower  United States	12.82	Aliuska López  Cuba	12.91
400 metres hurdles	Judi Brown-King  United States	54.23	Sandra Farmer-Patrick  Jamaica	54.59	LaTanya Sheffield  United States	56.15
High jump	Coleen Sommer  United States	1.96	Silvia Costa  Cuba	1.92	Mazel Thomas  Jamaica	1.88
Long jump	Jackie Joyner-Kersee  United States	7.45	Jennifer Inniss  United States	6.85	Eloína Echevarría  Cuba	6.42
Shot put	Ramona Pagel  United States	18.56	María Elena Sarría  Cuba	18.12	Belsis Laza  Cuba	18.06
Discus throw	Maritza Martén  Cuba	65.58	Hilda Ramos  Cuba	61.34	Connie Price  United States	59.52
Javelin throw	Ivonne Leal  Cuba	63.70	María Caridad Colón  Cuba	61.66	Marieta Riera  Venezuela	57.10
Heptathlon	Cindy Greiner  United States	6184	Connie Polman-Tuin  Canada	5862	Jolanda Jones  United States	5823
10000 metre track walk	María Colín  Mexico	47:17.2	Ann Peel  Canada	47:18.0	Maryanne Torrellas  United States	47:35.1
4 x 100 metres relay	United States	42.91	Cuba	44.16	Brazil	45.37
4 x 400 metres relay	United States	3:23.35	Canada	3:29.18	Jamaica	3:29.50

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	26	14	15	55
2	Cuba	6	9	8	23
3	Mexico	5	1	1	7
4	Brazil	3	3	2	8
5	Jamaica	2	3	4	9
6	Chile	1	0	1	2
7	Canada	0	7	3	10
8	Bahamas	0	2	3	5
9	Dominican Republic	0	1	1	2
10	Ecuador	0	1	0	1
	Costa Rica	0	1	0	1
	Argentina	0	1	0	1
13	Puerto Rico	0	0	2	2
	Colombia	0	0	2	2
15	Venezuela	0	0	1	1

See also

• 1987 in athletics (track and field)

References

• GBR Athletics

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