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Athletics at the 1979 Pan American Games – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

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Men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1979 Pan American Games

Venue

Dates

14 July

Winning time

38.85

Medalists

	Mike Roberson, Harvey Glance, Cliff Wiley, Steve Riddick	United States
	Osvaldo Lara, Alejandro Casañas, Silvio Leonard, Juan Saborit	Cuba
	Milton de Castro, Nelson dos Santos, Rui da Silva, Altevir de Araújo	Brazil

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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Records[edit]

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

World record	United States	38.03	Düsseldorf, West Germany	September 3, 1977
Pan American Games record	United States	38.31	Mexico City, Mexico	1975

KEY:	WR	World Record	GR	Pan American Record

Held on 14 July

Rank	Competitors	Nation	Time
	United States	Mike Roberson, Harvey Glance, Cliff Wiley, Steve Riddick	38.85
	Cuba	Osvaldo Lara, Alejandro Casañas, Silvio Leonard, Juan Saborit	39.14
	Brazil	Milton de Castro, Nelson dos Santos, Rui da Silva, Altevir de Araújo	39.44
4	Jamaica	George Walcott, Colin Bradford, Don Quarrie, Oliver Haywood	39.83
5	Canada	Tony Sharpe, Desai Williams, Hugh Spooner, Marvin Nash	39.92
6	Puerto Rico	Luis Alers, Jesús Cabrera, Iván Mangual, Wilfredo Molina	40.28
7	Trinidad and Tobago	Edwin Noel, Ephraim Serrette, Linton Williams, Hasely Crawford	40.44
	Dominican Republic	Mariano Reyes, Francisco Solis, Rafael Félix, Gerardo Suero	DQ

^ 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.

^ Memoria VIII Juegos Deportivos Panamericanos San Juan, Puerto Rico 1979 (PDF) (in Spanish). 1979 Pan American Games Organising Committee (COPAN 79). 1981. p. 251. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-08-11. Retrieved 2019-08-16.

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