Athletics at the 2003 Pan American Games

International athletics championship event

Athletics at the
2003 Pan American Games

Dates| 5 – 9 August
Host city| Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Venue| Estadio Olímpico Félix Sánchez
Level| Senior
Events| 46
Participation| 535 athletes from
39 nations

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2003 Pan American Games

The athletics competition at the 2003 Pan American Games was held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from Tuesday, August 5, to Saturday, August 9, 2003. The competition comprised track and field events plus marathon races and three racewalking events, with a total of 46 contests taking place.

## Men's results

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### Track

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 m[1]
details | Michael Frater
Jamaica | 10.21  | Mardy Scales
United States | 10.22  | Anson Henry
Canada | 10.30
Wind: +0.7
200 m
details | Kenneth Brokenburr
United States | 20.42  | Christopher Williams
Jamaica | 20.54  | André Domingos
Brazil | 20.68
Wind: +0.6
400 m
details | Mitch Potter
United States | 45.11  | Yeimer López
Cuba | 45.13  | Alleyne Francique
Grenada | 45.51
800 m
details | Achraf Tadili
Canada | 1:45.05  | Osmar dos Santos
Brazil | 1:45.64  | Fabiano Peçanha
Brazil | 1:46.39
1500 m
details | Hudson de Souza
Brazil | 3:45.72  | Michael Stember
United States | 3:46.31  | Grant Robison
United States | 3:46.68
5000 m
details | Hudson de Souza
Brazil | 13:50.71  | José David Galván
Mexico | 13:52.92  | Marílson dos Santos
Brazil | 13:56.90
10000 m
details | Teodoro Vega
Mexico | 28:49.38  | Marílson dos Santos
Brazil | 28:49.48  | Dan Browne
United States | 29:06.23
Marathon
details | Vanderlei de Lima
Brazil | 2:19:08  | Bruce Deacon
Canada | 2:20:35  | Diego Colorado
Colombia | 2:21:48
3000 m steeplechase
details | Néstor Nieves
Venezuela | 8:34.26  | Joël Bourgeois
Canada | 8:36.78  | Anthony Famiglietti
United States | 8:40.22
110 m hurdles
details | Yuniel Hernández
Cuba | 13.35  | Larry Wade
United States | 13.35  | Márcio de Souza
Brazil | 13.45
Wind: -0.2
400 m hurdles
details | Félix Sánchez
Dominican Republic | 48.19  | Eric Thomas
United States | 48.74  | Dean Griffiths
Jamaica | 49.35
20 km race walk
details | Jefferson Pérez
Ecuador | 1:23:06  | Bernardo Segura
Mexico | 1:23:31  | Alejandro López
Mexico | 1:24:33
50 km race walk
details | Germán Sánchez
Mexico | 4:05:01  | Mário dos Santos
Brazil | 4:07:36  | Luis Fernando García
Guatemala | 4:12:14
4 × 100 m relay[2]
details |  Brazil
Vicente de Lima
Edson Ribeiro
André da Silva
Claudinei da Silva | 38.44  |  Trinidad and Tobago
Niconnor Alexander
Marc Burns
Ato Boldon
Darrel Brown | 38.53  |  Cuba
José Ángel César
José Carlos Peña
Luis Alexander Reyes
Juan Pita | 39.09
4 × 400 m relay
details |  Jamaica
Michael Campbell
Sanjay Ayre
Lansford Spence
Davian Clarke | 3:01.81  |  United States
Mitchell Potter
Ja'Warren Hooker
Adam Steele
James Davis | 3:01.87  |  Dominican Republic
Arismendy Peguero
Carlos Santa
Julio Vidal
Félix Sánchez | 3:02.02
(NR)

WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

### Field

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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High jump
details | Germaine Mason
Jamaica | 2.34  | Jamie Nieto
United States | 2.28  | Terrance Woods
United States | 2.22
Pole vault
details | Toby Stevenson
United States | 5.45  | Russ Buller
United States | 5.40  | Dominic Johnson
Saint Lucia | 5.40
Long jump
details | Iván Pedroso
Cuba | 8.23  | Luis Felipe Méliz
Cuba | 8.20  | Víctor Castillo
Venezuela | 7.98
Triple jump
details | Yoandri Betanzos
Cuba | 17.26  | Jadel Gregório
Brazil | 17.03  | Yoelbi Quesada
Cuba | 16.78
Shot put
details | Reese Hoffa
United States | 20.95  | Marco Antonio Verni
Chile | 20.14  | Bradley Snyder
Canada | 20.10
Discus throw
details | Jason Tunks
Canada | 63.70  | Frank Casañas
Cuba | 62.61  | Loy Martínez
Cuba | 61.36
Hammer throw
details | Juan Ignacio Cerra
Argentina | 75.53  | James Parker
United States | 74.35  | Yosvany Suárez
Cuba | 70.24
Javelin throw
details | Emeterio González
Cuba | 81.72  | Isbel Luaces
Cuba | 80.95  | Breaux Greer
United States | 79.21
Decathlon
details | Stephen Moore
United States | 7809 pts  | Luiggy Llanos
Puerto Rico | 7704 pts (NR)  | Yonelvis Águila
Cuba | 7593 pts

WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

## Women's results

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### Track

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 m
details | Lauryn Williams
United States | 11.12  | Angela Williams
United States | 11.15  | Liliana Allen
Mexico | 11.28
Wind: +1.6
200 m
details | Roxana Díaz
Cuba | 22.69  | Cydonie Mothersille
Cayman Islands | 22.86  | Allyson Felix
United States | 22.93
Wind: +1.3
400 m
details | Ana Guevara
Mexico | 50.36  | Hazel-Ann Regis
Grenada | 51.56  | Aliann Pompey
Guyana | 52.06
800 m[3]
details | Adriana Muñoz
Cuba | 2:02.56  | Marian Burnett
Guyana | 2:03.58  | Christiane dos Santos
Brazil | 2:04.37
1500 m
details | Adriana Muñoz
Cuba | 4:09.57  | Mary Jayne Harrelson
United States | 4:09.72  | Mardrea Hyman
Jamaica | 4:10.08
5000 m
details | Adriana Fernández
Mexico | 15:30.65  | Nora Rocha
Mexico | 15:40.98  | Nicole Jefferson
United States | 15:42.40
10000 m
details | Adriana Fernández
Mexico | 33:16.05  | Yudelkis Martínez
Cuba | 33:55.12  | Bertha Sánchez
Colombia | 33:56.17
Marathon
details | Márcia Narloch
Brazil | 2:39:54  | Mariela González
Cuba | 2:42:55  | Erika Olivera
Chile | 2:44:52
100 m hurdles
details | Brigitte Foster
Jamaica | 12.67  | Perdita Felicien
Canada | 12.70  | Lacena Golding-Clarke
Jamaica | 12.79
Wind: -0.3
400 m hurdles
details | Joanna Hayes
United States | 54.77  | Daimí Pernía
Cuba | 55.10  | Andrea Blackett
Barbados | 55.24
20 km race walk
details | Victoria Palacios
Mexico | 1:35:16  | Rosario Sánchez
Mexico | 1:35:21  | Joanne Dow
United States | 1:35:48
4 × 100 m relay
details |  United States
Angela Williams
Consuella Moore
Angela Daigle
Lauryn Williams | 43.06  |  Cuba
Dainelky Pérez
Roxana Díaz
Virgen Benavides
Misleidys Lazo | 43.40  |  Jamaica
Lacena Golding-Clarke
Judyth Kitson
Shellene Williams
Danielle Browning | 43.71
4 × 400 m relay
details |  United States
Me'Lisa Barber
Moushaumi Robinson
Julian Clay
De'Hashia Trotter | 3:26.40  |  Jamaica
Naleya Downer
Michelle Burgher
Novlene Williams
Allison Beckford | 3:27.34  |  Brazil
Maria Laura Almirão
Josiane Tito
Geisa Coutinho
Lucimar Teodoro | 3:28.07

WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

### Field

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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High jump
details | Juana Arrendel
Dominican Republic | 1.94  | Romary Rifka
Mexico | 1.94  | Yarianny Argüelles
Cuba | 1.89
Pole vault
details | Melissa Mueller
United States | 4.40  | Carolina Torres
Chile | 4.30  | Stephanie McCann
Canada | 4.20
Long jump
details | Alice Falaiye
Canada | 6.43  | Jackie Edwards
Bahamas | 6.41  | Yargelis Savigne
Cuba | 6.40
Triple jump
details | Mabel Gay
Cuba | 14.42  | Yuliana Pérez
United States | 13.99  | Yusmay Bicet
Cuba | 13.90
Shot put
details | Yumileidi Cumbá
Cuba | 19.31  | Elisângela Adriano
Brazil | 18.48  | Fior Vásquez
Dominican Republic | 18.14

Discus throw
details | Aretha Hill
United States | 63.30  | Anaelys Fernández
Cuba | 61.26  | Yania Ferrales
Cuba | 60.03
Hammer throw
details | Yipsi Moreno
Cuba | 74.25  | Yunaika Crawford
Cuba | 69.57  | Candice Scott
Trinidad and Tobago | 69.06
Javelin throw
details | Kim Kreiner
United States | 60.86  | Laverne Eve
Bahamas | 60.68  | Osleidys Menéndez
Cuba | 60.20
Heptathlon
details | Tiffany Lott-Hogan
United States | 6064 pts  | Nicole Haynes
Canada | 5959 pts  | Magalys García
Cuba | 5864 pts

WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

## Medal table

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Shot putter Reese Hoffa was one of 13 event winners from the US. Mabel Gay (left) and Yargelis Savigne won medals for Cuba in the jumps. Félix Sánchez took one of two golds for hosts the Dominican Republic.

* Host nation (Dominican Republic)

Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  United States| 13| 11| 8| 32
2|  Cuba| 10| 10| 11| 31
3|  Mexico| 6| 5| 2| 13
4|  Brazil| 5| 5| 6| 16
5|  Jamaica| 4| 2| 4| 10
6|  Canada| 3| 4| 3| 10
7|  Dominican Republic*| 2| 0| 2| 4
8|  Venezuela| 1| 0| 1| 2
9|  Argentina| 1| 0| 0| 1
Ecuador| 1| 0| 0| 1
11|  Chile| 0| 2| 1| 3
12|  Bahamas| 0| 2| 0| 2
13|  Grenada| 0| 1| 1| 2
Guyana| 0| 1| 1| 2
Trinidad and Tobago| 0| 1| 1| 2
16|  Cayman Islands| 0| 1| 0| 1
Puerto Rico| 0| 1| 0| 1
18|  Colombia| 0| 0| 2| 2
19|  Barbados| 0| 0| 1| 1
Guatemala| 0| 0| 1| 1
Saint Lucia| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (21 entries)| 46| 46| 46| 138

## Participating nations

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* Antigua and Barbuda (3)
* Argentina (10)
* Bahamas (20)
* Barbados (7)
* Belize (6)
* Bermuda (4)
* Bolivia (5)
* Brazil (34)
* British Virgin Islands (1)
* Canada (21)
* Cayman Islands (5)
* Chile (14)
* Colombia (22)
* Cuba (55)
* Dominica (4)
* Dominican Republic (41)
* Ecuador (12)
* Grenada (8)
* Guatemala (11)
* Guyana (2)
* Haiti (8)
* Honduras (1)
* Jamaica (34)
* Mexico (32)
* Netherlands Antilles (4)
* Nicaragua (3)
* Paraguay (4)
* Peru (5)
* Puerto Rico (13)
* Saint Kitts and Nevis (5)
* Saint Lucia (3)
* Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (5)
* El Salvador (1)
* Suriname (1)
* Trinidad and Tobago (19)
* United States (90)
* United States Virgin Islands (4)
* Uruguay (3)
* Venezuela (15)

## References

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Day reports

* Clavelo Robinson, Javier (2003-08-06). Felix Sanchez closer to gold as two records fall in opening day of Pan American Games. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-09-13.
* Clavelo Robinson, Javier (2003-08-07). Felix Sanchez gives glory to Dominican Republic, as four more Pan Am Games records fall. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-09-13.
* Clavelo Robinson, Javier (2003-08-08). Guevara qualifies for 400m final and Menendez is beaten in Pan American Games. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-09-13.
* Clavelo Robinson, Javier (2003-08-09). Guevara, Fernandez, Foster and Arrendel: women steal the show in Pan American Games. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-09-13.
* Clavelo Robinson, Javier (2003-08-10). Jamaica wins three titles and US dominates, as the athletics ends at the Pan Am Games. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-09-13.

Results

* GBR Athletics
* All Results at Athletics Canada (Internet Archive)
* athlecac results

Specific

1. ^ Original winner Mickey Grimes was stripped of the gold medal after testing positive for ephedrine. ("Grimes fails drugs test". BBC. 2003-08-13. Retrieved 2007-03-10.)
2. ^ The United States, the original winner, was disqualified after its team member Mickey Grimes tested positive for ephedrine. ("Grimes fails drugs test". BBC. 2003-08-13. Retrieved 2007-03-10.)
3. ^ Original winner Letitia Vriesde was stripped of the gold medal after testing positive for caffeine. ("Grimes fails drugs test". BBC. 2003-08-13. Retrieved 2007-03-10.)

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