Athletics at the 1987 Pan American Games
Host venue (shown in 2012)
Dates	9–16 August
Host city	Indianapolis, United States
Venue	IU Indianapolis Track and Soccer Stadium
Level	Senior
Events	43
Participation	405 athletes from 36 nations
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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.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -3.4 m/s) details	Lee McRae  United States	10.26	Ray Stewart  Jamaica	10.27	Juan Núñez  Dominican Republic	10.44
200 metres (wind: +1.3 m/s) details	Floyd Heard  United States	20.25	Robson da Silva  Brazil	20.49	Wallace Spearmon  United States	20.53
400 metres details	Raymond Pierre  United States	44.60	Bert Cameron  Jamaica	44.72	Roberto Hernández  Cuba	45.13
800 metres details	Johnny Gray  United States	1:46.79	José Luíz Barbosa  Brazil	1:47.37	Stanley Redwine  United States	1:47.73
1500 metres details	Joaquim Cruz  Brazil	3:47.34	Jim Spivey  United States	3:47.46	Steve Scott  United States	3:47.76
5000 metres details	Arturo Barrios  Mexico	13:31.40	Adauto Domingues  Brazil	13:46.41	Omar Aguilar  Chile	13:47.86
10,000 metres details	Bruce Bickford  United States	28:20.37	Rolando Vera  Ecuador	28:22.56	Paul McCloy  Canada	28:38.07
Marathon details	Ivo Rodrígues  Brazil	2:20:13	Ronald Lanzoni  Costa Rica	2:20:39	Jorge González  Puerto Rico	2:21:14
110 metres hurdles (wind: +4.4 m/s) details	Andrew Parker  Jamaica	13.82w	Modesto Castillo  Dominican Republic	13.96w	Ernesto Torres  Puerto Rico	14.68w
400 metres hurdles details	Winthrop Graham  Jamaica	48.49	Kevin Young  United States	48.74	Dave Patrick  United States	49.47
3000 metres steeplechase details	Adauto Domingues  Brazil	8:23.26	Henry Marsh  United States	8:23.77	Brian Abshire  United States	8:27.30
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States (USA) Lee McRae Lee McNeill Harvey Glance Carl Lewis	38.41	Cuba (CUB) Ricardo Chacón Leandro Peñalver Maximo Sergio Querol Andrés Simón	38.86	Jamaica (JAM) John Mair Andrew Smith Clive Wright Ray Stewart	38.86
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States (USA) Mark Rowe Kevin Robinzine Raymond Pierre Roddie Haley	2:59.54	Cuba (CUB) Leandro Peñalver Agustín Pavó Lazaro Martínez Roberto Hernández	2:59.72	Jamaica (JAM) Winthrop Graham Mark Senior Berris Long Devon Morris	3:03.57
20 kilometres walk details	Carlos Mercenario  Mexico	1:24:50	Tim Lewis  United States	1:25:50	Querubín Moreno  Colombia	1:27:08
50 kilometres walk details	Martín Bermúdez  Mexico	3:58:54	Raúl González  Mexico	4:07:27	Héctor Moreno  Colombia	4:18:48
High jump details	Javier Sotomayor  Cuba	2.32	Troy Kemp  Bahamas	2.28	Jerome Carter  United States	2.28
Pole vault details	Mike Tully  United States	5.71	Rubén Camino  Cuba	5.50	Scott Davis  United States	5.30
Long jump details	Carl Lewis  United States	8.75	Larry Myricks  United States	8.58w	Jaime Jefferson  Cuba	8.51
Triple jump details	Mike Conley  United States	17.31w	Willie Banks  United States	16.87w	Frank Rutherford  Bahamas	16.68w
Shot put details	Gert Weil  Chile	20.21	Gregg Tafralis  United States	20.17	Paul Ruiz  Cuba	18.86
Discus throw details	Luis Delís  Cuba	67.14	Bradley Cooper  Bahamas	64.56	Randy Heisler  United States	62.76
Hammer throw details	Jud Logan  United States	77.24	Andrés Charadía  Argentina	69.36	Vicente Sánchez  Cuba	66.02
Javelin throw details	Duncan Atwood  United States	78.68	Ramón González  Cuba	75.58	Juan de la Garza  Mexico	73.76
Decathlon details	Mike Gonzales  United States	7649	Keith Robinson  United States	7573	Gordon Orlikow  Canada	7441

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -2.0 m/s) details	Gail Devers  United States	11.14	Diane Williams  United States	11.25	Pauline Davis  Bahamas	11.47
200 metres (wind: +2.2 m/s) details	Gwen Torrence  United States	22.52w	Randy Givens  United States	22.71w	Pauline Davis  Bahamas	22.99w
400 metres details	Ana Fidelia Quirot  Cuba	50.27	Jillian Richardson  Canada	50.35	Denean Howard  United States	50.72
800 metres details	Ana Fidelia Quirot  Cuba	1:59.06	Delisa Walton-Floyd  United States	2:00.54	Soraya Telles  Brazil	2:00.56
1500 metres details	Linda Sheskey  United States	4:07.84	Debbie Bowker  Canada	4:08.43	Brit McRoberts  Canada	4:11.35
3000 metres details	Mary Knisely  United States	9:06.75	Angela Chalmers  Canada	9:14.48	Leslie Seymour  United States	9:19.26
10,000 metres details	Marty Cooksey  United States	33:00.00	Nancy Tinari  Canada	33:02.41	Patty Murray  United States	33:38.12
Marathon details[nb]	María del Carmen Cárdenas  Mexico	2:52:06	Debbie Warner  United States	2:54:49	Maribel Durruty  Cuba	2:56:21
100 metres hurdles (wind: +1.9 m/s) details	LaVonna Martin  United States	12.81	Stephanie Hightower  United States	12.82	Aliuska López  Cuba	12.91
400 metres hurdles details	Judi Brown-King  United States	54.23	Sandra Farmer  Jamaica	54.59	LaTanya Sheffield  United States	56.15
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States (USA) Sheila Echols Gwen Torrence Michelle Finn-Burrell Gail Devers	42.91	Cuba (CUB) Eusebia Riquelme Aliuska López Susana Armenteros Liliana Allen	44.16	Brazil (BRA) Inês Ribeiro Cleide Amaral Claudilea dos Santos Sheila de Oliveira	45.37
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States (USA) Rochelle Stevens Denean Howard Valerie Brisco-Hooks Diane Dixon	3:23.35	Canada (CAN) Charmaine Crooks Marita Payne Molly Killingbeck Jillian Richardson	3:29.18	Jamaica (JAM) Cathy Rattray Vivienne Spence Ilrey Oliver Sandie Richards	3:29.50
10,000 metres walk details	María Colín  Mexico	47:17.15	Ann Peel  Canada	47:17.97	Maryanne Torrellas  United States	47:35.12
High jump details	Coleen Sommer  United States	1.96	Silvia Costa Acosta-Martínez  Cuba	1.92	Mazel Thomas  Jamaica	1.88
Long jump details	Jackie Joyner-Kersee  United States	7.45	Jennifer Inniss  United States	6.85	Eloína Echevarría  Cuba	6.42
Shot put details	Ramona Pagel  United States	18.56	María Elena Sarría  Cuba	18.12	Belsis Laza  Cuba	18.06
Discus throw details	Maritza Martén García  Cuba	65.58	Hilda Ramos  Cuba	61.34	Connie Price  United States	59.52
Javelin throw details	Ivonne Leal  Cuba	63.70	María Caridad Colón  Cuba	61.66	Marieta Riera  Venezuela	57.10
Heptathlon details	Cindy Greiner  United States	6184	Connie Polman-Tuin  Canada	5862	Jolanda Jones  United States	5823

• ^nb Some sources erroneously state the winner of the women's marathon as María del Carmen Díaz (later a Pan American Games winner on the track) instead of the correct winner, María del Carmen Cárdenas.^[1]

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	Argentina	0	1	0	1
	Costa Rica	0	1	0	1
	Ecuador	0	1	0	1
13	Colombia	0	0	2	2
	Puerto Rico	0	0	2	2
15	Venezuela	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		43	43	43	129

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