Athletics at the 1955 Pan American Games Totally Explained

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The Athletics competition in the 1955 Pan American Games were held in Mexico City, Mexico.==Medal summary==

Men's events

100 metres	Rod Richard	10.3A	Mike Agostini	10.4A	Willie Williams	10.4A
200 metres	Rod Richard	20.94A	Charles Thomas	21.42A	José Telles da Conceição Mike Agostini	21.66A 21.67A
400 metres	Lou Jones	45.68A	Jim Lea	45.78A	Jesse Mashburn	46.44A
800 metres	Arnie Sowell	1:49.86A	Lon Spurrier	1:50.51A	Ramón Sandoval	1:52.52A
1500 metres	Juan Miranda	3:53.30A	Wes Santee	3:53.44A	Fred Dwyer	3:56.04A
5000 metres	Osvaldo Suárez	15:30.6A	Horace Ashenfelter	15:31.4A	Jaime Correa	15:39.2A
10000 metres	Osvaldo Suárez	32:42.6A	Vicente Sánchez	33:00.4A	Jaime Correa	33:42.6A
Marathon	Doroteo Flores	2:59:10A	Onésimo Rodríguez	3:02:22A	Luis Valázquez	3:05:26A
3000 metre steeplechase	Guillermo Solá	9:46.8A	Santiago Novas	9:50.4A	Eligio Galicia	9:54.2A
110 metres hurdles	Jack Davis	14.44A	Keith Gardner	14.74A	Evaristo Iglesias	14.94A
400 metres hurdles	Josh Culbreath	51.5A	Jaime Aparicio	51.8A	Wilson Carneiro	53.0A
High jump	Ernie Shelton	2.01A	Herman Wyatt	2.01A	José Telles da Conceição	1.91A
Pole vault	Bob Richards	4.50A	Bobby Smith	4.30A	Don Laz	4.30A
Long jump	Roslyn Range	8.03A	John Bennett	8.01A	Ary de Sá	7.84A
Triple jump	Adhemar da Silva	16.56A	Arnoldo Devonish	16.13A	Víctor Hernández	15.60A
Shot putt	Parry O'Brien	17.59A	Fortune Gordien	15.98A	Marty Engel	14.62A
Discus throw	Fortune Gordien	53.10A	Parry O'Brien	51.07A	Hernán Haddad	47.14A
Hammer throw	Bob Backus	54.91A	Marty Engel	53.36A	Elvio Porta	51.45A
Javelin throw	Franklin "Bud" Held	69.77A	Ricardo Heber	66.15A	Reinaldo Oliver	65.56A
Decathlon	Rafer Johnson	6994A	Bob Richards	6886A	Hernán Figueroa	5740A
4 x 100 metres relay		40.96A		41.36A		41.94A
4 x 400 metres relay		3:07.43A		3:12.63A		3:15.93A

Women's events

60 metres	Bertha Díaz	7.5A	Isabelle Daniels	7.6A	Mabel "Dolly" Landry	7.6A
100 metres	Barbara Jones	11.90A	Mae Faggs	12.07A	María Luisa Castelli	12.38A
80 metres hurdles	Eliana Gaete	11.7A	Bertha Díaz	11.8A	Wanda dos Santos	11.8A
High jump	Mildred McDaniel	1.685A	Deyse de Castro	1.59A	Verneeda Thomas	1.59A
Discus throw	Ingeborg Pfuller	43.19A	Isabel Avellán	40.06A	Alejandrina Herrera	38.00A
Javelin throw	Karen Anderson	49.15A	Estrella Puente	43.43A	Amelia Wershoven	43.06A
4 x 100 metres relay		47.12A		47.27A		49.49A

Medal table

1	20	14	8	42
2	4	3	2	9
3	2	1	6	9
4	1	1	5	7
5	1	1	3	5
6	1	0	1	2
7	0	2	2	4
8	0	2	1	3
9	0	2	0	2
10	0	1	1	2
11	0	1	0	1
11	0	1	0	1
13	0	0	1	1

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