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Athletics at the 1979 Pan American Games – Women's 800 metres

{{Infobox Pan American Games event

|event = Women's 800 metres

|games = 1979

|caption =

|venue = Estadio Sixto Escobar

|dates = 8 & 9 July

|competitors =

|nations =

|win_value = 2:01.2

|win_label = Winning time

|gold = Essie Kelley

|goldNOC = USA

|silver = Julie Brown

|silverNOC = USA

|bronze = Aurelia Pentón

|bronzeNOC = CUB

|prev = 1975

|next = 1983

}}

{{Athletics at the 1979 Pan American Games}}

The women's 800 metres sprint competition of the athletics events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place on 8 and 9 July at the Estadio Sixto Escobar.{{cite book|title=Memoria VIII Juegos Deportivos Panamericanos San Juan, Puerto Rico 1979|date=1981|language=es|publisher=1979 Pan American Games Organising Committee (COPAN 79)|page=197|url=https://www.panamsports.org/downloads/pdf/panamgames/1979-san-juan-tomo-1-lq.pdf|format=PDF|access-date=2019-08-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190811030601/https://www.panamsports.org/downloads/pdf/panamgames/1979-san-juan-tomo-1-lq.pdf|archive-date=2019-08-11|url-status=dead}}[http://atfs.org/wp-content/uploads/Pan-Am-Games-1979.pdf Full results] The defending Pan American Games champion was Kathy Weston of the United States.

Records

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

class="wikitable"
World record

|{{flagathlete|Tatyana Kazankina|URS}}

|1:54.94

|Montreal, Canada

|July 26, 1976

Pan American Games record

|{{flagathlete|Madeline Manning|USA}}

|2:02.3

|Winnipeg, Canada

|1967

Results

All times shown are in minutes and seconds.{{cite book|title=Memoria VIII Juegos Deportivos Panamericanos San Juan, Puerto Rico 1979|date=1981|language=es|publisher=1979 Pan American Games Organising Committee (COPAN 79)|page=259|url=https://www.panamsports.org/downloads/pdf/panamgames/1979-san-juan-tomo-1-lq.pdf|format=PDF|access-date=2019-08-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190811030601/https://www.panamsports.org/downloads/pdf/panamgames/1979-san-juan-tomo-1-lq.pdf|archive-date=2019-08-11|url-status=dead}}

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KEY:

|align=center|WR

World Record

|align=center|GR

Pan American Record

=Heats=

{{cite news |title=Heats results |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40469658/tampa_bay_times/ |accessdate=12 December 2019 |publisher=Tampa Bay Times |date=10 July 1979 |page=10}}{{cite news |title=Soraia é a única finalista nos 800 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=0qX8s2k1IRwC&dat=19790709&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |accessdate=23 November 2019 |publisher=Jornal do Brasil |date=9 July 1979 |language=Portuguese}}

class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
RankHeatNameNationalityTimeNotes
bgcolor=ccffcc

| 1

1align=left| Julie Brownalign=left| {{flagPASO|USA|1979}}2:06.1Q
bgcolor=ccffcc

| 2

1align=left| Anne Morellialign=left| {{flagPASO|CAN|1979}}2:06.2Q
bgcolor=ccffcc

| 3

1align=left| Alejandra Ramosalign=left| {{flagPASO|CHI|1979}}2:06.6Q
bgcolor=ddffdd

| 4

1align=left| Nery McKeenalign=left| {{flagPASO|CUB|1979}}2:07.0q
bgcolor=ccffcc

| 5

2align=left| Aurelia Pentónalign=left| {{flagPASO|CUB|1979}}2:08.9Q
bgcolor=ccffcc

| 6

2align=left| Essie Kelleyalign=left| {{flagPASO|USA|1979}}2:09.2Q
bgcolor=ddffdd

| 7

1align=left| Soraya Vieiraalign=left| {{flagPASO|BRA|1979}}2:09.3q
bgcolor=ccffcc

| 7

2align=left| Brit Lindalign=left| {{flagPASO|CAN|1979}}2:09.3Q
92align=left| Helen Blakealign=left| {{flagPASO|JAM|1979}}2:10.2
102align=left| Margit Weisealign=left| {{flagPASO|BRA|1979}}2:13.8
112align=left| Marcela Lópezalign=left| {{flagPASO|ARG|1979}}2:14.3
122align=left| Ileana Hockingalign=left| {{flagPASO|PUR|1979}}2:16.8
131align=left| Eugenia Poncealign=left| {{flagPASO|HON|1979}}2:33.9
{{hs|99}}1align=left| Angelita Lindalign=left| {{flagPASO|PUR|1979}}{{sort|9:99.9|DNS}}

=Final=

class="wikitable sortable"
Rank

!Name

!Nationality

!Time

!Notes

{{gold01}}

|Essie Kelley

|{{flagPASO|USA|1979}}

|2:01.2

|GR

{{silver02}}

|Julie Brown

|{{flagPASO|USA|1979}}

|2:01.2

|

{{bronze03}}

|Aurelia Pentón

|{{flagPASO|CUB|1979}}

|2:02.1

|

4

|Anne Morelli

|{{flagPASO|CAN|1979}}

|2:03.0

|

5

|Nery McKeen

|{{flagPASO|CUB|1979}}

|2:05.4

|

6

|Alejandra Ramos

|{{flagPASO|CHI|1979}}

|2:06.2

|

7

|Brit Lind

|{{flagPASO|CAN|1979}}

|2:06.7

|

8

|Soraya Vieira

|{{flagPASO|BRA|1979}}

|2:07.3

|NR

References

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