Athletics at the 1979 Pan American Games – Women's pentathlon

The women's pentathlon competition of the athletics events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place at the Estadio Sixto Escobar. It was the first edition where the 800 metres was contested instead of the 200 metres as part of the pentathlon. It was actually also pentathlon's last appearance at the Games being replaced by the heptathlon from the next edition.

Women's pentathlon at the 1979 Pan American Games
Venue	Estadio Sixto Escobar
Winning points	4605
Medalists
Diane Konihowski   Canada   Jodi Anderson   United States   Jill Ross   Canada
«1975 1983»

Records

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

World record	Nadyezhda Tkachenko (URS)	4839	Lille, France	September 18, 1977
Pan American Games record	Patty Winslow (USA)	4860	Winnipeg, Canada	1967

Results

KEY:

WR

World Record

GR

Pan American Record

  The highest mark recorded in each event is highlighted in yellow

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	100m H	SP	HJ	LJ	800m	Points	Notes
	Diane Konihowski	Canada	14.18	15.37	1.80	6.20	2:14.2	4605
	Jodi Anderson	United States	13.70	12.28	1.71	6.13	2:10.8	4434
	Jill Ross	Canada	14.32	10.19	1.65	5.93	2:11.2	4112
4	Olga Verissimo	Brazil	14.54	11.84	1.62	5.22	2:21.4	3865
5	Nancy Vallecilla	Ecuador	14.10	10.74	1.56	5.29	2:20.0	3818
6	Yvonne Neddermann	Argentina	14.55w	11.27	1.56	5.46	2:21.8	3815
7	María Ángeles Cato	Mexico	14.68	10.40	1.65	5.54	2:28.0	3782
8	Elida Aveillé	Cuba	14.38	10.69	1.65	5.52	2:41.0	3706
9	Margaret de Jesús	Puerto Rico	15.65	8.55	1.44	4.32	2:21.4	3105
	Jane Frederick	United States	14.01	14.52	1.77	DNS	–	DNF
	Alix Castillo	Venezuela	DNS	–	–	–	–	DNS