Pan American Games 2011 / Athletics - Men's Decathlon

The winner Leonel Suárez (2011)

The men's decathlon at the 2011 Pan American Games took place on October 24th and 25th, 2011 at the Telmex Athletics Stadium in Guadalajara .

14 athletes from nine countries took part in the competition. Leonel Suárez won the gold medal with 8374 points, which was also a new rekoard of the Pan American Games. Silver went to Maurice Smith with 8214 points and the bronze medal went to Yordani Garcia with 8074 points.

Records

Before the competition, the following records were in place:

World record	Roman Šebrle	9026 points	All-around meeting Götzis , Götzis , Austria	May 27, 2001
Record of games	Maurice Smith	8278 points	Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil	July 24, 2007

Final score

October 24-25, 2011

space	athlete	country	Points
	Leonel Suarez	Cuba	8373 PR
	Maurice Smith	Jamaica	8214 PB
	Yordanis Garcia	Cuba	8074
4th	Gonzalo Barroilhet	Chile	7986 PB
5	Roman Gastaldi	Argentina	7826 PB
6th	Georni Jaramillo	Venezuela	7679 PB
7th	Rodrigo Sagaon	Mexico	7288 PB
8th	Claston Bernard	Jamaica	7246
9	Alberto Zarate	Mexico	7007 PB
10	Matthew Johnson	United States	6929
11	Mark Jellsion	United States	6550
12	Steven Marrero	Puerto Rico	5058
	Marco Sanchez	Puerto Rico	DNF
	Luiz Alberto de Araújo	Brazil	DNF

Web links and sources

• Results on todor66.com (English)
• Guadalajara 2011 Sesiones Deportivas. (PDF; 3.6 MB) In: www.guadalajara2011.org.mx. Archived from the original on June 26, 2011 ; accessed on October 6, 2019 (Spanish).