Athletics at the 1979 Pan American Games – Men's shot put

The men's shot put competition of the athletics events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place at the Estadio Sixto Escobar.Full results The defending Pan American Games champion was Bruce Pirnie of Canada.

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows: World record22.15Gothenburg, SwedenJuly 6, 1978Pan American Games record19.83Winnipeg, Canada1967

Results All distances shown are in meters.

KEY:WRWorld RecordGRPan American Record

Final RankNameNationalityDistanceNotesDave Laut20.22GRBishop Dolegiewicz19.67Bruno Pauletto19.61Al Feuerbach18.86Luis Delís18.21Nicolás Hernández16.37Radai Mendoza16.17Bradley Cooper15.37Pedro Serrano15.3010Gert Weil15.06José CarreñoJesús Ramos

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