The men's

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competition of the

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events at the

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took place on the 10 of August at the 2019 Pan American Games Athletics Stadium. The defending Pan American Games champion is

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Summary

The stagger largely held true into the final turn, with Colombia's Jhon Perlaza emerging ahead and powering down the home stretch to hand off a step ahead of Dwight St. Hillare for Trinidad and Tobago.

Diego Palomeque Diego Armando Palomeque Echavarría (born 5 December 1993 in Apartadó, Antioquia) is a Colombian sprinter. Career He tied Aldemir da Silva Junior for the 200 metres title at the 2011 South American Junior Championships in Athletics. On 2 ...

led Colombia through the break but cut to the rail quickly, opening up space for Trinidad's World Championship relay gold medalist, Jereem Richards to zoom by. Richards held the lead until the home stretch when Palomeque paid him back, running past to hand off 3 steps ahead. Ten metres behind the leaders, USA's Michael Cherry put a strong move on Dominican Republic's Juander Santos to get into third place. Through the third leg USA's high school phenom Justin Robinson was not intimidated, closing down the gap on Trinidad's Olympic and World Championship relay medalist

Deon Lendore Deon Kristofer Lendore (28 October 1992 – 10 January 2022) was a Trinidad and Tobago sprinter who specialised in the 400 metres. He won a bronze medal in the 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and won medals at the Pa ...

and Colombia's Jhon Solis taking the lead before the handoff. USA's

Wil London Wilbert London III (born August 17, 1997) is an American track and field athlete specializing in sprinting events. Three-year track and field letterwinner at Waco High School. His 200m personal best is 20.72 seconds at Austin, TX. His 400m perso ...

took the baton a step up on 400 champion Anthony Zambrano and Trinidad's

Machel Cedenio Machel Cedenio (born 6 September 1995) is a Trinidadian sprinter specialising in the 400 metres. He represented his country at two outdoor and one indoor World Championships winning a silver medal in the relay at the 2015 outdoor edition. He comp ...

, who is also a World Championship relay gold medalist. Down the backstretch, Cedenio went around the crowd and Zambrano tried to follow. London accelerated through the final turn, moving onto Cedenio's shoulder. Coming off the turn he put the formula move on and was off to victory, except Zambrano moved right around London and was sprinting at a much faster speed giving Colombia the gold medal, Zambrano's second of these championships. USA took silver and virtually Trinidad and Tobago's A-team took bronze.

Records

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

Schedule

Results

All times shown are in seconds.

Final

The results were as follows:

References

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