Athletics at the 1959 Pan American Games
Track events
60 m		women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Decathlon	men
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The women's 80 metres hurdles event at the 1959 Pan American Games was held at the Soldier Field in Chicago on 31 August and 1 September.^[1][2]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bertha Díaz  Cuba	Wanda dos Santos  Brazil	Marian Munroe  Canada

Wind:
Heat 1: +3.2 m/s, Heat 2: +1.2 m/s

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Bertha Díaz	Cuba	11.2	Q
2	1	Wanda dos Santos	Brazil	11.6	Q
3	1	Marian Munroe	Canada	11.6	Q
4	1	Shirley Crowder	United States	11.6	Q
5	1	Lorraine Dunn	Panama	12.5
6	1	Guillermina Rodríguez	Mexico	12.5
7	1	Vilma Parris	British Guiana	13.0
	1	Iris dos Santos	Brazil	DNS
1	2	Barbara Mueller	United States	11.4	Q
2	2	Patricia Power	Canada	11.5	Q
3	2	Maria de Lima	Brazil	12.0	Q
4	2	Sally McCallum	Canada	12.0	Q
5	2	Eliana Gaete	Chile	12.0
6	2	Jo Ann Terry	United States	12.1
7	2	Silvia Zambrano	Panama	12.3
8	2	Benilda Ascanio	Venezuela	12.6

Wind: +1.8 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Bertha Díaz	Cuba	11.2
	Wanda dos Santos	Brazil	11.5
	Marian Munroe	Canada	11.5
4	Barbara Mueller	United States	11.5
5	Patricia Power	Canada	11.5
6	Shirley Crowder	United States	11.8
7	Maria de Lima	Brazil	11.9
8	Sally McCallum	Canada	12.0