Athletics at the 1971 Pan American Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 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	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	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
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 100 metres event at the 1971 Pan American Games was held in Cali on 31 July and 1 August.^[1][2]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Don Quarrie  Jamaica	Lennox Miller  Jamaica	Delano Meriwether  United States

Held on 31 July

Wind:
Heat 1: +2.2 m/s, Heat 2: +1.9 m/s, Heat 3: +2.3 m/s, Heat 4: +2.5 m/s

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Don Quarrie	Jamaica	10.14	Q
2	4	Lennox Miller	Jamaica	10.30	Q
3	1	Pablo Montes	Cuba	10.33	Q
4	3	Hermes Ramírez	Cuba	10.34	Q
5	3	Mike Sands	Bahamas	10.44	Q
5	4	Charlie Francis	Canada	10.44	Q
7	1	Delano Meriwether	United States	10.46	Q
7	4	Luis da Silva	Brazil	10.46	Q
9	2	Jim Green	United States	10.51	Q
10	1	Félix Mata	Venezuela	10.53	Q
11	1	Pedro Bassart	Argentina	10.57	Q
12	3	Santiago Antonetti	Puerto Rico	10.58	Q
13	2	Julio Meade	Dominican Republic	10.59	Q
13	4	Andrés Calonge	Argentina	10.59	Q
15	3	Alberto Marchán	Venezuela	10.60
16	4	Arquimedes Mina	Colombia	10.61
17	2	Kevin Johnson	Bahamas	10.64	Q
18	1	Jimmy Sierra	Colombia	10.66
18	3	Jorge Matias	Brazil	10.66
20	3	Julio Chia	Peru	10.72
21	3	Rudy Reid	Trinidad and Tobago	10.73
22	4	Félix López	Dominican Republic	10.79
23	2	Junior Trotman	Barbados	10.85	Q
24	2	Ronald Russell	Virgin Islands	10.85
25	4	Raymond Fabien	Trinidad and Tobago	10.86
26	1	Carlos Abbott	Costa Rica	10.98
27	2	Julio Martinich	Peru	11.02
28	1	Salomón Rowe	Guatemala	12.31

Held on 31 July

Wind:
Heat 1: +4.2 m/s, Heat 2: +0.9 m/s

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Lennox Miller	Jamaica	10.19	Q
2	1	Don Quarrie	Jamaica	10.23	Q
3	2	Pablo Montes	Cuba	10.27	Q
4	1	Hermes Ramírez	Cuba	10.32	Q
5	1	Delano Meriwether	United States	10.35	Q
6	1	Charlie Francis	Canada	10.36	Q
7	1	Mike Sands	Bahamas	10.51
8	1	Junior Trotman	Barbados	10.56
9	2	Luis da Silva	Brazil	10.57	Q
10	2	Jim Green	United States	10.61	Q
11	2	Andrés Calonge	Argentina	10.67
12	1	Pedro Bassart	Argentina	10.69
13	2	Julio Meade	Dominican Republic	10.70
14	2	Kevin Johnson	Bahamas	10.74
15	2	Santiago Antonetti	Puerto Rico	10.78
16	1	Félix Mata	Venezuela	10.98

Held on 1 August

Wind: 0.0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Don Quarrie	Jamaica	10.29
	Lennox Miller	Jamaica	10.32
	Delano Meriwether	United States	10.34
4	Pablo Montes	Cuba	10.40
5	Hermes Ramírez	Cuba	10.44
6	Charlie Francis	Canada	10.54
7	Luis da Silva	Brazil	10.60
	Jim Green	United States	DNS