Athletics at the 2011 Pan American Games – Men's long jump
The men's long jump event of the athletics events at the 2011 Pan American Games was held between the 24 and 25 of October at the Telmex Athletics Stadium. The defending Pan American Games champion is Irving Saladino of the Panama.
On November 9, 2011 the winner Victor Castillo of Venezuela was disqualified after testing positive for methylhexaneamine.
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows:| World record | 8.95 | Tokyo, Japan | August 30, 1991 | |
| Pan American Games record | 8.75 | Indianapolis, United States | August 16, 1987 |
Qualification
Each National Olympic Committee was able to enter up to two entrants providing they had met the minimum standard in the qualifying period.Schedule
Results
All distances shown are in meters:centimeters| KEY: | q | Fastest non-qualifiers | Q | Qualified | NR | National record | PB | Personal best | SB | Seasonal best |
Qualification
Qualification was held on October 24. Qualifying Performance 7.80 or at least 12 best performers advance to the final.| Rank | Group | Athlete | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | Result | Notes |
| 1 | B | David Registe | 7.53 | 7.60 | 7.88 | 7.88 | Q | |
| 2 | B | Collister Fahie | 7.87 | 7.87 | Q | |||
| 3 | B | Jorge McFarlane | 7.83 | 7.83 | Q | |||
| 4 | B | Emiliano Lasa | 7.81 | 7.81 | Q, PB | |||
| 5 | A | Daniel Pineda | 7.77 | 7.70 | 7.77 | q | ||
| 6 | A | Víctor Castillo | 7.30 | 7.75 | 7.75 | q | ||
| 7 | B | Rudon Bastian | 7.55 | 7.69 | 7.73 | 7.73 | q, SB | |
| 8 | A | Marcos Amalbert | 7.71 | 7.64 | 7.71 | q | ||
| 9 | B | Randall Flimmons | 7.69 | 7.67 | 7.52 | 7.69 | q | |
| 10 | A | Hugo Chila | 7.51 | 7.31 | 7.63 | 7.63 | q | |
| 11 | B | Carl Morgan | 7.52 | 7.54 | 7.42 | 7.54 | q | |
| 12 | A | Jeremy Hicks | 7.53 | 7.53 | q | |||
| 13 | A | Rogério Bispo | 7.51 | 7.48 | 7.48 | 7.51 | ||
| 14 | B | Herbert McGregor | 7.46 | 7.06 | 7.24 | 7.46 | ||
| 15 | A | Vicente Rios | 7.38 | 7.42 | 7.42 | |||
| 16 | B | Kenneth Brackett | 6.61 | 7.32 | 7.32 | PB | ||
| 17 | A | Leon Hunt | 7.01 | 7.12 | 7.31 | 7.31 | ||
| 18 | B | Kessel Campbell | 7.29 | 7.29 | ||||
| 19 | B | Miguel Hernández | 7.16 | 7.23 | 7.23 | |||
| 20 | A | Júnior Díaz | 7.09 | 7.21 | 7.07 | 7.21 | ||
| 21 | A | Jevonte Croal | 6.70 | 6.57 | 6.70 | |||
| 22 | A | Carlos Morgan | 6.65 | 6.65 |
Final
The final was held on October 25.| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | Result | Notes |
| Daniel Pineda | 7.59 | 7.97 | 7.49 | 7.97 | ||||||
| David Registe | 7.27 | 7.89 | 7.70 | 7.75 | 7.52 | 7.68 | 7.89 | |||
| Jeremy Hicks | 7.55 | 7.83 | 7.59 | 7.44 | 7.79 | 7.66 | 7.83 | |||
| 4 | Jorge McFarlane | 7.56 | 7.78 | 7.70 | 7.78 | |||||
| 5 | Emiliano Lasa | 7.73 | 7.58 | 7.49 | 7.40 | 7.43 | 7.47 | 7.73 | ||
| 6 | Randall Flimmons | 7.71 | 7.68 | 7.58 | 7.71 | |||||
| 7 | Rudon Bastian | 7.62 | 7.32 | 7.49 | 7.28 | 7.21 | 7.62 | |||
| 8 | Collister Fahie | 7.46 | 7.46 | |||||||
| 9 | Carl Morgan | 7.38 | 6.97 | 7.38 | ||||||
| 10 | Hugo Chila | 7.33 | 7.14 | 7.33 | ||||||
| 11 | Marcos Amalbert | 7.31 | 7.31 | |||||||
| – | Víctor Castillo | 8.05 | 7.74 | – | DSQ |