1967 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics
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The 1967 Central American Championships in Athletics were held in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.

Men's events

100 metres
100 metres
The 100 metres, or 100-metre dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, it is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896...

Hermes Ramírez
Hermes Ramírez
Hermes Ramírez is a former sprinter from Cuba. Together with Juan Morales, Pablo Montes, and Enrique Figuerola he won an Olympic silver medal in 4 x 100 metres relay in Mexico City 1968...


 Cuba
10.5A Juan Franceschi
 Puerto Rico
10.6A Félix Eugellés
 Cuba
10.8A
200 metres
200 metres
A 200 metres race is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 m track, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques are needed to successfully run the race. A slightly shorter race, called the stadion and run on a straight track, was the first...

Hermes Ramírez
Hermes Ramírez
Hermes Ramírez is a former sprinter from Cuba. Together with Juan Morales, Pablo Montes, and Enrique Figuerola he won an Olympic silver medal in 4 x 100 metres relay in Mexico City 1968...


 Cuba
21.6A Juan Franceschi
 Puerto Rico
21.6A Miguel González
Miguel Gonzalez
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 Mexico
21.7A
400 metres
400 metres
The 400 metres, or 400 metre dash, is a common sprinting event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 . On a standard outdoor running track, it is exactly one lap around the track. Runners start in staggered positions and...

Juan Franceschi
 Puerto Rico
47.1A Rodobaldo Díaz
 Cuba
47.6A Manuel Montalvo
 Cuba
48.1A
800 metres
800 metres
The 800 meter race is a common track running event. It is the shortest common middle distance track event. The 800 meter is run over two laps of the track and has always been an Olympic event. During indoor track season the event is usually run on a 200 meter track, therefore requiring four laps...

Frederico Vera
 Mexico
1:51.3A Julio Morales
Julio Morales
Julio César Araújo Morales is a former Uruguayan football striker. He was born on February 16, 1945, in the city of Montevideo in Uruguay. He was part of the Uruguay squad for the 1970 World Cup, where they finished fourth, as well as in a Mundialito winning team in January 1981, at the age of...


 Puerto Rico
1:51.8A Roberto Silva
Roberto Silva
Roberto Silva is a Peruvian footballer. As of February 2009, he plays for Universidad San Martín. He played in the Bundesliga for SV Werder Bremen.-Career:...


 Mexico
1:52.0A
1500 metres
1500 metres
The 1,500-metre run is the premier middle distance track event.Aerobic endurance is the biggest factor contributing to success in the 1500 metres but the athlete also requires significant sprint speed.In modern times, the 1,500-metre run has been run at a pace faster than the average person could...

Ricardo Palomares
 Mexico
3:59.2A José Neri
 Mexico
3:59.3A José Antonetti
 Puerto Rico
4:04.7A
5000 metres
5000 metres
The 5000 metres is a popular running distance also known as 5 km or 5K in American English. It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics. "5000 metres" refers to racing on a track and "5K" usually refers to a roadrace or cross country event...

Concepción Salinas
 Mexico
15:02.6A Flavio Buendía
 Mexico
15:27.2A Julio Quevedo
Julio Quevedo
Julio Faustino Quevedo Elias is a former Guatemalan athlete who competed in multiple Summer Olympics. At the 1968 and 1972 Summer Games, he participated in a total of six events. In 1968, he ran in the 1,500 m, 3,000 m steeplechase, and 5,000 m events...


 Guatemala
16:02.0A
10000 metres
10000 metres
The 10,000 metres or 10K is a common long distance running event. As "10,000 metres" it is a track event, and appears in athletics events such as the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics; as "10K" it is a roadrace or cross country running event...

Juan Martínez
Juan Máximo Martínez
Juan Máximo Martínez is a long-distance runner from Mexico. He won the gold medal in the men's 10,000 metres at the 1970 Central American and Caribbean Games, and twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics: in 1968 and 1972. In 1968, at the Mexico City Olympics, he finished in...


 Mexico
30:33.6A Efraín Carmona
 Mexico
31:11.0A José Gonzales
 Cuba
34:17.4A
Half marathon
Half marathon
A half marathon is a road running event of . It is half the distance of a marathon and usually run on roads. Participation in half marathons has grown steadily recently. One of the main reasons for this is that it is a challenging distance, but does not require the same level of training that a...

Juan Martínez
Juan Máximo Martínez
Juan Máximo Martínez is a long-distance runner from Mexico. He won the gold medal in the men's 10,000 metres at the 1970 Central American and Caribbean Games, and twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics: in 1968 and 1972. In 1968, at the Mexico City Olympics, he finished in...


 Mexico
1:11:02A Félix Carmona
 Mexico
1:12:08A José Gonzales
 Cuba
1:16:25A
3000 metres steeplechase Carlos Vargas
 Mexico
9:19.2A Flavio Buendía
 Mexico
9:19.4A Manuel Pérez
 Puerto Rico
10:33.6A
110 metres hurdles
110 metres hurdles
The 110 metres hurdles is a hurdling track and field event for men. It is incuded in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympic Games. The female counterpart is the 100 metre hurdles. As part of a racing event, ten hurdles of 1.067 metres in height are evenly spaced along a straight...

Juan Morales
Juan Morales
Juan Morales is a former Cuban athlete who competed mainly in 110 metres hurdles. Together with Hermes Ramírez, Pablo Montes, and Enrique Figuerola he won an Olympic silver medal in 4 x 100 metres relay in Mexico City 1968...


 Cuba
14.6A Lázaro Betancourt
 Cuba
14.7A David Cruz
 Puerto Rico
16.4A
400 metres hurdles
400 metres hurdles
The 400 metres hurdles is an Olympic athletics event in track and field. On a standard outdoor track 400 metres is the length of the inside lane once around the stadium. Runners stay in their lane the entire way after starting out of the blocks and must clear ten hurdles that are evenly...

Salvador Medina
Salvador Medina
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 Mexico
52.3A Miguel Olivera
 Cuba
52.4A Césare Sánchez
 Mexico
52.6A
High jump
High jump
The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

Teodoro Palacios
 Guatemala
2.05A David Cruz
 Puerto Rico
1.80A
Pole vault
Pole vault
Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts...

Rolando Cruz
Rolando Cruz
For the Rolando Cruz related to the Illinois criminal case, see Rolando Cruz caseRolando Cruz is a former pole vaulter from Puerto Rico. He competed for his native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1956...


 Puerto Rico
4.50A Roberto Fernández
Roberto Fernández
Roberto Eladio Fernández Roa is a retired football goalkeeper from Paraguay. He was capped 78 times for the Paraguay national football team in an international career that lasted from 1976 to 1989. He was also a member of the Paraguayan team that won the 1979 Copa América...


 Cuba
4.40A José Seth
 Guatemala
3.80A
Long jump
Long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...

Abelardo Pacheco
 Cuba
7.49A David Cruz
 Puerto Rico
7.46A José Hernández
 Cuba
7.44A
Triple jump
Triple jump
The triple jump is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a “hop, bound and jump” routine, whereby the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit.The triple jump has its origins in the Ancient Olympics and has been a...

José Hernández
 Cuba
15.54A Guillermo Hoffner
 Mexico
15.12A David Douglas
David Douglas
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 Guatemala
13.47A
Shot put
Shot put
The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....

Fidel Estrada
 Cuba
16.42A Benigno Hodelín
 Cuba
15.75A Carlos Yapur
 Mexico
15.14A
Discus throw
Discus throw
The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...

Bárbaro Cañizares
Barbaro Canizares
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 Cuba
52.96A Javier Moreno
 Cuba
49.95A Ignacio Reinosa
 Puerto Rico
49.91A
Hammer throw
Hammer throw
The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown...

Enrique Samuells
 Cuba
66.06A Julián Núñez Arana
 Mexico
49.67A Pedro Granell
 Puerto Rico
48.39A
Javelin throw
Javelin throw
The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...

Francisco Mena
 Cuba
69.60A Edmundo Medina
 Mexico
68.11A Jorge García
 Puerto Rico
68.10A
Pentathlon
Pentathlon
A pentathlon is a contest featuring five different events. The name is derived from Greek: combining the words pente and -athlon . The first pentathlon was documented in Ancient Greece and was part of the Ancient Olympic Games...

Francisco Mena
 Cuba
3440A Donald Vélez
 Nicaragua
2847A Sergio Hernández
Sergio Hernandez
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 Mexico
2779A
20 km road walk
20 kilometres race walk
The 20 kilometre race walk is an Olympic athletics event that is competed by both men and women. The racewalking event is competed as a road race...

José Pedraza
 Mexico
1:46:31A Pablo Colín
 Mexico
1:50:41A Euclides Calzado
 Cuba
1:50:55A
4 x 100 metres relay
4 x 100 metres relay
The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners begin in the same stagger as for the individual 400 m race...

 Cuba 40.3A
4 x 400 metres relay
4 x 400 metres relay
The 4 x 400 meters relay or long relay is an athletics track event in which teams comprise four runners who each complete 400 meters or one lap. It is traditionally the final event of a track meet. At top class events, the first 500 meters is run in lanes...

 Mexico 3:16.0A  Puerto Rico 3:18.3A  Cuba 3:21.2A

Women's events

100 metres
100 metres
The 100 metres, or 100-metre dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, it is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896...

Cristina Echevarría
 Cuba
11.5A Miguelina Cobián
Miguelina Cobián
Miguelina Cobián is a retired sprinter from Cuba who helped win a silver medal in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1968 Summer Olympics, the first Olympic medal ever achieved by Cuban women.-References:...


 Cuba
11.6A Mercedes Román
 Mexico
12.4A
200 metres
200 metres
A 200 metres race is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 m track, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques are needed to successfully run the race. A slightly shorter race, called the stadion and run on a straight track, was the first...

Miguelina Cobián
Miguelina Cobián
Miguelina Cobián is a retired sprinter from Cuba who helped win a silver medal in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1968 Summer Olympics, the first Olympic medal ever achieved by Cuban women.-References:...


 Cuba
23.9A Violeta Quesada
 Cuba
24.4A Gladys Azcuaga
 Mexico
26.0A
400 metres
400 metres
The 400 metres, or 400 metre dash, is a common sprinting event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 . On a standard outdoor running track, it is exactly one lap around the track. Runners start in staggered positions and...

Aurelia Pentón
Aurelia Pentón
Aurelia Catalina Pentón Conde is a retired track and field athlete from Cuba, who competed in the 400 and 800 metres during her career. She twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: 1968 and 1972....


 Cuba
57.4A Gladys Azcuaga
 Mexico
59.5A Lourdes García
 Mexico
61.4A
800 metres
800 metres
The 800 meter race is a common track running event. It is the shortest common middle distance track event. The 800 meter is run over two laps of the track and has always been an Olympic event. During indoor track season the event is usually run on a 200 meter track, therefore requiring four laps...

Aurelia Pentón
Aurelia Pentón
Aurelia Catalina Pentón Conde is a retired track and field athlete from Cuba, who competed in the 400 and 800 metres during her career. She twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: 1968 and 1972....


 Cuba
2:24.1A María Díaz
 Mexico
2:24.3A Ines Mondragón
 Mexico
2:26.8A
80 metres hurdles
100 metres hurdles
The 100 m hurdles are an Olympic track and field athletics discipline run by women . For the race ten hurdles of a height of 83.8 cm are placed evenly spaced along a straight course of 100 meters. They are positioned so that they will fall over if bumped into by the runner...

Marlene Elejalde
 Cuba
11.6A Daisy Hechevarría
 Cuba
11.7A Enriqueta Basilio
 Mexico
12.1A
High jump
High jump
The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

Marcia Garbey
 Cuba
1.53A Silvia Tapia
 Mexico
1.45A
Long jump
Long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...

Irene Martínez
 Cuba
5.65A Marcia Garbey
 Cuba
5.62A Mercedes Román
 Mexico
5.39A
Shot put
Shot put
The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....

Hilda Ramírez
 Cuba
13.59A Grecia Hamilton
 Cuba
13.02A Guadalupe Lartigue
 Mexico
12.28A
Discus throw
Discus throw
The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...

Caridad Aguero
 Cuba
45.86A Hilda Ramírez
 Cuba
42.65A Lili Schluter
 Mexico
38.25A
Javelin throw
Javelin throw
The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...

María Moreno
 Cuba
49.94A Hilda Ramírez
 Cuba
41.66A Martha Bravo
 Mexico
38.26A
Pentathlon
Women's pentathlon
The pentathlon is a sports contest made up of five events . The women's pentathlon was contested in the Olympics from 1964 until 1980, and it was replaced in the 1984 Games with the heptathlon. It had a different set of events than the ancient Olympic pentathlon...

Marlene Elejalde
 Cuba
4186A Mercedes Román
 Mexico
4031A Daisy Hechevarría
 Cuba
4009A
4 x 100 metres relay
4 x 100 metres relay
The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners begin in the same stagger as for the individual 400 m race...

 Cuba 45.1A  Mexico 49.6A  Guatemala 52.5A


A = affected by altitude

Medal table

1  Cuba 23 13 8 44
2  Mexico 9 14 14 37
3  Puerto Rico 2 6 6 14
4  Guatemala 1 0 4 5
5  Nicaragua 0 1 0 1

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