1969 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics
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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
10.4 CR José Triana
 Cuba
10.7 Carl Edmund
 Panama
10.8
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
21.0 CR Pedro Fernández
Pedro Fernández
José Martín Cuevas Cobos , known professionally as Pedro Fernández, is a Mexican recording artist and actor.-Discography:*1979: La De La Mochila Azul*1989: Vicio*1990: Por Un Amigo Más*1991: Muñecos De Papel...


 Cuba
21.5 Carl Edmund
 Panama
21.8
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
47.0 CR Garth Case
 Jamaica
47.4 Antonio Álvarez
 Cuba
47.9
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...

Luis Dubouchet
 Cuba
1:50.1 CR Herminio Isaac
 Puerto Rico
1:51.5 Carlos Martínez
 Mexico
1:53.2
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...

Sergio González
 Mexico
3:52.2 CR Carlos Martínez
 Mexico
3:53.2 Lázaro Valdivieso
 Cuba
3:54.8
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...

Sergio González
 Mexico
14:59.4 CR Andrés Romero
 Mexico
15:00.8 Carlos Báez
 Puerto Rico
15:37.0
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...

Sergio González
 Mexico
31:13.3 Andrés Romero
 Mexico
31:21.5 Felipe Chaviano
 Cuba
32:46.4
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...

Pablo Garrido
Pablo Garrido
Pablo Garrido Lugo was a Mexican athlete who competed in the late 1960s. He finished 26th in the Men's marathon at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. Garrido also took the Olympic Oath at those same games.-References:** **...


 Mexico
1:08:53 CR Jacinto Sabinal
 Mexico
1:11:35 Patricio Larriñaga
 Cuba
1:12:10
3000 metres steeplechase Antonio Villanueva
 Mexico
9:04.0 CR Rigoberto Mendoza
Rigoberto Mendoza
Rigoberto Mendoza Pérez is a retired male marathon runner from Cuba. He won the gold medal at the 1975 Pan American Games and competed for his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics, finishing in 33rd place. He set his personal best in the classic distance in 1975.-Achievements:-References:*...


 Cuba
9:06.6 Bulmaro Olguín
 Mexico
9:08.5
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
14.4 CR Pedro Fernández
Pedro Fernández
José Martín Cuevas Cobos , known professionally as Pedro Fernández, is a Mexican recording artist and actor.-Discography:*1979: La De La Mochila Azul*1989: Vicio*1990: Por Un Amigo Más*1991: Muñecos De Papel...


 Cuba
14.4 Richard Davis
 Panama
17.0
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...

Miguel Olivera
 Cuba
53.9 Juan García
 Cuba
53.9 Richard Davis
 Panama
67.0
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....

Miguel Durañona
 Cuba
1.95 Bernabé Luaces
 Cuba
1.95 Trevor Tennant
 Jamaica
1.90
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...

Roberto Moré
 Cuba
4.52 CR Jorge Miranda
 Puerto Rico
4.10 Guillermo González
 Puerto Rico
4.10
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...

Ernesto Boy
 Cuba
7.46 David Cruz
 Puerto Rico
7.33 Victor Brooks
Victor Brooks
Victor Brooks was a British film and television actor. He appeared in the television series Raffles, in the recurring role of the Albany porter.-Filmography:Film*The Hostage *The Birthday Present...


 Jamaica
7.31
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
15.60 CR Ricardo Carnejo
 Cuba
15.56 Iván Baldayo
 Venezuela
15.44
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....

Benigno Hodelín
 Cuba
15.78 Modesto Mederos
 Cuba
15.68 Jorge Marrero
 Puerto Rico
14.78
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
Bárbaro Rafael Cañizares [cah-nyee-that'-ress] is a Cuban first baseman that plays for the Guerreros de Oaxaca in the Triple-A Mexican League. He is 6'3" and weights 230 lbs...


 Cuba
54.70 CR Javier Moreno
 Cuba
50.84 Ignacio Reinosa
 Puerto Rico
48.92
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...

Víctor Suárez
 Cuba
56.10 Jesús Fuentes
 Cuba
53.60 Pedro Granell
 Puerto Rico
53.56
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...

Salomón Robins
 Mexico
69.98 CR Francisco Mena
 Cuba
69.70 Julio Loredo
 Cuba
69.50
Decathlon
Decathlon
The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word decathlon is of Greek origin . Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are determined by the combined performance in all. Performance is judged on a points system in each event, not...

Jesús Mirabal
Jesús Mirabal
Jesús Mirabal is a former Cuban decathlete.He won the Central American and Caribbean Games in 1970 and 1974 and took bronze medals at the Pan American Games in 1971 and 1975. He was the first Cuban decathlete to break the 7000 point barrier, and eventually established his national record at 7506...


 Cuba
6492 CR José Díaz
 Cuba
6040
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...

Pascual Ramírez
 Mexico
1:39:57 CR José Oliveros
 Mexico
1:40:06 Euclides Calzado
 Cuba
1:41:05
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...

 Jamaica 42.2  Panama 43.4
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...

 Cuba 3:13.1 CR  Jamaica 3:15.8  Panama 3:20.5

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...

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
11.6 Fulgencia Romay
Fulgencia Romay
Fulgencia Romay is a retired sprinter from Cuba. At the 1968 Summer Olympics she helped win a silver medal in 4 x 100 metres relay, the first Olympic medal ever won by Cuban women. At the 1972 Summer Olympics she won another relay medal, this time a bronze. She also won a silver medal in 200...


 Cuba
11.8 Margarita Martínez
 Panama
12.8
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
23.8 CR Violeta Quesada
 Cuba
23.8 Margarita Martínez
 Panama
25.8
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...

Carmen Trustée
Carmen Trustée
Carmen Trustée Lee is a retired track and field athlete from Cuba, who competed in the 400 and 800 metres during her career. She represented her native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.-References:*...


 Cuba
55.2 CR 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
55.3 Lucía Quiroz
 Mexico
58.5
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...

Carmen Trustée
Carmen Trustée
Carmen Trustée Lee is a retired track and field athlete from Cuba, who competed in the 400 and 800 metres during her career. She represented her native country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.-References:*...


 Cuba
2:12.2 CR Lucía Quiroz
 Mexico
2:14.1 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
2:14.9
100 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...

Lourdes Jones
 Cuba
14.7 CR Raquel Martínez
 Cuba
14.7 Beatriz Aparicio
 Panama
16.5
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....

Hilda Fabré
 Cuba
1.55 CR Silvia Tapia
 Mexico
1.55 Lucía Duquet
 Cuba
1.55
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...

Marina Samuells
 Cuba
6.08 CR Marcia Garbey
 Cuba
6.07 Carol Cummings
 Jamaica
5.52
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
14.02 CR Grecia Hamilton
 Cuba
13.95 Guadalupe Lartigue
 Mexico
13.00
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...

Carmen Romero
Carmen Romero
Carmen Romero Ferrer is a retired Cuban discus thrower. Her personal best throw was 69.08 metres, achieved in April 1976 in Havana.-Achievements:-References:...


 Cuba
51.41 CR María Betancourt
María Betancourt
María Cristina Betancourt Ramírez is a retired Cuban discus thrower. Her personal best throw was 66.54 metres, achieved in February 1981 in Havana.-Achievements:-References:...


 Cuba
47.78 Eileen Hibbert
 Jamaica
38.52
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...

Milagros Bayard
 Cuba
45.28 Tomasa Núñez
 Cuba
42.72 Ana López
 Panama
35.84
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...

Daisy Hechevarría
 Cuba
3974 Josefa Reyes
 Cuba
3640
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 45.9  Panama 50.3  Jamaica 50.8

Medal table

1  Cuba 26 21 8 55
2  Mexico 7 7 4 18
3  Puerto Rico 1 3 5 9
4  Jamaica 1 2 5 8
5  Panama 0 2 9 11
6  Venezuela 0 0 1 1

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