1973 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics
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The 1973 Central American Championships in Athletics were held in Maracaibo
Maracaibo
Maracaibo is a city and municipality located in northwestern Venezuela off the western coast of the Lake Maracaibo. It is the second-largest city in the country after the national capital Caracas and the capital of Zulia state...

, Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

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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...

Don Quarrie
Don Quarrie
Donald O'Riley Quarrie C.D is a former Jamaican athlete, one of the world's top sprinters during the 1970s....


 Jamaica
10.2 =CR José Triana
 Cuba
10.2 Carl Lawson
 Jamaica
10.2
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...

Don Quarrie
Don Quarrie
Donald O'Riley Quarrie C.D is a former Jamaican athlete, one of the world's top sprinters during the 1970s....


 Jamaica
20.1w Silvio Leonard
Silvio Leonard
Silvio Leonard Sarría also known as Silvio Leonard Tartabull is a former sprinter from Cuba. He was the second athlete to run the 100 metres in less than 10 seconds with electronic timing, running in 9.98 seconds on August 11, 1977 in Guadalajara. The first was 1968 Olympic champion Jim Hines...


 Cuba
20.3w Pablo Bandomo
 Cuba
20.4w
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...

Alberto Juantorena
Alberto Juantorena
Alberto Juantorena Danger is a Cuban former track athlete. At the 1976 Summer Olympics, he became the first and so far only athlete to win both the 400 and 800 m Olympic titles....


 Cuba
46.4 CR Pedro Ferrer
Pedro Ferrer
Pedro Ferrer , was a Cuban footballer.He represented Cuba at the 1938 FIFA World Cup in France. In his only match against Sweden, Ferrer did not score a goal.-References:...


 Puerto Rico
46.6 Víctor Patínez
 Venezuela
47.2
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...

Leandro Civil
 Cuba
1:49.8 Luis Medina
Luis Medina (athlete)
Luis Medina Montoya is a retired middle distance runner from Cuba, who represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. He is best known for winning the gold medal in the men's 800 metres event at the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico City, Mexico.-References:*...


 Cuba
1:49.8 Leotulfo Jiménez
 Venezuela
1:50.7
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...

Antonio Colón
 Puerto Rico
3:45.9 CR Jesús Barrero
Jesús Barrero
Jesús Barrero is a Mexican voice actor.-Filmography:*El Hombrecito de Jenjibre in Shrek Forever After* El Hombrecito de Jenjibre in Una Navidad con Shrek* Rex in Toy Story 3...


 Colombia
3:47.2 Carlos Báez
 Puerto Rico
3:47.6
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...

Víctor Mora
Víctor Mora (athlete)
Víctor Manuel Mora García is a retired long-distance runner from Colombia. He won the gold medal in the men's 5.000 metres event at the 1974 Central American and Caribbean Games, and competed for his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1972 .-References:*...


 Colombia
14:04.2 CR Mario Pérez
 Mexico
14:06.8 Rafael Palomares
 Mexico
14:19.6
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...

Víctor Mora
Víctor Mora (athlete)
Víctor Manuel Mora García is a retired long-distance runner from Colombia. He won the gold medal in the men's 5.000 metres event at the 1974 Central American and Caribbean Games, and competed for his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1972 .-References:*...


 Colombia
29:56.4 CR Pedro Miranda
 Mexico
29:56.6 Luis Haro
 Mexico
29:58.2
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...

Mario Cuevas
Mario Cuevas
Mario Cuevas is a Mexican professional boxer in the Light Welterweight division.-Professional career:...


 Mexico
1:05:07 CR Martín Pabón
 Colombia
1:05:56 Santiago Barón
 Colombia
1:06:10
3000 metres steeplechase Antonio Villanueva
 Mexico
8:49.4 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
8:52.6 Víctor Mora
Víctor Mora (athlete)
Víctor Manuel Mora García is a retired long-distance runner from Colombia. He won the gold medal in the men's 5.000 metres event at the 1974 Central American and Caribbean Games, and competed for his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1972 .-References:*...


 Colombia
8:58.2
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
13.7w Guillermo Núñez
 Cuba
13.8w Enrique Rendón
 Venezuela
14.4w
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...

Julio Ferrer
 Puerto Rico
51.9 CR Fabio Zúñiga
 Colombia
52.0 Juan García
 Cuba
53.1
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....

Richard Spencer
 Cuba
2.06 CR Amado Olaguiber
 Cuba
2.03 Pedro Yequez
 Venezuela
2.03
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...

Jorge Palacios
 Cuba
4.85 CR Roberto Moré
 Cuba
4.85 Ciro Valdés
 Colombia
4.60
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...

Milán Matos
 Cuba
7.68 CR Efraín Malberty
 Cuba
7.34 Wilfredo Maisonave
 Puerto Rico
7.28
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...

Juvenal Pérez
 Cuba
15.79 Gerry Swan
 Bermuda
15.57 Edgar Moreno
 Venezuela
15.56
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....

José Carreño
Jose Carreño
José Carreño is an Ecuadorian painter who studied in Paris. His first important group exhibition was held in 1965 when he attended the Latin American Painting Hall in Braniff, Texas, USA. During this time, his work revolved around the suburban based expressionism. Perhaps this exhibit paved the...


 Venezuela
15.94 Benigno Hodelín
 Cuba
15.78 Silván Hemming
 Cuba
15.72
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...

Julián Morrison
Julián Morrison
Julián Morrison Gales is a former discus thrower from Cuba. He competed for his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal, Canada, where he did not reach the final in the men's discus throw event. He won the gold medal at the 1974 Central American and Caribbean Games.-References:*...


 Cuba
57.58 CR Javier Moreno
 Cuba
53.86 Ignacio Reinosa
 Puerto Rico
49.12
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
62.50 William Silén
 Puerto Rico
59.08 Pedro Garbey
 Cuba
59.08
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...

Raúl Fernández
 Cuba
74.90 Amado Morales
Amado Morales
Amado Rigoberto Morales is a retired male javelin thrower from Puerto Rico, who competed for his native country during the 1970s and the 1980s.-Achievements:-References:* *...


 Puerto Rico
70.94 Héctor Vinent
Héctor Vinent
Héctor Vinent Cháron was a Cuban boxer, who won the Light Welterweight Gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics and 1996 Summer Olympics.-External links:**...


 Cuba
70.24
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
7315 CR Rigoberto Salazar
 Cuba
7035 Celso Aragón
 Colombia
6841
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 39.9  Cuba 40.2  Trinidad and Tobago 41.1
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...

 Jamaica 3:09.4  Cuba 3:10.1  Venezuela 3:10.4

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...

Silvia Chivás
 Cuba
11.4 CR Carmen Valdés
Carmen Valdés
Carmen Valdés is a retired sprinter from Cuba, who won an Olympic bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay in Munich 1972.-References:...


 Cuba
11.6 Laura Pierre
 Trinidad and Tobago
11.9
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...

Silvia Chivás
 Cuba
23.5w Asunción Acosta
 Cuba
23.9w Ruth Williams
 Jamaica
23.9w
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
53.5 =CR Asunción Acosta
 Cuba
53.7 Lorna Forde
 Barbados
54.9
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...

Charlotte Bradley
 Mexico
2:05.8 CR Zeneida de la Cruz
 Dominican Republic
2:06.9 Enriqueta Nava
 Mexico
2:07.7
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...

Enriqueta Nava
 Mexico
4:26.3 CR Charlotte Bradley
 Mexico
4:35.1 Melquises Fonseca
 Cuba
4:37.3
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...

Marlene Elejalde
 Cuba
13.9 Andrea Bruce
 Jamaica
14.4 Mercedes Román
 Mexico
14.4
200 metres hurdles
Hurdling
Hurdling is a type of track and field race.- Distances :There are sprint hurdle races and long hurdle races. The standard sprint hurdle race is 110 meters for men and 100 meters for women. The standard long hurdle race is 400 meters for both men and women...

Marlene Elejalde
 Cuba
28.0w Raquel Martínez
 Cuba
29.1w Alix Castillo
 Venezuela
30.7w
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....

Andrea Bruce
 Jamaica
1.71 Marima Rodríguez
 Cuba
1.69 Angela Carbonell
 Cuba
1.67
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...

Marcia Garbey
 Cuba
6.04 Ana Alexander
Ana Alexander
Ana Bella Alexander Lamothe is a retired female athlete from Cuba, who mainly competed in the women's long jump event during her career.-References:*...


 Cuba
6.02 Ana Maquilón
 Colombia
5.46
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
14.28 CR Celeste Kindelán
 Cuba
14.02 Patricia Andrus
 Venezuela
12.88
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
52.46 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
47.92 Patricia Andrus
 Venezuela
39.88
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...

Tomasa Núñez
 Cuba
51.62 Milagros Bayard
 Cuba
47.04 Gladys González
 Venezuela
45.52
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...

Lucía Duquet
 Cuba
3807 Mercedes Román
 Mexico
3729 Angela Carbonell
 Cuba
3629
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  Jamaica 48.4  Netherlands Antilles 48.6
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 3:42.1  Barbados 3:51.0  Mexico 3:56.9

Medal table

1  Cuba 23 22 8 53
2  Jamaica 5 2 2 9
3  Mexico 4 4 5 13
4  Colombia 2 3 5 10
5  Puerto Rico 2 3 3 8
6  Venezuela 1 0 10 11
7  Barbados 0 1 1 2
8  Dominican Republic 0 1 0 1
 Bermuda 0 1 0 1
10  Trinidad and Tobago 0 0 2 2
11  Netherlands Antilles 0 0 1 1

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