1979 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics
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The 1979 Central American Championships in Athletics were held in Guadalajara, Jalisco
Guadalajara, Jalisco
Guadalajara is the capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality of Guadalajara. The city is located in the central region of Jalisco in the western-pacific area of Mexico. With a population of 1,564,514 it is Mexico's second most populous municipality...

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Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

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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...

Guy Abrahams
 Panama
10.37A Gerardo Suero
 Dominican Republic
10.53A Esteban Briceño
 Venezuela
10.54A
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...

Floyd Brown
 Jamaica
21.30A Rafael López
 Dominican Republic
21.33A Jesús Cabrera
 Puerto Rico
Tomás González
 Cuba
21.45A
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...

Colin Bradford
Colin Bradford
Colin Bradford is a former Jamaican track and field athlete who specialised in sprinting events. He represented Jamaica at the Olympic Games in 1976 and 1980....


 Jamaica
46.41A Michael Barnes
 Jamaica
46.84A Dean Greenaway
 British Virgin Islands
47.12A
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...

Owen Hamilton
 Jamaica
1:48.2A Eduardo Castro
Eduardo Castro
Eduardo Castro Almanza is a retired long-distance runner from Mexico, who won several medals during the early 1980s.-Achievements:-References:* *...


 Mexico
1:48.3A Víctor Ramos
 Puerto Rico
1:49.7A
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...

Ignacio Melecio
 Mexico
3:48.1A Osmán Escobar
 Venezuela
3:50.5A Modesto Comprés
 Dominican Republic
3:54.7A
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...

José Gómez
José Gómez (athlete)
José Gómez Cervantes is a retired long-distance runner from Mexico, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1980.-Achievements:-References:* * *...


 Mexico
14:27.4A Jaime Vélez
Jaime Velez
Jaime Velez, played by Christopher Rivera, is a Latino inmate on the HBO drama Oz.-Character overview:He wants to follow Miguel Alvarez and tries to kill Carmen Guerra to get in his good graces. The attempt backfires however as Guerra kills Jaime....


 Puerto Rico
14:43.0A Lucirio Garrido
 Venezuela
14:50.4A
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...

Virgilio Herrera
 Guatemala
31:42.8A Luis Haro
 Mexico
32:04.6A Celso Garro
 Costa Rica
32:48.8A
30 km road race
Road running
Road running is the sport of running on a measured course over an established road . These events would be classified as long distance according to athletics terminology, with distances typically ranging from 5 kilometers to 42.2 kilometers in the marathon. They may involve large numbers of runners...

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


 Mexico
1:26:24A CR Radamés González
Radamés González
Radamés González Tamayo is a former Cuban marathon runner. He won the gold medal at the 1979 Pan American Games and competed for his native country at the 1980 Summer Olympics.-References:*...


 Cuba
1:27:35A Andrés Romero
 Mexico
1:27:38A
3000 metres steeplechase Demetrio Cabanillos
 Mexico
9:18.6A Lucirio Garrido
 Venezuela
9:18.7A Octavio Guadarrama
 Mexico
9:22.6A
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...

Rafael Echavarría
 Mexico
13.93A Jorge Palacios
 Cuba
13.94A Mariano Reyes
 Dominican Republic
14.20A
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
51.4A Carlos Yambot
 Puerto Rico
51.4A Rafael Echavarría
 Mexico
51.5A
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....

Jorge Alfaro
 Cuba
2.25A CR Cristóbal de León
 Dominican Republic
2.17A Rodolfo Madrigal
 Costa Rica
2.12A
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...

Rubén Camino
 Cuba
5.05A CR Edgardo Rivera
 Puerto Rico
4.60A
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...

Ray Quiñones
Ray Quiñones
Ray Quiñones is a retired Puerto Rican long jumper.He won the Central American and Caribbean Championships in 1979 and 1987, the latter in a career best jump of 8.01 metres. He also competed at the 1987 World Championships without reaching the final.-References:...


 Puerto Rico
7.70A Oswaldo Torres
 Venezuela
7.61A Ubaldo Duany
 Cuba
7.30A
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...

Ricardo Goitizolo
 Cuba
15.97A José Salazar
José Salazar
-Achievements:-References:*...


 Venezuela
15.81A Edgar Moreno
 Venezuela
15.54A
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....

Nicolás Hernández
 Cuba
18.49A CR Bradley Cooper
Bradley Cooper (athlete)
Bradley "Brad" Cooper is a retired male discus thrower and shot putter from the Bahamas. He competed for his native country in two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1984. Cooper set his personal best, , in the discus event on June 14, 1986 in Nassau.-References:* * *...


 The Bahamas
18.35A Humberto Calvario
 Cuba
17.46A
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...

José Santa Cruz
 Cuba
62.48A CR Bradley Cooper
Bradley Cooper (athlete)
Bradley "Brad" Cooper is a retired male discus thrower and shot putter from the Bahamas. He competed for his native country in two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1984. Cooper set his personal best, , in the discus event on June 14, 1986 in Nassau.-References:* * *...


 The Bahamas
61.24A Luis Palacios
 Venezuela
49.70A
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...

Alfredo Guillot
 Cuba
62.10A Ángel Cabrera
 Cuba
58.52A Luis Martínez
 Puerto Rico
54.44A
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...

Reinaldo Patterson
Reinaldo Patterson
Reinaldo Patterson is a retired javelin thrower from Cuba, who competed for his native country during the 1970s and the 1980s.-Achievements:-References:*...


 Cuba
82.24A CR 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
77.70A Dionisio Quintana
Dionisio Quintana
Dionisio Quintana Viltres is a retired male javelin thrower from Cuba, who competed for his native country during the 1970s and the 1980s. He later became the trainer of Osleidys Menéndez. Under his guidance, Menéndez developed a successful career spanning thirteen years...


 Cuba
76.58A
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...

Carlos Palacios
Carlos Palacios
Carlos Palacios is a Honduran footballer who plays for Club Deportivo Marathón as a defender. He earned his first caps for the Honduran national team in 2009 during the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup. Recently, manager Reinaldo Rueda called Palacios up for a World Cup Qualifier against Costa Rica.-External...


 Cuba
6882A Juan Ríos
 Venezuela
6716A Pedro Herrera
 Cuba
6525A
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...

Félix Gómez
 Mexico
1:28:21A CR Ernesto Canto
Ernesto Canto
Ernesto Canto Gudiño is a former Mexican race walker who mainly competed in the 20 kilometre walk.He competed for Mexico at the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United States where he won the gold medal in the men's 20 kilometre walk event.-Achievements:-External links:*...


 Mexico
1:28:53A Rigoberto Medina
 Cuba
1:34:41A
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...

 Dominican Republic 40.02A  Jamaica 40.17A  Puerto Rico 40.72A
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 3:05.0A CR  Venezuela 3:08.9A  Dominican Republic 3:11.9A

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...

Lelieth Hodges
 Jamaica
11.64A Rosie Allwood
 Jamaica
11.79A Darcy Bryant
 Costa Rica
11.96A
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...

Merlene Ottey
Merlene Ottey
Merlene Joyce Ottey , is a Jamaican-born Slovenian track athlete. Ottey began her career representing Jamaica, but since 2002, has represented Slovenia, where she now resides...


 Jamaica
23.44A CR Elsa Antúnez
 Venezuela
24.34A Divina Estrella
 Dominican Republic
24.41A
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...

Debbie Byfield-White
 Jamaica
54.29A Carol Cummings
 Jamaica
54.92A Nancy Calveart
 Cuba
55.02A
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...

María Ribeaux
 Cuba
2:09.0A Eloína Kerr
 Cuba
2:09.3A Ana Orendaín
 Mexico
2:11.0A
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...

Melquises Fonseca
 Cuba
4:40.0A Sergia Martínez
 Cuba
4:41.2A Angelita Lind
Angelita Lind
Angelita Lind a.k.a. "The Angel of Puerto Rico" is a Puerto Rican track and field athlete.-Early years:Lind was born in the barrio Marin Bajo of Patillas, Puerto Rico into a poor family. She received her primary and secondary education in her hometown...


 Puerto Rico
4:42.4A
3000 metres
3000 metres
The 3000 metres is a popular amateur middle distance track event where 7.5 laps are completed around a 400 metre track. This event is generally classified as middle distance, but it could be classed as a long distance event in many high schools, since they do not promote races such as the 5000 and...

Melquises Fonseca
 Cuba
10:06.6A Rosa Domínguez
 Mexico
10:11.8A Irma Hernández
 Mexico
10:15.0A
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...

Lorlee Giscombe
 Jamaica
14.28A Marisela Peralta
 Dominican Republic
14.44A Maritza de la Guardia
 Cuba
14.84A
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...

Marcela Chivás
 Cuba
59.78A CR Stephanie Vega
 Puerto Rico
60.21A Divina Estrella
 Dominican Republic
62.43A
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....

Silvia Costa
Silvia Costa
Silvia Costa Acosta-Martínez is a former high jumper from Cuba most known for winning medals at the 1985 IAAF World Indoor Championships and the 1993 World Championships in Athletics. She also has three medals from the Summer Universiade...


 Cuba
1.80A Elisa Ávila
 Mexico
1.78A Reina Mateu
 Cuba
1.76A
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...

Emilia Lenk
 Mexico
5.90A Madeline de Jesús
Madeline de Jesús
Madeline de Jesús is a retired female track and field athlete from Puerto Rico, who competed in the women's long jump and triple jump during her career. Her personal best in the long jump was set on July 24, 1988 in Mexico City...


 Puerto Rico
5.87A Odalys Herrera
 Cuba
5.79A
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....

Rosa Fernández
 Cuba
17.88A CR Marcelina Rodríguez
 Cuba
17.80A Patricia Andrus
 Venezuela
13.46A
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...

Salvadora Vargas
 Cuba
55.30A CR Maritza Martén
Maritza Martén
Maritza Martén García is a retired female discus thrower from Cuba who competed in the discus contest at the 1992 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal. She also won the 1987 Pan American Games. Her personal best throw of 70.68m was achieved in 1992.-Achievements:-External reference:*...


 Cuba
50.22A Laura Aguiñaga
 Mexico
44.90A
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...

Ana María González
 Cuba
54.16A CR Mayra Vila
 Cuba
49.36A Martha Blanco
 Mexico
44.88A
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...

María Ángeles Cato
 Mexico
3907A Elida Aveillé
 Cuba
3840A Ansis Salazar
 Cuba
3618A
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 44.82A CR  Dominican Republic 46.79A  Puerto Rico 47.16A
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 3:41.8A  Jamaica 3:42.8A  Venezuela 3:45.9A


A = affected by altitude

Medal table

1  Cuba 17 9 10 36
2  Jamaica 9 5 0 14
3  Mexico 8 5 7 20
4  Puerto Rico 2 6 6 14
5  Dominican Republic 1 5 5 11
6  Guatemala 1 0 0 1
 Panama 1 0 0 1
8  Venezuela 0 7 6 13
9  The Bahamas 0 2 0 2
10  Costa Rica 0 0 3 3
11  British Virgin Islands 0 0 1 1

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