1983 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...

Juan Núñez
 Dominican Republic
10.16 CR NR Tomás González
 Cuba
10.37 Florencio Aguilar
 Panama
10.48
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...

Juan Núñez
 Dominican Republic
20.65 NR Tomás González
 Cuba
20.96 Fabian Whymns
 The Bahamas
21.19
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...

Lázaro Martínez
Lazaro Martínez
Lázaro Martínez Despaigne is a retired Cuban sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.He won an Olympic silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay in Barcelona 1992. His personal best of 46.12 was set during the 1991 World Championships....


 Cuba
45.91 Agustín Pavó
Agustin Pavó
Agustín Pavó is a retired male track and field athlete from Cuba who competed in the sprint events during his career. He won the gold medal in the men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1991 Pan American Games, alongside teammates Héctor Herrera, Jorge Valentin and Lázaro Martínez.-References:...


 Cuba
46.74 Edison Reyes
 Venezuela
46.95
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...

Bárbaro Serrano
 Cuba
1:47.67 Oslen Barr
 Guyana
1:48.25 Hilario Barnet
 Cuba
1:48.89
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
3:46.66 Jorge Poll
 Cuba
3:46.71 Félix Mesa
 Cuba
3:47.59
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...

Gerardo Alcalá
 Mexico
14:11.91 Germán Peña
 Colombia
14:22.45 Eduardo Navas
 Venezuela
14:24.42
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...

Gerardo Alcalá
 Mexico
31:05.86 Navel Parra
 Cuba
31:10.99 Eddy Ríos
 Cuba
31:16.50
Marathon
Marathon
The marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres , that is usually run as a road race...

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
2:58:51 Héctor Rodríguez
 Colombia
2:59:35 Juan Brito
Juan Brito
Juan Ramon Brito is a J-BRITo catcher. Brito made his MLB debut with the Kansas City Royals in...


 Colombia
3:01:31
3000 metres steeplechase César Santiago
 Puerto Rico
8:48.80 Rafael Colmenares
 Venezuela
8:49.90 José Cobo
 Colombia
8:55.70
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...

Alejandro Casañas
Alejandro Casañas
Alejandro Francisco Casañas Ramírez is a former Cuban hurdler....


 Cuba
13.61w Modesto Castillo
 Dominican Republic
13.79w Ángel Bueno
 Cuba
13.93w
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...

David Charlton
 The Bahamas
50.07 CR Greg Rolle
 The Bahamas
50.87 Victor Gómez
 Cuba
51.24
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
2.25 =CR Clarence Saunders
 Bermuda
2.19 Javier Sotomayor
Javier Sotomayor
Javier Sotomayor Sanabria is a Cuban former track and field athlete who specialized in the high jump and is the current world record holder. The 1992 Olympic champion, he was the dominant high jumper of the 1990s; he is the only person ever to have cleared 8 feet . He is widely regarded as the...


 Cuba
2.17
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...

Edgardo Rivera
 Puerto Rico
5.20 CR Brian Morrissette
 United States Virgin Islands
5.10 Rubén Camino
 Cuba
5.00
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...

Juan Felipe Ortíz
Juan Felipe Ortíz
Juan Felipe Ortiz is a retired male long jumper who represented Cuba during his career. His main rival during the 1980s and early 1990s was Jaime Jefferson.-Achievements:-References:*...


 Cuba
8.04 CR Joey Wells
Joey Wells
Joseph Wells is a retired male long jumper from the Bahamas, best known for finishing sixth at the 1984 Olympic Games.-Achievements:-References:*...


 The Bahamas
8.04 Jaime Jefferson
Jaime Jefferson
Jaime Jefferson is a retired long jumper who represented Cuba. Best known for his World Indoor Championships medals, he has also won the Pan American Games twice as well as other regional games....


 Cuba
8.03
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...

Jorge Reyna
Jorge Reyna
Jorge Reyna is a retired male triple jumper from Cuba who won a silver medal at the 1989 World Indoor Championships in Budapest.His personal best jump was 17.48 metres, achieved in February 1987 in Santiago de Cuba...


 Cuba
16.95 CR Lázaro Balcindes
 Cuba
16.58 Ernesto Torres
 Puerto Rico
15.91
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....

Paul Ruiz
Paul Ruiz
Paul Ruiz is a retired male shot putter from Cuba. His personal best is 20.28 metres, achieved in May 1988 in Rostock.-Achievements:-References:...


 Cuba
17.76 William Romero
 Venezuela
16.29 Marciso Boué
 Cuba
15.90
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...

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
63.26 Juan Martínez
 Cuba
63.12 Raúl Calderón
 Cuba
57.00
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...

Genovevo Morejón
 Cuba
67.60 CR Vicente Sánchez
 Cuba
64.24 Luis Martínez
 Puerto Rico
56.90
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
79.76 Martín Álvarez
 Cuba
76.74 Juan de la Garza
Juan de la Garza
Juan Gerardo de la Garza Tenorio is a retired javelin thrower from Mexico, who won the bronze medal at the 1987 Pan American Games during his career.-Achievements:-References:*...


 Mexico
75.22
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...

Pedro Herrera
 Cuba
7358 CR Guillermo Sánchez
 Mexico
7224 Douglas Rosado
 Puerto Rico
6974
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...

David Castro
David Castro
David Ferreira Castro was a long-distance freestyle swimmer from Brazil. He represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea in the 400 m and 1500 m freestyle events, see Brazil at the 1988 Summer Olympics.-References:*...


 Cuba
1:29:44 Querubín Moreno
Querubín Moreno
José Querubín Moreno is a retired Colombian race walker.-Achievements:-External links:...


 Colombia
1:29:54 Marcelino Colín
 Mexico
1:33:49
50 km road walk Arturo Bravo
Arturo Bravo
Arturo Bravo is a retired male racewalker from Mexico, who represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. He set his personal best in the men's 50 km walk event in 1987....


 Mexico
4:21:01 CR Rolando Hernández
 Cuba
4:46:36 Félix Pérez
 Cuba
4:53:18
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 39.81  The Bahamas 40.34  Venezuela 40.64
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 3:05.12  Barbados 3:07.06  Venezuela 3:08.56

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...

Luisa Ferrer
 Cuba
11.52 Pauline Davis
 The Bahamas
11.60 Susana Armenteros
 Cuba
11.66
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...

Luisa Ferrer
 Cuba
23.38w Pauline Davis
 The Bahamas
23.65w Nilsa París
 Puerto Rico
23.70w
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...

Ana Fidelia Quirot
Ana Fidelia Quirot
Ana Fidelia Quirot is a female athlete from Cuba, who specialised in the 800 m but was also successful over 400 m....


 Cuba
52.89 Mercedes Álvarez
 Cuba
53.47 Oralee Fowler
 The Bahamas
54.57
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...

Nery McKeen
Nery McKeen
Nery McKeen is a retired Cuban middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres. She won the gold medal at the 1983 Pan American Games.Her personal best time was 2.00.23 minutes, achieved in June 1985 in Prague.-Achievements:...


 Cuba
2:04.26 CR María Ribeaux
 Cuba
2:06.84 Adriana Marchena
 Venezuela
2:09.20
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...

Eloína Kerr
 Cuba
4:21.06 CR Janice Carlo
 Puerto Rico
4:25.09 Adriana Marchena
 Venezuela
4:26.57
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...

Sergia Martínez
 Cuba
9:36.75 CR Fabiola Rueda
 Colombia
9:40.10 María Cuesta
 Cuba
9:58.61
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...

Grisel Machado
 Cuba
13.64 CR Julieta Rosseaux
 Cuba
14.19 Angie Marie Regis
 Venezuela
14.23
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...

Alma Vázquez
 Mexico
59.57 Felicia Candelario
 Dominican Republic
60.06 Vilma París
 Puerto Rico
60.84
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....

Victoria Despaigne
 Cuba
1.78 Amalia Montes
 Mexico
1.75 Eunice Greene
 The Bahamas
1.75
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...

Shonel Ferguson
Shonel Ferguson
Shonel Ferguson is a former track and field athlete from the Bahamas, who competed in the women's sprint and long jump events during her career. She is a three-time Olympian . Ferguson was inducted into the Bahamas Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1993.-External links:*...


 The Bahamas
6.65 CR 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
6.49 Adelina Polledo
 Cuba
6.23
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....

Marcelina Rodríguez
 Cuba
17.00 Laverne Eve
Laverne Eve
Laverne Eve is a female track and field athlete from the Bahamas, who competes in the javelin throw. Her personal best throw is 63.73 metres, achieved in April 2000 in Nashville. In her early career she also competed in shot put and discus throw...


 The Bahamas
14.75 Lissete Martínez
 Cuba
14.67
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
58.58 Hilda Ramos
Hilda Ramos
Hilda Elisa Ramos Manes is a retired Cuban discus thrower.Her personal best throw is 7.88 metres, achieved in May 1992 in Havana. This is the current North American, Central American and Caribbean record....


 Cuba
57.80 Yunaira Piña
 Venezuela
46.04
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...

Iris de Grasse
 Cuba
59.74 CR María Beltrán
 Cuba
56.40 Mariela Riera
 Venezuela
53.84
Heptathlon
Heptathlon
A heptathlon is a track and field athletics combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek hepta and athlon . A competitor in a heptathlon is referred to as a heptathlete.-Women's Heptathlon:...

Victoria Despaigne
 Cuba
5469 CR Leyda Castro
 Dominican Republic
5178 Genoveva Montano
 Cuba
4870
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...

 The Bahamas 45.26  Puerto Rico 46.69
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 3:34.97 CR  Puerto Rico 3:39.36  The Bahamas 3:54.37

Medal table

1  Cuba 26 15 16 57
2  Mexico 5 2 2 9
3  The Bahamas 4 6 4 14
4  Puerto Rico 2 4 5 11
5  Dominican Republic 2 3 0 5
6  Colombia 1 4 2 7
7  Venezuela 0 2 9 11
8  Barbados 0 1 0 1
 Guyana 0 1 0 1
 United States Virgin Islands 0 1 0 1
 Bermuda 0 1 0 1
12  Panama 0 0 1 1

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