1985 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics
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The 1985 Central American Championships in Athletics were held in Nassau
Nassau, Bahamas
Nassau is the capital, largest city, and commercial centre of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. The city has a population of 248,948 , 70 percent of the entire population of The Bahamas...

, Bahamas.

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...

Andrés Simón
Andrés Simón
Andrés Simón Gómez is a former sprinter from Cuba who won an Olympic bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay in Barcelona 1992. He also participated in the relay at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. He specialized in the 60 meters and 100 metres events. His personal best for the 100m is 10.06, set in...


 Cuba
10.22 Osvaldo Lara
Osvaldo Lara
Osvaldo Lara Cañizares is a retired male track and field sprinter from Cuba, who represented his native country at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. He reached both 100/200 finals where he finished 5th in the 100...


 Cuba
10.30 Fabian Whymns
 The Bahamas
10.41
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...

Leandro Peñalver
Leandro Peñalver
Leandro Peñalver is a retired Cuban athlete who competed in the sprints. His personal best is 10.06 seconds, achieved in Caracas in 1983.-External links:...


 Cuba
20.56 CR Félix Stevens
Félix Stevens
Félix Stevens is a retired male sprinter from Cuba, who competed in the 1980s and the early 1990s for his native country. He set is personal best in the men's 200 metres event on July 7, 1989 at a meet in Sofia, Bulgaria....


 Cuba
20.70 David Smith
David Smith
-In sports:* Dai Smith , rugby league footballer of the 1900s, who played for Salford, and Other Nationalities* David Smith , South African Olympic sport shooter...


 Jamaica
20.82
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...

Roberto Hernández
 Cuba
45.34 Bert Cameron
Bert Cameron
Bertland Cameron is a retired Jamaican sprinter who mainly competed over 400 metres. He represented Jamaica at three consecutive editions of the Summer Olympics. Cameron won the 400 m title at the first World Championships in Athletics...


 Jamaica
45.44 Elvis Forde
Elvis Forde
Elvis Forde is a retired Barbadian sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres. He was the flag bearer for his native country at the opening ceremony of the 1988 Summer Olympics....


 Barbados
45.74
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...

Reuben Bayley
 Barbados
1:48.93 Steve Burgess
 Bermuda
1:49.48 Livingston Marshall
 The Bahamas
1:49.77
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...

Rafael Martínez
Rafael Martinez
Rafael Martinez may refer to:* Rafael E. Martinez, politician* Rafael Martínez * Rafael Martínez Aguilera, also known as Rafa Martínez, Spanish basketball player* Rafael Martínez Nadal, third president of the Senate of Puerto Rico...


 Mexico
3:43.81 Francisco Pacheco
Francisco Pacheco
Francisco Pacheco was a Spanish painter, best known as the teacher of Diego Velázquez and Alonso Cano, and for his textbook on painting that is an important source for the study of 17th-century practice in Spain...


 Mexico
3:44.75 Carlos Quiñones
 Puerto Rico
3:45.60
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...

Francisco Pacheco
Francisco Pacheco
Francisco Pacheco was a Spanish painter, best known as the teacher of Diego Velázquez and Alonso Cano, and for his textbook on painting that is an important source for the study of 17th-century practice in Spain...


 Mexico
13:53.30 CR Silvio Salazar
 Colombia
13:54.00 Mauricio González
Mauricio González (athlete)
Mauricio González is a retired long-distance runner from Mexico. He won the gold medal in the men's 5000 metres event at the 1986 Central American and Caribbean Games, and competed for his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.Mexican record holder 5000m and 10000m...


 Mexico
14:11.50
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...

Jesús Herrera
Jesús Herrera
Jesús Herrera is a retired long-distance runner from Mexico. He represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1984. His best Olympic result was finishing in 11th place in the men's marathon, clocking 2:13:58, at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South...


 Mexico
29:56.30 Martín Pitayo
Martín Pitayo
Martín Pitayo Martínez is a retired long-distance runner from Mexico, who won the gold medal at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba. He also won the 1990 edition of the Chicago Marathon, clocking 2:09:41.-Achievements:...


 Mexico
29:58.20 Silvio Salazar
 Colombia
30:12.00
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...

Claudio Cabán
Claudio Cabán
Claudio Cabán is a retired Puerto Rican marathon runner. He competed for his native country in the men's marathon at the 1984 Summer Olympics, finishing in 53rd place. He set is personal best in the classis distance in 1983....


 Puerto Rico
2:38:18 Anthony Williams
 The Bahamas
2:43:25
3000 metres steeplechase Juan Ramón Conde
 Cuba
8:36.80 CR Juan Jesús Linares
 Cuba
8:39.20 Carmelo Ríos
Carmelo Ríos
Carmelo Ríos Figueroa is a retired male long-distance runner from Puerto Rico, who competed for his native country in the men's 3000 m steeplechase at the 1984 Summer Olympics...


 Puerto Rico
8:40.90
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
13.68 Juan Saborit
 Cuba
13.83 Gary Bullard
 The Bahamas
14.74
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...

Jesús Aguilasocho
 Mexico
49.81 CR Greg Rolle
 The Bahamas
51.01 Wilfredo Santiago
 Puerto Rico
51.30
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....

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
2.30 CR Francisco Centelles
Francisco Centelles
Juan Francisco Centelles Aizpurúa is a retired male high jumper from Cuba.-Achievements:-References:* *...


 Cuba
2.30 Clarence Saunders
 Bermuda
2.14
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
5.20 =CR Manuel Fuentes
 Venezuela
4.70 Alberto Nieves
 Puerto Rico
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...

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
8.13 CR Ubaldo Duany
 Cuba
8.07 Elmer Williams
Elmer Williams
Elmer Williams González is a retired Puerto Rican long jumper.He won the silver medal at the 1986 Central American and Caribbean Games and the bronze medal at the 1995 Pan American Games...


 Puerto Rico
7.93w
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...

Steve Hanna
 The Bahamas
17.07 CR Lázaro Balcindes
 Cuba
16.80 Ernesto Torres
 Puerto Rico
16.46w
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
18.98 Luis Delís
Luis Delís
Luis Mariano Delís Fournier is a retired Cuban athlete who competed in discus throw and shot put. Specializing in discus throw on the international scene, he won an Olympic bronze medal in 1980 as well as medals at the two first World Championships.In 1990 he tested positive for banned substances...


 Cuba
18.52 James Dedier
 Trinidad and Tobago
16.37
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...

Luis Delís
Luis Delís
Luis Mariano Delís Fournier is a retired Cuban athlete who competed in discus throw and shot put. Specializing in discus throw on the international scene, he won an Olympic bronze medal in 1980 as well as medals at the two first World Championships.In 1990 he tested positive for banned substances...


 Cuba
66.50 CR Juan Martínez
 Cuba
64.78 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
60.10
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...

Alejandro Labardesque
 Cuba
63.90 Francisco Soria
 Cuba
60.68 David Castrillón
 Colombia
59.42
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
79.20 Ramón González
Ramón González (athlete)
Ramón González is a retired male javelin thrower from Cuba, who won a total number of three medals at the Pan American Games during his career.-Achievements:-References:*...


 Cuba
76.88 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
74.90
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...

Sidney Cartwright
 The Bahamas
7000 Brooke Onley
 Bermuda
6908 Ron McPhee
 The Bahamas
6694
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...

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
1:28:26 Biliulfo Andablo
 Mexico
1:31:16 Héctor Moreno
Héctor Moreno
Héctor José Moreno Moreno is a retired Colombian racewalker. He went to four Olympian games and five world athletics . he is one of the best athletes in the past fifty years because only two Colombians also have a Panamerican title and he is one of them...


 Colombia
1:32:52
50 km road walk Martín Bermúdez
Martín Bermúdez
Martín Bermúdez Mendoza is a retired male race walker from Mexico.-Achievements:-References:*...


 Mexico
4:22:33 Pedro Aroche
Pedro Aroche
Pedro Aroche de los Monteros is a retired male race walker from Mexico.-Achievements:-References:*...


 Mexico
4:28:09 Edel Oliva
Edel Oliva
Edel Oliva is a retired male race walker from Cuba. He set his personal best in the men's 50 km event on March 24, 1995 during the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata, Argentina.-Achievements:-External links:...


 Cuba
4:40:37
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 39.17 CR  The Bahamas 40.25  Puerto Rico 40.5
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 3:03.38 CR  Barbados 3:03.69  Mexico 3:07.50

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...

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
11.18 CR Grace Jackson
Grace Jackson
Grace Jackson is a retired Jamaican athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres and 200 metres....


 Jamaica
11.27 Pauline Davis
 The Bahamas
11.47
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
22.39 CR Grace Jackson
Grace Jackson
Grace Jackson is a retired Jamaican athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres and 200 metres....


 Jamaica
22.64 Pauline Davis
 The Bahamas
23.37
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
50.96 CR Andrea Thomas
Andrea Thomas (Jamaican athlete)
Andrea Thomas was a Jamaican athlete who competed in the 1984 and 1988 Olympics.-References:...


 Jamaica
52.58 Jocelyn Joseph
 Antigua and Barbuda
53.25
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...

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
2:03.60 CR 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
2:04.10 Norfalia Carabalí
 Colombia
2:05.40
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...

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
4:23.35 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
4:25.03 Alicia Diffourt
 Cuba
4:25.84
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...

Santa Velázquez
 Mexico
9:35.10 CR Adriana Frausto
 Mexico
9:46.10 Sergia Martínez
 Cuba
9:47.90
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...

Yolanda Veranes
 Cuba
36:56.40 CR Carmen Martínez
 Puerto Rico
37:28.30 Ileana Arroyo
 Puerto Rico
37:48.20
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
13.43w Sandra Taváres
 Mexico
13.78w Odalys Hernández
 Cuba
13.83w
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...

Belkis Chávez
 Cuba
58.77 Odalys Hernández
 Cuba
59.50 Carmel Major
 The Bahamas
59.90
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
1.88 CR Cristina Fink
Cristina Fink
Cristina Fink Smith is a retired high jumper from Mexico, who set her personal best on May 17, 1992, jumping 1.94 meters at a meet in Mexico City. She competed for her country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, where she finished in 20th place .-Achievements:-References:* * *...


 Mexico
1.81 Laura Agront
Laura Agront
Laura Agront Sánchez-Pimion is a retired female high jumper from Puerto Rico. She competed for her native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, finishing in 22nd place in the final rankings with a jump of 1.80 m....


 Puerto Rico
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
6.47w Eloína Echevarría
Eloína Echevarría
Eloína C. Echevarría is a retired Cuban long jumper and triple jumper.Her personal best jumps were 6.59 metres in the long jump, achieved in February 1979 in Havana; and 14.34 in the triple jump, achieved in February 1995 in Havana....


 Cuba
6.41w Victoria Despaigne
 Cuba
5.97
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
17.16 Rosa Fernández
 Cuba
16.76 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
14.54
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...

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
61.02 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
60.78 María Isabel Urrutia
María Isabel Urrutia
María Isabel Urrutia Ocoró is a weightlifter and politician from Colombia.-Athletic career:Initially she competed in shot put and discus throw, and participated in the 1988 Summer Olympics in these events. She switched to weightlifting in 1989, and won silver at the 1989 World Championships...


 Colombia
55.56
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...

Mayra Vila
 Cuba
63.38 CR María Caridad Colón
 Cuba
62.78 Sonya Smith
Sonya Smith
Sonya Eleonora Smith Jacquet is an Venezuelan actress best known for her roles in telenovelas.-Biography:A blond and blue-eyed Hispanic born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she is the daughter of Venezuelan actress Ileana Jacquet and Federico Albertini Smith, who is part-Colombian and part-American...


 Bermuda
49.44
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
5323 Nadia Katich
 Colombia
5245 Leyda Castro
 Dominican Republic
4884
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 45.71  Mexico 46.04  Puerto Rico 47.25
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 3:34.47 CR  Mexico 3:40.75  The Bahamas 3:43.33

Medal table

1  Cuba 25 18 5 48
2  Mexico 7 9 3 19
3  The Bahamas 4 3 10 17
4  Jamaica 2 4 1 7
5  Puerto Rico 2 1 10 13
6  Barbados 1 1 1 3
7  Colombia 0 2 5 7
8  Bermuda 0 2 2 4
9  Venezuela 0 1 0 1
10  Trinidad and Tobago 0 0 1 1
 Antigua and Barbuda 0 0 1 1
 Dominican Republic 0 0 1 1

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