Athletics at the 1978 Central American and Caribbean Games
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The athletics competition at the 1978 Central American and Caribbean Games
1978 Central American and Caribbean Games
The 13th Central American and Caribbean Games were held in Medellín, Colombia from July 7 to July 28, 1978 and included 2.605 athletes from eighteen nations.-References:...

was held in Medellín
Medellín
Medellín , officially the Municipio de Medellín or Municipality of Medellín, is the second largest city in Colombia. It is in the Aburrá Valley, one of the more northerly of the Andes in South America. It has a population of 2.3 million...

, Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

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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...

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
10.10 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
10.11 Guy Abrahams
 Panama
10.20
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...

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
20.49 Anthony Husbands
Anthony Husbands
Anthony Husbands is a retired sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago who specialized in the 200 metres.He attended the Essex Community College, Maryland, USA.-Achievements:-External links:*...


 Trinidad and Tobago
21.00 Guy Abrahams
 Panama
21.15
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
44.27 Joseph Coombs
Joseph Coombs
Joseph Coombs is a retired athlete from Trinidad and Tobago who specialized in the 400 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay.He attended Alabama University, Alabama, USA....


 Trinidad and Tobago
45.41 Seymour Newman
 Jamaica
46.11
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...

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
1:47.23 Gerold Pawirodikromo
 Suriname
1:47.46 Leandro Civil
 Cuba
1:47.66
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...

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
3:44.47 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
3:45.14 Osmán Escobar
 Venezuela
3:45.89
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...

Rodolfo Gómez
Rodolfo Gómez
Rodolfo Gómez Orozco is a retired long-distance runner, who was one of the leading runners represented from Mexico in the 1970s and 1980s...


 Mexico
13:55.08 Domingo Tibaduiza
Domingo Tibaduiza
Domingo Tibaduiza Reyes is a former long-distance runner from Gameza, Colombia, who represented his native country at four consecutive Summer Olympics: in the 10,000 metres , the 5,000 metres and in the men's marathon...


 Colombia
13:56.88 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
14:27.33
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...

Rodolfo Gómez
Rodolfo Gómez
Rodolfo Gómez Orozco is a retired long-distance runner, who was one of the leading runners represented from Mexico in the 1970s and 1980s...


 Mexico
29:34.64 Domingo Tibaduiza
Domingo Tibaduiza
Domingo Tibaduiza Reyes is a former long-distance runner from Gameza, Colombia, who represented his native country at four consecutive Summer Olympics: in the 10,000 metres , the 5,000 metres and in the men's marathon...


 Colombia
29:38.66 Luis Hernández
Luis Hernández (athlete)
Luis Hernández is a retired long-distance runner from Mexico. He claimed the gold medal at the 1975 Pan American Games in the Men's 10,000 metres, and represented his native country the following year at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal, Canada.-References:* He also is one of the best...


 Mexico
30:23.84
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...

Radamés Vega
 Puerto Rico
2:22:34 Mario Cuevas
Mario Cuevas
Mario Cuevas is a Mexican professional boxer in the Light Welterweight division.-Professional career:...


 Mexico
2:23:07 José Granajo
 Guatemala
2:26:04
3000 metre steeplechase José Cobo
 Cuba
8:46.39 Carlos Martínez
 Mexico
8:52.13 Jaime Villate
 Colombia
8:56.29
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
13.67 Mariano Reyes
 Dominican Republic
14.68 Karl Smith
Karl Smith
Karl Brian Smith is a former English cricketer. Smith was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born at Leicester, Leicestershire....


 Jamaica
14.71
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...

Clive Bariffe
 Jamaica
50.16 Julio Ferrer
 Puerto Rico
50.86 Luis Alex Misiniak
 Colombia
50.97
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
2.12 Rodolfo Madrigal
 Costa Rica
2.12 Jamil Justiniano
 Puerto Rico
2.09
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...

Augusto Perdomo
 Cuba
5.00 Elberto Pratt
 Mexico
4.80 Rubén Camino
 Cuba
4.80
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...

David Giralt
David Giralt
David Giralt Agramonte is a Cuban long jumper. His personal best jump was 8.22 metres, achieved in August 1979 in Montreal. He is the father of triple jumper Arnie David Giralt.-Achievements:-References:...


 Cuba
7.82 Milán Matos
 Cuba
7.77 Ron Chambers
 Jamaica
7.77
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
16.60 Juan Velázquez
 Cuba
16.43 Alejandro Herrera
 Cuba
16.10
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....

Humberto Calvario
 Cuba
17.51 Nicolás Hernández
 Cuba
17.36 Jesús Ramos
 Venezuela
16.83
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
58.62 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
58.56 Brad Cooper
 The Bahamas
54.24
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...

Armando Orozco
 Cuba
69.86 Genovevo Morejón
 Cuba
69.14 Luis Martínez
 Puerto Rico
56.22
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...

Antonio González
 Cuba
78.74 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
70.54 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
63.64
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...

Rigoberto Salazar
 Cuba
7483 Miguel Subarnaba
 Cuba
6954 José Montezuma
 Venezuela
6842
20 kilometre road walk Daniel Bautista
Daniel Bautista
Daniel Bautista Rocha is a former Mexican track and field athlete and Olympic champion. He was born in El Salado, San Luis Potosí....


 Mexico
1:29:10 Raúl González
Raúl González (walker)
Raúl González Rodríguez is a retired Mexican race walker. He was born at Rancho Las Lajas, Municipality of China, State of Nuevo Leon. As of October 2011, he has held since 1978 the North American record for the fastest time in the 50-kilometer racewalk .-Achievements:-References:*...


 Mexico
1:31:58 Jorge Quiñones
 Colombia
1:39:31
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...

 Trinidad and Tobago 39.13  Cuba 39.44  Dominican Republic 39.62
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 3:03.76  Trinidad and Tobago 3:05.01  Cuba 3:05.57

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
11.47 Lelieth Hodges
 Jamaica
11.63 Isabel Taylor
 Cuba
11.74
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
23.01 Janice Bernard
 Trinidad and Tobago
24.01 Maureen Gottshalk
 Jamaica
24.42
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
50.56 Beatriz Castillo
 Cuba
51.27 Helen Blake
 Jamaica
53.40
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...

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
2:01.38 Charlotte Bradley
 Mexico
2:03.58 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
2:04.48
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...

Charlotte Bradley
 Mexico
4:30.78 Ileana Hocking
 Puerto Rico
4:35.88 Susana Herrera
 Mexico
4:39.62
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
13.31 Marisela Peralta
 Dominican Republic
14.23 Carmen Zamora
 Cuba
14.29
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....

Angela Carbonell
 Cuba
1.75 Grace Jackson
Grace Jackson
Grace Jackson is a retired Jamaican athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres and 200 metres....


 Jamaica
1.70 Elisa Ávila
 Mexico
1.65
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
6.41 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
6.25 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
6.12
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
17.00 Marcelina Rodríguez
 Cuba
14.97 Vicky López
 Puerto Rico
13.42
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
60.54 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
57.58 Selene Saldarriaga
 Colombia
41.28
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...

María Caridad Colón
 Cuba
63.40 María Beltrán
 Cuba
54.86 Guadalupe López
 Mexico
49.80
Pentathlon
Pentathlon
A pentathlon is a contest featuring five different events. The name is derived from Greek: combining the words pente and -athlon . The first pentathlon was documented in Ancient Greece and was part of the Ancient Olympic Games...

Elida Aveillé
 Cuba
3636 Alix Castillo
 Venezuela
3625 Laura Vázquez
 Mexico
3511
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 44.37  Jamaica 44.41  Trinidad and Tobago 45.13
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 3:31.34  Jamaica 3:41.69  Puerto Rico 3:46.58

Medal table

1  Cuba 27 13 9 49
2  Mexico 4 6 6 16
3  Jamaica 2 4 5 11
4  The Bahamas 2 0 1 3
5  Trinidad and Tobago 1 4 1 6
6  Puerto Rico 1 3 4 8
7  Colombia 0 2 4 6
8  Dominican Republic 0 2 1 3
9  Venezuela 0 1 3 4
10  Suriname 0 1 0 1
 Costa Rica 0 1 0 1
12  Panama 0 0 2 2
13  Guatemala 0 0 1 1
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