1967 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics

The inaugural 1967 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics were held at the Estadio Heriberto Jara Corona in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico between 5–7 May.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Hermes Ramírez  Cuba	10.5A	Juan Franceschi  Puerto Rico	10.6A	Cuba	10.8A
200 metres	Hermes Ramírez  Cuba	21.6A	Juan Franceschi  Puerto Rico	21.6A	Mexico	21.7A
400 metres	Juan Franceschi  Puerto Rico	47.1A	Rodobaldo Díaz  Cuba	47.6A	Cuba	48.1A
800 metres	Mexico	1:51.3A	Puerto Rico	1:51.8A	Roberto Silva  Mexico	1:52.0A
1500 metres	Mexico	3:59.2A	José Neri  Mexico	3:59.3A	Puerto Rico	4:04.7A
5000 metres	Mexico	15:02.6A	Mexico	15:27.2A	Julio Quevedo  Guatemala	16:02.0A
10,000 metres	Juan Martínez  Mexico	30:33.6A	Mexico	31:11.0A	Cuba	34:17.4A
Half marathon	Juan Martínez  Mexico	1:11:02A	Mexico	1:12:08A	Cuba	1:16:25A
110 metres hurdles	Juan Morales  Cuba	14.6A	Lázaro Betancourt  Cuba	14.7A	Puerto Rico	16.4A
400 metres hurdles	Salvador Medina  Mexico	52.3A	Miguel Olivera  Cuba	52.4A	Mexico	52.6A
3000 metres steeplechase	Mexico	9:19.2A	Mexico	9:19.4A	Puerto Rico	10:33.6A
4 × 100 metres relay	Cuba	40.3A
4 × 400 metres relay	Mexico Roberto Silva Salvador Medina	3:16.0A	Puerto Rico	3:18.3A	Cuba	3:21.2A
20 km road walk	José Pedraza  Mexico	1:46:31A	Pablo Colín  Mexico	1:50:41A	Euclides Calzado  Cuba	1:50:55A
High jump	Teodoro Palacios  Guatemala	2.05A	Puerto Rico	1.80A
Pole vault	Rolando Cruz  Puerto Rico	4.50A	Cuba	4.40A	Guatemala	3.80A
Long jump	Cuba	7.49A	Puerto Rico	7.46A	Cuba	7.44A
Triple jump	Cuba	15.54A	Mexico	15.12A	Guatemala	13.47A
Shot put	Cuba	16.42A	Cuba	15.75A	Mexico	15.14A
Discus throw	Cuba	52.96A	Cuba	49.95A	Ignacio Reinosa  Puerto Rico	49.91A
Hammer throw	Cuba	66.06A	Mexico	49.67A	Puerto Rico	48.39A
Javelin throw	Cuba	69.60A	Mexico	68.11A	Jorge García  Puerto Rico	68.10A
Pentathlon	Cuba	3440A	Donald Vélez  Nicaragua	2847A	Mexico	2779A

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Cuba	11.5A	Miguelina Cobián  Cuba	11.6A	Mercedes Román  Mexico	12.4A
200 metres	Miguelina Cobián  Cuba	23.9A	Violeta Quesada  Cuba	24.4A	Mexico	26.0A
400 metres	Aurelia Pentón  Cuba	57.4A	Mexico	59.5A	Mexico	61.4A
800 metres	Aurelia Pentón  Cuba	2:24.1A	Mexico	2:24.3A	Mexico	2:26.8A
80 metres hurdles	Marlene Elejalde  Cuba	11.6A	Cuba	11.7A	Enriqueta Basilio  Mexico	12.1A
4 × 100 metres relay	Cuba Marcia Garbey Violetta Quesada Miguelina Cobián	45.1A	Mexico	49.6A	Guatemala	52.5A
High jump	Marcia Garbey  Cuba	1.53A	Mexico	1.45A
Long jump	Irene Martínez  Cuba	5.65A	Marcia Garbey  Cuba	5.62A	Mercedes Román  Mexico	5.39A
Shot put	Cuba	13.59A	Cuba	13.02A	Mexico	12.28A
Discus throw	Cuba	45.86A	Cuba	42.65A	Mexico	38.25A
Javelin throw	Cuba	49.94A	Cuba	41.66A	Mexico	38.26A
Pentathlon	Marlene Elejalde  Cuba	4186A	Mercedes Román  Mexico	4031A	Cuba	4009A

A = affected by altitude

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)	23	13	8	44
2	Mexico (MEX)	9	14	14	37
3	Puerto Rico (PUR)	2	6	6	14
4	Guatemala (GUA)	1	0	4	5
5	Nicaragua (NIC)	0	1	0	1
Totals (5 nations)		35	34	32	101

External links[]

• Men Results – GBR Athletics
• Women Results – GBR Athletics