1969 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics

The 1969 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics were held at the in Havana, Cuba between 17–19 August.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Hermes Ramírez  Cuba	10.4 CR	José Triana  Cuba	10.7	Panama	10.8
200 metres	Hermes Ramírez  Cuba	21.0 CR	Cuba	21.5	Panama	21.8
400 metres	Juan Franceschi  Puerto Rico	47.0 CR	Jamaica	47.4	Cuba	47.9
800 metres	Cuba	1:50.1 CR	Puerto Rico	1:51.5	Mexico	1:53.2
1500 metres	Mexico	3:52.2 CR	Mexico	3:53.2	Cuba	3:54.8
5000 metres	Mexico	14:59.4 CR	Mexico	15:00.8	Carlos Báez  Puerto Rico	15:37.0
10,000 metres	Mexico	31:13.3	Mexico	31:21.5	Cuba	32:46.4
Half marathon	Pablo Garrido  Mexico	1:08:53 CR	Jacinto Sabinal  Mexico	1:11:35	Cuba	1:12:10
110 metres hurdles	Juan Morales  Cuba	14.4 CR	Cuba	14.4	Panama	17.0
400 metres hurdles	Miguel Olivera  Cuba	53.9	Juan García  Cuba	53.9	Panama	67.0
3000 metres steeplechase	Mexico	9:04.0 CR	Rigoberto Mendoza  Cuba	9:06.6	Mexico	9:08.5
4 × 100 metres relay	Jamaica	42.2	Panama	43.4
4 × 400 metres relay	Cuba Martínez Rodobaldo Díaz	3:13.1 CR	Jamaica Alfred Daley Delroy Morgan Leighton Priestley	3:15.8	Panama Bloomfield Lara Tejeda Ansell	3:20.5
20 km road walk	Mexico	1:39:57 CR	José Oliveros  Mexico	1:40:06	Euclides Calzado  Cuba	1:41:05
High jump	Cuba	1.95	Cuba	1.95	Jamaica	1.90
Pole vault	Roberto Moré  Cuba	4.52 CR	Puerto Rico	4.10	Guillermo González  Puerto Rico	4.10
Long jump	Cuba	7.46	Puerto Rico	7.33	Victor Brooks  Jamaica	7.31
Triple jump	Cuba	15.60 CR	Cuba	15.56	Venezuela	15.44
Shot put	Cuba	15.78	Modesto Mederos  Cuba	15.68	Puerto Rico	14.78
Discus throw	Cuba	54.70 CR	Cuba	50.84	Ignacio Reinosa  Puerto Rico	48.92
Hammer throw	Cuba	56.10	Cuba	53.60	Puerto Rico	53.56
Javelin throw	Mexico	69.98 CR	Cuba	69.70	Cuba	69.50
Decathlon	Jesús Mirabal  Cuba	6492 CR	Cuba	6040

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Miguelina Cobián  Cuba	11.6	Fulgencia Romay  Cuba	11.8	Panama	12.8
200 metres	Miguelina Cobián  Cuba	23.8 CR	Violeta Quesada  Cuba	23.8	Panama	25.8
400 metres	Carmen Trustée  Cuba	55.2 CR	Aurelia Pentón  Cuba	55.3	Mexico	58.5
800 metres	Carmen Trustée  Cuba	2:12.2 CR	Mexico	2:14.1	Aurelia Pentón  Cuba	2:14.9
100 metres hurdles	Cuba	14.7 CR	Raquel Martínez  Cuba	14.7	Panama	16.5
4 × 100 metres relay	Cuba Miguelina Cobián Fulgencia Romay Cristina Hechavarria Marcia Garbey	45.9	Panama	50.3	Jamaica	50.8
High jump	Cuba	1.55 CR	Mexico	1.55	Cuba	1.55
Long jump	Cuba	6.08 CR	Marcia Garbey  Cuba	6.07	Carol Cummings  Jamaica	5.52
Shot put	Cuba	14.02 CR	Cuba	13.95	Mexico	13.00
Discus throw	Carmen Romero  Cuba	51.41 CR	María Cristina Betancourt  Cuba	47.78	Jamaica	38.52
Javelin throw	Cuba	45.28	Tomasa Núñez  Cuba	42.72	Panama	35.84
Pentathlon	Cuba	3974	Cuba	3640

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)	26	21	8	55
2	Mexico (MEX)	7	7	4	18
3	Puerto Rico (PUR)	1	3	5	9
4	Jamaica (JAM)	1	2	5	8
5	Panama (PAN)	0	2	9	11
6	Venezuela (VEN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 nations)		35	35	32	102

External links[]

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