1971 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics

The 1971 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics were held at the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica between 14–17 July.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Don Quarrie  Jamaica	10.2 CR	Lennox Miller  Jamaica	10.2	Pablo Montes  Cuba	10.4
200 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Don Quarrie  Jamaica	20.6 CR	Guillermo González  Puerto Rico	21.3	Pablo Montes  Cuba	21.3
400 metres	Alfred Daley  Jamaica	46.6 CR	Melesio Piña  Mexico	47.4	Raúl Dome  Venezuela	47.6
800 metres	Byron Dyce  Jamaica	1:49.7 CR	Leandro Civil  Cuba	1:49.7	Lennox Stewart  Trinidad and Tobago	1:50.0
1500 metres	Byron Dyce  Jamaica	3:46.8 CR	Puerto Rico	3:47.5	Mexico	3:48.2
5000 metres	Puerto Rico	14:25.6 CR	Rodolfo Gómez  Mexico	14:25.8	Lucirio Garrido  Venezuela	14:30.0
10,000 metres	Mexico	31:32.0	Guatemala	31:41.8	Puerto Rico	31:53.0
Half marathon	Mexico	1:10:24	Jamaica	1:12:46	Cuba	1:12:50
110 metres hurdles (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Juan Morales  Cuba	13.8 CR	Arnaldo Bristol  Puerto Rico	13.9	Godfrey Murray  Jamaica	13.9
400 metres hurdles	Juan García  Cuba	52.1 CR	Francisco Dumeng  Puerto Rico	52.3	Mexico	52.7
3000 metres steeplechase	Lucirio Garrido  Venezuela	8:58.6 CR	Rigoberto Mendoza  Cuba	8:58.8	Cuba	9:11.6
4 × 100 metres relay	Jamaica Alfred Daley Carl Lawson Don Quarrie Lennox Miller	39.2 CR	Puerto Rico	40.7	Venezuela	40.7
4 × 400 metres relay	Jamaica Leighton Priestley Trevor Campbell Alfred Daley	3:09.0 CR	Cuba	3:10.1	Trinidad and Tobago	3:13.3
10,000 m track walk	Cuba	47:20.2 CR	Mexico	47:43.8	Raúl González  Mexico	49:35.2
High jump	Venezuela	1.98	Jamaica	1.95	Cuba	1.95
Pole vault	Roberto Moré  Cuba	4.80 CR	Cuba	4.40	Guillermo González  Puerto Rico	4.30
Long jump	George Swanston  Trinidad and Tobago	7.43	Wilfredo Maisonave  Puerto Rico	7.38	Cuba	7.19
Triple jump	Pedro Pérez  Cuba	15.94 CR	Cuba	15.42	Tim Barrett  Bahamas	15.32
Shot put	Cuba	15.76	Cuba	15.33	Puerto Rico	14.96
Discus throw	Cuba	55.50 CR	Cuba	54.44	Jamaica	46.04
Hammer throw	Cuba	56.54	Cuba	53.98	Puerto Rico	53.54
Javelin throw	Juan Jarvis  Cuba	77.20 CR	Amado Morales  Puerto Rico	74.38	Cuba	71.40
Decathlon	Cuba	6779 CR	Jesús Mirabal  Cuba	6692	Grenada	6105

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -2.1 m/s)	Fulgencia Romay  Cuba	11.6	Silvia Chivás  Cuba	11.6	Rosie Allwood  Jamaica	11.9
200 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Fulgencia Romay  Cuba	23.6 CR	Silvia Chivás  Cuba	23.9	Panama	24.1
400 metres	Marilyn Neufville  Jamaica	53.5 CR	Carmen Trustée  Cuba	54.0	Yvonne Saunders  Jamaica	54.3
800 metres	Carmen Trustée  Cuba	2:14.6	Aurelia Pentón  Cuba	2:15.1	Jamaica	2:15.8
1500 metres	Mexico	4:34.2 CR	Mexico	4:37.5	Cuba	4:38.5
100 metres hurdles	Marlene Elejalde  Cuba	13.7 CR	Cuba	14.0	Carmen Smith-Brown  Jamaica	14.1
200 metres hurdles	Cuba	28.0 CR	Raquel Martínez  Cuba	28.2	Enriqueta Basilio  Mexico	29.0
4 × 100 metres relay	Cuba	45.4	Jamaica	46.0	Venezuela	47.2
4 × 400 metres relay	Cuba	3:38.6 CR	Jamaica	3:41.0	Trinidad and Tobago	4:03.2
High jump	Audrey Reid  Jamaica	1.73 CR	Andrea Bruce  Jamaica	1.70	Marima Rodríguez  Cuba	1.67
Long jump	Cuba	5.93	Marcia Garbey  Cuba	5.68	Yvonne Saunders  Jamaica	5.65
Shot put	Carmen Romero  Cuba	14.25 CR	Cuba	14.04	Orlanda Lynch  Suriname	10.20
Discus throw	Carmen Romero  Cuba	55.24 CR	María Cristina Betancourt  Cuba	49.38	Orlanda Lynch  Suriname	34.02
Javelin throw	Tomasa Núñez  Cuba	51.64 CR	Cuba	41.54	Venezuela	37.56
Pentathlon	Marlene Elejalde  Cuba	4341 CR	Lucía Vaamonde  Venezuela	4333	Marcia Garbey  Cuba	4122

Medal table[]

  *   Host nation (Jamaica)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)	22	19	10	51
2	Jamaica (JAM)*	9	6	7	22
3	Mexico (MEX)	3	4	4	11
4	Venezuela (VEN)	2	1	5	8
5	Puerto Rico (PUR)	1	7	4	12
6	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	1	0	3	4
7	Guatemala (GUA)	0	1	0	1
8	Suriname (NGY)	0	0	2	2
9	Bahamas (BAH)	0	0	1	1
	Grenada (GRN)	0	0	1	1
	Panama (PAN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 nations)		38	38	38	114

External links[]

• Men Results – GBR Athletics
• Women Results – GBR Athletics
• Finals results