1974 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics

I Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships
Dates	12–15 December
Host city	Maracaibo, Venezuela
Level	Junior
Events	36
Participation	about 196 athletes from 10 nations
1976 Xalapa →

The 1st Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships was held in Maracaibo, Venezuela on 12–15 December 1974, one and a half year after having already hosted the 4th CAC senior championships in July 1973.

Event summary[]

The athletes from Mexico gained most of the gold medals. In the total medal count, Venezuela equalizes the Mexican result, both countries gaining 21 each.

In the under-20 men category, Anthony Husbands, Trinidad and Tobago, won two gold (100m, 200m) and one silver medal (4 × 100 m relay), double gold was won by from Mexico (3000m, 5000m), and from Cuba (Long jump, Triple jump).

In the under-20 women category, Dorothy Scott, Jamaica, won three golds (100m, Long jump, 4 × 100 m relay), and , Jamaica, gained two golds (200m, 4 × 400 m relay) and one bronze medal (400m).

The event saw an early appearance of Ernesto Canto, Mexico, won the gold medal in the men's 20 kilometre walk event at the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United States. He was successful in the 10,000 metres track walk competition. Moreover, Luis Delís from Cuba won the Discus competition. He was going to win the bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union, as well as silver at the 1983 World Championships in Helsinki, Finland, and bronze at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy.

Medal summary[]

Medal winners are published by category: Junior A, Male,^[1] and Junior A, Female.^[2]

Male Junior A (under 20)[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (4.1 m/s)	Anthony Husbands (TRI)	10.76 w	(VEN)	10.76 w	(JAM)	10.79 w
200 metres (1.8 m/s)	Anthony Husbands (TRI)	21.37	(VEN)	21.40	Hamil Grimes (BAR)	21.42
400 metres	Alexis Herrera (VEN)	48.00	(BAR)	48.11	(TRI)	48.93
800 metres	(JAM)	1:55.1	(MEX)	1:55.5	(BAR)	1:56.0
1500 metres	(MEX)	3:58.3	(TRI)	4:02.5	(VEN)	4:04.1
3000 metres	(MEX)	8:51.4	(MEX)	8:52.6	(VEN)	8:53.1
5000 metres	(MEX)	15:05.3	(PUR)	15:11.1	(VEN)	15:11.2
2000 metres steeplechase	(MEX)	6:07.5	(MEX)	6:07.6	José Torres (PUR)	6:10.8
110 metres hurdles	(PUR)	14.54	(JAM)	14.64	(MEX)	14.82
400 metres hurdles	(BAR)	55.82	(PUR)	55.83	(VEN)	55.86
High jump	(MEX)	1.99	(JAM)	1.99	(DOM)	1.84
Pole vault	(PUR)	4.00	(MEX)	3.80	(CUB)	3.70
Long jump	(CUB)	7.05	(PUR)	6.85	Anthony Jones (TRI)	6.58
Triple jump	(CUB)	15.58	(PUR)	13.82	(PUR)	13.80
Shot put	(VEN)	13.88	(BAH)	13.68	(MEX)	13.00
Discus throw	Luis Delís (CUB)	49.02	Armando Orozco (CUB)	39.76	(PUR)	39.08
Hammer throw	Armando Orozco (CUB)	62.84	(PUR)	43.12	(VEN)	40.64
Javelin throw	(VEN)	59.40	(PUR)	57.48	(VEN)	53.68
Decathlon	(CUB)	6253	(MEX)	5653	(VEN)	5613
10,000 metres track walk	Ernesto Canto (MEX)	48:34.5	(MEX)	51:36.0	(VEN)	62:45.3
4 × 100 metres relay	Jamaica Roberts	41.96	Trinidad and Tobago Cyril Lewis Anthony Husbands	42.10	Venezuela Alexis Herrera Gómez	42.18
4 × 400 metres relay	Trinidad and Tobago Anthony Lyons	3:17.71	Venezuela Alexis Herrera	3:19.54	Barbados Hamil Grimes	3:21.52

Female Junior A (under 20)[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (2.9 m/s)	Dorothy Scott (JAM)	11.77 w	Esther Hope (TRI)	12.04 w	(JAM)	12.07 w
200 metres (3.5 m/s)	(JAM)	24.29 w	(TRI)	25.02 w	(VEN)	25.08 w
400 metres	Mercedes Álvarez (CUB)	55.90	(JAM)	56.23	(JAM)	56.33
800 metres	(VEN)	2:14.01	Ileana Hocking (PUR)	2:14.04	(JAM)	2:16.38
1500 metres	Ileana Hocking (PUR)	4:45.61	(JAM)	4:51.48	(BAR)	4:54.08
100 metres hurdles (2.0 m/s)	(MEX)	14.57	(CUB)	14.83	Cheryl Blackman (BAR)	14.94
High jump	(CUB)	1.72	(VEN)	1.69	(MEX)	1.69
Long jump	Dorothy Scott (JAM)	5.80	(JAM)	5.72	(CUB)	5.61
Shot put	(MEX)	11.20	(TRI)	10.84	(VEN)	10.10
Discus throw	(VEN)	34.38	(MEX)	31.38	(TRI)	28.80
Javelin throw	(TRI)	42.04	(MEX)	37.12	(VEN)	36.80
Pentathlon	(MEX)	3717	(CUB)	3697	Cheryl Blackman (BAR)	3038
4 × 100 metres relay	Jamaica Dorothy Scott	46.86	Trinidad and Tobago Ann Adams Esther Hope Janice Bernard	47.07	Venezuela Carmen Álvarez	49.03
4 × 400 metres relay	Jamaica Jackie Pusey	3:51.91	Trinidad and Tobago Ann Adams	3:52.51	Mexico	3:55.27

Medal table (unofficial)[]

  *   Host nation (VEN)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	MEX	9	8	4	21
2	JAM	7	5	4	16
3	CUB	7	3	2	12
4	VEN*	5	4	13	22
5	TRI	4	7	3	14
6	PUR	3	7	3	13
7	BAR	1	1	6	8
8	BAH	0	1	0	1
9	DOM	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 nations)		36	36	36	108

Participation (unofficial)[]

Detailed result lists can be found on the World Junior Athletics History website.^[3] An unofficial count yields the number of about 196 athletes from about 10 countries:

References[]

External links[]

• Official CACAC Website
• World Junior Athletics History