1979 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics

Host venue in Guadalajara.

The 1979 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics were held at the Estadio Revolución in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico between 15–17 June.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Guy Abrahams  Panama	10.37A	Gerardo Suero  Dominican Republic	10.53A	Venezuela	10.54A
200 metres	Floyd Brown  Jamaica	21.30A	Dominican Republic	21.33A	Jesús Cabrera  Puerto Rico Tomás González  Cuba	21.45A
400 metres	Colin Bradford  Jamaica	46.41A	Jamaica	46.84A	Dean Greenaway  British Virgin Islands	47.12A
800 metres	Owen Hamilton  Jamaica	1:48.2A	Eduardo Castro  Mexico	1:48.3A	Puerto Rico	1:49.7A
1500 metres	Mexico	3:48.1A	Venezuela	3:50.5A	Dominican Republic	3:54.7A
5000 metres	José Gómez  Mexico	14:27.4A	Puerto Rico	14:43.0A	Lucirio Garrido  Venezuela	14:50.4A
10,000 metres	Guatemala	31:42.8A	Mexico	32:04.6A	Costa Rica	32:48.8A
30 km road race	Mario Cuevas  Mexico	1:26:24A CR	Radamés González  Cuba	1:27:35A	Mexico	1:27:38A
110 metres hurdles	Mexico	13.93A	Cuba	13.94A	Dominican Republic	14.20A
400 metres hurdles	Julio Ferrer  Puerto Rico	51.4A	Puerto Rico	51.4A	Mexico	51.5A
3000 metres steeplechase	Mexico	9:18.6A	Lucirio Garrido  Venezuela	9:18.7A	Mexico	9:22.6A
4 × 100 metres relay	Dominican Republic Gerardo Suero	40.02A	Jamaica Floyd Brown Colin Bradford	40.17A	Puerto Rico	40.72A
4 × 400 metres relay	Jamaica Colin Bradford Owen Hamilton	3:05.0A CR	Venezuela Aqui Cala Erick Phillips	3:08.9A	Dominican Republic Solís Ramírez	3:11.9A
20 km road walk	Félix Gómez  Mexico	1:28:21A CR	Ernesto Canto  Mexico	1:28:53A	Cuba	1:34:41A
High jump	Jorge Alfaro  Cuba	2.25A CR	Dominican Republic	2.17A	Costa Rica	2.12A
Pole vault	Rubén Camino  Cuba	5.05A CR	Edgardo Rivera  Puerto Rico	4.60A
Long jump	Ray Quiñones  Puerto Rico	7.70A	Venezuela	7.61A	Ubaldo Duany  Cuba	7.30A
Triple jump	Cuba	15.97A	José Salazar  Venezuela	15.81A	Venezuela	15.54A
Shot put	Cuba	18.49A CR	Bradley Cooper  Bahamas	18.35A	Cuba	17.46A
Discus throw	José Santa Cruz  Cuba	62.48A CR	Bradley Cooper  Bahamas	61.24A	Venezuela	49.70A
Hammer throw	Cuba	62.10A	Cuba	58.52A	Puerto Rico	54.44A
Javelin throw	Reinaldo Patterson  Cuba	82.24A CR	Amado Morales  Puerto Rico	77.70A	Dionisio Quintana  Cuba	76.58A
Decathlon	Cuba	6882A	Venezuela	6716A	Cuba	6525A

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Lelieth Hodges  Jamaica	11.64A	Rosie Allwood  Jamaica	11.79A	Costa Rica	11.96A
200 metres	Merlene Ottey  Jamaica	23.44A CR	Venezuela	24.34A	Divina Estrella  Dominican Republic	24.41A
400 metres	Debbie Byfield  Jamaica	54.29A	Carol Cummings  Jamaica	54.92A	Cuba	55.02A
800 metres	Cuba	2:09.0A	Cuba	2:09.3A	Mexico	2:11.0A
1500 metres	Cuba	4:40.0A	Cuba	4:41.2A	Angelita Lind  Puerto Rico	4:42.4A
3000 metres	Cuba	10:06.6A	Mexico	10:11.8A	Irma Hernández  Mexico	10:15.0A
100 metres hurdles	Jamaica	14.28A	Marisela Peralta  Dominican Republic	14.44A	Cuba	14.84A
400 metres hurdles	Cuba	59.78A CR	Puerto Rico	60.21A	Divina Estrella  Dominican Republic	62.43A
4 × 100 metres relay	Jamaica Lelieth Hodges Dorothy Scott Rosie Allwood Merlene Ottey	44.82A CR	Dominican Republic	46.79A	Puerto Rico	47.16A
4 × 400 metres relay	Cuba	3:41.8A	Jamaica Carol Cummings Debbie Byfield Rosie Allwood	3:42.8A	Venezuela	3:45.9A
High jump	Silvia Costa  Cuba	1.80A	Mexico	1.78A	Cuba	1.76A
Long jump	Mexico	5.90A	Madeline de Jesús  Puerto Rico	5.87A	Cuba	5.79A
Shot put	Cuba	17.88A CR	Cuba	17.80A	Venezuela	13.46A
Discus throw	Cuba	55.30A CR	Maritza Martén  Cuba	50.22A	Mexico	44.90A
Javelin throw	Ana María González  Cuba	54.16A CR	Cuba	49.36A	Mexico	44.88A
Pentathlon	Mexico	3907A	Cuba	3840A	Cuba	3618A

A = affected by altitude

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)	17	9	10	36
2	Jamaica (JAM)	9	5	0	14
3	Mexico (MEX)	8	5	7	20
4	Puerto Rico (PUR)	2	6	6	14
5	Dominican Republic (DOM)	1	5	5	11
6	Guatemala (GUA)	1	0	0	1
	Panama (PAN)	1	0	0	1
8	Venezuela (VEN)	0	7	6	13
9	Bahamas (BAH)	0	2	0	2
10	Costa Rica (CRC)	0	0	3	3
11	British Virgin Islands (IVB)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 nations)		39	39	38	116

External links[]

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