1983 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics

Host venue in Havana.

The 1983 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics were held at the Estadio Pedro Marrero in Havana, Cuba between 22–24 July.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +1.9 m/s)	Juan Núñez  Dominican Republic	10.16 CR NR	Tomás González  Cuba	10.37	Florencio Aguilar  Panama	10.48
200 metres (wind: +0.7 m/s)	Juan Núñez  Dominican Republic	20.65 NR	Tomás González  Cuba	20.96	Fabian Whymns  Bahamas	21.19
400 metres	Lázaro Martínez  Cuba	45.91	Agustín Pavó  Cuba	46.74	Venezuela	46.95
800 metres	Cuba	1:47.67	Oslen Barr  Guyana	1:48.25	Cuba	1:48.89
1500 metres	Mexico	3:46.66	Cuba	3:46.71	Cuba	3:47.59
5000 metres	Gerardo Alcalá  Mexico	14:11.91	Colombia	14:22.45	Venezuela	14:24.42
10,000 metres	Gerardo Alcalá  Mexico	31:05.86	Cuba	31:10.99	Cuba	31:16.50
Marathon	Víctor Mora  Colombia	2:58:51	Colombia	2:59:35	Colombia	3:01:31
110 metres hurdles (wind: +2.5 m/s)	Alejandro Casañas  Cuba	13.61w	Modesto Castillo  Dominican Republic	13.79w	Cuba	13.93w
400 metres hurdles	Bahamas	50.07 CR	Greg Rolle  Bahamas	50.87	Victor Gómez  Cuba	51.24
3000 metres steeplechase	Puerto Rico	8:48.80	Venezuela	8:49.90	Colombia	8:55.70
4 × 100 metres relay	Cuba	39.81	Bahamas	40.34	Venezuela	40.64
4 × 400 metres relay	Cuba	3:05.12	Barbados	3:07.06	Venezuela	3:08.56
20 km road walk	Cuba	1:29:44	Querubín Moreno  Colombia	1:29:54	Marcelino Colín  Mexico	1:33:49
High jump	Jorge Alfaro  Cuba	2.25 =CR	Clarence Saunders  Bermuda	2.19	Javier Sotomayor  Cuba	2.17
Pole vault	Edgardo Rivera  Puerto Rico	5.20 CR	Brian Morrissette  U.S. Virgin Islands	5.10	Rubén Camino  Cuba	5.00
Long jump	Juan Felipe Ortíz  Cuba	8.04 CR	Joey Wells  Bahamas	8.04	Jaime Jefferson  Cuba	8.03
Triple jump	Jorge Reyna  Cuba	16.95 CR	Lázaro Balcindes  Cuba	16.58	Ernesto Torres  Puerto Rico	15.91
Shot put	Paul Ruiz  Cuba	17.76	Venezuela	16.29	Cuba	15.90
Discus throw	Bradley Cooper  Bahamas	63.26	Juan Martínez  Cuba	63.12	Cuba	57.00
Hammer throw	Genovevo Morejón  Cuba	67.60 CR	Vicente Sánchez  Cuba	64.24	Puerto Rico	56.90
Javelin throw	Reinaldo Patterson  Cuba	79.76	Cuba	76.74	Juan de la Garza  Mexico	75.22
Decathlon	Cuba	7358 CR	Mexico	7224	Douglas Rosado  Puerto Rico	6974
50 km road walk	Arturo Bravo  Mexico	4:21:01 CR	Cuba	4:46:36	Félix Pérez  Cuba	4:53:18

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.9 m/s)	Luisa Ferrer  Cuba	11.52	Pauline Davis  Bahamas	11.60	Susana Armenteros  Cuba	11.66
200 metres	Luisa Ferrer  Cuba	23.38w	Pauline Davis  Bahamas	23.65w	Puerto Rico	23.70w
400 metres	Ana Fidelia Quirot  Cuba	52.89	Mercedes Álvarez  Cuba	53.47	Oralee Fowler  Bahamas	54.57
800 metres	Nery McKeen  Cuba	2:04.26 CR	Cuba	2:06.84	Venezuela	2:09.20
1500 metres	Cuba	4:21.06 CR	Puerto Rico	4:25.09	Venezuela	4:26.57
3000 metres	Cuba	9:36.75 CR	Fabiola Rueda  Colombia	9:40.10	Cuba	9:58.61
100 metres hurdles	Cuba	13.64 CR	Cuba	14.19	Venezuela	14.23
400 metres hurdles	Alma Vázquez  Mexico	59.57	Felicia Candelario  Dominican Republic	60.06	Puerto Rico	60.84
4 × 100 metres relay	Bahamas	45.26	Puerto Rico	46.69
4 × 400 metres relay	Cuba	3:34.97 CR	Puerto Rico	3:39.36	Bahamas	3:54.37
High jump	Victoria Despaigne  Cuba	1.78	Mexico	1.75	Bahamas	1.75
Long jump	Shonel Ferguson  Bahamas	6.65 CR	Madeline de Jesús  Puerto Rico	6.49	Cuba	6.23
Shot put	Cuba	17.00	Laverne Eve  Bahamas	14.75	Cuba	14.67
Discus throw	Carmen Romero  Cuba	58.58	Hilda Ramos  Cuba	57.80	Venezuela	46.04
Javelin throw	Cuba	59.74 CR	Cuba	56.40	Venezuela	53.84
Heptathlon	Victoria Despaigne  Cuba	5469 CR	Dominican Republic	5178	Cuba	4870

Medal table[]

  *   Host nation (Cuba)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)*	26	15	16	57
2	Mexico (MEX)	5	2	2	9
3	Bahamas (BAH)	4	6	4	14
4	Puerto Rico (PUR)	2	4	5	11
5	Dominican Republic (DOM)	2	3	0	5
6	Colombia (COL)	1	4	2	7
7	Venezuela (VEN)	0	2	9	11
8	Barbados (BAR)	0	1	0	1
	Bermuda (BER)	0	1	0	1
	Guyana (GUY)	0	1	0	1
	U.S. Virgin Islands (VIR)	0	1	0	1
12	Panama (PAN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 nations)		40	40	39	119

See also[]

• 1983 in athletics (track and field)

External links[]

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