1987 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics

Host venue in Caracas.

The 1987 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics were held at the Estadio Olímpico in Caracas, Venezuela between 24–26 July.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -1.2 m/s)	Juan Núñez  Dominican Republic	10.22	Luis Morales  Puerto Rico	10.37	John Mair  Jamaica	10.39
200 metres (wind: +0.6 m/s)	Clive Wright  Jamaica	20.64	Juan Núñez  Dominican Republic	20.79	John Mair  Jamaica	20.99
400 metres	Elvis Forde  Barbados	45.63	Venezuela	45.68	Ian Morris  Trinidad and Tobago	45.90
800 metres	William Wuycke  Venezuela	1:49.10	Cuba	1:49.80	Jamaica	1:50.30
1500 metres	Cuba	3:46.17	Cuba	3:46.82	Jamaica	3:46.87
5000 metres	Mexico	14:06.20	Pedro Ortiz  Colombia	14:09.58	Puerto Rico	14:13.53
10,000 metres	Rafael Zepeda  Mexico	29:46.62 CR	Colombia	30:38.69	Venezuela	30:38.74
Half marathon	Mexico	1:13:26	Venezuela	1:13:42	Colombia	1:13:59
110 metres hurdles (wind: +1.8 m/s)	Cuba	13.83	Cuba	14.01	Modesto Castillo  Dominican Republic	14.06
400 metres hurdles	Winthrop Graham  Jamaica	49.58 CR	Cuba	50.45	Venezuela	50.94
3000 metres steeplechase	Cuba	8:42.38	Cuba	9:03.90	Venezuela	9:19.46
4 × 100 metres relay	Jamaica Gregory Meghoo Mark Senior Clive Wright John Mair	39.45	Panama	40.48	Dominican Republic	40.65
4 × 400 metres relay	Jamaica Winthrop Graham Devon Morris Mark Senior	3:03.54	Venezuela	3:05.15	Cuba	3:07.17
20 km road walk	Venezuela	1:34:34	Francisco Vargas  Colombia	1:34:34	Puerto Rico	1:41:14
High jump	Clarence Saunders  Bermuda	2.26	Francisco Centelles  Cuba	2.20	Bárbaro Díaz  Cuba	2.20
Pole vault	Colombia	5.05	Bahamas	4.75	Puerto Rico	4.75
Long jump	Ray Quiñones  Puerto Rico	8.01	Ubaldo Duany  Cuba	8.00	Miguel Valle  Cuba	7.92
Triple jump	Cuba	16.91	Norbert Elliott  Bahamas	16.40	Steve Hanna  Bahamas	16.32
Shot put	Cuba	18.15	Pedro Contreras  Cuba	17.30	Puerto Rico	16.46
Discus throw	Roberto Moya  Cuba	60.10	Puerto Rico	48.00	Venezuela	46.78
Hammer throw	Vicente Sánchez  Cuba	69.86 CR	Eladio Hernández  Cuba	64.44	Venezuela	56.50
Javelin throw (Current design)	Luis Lucumí  Colombia	72.46 CR	Orlando Hernández  Cuba	71.20	Cuba	70.84
Decathlon	Miguel Valle  Cuba	7586 CR	Ernesto Betancourt  Cuba	7534	Venezuela	6734

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -1.5 m/s)	Amparo Caicedo  Colombia	11.75	Mexico	12.01	Rosa García  Mexico	12.26
200 metres (wind: -0.6 m/s)	Ester Petitón  Cuba	23.67	Amparo Caicedo  Colombia	24.07	Yolande Straughn  Barbados	24.17
400 metres	Norfalia Carabalí  Colombia	51.70	Cathy Rattray  Jamaica	51.83	Ester Petitón  Cuba	53.99
800 metres	Angelita Lind  Puerto Rico	2:04.87	Cathy Rattray  Jamaica	2:05.85	Norfalia Carabalí  Colombia	2:07.67
1500 metres	Cuba	4:29.34	Angelita Lind  Puerto Rico	4:29.51	Fabiola Rueda  Colombia	4:34.89
3000 metres	Cuba	9:58.86	Yolanda González  Mexico	9:59.05	Fabiola Rueda  Colombia	9:59.13
10,000 metres	Mexico	35:06.20 CR	Colombia	36:09.40	Emperatriz Wilson  Cuba	37:07.20
100 metres hurdles	Sandra Taváres  Mexico	13.49 CR	Cuba	13.63	Panama	13.82
400 metres hurdles	Cuba	58.82	Venezuela	64.24	Venezuela	64.64
4 × 100 metres relay	Colombia	45.29	Mexico Alma Vázquez	46.25	Cuba	47.01
4 × 400 metres relay	Cuba	3:27.23 CR	Barbados	3:40.35	Puerto Rico	3:41.82
High jump	Jamaica	1.81	María del Carmen García  Cuba	1.81	Victoria Despaigne  Cuba	1.78
Long jump	Niurka Montalvo  Cuba	6.31	Madeline de Jesús  Puerto Rico	6.11	Jamaica	5.98
Shot put	Cuba	17.22	Venezuela	13.94	Marlene Lewis  Jamaica	13.61
Discus throw	Bárbara Hechevarría  Cuba	54.94	Cuba	54.10	María Isabel Urrutia  Colombia	52.60
Javelin throw	Herminia Bouza  Cuba	62.78	Marieta Riera  Venezuela	55.14	Venezuela	50.34
Heptathlon	Victoria Despaigne  Cuba	5514 CR	Laiza Carrillo  Cuba	5130	Daisy Ocasio  Puerto Rico	4879

Medal table[]

  *   Host nation (Venezuela)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)	18	15	8	41
2	Colombia (COL)	5	5	5	15
3	Mexico (MEX)	5	3	1	9
4	Jamaica (JAM)	5	2	6	13
5	Venezuela (VEN)*	2	6	8	16
6	Puerto Rico (PUR)	2	4	6	12
7	Dominican Republic (DOM)	1	1	2	4
8	Barbados (BAR)	1	1	1	3
9	Bermuda (BER)	1	0	0	1
10	Bahamas (BAH)	0	2	1	3
11	Panama (PAN)	0	1	1	2
12	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 nations)		40	40	40	120

See also[]

• 1987 in athletics (track and field)

External links[]

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