1988 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics

VIII Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships
Dates	30 June-2 July
Host city	Nassau, Bahamas
Level	Junior and Youth
Events	74 (39 junior, 35 youth)
Participation	about 223 (125 junior, 98 youth) athletes from 13 nations
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The 8th Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships was held in Nassau, Bahamas, between 30 June-2 July 1988.

Medal summary[]

Medal winners are published by category: Junior A, Male,^[1] Junior A, Female,^[2] and Junior B.^[3] Complete results can be found on the World Junior Athletics History website.^[4]

Male Junior A (under 20)[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (-0.2 m/s)	(JAM)	10.83	(BAH)	10.87	(PUR)	11.00
200 metres (0.0 m/s)	(JAM)	21.72	(CUB)	21.95	(MEX)	22.05
400 metres	(CUB)	46.9	(CUB)	47.8	(BAH)	48.3
800 metres	(CUB)	1:52.56	(CUB)	1:53.31	(BAH)	1:55.64
1500 metres	(CUB)	4:00.32	Luis Guerra (CUB)	4:00.84	(PUR)	4:04.38
5000 metres	Julián Pérez (CUB)	15:02.42	(CUB)	15:05.80	(MEX)	15:11.78
10,000 metres	(MEX)	31:18.25	Julián Pérez (CUB)	32:06.60	(ISV)	39:49.85
Half Marathon	Julián Pérez (CUB)	1:09:20	(CUB)	1:10:09	(AHO)	1:25:38
3000 metres steeplechase	(CUB)	9:29.79	(BAH)	10:16.05
110 metres hurdles (0.2 m/s)	(CUB)	14.50	Alexis Sánchez (CUB)	14.62	Roberto Carmona (MEX)	14.80
400 metres hurdles	(CUB)	52.65	(CUB)	52.79	(JAM)	53.50
High jump	Ian Thompson (BAH)	2.05	(BAH)	2.03	(MEX)	2.00
Pole vault	(BAH)	4.10	(BAH)	3.70	(PUR)	3.30
Long jump	Craig Hepburn (BAH)	7.18	(BAH)	7.02	(MEX)	7.01
Triple jump	(BAH)	16.13	Juan Carlos Ibáñez (CUB)	15.63	(BAH)	15.14
Shot put	Carlos Fandiño (CUB)	17.04	(JAM)	13.91	(CUB)	13.71
Discus throw	(CUB)	54.08	(JAM)	48.25	Carlos Fandiño (CUB)	47.57
Hammer throw	(CUB)	55.03	(PUR)	49.26	(PUR)	48.54
Javelin throw	(BAH)	62.02	(BAH)	61.08
Decathlon	(CUB)	6443	(CUB)	5912	(BAH)	5173
10,000 metres track walk	Alberto Cruz (MEX)	46:05	Ignacio Zamudio (MEX)	46:41	(PUR)	48:56
4 × 100 metres relay	Jamaica Gooding	41.39	Puerto Rico	41.81	Cuba Alexis Sánchez	41.99
4 × 400 metres relay	Cuba	3:09.46	Bahamas	3:18.29	Mexico	3:20.19

Female Junior A (under 20)[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Chandra Sturrup (BAH)	11.96	(JAM)	12.03	(JAM)	12.15
200 metres (-0.3 m/s)	(JAM)	23.91	Chandra Sturrup (BAH)	24.27	(JAM)	24.56
400 metres	Nancy McLeón (CUB)	54.22	(CUB)	54.89	Barbara Selkridge (ATG)	55.43
800 metres	(PUR)	2:13.03	(CUB)	2:15.80	(ATG)	2:18.55
1500 metres	Maricarmen Díaz (MEX)	4:36.37	(PUR)	4:43.85	(ATG)	4:59.53
3000 metres	Maricarmen Díaz (MEX)	10:06.8	(PUR)	10:17.3	(BAH)	10:53.3
100 metres hurdles	(CUB)	14.22	(BAH)	14.41	(MEX)	15.05
400 metres hurdles	(CUB)	61.87	Lency Montelier (CUB)	63.58	(PUR)	64.71
High jump	Yamilé Aldama (CUB)	1.78	Ioamnet Quintero (CUB)	1.78	(PUR)	1.65
Long jump	Jackie Edwards (BAH)	6.20	(BAH)	6.13	(JAM)	5.68
Shot put	(CUB)	14.57	(CUB)	14.55	(BAH)	13.05
Discus throw	(CUB)	48.06	(CUB)	46.35	(BAH)	42.89
Javelin throw	(CUB)	46.66	Terry-Lynn Paynter (BER)	43.27	(CUB)	43.24
Heptathlon	(CUB)	4654	(CUB)	4609	(BAH)	4348
4 × 100 metres relay	Cuba Julia Duporty	46.76	Bahamas Chandra Sturrup Jackie Edwards	46.77	Puerto Rico	48.08
4 × 400 metres relay	Cuba	3:42.37	Puerto Rico	3:54.12	Antigua and Barbuda	3:56.63

Male Junior B (under 17)[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (0.3 m/s)	(PUR)	11.00	(VEN)	11.13	(PUR)	11.14
200 metres (0.3 m/s)	(PUR)	22.14	(VEN)	22.32	(PUR)	22.37
400 metres	(PUR)	48.64	(TRI)	49.56	(ATG)	49.94
800 metres	(TRI)	1:56.34	Ramón Arriaga (PUR)	1:56.38	(ATG)	1:59.99
1500 metres	Ramón Arriaga (PUR)	4:01.90	(TRI)	4:03.70	(MEX)	4:07.23
3000 metres	(MEX)	8:47.82	(MEX)	8:49.98	(PUR)	9:03.45
2000 metres steeplechase	(PUR)	6:31.80	Néstor Nieves (VEN)	6:34.04	(VEN)	6:35.95
110 metres hurdles	Luis Guerra (VEN)	14.92	(MEX)	15.04	(PUR)	15.72
400 metres hurdles	(PUR)	56.11	(BAH)	56.29	(VEN)	57.26
High jump	(BAH)	1.82	Henry Rolle (BAH)	1.82	Miguel Ochoa (VEN)	1.79
Pole vault	(BAH)	3.30	(BAH)	3.10
Long jump	(BAH)	6.93	(BAH)	6.77	(VEN)	6.10
Triple jump	(BAH)	13.83	(BAH)	13.83	(VEN)	12.73
Shot put	Yojer Medina (VEN)	14.55	Alfredo Romero (PUR)	14.47	(BAH)	12.35
Discus throw	Yojer Medina (VEN)	43.08	(BAH)	37.97	(MEX)	37.57
Javelin throw	(BAH)	57.22	Yojer Medina (VEN)	56.52	(MEX)	55.55
Heptathlon	(BAH)	3932	(BAH)	3576
5000 metres track walk	Rubén López (VEN)	24:47.3	(PUR)	27:20.9
4 × 100 metres relay	Puerto Rico	42.37	Venezuela Cepeda Luis Guerra	42.99
4 × 400 metres relay	Puerto Rico Santiago	3:22.54	Bahamas	3:27.42	Venezuela Cepeda	3:33.19

Female Junior B (under 17)[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (-0.2 m/s)	Gillian Russell (JAM)	12.04	(CUB)	12.40	(BAH)	12.50
200 metres (-0.2 m/s)	(JAM)	24.20	(AHO)	25.04	(CUB)	25.56
400 metres	(JAM)	55.56	(AHO)	55.87	(VEN)	58.88
800 metres	(VEN)	2:19.11	(PUR)	2:21.6	(BAH)	2:22.2
1200 metres	(VEN)	3:42.61	(MEX)	3:46.14	(PUR)	3:47.62
100 metres hurdles (-0.2 m/s)	Gillian Russell (JAM)	14.64	(MEX)	15.35	(VEN)	15.51
300 metres hurdles	(VEN)	47.7	(MEX)	47.9	(BAH)	50.1
High jump	(BAR)	1.63	(CAY)	1.60	(BAH)	1.40
Long jump	(AHO)	5.67	(PUR)	5.35	(CAY)	5.34
Shot put	(VEN)	10.58	(BAR)	10.10	(BAH)	10.07
Discus throw	(VEN)	37.32	(PUR)	32.56	(CAY)	31.90
Javelin throw	(VEN)	36.50	(TRI)	32.00	(BAH)	30.46
Pentathlon	(BAH)	2237	(BAH)	2168
4 × 100 metres relay	Jamaica Gillian Russell Merlene Frazer	46.75	Puerto Rico Torres	49.25
4 × 400 metres relay	Bahamas	3:59.36	Puerto Rico	4:04.69	Venezuela	4:06.8

Medal table (unofficial)[]

  *   Host nation (Bahamas)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)	23	19	5	47
2	Bahamas (BAH)*	15	20	15	50
3	Venezuela (VEN)	10	5	9	24
4	Puerto Rico (PUR)	9	13	13	35
5	Jamaica (JAM)	9	3	4	16
6	Mexico (MEX)	5	6	10	21
7	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	1	3	0	4
8	Netherlands Antilles (AHO)	1	2	1	4
9	Barbados (BAR)	1	1	0	2
10	Cayman Islands (CAY)	0	1	2	3
11	Bermuda (BER)	0	1	0	1
12	Antigua and Barbuda (ATG)	0	0	6	6
13	U.S. Virgin Islands (VIR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 nations)		74	74	66	214

Participation (unofficial)[]

Detailed result lists can be found on the World Junior Athletics History website.^[4] An unofficial count yields a number of about 223 athletes (125 junior (under-20) and 98 youth (under-17)) from about 13 countries:

References[]

External links[]

• Official CACAC Website
• World Junior Athletics History