2002 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics

XV Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships
XV Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships
Dates	5–7 July
Host city	Bridgetown, Barbados
Venue	National Stadium
Level	Junior and Youth
Events	69 ; (38 junior, ; 31 youth)
Participation	about 445 ; (275 junior, ; 170 youth) athletes from ; 32 nations
Records set	22 championship records
	← 2000 San Juan 2004 Coatzacoalcos → ;

The 15th Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships were held in the National Stadium in Bridgetown, Barbados between 5–7 July 2002. A discussion of the results is given.^[1] Usain Bolt of Jamaica set a total of 6 new championship records.

Records[]

A total of 22 new championship records were set.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] Moreover, during the Girls' U-20 Javelin Throw, there were probably a couple of intermediate records set: of Cuba 46.96m, Ana Gutiérrez of Mexico 46.98m, and again 48.48m, as well as in the Girls' U-20 Triple Jump: Arianna Martínez of Cuba 13.43m, and Mabel Gay of Cuba 13.65m.

Event	Record	Athlete	Country	Type
Boys Under 20 (Junior)
100 m	10.18s (0.7 m/s)	Darrel Brown	Trinidad and Tobago	CR
1500 m	3:45.20	Juan Luis Barrios	Mexico	CR
Girls Under 20 (Junior)
200 m	23.22s (-0.9 m/s)	Simone Facey	Jamaica	CR
400 m	52.81s	Sheryl Morgan	Jamaica	CR
800 m	2:06.13	Yuneisy Santiusty	Cuba	CR
1500 m	4:24.96	Yuneisy Santiusty	Cuba	CR
100 m hurdles	12.93s (0.0 m/s)	Anay Tejeda	Cuba	CR
400 m hurdles	57.84s	Yusmelys García	Venezuela	CR
Pole vault	3.70m		Mexico	CR
Triple jump	13.93m (-0.6 m/s)	Mabel Gay	Cuba	CR
Javelin	48.53m		Cuba	CR
Boys Under 17 (Youth)
200 m	21.34s (heat) (0.3 m/s)	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	CR
200 m	20.61s (-0.4 m/s)	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	CR
400 m	48.00s (heat)	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	CR
400 m	47.12s	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	CR
1500 m	3:56.60		Mexico	CR
5000 m Race Walk	21:24.33	Éder Sánchez	Mexico	CR
4 × 100 m relay	40.95s	Usain Bolt	Jamaica	CR
4 × 400 m relay	3:16.61	Josef Robertson Usain Bolt	Jamaica	CR
Girls Under 17 (Youth)
100 m	11.59s (0.0 m/s)	Anneisha McLaughlin	Jamaica	CR
200 m	23.27s (-1.0 m/s)	Anneisha McLaughlin	Jamaica	CR
4 × 100 m relay	45.33s	Shelly-Ann Fraser Anneisha McLaughlin Latoya Greaves	Jamaica	CR

Key

AR — Area record • CR — Championship record • NR — National record

Medal summary[]

The results are published.^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]

Male Junior A (under 20)[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (0.7 m/s)	Darrel Brown (TRI)	10.18 CR	Marc Burns (TRI)	10.42	(JAM)	10.58
200 metres (0.1 m/s)	Grafton Ifill (BAH)	20.89	(JAM)	21.05	(JAM)	21.19
400 metres	Jermaine Gonzales (JAM)	45.80	Wilan Louis (BAR)	46.04	(JAM)	46.38
800 metres	(JAM)	1:50.36	Juan Luis Barrios (MEX)	1:52.36	(JAM)	1:52.77
1500 metres	Juan Luis Barrios (MEX)	3:45.20 CR	(MEX)	3:49.00	(JAM)	3:54.93
5000 metres	(MEX)	15:15.87	(VEN)	15:18.82	Cleveland Forde (GUY)	15:21.71
10,000 metres	(VEN)	31:35.86	(MEX)	31:42.80	Cleveland Forde (GUY)	31:51.13
110 metres hurdles (-0.2 m/s)	(JAM)	14.72	Shamar Sands (BAH)	14.79	Alleyne Lett (GRN)	14.83
400 metres hurdles	(JAM)	50.95	(MEX)	52.14	Richard Phillips (JAM)	52.36
High jump	Germaine Mason (JAM)	2.23	Damon Thompson (BAR)	2.20	(JAM)	2.15
Pole vault	(MEX)	4.80	(MEX)	4.40	Pedro Fuentes (ESA)	4.20
Long jump	(JAM)	7.44 (0.1 m/s)	(CUB)	7.42 (0.8 m/s)	Irving Saladino (PAN)	7.39 (-0.2 m/s)
Triple jump	David Giralt (CUB)	16.75 (1.8 m/s)	Osniel Tosca (CUB)	15.87 (1.0 m/s)	Ayata Joseph (ATG)	15.56 (0.2 m/s)
Shot put	(JAM)	16.93	Shamir Thomas (GRN)	16.83	(VEN)	16.72
Discus throw	(IVB)	51.36	Jesús Sánchez (MEX)	51.21	Shamir Thomas (GRN)	50.97
Javelin throw	Yudel Moreno (CUB)	67.59	(BAR)	63.27	Dayron Márquez (COL)	62.86
Decathlon	(TRI)	6637	(VEN)	6203	Adrian Griffith (BAH)	6123
10,000 metres track walk	(MEX)	44:58.30	(MEX)	45:14.98	(PUR)	45:26.09
4 × 100 metres relay	Trinidad and Tobago	39.95	Jamaica	40.19	Bahamas Grafton Ifill Michael Mathieu	40.57
4 × 400 metres relay	Jamaica Jacques Smith Jermaine Gonzales	3:07.61	Bahamas Michael Mathieu Andrae Williams Andretti Bain	3:11.11	Venezuela Luis Luna	3:11.91

Female Junior A (under 20)[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (0.0 m/s)	Simone Facey (JAM)	11.46	Sherone Simpson (JAM)	11.60	(BAR)	11.76
200 metres (-0.9 m/s)	Simone Facey (JAM)	23.22 CR	(BAR)	23.86	(JAM)	24.03
400 metres	Sheryl Morgan (JAM)	52.81 CR	Davita Prendergast (JAM)	54.10	Tiandra Ponteen (SKN)	54.17
800 metres	Yuneisy Santiusty (CUB)	2:06.13 CR	(JAM)	2:07.30	Gabriela Medina (MEX)	2:10.35
1500 metres	Yuneisy Santiusty (CUB)	4:24.96 CR	(MEX)	4:33.72	(ATG)	4:39.08
3000 metres	(MEX)	10:10.96	(MEX)	10:14.43	(LCA)	10:25.23
100 metres hurdles (0.0 m/s)	Anay Tejeda (CUB)	12.93 CR	(JAM)	13.94	(VEN)	13.98
400 metres hurdles	Yusmelys García (VEN)	57.84 CR	(JAM)	58.04	(JAM)	58.96
High jump	Levern Spencer (LCA)	1.81	Catherine Ibargüen (COL)	1.79	(JAM)	1.79
Pole vault^†	(MEX)	3.70 CR	(ESA)	3.55	(MEX)	3.40
Long jump	Yargelis Savigne (CUB)	6.25 (-1.3 m/s)	(JAM)	6.15 (1.1 m/s)	(JAM)	6.12 (0.0 m/s)
Triple jump	Mabel Gay (CUB)	13.93 CR (-0.6 m/s)	Arianna Martínez (CUB)	13.43 (-2.2 m/s)	Catherine Ibargüen (COL)	13.01 (-1.3 m/s)
Shot put	Mailín Vargas (CUB)	14.26	(JAM)	12.96	(DOM)	12.10
Discus throw	(BAR)	44.23	(BAH)	41.17	(JAM)	40.86
Javelin throw	(CUB)	48.53 CR	Ana Gutiérrez (MEX)	46.98	(DOM)	45.52
5000 metres track walk	(MEX)	24:48.15	(ESA)	24:53.21	(MEX)	25:56.12
4 × 100 metres relay	Jamaica Sherone Simpson Simone Facey	44.30	Barbados Jade Bailey	45.48	Saint Kitts and Nevis Tiandra Ponteen Virgil Hodge	46.65
4 × 400 metres relay	Jamaica Davita Prendergast Sheryl Morgan	3:34.76	Venezuela Yusmelys García	3:44.69	Barbados Jade Bailey	3:45.18

^†: Event marked as exhibition.

Male Junior B (under 17)[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (0.3 m/s)	(MEX)	10.73	(BIZ)	10.91	Tyrone Sawyer (BAH)	11.00
200 metres (-0.4 m/s)	Usain Bolt (JAM)	20.61 CR	(BIZ)	21.83	(MEX)	21.84
400 metres	Usain Bolt (JAM)	47.12 CR	Jamil James (TRI)	47.95	(BAH)	49.12
800 metres	(DOM)	1:56.33	(ATG)	1:56.71	(JAM)	1:57.90
1500 metres	(MEX)	3:56.60 CR	(ATG)	4:05.14	(PUR)	4:08.64
3000 metres	(MEX)	8:46.68	(MEX)	8:53.48	(PUR)	8:55.25
100 metres hurdles (0.0 m/s)	(JAM)	13.27	(BAR)	13.31	(JAM)	13.55
400 metres hurdles	(BAR)	53.65	(DOM)	54.19	Josef Robertson (JAM)	54.65
High jump	Alain Bailey (JAM)	2.02	(MEX)	2.02	(JAM)	1.99
Long jump	Alain Bailey (JAM)	6.77 (0.8 m/s)	(BAH)	6.70 (1.7 m/s)	(MEX)	6.64 (0.1 m/s)
Triple jump	(BAH)	14.25 (0.1 m/s)	(CRC)	13.95 (-0.8 m/s)	(JAM)	13.90 (-2.4 m/s)
Shot put	(VIN)	15.14	(PUR)	14.61	(MEX)	13.83
Discus throw	(MEX)	44.35	(BAH)	41.93	(VIN)	40.60
Javelin throw	(BAH)	60.89	(VIN)	55.30	Murvine Charles (GRN)	55.17
5000 metres track walk	Éder Sánchez (MEX)	21:24.33 CR	(MEX)	23:12.82	(ESA)	24:36.28
4 × 100 metres relay	Jamaica Usain Bolt	40.95 CR	Trinidad and Tobago	42.73	Barbados Ramon Gittens	42.79
4 × 400 metres relay	Jamaica Josef Robertson Usain Bolt	3:16.61 CR	Trinidad and Tobago Jamil James	3:19.13	Puerto Rico Carlos Benítez	3:22.39

Female Junior B (under 17)[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (0.0 m/s)	Anneisha McLaughlin (JAM)	11.59 CR	(JAM)	11.76	(TRI)	12.04
200 metres (-1.0 m/s)	Anneisha McLaughlin (JAM)	23.27 CR	Kelly Ann Baptiste (TRI)	24.82	(BAH)	24.90
400 metres	(JAM)	55.30	Kineke Alexander (VIN)	55.42	(TRI)	56.32
800 metres	(PUR)	2:11.83	(JAM)	2:12.06	(JAM)	2:13.40
1200 metres	(JAM)	3:36.41	Beverly Ramos (PUR)	3:37.38	(MEX)	3:38.46
300 metres hurdles	(JAM)	42.26	(GRN)	43.62	(JAM)	44.06
High jump	Marielys Rojas (VEN)	1.71	Rhonda Watkins (TRI)	1.71	(BAR)	1.68
Long jump	Rhonda Watkins (TRI)	5.56 (-0.4 m/s)	(JAM)	5.55 (0.0 m/s)	(BAR)	5.33 (-0.1 m/s)
Triple jump	(JAM)	11.60 (0.5 m/s)	(BER)	11.31 (0.1 m/s)	(MEX)	11.27 (0.3 m/s)
Shot put	Ahymará Espinoza (VEN)	13.97	(LCA)	12.22	(BER)	11.96
Discus throw	(BER)	38.46	(MEX)	37.37	(BAR)	36.45
Javelin throw	(MEX)	37.96	(BAR)	36.62	(BAH)	35.81
4 × 100 metres relay	Jamaica Shelly-Ann Fraser Anneisha McLaughlin Latoya Greaves	45.33 CR	Barbados	46.83	Bahamas	47.08
4 × 400 metres relay	Trinidad and Tobago	3:41.83	Jamaica Latoya Greaves	3:42.45	Bahamas	3:49.76

Medal table[]

The medal count was published.^[12]

Total[]

* Host nation (Barbados)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Jamaica (JAM)	27	13	19	59
2	Mexico (MEX)	13	14	8	35
3	Cuba (CUB)	9	3	0	12
4	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	5	6	2	13
5	Venezuela (VEN)	4	3	3	10
6	Bahamas (BAH)	3	5	8	16
7	Barbados (BAR)*	2	8	6	16
8	Puerto Rico (PUR)	1	2	4	7
9	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (VIN)	1	2	1	4
10	Dominican Republic (DOM)	1	1	2	4
11	Bermuda (BER)	1	1	0	2
11	Saint Lucia (LCA)	1	1	0	2
13	British Virgin Islands (IVB)	1	0	0	1
14	Grenada (GRN)	0	2	3	5
15	Antigua and Barbuda (ATG)	0	2	2	4
15	El Salvador (ESA)	0	2	2	4
17	Belize (BIZ)	0	2	0	2
18	Colombia (COL)	0	1	2	3
19	Costa Rica (CRC)	0	1	0	1
20	Guyana (GUY)	0	0	2	2
20	Saint Kitts and Nevis (SKN)	0	0	2	2
22	Panama (PAN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 nations)		69	69	67	205

Participation (unofficial)[]

Detailed result lists can be found on the World Junior Athletics History website.^[13] An unofficial count yields a number of about 443 athletes (257 junior (under-20) and 159 youth (under-17)) from about 32 countries, a new record number of participating nations:

Cuba (13)
Dominica (5)
Dominican Republic (12)
El Salvador (6)
Grenada (10)
Guatemala (7)
Guyana (8)
Haïti (1)
Honduras (1)
Jamaica (65)
México (50)

References[]

^ Clavelo Robinson, Javier (July 10, 2002), Caribbean athletes show good signs before the IAAF/Coca-Cola World Junior Championships, IAAF, retrieved November 21, 2011
^ Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation, 15th Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships 5/7/02 to 7/7/02 – National Stadium, Barbados – Results – Boys Under 20, C.F.P.I. Timing and Data Inc., retrieved May 9, 2012
^ Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation, 15th Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships 5/7/02 to 7/7/02 – National Stadium, Barbados – Results – Girls Under 20, C.F.P.I. Timing and Data Inc., retrieved May 9, 2012
^ Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation, 15th Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships 5/7/02 to 7/7/02 – National Stadium, Barbados – Results – Boys Under 17, C.F.P.I. Timing and Data Inc., retrieved May 9, 2012
^ Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation, 15th Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships 5/7/02 to 7/7/02 – National Stadium, Barbados – Results – Girls Under 17, C.F.P.I. Timing and Data Inc., retrieved May 9, 2012
^ "CENTRAL AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS (UNDER 20 MEN)", Athletics Weekly, archived from the original on December 24, 2010, retrieved August 5, 2011
^ "CENTRAL AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS (UNDER 20 WOMEN)", Athletics Weekly, retrieved August 5, 2011
^ "CENTRAL AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS (UNDER 17)", Athletics Weekly, retrieved August 5, 2011
^ Nevis Amateur Athletic Association, CAC Result 02 Day1, retrieved August 5, 2011
^ Nevis Amateur Athletic Association, CAC Result 02 Day2, retrieved August 5, 2011
^ Nevis Amateur Athletic Association, CAC Result 02 Day3, retrieved August 5, 2011
^ Nevis Amateur Athletic Association, CAC Champs 2002, Medal Count, retrieved August 5, 2011
^ World Junior Athletics History, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on October 23, 2011, retrieved October 6, 2011

External links[]

[1] Clavelo Robinson, Javier (July 10, 2002), Caribbean athletes show good signs before the IAAF/Coca-Cola World Junior Championships, IAAF, retrieved November 21, 2011

[cfpi_01-2] Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation, 15th Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships 5/7/02 to 7/7/02 – National Stadium, Barbados – Results – Boys Under 20, C.F.P.I. Timing and Data Inc., retrieved May 9, 2012

[cfpi_02-3] Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation, 15th Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships 5/7/02 to 7/7/02 – National Stadium, Barbados – Results – Girls Under 20, C.F.P.I. Timing and Data Inc., retrieved May 9, 2012

[cfpi_03-4] Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation, 15th Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships 5/7/02 to 7/7/02 – National Stadium, Barbados – Results – Boys Under 17, C.F.P.I. Timing and Data Inc., retrieved May 9, 2012

[cfpi_04-5] Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation, 15th Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships 5/7/02 to 7/7/02 – National Stadium, Barbados – Results – Girls Under 17, C.F.P.I. Timing and Data Inc., retrieved May 9, 2012

[6] "CENTRAL AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS (UNDER 20 MEN)", Athletics Weekly, archived from the original on December 24, 2010, retrieved August 5, 2011

[7] "CENTRAL AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS (UNDER 20 WOMEN)", Athletics Weekly, retrieved August 5, 2011

[8] "CENTRAL AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS (UNDER 17)", Athletics Weekly, retrieved August 5, 2011

[9] Nevis Amateur Athletic Association, CAC Result 02 Day1, retrieved August 5, 2011

[10] Nevis Amateur Athletic Association, CAC Result 02 Day2, retrieved August 5, 2011

[11] Nevis Amateur Athletic Association, CAC Result 02 Day3, retrieved August 5, 2011

[12] Nevis Amateur Athletic Association, CAC Champs 2002, Medal Count, retrieved August 5, 2011

[wjah-13] World Junior Athletics History, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on October 23, 2011, retrieved October 6, 2011

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See also: Central American Championships in Athletics • Athletics at the Central American and Caribbean Games